Junk Food Kills Alpaca At Animal Hospital

FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. — A Florida animal hospital announced the death of a beloved community alpaca Saturday on Facebook. Creekside Animal Hospital in Fleming Island wrote: “It is with a heavy heart that we want to inform our clients and friends at [Swimming Pen Creek Elementary] that our youngest alpaca that was born out on the shared field … Read more

All Hell Breaks Loose on CNN The Second Conservative Guest Schools Liberal on Security Clearances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG5bzXDOU0M Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, The subject of making money off of government security clearances proved too hot to handle when CNN analyst and ex-CIA official Phillip Mudd erupted at conservative commentator Paris Dennard, who said clearances were a gateway to making money for former government officials. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-…

What Trump is About to do Will ENRAGE Every Liberal Environmentalist in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJSlyShgLU Timothy Puthko for FOX News reports, The Trump administration is escalating an effort to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry with a planned move next week to replace restrictive Obama-era climate policies with new rules designed to help coal-burning plants run harder and stay open longer. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/…

THE HOUSING BUBBLE IS OBVIOUS

via @OccupyWisdom  https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1031414036443918337 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1031414044434030593 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1031414053015564289 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1031414060506595328 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1031355459192668161 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1031019388198182912 Bubble forever? Brokers are betting on the Fed stopping its timid balance sheet reduction at $3.8 trillion and a flatter yield curve. pic.twitter.com/OEDPqJOvkB — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) August 20, 2018

What if Venezuelan Hyperinflation Came to the US?

by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver   Mike Maloney thinks that hyperinflation is a distinct possibility in the US. So when I read about the runaway inflation rates in Venezuela, I wondered how that would play out in the US if he’s right. From the outset we should say that America has some obvious differences … Read more

China’s peer-to-peer lending industry, the world’s largest, is shrinking

#China's peer-to-peer lending industry, the world’s largest, is shrinking, BBG reports. Savers have been rushing to pull money amid a govt crackdown that's seen some platforms halted & put under police investigation. Outstanding loans dropped 26% in July to 956bn yuan ($139bn). pic.twitter.com/Eu66AZl08P — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) August 21, 2018 New deputy #PBOC governor Zhu … Read more

David Morgan on End of Empire: “You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don’t Need”

by goldsilver Fed-fueled valuation madness. Cheap debt and deep tax cuts piped directly to corporations, who then use that money to buy their own expensive shares in huge buybacks while the same executives who put out press releases crowing about how cheap their stock is (hence the aggressive buyback) sell their personal shares into that same … Read more

It Takes Two Shopping Carts Full of Cash to Buy One Cart of Groceries in Venezuela

In a plan designed to tackle hyperinflation, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday announced plans to raise his country’s minimum wage and create a single exchange rate pegged to his government’s petro-backed cryptocurrency, effectively devaluing the country’s currency by 96%, Reuters reported. Venezuelans rushed to shops Friday to stock up on goods before the monetary overhaul … Read more

The 2008 financial crisis never really ended

via qz: Most retellings of the 2008 financial crisis, which began in the US and swiftly spread across the world, hinge on the understanding that the crisis came to an end—and that, in the US, it ended quite quickly. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Penguin Random House, Aug. 7, 2018), the latest book … Read more

1 Year 2.2 Million Percent Return (Gold)–1 Day 96% Paper Loss

by SP Performances 5 days 1 month YTD 1 year 5 years 10 years Max Gold Price per Ounce (VEF) -0.82% 100.85% N/A 2,224,621.24% 3,428,439.64% N/A 12,495,881.72% Live Gold Spot Price – Venezuelan Bolívar (VEF) ================================================================= Maduro orders 96 percent devaluation in hyperinflation-stricken … Daily Times–Aug 18, 2018 Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro announced on Friday a … Read more

Housing Affordability By City: 2018 Figures

by Trivirus http://www.demographia.com/dhi2018.pdf Index number is median house price:median income. Notable US cities (Low end): 1 U.S. Rochester, NY 2.6 2 U.S. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 2.7 2 U.S. Cleveland, OH 2.7 4 U.S. Buffalo, NY 2.8 4 U.S. Oklahoma City, OK 2.8 4 U.S. Pittsburgh, PA 2.8 7 U.S. Detroit, MI 2.9 7 U.S. Saint Louis, … Read more

The Case for a 50-Year Bull Market! This is the type of headline we always see before a nice recession

  The Case for a 50-Year Bull Market https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-case-for-a-50-year-bull-market-1534550401?mod=trending_now_4 Here are a couple of historic magazine covers. https://www.financialsense.com/sites/default/files/users/u163/images/2012/0504/01-dow.jpg https://www.financialsense.com/sites/default/files/users/u163/images/2012/0504/02-businessweek.jpg   h/t MakeTotalDestr0i

Dots Connect Themselves…

via Ducandy: Read this for an incredibly simplified version of what has been going on in Circle-Jerk DC!!? It spells it Incest, it’s Incestuous From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation. A Grand Jury had been empaneled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 … Read more