Silver Plays a Small but Vital Role in Every Portfolio

By Jared Dillian Portfolio strategies like Modern Portfolio Theory and others tend to assume that market returns follow a normal distribution. Not really. Certain securities have high kurtosis. That is where out-of-the ordinary returns (larger or smaller) occur more frequently than the normal distribution predicts. Of course, nobody who is stable and balanced puts 100% of their assets … Read more

Ann Coulter says she could vote for Sanders if he changed views on immigration, “I don’t care about the rest of the socialist stuff”

If Sanders changed his immigration stance to include policies such as “protecting the border” he would have Coulter’s vote, she said in an interview on PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.” “If he went back to that position I’d vote for him, I might work for him,” she said https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/439588-ann-coulter-says-shed-vote-for-bernie-sanders-depending-on-his-immigration However much of a full-spectrum … Read more

Trump to cut off Section 8 housing funds for Illegal Immigrants!

Trump to Enforce Housing Aid Ban for Illegal Immigrants . By Philip Wegmann – RCP StaffApril 17, 2019 Trump to Enforce Housing Aid Ban for Illegal ImmigrantsAP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File The Trump administration will soon release new regulatory changes aimed at ensuring that federal housing assistance goes to qualifying citizens and legal residents, not illegal … Read more

Big Tech Wants Centralized Censorship… GOOGLE Panic Over Political Bias Leaks

PLATFORMS WANT CENTRALIZED CENSORSHIP. THAT SHOULD SCARE YOU IN THE IMMEDIATE aftermath of the horrific attacks at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, internet companies faced intense scrutiny over their efforts to control the proliferation of the shooter’s propaganda. Responding to many questions about the speed of their reaction and … Read more

ROGER KIMBALL: THE BARR IS RAISED. Many will be furious at the Mueller report’s findings. That’s a big problem for America

via spectator: But here is the existential issue that the report confronts us with. William Barr observed at one point that ‘all Americans can and should be grateful to have [the president’s innocence] confirmed.’ And yet many people, far from being grateful, will be enraged. And that is a huge problem for the Republic. What … Read more

Zoom Video Communications, a video conferencing company, earned $7.6 million last year and is now valued just under $16 billion after surging 72% today on its IPO. Price-earnings multiple: 2100x

Pinterest, Zoom Video Debuts Set Pace for Unicorns’ IPO Derby Zoom’s first-day share climb leaves founder wishing for less Above-target IPOs make for 2019’s biggest day for new listings Pinterest Inc. and Zoom Video Communications Inc. hit the public markets Thursday in soaring debuts, setting the pace for other so-called unicorns racing toward initial public … Read more

Dems STOPPED COLD After Trump Offers HUGE New Gift To Help LOW-INCOME Americans

Naomi Jagoda from The Hill reports, The Treasury Department on Wednesday released a second set of guidance on the “opportunity zone” program created by President Trump’s tax law, the same day the White House held an event to tout the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJvjOmbdaY Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/43…  

Nigel Farage is the man of the hour. But is he a Man for all Seasons?

by John Ward If the Labour-Tory talks collapse in disarray, then Theresa May is in deep doo-doo. If they succeed, then real Brexit (and Nigel Farage) are in deep doo-doo. The Slog analyses an uncertain immediate future ahead. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ I present this graph from my site stats not to boast, but to help set a context … Read more

Do Border Walls Work?

by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Skeptics who believe a border wall will not stop illegals from entering the United States may want to look at what’s happening in Hungary. On the day its border fence was completed, the influx of illegals entering Hungary went down from 6,353 per day to 870 the next day. For the remainder … Read more

What’s Hot In The News: Mueller Report Reveals Nothing And More Retail Store Closures

by Mike for Silver Doctors Thanks for watching this Silver Doctors New update. The articles mentioned in this news update can be found here: 1. (Wikipedia) Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special… 2. Mueller Report: Team Couldn’t Rule Out Obstruction … Or Firmly Establish It https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/709051… 3. WHY BARR WILL DELIVER THE MUELLER REPORT TO CONGRESS ON CD … Read more

Nobody Does It Better: The Amount Of Human Feces On San Francisco Streets Is Going Up Every Single Year

by Michael Snyder Sometimes the best metaphors come from real life.  Today, San Francisco has eclipsed Los Angeles and has become the most important city in America’s most heavily populated state.  It is the central hub of our tech industry, in many ways it is one of the epicenters of our national moral decay, and … Read more

How U.S. Government Debt May Impact Social Security

From Birch Gold Group Fiscal year 2018 wasn’t a good one for U.S. Government net-worth. While that may hardly be surprising, it’s possible we’re reaching a “tipping point.” From an official report released by the U.S. Treasury, Sovereign Man pulled out a few key highlights: In Fiscal Year 2018, the government’s total net loss was $1.16 TRILLION. … they spent … Read more