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In a discouraging sign of things to come, trade talks in Washington and Paris this month made little progress, which leaves more muddling or a sharp escalation as the most likely paths. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/trump-risks-new-front-trade-war-talks-europe-falter
by TFittonJW On top of his involvement in Russia smear of President Trump, Judicial Watch uncovered IRS Docs that Reveal McCain Staffer Urged Lois Lerner and Obama IRS to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.” https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-revealing-mccains-subcommittee-staff-director-urged-irs-to-engage-in-financially-ruinous-targeting/ … https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1080146708602986497
Following President Trump’s recent trip to Japan, the US has approved the sale of over 100 F-35 fighter jets to Japan. The new jets will improve Japan’s military capabilities in the disputed South China Sea, even as tensions rise in the US-China trade war with the US government blacklisting Huawei. Investigative journalist Ben Swann joins … Read more
US Universities And Retirees Are Funding The Technology Behind China’s Surveillance State Millions of dollars from US university endowments, foundations, and retirement plans have helped fund two billion-dollar Chinese facial recognition startups: SenseTime and Megvii. The Chinese government is using their technologies to surveil and profile its own citizens. HONG KONG — Princeton University and … Read more
CELINA, Ohio — The tornado screeching across southern Ohio on Monday night triggered a cellphone alert that roused Rich Schlarman. He ignored it. Then came another. That was enough to persuade him to hurry his 83-year-old mother toward the basement. “We only made it down about four steps when I heard a loud boom,” Mr. … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter New York condo prices flat year-over-year. San Francisco, SoCal, Seattle year-over-year gains shrink to near nothing. Las Vegas flat for sixth month. Miami & Phoenix at post-Housing Bust 1 highs. Spring has come to the most splendid housing bubbles in America, but the seasonal upticks weren’t enough, compared to the seasonal … Read more
Chuck Ross from The Daily Caller Reports, President Donald Trump on Friday said he hopes Attorney General William Barr looks at intelligence the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments provided their American counterparts as part of the investigation of the Trump campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-6mEjaum8 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/tr…
Scott Morefield from The Daily Caller reports, Townhall senior columnist Kurt Schlichter appeared on Friday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss a few things the left is likely to prohibit next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCSlsbwU5Ko Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/ku…
Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper got heated during a Friday segment with Facebook executive Monika Bickert, at one point questioning whether the company should “get out of the news business” if it couldn’t do it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBjLsOrl24 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/25/co…
by Charles Hugh-Smith That nothing is truly “free” will be another lesson of the S-Curve. I often refer to the S-Curve because Nature so often tracks this curve of ignition, rapid expansion, stagnation and decline. One lesson of the S-Curve is that the human bias to keep doing more of what worked so well in the … Read more
IBD: The Stunning Statistical Fraud Behind The Global Warming Scare. The actual measured temperature record shows something different: There have been hot years and hot decades since the turn of the last century, and colder years and colder decades. But the overall measured temperature shows no clear trend over the last century, at least not one … Read more
by John W. Whitehead “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick Red pill or blue pill? You decide. Twenty years after the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in … Read more
via Kurt Schlichter So, you’re a barista with a problem – you took out $200K student loans to get that master’s degree from Gumbo State in “LGBTQ2#v& Experiences as Reflected in 17th Century Bolivian Folk Songs” and now you can’t find an uncaffeinated career. Worse, those fascist monsters who you took money from based on your agreement … Read more
The CCP’s tactics have been exposed! Clive Hamilton, author of Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, sits down with us to discuss how governments around the world are tackling China’s attempts to undermine democracy. Featuring US China trade war, President Donald Trump, Huawei, New Zealand and Canada, and what the future holds.
Former South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy breaks down Robert Mueller’s statement. Read more on this here: https://fxn.ws/2QtZp9A
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Charlotte, Detroit, Cleveland. In the 20 US housing markets covered by the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index, there are some that form “The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America.” And there are some where home prices have not yet reached these splendid levels, or never experienced … Read more
by Lance Roberts I recently discussed one of the biggest potential “flash points” for the financial markets today – corporate debt. What I find most fascinating is how quickly many dismiss the issue of corporate debt with the simple assumption of “it’s not the subprime mortgage market.” Correct, it’s not the subprime mortgage market. As I noted previously: “Combined, there … Read more
In 2019, more and more people are getting attracted to the world of cryptocurrencies due to the sudden rise of Bitcoin. Long after the summer of 2018, the market value of Bitcoin has again exceeded $8000, as on May 24, 2019. Although it may not seem to be a big news to many, since it … Read more
by autotom This data takes the top 50 cities ranked by quality of life on Numbeo Taking their Cost of living plus rent And average monthly income after tax in USD The full spreadsheet I put together with additional data can be found here on dropbox in xlsx format Cities in the bottom right represent the highest income and lowest … Read more