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by Ron Paul This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered enough. “They are suffering greatly in North … Read more
Authored by Andreas Steno Larsen via Nordea Bank, The short positioning in VIX is heavier than prior to the February and October sell-offs, which is why we are on alert to a new potential squeeze of volatility positions. From the current levels, we see the best risk/reward in long vol across assets Intraday volatility in … Read more
by howmuch According to the World Bank, 10 percent of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1.90 USD per day. While this threshold is shockingly low (it would amount to an income of less than $1,000 per year), residents in some countries can make significantly more money and still … Read more
by: Stefan Gleason For months, the Trump administration has been touting low unemployment numbers as evidence of a strong underlying economy. But if the economy is so strong, why can’t it take any more interest rate hikes? White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow insisted on Friday that the economy still “looks very good.” Yet … Read more
by Jim Quinn 20 year old Penn State student’s life snuffed out for no reason at all. Celebrating a Phillies victory with some friends and he is shot and killed randomly by some scumbag. My dad would take me to FDR park when I was a little boy, with bambo fishing poles, to catch sunnies. … Read more
From New Zealand Air: H/t Maziel How sad that New Zealand, once known as Tolkien’s Middle Earth, is now associated with the obviously-fake mosque shooting video. See “How we know New Zealand mosque shooting video is a CGI fake “. ~Eowyn
by DCG Flores and Biden on the campaign trail Such a non-apology. Demorats have mastered those. From Daily Mail: Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday defended his years of what he called ‘expressions of affection’ and claimed he ‘not once – never – did I believe I acted inappropriately.’ ‘In my many years on the … Read more
by independenttrader When in 2017, we have begun to mention the upcoming US-China trade war, the largest media have not yet been interested in this topic. The situation has changed a year later, when the tariffs imposed by Washington has dominated the headlines. Trade war and its negotiations have become a convenient subject explaining all changes … Read more
by Shaun Richards A feature of the last year or so has been something of an economic car crash unfolding in Italy and we have received two further perspectives on that subject this morning. Sadly neither is an April Fool although in these times they have become ever harder to spot. According to Markit times … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idKsivlLqZQ&feature=youtu.be She needs to go at Bernie for being the biggest loser on the planet and telling everyone to vote for Hillary. Imagine being that pathetic. Imagine. AC
via CNBC: The weak report from the Commerce Department on Monday joined a raft of other soft data, including housing starts and manufacturing production that have left economists anticipating a sharp slowdown in growth in the first quarter. Retail sales dropped 0.2 percent as households cut back on purchases of furniture, clothing, food and electronics … Read more
I hope he enjoys that peach mint flavored ice cream. h/t mikeroolz
President Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox News to discuss Lucy Flores, the Democrat lawmaker who just revealed that Joe Biden inappropriately touched her during her 2014 campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada. Joe Biden has been groping women and young girls for years out in the open, all you have to do is … Read more
via usatoday: Who would object to the government shifting money from the wealthy to the less fortunate? Except that’s not what happens: Few funds really go to them What is the government’s primary function? If you look at the debates that rage each year when the president’s budget comes out, you’d think it was defense … Read more
by Martin Armstrong We are beginning to witness the impact of state taxes on decision making. California’s high taxes led to the San Francisco Giants losing Bryce Harper to the Philadelphia Phillies. The 26-year-old professional baseball star agreed to a 13-year, $330 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies because the bottom line net of what California would take was … Read more
By Patrick Watson Looking at the official unemployment rate, American workers should be pretty happy. Almost everyone who wants a job has one. Yet many aren’t happy at all. We see it in consumer sentiment, retail sales, and other indicators. We all hear it anecdotally from friends and family. Some employers are unhappy too. They complain they … Read more
Had the Trey Gowdy evidence of Attorney General Eric Holder’s “Fast & Furious” gun running over the open borders made it to into a court room, the truth of the open border would have been known. https://youtu.be/BvLgQUz1pQE AC
At 11 a.m. Sunday morning, Taiwan time, two Chinese PLAAF J-11’s deliberately breached the median line–the official maritime border separating China and Taiwan–for the first time in 20 years. Taiwan scrambled its own fighters and sent the J-11s packing. Huang Chung-yen, a spokesman for Taiwan’s Presidential Office, said China “should stop behavior of this sort, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh7vBc1qwJA Look at the Clinton foundation. Look very closely, like Mueller did at Collusion. The exposure of the Clinton foundation corruption will do all of Trump’s swamp draining for him. JS
If you voted Republican in 2016, here is something to make you feel great about it !