Arms Sales Champion…USA!

We’re number one! (In arms sales). What does it mean that the US economy has become so dependent on sales of weapons overseas, primarily to the Middle East? How does this corporatist economic arrangement drive policy? What are the security …

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By 2020, China will have completed its nationwide facial recognition and surveillance network, achieving near-total surveillance of urban residents, including in their homes via smart TVs and smartphones.

by ShellOilNigeria https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018111415.html By 2020, China will have completed its nationwide facial recognition and surveillance network, achieving near-total surveillance of urban residents, including in their homes via smart TVs and smartphones. According to the official Legal Daily newspaper, the 13th …

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Markets Are Correcting…Hard

by Chris Well, that escalated quickly! After a long weekend to think things through, it looks like the market correction is back with a vengeance. The S&P 500 has busted its 200 dma today, and that’s  big deal (assuming it’s …

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Q1 2018 Was A Disaster For America

Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, In the first quarter of 2018, the financial and investing industry went into overdrive detailing the upside of the 2018 tax cuts and the positive impacts of a “business friendly” executive and congressional branch on business …

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MailChimp Bans Cryptocurrency Ads

By TIMP Staff (Dash Force News) MailChimp joins Google, Facebook and Twitter in banning cryptocurrency related advertising on their platform. The mass email marketing manager, MailChimp, announced on March 29 that they intend to ban any “businesses involved in any aspect of the …

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MAULDIN: Most Forecasts Turn Bearish

BY JOHN MAULDIN The stock market is overvalued by many different measures. I recently shared Dave Rosenberg’s thoughts on the subject. But at the SIC 2018 conference, we also heard a lot more from Steve Blumenthal, Mark Yusko, and several others. The evidence is adding …

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