IMF asks New Zealand to reconsider ban placed on housing sold to foreigners as result of wealthy driving property value up.

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via cbc.ca: New Zealand has banned most foreigners from buying homes as it tries to tackle runaway housing prices. The housing market had been open to investors worldwide, but the government on Wednesday passed legislation that allows only New Zealand residents to purchase homes. In recent years, there have been many anecdotal stories of wealthy foreigners from Silicon … Read more

John Rubino – No Pain Free Option When You Borrow Too Much Money, Scarier More Dangerous Market Crisis Blowing Up Now

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According to Financial writer John Rubino, the long predicted so-called “debt reset” is getting much closer. How’s that going to work? Rubino explains, “It’s not clear that a currency reset (devaluation) will work unless it is coordinated. It’s not just the U.S. It could also be the European Central Bank, Bank of Japan and The … Read more

CNN’s Chris Cuomo Defends Antifa: Attacks On Police, Journalists “Not Equal” To Fighting Bigots

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CNN’s Chris Cuomo argued Monday night Antifa protesters are wrong to hit people, police, and reporters, “but fighting hate is right” and in a clash between hate and those who oppose it, “those who oppose it are on the side of right.” Cuomo said “all punches are not equal morally” when it comes to bigots. … Read more

Turkish Court Reportedly Rejects Appeal to Release US Pastor…..US / Turkey almost breaking all ties

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US Nearly Broke Ties With Turkey, Ankara Disappointed With Washington’s Actions Relations between the US and Turkey have deteriorated of late for various reasons, including the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson, the purchase of Russian-made weapons systems by Ankara and tariff issues. According to Turkish presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın, Ankara has been deeply disappointed by Washington’s … Read more

Rise of US Dollar Haunts Emerging Market Debt

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A vicious cycle, kicked off by cheap debt that’s suddenly not cheap, after 8 years of experimental monetary policies. The dollar has risen nearly 2% since Thursday last week. Since April 17, when this move started, the dollar has surged over 8%, based on the WSJ Dollar Index, which tracks the … Read more

China’s Plan To Tank Their Own Stock Market

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via TheDaily Reckoning When I say the fix is in for FXI that’s not meant to be mysterious. FXI is the ticker symbol for a U.S. exchange-traded fund (ETF) composed of the largest Chinese stocks. The phrase “the fix is in” simply refers to government-backed manipulation. When you combine the two into a government plan to … Read more

For Telsa, Time Has Come Today

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via CoverDrive Summary With Tesla’s Model 3 now in full production, the profitability narrative is in serious jeopardy and a why new narrative is needed. On Tuesday, The Saudi announcement of a $2B stake in TSLA gave Musk an irresistible opportunity to springboard on the momentum. With time running out in the game, Musk gambled with … Read more

HEH: Outside of All the Violence, Those Antifa Protests Sure Were Peaceful.

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via freebeacon: By all accounts Antifa is radical, anarchist, and avowedly pro-violence, to the extent that the Barack Obama FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a warning calling them “anarchist extremists” and “domestic terrorists,” a warning that has since been vindicated by many, many, many, many, many, many violent protests. Why, two years later, are the national media still downplaying the criminal elements of so-called … Read more

Ron Paul feels threatened by same people who took down Alex Jones

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At 2:53 minutes Ron Paul mentions how the same elements that took Alex Jones down wants to take them down . He also mentions how he has caught hell from google & Facebook over his content . Why Does Facebook Use NATO To Help Censor Users? http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/august/13/why-does-facebook-use-nato-to-help-censor-users/ h/t SirGamiad

Paris introduces sidewalk urinals

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obudCwPDjJY Rapefugees won’t stop peeing on historic Parisian streets. The city’s solution: Open sidewalk urinals. Parisian leaders are trying to tackle a problem that is evident to anyone who’s ever tried to catch a glimpse of a historic site in a historic city and instead caught a foul-smelling whiff of stale urine. Meet the uritrottoir, a … Read more

The Department of Justice has just conducted a series of raids across Los Angeles and arrested 238 people in connection with child predators

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The Department of Justice has just conducted a series of raids across Los Angeles and arrested 238 people in connection with a Hollywood pedophilia network. According to police, the arrests included some “major Hollywood players” as well as politicians, white-collar professionals, a monk, and other high-ranking clergy members. The raids were conducted by the Los … Read more

Keith Ellison Is Going Down

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SECOND WOMAN Accuses Democrat Keith Ellison of Abuse — Police 911 Report Confirms Incident! Democrat leader and Rep. Keith Ellison with former lover Karen Monagan As reported on Sunday Rep. Keith Ellison’s former lover Karen Monahan hurled scurrilous accusations at the current Deputy Chairman of the Democrat Party. Karen’s son accused Democrat Party Deputy Chair … Read more

In private meeting, Facebook exec warns news outlets to cooperate or die

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From Common Dreams: During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech behemoth’s efforts to “revitalize journalism” will leave media outlets dying “like in a hospice.” Reported first by The Australian under a headline which read “Work With Facebook or Die: Zuckerberg,” the social media … Read more

MIT Computer Model Predicts Dramatic Drop In Quality Of Life Around 2020 And The “End Of Civilization” Around 2040

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by Michael Snyder Is humanity approaching a major turning point?  A computer model that was originally developed in 1973 by a group of scientists at MIT is warning that things are about to dramatically change.  If the computer predictions are accurate, our standard of living will start to decline dramatically around the year 2020, and we … Read more

What You Should Know About Digital Currency

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Technological innovations have greatly benefited financial transactions. For one, buying and selling can be processed through online channels without the need for face-to-face interaction — in 2017 alone, e-commerce sales hit a whopping 2.3 trillion US dollars. Travelling abroad has become easier too. With a credit card like Visa or Mastercard, foreign exchange transactions can … Read more

Marc Faber: Now is the time for bear market preparations … Gerald Celente: Currencies are crashing around the world … Mike Maloney: Trade war could become a shooting war …

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by John Rubino Marc Faber: Now is the time for bear market preparations … Gerald Celente: Currencies are crashing around the world … Mike Maloney: Trade war could become a shooting war … Alasdair Macleod: Valuing gold in a world awash with dollars … David McAlvany: Half a million bucks doesn’t mean anything anymore.