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

SOCIALISM ALWAYS KILLS THE GOLDEN GOOSE. ALWAYS. Venezuela’s Crisis Imperils Citgo, Its American ‘Cash Cow.’

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via nytimes: The production of the parent company, known as Pdvsa, has been hard hit by the country’s turmoil. It is struggling to meet more than $1 billion in payments due in the next couple of months on its bonds and other obligations, including compensation for property it had nationalized. Trump administration sanctions are squeezing its … Read more

They’re making a big deal about the drinking because they know they’ve got nothing.

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THE GOALPOSTS HAVE LEFT THE STADIUM BY THIS POINT: Byron York: In Kavanaugh fight, Democrats move goalposts far, far away. Ask any casual observer what the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation fight is about, and the answer will be the allegation that at a high-school party 36 years ago, when Kavanaugh was 17, he drunkenly forced … Read more

EXPLOSIVE: the real reasons why petrol prices have gone through the roof

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by John Ward Geopolitics, planned supply cuts, bourse directionalising, energy wars and refinement cost manipulation are behind an increase in petrol prices. The investigation below shows why media drivel about ‘regional instability’ and ‘Russian blackmail’ as factors as complete hokum. Once again, the Alt States are in charge, and the Citizen suffers as a result of … Read more

SOCIAL-ist MEDIA: Corporate Censorship of Lawful Speech Violates Human Rights (Article 19 UDHR UN)

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via culturalanalysis: Tyranny is not always accomplished by military conquest and violent repression. The most sophisticated and enduring forms of tyranny do not signal its tyrannical intent directly but veil it with pretences to compassion, security and morality. At the very least, sophisticated tyranny posits itself as a benevolent force which is openly tyrannical only because … Read more

Verizon’s ‘5G’ just went live in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento.

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Verizon is making good on promises to deliver what it touts as the world’s first commercial 5G deployment, a home broadband service called Verizon 5G Home, announcing on Tuesday that installations will begin on Oct. 1. Built on Verizon’s “proprietary 5G standard,” Verizon 5G Home promises at-home speeds of around 300 megabits per second — up to … Read more

Gowdy: 53 Transcripts From House Intel Committee’s Trump-Russia Probe Will Show No Collusion

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(CNSNews.com) – At a business meeting last Friday, the House intelligence committee voted to release transcripts of 53 interviews conducted as part of the Trump-Russia investigation, after they are reviewed by the intelligence community. On Sunday, Rep. Trey Gowdy, a member of the intelligence committee, told “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo he’s eager for … Read more

New Report: Punishment Deters Illegal Immigrants

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by John Whitaker, NEE A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Researchshows that punishing illegal aliens for crossing the border dramatically reduces the risk of recidivism—they are less likely to try crossing the border a second time.  Effective punishments include prosecuting offenders in immigration court or banning them from obtaining visas. The Free Beacon reports: … Read more

China Steals $600 Billion’s Worth of American IP Yearly

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First published on the Daily Caller. “Consumers are paying the price” for President Trump’s tariffs, CNN claims. Millions will feel the pinch; many thousands will lose their jobs. What CNN fails to mention is that millions of Americans already feel the pinch, and millions more have already lost their jobs. Why? Chinese consumers won’t pay the price for American exports: China steals … Read more

ANOTHER TRILLION IN DEBT – “Intragovernmental Holdings” Pushes Us Over $21.5 Trillion

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The Daily History of the Debt Results Historical returns from 09/24/2018 through 09/28/2018 The data for the total public debt outstanding is published each business day. If there is no debt value for the date(s) you requested, the value for the preceding business day will be displayed. ( Debt Held by the Public vs. Intragovernmental Holdings ) Date Debt … Read more

RUT vs. Dow: stock market today is just like 1999?

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by Troy The U.S. stock market has made a breadth divergence recently. We examined the S&P 500’s breadth divergence yesterday. While this isn’t necessarily bearish, there are a cluster of signals in 2007 (near the previous bull market’s top). We are seeing more and more of a breadth divergence. Today, the Dow rallied more than 0.7% … Read more

Avoiding the Most Dreaded Investor Question: “What Was I Thinking?”

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by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver It’s easy to show that the stock market is extremely overvalued right now. And we have, many times, many ways. What is also true is that attempting to call the top of a wildly overvalued market is guesswork. Once any market has come completely unglued from its underlying fundamentals, you’re attempting to use … Read more

Significant Activist Hedge Fund Activity (Last 7 Days)

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by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of influencing management in some way. There is evidence that following activist investors into investments can generate excess returns. Schedule 13G forms, in contrast, are filed … Read more