UK Stock Investment Fund Blocks Redemptions- Could Trigger Global Stock Market Crash

via Zerohedge: In a moment of financial serendipity, earlier today we tweeted that as a result of the sudden collapse in the market’s most crowded positions (which as we noted over the weekend, now face the biggest risk of a wipe out), “hedge fund redemption requests re-emerge.” And just like that, hedge fund redemption requests re-emerge … Read more

Planned Parenthood paid for prostitutes for staff, donors and guests who attended official functions.

Planned Parenthood paid for prostitutes for staff, donors and guests who attended official functions. https://t.co/NrE9YjVIeL — Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) June 4, 2019 A major British charity handed huge sums in foreign aid by the Government is alleged to have overseen the hiring of prostitutes for staff, donors and guests attending official functions. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), … Read more

Economic Chaos Erupts! – Global Manufacturing Plunges, The Trade War Expands And The Nasdaq Enters Correction Territory

by Michael Snyder The global economic slowdown is really starting to accelerate.  Just within the past few days, we have gotten more really awful global manufacturing numbers, the trade war has expanded to more nations, and the Nasdaq has officially entered correction territory.  We have not witnessed this sort of global economic environment since the … Read more

Due To Cataclysmic Flooding, Millions Upon Millions Of Acres Of U.S. Farmland Will Not Be Planted With Crops This Year

by Michael Snyder It looks like 2019 could be the worst year for U.S. agriculture in modern American history by a very wide margin.  As you will see below, millions upon millions of acres of U.S. farmland will go unused this year due to cataclysmic flooding.  And many of the farmers that did manage to … Read more

FANGMAN Stocks Crushed by Potential “Unprecedented, Wide-Ranging Probe” into Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter My fancy-schmancy FANGMAN index dropped 4.3% today, the most since December 24. It’s a rare moment in recent years that US government regulators are suddenly going after four tech and social media giants simultaneously – Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple. These four companies are part of my FANGMAN index that also includes … Read more

Chinese Dating Apps Targeting Americans Expose 42.5 Million Records

via zerohedge: On May 25th, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured Elastic database associated with an entity in China had exposed 42.5 million records of mostly American dating app users. Fowler noticed an I.P. address, located on a U.S. server with many of the users based in North America. He examined the sever even closer and … Read more

CTAs Are Now Shorting The Russell And It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before They Turn Short On The S&P 500

via zerohege: Yesterday, when observing the latest equity fund flows, we showed two striking charts: according to Deutsche Bank, equity funds have now seen outflows of -$132bn YTD and -$237bn since December. This means that outflows over the last 6 months in dollar terms have now been larger than over any prior 6-month period. There was a … Read more

If you own a car, smoke or buy gas in Illinois you will be paying more: A look at what fees and taxes state lawmakers hiked

The capital bill next heads to Pritzker for his signature. Here’s a look at some of the tax and fee increases that will pay for it. — Gas tax increase: The state’s 19-cent-per-gallon motor fuel tax doubles starting July 1 under the plan. The gas tax last was raised in 1990 and would be indexed to future … Read more

New U.S. Sanctions Spark Blowback against Federal Reserve Note Dollar System

by: Clint Siegner U.S. leaders are demanding the rest of the world recognize economic sanctions and stop buying Iranian oil. The U.K., Germany, France, Russia, China, and India are among the nations who don’t fully support the sanctions and would rather not pay higher prices for oil elsewhere. American officials more and more often resort … Read more

Is a bull/bear indicator rolling over into a bear market?

by Troy Trade war news continues to dominate headlines, and the stock market continues to fall with Treasury bond yields. Tech (particularly FANG) massively underperformed other indices today due to anti-trust news. Today’s headlines: Goldman Sachs Bull/Bear Market Indicator is rolling over into a bear market? NASDAQ’s very quick drop into correction territory The collapse … Read more

Globalists Only Need One More Major Event To Finish Sabotaging The Economy

by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market As I predicted in my article ‘Trump Trade Wars A Perfect Smokescreen For A Market Crash’, published in March of 2018, as well as in my article ‘The Trade War Distraction: Huawei And Linchpin Theory’, published in December of 2018, the US/China trade dispute has escalated into an all out war with no end in … Read more

CNBC: “Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory – Trump will get to fill the most federal judiciary vacancies in 40 years”

FLASHBACK: CNBC: “Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory” Trump will get to fill the most federal judiciary vacancies in 40 years President Donald Trump should give special thanks to two U.S. Senators this Thanksgiving weekend. One is still serving in the Senate, the other recently retired. One is a Republican. The other a … Read more

Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Sends Gold Prices Climbing

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold climbs as Mexico tariffs show no country is safe, gold is the one constant in an age of eroding trust, and how Vietnam chooses bullion over cashless transactions. Gold Climbs as Trump’s Mexico … Read more

‘The Most Dangerous Abortion Facility in America’ Under Fire, Resisting Looming Closure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZbSUpdUbx0 The fate of a Missouri abortion clinic denounced by the pro-life group Operation Rescue as “the most dangerous abortion facility in America” was in a judge’s hands Friday after state officials refused to back down in their demands that the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis conform to state regulations or stop providing abortions. … Read more

Debt Is Now The Focus, Trump Accelerates Transition Plan

Trump is in the UK, says Nigel Farage should lead the BREXIT talks. Trump backs no deal BREXIT, EU deal not good. [CB] economy declining quickly, Fed now focuses in on debt, Trump accelerates transition by placing tariffs on India and Australia could be next. Fair trade needs to be established for the transition.