Sears sues Eddie Lampert for looting company

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/sears-sues-eddie-lampert-steven-mnuchin-others-for-alleged-thefts.html Sears accuses its former CEO Eddie Lampert of stealing billions of dollars from the once-storied retailer. Sears Holdings filed for bankruptcy in October, after years of losses under Lampert, who was then its chairman, CEO and largest shareholder. “Altogether, Lampert caused more than $2 billion of assets to be transferred to himself and Sears’ … Read more

Post 2008 risk for all monetary minded people

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via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ Post 2008 risk for all monetary minded people A) we are in a 10-yr depression, although it’s been called an expansion After the recession technically ended in summer 2009, we’ve averaged 2% “growth” for 10 years. This is 1% below trend growth of 3%. Long term below trend 2/ growth is the definition … Read more

$SKEW vs $VIX – anyone remember sept?

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$SKEW vs $VIX – anyone remember sept? pic.twitter.com/gAlq9P87m7 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 18, 2019 $NASI is rolling over AND AAII sentiment at levels of Sept Highs pic.twitter.com/LbSnQKdR51 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 18, 2019 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1119118568837091328 https://twitter.com/Simple_Trends/status/1119040341011836928

AOC: Cutting aid to Israel is “on the table”

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'It's certainly on the table. I think it’s something that can be discussed,” – New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says cutting military and economic aid to Israel would be a good way to aid Israel opposition against newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pic.twitter.com/QRyQVuEDc4 — RT (@RT_com) April 19, 2019

Contrarian Alert: “Is Inflation Dead?” Makes The Cover Of Businessweek

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by Jesse Colombo In the financial world, those who subscribe to the contrarian school of thought (including myself) keep an eye out for certain cues or indications that a trend has become overcrowded and is nearing its end. Some examples of these contrarian indicators are investor sentiment indexes, fear gauges such as the CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, the … Read more

Reality Vs Fantasy: What To Watch For This Earnings Season

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by Lance Roberts Just recently, David Robertson ran an article discussing the deviation which has grown between “fantasy” and “reality” in the investing markets. “The phenomenon of extreme differences is also increasingly appearing in financial numbers, which are the life blood of markets. Andrew Smithers conducted research on the usefulness of accounting numbers and his work was summarized by Jonathan Ford.  … Read more

Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate! Although the US corporate media may have missed the news, the rest of the world gets the fact that the greatest threat to peace on the planet is Uncle Sam.

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by axolotl_peyotl This excellent article strikes at the heart of the dysfunction on the world stage today, and it’s centered around the rogue military industrial complex that has seized control of the US war machine. Since World War II, a period some describe as a “a period of unprecedented peace,” the US war machine has wiped … Read more

The Deep State is REAL, and it is -DIRECTLY- why we are living in the midst of the worse political scandal in our history.

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The Obama admin abused the NSA to SPY on his political adversary. This FACT comes to light more every day. This is the consequence of allowing the fedgov to SPY on us all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m1XbWOfVk&t=188&app=desktop Nunes: Obama Made HUNDREDS Of ‘Unmasking’ Requests – Including Trump Officials President Barack Obama’s Administration made hundreds of requests during the November campaign … Read more

A less than Happy Easter beckons as our Establishment continues to crucify Civil Rights

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by John Ward Yet more evidence is emerging to confirm a growing belief among thinking Brits: that both major Parties will do anything – sign away sovereignty, restrict democracy, lie incessantly and connive with malign Superstate interests – to gain power for themselves. An overly broad grant of political power is the antithesis of free speech. … Read more

Judge John H. Wilson – Mueller and His Pack of Lies

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from Financial Survival Network Judge John H. Wilson, first time guest, tells us that After almost two years of investigation, the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller concerning whether the President and his campaign staff colluded with Russian agents during the 2016 election was finally provided to the US Attorney General’s Office late in March. The … Read more

Changing Laws Rather than Attacking the Corruption in Berlin

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by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Germany to Decide if It Can Nationalize Private Property. The difference between National Socialism (NS/NAZI) and International Socialism (INS) exactly are five letters and their definition according to that they do is pretty the same. But don´t worry about international investors. They got the real estate really cheap along with some gifts … Read more

Netherlands Objects to France’s Attempt to get EU Funding in a Crisis

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by Martin Armstrong The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, is objecting to France’s desired changes to the EU budget. France wants aid with the inclusion of the objective to “stabilize” the economies within the Eurozone, whereby the Netherlands wants all funding to be limited to furthering “competitiveness and convergence.” The Netherlands contributes the most to … Read more