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Dressbarn to close all 650 stores: Owner Ascena “never really invested” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dressbar…  

by jessefelder Back in September I noted there was a historic streak in Hindenburg Omens triggering on the New York Stock Exchange. Shortly afterward the stock market embarked on its steep fourth quarter plunge. Last week the NYSE triggered another Hindenburg Omen. And while this one has yet to become a cluster it’s probably important to note … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Impact felt by the real economy and the most vulnerable consumers. In the first quarter, the credit-card “charge-off” rate at the 4,650 or so smaller US commercial banks – all banks other than the largest 100 banks – ticked down to 7.37%, the sixth quarter in a row above 7%. During … Read more

For More Information See and Links See: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/GRFC_2019-Full_Report.pdf http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/floods-and-drought-devastate-crops-all-over-the-planet-could-a-global-food-crisis-be-coming https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/15/australia-to-import-wheat-for-first-time-in-12-years-as-drought-eats-into-grain-production https://thedailyguardian.net/local-news/capiz-loses-p350m-in-rice-crops-due-to-drought/ https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/tasty-maggot-sausages-could-be-answer-to-world-s-growing-food-crisis-researchers-suggest-366577.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-pig-crisis-african-swine-fever-impact-entire-world-meat-prices-a8889316.html http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/as-many-as-a-million-calves-lost-in-nebraska-beef-prices-in-the-u-s-to-escalate-dramatically-in-the-coming-months http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/total-catastrophe-for-u-s-corn-production-only-30-of-u-s-corn-fields-have-been-planted-5-year-average-is-66 https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuweather-predicts-smaller-corn-and-soybean-yields-in-2019-as-wet-weather-persists/70008328 https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2019-05-15/north-korea-suffering-historic-drought-amid-severe-food-shortage    

Josh Sigurdson talks with author G. Edward Griffin about multiple issues starting with the coming great financial crisis and the domino effect to come. While we talk a lot about the inevitable collapse of the US dollar among other fiat currencies throughout the world as well as the bubbles growing unsustainable and showing the signs … Read more

Via Middle East Eye, France has threatened three French journalists with potential jail time for using secret documents to reveal the country’s involvement in the Yemen civil war.  In a series of reports published in April, investigative journalists from Disclose and Radio France revealed the number of French arms sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.  … Read more

by DCG Tough call on which lying hack you are to believe… From Daily Mail: Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch told investigators she did not ask former FBI Director James Comey to refer to the Hillary Clinton email review as a ‘matter’ instead of an ‘investigation,’ according to a transcript released Monday night. Comey claimed in his 2017 … Read more

by TFittonJW (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking draft copies of FBI charts containing information on potential “statutory violations” committed by Hillary Clinton in the former secretary of State’s use of a non-secure, non-government email server to conduct government business. … Read more

The judge made the right call, technically speaking, but this does not address the issue of the nigh on unconstrained manner of congressional investigations and how they may be weaponized: http://archive.fo/usSpg      

via @TaviCosta: What is Dr. Copper telling us about the global economy? It is now almost 20% since Jan of 2018. A similar decline also preceded the last selloff in stocks.  

BY SRSROCCO The overwhelming majority of U.S. shale companies were hit hard due to lower oil prices in the first quarter of the year.  Just about every shale company that I keep track of suffered negative free cash flows in Q1 2019.  This was quite a surprise as Rystad Energy claimed that the breakeven price for … Read more

Is China and the US entering an endgame? The battle lines have been drawn and demands made. In this trade war it appears both sides are preparing for the long haul. What does it mean to win a trade war? What does it mean to lose? How far could this escalate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1kYnrm1cA    

There appears to be a conflict of interest when it comes to House Committee chairman Elijah Cummings and where his wife is working. One America’s Kelly Ayers explains.    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNi0e_AzGMI

Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg admitted during his Sunday town hall on Fox News that when he talks about “fair taxes,” what he means is “higher taxes.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVIWpKWEEc   Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/19/pe…  

Must-see TV. After a decade of justice denied — under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, John Brennan, James Comey, and others — Bill Whittle thinks he now detects a whiff of fear among those in that cabal. Former CIA Director John Brennan, usually a cool calculating man, seems frightened about the probe into how … Read more