Desperate Glenn Beck Cuts Deal To Maintain Relevance After Pretending To Jump On Trump Train

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n62_0pH5bXE Randy DeSoto for the Western Journal reports, TheBlaze and CRTV have merged, creating Blaze Media, the two companies announced Monday. The newly created entity will be able to reach 165 million people via television, online and social media, making it “the largest independent, traditionally conservative multi-platform media company in the United States,” TheBlaze reported. … Read more

Rickards: “The Makings of a Global Debt Crisis Are in Place”

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via dailyreckoning: In 2017, the financial world was filled with talk of synchronized sustainable growth in major economies for the first time since before the 2008 global financial crisis. This was being proclaimed by global financial elites including Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF. Now that vision is in ashes. Synchronized global growth has turned into … Read more

Who knew the greatest economy in the history of the world, led by heroes, couldn’t even stand a 2% Fed Funds rate?

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Who knew the greatest economy in the history of the world, led by heroes, couldn't even stand a 2% Fed Funds rate? pic.twitter.com/OeJIUDZiMp — Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) December 6, 2018 This is truly sad… markets are momentarily excited because things are so bad economically that #Fed has to pause at zero real … Read more

“The Buffett Indicator” Reveals Current Stock Market Is Still Most Overvalued Ever

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via advisorperspectives: Market Cap to GDP is a long-term valuation indicator that has become popular in recent years, thanks to Warren Buffett. Back in 2001, he remarked in a Fortune Magazine interview that “it is probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment.” The four valuation indicators we track in our monthly valuation overview offer … Read more

Trump’s Growth Dream and the Harsh Reality

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By Harry Dent Ever since Trump’s election and he and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin uttered the stupidest words ever, I’ve been explaining in every place I can why 4%-plus growth is NOT sustainable… not past the tax-cut gravy train that hit mostly this year. Ultimately, it mostly comes down to two predictable demographic factors… As I’ve ALWAYS … Read more

Why The Right Should Start Taking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Seriously

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via Jesse Kelly: Earlier this week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put up a tweet so mind-numbingly stupid that simply calling it “factually incorrect” would be an insult to the word “incorrect.” As is to be expected in the social media world, folks on the right ripped the incoming congresswoman to shreds for it. Here were some of the typical responses: … Read more

Politico Caught Running CIA Propaganda About Assange

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by axolotl_peyotl The latest attacks against Julian Assange being perpetrated by the Mockingbird MSM are the perfect example of how the Fake News narrative has permeated all of mainstream “journalism” today. This pernicious propaganda became very obvious once certain bad actors began attacking anyone who defended Assange as being a Russian operative. Although the peddlers of … Read more

A 10-year slump for equities?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFujzlkgubs In the wake of Tuesday’s market carnage, with almost all of the major indices losing 3% of their value, Dan sees a rough slog ahead for almost all U.S. stocks. By any reasonable metric, stocks are a bad deal – but a few diamonds exist in the rough. Of course, there are not just … Read more

Lyft files to go public

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From CNBC:   Ride-hailing company Lyft on Thursday confidentially filed a statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, signalling it could be the first major tech IPO of 2019. Lyft and rival Uber have each teased 2019 public offerings. The companies have been adding offers and services practically in tandem in recent months … Read more

Snow to blanket the Deep South this weekend in major winter blizzard

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A significant winter storm will take shape beginning Friday over the Southern Plains and Texas, then spread this weekend through the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. How far south freezing air will reach remains an open question, making it difficult to precisely forecast ice and snow accumulation. Winter storm watches are already in place Thursday for 6 … Read more

ANALYSIS: a foolproof way to heal the divide between wishful thinkers and radical realists

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by John Ward It is perfectly possible in 2018 (and in many ways, quite advantageous) for me to self-identify as a transsexual deep-fried coffee percolator. I mean, why not? Guy Verhofstadt calls himself a believer in democratic values, and I find it hard to imagine anything more surreal, hypocritical and mendacious than that. Theresa May says … Read more

UK Has Provided Guarantees Assange Won’t Be Extradited To Face Death Penalty & Is Free To Leave Embassy If He Chooses To

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“Britain has provided enough guarantees that Julian Assange will not be extradited to any country where he would face the death penalty if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London, according to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno. Speaking during a radio interview on Thursday, Moreno said his administration has received written assurances that the UK will … Read more