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Fusion GPS author Steele will plead the 5th. The Hill puts up an article of why [RR] must recuse himself. The Senate approved a package for judicial nominees. Obama and the deep state were prepared to if Trump didn’t concede his loss during the election and now they are preparing to take steps if Trump … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith Here’s the difference between a recession and a depression: you can’t get blood from a stone, or make an insolvent entity solvent with more debt. There are two basic differences between a recession and a depression: 1. Duration: a recession typically lasts between 6 and 18 months, while a depression drags on … Read more

by Chris Martenson Shutterstock With the recent plunge in the S&P 500 of over 5%, has the long-anticipated (and long-overdue) market correction finally begun? It’s hard to say for certain. But the systemic cracks we’ve been closely monitoring definitely got an awful lot wider this week. After nearly a decade of endless market boosting, manipulation … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn A financially-secure retirement has three nest eggs: Pension, which is rapidly vanishing for many working Americans. Social Security: Although Social Security was never intended to be a retiree’s sole source of income, 35% of Americans over the age of 65 rely almost entirely on Social Security payments. (Accounting Degree Review) Savings: Experts say you should have … Read more

by Michael Snyder Nobody can defy the laws of economics forever.  Whether it is an individual, a company or the nation as a whole, reality always catches up with everyone eventually.  For years, I have been warning that Sears was eventually going to zero, but of course it didn’t happen immediately.  Sears CEO Eddie Lampert kept … Read more

by Chris Black Have you ever noticed that it’s only “alternative news” (as in non-establishment) outlets that get deplatformed by social media/payment processors/Internet domain registrars et al for spreading “fake news” and/or “hate speech”, whatever those Orwellian terms mean? And today, just in time for midterms, we got word that social media giants decided to … Read more

by Lance Roberts Despite the recent angst in the market over increasing interest rates, there has been little evidence of concern by investors overall. A recent report showed that investors have the LEAST amount of cash in their investment accounts…EVER. “Individual investors drew down cash balances at brokerage accounts to record lows as the S&P 500 surged … Read more

by DCG This story is from August 2017 yet it is relevant to what happened to Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation circus. One woman (and the media) cannot play “judge and jury.” From Daily Mail: A jury has ordered a female blogger to pay an Army colonel she accused of rape a total of $8.4million in damages. Susan … Read more

via @MFoxCNBC Investors should brace themselves for a significant stock market correction, as well as a recession in the first half of next year, warns investor Mark Yusko. In fact, he says, fair value for equities would be down about 40 percent to 50 percent. “It’s just going to be painful for a while to adjust … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy-uBg0G-uM Trump talked with Jeff Sessions’s own chief of staff about replacing him as attorney general https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/… Trump’s potential new attorney general once mused about a new attorney general defunding Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFCERnyiG-Y Anya Parampil breaks down a new effort by Facebook to stop what it calls political spam from circulating on its site. Facebook used the opportunity to remove very popular alternative media pages such as the Free Thought Project, the Anti-Media, Cop Block, Filming Cops, and even RT America’s very own Rachel Blevins. Rachel then … Read more

We’ve finally found a way for people around the world to get out of debt! You just have to take the first steps and follow through! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1NyVFaWRas

via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. What comes to mind when you think about Spain or Japan? Just like anything else, our brains tend to associate certain images and attributes with a given country in order to form a unique mental perception. In a global marketplace, a country’s … Read more

by Dana Lyons Nasdaq New Highs are at a cycle low and New Lows are at a cycle high; what is this odd set of circumstances telling us? It has certainly been a monumental weak in the stock market. Moves in both stock prices as well as market-based indicators have been interesting and, in some cases, … Read more

by Thinker As I continue to say, the content of the character is easy to see when your a politician or come with an old name, and with Trey Gowdy there isn’t any difference. A congressman who came to Washington D.C. and one of the few with “HISTORY” that speaks for itself as to the … Read more

by Thinker There are politicians who do believe in the oath they’ve taken and aren’t afraid to speak the “TRUTH.” The failure to investigate crimes against the American people, and the world by the very organizations set up to do so, in the United States is a clear sign that the corruption Trump claims in … Read more

by Thinker Everyone comes with history of their words and actions…what in history have the Clinton’s done that has been good for the people and the nation??? The “Clinton Chronicles” documentary takes the viewer all the way back to Arkansas, and the people who lived around the Clinton’s telling their stories of crime and corruption … Read more