via upi: Jan. 3 (UPI) — At the close of 2018, the U.S. national debt was more than $2 trillion higher than when President Donald Trump took office, data released Thursday by the Treasury Department indicates. The national debt reached $21.974 trillion as of Dec. 31. The increase in debt came a little more than a year after Trump signed a tax … Read more
via pjmedia: Just yesterday, a friend and I were marveling at how we used to meet up with people at crowded events before we all had cell phones. We know we used to do it, but how? As a kid, I loved studying maps and planning routes for trips. Now, though, I can’t imagine attempting to … Read more
On Friday, January 11th and Saturday, January 12th, the National Association of Scholars is sponsoring a conference entitled “Disgrace: Shame, Punishment and Redemption in American Higher Education” at Chapman University in Orange, California. The theme of the conference is as follows: At this conference, the National Association of Scholars intends to discuss “disgrace” in two ways: disgrace as … Read more
by CelineHagbard As the first bill introduced by the 2019 Senate session, S.1 is deals with a number of foreign policy issues, but one of them is a section designed to strengthen state laws that punish companies and individuals who engage in or support boycotts against Israel. 26 states have such laws on their books, and … Read more
via foxnews: “Romney’s piece is fascinating on its own terms. It’s well-worth reading. It’s a window into how the people in charge, in both parties, see our country. . . . We are ruled by mercenaries who feel no long-term obligation to the people they rule. They’re day traders. Substitute teachers. They’re just passing through. They have … Read more
Just a video of yellow vests using a forklift to break into the French Government Ministry. But I am more interested in why there is almost a media blackout of this story from our major news organizations. Why the silence? Why do we not hear what is really going on? https://youtu.be/8PzsZtjTieU Redditor in France sets … Read more
Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp predicts a big reset of the U.S. dollar coming sooner than later. Shipp says, “Yes, I do. It’s going to be horrible if the dollar loses its reserve status. I think they will absolutely do that. I think, also, if you add that ‘missing’ $21 trillion, our deficit … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Paula Corbin Jones was the former Arkansas state employee who sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. He paid her $350,000 to keep quiet and Trump paid his own money $130,000 to Stormy Daniels – the porn star. And the Democrats want to impeach Trump for that when Clinton has a … Read more
via sputniknews: The arrested conspirators are said to be involved in a large-scale credit fraud that ruined the economy of Mozambique in 2016. Three former Credit Suisse Group bankers have been arrested in London in connection with a loan fraud scheme that ruined the economy of Mozambique in 2016 according to UK authorities, cited by the South African Eyewitness News outlet. Andrew Pearse, … Read more
Well that takes a tidy slice out of Hillary’s supposed lead in the popular vote now doesn’t it. Wonder how many other Democrat states have people listed that shouldn’t be there. https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-and-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-5-million-inactive-voters-from-voter-rolls-settle-judicial-watch-federal-lawsuit/ Great news, but won’t make much difference in the 2020 presidential election. In 2016, Hillary had 7.3 million California votes compared to … Read more
By Robert Rapier Many articles have been written this past year about the impending demise of OPEC. Shale oil, it has been argued, has ended the cartel’s stranglehold on oil prices. There’s some truth to that argument, but it also understates OPEC’s dominant position in the oil market. I often try to imagine the decisions … Read more
by Frank Shostak of Mises Wire Only a few months ago most economic commentators were sanguine about prospects for the US economy. Most of them did not expect an imminent downturn. Now all that has changed with most experts expecting the economy to enter a downward phase of the economic cycle by 2019. According to experts, the key … Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-democrats-unveil-bill-targeting-trump-on-tax-returns-and-transparency/2019/01/04/43f429a8-102d-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html?utm_term=.ad08b0f82a8a As one of their first big-ticket legislative proposals of the new Congress, House Democrats on Friday unveiled a sweeping anti-corruption, campaign finance and ethics reform package that takes aim at long-simmering concerns about President Donald Trump’s possible conflicts of interest between his actions as president and his family business. The massive proposal, known as “The For the … Read more
by sundance Last Wednesday night the arrest of a key political organizer of the Yellow Vest protests, a 33-year-old truck driver named Eric Drouet, spurred the movement to claim French President Macron was now arresting his political opponents. The arrest of Drouet has led to an increase in retaliation by the group against the French government. [Video from … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5YgK3P4rk That’s because 63% of Americans threw out their televisions!! Along with their Television “PROGRAMMING”!! Jim
RT, Released on 1/5/19 Dan Collins of TheChinaMoneyReport.com predicts 2019 can possibly, at long last, be the year in which the Chinese economy actually does fall apart. Many big names in finance have predicted it over the past decade, but Dan thinks the corporate and household debt may finally catch up with the economy. Will … Read more
by Lance Roberts New Year Starts With A Rally Sector & Market Analysis 401k Plan Manager New Year Starts With A Rally Last week, I discussed the potential for a rally as we head into the New Year based on both the more extreme levels of short-term oversold conditions coupled with the statistical tendencies going back to … Read more
by Hollywood Rob Many of us don’t have the time to dig deeply into the machinations of the globalist slime. It is too hard. It is too much work. But some of us manage to focus for long enough to find out what is going on and at least for now, we can see what they … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is a very cyclical business. In December, orders for new Class-8 trucks — the heavy trucks that haul the products of the goods-based economy across the US — plunged by 43% from a year ago, to just 21,000 orders, the lowest since August 2017, and down by 60% from August … Read more
by nealosis I was reviewing all the defaults and charged-off loans in my Lending Club portfolio earlier today and it just makes my blood boil. For Example consider this borrower, who stole $40K and faces zero consequences https://imgur.com/a/a02FQ9f Seems like you can create a massive bump in your income by taking out huge … Read more