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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But average transaction prices rise to record highs. In terms of new-vehicle sales in the US, 2018 was the third relentless down-year in a row for three of the four biggest automakers, GM, Ford, and Toyota. For them peak sales occurred in 2015. GM delivered 2,954,037 vehicles in 2018, down 1.6% … Read more

Throughout the United States there are radically different regulations and rules. Some states are very high in taxation. Other very low. Businesses have been moving to the lower tax states for their headquarters in order to reduce the burden of taxation. Many high income earners have been leaving higher tax states in order to offset … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter For the past two months, the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Fed’s QE unwind has been deafening. The Fed started the QE unwind in October 2017. As I covered it on a monthly basis, my ruminations on how it would unwind part of the asset-price inflation and Bernanke’s … Read more

https://youtu.be/-1AIBUS0EWE Ballsonaro gets it. His first priority was to fire communists from the civil service and education system and will give law abiding citizens gun ownership rights. Neighbor Venezuela has fallen. This is no joke to these people.   h/t polakfury  

One thing Donald doesn’t do, is attack people who voted Hilary and Democrat. He keeps the attacks to the politicians and media. https://youtu.be/6ahNsZX9hgs Liberal media, pretty much 100% of the entire US media machine, are going to push too far and there will be no sympathy for what they bring on themselves. AC

Millennials up 420% in congress, while Silents and Boomers step aside. https://www.businessinsider.com/changes-in-gender-racial-diversity-between-the-115th-and-116th-house-2018-12   h/t Jim

via visualcapitalist: With each passing year, an increasingly large segment of the population no longer remembers images loading a single pixel row at a time, the earsplitting sound of a 56k modem, or the domination of web portals. Many of the top websites in 1998 were basically news aggregators or search portals, which are easy concepts … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn In the past, political asylum applicants are often detained in the U.S. while their petitions move through the system. Because of the large caseload, lengthy backlog, and a shortage of detention space, many are given a court date and released. President Trump has repeatedly denounced this de facto policy of “catch and release” and … Read more

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/4/19 Yesterday, January 3rd 2019, US Congressman Thomas Massie http://www.thomasmassie.com/ of Kentucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_… went on Fox News with Shannon Bream for 4 minutes total but less than 2 minutes to talk about how he now has bipartisan support and a 2/3 majority in the US House of Representatives for another “Audit The … Read more

by TFittonJW   Background: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-judge-opens-discovery-into-clinton-email-usage/

The Double Standard of Distracted Driving Laws (Link to article below) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-texting-driving-blitz-1.4960511 Constable Andrew Hinds is parked in an unmarked vehicle at the corner of a busy intersection in New Sudbury. He’s in the middle of a traffic enforcement blitz to catch distracted drivers. “The person we may ticket today might prevent them from driving … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Hillary Clinton’s 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.” ~ Craig Kilborn “In Hillary Clinton’s new book ‘Living History,’ Hillary details what it was like meeting Bill Clinton, falling in love with him, … Read more

This video, by an attorney looking over the law and data, goes over the question of whether Mr Trump can actually and legally declare a national emergency over the Illegal Alien problem at the southern border to build the wall/barrier. TRUMP: Can build wall WITHOUT Congress… Declare national emergency…  https://youtu.be/WY5VL-Wj37Y   h/t Konsaki

The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time. All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do! The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem … Read more

The [DS] pushes ahead with all their bills, impeachment, get rid of the electoral college, protect Mueller, stop the wall etc. This was expected. The Patriots have built a firewall around him and now it is time to build the wall. Trump sends the message to the [DS] the wall will be built no matter … Read more