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Infowars, Released on 12/28/18 Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New … Read more

via MishTalk: The number of US Treasury bond inversions took a big leap today. I count 5 inversions, three of them with the 1-Yr bill. In this snapshot, the 5-year, 3-year, and 2-year treasury yields inverted with the 1-year yield. In addition, the 3-year yield inverted with the 2-year yield and the 3-month with the 1-month. … Read more

Host of the popular radio show “Operation Freedom” Dr. Dave Janda warns about the massive debt problems the world is facing and the coming economic reset. Dr. Janda says Trump is correct when he says, “The real problem is the Fed and not China.” Janda says the Deep State “rigged the economy to implode” with … Read more

by DCG Obviously banning guns means nothing, absolutely nothing, to those who are determined to break the law. From The Guardian: Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned. Chief constable Andy Cooke, the national police lead for serious and organised … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn No surprise there, given the recent and ongoing news about pedophile priests (even cardinals), and their enabling superiors. Gallup has measured the public’s views of the honesty and ethical standards of a variety of occupations since 1976. Before 1999, clergy members were frequently the most-highly rated professions for their ethics, but no … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn   Today, the BBC is scheduled to broadcast an animal documentary, Spy in the Snow, narrated by David Tennant, on how dangerous life is for creatures in the Antarctic. To promote it, BBC One put out a video clip showing a giant petrel preying on a group of Emperor penguin chicks. Giant petrels are … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The major influential German news weekly, Der Spiegel, has suspended two of its senior editors following the scandal involving a reporter Claas Relotius admitted faking stories for years. Relotius, who is 33, resigned after admitting that he had made up stories and invented protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the … Read more

Rampant unaffordability and a slew of other reasons. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. In the fourth quarter of 2018, prices in prime regional housing markets in England and Wales fell by 0.9%, according to global real estate agency Knight Frank. For the whole year, priced dropped by 0.6%, compared to 2017. The rate … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The price of going upscale: New cars are too damn expensive, and Americans aren’t buying them anymore. Based on new-vehicle sales data this year through November, plus my own estimates for December, for the year 2018, sales of new cars plunged 13% to 5.5 million units; and sales of new trucks … Read more

Dec. 29, 2018 – Mary Greeley News – An American health worker who was possibly exposed to Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo was evacuated to the United States Saturday and placed in a secure area at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, hospital officials said. The person has no symptoms … Read more

Gateway Pundit reports In the last two weeks the US Border Patrol have Arrested a MS-13 gang leader, An agent was assaulted by an illegal alien, An agent rendered life-saving first aid, And agents rescued a man from drowning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tb4WNGvHq0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…   In the last two weeks the US Border Patrol have: ** … Read more

The stock market has found itself on shaky ground. Many investors have piled on and bought the dip. With nearly a decade of bull market behind them, investors feel very confident about many more years of growth ahead. Unfortunately, they forgot to acknowledge the Fed and their desire to slow down the economy at this … Read more

There is no way out of this mess, that’s for sure. Markets are wild, the real economy is weak, tensions are high. Yet the mainstream media and the propaganda they force feed the public is never ending. I guess there’s nothing really new about that. What’s different about 2019 than 2017 and previous years is … Read more

Associated Press for the Western Journal reports, Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaOxMgOHeZk Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-off…   Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. The Avangard hypersonic glide … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Forced selling by loan funds in the once red-hot $1.3-trillion “leveraged loan” market. Part of the $1.3 trillion in “leveraged loans” — loans issued by junk-rated overleveraged companies — end up in loan mutual funds and loan ETFs. These funds saw another record outflow in the week ended December 26: $3.53 … Read more

by David Haggith  The market’s last chaotic day closed in a way that befit the entire year. Up, down, up harder, down harder, and done! It looked like the violence of the day may have come from the Plunge Protection Team attempting to push the market up in the middle of the afternoon, except that the … Read more

via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ OIL When the economy is doing well, there is a large demand for oil, and oil prices rise. The collapse in oil prices shows we are entering a global slow down. 2/ HOUSING Only 13% of Americans plan to buy homes next year. This is -50% less than a year ago. Single family … Read more