The other day, author Tom Ricks asked whether we’re heading toward a civil war. “I don’t believe we’re to Kansas of the 1850s yet. But we seem to be lurching … in that direction,” he wrote. Ricks was commenting on “What Democratic rage would look like,” a Bloomberg opinion column that quotes political scientist Thomas Schaller as saying, “I think we’re at the beginning … Read more
Better get ready and fast Macro-Trend Follower. ‏ @macrotrendf Germany retail sales TANKING worst reading since 2007 when the recession hit. @PaulSommerville Germany retail sales fell 4.3% in December. The worst in eleven years. Italy Officially Slides Into Recession. The Fed utterly capitulates on policy. Trading With Hedge ‏@tradewithedge WOW! Retail sales from Germany came … Read more
Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, President Donald Trump on Sunday said the number of illegal immigrants in America dwarfs any previously published official estimates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB4Z52wRXQs Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-says-number-illegals-doubled-since-2015-cites-astronomical-costs/ Troops Headed to Border; Pentagon Tracking 12K Illegal Aliens Heading This Way The approaching horde of illegal aliens who think they’ll cross the U.S.-Mexican … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn On January 22, 2019, 3-year-old Casey Hathaway vanished from outside his grandmother’s house in North Carolina. FBI and U.S. Marines professional search teams joined up with volunteers to search for the boy, who weighs only 25 lbs., in the forest near grandma’s house. Yahoo reports that after two days of heavy rain … Read more
Via The Daily Caller The Democratic Virginia delegate who has recently come under fire for sponsoring a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow the termination of a pregnancy up to 40 weeks old, is also the chief patron of a bill that would protect the lives of “fall cankerworms” during certain … Read more
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
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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 John Rubino Jordan Peterson on why the European Union is doomed … David Stockman: The crashing economy will bring down Trump … Peter Schiff: This is the beginning of the end … Max Keiser on “well-meaning totalitarians” … Ron Paul: Billionaires thrive in the Fed’s immoral “counterfeit” system
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
by TIMOTHY_TRISMEGISTUS The definition of ‘Continuity of Government’ is a set of contingency plans to ensure that essential government functions remain in place after a disaster such as nuclear war. In the United States, Continuity of Government plans have been on the books since at least the Eisenhower administration. The plans involved building intricate hidden … 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