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Do you believe that wealth is concentrated into geographical areas? If we follow the money, where does it lead? Which states in the US have the most millionaires? Can you guess?   118-e6c5.jpg (1601×1906) https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/118-e6c5.jpg Visualizing Where Millionaires Live in the United States https://howmuch.net/articles/americas-millionaires-by-state Map-3-b68e.jpg (3200×2074) https://cdn.howmuch.net/articles/Map-3-b68e.jpg RM Sotheby’s – 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO by … Read more

Best Buy is reporting slowing online sales. Pending home sales decline for the 7 month in a row. Buying sentiment is down and we are entering the fall and winter months when sales slow because of the time of year. The Fed is raising interest rates to make the situation even worse. GDP number were … Read more

The White House has a petition to allow the internet to be free from banning. It turns out that Steele was colluding with a sanctioned Russian individual. South Sudan signs a peace deal. Iran might scrap the entire nuclear deal. Russia reports that the White Helmets are staging the chemical attack. Secret meeting are taking … Read more

by SpontaneousDisorder Whilst anything could happen sentiment is pushing extreme levels, though not quite as high as the previous top (which was mental). Given the historic valuations, divergence between markets and poor internals I strongly expect it to top sooner rather than later. it will be a bloodbath when US markets wake up to EM … Read more

By Bob Shanahan   On Tuesday, Senior Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, testified on Capitol Hill. During this closed-door session, Ohr revealed that prior to getting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump campaign volunteer, Carter Page, the FBI was wholly aware that the fake anti-Trump dossier author, Christopher Steele, was biased against … Read more

by howmuch Imagine the richest 1% of wage earners in your state all got together at the same stadium to watch a football game. How much money would you need to earn each year to get into the game? And what would be the average income level of everyone in attendance? Our newest visualization breaks down … Read more

by sundance What happens when the silent majority stand up in full force and elect a president entirely focused on advancing the interests of Main Street over Wall Street?  What happens when that President takes office and begins systematically instituting a comprehensive series of economic policies that are targeted to Make America Great Again? The middle-class … Read more

via thefreethoughtproject: LLANO, TX – All too often those who continuously apologize for crimes committed by police officers are able to justify some of the most egregious instances of outright murder by claiming the officer was a bad apple. Almost as often, however, as TFTP has shown numerous times, the bad apple theory is exactly that—a theory—with … Read more

Tucker takes on the increasingly extreme views of the Democratic party as more and more progressive candidates win their respective primaries.   SPREAD THE WEALTH: Sen. Harris Wants US TAXPAYERS to Subsidize California’s OUTRAGEOUS Rents Firebrand Senator and potential 2020 hopeful Kamala Harris urged all Americans to help spread the wealth this week; calling on … Read more

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yllMGIjPQ Today’s Guest: Michael Pento Website: http://www.pentoport.com/

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

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

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

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

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

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