Florence Still Impacting NC

by Chris For those reading the news, you might think that Florence has come and gone.  For those in NC, Florence is still causing rivers to finally crest and make life difficult: With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, eight days after Hurricane Florence slammed into land with nearly 3 feet … Read more

The New American Dream

by FartfullyYours 40 years of increasing oligarchy have gotten us to this level of debt slavery. 1. (Age 5-18): Spend 12 years in public school becoming indoctrinated in the “benefits” of the police state and ubiquitous surveillance. 2. (Age 18-22) Spend 4 years and $50k-100k earning the necessary college degree required to make a decent salary. … Read more

FEMA Surprise For October?! Hurricane Florence, Presidential Alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivgniZmwDeg What Does FEMA Have Up Their Sleeve? On Mon. September 17th, 2018, The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will be conducting a nationwide test of both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) AND Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) — scheduled for the backup date of Thurs. October 3rd, … Read more

US Housing Markets Are Starting To FALL! – Mortgage Rates Are JUMPING!

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the continued propping up of US housing bubbles across the board as mortgage rates hit a four month high. We have seen the return of the collateralized debt obligations of the past, not to mention credit default swaps, mortgage backed securities, reverse mortgages, subprime … Read more

Is this why they want to stop Kavanaugh?

I found this little tidbit as part of another very long video. YOU MUST WATCH ALL 3:35 Kavanough answers questions from Graham. If a politician is found colluding with another government, can we treat them as enemy combatants? Military tribunals? Yeah. Can the be put to death? Yeah. Starts at 1:20 h/t WyatteSmith

Visualizing Where Tourists Spend the Most Money

by howmuch Mark Twain once quipped, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” But what if people are by and large only traveling to the same places? Our newest map highlights the countries with thriving international tourism industries, and it suggests a dramatic disparity between the places where tourists spend big bucks and the … Read more

Trump “Drain the Swamp” Campaign Exposing More Anti-American Staff Inside W.H.

by Thinker Every day, the Trump “Drain the Swamp” campaign is revealing those who are protecting and obstructing the investigation into the political elite pedophile ring that has ruled over the American people for far to long. Many politicians and people in powers of position and trust have been forced to speak out against Trump … Read more

A warning to Tesla bulls and bears

From Dr. Richard Smith, Founder, TradeStops: For all investors involved with Tesla (TSLA), we have a simple message: Proceed with extreme caution. Tesla bulls should consider stepping aside until the market provides an all-clear. And Tesla bears should limit their exposure through the use of put options (or some other means of capping upside spike risk). … Read more

If you understand Monopoly, you can understand how credit cycles work

From Ray Dalio: I find that whenever I start talking about cycles, particularly big, long-term cycles, people’s eyebrows go up; the reactions I elicit are similar to those I’d expect if I were talking about astrology. For that reason, I want to emphasize that I am talking about nothing more than logically-driven series of events that recur … Read more

FOX: “Trump calls new Kavanaugh accusations ‘totally political,’ stands by nominee”

BREAKING: FOX: “Trump calls new Kavanaugh accusations ‘totally political,’ stands by nominee” President Trump stood foursquare behind Brett Kavanaugh on Monday in the wake of new sexual misconduct allegations against his Supreme Court nominee, calling the uncorroborated claims “totally political” and “unfair.” The president, signaling the White House would dig in and defend Kavanaugh amid … Read more

The Wall is being built, bit by bit

by Dr. Eowyn AFP reports that on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, construction began in Texas of part of President Trump’s border wall to curb illegal border-crossings into America, which he correctly identifies to be a security threat. Aaron Hull, US Customs and Border Protection’s Chief Patrol Agent in the El Paso sector, said in a statement that … Read more

PMI, Existing home sales, Permits, Homebuying index, Fed book, China car sales, Federal budget

by WARREN MOSLER Highlights Amid a backdrop of rising inflation pressures, sharp slowing in the services PMI sample pulled down September’s composite flash and masks a strong showing for manufacturing. The PMI composite fell to 53.4 which is well below Econoday’s consensus for 55.1 and also below the low estimate for 53.8. Services fell to 52.9 vs … Read more

Big Apartment REITs Aren’t Yielding Enough

by John Coumarianos  The six largest publicly traded apartment REITs are now paying dividend yields of less than 3.5%. The two largest — AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential — are paying around 3.2%. Essex Property Trust, whose apartment buildings are all in California, is paying barely over 3%, roughly the equivalent of the 10-year U.S. Treasury Note. Historically, … Read more

The Conspiracy Against President Trump

by Wayne Allyn Root I am writing this column while recovering from a wild 48 hours with President Trump. I was called by aides to President Trump on Wednesday to inform me that the President of the United States himself had requested I open his “Making America Great Again” rally in Las Vegas. What a great honor. I gave … Read more

New MIT/Yale study finds number of illegal migrants in U.S. is twice that of current estimates – 21.1 million!

by Dr. Eowyn Source of GIF: Arizona rancher’s video of armed illegal border-crossers To put it simply, nobody really knows how many illegal aliens there are in the United States because — doh! — being illegally here, they don’t report their presence. What we have are estimates, based on imperfect, unreliable methods: Surveys that ask respondents whether they were … Read more