Video: “Financial War” Deepens as Russia Buys Gold and Dollar Hegemony At Risk – Rickards on CNN

by GoldCore – “This is a financial war … Russia is dumping Treasuries to get out from under dollar hegemony” – Rickards on CNN Money – Russia ramping up gold buying and has “tripled gold reserves in 10 years,” from 600 to almost 2,000 tonnes – “Russia is pushing back” against U.S. sanctions using cyber financial warfare and acquiring … Read more

AMAZON WAGES WAR VS BERNIE

Sanders has been dinging Amazon on Twitter and in public statements for months, claiming the company doesn’t pay its lower-level employees a fair wage. It’s a rare public response for Amazon. It has been largely silent amid repeated public attacks by President Donald Trump on the company and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns The … Read more

As Good As It Gets – “‘Bull markets’ don’t die of pessimism – they die from excess optimism…”

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot I was reminded of that quote recently as I was reading a great piece by Tim Duy: “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell took to the podium at the annual Jackson Hole monetary conference, … Read more

President Trump Says Hillary Clinton’s Emails Hacked By China – PLUS, Weiner Laptop Was Examined By Peter Strzok As He Protected Hillary.

by Ruby Henley We are going to take a trip back in time again to get documented facts, being disputed in our present day.  President Trump has just made the claim that China hacked Clinton’s emails; however, everyone including the FBI is saying that is not true. Hillary Clinton admitted herself that she’d used an … Read more

Family builds ‘Mailbox Library’ to Give Out Free Books, So Naturally, the Cops Made Them Remove It

via thefreethoughtproject: Point Pleasant, NJ — We can now add giving away free books as a reason police will show up to your home and threaten you with fines. Earlier this month, that is exactly what happened to a New Jersey family when they built a “Mailbox Library” in their front yard to encourage the neighborhood … Read more

How changing police roles, monitoring technology and politicised media increase the certainty of a British dictatorship

by John Ward  Crimes solved by bots, naysayers framed by technology, police watching our pcs and deserting our streets, gullible citizens accepting flimsy narratives, and a corporate media consensus suppressing dissent. If this is what you want, then congratulations: the project is well under way…..and gathering speed. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ When the British police élite asserted recently … Read more

Supply of Homes Surges 20% to 90% in Many Markets Just as Pending Home Sales Drop

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is not good. What’s causing the drop-off in pending home sales in the US, and in particular in the West? Surging home prices that have outrun wage increases for years? Mortgage rates that hover around 4.8% for the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, the highest since 2011? The massive affordability issues … Read more

Were 18 To 20 CIA Sources Killed Or Imprisoned Because Hillary Clinton’s Emails Were Being Hacked In Real Time By China?

by Michael Snyder This is a scandal so huge that it could blow all of the other Clinton scandals totally out of the water.  It is being alleged that 18 to 20 CIA sources were either killed or imprisoned in China from 2010 to 2012 because the Chinese were reading all of Hillary Clinton’s emails … Read more

GoFundMe Investigating Couple That Raised $403,000 For Homeless Vet But Only Gave Him A Fraction Of The Money

by Michael Snyder Did a New Jersey couple go on wild gambling sprees, take exotic vacations and buy a new BMW with the money that the public gave to help get a homeless veteran off the streets? This article is about a “feel good story” that has gone really, really bad.  Homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt Jr. … Read more

Social Media vs the Constitution

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Salvador Dali The burning giraffe 1937 Dali: “The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human body, which in Greek times was merely neoplatonical, is now filled with secret drawers only to be opened through psychoanalysis.”  An ancient Latin saying goes: “Quod licet Iovi, non … Read more

Stossel: These students know more than politicians

From John Stossel at Reason: “Gouging” becomes an issue every hurricane season. After big storms, some people raise prices. Then politicians and the media freak out. Both demand tougher laws against “gouging.” But Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman says, “the gougers deserve a medal” because they take risks to bring in goods that people desperately … Read more

“We have a perfect storm:” Montana Has The Highest Suicide Rate In US

by stockboardasset Americans are experiencing the best economy “EVER,” tweets President Donald Trump. The president’s tendency to selectively take good economic data and widely exaggerate it on Twitter has become his favorite pastime, well, besides playing golf at one of his many resorts. Since there is only so much hope and hype he can blow … Read more

Chairman Powell’s Bizarre Statement Ignores the Reality of Price Inflation

From Birch Gold Group Inflation has been on the rise since late 2015. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure, the Fed has typically maintained the “target inflation” rate of 2%. But official inflation has moved well past that benchmark. It is currently nearing 3% while rising at a consistent and alarming rate (see chart below): During … Read more

Trapped & defenseless: Baltimore home-invasion victims waited 14 minutes for police

by DCG Do tell gun grabbers: Why do you want to strip citizens of their Second Amendment right, leaving victims helpless while at the mercy of slow-responding police? From Fox Baltimore: As Baltimore Police scrambled to the scenes of shootings early Saturday morning, two young females and a 2-year-old boy were trapped on a rooftop. Shannon Gaasch … Read more

The United Nations Urges US Tech Giants to Fight Against “Hate Speech”

by Chris Black Motto: “If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell   It’s interesting to see how in the exact same day when Facebook employees made headlines as they were protesting against Facebook’s intolerant mono-culture, which means left-liberal culture obviously, … Read more

GREAT AGAIN: Workers Report Highest Job Satisfaction Since 2005, US Economy grew 4.2% in 2nd Quarter

by Chris Black Despite the artificial political turmoil created and perpetrated by the sore-loser left, and I am talking about the never-ending state of hysteria that’s been engulfing America’s public life since The Donald entered office back in 2016, the economy is doing great. Great again, I might add. The thing is, the US economy … Read more