Is This Just the Calm Before the Storm?

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by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center Florence, now a tropical depression, made landfall in North Carolina on Friday, bringing with it destruction and calamity, the cost of which could top $170 billion, according to analytics firm CoreLogic. If so, that would make it the … Read more

Unable to afford rent, some Vancouver seniors choosing to take their own lives rather than become homeless

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via thinkpol.ca: More seniors are being pushed into homelessness because they can’t afford the city’s high cost of living or find a safe shelter, says the head of a seniors’ non-profit organization. Anthony Kupferschmidt, executive director of the West End Seniors’ Network, said many seniors in Metro Vancouver rely on low fixed incomes such as old … Read more

Introduction to Buying a House

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by Ozurip Your house is the largest single investment most people will make in their lifetime. And yet, the vast majority of people have absolutely no idea how this whole thing works. If you were paying attention, you probably know that the 2008 recession had something to do with housing and something or something, but … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg is selling up to $13 billion of Facebook shares to fund the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Mark Zuckerberg is selling up to $13 billion of Facebook shares to fund the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which has the audacious goal of curing, preventing, or managing all diseases “in our children’s lifetime.” Among the initiative’s projects are investments in the Human Cell Atlas, which aims to map out every single cell in the human … Read more

Meanwhile in China, Implosion of Stock-Market Double-Bubble

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Stock-market bubbles don’t end well for those who don’t get out in time. US tariffs and threats of more tariffs have not been particularly well received in China, which is already being rattled by corporate credit problems, quakes in the shadow banking system, a peculiar Enron-type phenomenon at provincial and municipal … Read more

Suspending the Constitution: In America Today, the Government Does Whatever It Wants

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By John W. Whitehead “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale We can pretend that the … Read more

Lot of big desks already forecasting global slowdown, professionals heading to exits bigtime now…

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lot of big desks already forecasting global slowdown b/c of trade war — this will reprice US assets in the coming quarters. we are positioned for it pic.twitter.com/0h37FswNep — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 17, 2018 Professionals heading to exits bigtime now…leading net market participants (amateurs) BIG TIME#es_f needs 2897.25 to remain as resistance for the double … Read more

Kavanaugh Accuser’s Brother Linked To Fusion GPS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjuZXAUX7HY Breaking: Kavanaugh Accuser’s Brother Linked To Fusion GPS Christine Blasey-Ford, the 51-year-old woman who has come out of the woodwork at the last minute, ac… https://yournewswire.com/kavqanaugh-accuser-brother-fusion-gps/ https://twitter.com/PHUKTHISCRAP/status/1041556760400744449 Attorney Debra Katz made the rounds Monday on morning television to argue her client’s sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be taken seriously, … Read more

Cut Off By Rising Flood Waters Of Florence, Wilmington North Carolina Becomes An Island As Death Toll Continues To Rise

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by Geoffrey Grider Wilmington Cut Off by Florence as Catastrophic Flooding Spreads Across North Carolina Having been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Florence has mostly disappeared from the headlines. But torrential rain continues to fall, and widespread flooding has gotten so bad that the entire city of Wilmington has been completely cut off … Read more

The Fed cannot fight inflation and prevent financial asset bubbles from deflating at the same time.

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The Fed cannot fight inflation and prevent financial asset bubbles from deflating at the same time. https://t.co/CiV5npQZA0 pic.twitter.com/dSaMH34MCI — Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) September 17, 2018 The next US bear market will most likely be caused by a spike in ten-year Treasury yields and risks setting off a $10 trillion crash in US household assets, according … Read more

This is not a signal of global reflation, or synchronised growth, but the evidence of secular stagnation caused by constant demand-side policies.

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This is not a signal of global reflation, or synchronised growth, but the evidence of secular stagnation caused by constant demand-side policies. pic.twitter.com/nhcBfnrCED — Daniel Lacalle Official Account (@dlacalle_IA) September 17, 2018 terrible miss NY FED MFG — US SLOW DOWN COMING? pic.twitter.com/AF0ZGq3GIu — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 17, 2018 US DATA DUMP pic.twitter.com/TACYmqZZia — Alastair … Read more

DISGUSTING! Stormy Daniels Gives the DIRTY DETAILS In SICK New Book Against Trump

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDZwEYkz7Gw Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, Porn star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) announced on Wednesday that she’ll be releasing a tell-all book next month to include details of her alleged sexual encounter with a then-married Donald Trump. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/35861/…

We’re All Speculators Now

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by Charles Hugh-Smith When the herd thunders off the cliff, most participants are trapped in the stampede.. One of the most perverse consequences of the central banks “saving the world” (i.e. saving banks and the super-wealthy) is the destruction of low-risk investments: we’re all speculators now, whether we know it or acknowledge it. The problem is … Read more