Fed’s QE Unwind Marches Forward Relentlessly

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the sell-off, it ignored the whiners on Wall Street. The fifth month of the QE-Unwind came to a completion with the release this afternoon of the Fed’s balance sheet for the week ending February 28. The QE-Unwind …

READ MORE

Internet Giants: Who Owns Who on the Web

by visualcapitalist View a high resolution version of this graphic In the brick and mortar world, decades of consolidation has led certain conglomerates to wield massive amounts of control in the banking, consumer goods, alcohol, and auto sectors. And although the internet is incredibly vast in scale and …

READ MORE

THE CRASH OF 2018 – Farazian Focus

BY: HASSAN FARAZIAN SUMMARY: Let’s hope this economic analysis will be proven wrong since it is very counterintuitive in the ongoing rising stock market euphoria – despite the recent stock market turmoil. But the current sociopolitical tensions in all countries with its spillover …

READ MORE

California's About To Go Venezuela

CA Dems are moving further to the left: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/think-california-politics-is-on-the-far-left-fringe-just-wait-for-the-next-elections/2018/02/04/80e679c2-05e5-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html   h/t FuzzieMuff

The 100 Most Dangerous Cities in America

by Dr. Eowyn Using the most up-to-date FBI crime data for the 2016 year (the 2017 year total crime data are still incomplete), Neighborhood Scout compiled a list of the 100 most dangerous cities in America with 25,000 or more people, based on the …

READ MORE

Here we just have an example of literally the richest man on Earth, Jeff Bezos worth over $100 billion, and his company, the biggest retailer on Earth, didn't pay 1 cent in income tax to the US government.

I don’t think we should be giving Jeff Bezos a medal for figuring out how to fuck over the system so bad, that one of the world’s largest companies didn’t pay any income taxes last year. And that was before the massive …

READ MORE

More Censorship On The Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oezjTblVQu0 Richie from Boston is back because he hired a lawyer. how many can afford to do that. they asked how he had bullied people and they couldn’t produce it so his channel is back with no strikes.

Congresswoman: "Big pharma keeps pushing back against legalizing medical marijuana because, in many cases, they want to continue to sell addictive drugs and dominate the market for drugs that address chronic pain. That's wrong. "

Big Pharma engaging in a blatant and open attempt to oppose cannabis legalization is an affront to a Republic which, on its face, should be free of that kind of nefarious corporate influence in the context of public policy. To …

READ MORE