FLASH CRASH As Japanese Yen SURGES! – The Global Currency CRISIS

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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the flash crash of several currencies versus the Japanese Yen as many theorize many retail investors were bailing out of loss-making positions. The Japanese Yen broke through levels that have held for almost a decade against the Australian Dollar catching investors by surprise and … Read more

Robert Shiller explains the issues he sees as the current drivers of markets.

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Bloomberg, Released on 1/7/19 Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) … Read more

Mobile Phone As A Tracking Device

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by SP It looks like the sale of an individual’s location information on the black market has come of age. Motherboard reports: T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them … Read more

Worldwide Real Estate Crash & Why

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Sir, Listening to the WEC 2018 recording this weekend, Mike Campbell made an interesting sideline comment. He stated that pension funds were heavily invested in real estate. Is this just Canada or the US as well? If taxes go up will this further push the pension funds over as well as the … Read more

Raising Taxes by Redefining Who Are the Rich

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I get up in the morning, make coffee and read your blog. Thank you for your service to humanity. Ok, so the Democrats want to go back to the 1950’s with 70% tax rates. Does that also mean they’ll reinstate the same deductions that were available back then? For example, passive activity … Read more

Tucker Carlson: Elizabeth Warren encouraged married, two-parent families 16 years ago. She can’t do that today

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com In our opening show of the year, we talked about the central problem of American politics, which is that our leaders have lost sight of the point of being in charge. Their goal should be simple: strong American families. Anything that makes it harder to form strong families, they … Read more

I’m shocked! Study finds that nearly 100 percent of Seattle’s soda tax is passed on to consumers

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by DCG The Seattle Times reports: Nearly 100 percent of Seattle’s new tax on the distribution of sweetened beverages has been passed on to consumers through higher in-store prices, a new report estimates. But some taxed beverages have increased in price more than others and some stores have increased their prices more than others, according to the report … Read more

Debt, dope and casinos: Chicago is circling the drain

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by Simon Black While the federal government is slowly careening toward permanent, fiscal disaster, many state governments (which don’t have the power of the printing press) are already staring into the abyss… Take Illinois, for example. It’s the most broke state in the US with nearly $250 billion in debt. And it only brings in enough … Read more

INCREDIBLE. Two VERY Different Trade War Stories From The US and China. By Gregory Mannarino

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TradersChoice.net, Released on 1/8/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate … Read more

Kass: Follow The Money

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by Lance Roberts The Tremor Before the Quake and the Fed’s $450 Billion Balance Sheet Reduction “The combination of rate hikes and balance sheet reductions from the Federal Reserve in 2018 sucked up global U.S. dollar liquidity and put emerging markets under immense pressure in 2018. Emerging market equities were 20-30% lower from February through October, … Read more

Democrats used fake social media in Alabama election

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From The New York Times: The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devil’s work, and the state should ban it entirely. Along with a companion Twitter feed, the Facebook page appeared to be the work of Baptist … Read more

Now 13 congressional freshmen say they will not take their $174,000-a-year salary while shutdown continues – but high-profile millennial Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is NOT among them

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A total of 48 lawmakers – both Democrats and Republicans – have said they will not take a salary while the government is shutdown   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t saying whether or not she’ll take her salary Ocasio-Cortez, in December, tweeted that members of Congress should ‘have some integrity’ and not take a paycheck during the shutdown … Read more

NYC GUARANTEES HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

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via nbcnewyork: New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone’s ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more than half-a-million New Yorkers currently using the ER as a primary provider, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. It’s not health insurance, his spokesman clarified … Read more

Mom pens powerful letter after son killed by illegal alien in Tennessee car crash

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by DCG The Knoxville Fire Captain’s 22-year-old son, Pierce Corcoran, was killed by an illegal alien in a car accident before New Year’s Eve. The unlicensed illegal alien swerved into traffic causing a head-on car crash. The illegal alien is now charged with criminally negligent homicide and driving without a license or insurance. Pierce’s mom penned the following, … Read more