Emerging Markets Double Trouble! Expensive Oil and Weak Currencies! Could THIS Be the TRIGGER?

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What do you think will ultimately be the TRIGGER event? Emerging markets are seemingly never letting up. The weakness prevails and could easily spill over into the more developed nations. With weak currencies, commodities such as oil become very expensive. This translates into higher gasoline prices, higher food prices, shortages, restrictions, and brewing tensions. Many … Read more

WE KNEW IT! Pocahontas Drastically Changes Stance on 2020 White House Run

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EdleGzG_VA Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who this summer she had no political plans beyond defending her U.S. Senate seat, on Saturday made her first public comments that she is considering running for president in 2020. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/elizab…

California Craziness: Thousands of Families Have Had Enough of High Taxes, Unaffordable Housing, and Homelessness

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By Bob Shanahan If California is the gold standard among the 50 states in the country, then why are thousands leaving every year for lower taxed, less regulated, less Democrat-dominated locales?   Reading the DC/NY-centric press, the Golden State is regularly held up as a role model for America. But the mainstream media always fails … Read more

Massive Sinkholes and Death

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Croatia Australia South Africa https://southafricanpalaeocaves.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/boesmansgat-mt-carmel-farm-south-of-kuruman-12-june-2012/ Death in a sinkhole Where you will be swallowed by a sinkhole: https://www.businessinsider.com/where-youll-be-swallowed-by-a-sinkhole-2013-3 h/t Asmodée

Gold’s bottom could be investors’ lost treasure

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From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Get ready, gold bulls: The precious metal could be close to finding a bottom. The price of gold fell back below $1,200 an ounce again last week as the U.S. dollar advanced following another federal funds rate hike. The precious metal logged its sixth straight month of declines, its longest … Read more

XRP being used by banks

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xRapid is live. XRP, the cryptocurrency, is being used already by a few banks and financial institutions. What many said was a pipe-dream a year ago, is today a real product set to revolutinize not only the financial world, but business in general. Today at Ripple’s Swell conference Brad Garlinghouse announced xRapid is live and … Read more

Guantanamo Bay & Covering Up Mistakes

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: You once mentioned that Guantanamo Bay was a violation of human rights and Obama had pledged to close it when he ran for office the first time. Yet it is still open. Why is America acting in a manner it condemns others? FG ANSWER: The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military … Read more

U.S. Households Loaded Up On Stocks

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by Dana Lyons Outside of the 2000 dotcom bubble, U.S. households have never had more of their assets invested in the stock market. The U.S. stock market, i.e., the S&P 500, soared back to new all-time highs again today – always a welcomed development for investors. And it is especially welcomed now considering the fact that … Read more

Study finds it doesn’t matter which party is in charge

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Given how partisan it can get here, this study seems worthy of our consideration. Yes, party platform policies differ. The linked study does not address this. Rather, the study investigates how both parties feed off of polarization, and neither party appears interested in stopping the trend of increasing polarization. Can we as a community refuse … Read more

Stocks In Cycle Sweet Spot?

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by Dana Lyons Stocks are entering the best stretch of the 4-year Presidential cycle, historically speaking. When it comes to investment decision-making inputs, seasonality is typically pretty low on the hierarchy for us. However, as we have written on occasion in the past, there are some seasonal tendencies that have proven to be rather consistent throughout the … Read more

Taxi drivers in the belly of NYC multicultural Babylon, Uber competition, middle age, stress, debt, anti-depressants, suicide and fewer customers

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Exerpt from article “NEW YORK — Both men were longtime taxi drivers from Romania. Both were worried about paying their bills as Uber decimated their industry. They were best friends. And both had struggled with depression. Nicanor Ochisor’s wife dragged him to a doctor in March to get help. Two days later, he hanged himself … Read more

Flashback: Paid your taxes on time? Good, ’cause Nancy Pelosi needs to pay her tab. In-Flight Food And Drink Costs? $101,000

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image: https://www.wnd.com/images/misc/100128booze.jpg Part of the tab for alcoholic drinks on a congressional trip arranged by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, … Read more