SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud!

Tesla CEO Elon Musk have been sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, according to court documents filed Thursday. Sources close to the company told CNBC the company was also expecting to be sued, though Tesla was not named as a defendant in the complaint. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/tesla-falls-4percent-on-report-elon-musk-sued-by-sec.html   h/t Westsail

New Order to Improve “Retirement Security” – Here’s Who Benefits

From Birch Gold Group On August 31, POTUS signed an Executive Order to review policy for required minimum distributions (RMD) on retirement plans and improve retirement security for retirees. At the surface level this seems like a good idea. After all, anyone should be able to look forward to a secure retirement. And, perhaps we’ll find in the … Read more

Ten-Year Treasury Is At Crucial Chart Point

via John Murphy TEN-YEAR TREASURY YIELD IS AT A CRUCIAL CHART POINT … Treasury bond yields are going through an important test of overhead resistance. Chart 1 shows the 10-Year Treasury yield ($TNX) challenging its May 2018 intra high near 3.11%. After pulling back from its May high, the TNX entered a sideways trading range that lasted from the … Read more

Trade, Pending home sales, New home sales, Durable goods, Bank lending, Earnings

by WARREN MOSLER Need more tariffs… Highlights Amid the unfolding of tariff effects, exports are moving in the wrong direction and look to be a big negative for third-quarter GDP. The nation’s trade deficit in goods was a whopping $75.8 billion in August with exports down 1.6 percent for a second straight month. Imports are also … Read more

How to spot misleading statistics in the gun-control debate

From the Foundation of Economic Freedom: The academic debate over gun control consists mainly of a war of statistics. New studies come out every few weeks, and as a result, both sides are constantly locking horns over the validity or invalidity of this-or-that study in this-or-that country. For those who aren’t formally trained in data analysis, … Read more

New study reveals 22 million illegal aliens in US

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Sep. 25, 2018 – 3:27 – Scholars at Yale University say the illegal immigrant population of the United States is closer to 22 million people, double the usual estimate of 11 million; reaction from Reihan Salam, columnist and author of ‘Melting Pot or Civil War.’ http://video.foxnews.com/v/5839998319001/?#sp=show-clips

HMMMMM: “Doctor Ford has zero reason to come forward and lie.”

Dr. Ford is receiving over $525,000 (so far) via GoFundMe even though her lawyers are working FOR FREE Lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford working for free: report During the Kavanaugh hearing, near the end of Ford’s testimony, Ford’s counsel Bromwich and Katz linked to Hillary Clinton stated that they were representing pro-bono (free). Katz firm was recommended … Read more

Recession 2020

by TheCrunk1 The telegraphing couldn’t be clearer, we are being prime for RECESSION 2020. In the middle of this year, world economists being stating they are concerned of a coming recession, maybe by 2020. Now the mainsteam media have been given the go ahead to trickle stories about the eventual, and planned, recession around 2020. … Read more

How the Federal Reserve came to be, and why it is at the center of nearly all the problems in the US (and the world) today.

via revolutionofthemind: SOME HISTORY This story begins back before the United States was the United States. The original thirteen colonies printed their own currency, and it worked very well at empowering commerce and turning the young America into a powerful growing economy, free of the poverty and unemployment that even then crippled London. The public currency … Read more

Bizarre particles keep flying out of Antarctica’s ice, and they might shatter modern physics

There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it. Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray — a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But … Read more

“You Sewed The Wind” Brett Kavanaugh SLAMS Democrats For Organizing Smear Campaign And Holding Fords Letter Right Up Until The Supreme Court Vote

https://youtu.be/d-6SS0HSRp8 “You Sewed The Wind” Brett Kavanaugh SLAMS Democrats For Organizing Smear Campaign Today Brett Kavanaugh Hearing took place during which Christine Blasey Ford testify, and Brett Kavanaugh testify, this took place in senate judiciary committee, where brett kavanaugh testimony took place, this is news in politics from brett kavanaugh senate hearing this is latest … Read more

How Executive Order 6102 Doomed America

by Bill Bonner Executive Order 6102 How exactly was the fix put in place? In 1933, the matter first came before the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 6102 made it illegal for citizens to own gold, except in the smallest of quantities. It came to the Supremes in a series of disputes called the “gold … Read more

The Two Biggest Threats To This Bull Market

by Lance Roberts This bull market seems unstoppable. Regardless of short-term events, investors have quickly looked beyond those risks to in a bid to push stock prices higher. For example, in February of this year the markets dove roughly 10% as “trade wars” became a “thing.”  Over the next two months, the markets vacillated coming to grips with what “Trump’s … Read more

5 financial lessons from the dead and dying

From MarketWatch: Emergency physicians are not strangers to death. At least once a shift I see someone who is dead or dying. It comes with the territory. An experienced emergency medicine physician can see death from a mile away. They can smell it in the air. Sometimes they’re the only person in the room who notices … Read more

Is the Allegations Against Kavanaugh like the French False Trial of Child Abuse?

by Martin Armstrong I am certainly not partisan here in this matter. I have previously written that I did not care for Brett Kavanaugh based upon his decisions in law. I have read decisions from the Supreme Court and found that you cannot guarantee their reasoning will support Republican or Democrat. All this hype that they must … Read more