Don’t Believe the Media Hype on Bank Stocks and Rising Interest Rates

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via wallstreetonparade: The 10-year U.S. Treasury note touched a 7-year high in yield early this morning at 3.25 percent before falling back to 3.22 percent in mid-morning trading. As rates have risen over the past year, we’ve witnessed a growing chorus of business writers repeating the following mantra, or words to this effect: bank stocks will do … Read more

Revealed: The Run on Banks in Catalonia after the Independence Vote was Fomented by Madrid

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The clandestine role of the Spanish government in a run on deposits that drained €29 billion from Catalan banks. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Just over a year has passed since over two million people in Catalonia voted in a banned referendum to leave Spain. On that day, the separatists were … Read more

Japan monetized 50% of its national debt. Why has there not been a surge of inflation? And why can’t the Fed restart QE and do the same?

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Asset-price inflation feels good to asset holders – until it doesn’t I was asked two important questions in this mind-boggling era of QE: The Bank of Japan has monetized 50% of its national debt; so why has there not been a surge of inflation? And why can’t the Fed restart QE … Read more

The World As We Know It, Is About To Change

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Trump confuses press with paid protestors remark and then says some didn’t get check. Maxine Waters under investigation regarding her campaign.Assad grants amnesty to army deserters, but not those who committed crimes. Pelosi order FOIA on the FBI investigation which puts Feinstein in a tough position. Q drops more bread, the world is about to … Read more

Middle Class Erosion: 33 Million Americans Will Not Travel During The Holidays Because They Can’t Afford To Do So

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by Michael Snyder We have repeatedly been told that the U.S. economy is “booming”, but meanwhile the middle class in the United States continues to be hollowed out.  The financial bubbles that the Federal Reserve has created have been a great blessing for those at the very top of the economic pyramid, but most of the … Read more

Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon Tells It Like It Is

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by John W. Whitehead “You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”—John Lennon (1969) Long before Bette Midler was roundly condemned for tweeting “Women, are the n-word of the world,” John Lennon—never one to … Read more

The Left will smear and if possible destroy any institution they can’t seize or keep hold of.

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GOODNESS: Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation isn’t democracy. It’s a judicial coup. For all the justified outrage about sexual assault, involving allegations that Kavanaugh denied, the new supreme court justice represents an even bigger lie than his mindless fabrications about “ralphing” and “boofing”. He can blame his weak stomach if he likes; the rest of us are heaving … Read more

The enemy of the people have mobilized, yet again, to protect the Democratic Party.

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THE JOURNOLIST IS HOPPING: ● Republicans have a new name for Democrats: ‘mob.’ —CNN, Sunday. ● ‘An angry mob’: Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy. —The Washington Post, yesterday. ● Republicans Seize On Stoking Fears Of Left-Leaning Mob To Mobilize Voters. —Talking Points Memo, today. ● The GOP’s sneaky attempt to paint the majority as an angry left-wing mob. … Read more

The U.S.A. Is Morphing Into The U.S.S.A – The United Soviet States Of America

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by Jeremiah Johnson via SHTFplan We are experiencing an ever-increasing level of  surveillance over the citizenry, government censorship and closed-door policies, control and manipulation of the media, and a “hardline” shift of all institutions to the left. The institutions I’m referring to specifically are the educational system (better termed a system of indoctrination), the courts, the religious institutions…every … Read more

The Establishment Admits to a Second Financial Crisis

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Up until very recently, there were essentially two kinds of business and economic reporting trends emanating since the 2008 Financial Crisis: Sanguine, triumphant and motivating news in the mainstream corporate transatlantic financial press, versus pensive, probing and skeptical viewpoints in the alternative economic press. The former was from sources tethered to the central and corporate … Read more

How I Go About Discovering New Trends

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by jessefelder “The key to successful investing is having everyone agree with you — LATER.” -Jim Grant A while back my friend Mark Yusko introduced to an obscure book on investing and the markets called The Tao Jones Averages. In it, the author, Bennett W. Goodspeed describes what it is his company, Inferential Focus, seeks to accomplish: IF’s … Read more

People Trying To Time The Stock Market Crash Won’t Be Able To Sell Their Stocks To Buy Gold

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John Rubino interviewed by Kerry Lutz on the Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back for another Monday… The government only knows one way, 1) if in a crisis, print money. 2) If the crisis continues, print more and more. If that doesn’t work go back to step one. We all know that the US Dollar and fiat currencies are … Read more

Bernie Calls For New World Order That Promotes Shared Prosperity & Solidarity Over State Sovereignty

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Senator Bernie Sanders called for a new world order that promotes shared prosperity and solidarity over state sovereignty during a foreign policy speech at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Be sure to like, subscribe, and comment below to share your thoughts on the video. Flashback: Senator Bernie Sanders: “These days, the American … Read more

BLOOMBERG: “New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom”

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A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the U.S., according to a security expert working for the telecom company. The security expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence of the discovery following the … Read more