Another Indicator Rolling Over: February Single Family Housing Authorizations Down 5.8% Y/Y

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via housingwire: When it comes to the health of the economy, the housing market is the canary in the coal mine, providing clear and early clues of pending trouble. And that’s why analysts track its performance intently, looking at a multitude of indicators that might signal the looming recession some are forecasting. Now, one critical clue from … Read more

The Deep State Dupes The Donald—Gets Intel Budget Increase To An Absurd $86 Billion

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via antiwar: ith everyone still reeling at the announcement of the $750 billion proposed military budget for 2020, a huge increase, the Trump Administration is now offering a proposed spying budget that is similarly looking for a substantial increase over the previous year. The proposal stands at $86 billion, and is a six percent increase over the … Read more

Trump: Facebook, Google and Twitter, not to mention the Corrupt Media, are sooo on the side of the Radical Left Democrats…. ‘We have to do something’ about online discrimination against Republicans

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Trump on the discrimination of conservatives on social media: President Trump said Tuesday that “something” needs to be done to stop the anti-conservative bias seen on Twitter and other social media platforms, but didn’t say what his administration might do about it. “Something is happening with those groups of folks that are running Facebook and … Read more

Your Future Stock Returns Might Unpleasantly Surprise You

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By John Mauldin Every investor knows that “past performance is not indicative of future results.” Yet many embrace century-long averages as a reasonable guess for future returns. Back in the late 1990s, we were told that the long-term average return (~10%) was a reasonable long-term assumption. Instead, the S&P 500 Index has only gained about 3% … Read more

Over 90% of all US Media is controlled by 6 companies. If you control these – you can virtually control “democracy”.

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by thrilldirectorial https://twitter.com/CaptalismCrime/status/1108010388908576771 Investment Banks own the entire world. To go even deeper, let’s take a look at the majority shareholders of each of these six corporations: They’re all the same. Institutional investment banks like BlackRock, The Vanguard Group, State Street, Wellington, and some others. Each of those banks has trillions in Assets Under Management … Read more

Stocks whipsaw on conflicting trade deal reports

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Oh, who could’ve seen that coming. 🙃 https://t.co/AiqObkipDU — Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) March 19, 2019 Stocks gyrated on Tuesday as investors puzzled over conflicting reports over the progress of U.S.-China trade negotiations. Bloomberg News initially reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that U.S. officials are worried China may be pushing back against U.S. demands in … Read more

WTO NO DEAL: Is it time for the Italian Job?

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by John Ward With every day, every vote and every hour, the options for Brexit are reduced….and thus (as always applies among the wise) the creativity applied to the problem increases in due proportion to the steamrollering process. It’s a slim chance, but it’s worth shooting for. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ It is fascinating to read the optimism of … Read more

What to Consider If You’re Retiring Abroad

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by FS https://static.financialsense.com/audio/2019-03/fsn2019-0318-morgan-8eb1c04b77.mp3 Mar 18 – On this edition of Lifetime Income, Financial Sense’s Paul Horn CFP speaks with Elizabeth Morgan of Elizabeth Morgan & Associates on what to consider if you’re retiring abroad. They discuss the most popular locations they’ve seen clients move to such as Italy and New Zealand as well as the … Read more

Let’s stop bashing billionaires — they are making our lives better

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 by Chris Edwards Are rich people idle “rentiers,” as economist Thomas Piketty calls them, who inherit wealth and add no social value? In supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan for higher estate taxes, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich claimed that “America is creating a new aristocracy of the non-working super rich.” And in plugging Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax, … Read more

Is Trump Really About to Attack Venezuela?

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by Ron Paul Last week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered the last of the US diplomats out of Venezuela, saying their presence was a “constraint” on US policy toward the country. The wording seemed intended to convey the idea that the US is about to launch military action to place a Washington-backed, self-appointed politician to … Read more

It’s Only Bad For Our Democracy When Republicans Do It

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Democratic Superstars Get Away with Questioning the Integrity of Elections. Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams were 2018 runner-up candidates for governor in the country’s third- and ninth-largest states, are considered “rising stars” in the Democratic Party, and are engaging in “horrifying,” “shocking” rhetoric that is “threatening our democracy.” That’s according to Hillary Clinton and Tim … Read more

The name of the game is division. The ruling class stays in power by dividing the masses. They do this by pointing out generational differences, gender, & sexual orientation, but racial division is their most used and most effective weapon.

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by R3gusPhilbun And over the last 5-6 years, they have been “turning up the heat” so to speak. I believe the masses have a natural inclination to befriend one another and work as a group to develop a convenient, safe, and fair way to satisfy our needs in a team effort. However, the ruling class, … Read more

Why Trump’s Tariffs Will make Goods CHEAPER

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by Spencer P Morrison, NEE From Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Cost You a Penny: The big reason why so many Americans oppose tariffs is because they don’t understand them.  They think tariffs are just another sales tax, and assume that imposing a 10 percent tariff on a product will increase said product’s price by 10 percent.  That’s … Read more