by Ruby Henley Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been granted an extension for up to six months, the U.S. District Court in D.C. recently announced. This is not really a surprise as most of us have grown used to Mueller getting his way – or getting away with his unlawful activities We have grown used … Read more
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains & Captial Stocks roared higher last week when Fed Chair Jerome Powell did a complete 180 and proclaimed some of the most dovish statements in Fed chair history. Not only did Powell suddenly claim he was “listening to the markets,” meaning he was worried about the drop in stock prices, but he … Read more
BY JOHN MAULDIN Last month’s Buenos Aires G20 summit was a chance for world leaders to forge common ground on important global issues. That’s not exactly what happened. But President Trump’s trade discussion with Chinese president Xi Jinping looked initially like a bright spot. They agreed to stop making things worse for a few months, at … Read more
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter earnings likely decreased sharply due to lackluster demand in its memory chip business as well growing competition in the smartphone segment. The South Korean tech giant predicted operating profit for the three months ended December was approximately 10.8 trillion Korean won ($9.67 billion). That was 28.71 percent … Read more
Recession, 10% High Yield Spreads and aKey Points 1½% Fed Funds Rate – Prelude to a Storm?Tough it was that dawn to be an investor, but to be in Treasuries was very heaven…’ (after Wordsworth) ask act@liquidity.com for reports ! pic.twitter.com/7OK5qQfl0B — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) January 7, 2019 The spread between LIBOR and SHIBOR … Read more
via @hks55: $SPX heading to 1800 DOUBLE TOP $DJI DIVERGENCE
Jimmy Dore discusses news that Israel has used commercial airliners as cover for bombings, thereby putting civilian airliners in danger of being shot down. The U.S. news is largely ignoring this story. AC
via arkansasonline: Crooked Creek Bee Co., the retail sales and processing side of Arkansas’ largest commercial beekeeper, closed this week, a casualty of dicamba, Richard Coy, one of its owners, said Friday. The herbicide has been damaging or killing vegetation essential to pollination by bees the past three years, Coy said. Redvine, a flowering plant native … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSFw2LTTTyE Do it Mr President. America wants it.
Dems, MSM confirms that Trump can use National Emergency to fund the wall. Trump is holding a press conference and the MSM doesn’t want to cover him. Trump tweets out that the stories about Syria are false. Q drops more bread, confirms that government was run by the DS. RBG might not becoming back to … Read more
by AnonDidNothingWrong Italy populist leaders back France ‘yellow vest’ protests ROME: The two leaders of Italy’s ruling populist coalition Monday spectacularly threw their support behind the “yellow vest” protesters roiling neighboring France. “Yellow vests, do not weaken!” Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, who heads the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), wrote on his party’s … Read more
Despite saying President Trump “should be given the bully pulpit, he owns it,” Lemon was concerned about letting America’s elected leader speak to the people. “But you’re giving him the opportunity to speak to the United States unfettered—to speak to the people of the United State and this President has a problem with the truth,” he … Read more
via wbez.org: Sandra Botello moved to Chicago five years ago for what she called “the opportunities.” Now 41, she and her children had been evicted from her home in Idaho when her landlord’s property was foreclosed. The move to Chicago indeed delivered opportunities. She earned an associates degree and then enrolled at the University of Illinois … Read more
THE POWER OF GLAMOUR: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a good dancer, clueless on tax policy. Does the Bernie Sanders-backed U.S. Representative from the Bronx — who wants to abolish ICE — not know there’s seven federal tax brackets in the 2018 U.S. tax code and that the “rich” already pay the lion’s share of taxes? In fact nearly … Read more
Here we go…. SOURCE: KYODO Five-year prison terms were sought Wednesday for three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. for their alleged failure to prevent the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. At the Tokyo District Court, court-appointed lawyers acting as prosecutors said if the three had collected … Read more
via cbc.ca: A policeman inspects barrels containing stolen diesel fuel, stored in a tire repair shop, during an operation in the municipality of Apodaca, neighboring Monterrey, on July 4, 2011. More than 100 oil workers and contractors hired by Mexico’s state oil monopoly Pemex have aided criminal gangs stealing millions of barrels of fuel over the … Read more
Geraldo Rivera got into a shouting match on Monday night after defending violent illegal aliens on Hannity. Sean Hannity had just interviewed the parents 22-year-old Pierce Kennedy Corcoran of Knoxville, Tennesse who was killed by an illegal alien last week. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/blowout-on-hannity-unhinged-geraldo-defends-violent-illegals-hannity-and-bongino-explode-video/ h/t Voluntaryist
by Troy As the S&P 500 makes a sharp upwards reversal towards its 38.2% fibonacci retracement, the U.S. stock market’s breadth is surging and risk-off assets (USD) are falling. This combination of extremely strong breadth and a decline in risk-off assets often leads to short term weakness before a bigger medium term rally, but sometimes … Read more
by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Institute I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling troops from Syria certainly feeds such … Read more
by Alasdair Macleod via Mises Wire It is easy to conclude the EU, and the Eurozone in particular, is a financial and systemic time-bomb waiting to happen. Most commentary has focused on problems that are routinely patched over, such as Greece, Italy, or the impending rescue of Deutsche Bank. This is a mistake. The European Central Bank and … Read more