US factory growth, China car sales, Euro Area, Germany, Fisher comment, State revenues, Las Vegas housing

by WARREN MOSLER The tariff thing keeps taking its toll: China Nov car sales fall 14%, biggest drop since 2012 (Reuters) China’s automobile sales fell 13.9 percent in November from a year earlier. The drop in sales to 2.55 million vehicles, a fifth straight decline in monthly numbers. The last time sales fell by more … Read more

Ridiculous: Vox wants constitutional change so Ocasio-Cortez can run for president

by DCG It’s amazing that some progressives actually take this womyn seriously. From Fox News: Liberal political website Vox is getting accused of jumping the shark after publishing an appeal to “fix the Constitution ASAP” so that 29-year-old incoming Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can run for president – claiming “there’s no time like the present to start working … Read more

Boy Scouts of America is bankrupt

by Dr. Eowyn Another longtime American institution lost to pedophiles and the Left’s political correctness. Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations and youth organizations in the United States. Boys are trained in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance through participation in a wide range of outdoor activities, … Read more

Coward Cop Who Failed to Confront Parkland Shooter Says He Had ‘No Legal Duty’ to Act—Law Says He’s Right

via thefreethoughtproject: A Florida court was shocked this week when disgraced ex-deputy Scot Peterson aka “The Coward of Broward” claimed in court that he had no legal duty to confront the Parkland shooter and protect the children inside the school. Although the judge rejected the deputy’s claim that he had no duty to confront Nikolas Cruz that day, … Read more

California Dreaming – How to Leave & Fast

by Martin Armstrong Once upon a time, they use to write songs about California Dreaming. It is now turned 180 degrees to the main dreaming in California is how to get out of the same. You just cannot keep raising taxes endlessly reducing the standard of living of the people and survive indefinitely. It is official. The … Read more

Al Caceido – Debt Bomb Getting Ready to Blow

from Financial Survival Network Al Caicedo is back… No one in government seems to care about the country’s burgeoning debt. Not the President, not Congress or anyone in the Swamp. How much longer can the party go on? Al is very concerned and believes that we will soon reach the tipping point. What will happen then is … Read more

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? Mueller Wiped Peter Strzok’s iPhone Clean

Mueller Wiped Peter Strzok’s iPhone Clean ShareTweet Robert Mueller’s special counsel’s office reviewed Peter Strzok’s text messages from during his tenure at the FBI, but those text messages are obviously not going to see the light of day. By some mechanical manipulation, the text messages for both Strzok and Page are gone, baby, gone, according … Read more

Pentagon corrects $331mn ‘accounting error,’ bills Saudis & UAE for refueling jets bombing Yemen

The Pentagon is clawing back hundreds of millions of taxpayer-subsidized dollars it gifted to Saudi Arabia and the UAE over a three-year period, when it ‘accidentally’ refueled their aircraft for free during their war on Yemen. US Central Command is “in the process of seeking reimbursement from” the two countries for $331 million in fuel … Read more

The end of traffic jams?

From BBC.com: We’ve all been there. Stuck at traffic lights that never seem to change to green. Sitting in queues of cars that stretch on for miles or delayed by a glut of slow traffic that suddenly disappears. Traffic jams are a blight on our modern, fast moving lives. And we have been dealing with them … Read more

DeVos’ Title IX Fix Gets Unanimously Rejected by Student Gov’t, But Only a Few Seem To Have Read It

Savannah Pointer for the Western Journal reports, The Associated Students at the University of New Mexico Senate voted unanimously last month to denounce the new Title IX recommendations made by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8M7bYSQQAY Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/title-…    

The Real Game of Thrones

by Martin Armstrong The real Game of Thrones is already underway. The contest to succeed Mario Draghi is now officially open. The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) will leave office on October 21st, 2019. The question is who has the guts to step up to the plate to clean up the mess he is leaving … Read more

Group of top French military generals Accuse Macron Of “Treason” Over UN Migration Pact

A letter written by General Antoine Martinez and signed by ten other generals, an admiral and a colonel, as well as former French Minister of Defense Charles Millon, warns Macron that the move strips France of more sovereignty and provides an additional reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt”. The letter accuses Macron of … Read more

Sam McElroy – Job Slow Down Ahead?

from Financial Survival Network Sam McElroy is back… U.S. jobs and wages rose by less than forecast in November while the unemployment rate held at the lowest in almost five decades, indicating some moderation in a still-healthy labor market. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 155,000 after a downwardly revised 237,000 gain in the prior month, a Labor Department … Read more

Ouch: CNN ‘Fact-Check’ on Trump Crushed After DHS Provides Actual Facts on Terrorists

via newsbusters.org: CNN’s Jim Sciutto was one of the many journalists this week who attacked President Trump’s comments about border security during his meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tuesday. Sciutto even did a whole segment “fact-checking” the president on Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom. Unfortunately for him, actual experts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called out his reporting … Read more