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In the year of 2000 there were seven countries without a Rothschild owned Central Bank: Afghanistan Iraq Sudan Libya Cuba North Korea Iran It is not a coincidence that these country, which are listed above were and are still being under attack by the western media, since one of the main reasons these countries have … Read more

by Tesseract Since World War II, not many countries have dared to challenge the United States’ military dominance in the world. The US has a far greater military reach than all its closest competitors. In recent years however, other powerful nations have begun to challenge US Supremacy by flexing their military muscle away from home. China … Read more

by Tesseract Last month, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE all decided to cut diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar. The surprise foreign policy move was said to be in response to Qatar’s support of muslim extremist groups affiliated with Iran. Qatar’s economy is reeling from the loss of trading partners, and Saudi Arabia’s US-backed … Read more

by Tesseract Over the past few years, Venezuelan society has been rapidly deteriorating. Civil unrest has heightened to the point of rioting, looting, violent crime and a government opposition group that is keen on overthrowing Maduro’s government. Many have blamed Venezuela’s chaos on its socialist government. There are many socialist nations that aren’t in complete shambles, … Read more

by Antonius Aquinas The inevitable collapse of the student loan “market” and with it the takedown of many higher educational institutions will be one of the happiest and much needed events to look forward to in the coming months/years.  Whether the student loan bubble bursts on its own or implodes due to a general economic collapse, … Read more

by Robert Carbery President Trump is finally doing what he promised to do on the campaign trail. He is working with Putin’s Russia to solve the catastrophic Syrian civil war, striking a cease fire agreement and working together over pursuing separate goals. But there is one big story that surfaced on Wednesday that could prove … Read more

by Michael Snyder   The last few weeks have shown us that getting Donald Trump elected is not enough. This Congress is being called “the most unproductive in 164 years”, and thanks to all of the RINOs in the Republican Party Trump’s agenda is sitting dead in the water. Obamacare has not been repealed, taxes … Read more

By Michael Snyder If you have ever wondered why our leaders in Washington D.C. seem to act so strangely, the truth is that it almost always comes down to just one thing.  It has been said that “money makes the world go round”, and that is definitely true in Washington.  This year the federal government … Read more

by Pamela Williams President Trump is not happy with Attorney General Jess Sessions. He told NEW YORK TIMES he would never have hired Sessions if he knew he would recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Also, Trump warned Special Counsel Mueller over his conflict of interest. President Trump is right on both fronts, and it … Read more

Check out this op-ed that Shelley Moore Capito wrote on Obamacare repeal when she was a candidate for the Senate. How quickly she has forgotten her promises: Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (WV) Op-Ed: Obama’s unaffordable health-care law CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The official name for President Obama’s health-care law is the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care … Read more

by BNI But nothing at all to combat “Christophobia” or “Judeophobia,”  let alone terrorist attacks by Muslims and anti-American/anti-infidel hate speech by Islamic leaders in mosques all over America. FOX News  Boston has launched a new public service campaign to fight justified anti-Islam sentiment by offering the public ways to address aggression toward Muslims because … Read more

by Pamela Williams Thank you, President Trump! People’s lives are on the line, and they need to know now about the future of their health care. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com President Trump on Wednesday told Republican senators he doesn’t want Congress to leave Washington for the August recess until lawmakers pass a health care … Read more

by Pamela Williams TUNE IN: Deputy AG Rosenstein Talks Mueller Probe in ‘The Story’ Exclusive This should be interesting.  Rosenstein is the Deputy AG who advised Trump to fire Comey, and then at the same time he calls for a Special Counsel.  I have felt like the whole thing was a setup.   Deputy Attorney General … Read more

by Michael Snyder Throughout history, dictators and tyrants have always wanted to take guns away from the people. Hitler confiscated guns once he took power in Germany, Stalin confiscated guns in Soviet Russia, and Mao confiscated guns when the communists took power in China. An armed population is one of the cornerstones of a free … Read more

Don’t expect the mainstream propaganda media to give you any warning or real information about what’s happening. Financial Expert Catherine Austin Fitts contends, “The conundrum for a CNN is how do we get ratings? How do we get attention without talking about the real news? The real news is, since fiscal 1995, we have disappeared … Read more

‘It’s an insane process’: How Trump and Republicans failed on their health-care bill Vice President Pence arrived at the National Governors Association summer meeting with one mission: to revive support for the flagging Republican plan to rewrite the nation’s health-care laws. He failed. Instead of rousing cheers on the waterfront in Providence, R.I., Pence was … Read more

Treasury Yields Tumble to Lowest Since June as Stocks Sink As bond yields began to tumble, so stocks rolled over and VIX jerked above 10… 10Y Yields have retraced exactly 50% of the post-hawkish-Draghi swing higher… [4] Notably UST bonds relationship to Bunds has broken down in the last week… [5] US dollar falls to10-month … Read more

By Michael Snyder It looks like the effort to repeal Obamacare is completely dead, and that says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party.  For decades, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) have been using labels such as “Republican”, “conservative”, “pro-gun” and “pro-life” to get elected, but then once they get into office … Read more

by Dana Lyons One indicator of investor sentiment just recorded its highest reading in history. Sentiment indicators can be useful tools for investors, mainly on a contrarian basis. That is, generally when readings get overly bullish, it may signal a lack of remaining buyers in the market and vulnerability to a decline in prices. Conversely, when … Read more

by Pamela Williams The more we learn about the FBI, the more shocked we become!  TRUE PUNDIT broke the story that the Russian translator, Anatoli Samochornov, actually was working for the FBI under Robert Mueller at the time of the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer.  Wow, what a setup…thank God we know. … Read more

by Michael Snyder Did you know that Mexico is the second deadliest nation on the entire planet? The drug war down there continues to spiral completely out of control, and often the violence spills over to our own side of the border. Thanks to President Trump, security along the border is improving, but we still … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In the second quarter in Manhattan, Chinese entities accounted for half of the commercial real estate purchases with prices over $10 million. By comparison, in 2011 through 2014, total cross-border purchases from all over the world (not just from China) were in the mid-20% range. “At a time when domestic investors … Read more

By Michael Snyder The push toward a cashless society is becoming more of a shove.  Before today I had never heard of “The Visa Cashless Challenge”, but after reading about it I have to say that I am quite alarmed.  Visa is trying to “encourage” businesses to go cashless, and one of the ways that … Read more

by FS The last time we spoke with Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader.com in May of 2015, he explained that most sentiment measures were showing investors to be all in. This meant, he believed, that returns for the stock market were likely to be weak with a much higher risk for a correction in the months … Read more