CHANGE: The Government May Want to Buy Your Dying Mall. “Local governments worry that dying malls will blight the landscape, so they are buying them up.”

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via WSJ: While malls in wealthy neighborhoods continue to attract shoppers and tenants, growing government involvement with shopping centers in less affluent areas is another sign that private investors may be losing interest in the worst performing malls, even ones that can be had at cheap prices. “It’s a new issue,” said Thomas Dobrowski, executive … Read more

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO VIOLENT?

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California Man Arrested After Trying to Stab GOP Candidate, Police Say: California man Farzad Fazeli was arrested Tuesday for allegedly trying to stab a congressional candidate at a fair on Sunday, police said. Local media identified the candidate as Republican Rudy Peters, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell in November. Peters survived serious injury thanks to a … Read more

WHY ARE FAMOUS LEFTISTS SO FULL OF THEMSELVES AND SO MEAN TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE?

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When Professors Think They’re Rock Stars. “There is a whole dissertation to be written on intellectuals using the word neoliberal to mean ‘rules I shouldn’t have to follow.’” Plus: “Just as in the communist and socialist regimes that academics so admire, the universities all have an elite class at the top (permanently installed thanks to tenure), while the … Read more

If you believe 99% of “journalism” is propaganda, gaslighting, mistaken or trying to sell you something you’ll never go wrong.

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WHY WAS DISCO EVER POPULAR? BLAME FAKE NEWS: As Mike Konrad writes at the American Thinker, the media cooked the books long before it amplified Hillary’s “fake news” meme to explain away her defeat: Three months before disco’s demise, a Newsweek April 2, 1979 cover confidently proclaimed that disco had won the culture wars.*  Rock ‘n’ roll was dead.  But a few months later, by … Read more

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Circus of Resistance.

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via amgreatness: After the latest hysteria dies down, this chapter in the ongoing psychodrama will be revealed for what it is: a fantasy of a wannabe coup that is not going to happen. The commentariat’s silly claim that the op-ed was “extraordinary” and “newsworthy” is laughable. There are hundreds of “senior officials” all throughout every presidency, … Read more

ALERT: 39 million Social Security Numbers Stolen by Illegal Immigrants

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If you think you’re not at risk of identity theft, think again. via washingtonexaminer: Nearly 40 million Social Security numbers have been stolen and used by illegal immigrants and others to get work, according to agency records obtained by an immigration reform group. The Immigration Reform Law Institute said that from 2012 to 2016 there were “39 million … Read more

Hurricane Florence Forecast Resources

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Official government forecasts for Hurricane Florence at the link below. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml? https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=11L&pkg=mslp_wind&runtime=2017090412&fh=48&xpos=0&ypos=0 https://www.ventusky.com https://youtu.be/QFA6e8MFOOM h/t Victory of Samothrace

A GENERATION PLANS AN EXODUS FROM CALIFORNIA

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via newgeography: Since the recovery began in 2010, California’s net domestic out-migration, according to the American community survey, has almost tripled to 140,000 annually. Over that time, the state has lost half a million net migrants with the bulk of that coming from the Los Angeles-Orange County area. In contrast, during the first years of the … Read more

Bitcoin is ‘dead’ once again

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By Justin Spittler, Editor, Casey Daily Dispatch: Bitcoin is dead. It’s hard to believe. I know. After all, bitcoin’s price has surged 2,572% over the last three years. That’s 47 times the S&P 500’s return over the same period. Still, many in the mainstream media believe bitcoin’s days are numbered. Just look at what Jim Cramer, … Read more

People Are “Fighting For Food” As Authorities Warn Florence “Could Produce A Disaster Comparable” To Hurricane Katrina

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by Michael Snyder  Hurricane Florence is about to make a “direct hit” on the east coast, and public officials are making one ominous declaration about this storm after another.  Florence is being called “extremely dangerous”, “a monster”, “the worst in 60 years”and “the storm of a lifetime”.  By the end of this week we shall see if this storm lives … Read more

The Incredible Shrinking Hedge Fund

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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-shrinking-hedge-fund/ If you look at US multiples (the S&P500) they are now actually around historical average. The rise has been driven by EPS growth. Other assets and global indices have not grown earnings or new industries. Most global innovation, meaning genuine new products, is in tech and healthcare (including meet medtech and bio), two industries … Read more

Terrible participation since January with only an uptick since then on #SPX; 37 Hindenburg Omens have now triggered on the NYSE and Nasdaq over the past 12 months

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This is the mcm-smart-money study and its showing terrible participation since January with only an uptick since then on #SPX pic.twitter.com/BzEjOkD1jk — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) September 11, 2018 37 Hindenburg Omens have now triggered on the NYSE and Nasdaq over the past 12 months, the most since November of 2007: pic.twitter.com/od1IzeDWNd — Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) September … Read more