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by Jim Quinn    

by Ann Coulter Assiduous readers of my columns know that I have frequently made the point that America’s immigration policies benefit only three groups of people: 1) rich Americans with a lot of employees, 2) the immigrants themselves, and 3) their grandmothers back in Chiapas. The money illegal immigrants send out of the country doesn’t come … Read more

by Kurt Schlichter Resolved: Millennials are the worst of all possible generations, and I say that as a baby-boomer (by a week). Unconvinced? Then check out one or both recent documentaries on Hulu and Netflix about their generation’s Woodstock, the infamous Fyre Festival, and watch how thousands of credulous millennials got suckered by social media “influencers” – … Read more

by Michael Snyder Mike Pence is the most hated vice-president in modern American history, and mountains of abuse have been heaped upon his wife Karen Pence.  The left hates them with a passion, and the reason they are hated so much is actually very simple.  It is because they are Bible-believing Christians.  In America today, … Read more

by Michael Snyder Federal workers need to be prepared for more pain.  If President Trump and Congress cannot make a deal, there will probably be another very painful government shutdown in just a couple of weeks.  Even though he agreed to temporarily reopen the government, President Trump made it abundantly clear that there would be … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter China, Japan, other foreign entities dumped US Treasuries. But someone had to buy. Here’s who. Under the impact of a stupendous spending binge peppered with juicy tax cuts, the Treasury Department has had to issue a flood of Treasury securities to fund the cash outflow. So, over the past 12 months, … Read more

by John Rubino It’s amazing what a few weeks of outperformance will do for an asset class. Gold and silver, after being pretty much ignored for the past few years, are now the shiny new toys of the investment world. From just the past couple of days: Highest Central Bank Buying in 50 Years Drives … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The corporate-state media lives in terror that the truth will somehow leak out of the corporate-Imperial fortress, imperiling their jobs and perks. It’s not exactly news that the Alternative Media is under assault: skeptical inquiry and dissenting narratives are smeared as “fake news,” and new suspiciously corporate entities (NewsGuard et al.) claim to … Read more

by Jim Quinn After yesterday’s Federal Reserve Meeting, Jerome Powell completed his one month transformation from an independent hawkish Chairman trying to do what is right for the country to a weak kneed Wall Street lackey doing their bidding, just as Yellen, Bernanke and Greenspan had done before. It appears he was summoned to a … Read more

Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr, U.S. stocks recently registered the 2nd most overbought condition In their 150-year history. Temperatures wrought by the polar vortex here in Chicago have truly reached ludicrous levels. Today’s low is projected to be minus 26 degrees Fahrenheit — without the wind chill. That got me thinking — is that the coldest … Read more

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent advice provided by Michael Wilson, the Chief Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley. According to Wilson, people need to get out of stocks now! Their reasoning is that they struggle to see the upside in hanging around just to “see what happens” while … Read more

BY JOHN MAULDIN The 2008 financial crisis hit China hard, as it did everyone else. Not every country responded like China did, though. Most couldn’t do what China did because they lacked either financial resources or political ability. China had both. And so it launched a stimulus program of mind-boggling proportions. China’s Stimulus Is Built on Shadow … Read more

by howmuch Tens of millions of people are in slavery around the world, and lots of them live in your country. That’s according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, a detailed analysis of modern human trafficking and slavery around the world from the Walk Free Foundation. The best way to start to understand the global landscape of … Read more

by sundance President Trump delivers a video message in concert with a series of public tweets surrounding the ongoing issues with border security funding. .

Published on Oct 19, 2016 Presidential nominees clash in the final presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas   Leftists push INSANE Bill That Allows Executing Babies h/t NotRiggedUrJustLosin

GOOGLE takes aim at ‘fake’ websites with new browser warning… Because most people don’t notice when they’re at the wrong website. It’s hard to be sure where you are on the internet these days. Carefully checking the URL is one approach to avoiding danger. Trouble is, many fraudulent websites use tricks to make their URLs … Read more