Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Just add tax cuts and ballooning expenditures. The media chose to silence the report to death. “If a tree fell in a forest and nobody heard it, did it really make a sound?” asks our …
by Chris Black With the mainstream media obsessing over Russia collusion conspiracies, this story slipped quietly under the radar, but considering the fact that the United States spent over 2 trillion dollars in Iraq, the news that former ISIS patrons/benefactors/sponsors …
by: Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Investors got lulled into a state of inflation complacency. Persistently low official inflation rates in recent years depressed bond yields along with risk premiums on all financial assets. That’s changing in 2018. Five drivers of …
by Simon Black http://traffic.libsyn.com/sovman/088__The_dangerous_false_logic_of__Common_Sense_.mp3 Download MP3 On the morning of May 18, 1927 in Bath Township, Michigan, a 55-year old municipal worker named Andrew Kehoe used a timed detonator to set off a bomb he had planted at the local school. …
via byMike Mish Shedlock Every month, pundits comment on average wages. But median wages best explain how the Fed’s policies crucify workers. The meme of the day is wage growth is accelerating. I disputed that notion on February 7, in Acceleration in Wage …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Our focus is to provide you with updated and accurate market price predictions for all of 2018, we believe we are entering a period that will be fantastic for traders and active investors. We believe this …
Democrats’ doomsday?: http://archive.is/p2mSp
https://youtu.be/bM0fJnvRLBY The entire interview https://youtu.be/xK5e6nCOxTA h/t Jake
by Lance Roberts Last week, John Coumarianos penned an interesting piece discussing the surge in home prices over the last few months. To wit: “The psychological factors are harder to assess. People aren’t flipping condos for sport the way they were …
by Dr. Eowyn FOTM‘s DCG once had a Facebook account. Some years ago, DCG deleted the account after receiving death threats from a reader. Yesterday, DCG wrote this comment on the “Florida Valentine’s Day school shooting” thread: “I deleted my FB and twitter accounts years …
via RonPaulLibertyReport If the creation of new money affected everyone evenly, there would be no point in government granting monopoly privileges to a central bank. It’s precisely because some benefit at the expense of others, that monetary inflation is so intoxicating. …
Here are at least 28 counts of treason, each count being just the start of even more treasonous acts by more domestic traitors of the United States.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/682912/uk-weather-forecast-polar-vortex-maps-sudden-stratospheric-warming A blast of freezing Siberian air is being blown towards the UK by an unusual weather event over the North Pole dubbed Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW). The Met Office has confirmed the onset of SSW, which pushes freezing air towards …
Denver approves local sentencing changes aimed at helping immigrants avoid deportation, such as reducing the punishment for public urination and defecation as well as unauthorized urban camping. Denver has a growing homeless population and residents worry that the new changes …
“No cash accepted” signs are becoming an increasingly common sight in shops and eateries across Sweden as payments go digital and mobile. But the pace at which cash is vanishing has authorities worried. A broad review of central bank legislation …
by Ian Shilling The first thing to say is that Russiagate has nothing whatsoever to do with any Russia meddling in the US or any other election, or “subverting American democracy”. Its about money and power – isn’t it always? Background …
by howmuch Americans are back to purchasing large SUVs and trucks instead of passenger cars, fueled in large part by confidence in the U.S. economy. And with President Trump set to unveil a broad new infrastructure plan with a rumored $200 billion price tag, now would …
by DCG Mental gymnastics required for this logic. From MyNorthwest.com: As homeowners reel from the sticker shock of higher property tax bills (average increase 17%), lawmakers in Olympia are considering a new capital gains tax to ease some of the burden. Acme Fuel Company …
by Paul Craig Roberts Despite reporting correctly Deputy AG Rosenstein’s statement that Mueller’s investigation found no evidence that Russian social media activity had an effect on the US election and no cooperation or collusion with the Trump campaign, CBS then …
by John Ward One of the fundamental reasons why Bullishness about the global business and markets outlook is so widely believed around the World is the assurances we get on a daily basis that first, there are green shoots appearing; and …
by sundance A large number of people who read the Mueller 13-person Russian Indictment released on Friday noted a transparent lack of actual substance. Today the absence of substance turns toward the hilarious. Much like the heavily touted sketchy 2017 Joint …
by Thinker By 2050, humans will ditch speech and communicate using nothing but their thoughts. They’ll do this through a ‘collective AI consciousness’ that is part of the very fabric of the human brain and can reveal what anyone is …
Steven Crowder goes nuclear on the exploitative gun-control advocates of recent public shooting in under 1-minute. More than that, more than what is in the Constitution or what is written in any religious book, gun ownership is about self ownership. …
by GoldCore – Trade war between two superpowers continues to escalate – White House likely to impose steep tariffs on aluminium and steel imports on ‘national security grounds’ – US may impose global tariff of at least 24% on imports …
During 2017, 485 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed …
Is it possible for people to continue to go further into debt? If so, by how much? If people go further into debt, is there a point at which it will snap? Or is the amount of debt “manageable”? There …
In this video Becker breaks down how while Disney’s Star Wars MIGHT seem immediately successful things are not what they seem. The financials are trending downward and Disney is in a big hole. If they do not start turning around …
As the household net worth (purely debt) as a % of disposable income (“wealth effect”) gets above 600%, savings rates seem to drop sub-5% in unison; then net worth dissipates rapidly. 2018 has the largest divergence in modern history. …
WOW!! #Sinabung mountain erupted this morning! pyroclastic flows and ash to 45,000ft have been recorded! #volcano #Indonesia #extremeweather source: @411Army pic.twitter.com/u90HLkNiqj — WEATHER/ METEO WORLD (@StormchaserUKEU) February 19, 2018
Outgoing GOP rep: Republican Party ‘heading into trouble’ in election On @FaceTheNation @CBS w/@nancycordes: for any party to grow, we must ensure that we include all groups. By growing the # and diversity of ppl involved in politics, we will …