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by Michael Snyder Can you name the major west coast city that has become a rotting, decaying hellhole and is being completely overwhelmed by rats, drugs, crime, piles of garbage and hordes of homeless people?  Of course San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, “all of them” and “any of them” would all be correct answers, but in … Read more

by Michael Snyder It looks like global food production could be well below expectations in 2019, and that could spell big trouble in the months ahead.  In recent weeks, I have written extensively about the problems that we have been experiencing here in the United States.  As many as a million calves were lost to … Read more

 IT’S HAPPENING: Trump to Start Declassifying Deep State Documents Including ‘Bucket 5’ in Next 7-8 Days — via John Solomon VID The Hill‘s John Solomon joined Sean Hannity on Tuesday night on his top-rated FOX News show. Solomon told Sean Hannity that according to his sources President Trump will start declassifying documents in the next … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith Deflation eats credit-dependent, mass-consumption economies alive from the inside. While AI (artificial intelligence) garners the headlines, the next wave of disruptive technologies extend far beyond AI: as the chart of technologies rapidly being adopted shows, this wave includes new materials and processes as well as the “usual suspects” of machine learning, natural language … Read more

Theresa May is giving it one more shot, this will not work the people have spoken and the BREXIT party is growing. IMF is warning Canada do not touch the housing market or it will implode. Existing home sales in the US decline. The [CB] is doing exactly what Trump wants, but making it look … Read more

Cummings is now being probed about his dealing with his wife’s organizations. Nadler is getting ready to say that McGhan is contempt, he wants to put it to a vote. Rep Doug Collins goes after Nadler. Collins releases more transcripts. After Collins releases the transcripts Comey and Lynch contradict each other. Nunes wants the FBI … Read more

While all the focus is on Brexit, the UK faces a currency crisis UK has over $8T in external debt: 2nd largest debtor in world after US True UK government debt exceeds £5 trillion as pension liabilities not in official numbers Total UK national nominal debt surged over £2 trillion; Increasing at over £5k per … Read more

by Chris Kimble Is the Thomson Reuters Equal Weight Commodities creating a long-term bottom? What the index does at (3) over the next few weeks, will go a long way to answering this important question! Commodities don’t have much to brag about over the past 8-years, as lower highs have taken place since the peak back in … Read more

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Where are the foreign investors in this phenomenon? Declining home sales in the US is a phenomenon that baffles the industry, given that mortgage rates have dropped sharply from the recent peak in November, and home sales should have jumped, logically speaking. But no. Sales of existing homes – single-family houses, … Read more

Here comes QE on steroids. Join Mike Maloney as he explains the Fed’s latest plan to manipulate and distort the markets, and what the results are likely to be.      

By Irina Slav A spike in doubts about Tesla’s ability to deliver on its financial performance targets has caused a more than 20-percent drop in its stock, with nine of the ten days to May 20 registering declines, Bloomberg reports. An additional blow to the share came from a once-optimistic analyst with Wedbush. In a Sunday … Read more

by Jim Quinn  

By Rodney Johnson Vista Equity Partners Chairman Robert Smith made quite a splash over the weekend when, during a commencement speech at Morehouse College, he pledged to pay off the student loan debt of every member of the class of 2019 who had accrued a tab. Smith is worth $5 billion, so he can afford to be … Read more

by Jeremiah Johnson I wrote several articles (a series, a few years back) about my family’s experiences in Hurricane Katrina (Editor’s Notes: Links to these articles will be provided at the end of this article). With hurricane season about to crop up again in a few months, it’s important to remember how important tools are for hurricane preparedness … Read more

by Lance Roberts “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett Just recently, I discussed the importance of valuations as it relates to investors who are close to retirement age. To wit: “Unless you have contracted ‘vampirism,’ then you do NOT have 90, 100, or more, years to invest to gain ‘average historical … Read more

by Jim Quinn