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IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Regarding the example I provided with the Diablo 3 for Switch trailer seemingly not being affected by the “dislikes” purge, I’m now realizing that its “likes” percentage on YouTube doesn’t match the percentage on SocialBlade. Looking back, I noticed all recent videos from the Diablo channel that have been mass disliked are having … Read more

by Geoffrey Grider Amazon is staffing up for the holiday rush with around 100,000 additional hires. As big as that number sounds, it’s actually fewer people than the e-commerce giant added in either the 2016 or 2017 holiday seasons, when it brought in 120,000 additional workers Most people are not aware the extent to which robots … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The U.S. Justice Department’s against individuals related to the pillaging of the Malaysia investment fund known as 1MDB offers several new insights into the global, multibillion-dollar scandal. But there is something the press is overlooking. The senior Goldman Sachs banker in Asia who pleaded guilty to U.S. bribery and money laundering charges and … Read more

via  Bill McBride A few brief excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note today: The Housing Slowdown The most likely drivers of the slowdown are higher interest rates and tax reform. CR Note: We discussed these two key headwinds at the beginning of the year. Goldman Sachs economists estimate that two-thirds of the recent slowdown is … Read more

by northmantrader So stocks dropped a little in October. Ok they actually dropped a lot and all of a sudden the S&P 500 was miles away from the all those optimistic 3,000+ year end targets. And what happens when stocks drop hard? Bulls cry for the Fed to come to the rescue. It was quite the … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The Spanish prosecutor wants to send the politicians of the Catalan independence movement to prison for 25 years. The prosecutor has demanded that the former Deputy Regional President Oriol Junqueras should effectively die in prison. The absurdity of what is going on in Spain reflects that there is no democracy still standing. Dictatorships … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The path to a somewhat “normalized” interest rate environment, after a decade of central bank emergency measures and credit-market manipulations, is not going to be pretty. And in some areas, a credit bloodbath has been scheduled. But will it deter the Fed? (12 minutes)

Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Art Del Cueto, the Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, was on with Laura Ingraham on Thursday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8-xWDD3qA Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…

Yoree Koh of the Wall Street Journal has come out to demand that Youtube refund all superchat donations that were sent from The Ralph Retort to St. Jude’s Children Hospital. The Wall Street Journal is literally taking money away form children with cancer. Within an hour of this video being uploaded, all of Ethan Ralph’s … Read more

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I watched the new documentary on your solution. I really want to thank you for everything you do and for free. It is so nice to see someone who actually gives back and has no personal agenda to enrich themselves. My question is this. You mentioned the reason why the … Read more

by Dana Lyons Big down months off of highs have led to bear markets in the past. Everything was going just fine for investors at the end of September (well, maybe not under the surface). The major averages closed right near all-time highs, just in time for quarterly 401(k) statements. Then October happened and, well, you know…a … Read more

by Shaun Richards It is time for another part of our discovering Japan theme as we travel to Nagoya, where Governor Kuroda of the Bank of Japan was talking earlier today. Let us open with some good news. The real GDP has been on an increasing trend, albeit with fluctuations, and the output gap — … Read more

We need these everywhere, not just in California. Imagine the infrastructure and jobs created by giving the money back to the people in the community!   TK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiYSEF6Cgo A RED WAVE [& TRIBUNALS] IS COMING — Dr. Dave Janda Politico: Democrats traumatized by 2016 are having pre-midterms nightmares On the eve of the midterms, President Donald Trump’s approval is falling, young voters are energized, and Republicans look poised to lose their House majority. It’s enough to make Democrats nervous, miserable wrecks. Haunted … Read more

Service sector growth slowed sharply in October, confirming the US trade war is hitting the Chinese economy hard, and sooner than most expected The Chinese service sector continued to grow in October, but at a much slower pace than in the previous month, hitting a 13-month low, data from financial news outlet Caixin showed. The … Read more

by Troy The stock market and economy move in the same direction over the medium-long term. That’s why it’s extremely important to understand the state of a nation’s economy. Is the economic data improving or deteriorating? Let’s take a look at U.S. economic data as of the end of October 2018. Unemployment The Unemployment Rate continues to … Read more

Do you think that the Fed knows that increasing rates causes the economy to fall? Or do you think that they believe “this time is different”? Or are they simply trying to create a crash intentionally to further consolidate power and wealth?   The Federal Reserve is completely and entirely responsible for what happens in … Read more

Interesting beginning to Ca voting. Would be wonderful to see that state free itself from the destructive, nihilistic policies of the lunatic Left. The mass emigration of taxpayers and businesses alone give pause to reconsider re election more of the same, let alone that state’s massive and growing debt… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYE63xsMNUc New job growth report shatters … Read more