What’s Really Behind US-Turkey Crisis?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkuGH03cKqk The crisis between the US and Turkey is worsening. Washington is threatening to impose further rounds of sanctions if Ankara does not release an American evangelical pastor held on suspicions of partaking in a failed 2016 coup attempt. But some are questioning if this fight between NATO allies is really about religious freedom as … Read more

Here Are The Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs In America

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Via ZeroHedge Glassdoor is out with its annual report on the 25 highest-paying jobs in America, over half of which, 13, are in the technology sector. Taking the top three spots, however, are physicians, pharmacy managers and pharmacists – with average salaries of $195,842, $146,412 and $127,120 respectively. In tech, enterprise architects, software development managers, software engineering managers … Read more

Top 3 Signs that something big is coming

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by KrayZ88 they shut down big names on social media; especially ones that call out false flags. Aside from Alex Jones, they also nuked a bunch of libertarians and other accounts that you didnt notice because the MSM focused on Jones. they have a terror training camp teaching kids to do school shootings; all under … Read more

Free The Press

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by Raúl Ilargi Meijer William Hogarth Humours of an Election, Plate 2 1754  Two thirds of Americans want the Mueller investigation (inquisition, someone called it) over by the midterm elections. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said that if Mueller wants to interview Trump, he’ll have to do so before September 1, because the Trump camp doesn’t want … Read more

HMM: SEC Probes Tesla Over Model 3 Production Disclosures. “The investigation began before Elon Musk’s tweets about taking the auto maker private.”

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via wsj: Securities regulators last year subpoenaed a parts supplier for Tesla as they looked at whether the auto maker misled investors about Model 3 car production problems, according to a person familiar with the matter. Both issues are being handled by the SEC’s San Francisco office, one of the people said. The Wall Street Journal … Read more

The New QE: The global Bear market is beginning. Only share buybacks in the US are delaying the inevitable.

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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1030568223522140161 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1030569737435144195 Trump admin is absolutely terrified about this chart — if tech goes — the market goes — so now we should expect a whole lot of intervention though comments to save tech — kind of like we saw an hour ago w/ "china trade" headline WSJ pic.twitter.com/6KqoFAPqJ7 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 17, 2018 … Read more

SEC investigation means Tesla’s precarious cash situation could become critical in the coming months

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Tesla’s investors, captivated by the electric car maker’s future growth prospects, have ignored its rickety finances. That is no longer possible. Tesla is in trouble after a chaotic week. Elon Musk’s supposed plan to take the company private at $420 a share looks more like a fantasy. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company … Read more

On Turkey vs. Greece comparisons – Are we overlooking the fact that Greece was bailed out? Who is going to bail out Turkey, and how will a hard landing affect global markets differently?

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by cbus20122 So I just thought of something / realized something rather basic. There have been a lot of comparison between Turkey and Greece recently with both countries experiencing some huge currency issues. Both countries at similar points are looking towards hard landings, yet Greece was helped by being “bailed out” by the EU. While … Read more

The manufacturing powerhouses behind much of the world’s electronics are preparing to move chunks of production away from China and toward such locales as Eastern Europe, Mexico and Southeast Asia.

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via bloomberg: From iPhones to computers, the manufacturing powerhouses behind much of the world’s electronics are preparing to move chunks of production away from China and toward such locales as Eastern Europe, Mexico and Southeast Asia. Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou — who became a billionaire by dint of making Apple Inc.’s gizmos — started the ball … Read more

Deutsche Bank’s Market Cap Down to $23B; Still Has $54T in Derivatives Exposure

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via wallstreetonparade: Spasms in big Wall Street bank stocks have been happening on a serial basis over the past three years. (See here and here.) Yesterday offered another one of those bank warning signs to a Congress intent on further deregulation of an already dangerously deregulated market. As the stock market grappled yesterday with fears of sinking emerging market … Read more

What Makes the Gold Standard so Powerful is Exactly Why Politicians Hate It so Much

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via theepochtimes: There will be no Fedcoin, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in testimony given before the House Committee on Financial Services. “We’re not looking at this at the Fed as something that we should be doing,” Powell said, when asked whether the Fed is considering issuing its own digital currency. “That’s not something we’re looking … Read more

Americans’ Personal-Finance Sentiment Plummets by Most in 7 Years

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via Zerohedge: Led by a collapse in Americans’ views of the current situation, University of Michigan’s Sentiment Survey dropped to 11-month lows, dramatically missing expectations for a rise. Sentiment index decreased to 95.3 (est. 98) from prior month’s 97.9; lowest since Sept., below all analyst estimates Current conditions gauge, which measures Americans’ perceptions of their finances, fell … Read more

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T DEPOSIT YOUR GARBAGE HERE, THIS IS A TRASH CAN! New York City Removes Trash Cans on the Upper West Side:

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via westsiderag: What happened to the baskets? Did they get removed in anticipation of some windy weather? Surely the Department of Sanitation [DSNY] would soon restore the baskets – thereby easing the overflow trash – she thought. A neighbor who shared her concerns called 311 and was told that the baskets had been removed because people … Read more

A SOCIALISM SO BIG, IT’S NATIONAL: Elizabeth Warren’s Batty Plan to Nationalize . . . Everything.

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via nationalreview: Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has one-upped socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: She proposes to nationalize every major business in the United States of America. If successful, it would constitute the largest seizure of private property in human history. Warren’s proposal is dishonestly called the “Accountable Capitalism Act.” Accountable to whom?you might ask. … Read more