Senator Rand Paul Calls Out Mitch McConnell for Undermining President Trump…

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Senator Rand Paul delivers a righteous speech supporting President Trump’s decision to begin removing the US military from the Middle East, and calling out Mitch McConnell and the UniParty for undermining the president.   Rand is fired up. MUST WATCH: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/05/senator-rand-paul-calls-out-mitch-mcconnell-for-undermining-president-trump/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

OUTRAGEOUS: Corey Booker Given a Pass by Senate Ethics Committee on Classified Leaks

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READ THE FULL STORY HERE http://jwatch.us/W33s45 Judicial Watch announced that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has refused to take action against Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who admitted to willfully violating Senate rules by releasing confidential records regarding then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House counsel. The documents were marked “Committee … Read more

Mueller & CNN Staged the Arrest of Stone for PR Stunt

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by Martin Armstrong It very clear that Mueller is acting like any other prosecutor and is using the press for PR stunts. CNN’s reporter David Shortell claimed he had “reporter’s instinct” which led him to get footage of Roger Stone’s pre-dawn arrest, not a tip from the FBI or special counsel’s office. That is about as credible … Read more

Is the Democratic Socialist Party Going After Corporations?

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by Martin Armstrong   Corporate America will suddenly discover that the Democrats are moving substantially to the left and will do whatever they can to further that goal. The Democrats are becoming the new party of anti-corporation/business. They embrace the misguided ideas of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has been joined by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. This … Read more

The Crime Rate Perception Gap

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via visualcapitalist: There’s a persistent belief across America that crime is on the rise. Since the late 1980s, Gallup has been polling people on their perception of crime in the United States, and consistently, the majority of respondents indicate that they see crime as becoming more prevalent. As well, a recent poll showed that more than two-thirds of … Read more

Venezuelan Oil Exports Plunge On ‘Harsher’ Sanctions

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By Nick Cunningham Venezuela’s oil production could be disrupted to a greater degree than most analysts first thought, as the U.S. government seeks essentially shut in the country’s oil sector. When the Trump administration first announced sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector a little over a week ago, it sounded as if they would simply bar … Read more

China’s S-Curve of Expansion, Stagnation and Decline

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by Charles Hugh-Smith All the policies that worked in the Boost Phase no longer work. Natural and human systems tend to go through stages of expansion, stagnation and decline that follow what’s known as the S-Curve. The dynamic isn’t difficult to understand: an unfilled ecological niche is suddenly open due to a new adaptation; a bacteria … Read more

QE Party Goes Dry, Bank of Japan Tries to Confuse the Markets

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the selloff in December, the BOJ shed $31 billion, but in January it piled on. Total assets on the Bank of Japan’s mammoth balance sheet, after a drop of ¥3.4 trillion ($31 billion) in December, rose by ¥4.8 trillion ($44 billion) in January, to ¥557 trillion ($5.1 trillion), the BOJ reported this morning. This shows two … Read more

Snopes and AP Quit As Fact Checkers at Facebook

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DusTj3ObrM Two of Facebook’s four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. In a Friday press release, Snopes said that it had “elected not to renew our partnership with Facebook,” and while declining to reveal specifics, added that “Forgoing an economic opportunity is not a decision … Read more

Another retailer might bite the dust…

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Charlotte Russe Files for Bankruptcy SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Charlotte Russe Holdings Corporation together with its subsidiaries (the “Company” or “Charlotte Russe“) today announced that the Company has voluntarily filed for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on February 3, 2019.  Charlotte Russeintends to use these … Read more

Big Tech Is No Longer Carrying the Stock Market

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/business/dealbook/stock-market-technology.html For much of the past decade, the fate of the stock market has been tied to the performance of a handful of the largest tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix led the market from one record to the next. By the end of August, their sway over the direction of the … Read more

We know that 2018 was worst December since 1931. What happened after the worst December in 1931: A rally. Then, like, a gigantic drop.

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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1092603156398333953 Wall Street analysts now expect S&P 500 companies to report an average 0.8 percent decline in first quarter profits, according to FactSet.At the end of September, analysts expected first quarter profits to increase by 6.7 percent, on average.📉https://t.co/SZYKrmdydR pic.twitter.com/NSTg04Ntwf — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) February 5, 2019 WSJ: Over the past year, purchasing managers sounded an … Read more

GE To Pay $1.5 Billion To Settle Justice Investigation Of High-Risk Mortgages

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James Langford for the Washington Examiner reports, General Electric has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a Justice Department investigation of high-risk mortgages handled by its lending business before the 2008 financial crisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbqREqf-ye4 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bu…