FORBES: “No, California’s Finances Are Not Back In Black”

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It’s happening again. People who should know better are pointing to California’s current budget surplus as proof that the state, the world’s fifth largest economy, is in sound financial shape. That figure is also being used to support the claim that California’s relatively high tax burden and onerous regulations are not too problematic, as CNBC’s Robert Frank did on … Read more

Mueller Given 1.4 Million Trump Docs, 34 Indictments, No Exec Priv, Wire Taps and Found No Collusion; Elizabeth Warren Wants To Impeach President Trump Because Mueller Report Showed No Collusion

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPG9Bq2ylJc Elizabeth Warren calls on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump Elizabeth Warren became the first Democratic presidential candidate to call for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump Friday afternoon, citing the “severity” of “misconduct” detailed in the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “The severity of this misconduct demands that elected … Read more

With Venezuela in flames, ChinaRussia seeking claims in rubble… Guaido calls for ‘largest march in history’ to oust Maduro.

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Trump soured relations in Latin America. China and Russia have welcomed the chaos. With Venezuela in flames, China and Russia are seeking claims in the rubble. But the United States has been caught flat-footed, and the Pentagon is struggling to develop ways to blunt the countries’ influence in Latin America since President Donald Trump has … Read more

Scientists create ‘living’ machines that eat, grow — and evolve… Experts sound alarm over human-monkey hybrid

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Cornell scientists create ‘living’ machines that eat, grow, and evolve The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with greater mechanical complexity and smarter operating software than the last. But what if, instead of painstakingly designing and engineering a robot, you … Read more

London Home Prices Had Biggest Monthly Drop Since Lehman

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February was bad. Housing market weakness is now spreading out from London. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. London home prices in February took their biggest one-off hit since the dark days of the last crisis, according to data published Thursday by the UK’s Office of National Statistics. The average price of a residential … Read more

Next Week Obama GOES DOWN For Spying On Trump – New Evidence To Drop Will PUT HIM IN JAIL!

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Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, The Hill’s John Solomon joined Sean Hannity on the eve of the release of the full Mueller Report on Thursday. Solomon told Sean Hannity that the spying on the Trump campaign began back in January 2016 and it was all run by the Obama White House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqYqRIR9A8 Read … Read more

Robinhood brought in more than 40 percent of its revenue in early 2018 from selling its customers’ orders to high-frequency trading firms

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via CNBC:   Robinhood’s co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev defended the practice in a blog post. Tenev said like its broker-dealer peers, the start-up “participates in rebate programs which help customers get additional price improvement for their orders by creating competition amongst the exchanges and liquidity providers who fill the orders, often resulting in superior … Read more

This is all very 1929ish type behavior!

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via @mcm_ct: How much COLLUSION was involved to make this happen after the Dec 27 calls to hedgefunds and likely guarantees against losses offered to banks and HF’s by the admin and Fed…for BUYING markets – this is all very 1929ish type behavior! via @C_Barraud: #SPX | Factset: Analysts still expect an earnings recession with: *a 3.9% … Read more

Man arrested for trying to start a fire with gasoline at NY’s St. Patrick Cathedral

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by Dr. Eowyn St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, New York City, narrowly avoided a fate like France’s Notre Dame Cathedral. On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) tweeted that around 7:55 pm that evening, “a man walked into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with gas cans and lighter fluid,” and was apprehended … Read more

Max Keiser & Wolf Richter: Will Interest Rates Ever Rise Again?

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RT, Released on 4/20/19 Max interviews Wolf Richter of WolfStreet.com about interest rates, property markets, Uber’s IPO and the future outlook for Amazon and Netflix. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance … Read more

The Debt Crisis Is Around The Corner: David Morgan

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The Morgan Report, Released on 4/19/19 David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of TheMorganReport.com, a monthly report that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems and the key reasons for investing in precious metals. A dynamic, much-in-demand speaker all over the globe, David’s educational mission … Read more

It’s 2016 All Over Again. Or Is It? The Fate Of The Global Economy Rides On The Answer

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by Chris Martenson propertyesp.com.au Conditions today mirror 2016, when growing weakness in the global economy and wobbling financial markets caused the world’s central banks to absolutely freak out. They responded by dumping more thin-air money into the system than ever before in history. And it worked (for them at least). Economic growth stabilized; and the … Read more