King County passes law requiring gun stores to post signs outlining dangers of owning a gun

by DCG More “feel-good,” useless legislation (show me a study where it’s been shown that signs reduce gun violence) that will do nothing to stop criminals. From MyNorthwest.com: The King County Board of Health passed legislation requiring stores that sell firearms and firing ranges to post signs warning customers of the various dangers posed by gun violence. … Read more

California’s Worst Wildfires Must be a Wake-Up Call

via Joe Guzzardi: For California natives like me, the wildfires are a real gut punch. As of this writing, the wildfires are the deadliest in the state’s history with 63 fatalities, and more than 600 people are unaccounted for. More than 10,000 buildings are gone, and more than 230,000 acres have burned. In the now obliterated community of Paradise, … Read more

Middle Class Destruction: Suicide Rates Soar Among American Workers

Via ZeroHedge During 2000–2016, suicide rates among American workers (aged 16–64 years) jumped 34%, from 12.9 per 100,000 population to 17.3, according to a newly published report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Increasing suicide rates in the US are a concerning trend that represents a tragedy for families and communities and impact the American workforce,” said Dr. Debra Houry, … Read more

After The Feds Collect Record Taxes in October Look How Much The Deficit is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31PZU3SRWI Terrence P. Jeffrey for CNS News reports, The federal government collected record total tax revenues of $252, BILLION in October, the first month of fiscal 2019, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Tuesday.   Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/…      

Commentary: 40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement. How do we change that?

Commentary: 40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement. How do we change that? https://t.co/3pArY3E7SW — CNBC (@CNBC) November 18, 2018 Some 40 percent of middle-class Americans are at risk of poverty in retirement, due to depressed earnings and asset values and increased health-care costs. Nearly three-quarters of workers now plan to work … Read more

GE price vs. flows of ETF’s holding GE

by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsJk79OWkAA0Wq-.jpg When people say ETFs and passive flows are driving the market….. Weekly flows of ETFs that hold $GE actually have a -12.17% (yes negative) to the performance of GE shares YTD. This is interesting to note. Are you surprised to see that GE tanks, while the funds, that hold … Read more

Credit bubbles caused by the central banks always burst….

Credit bubbles caused by the central banks always burst….https://t.co/qgd75cqR2R — Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) November 18, 2018 The good times are coming to an end in the corporate debt market, and this week’s turmoil in General Electric Co. credit is a sign that things can get much worse. That’s what a growing chorus of money managers are saying. … Read more

The entire world is burning, and America is holding on by a thread

The entire world is burning, and America is holding on by a thread pic.twitter.com/8XARuLvD9X — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 17, 2018 In case you missed it: #Greece's banks index has dropped another 12.3% this week, hit lowest level since 2016. pic.twitter.com/OJQlQRkeyM — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) November 16, 2018 Anyone from Australia that has on-the-ground insight into … Read more

Lynette Zang: Is this the market implosion that we’ve been expecting?

ITM Trading, Released on 11/16/18 Link to Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/corpo… Everyone wants to know if this is the market implosion that we’ve been expecting. Perhaps it is since frozen corporate buybacks met a lack of buyers and sent stock markets on a volatility roller coaster ride that started in October. The anticipated November surge in … Read more

The Cost of the War on Terror

by Jim Quinn You will find more infographics at Statista Since the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, the U.S. has racked up costs of almost $6 trillion in its War on Terror. This is according to a new Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs analysis. Unlike official estimates from the Pentagon, the … Read more

JOURNALISM: NYT, CNN wildly skew story on sexual harassment, Pence’s Press Secretary busts them.

via theblaze: Both the New York Times and CNN have deliberately misled readers about two sexual harassment-related formal rebukes issued by the House Ethics Committee on Friday. In the case of the Times, they hid the fact that the rebukes addressed one Republican and one Democrat (guess which part they hid), and in the case of CNN, attempted … Read more

School in England bans designer jackets to keep poorer students from feeling bullied as part of a “poverty proofing” scheme.

Pupils have been banned from wearing expensive designer coats to school to stop other kids feeling poor. Woodchurch High School in Wirral, in Northwest England, says students are no longer allowed to dress in jackets from Canada Goose, Moncler or Pyrenex, which cost up to 1,000 pounds ($1,280) each. The Church of England academy sent a letter … Read more

WHEN TRUMP DOES IT, IT’S A CRISIS

You may not agree with Glenn Greenwald often, and you may even believe that Julian Assange is/was a national security threat. Reasonable minds can differ. But Greenwald’s piece in The Intercept underscores what many conservatives, libertarians and free-thinkers have known for a while: “Over the last two years, journalists and others have melodramatically claimed that press freedoms … Read more

Rob Kirby – Growth Rate of US Dollar Gone Vertical, Massive Amounts of Dollars Must Be Fed into System or It Blows Up

Macroeconomic analyst Rob Kirby says, “The lineup of billions of dollars to get into physical metal is astoundingly large. . . . ” If you think this all sounds crazy, well it is, and the financial elites know it. Kirby says, “When the financial elites are dealing with hopeless situations, they will make decisions that … Read more

Progressive Liberal Run New York And New Jersey Plunged Into Mind-Numbing Chaos After Receiving Only 6 Inches Of Snow!

by Geoffrey Grider Drivers were trapped on gridlocked, snowy roads for hours. Middle schoolers in New Jersey had to spend the night at school. The upper level of the George Washington Bridge — one of the busiest bridges in the world — came to a standstill with drivers abandoning their cars. I was born and … Read more

Estonia will not sign the U.N. migration pact, joining the U.S., Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic

via voiceofeurope: After Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, Estonia has also left the UN migration pact.  “In forming the governing coalition, we agreed that we make decisions only by consensus. The government has today failed to reach agreement at the Cabinet meeting on support for the UN migration pact. Therefore, the government will not join … Read more

The market is at extreme risk of a ‘flash crash’

via BI  Markets are going through an extremely turbulent patch right now as stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities all face increasing volatility. Bank of America Merrill Lynch explains how these conditions are ripe for a “flash crash,” and outlines what final steps must occur for the market to be plunged into widespread chaos. There’s no … Read more

BREXIT v EU

by Martin Armstrong Dominic Raab, who was the negotiator in BEXIT told the chief whip straight after cabinet yesterday that he would quit. He said the prime minister could still change course and should be ready to walk away with no deal. Naturally, Prime Minister May defends the deal and this is indicative of someone who … Read more