The government is jerking off in the corner over a $5 billion dollar check for Trump when Obama got an $831 Billion Dollar check from the stimulus program and did little more than replace the light bulbs at the L.A. Courthouse WTF? h/t RonBananas
by Dr. Eowyn Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company founded in 1886. With worldwide sales of $70.1 billion in 2015, J&J is headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ, and includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in 60 countries and products sold in over 175 countries. … Read more
by DCG Another day, another story of a homeless person in Seattle receiving a free pass from the bureaucrats… Seattle has a homeless crisis that is exasperated by the fact that the bureaucrats do not enforce laws related to loitering, trespassing, public defecation, drug use and prostitution. Read about the many stories I’ve posted about … Read more
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. The tech boom is here, and it’s heating up. Over the past decade, the tech industry has created more than 1 million jobs across the United States. Between 2010 and 2017, tech-related job growth averaged 6% – more than four times the national … Read more
by David Haggith This ain’t no ballgame. This bear has shown up for blood, not sport. The Nasdaq intraday hit the 20% down mark that is widely regarded as qualifying for a change from a bull market to a bear market. A close at that level would have made it as official as a declaration of … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Rail Week Ending 15 December 2018: Economically Intuitive Sectors Continue In Contraction Written by Steven Hansen Week 50 of 2018 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) improved according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. The economically intuitive sectors were in contraction this week. … Read more
by Harry Dent of Economy & Markets Markets have had support at around 2,530 on the S&P 500 and 23,300 on the Dow. Those were the early 2018 low off the last market crash. And they’ve broken through those levels. But they still have dropped to levels that definitively say the crash has started. So, I’ve been tracking the … Read more
by Martin Armstrong France is now preparing to use chemical weapons against its own citizens around Paris to counter-attack the Yellow Vest rioters as their anti-Macron protests continue after 5 weeks. This chemical is a debilitating powder that can be spread over an entire area of the size of six football fields in ten seconds. So far, the police have … Read more
This is blowing my mind…. im slowly watching my state fall apart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzcc6S3DTE0 CH
From Bloomberg: For the first time in more than a decade, palladium is rivaling gold in value. A key component in pollution-control devices for cars and trucks, the metal’s price has surged as much as 50% in about four months, making it at times more expensive than gold. The rally shows few signs of fizzling. 1. … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Hello, Since the Fed ‘created’ ‘money’ after 2008 that was then deposited back at the Fed by the recipient banks ( say,75% of it), it is not easy to see why the Fed is to blame for the credit explosion since 2008- nor for the very slow ( like a paralytic centipede) … Read more
by Martin Armstrong I have been warning that raising taxes is DEFLATIONARY because you are reducing the net disposable income. Governments simply cannot get that through their head. In Romania where protests over political corruption have been unfolding, the government revealed its plan to try to comply with EU austerity raising they hope 10 billion lei ($2.5 billion … Read more
by DCG Mayor Catherine Pugh: “We want your guns” From Fox News: A woman in Baltimore is using the city’s gun buyback program, not to get firearms off the street but to upgrade to a better weapon. On Monday, the city’s Police Department paid gun owners anywhere from $25 to $500 for their unwanted firearms and magazines … Read more
RT, Released on 12/20/18 Larry and former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discuss Paul’s warning of an impending market meltdown, and his take on removing U.S. troops from Syria. Then, Larry and the political panel take on Facebook’s privacy policies. Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president … Read more
by Jesse “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes On the State of Virginia “An evil and faithless generation demands a sign. But no sign will be given it, except for the sign of Jonah.” Matthew 16:4 “Do not be deceived, … Read more
by Bill Bonner BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Well, we were wrong. We figured the Fed would pause now. Instead, it went ahead with its rate hike and suggested it would pause in 2019. This was widely expected by the markets, if not by us. Early yesterday, investors guessed – as we did – that the Fed would … Read more
The way CNN and similar mainstream outlets have been beating the war drum the past few days has been sickening… but not surprising HC
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz has asked SaraACarter.com to post her letter to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in support of her friend and colleague retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who will be sentenced on Dec. 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTrrlwIsETc Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018… Via SaraCarter.com and ZeroHedge: Andrew McCabe I believe … Read more
Ryan Saavedra for the Daily Wire reports, Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday where he blasted “left wing, activist” judges for rulings that have put lives of Americans and migrants at risk by incentivizing the “most vulnerable populations” to come to the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlaSK0bKq8 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: … Read more
via Twitter: For example: He’s even got Hillary Clinton, of all people, telling us that actions have consequences. A consequence of Hillary’s actions in Libya — “we came, we saw, he died” — was black people being sold as slaves in open-air slave markets. So maybe she should sit this one out. But note how despite her dreadful track record, … Read more