Corporate debt crisis imminent? 60% of corporate debt issued by companies in the Russell 2000 is rated as Junk; Since 2009, corporate America has bought back $4 trillion of its own shares and doled out $3 trillion to shareholders in dividends.

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pic.twitter.com/PDSiYUEB2X — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) August 23, 2018 via Bloomberg: “Since March 2009, corporate America has bought back $4 trillion of its own shares and doled out $3 trillion to shareholders in dividends. That’s equivalent to about a third of the total value that U.S. stocks have added over the same period” Debt, debt, debt….. pic.twitter.com/VdKdMSqRSO … Read more

Another Clinton/Obama Investigator is dead?

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A veteran journalist, who was investigating possible sex crimes from former President Bill Clinton, is said to have been found dead in Washington. Prince George’s County Police Department released a statement to One America News regarding Jenny Moore’s death investigation, saying officers found a woman unresponsive at a D.C. hotel after a welfare check. The … Read more

BREAKING….Dominic Raab mauled by Twitter trollstorm as desperate Brits ask, “Where is the defence of Brexit?”

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by John Ward On his first media outing with Michel Barnier two weeks ago, new UK Brexit Minister Dominic Raab was a model of positive optimism who went out of his way say how keen he was to get a mutually beneficial Brexit trade deal signed. But as with everyone else (from Yanis Varoufakis via Viktor … Read more

Former Police detective that wrote a book on a massive pedophile network in South Africa found dead in an apparent suicide.

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by Orangutan   The book was released this month. The crimes covered the apartheid era and Bird Island, where they took the kids to abuse and murder. Sound familiar? This people are sick. Will these crimes every be uncovered? What does the future hold if we don’t deal with this stuff now and for the long … Read more

Rickards: Shooting war with China more likely than you think

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From Jim Rickards, Editor, The Daily Reckoning: The mainstream media narrative about the U.S.-China trade war implies that Trump is on a highly damaging ego trip and China holds all the cards. The exact opposite is true. Trump has ample financial warfare weapons including tariffs, penalties, bans on direct investment, improved cybersecurity, forced divestiture and freezing … Read more

Gallup Poll: Most Americans want to improve relations with Russia, rather than impose sanctions

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58% say it’s more important to try to improve relations 36% think U.S. should take strong diplomatic or economic steps Those closely following story on Russia and the 2016 election prefer sanctions WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an era of increasingly tense U.S.-Russian relations marked by allegations of Russian meddling in U.S. elections, Americans believe it … Read more

The Fundamental Case For Owning Gold Today

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by jessefelder Recently my friend Ben Hunt pointed out that gold is really more a hedge against a central bank mistake than a hedge against geopolitical upheaval. I agree but I believe gold is an effective hedge against a fiscal mistake, as well. In other words, when the government gets very aggressive in a budgetary sense it can be positive … Read more

MORE SWAMP-DRAINING NEEDED

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For some reason, the administration is considering reappointing Obama holdout Mark Pearce to the National Labor Relations Board. Pearce helped author some blatant give-aways to labor unions under the Democrat majority, including one a court found simply “legally unsupportable.” A group of free market organizations, including mine, has urged the President to stop this reappointment. You can see our … Read more

It’s ALL Been Given Away To Foreign Powers and One Senator Spills The Beans (regarding the internet)…

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. … here are articles of what happened … . https://www.bing.com/search?q=internet%20control&qs=AS&pq=internet%20control&sc=8-16&cvid=A31B76E135A643CC97E7419E995F5D1D&FORM=QBLH&sp=1 Under a plan that’s been in the works for years, the US Department of Commerce shuttled control of the DNS to a nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), whose multiple stakeholders include technical experts, as well as representatives of … Read more

Michael Cohen’s Plea? Oh PLEASE

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There is nothing there. This video is 24min and breaks down the plea agreement with the actual court doc’S. There is nothing in there. Dont believe the lying MSM Fake news. Here is the Docs broken down. Listen to this video, dems are eating their own Another good video about dems eating their own Obama … Read more

Jim Rickards: The Looming Crisis You’re Not Hearing About That Experts Are Very Worried About

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by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning All the talk about Russian tampering with the 2016 presidential election, which is vastly overstated by the way, diverts attention from the more fundamental problem: The vulnerability of America’s critical infrastructure to cyberattack by hostile actors. When I say critical infrastructure, I mean the power grid, hydroelectric systems, nuclear power plants, energy … Read more