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Authored by Derrick Broze via The Mind Unleashed blog, A new court filing argues that Google is helping the U.S. government circumvent Fourth Amendment protections in order to conduct warrantless searches. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has formally accused Google of scanning billions of personal files of users at the request of the U.S. … Read more

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both come out in favor in “free” public colleges and universities. The scheme could be funded, as CNN describes it, by “drastic increase in federal spending on higher education.” Much of the rhetoric around swirling around this issue relies on the idea that … Read more

by visualcapitalist If you’re like most Americans, you probably spend more than 40 hours a week on the job. For this reason, your career of choice plays a big role in determining your overall well-being. Not only does your profession have a massive influence on the potential money you make, but it also impacts your stress, … Read more

by Kimble Charting Crude Oil and the S&P 500 peaked last fall together and bottomed at the same time in December. Could they both be peaking together again this week? Joe Friday suggests keeping a close eye on the Crude Oil pattern this week. Crude and the S&P both created topping patterns at each (1), then both fell over … Read more

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the inevitable collapse of the banking system as they continue to get more and more desperate to prop up their pyramid while scandals are revealed on a regular basis. Wells Fargo is one bank that has had so many scandals in the past few … Read more

by TFittonJW Big beyond belief — FBI also admits 49k Clinton emails on Weiner laptop: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-admits-hillary-clinton-emails-found-in-obama-white-house/ Great Inside Judicial Watch discussion: And was high energy with Lou Dobbs last night: #DTS– @TomFitton: @JudicialWatch has uncovered 5 classified emails Hillary tried to destroy. The FBI has evidence documenting the "Clinton Cover-up Operation.” The Russia probe began … Read more

Record valuations and leverage alone do not make a market top. Add macro timing: -Faltering consumer confidence-Liquidity drying up-Negative economic surprises-EPS growth deceleration-Yield curve inversions-Extreme VIX short-China shocks to comehttps://t.co/9DrQo35QlK — Kevin C. Smith, CFA (@crescatkevin) April 26, 2019 The recipe for a hard landing: Historical global debt imbalances.Record overvalued assets prices.Faith in central banks … Read more

While appearing in Washington, the founder of Infowars called for President Trump to push forward with plans to regulate the big tech companies. One America’s Jack Posobiec sat down with Alex Jones to learn more.  

By Robert Ross For about a week last month, the yield curve inverted for the first time since July 2006. Prior to that, this happened in July 2000 and April 1989. There’s a pattern here… each inversion hit about 18 months before a recession. In fact, the yield curve has inverted before every recession over … Read more

From Birch Gold Group In a recent column on Forbes, contributor Carolyn Rosenblatt outlines an emerging variant of the classic phishing scheme in the form of a scam call from a supposed Social Security representative. Instead of trying to get personal details through email, Social Security scammers will reach the victim via phone, utilizing fairly advanced technology … Read more

By Robert Ross I bet you’ve never heard of Pat Munroe. And unless you’re from the Florida Panhandle, I imagine you haven’t heard of Quincy, Florida, either. But the two can teach us a lot about investing. See, in the early 1920s, Munroe was a banker in Quincy. One thing Munroe noticed was no matter … Read more

by TraderStef via CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) The last time I checked there was $75 trillion in global money supply, low to near zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) across the board, an inverted yield curve in the U.S. that is flip-flopping, and $11 trillion of sovereign negative yield bonds with 18 countries on the NIRP list. It all adds up to … Read more

By Patrick Watson It’s not a good sign for your health if your blood pressure drops too low. Similarly, the economy is probably sick when its circulatory system slows down. You don’t need a blood pressure gauge to know it either. Just count how many trucks you see on the highway. Under normal conditions, busy highways … Read more

By David Stockman The Everything Bubble: Why You Can’t Be Warned Enough The number one mistake that my critics make is assuming that I am calling to sell the market and go short at the very same time that I warn about a bubble. This is completely untrue because my goal is to spot and … Read more

by WARREN MOSLE Headline number looks strong, but details show weakness, particularly personal consumption expenditures which continue to decelerate: Highlights The consumer isn’t on fire but still contributed to a very solid 3.2 percent growth rate for first-quarter GDP. Net exports are the driving force of the headline rate, still deeply negative at minus $899.3 billion … Read more