No Wall, No Deal: McConnell Blocks THIRD Government Funding Bill

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Cassandra Fairbanks for the Gateway Pundit reports, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has blocked a third bill to reopen most of the government without funding the wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDVAPQhqqg Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019… The Hill reports, “the Senate GOP leader didn’t explain his objection from the Senate floor but he has warned for weeks that he will … Read more

House Democrat Just Crushed Ocasio-Cortez’s Dream of Abolishing ICE

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Ben MArquis for the Conservative Tribune reports, As part of the left’s blind opposition to President Donald Trump — particularly with regard to his illegal immigration policies — a number of Democrats have called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4giuzoLt-M Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/hou… As part of the left’s blind opposition to President … Read more

Former ICE Director Explains Why CNN Doesn’t Want Him on Its Network

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Randy DeSoto for the Western Journal reports, Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Tom Homan has appeared regularly on Fox News since the government shutdown began, but said he has not been asked on CNN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_colf2_lQ   Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/former… Homan told The Daily Caller that his last appearance on CNN in the spring was to … Read more

Glowing space billboards to show ads in night sky? ‘Cubesats’ form luminous words, logos

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Glowing space billboards could show ads in the night sky We’re accustomed to being bombarded by ads. TV, radio, smartphones, newspapers and magazines, movie theaters, billboards — all of them feeding us with a steady supply of messages designed to influence our purchasing choices, among other things. Now, though, a Russia-based startup has a plan … Read more

Cop feels disrespected so he camps out in an office chair in front of a guy’s employer’s business in an attempt to get an apology, making a spectacle of himself.

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via thefreethoughtproject: Seattle, WA — A Seattle police officer has been demoted from his rank of sergeant after he stalked an innocent man at his place of work — for over 40 minutes — to demand an apology. Former police Sgt. Frank Poblocki is now a mere officer after his temper tantrum caught on body camera. … Read more

Bloomberg: Economists Downplay Indicators That Say U.S. Recession Is Coming

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Bloomberg article tl;dr – Compared with hard economic data, [market-based models that predict recessions are] more forward-looking. But not only can markets get it wrong, they’re also prone to rapid reversal, undermining their reliability as the harbingers of doom. “You cannot get the equivalent of a thousand-point drop in the real economy in 24 hours, … Read more

Wall Street Journal: Fed’s Beige Book Shows Concerns Mounting Among U.S. Businesses

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by WhenLuggageAttacks   Wall Street Journal Article – Link for Subscribers Wall Street Journal Article – Link for Non-subscribers tl;dr – The report, known as the beige book, was based on information collected through Jan. 7. With the usual flow of economic data constricted by the partial government shutdown, the anecdotes compiled in the beige book will … Read more

AA controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood now claims to be up and running in 5 cities across the US

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via businessinsider: A startup called Ambrosia that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with the blood of young people is now accepting PayPal payments for the procedure online. Jesse Karmazin, a Stanford graduate who founded Ambrosia, told Business Insider this week that the company was up and running in five US cities. Ambrosia recently completed its first clinical trial designed … Read more

The Stock Market Rig Is Ending…The Next Leg Down Is About To Begin

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by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital This week is options expiration week… Wall Street’s favorite time to ramp the markets in order to insure the maximum number of options contracts expire worthless. THIS, nothing else, is why the markets rallied this week. Tweets from the President or some statement by a Fed official were simply the … Read more

Next Move For The Dollar

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via UPFINA The government shutdown is now 27 days old and shows no sign of letting up. According to Oxford Economics, the shutdown will hurt GDP growth by 0.2% if it continues until the end of the month and 0.6% if it lasts the whole quarter. The longer the shutdown lasts, the larger the multiplier, … Read more

Jordan Goodman – Economic Obstacles Popping Up All Over

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from Financial Survival Network Jordan Goodman asks between the shutdown, trade issues, the deficit, the student loan bubble, the auto loan bubble, etc., what’s an investor to do? The only surprise is that the market hasn’t taken a bigger hit, but there’s time. Interest rates appear to have peaked at the present time, but is that enough … Read more

Report: Economic Toll Of Government Shutdown Almost As Bad As Economic Toll Of Having A Bloated Federal Government In The First Place

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Via The Babylon Bee U.S.—The economic toll of the government shutdown is growing by the day, and experts now believe the cost of having the government partially closed down is nearly as bad as the economic toll of a functioning government interfering in our economy, businesses, and private decisions in the first place. “It’s really … Read more

Stock-Market Margin Debt Plummets Most Since Q4 2008

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Wow, that was fast. Margin calls. During the ugly stock-market December, whose ugliness bottomed out on Christmas Eve, a nasty November, and the ugliest October anyone can remember, margin debt plunged by a combined $93.8 billion, the most since Q4 2008, after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. In December alone, margin … Read more

Five Eyes Leverage – Europe Imposes Steel Tariffs on China…

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by sundance In November of last year the New York Post interviewed President Trump asking specifically why he was not declassifying “spygate” documents, and inquiring about the purpose for his reluctance.  President Trump responded: “Maybe it’s better that the public not see what’s been going on with this country.”  Many people were disappointed, but its always been President Trump’s … Read more

BUZZFEED EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BEN SMITH IS HAVING A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO-GOOD, VERY-BAD DAY

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by ED   “BUZZFEED EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BEN SMITH IS HAVING A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO-GOOD, VERY-BAD DAY,” Twitchy notes; but we’ll come back to them in just a second. First up, Colby Hall of Mediaite writes, “Buzzfeed News Bombshell Reporter: No We Have Not Seen the Evidence Supporting Our Report:” Anthony Cormier is one of the two investigative reporter at BuzzfeedNews who co-authored … Read more