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In other words, grow a pair, and tell everyone PUBLICLY how you feel about the new wave of censorship!   NFD

  Once you’re assisting with the US military’s drone program, receiving grants from the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance, or having your site’s content regulated by NATO’s propaganda arm, you don’t get to pretend you’re a private, independent corporation that is separate from government power. Everyone’s got a lot to say abut the Alex … Read more

by stockboardasset California’s housing affordability crisis is progressively getting worse. It has now plummeted to its lowest level in 10-years, and less than one in five households can afford to purchase a median-priced single-family home in the Bay Area, according to new data released by the California Association of Realtors (CAR). CAR released its second-quarter Housing Affordability Index … Read more

The dam is about to burst. .@GovMikeHuckabee “Your paycheck is bigger, your pension is stronger.” @foxandfriends Unemployment numbers are better than they have been in 50 years, & perhaps ever. Our country is booming like never before – and it will get even better! Many companies moving back to the U.S.A. — Donald J. Trump … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Turkey has little hope of coming out of this in one piece. The pretend President-Dictator, Tayyip Erdogan, has come out and denied on Saturday that Turkey is in a currency crisis. Exactly how he can even say that is shocking. Nevertheless, he called a 25% drop in the currency a plunge that is just ‘fluctuations’ … Read more

by Jesse Shanghai gold withdrawals remain brisk. On its own, Shanghai is taking a big chunk of total world gold production by itself as shown in the third chart. Gold continues to move from West to East. I could not happen to notice this evening when someone mentioned the US’ current issues with Russia, Turkey, … Read more

By Harry Dent In San Francisco, a household now needs an income of $188,000 to afford rent for the average two-bedroom house or apartment with 30% of the household income spent on housing. The problem is that the median income is only $103,801. Housing is 81% out of reach! And this is true across the country … Read more

Via ZeroHedge And just like that, a million hopeful voices cried out in horror… Real average hourly earnings shrank by the most since 2012 in July… For years hope has been soaring that household income will rise any minute now… and despite two years of disappointment, they remain optimistic… But unemployment is so low? Full-employment? Wage … Read more

by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Dear Mr. Armstrong; I suppose we have to learn the hard way. Our electronic currency system crashed here in Zimbabwe. Many people were using it because of the old hyperinflation. The argument that private money would be better than government made a lot of sense here given the history. Most people were … Read more

by Martin Armstrong What people have to understand is that the Federal Reserve is moving in the opposite direction with respect to its monetary base. The Adjusted Monetary Base is the sum of currency (including coin) in circulation outside Federal Reserve Banks and the U.S. Treasury, plus deposits held by depository institutions at Federal Reserve Banks. … Read more

via MANSION ENGINEER Tesla and its impresario Elon Musk are in the news this week. One aspect of his hype machine, the ballyhooed solar roof tiles, looked suspect to most of us who follow solar developments when it was introduced. Like many of his supposedly visionary ideas, there was nothing new about it and others who … Read more

In your opinion, what do you think insiders are up to with their selling? The stock market have seen record amounts of insider selling. What do they know that we don’t? Is it possible that they are now taking profits and would prefer to place their money into other assets considering how high the prices … Read more

Billionaire Peter Schiff, investigates the CPI tool, the government reports to show inflation. It is comprised of several consumer goods and he compares his findings to the governments and his results show staggeringly higher inflation. He comes to the conclusion that they are creating the illusion of a great economy to keep investors h/t EmployerOfTheMonth

DOJ official Bruce Ohr will come before Congress on August 28 to answer why he had 60+ contacts with dossier author, Chris Steele, as far back as January 2016. He owes the American public the full truth. — Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) August 10, 2018 RepMarkMeadows DOJ official Bruce Ohr will come before Congress on August … Read more

BY SRSROCCO The massive debt accumulated by the U.S. Shale Industry is now decimating company profits.  As company debts and interest rates rise, these shale producers interest expense also continues to increase.  Debt service is not only cutting into company profits, but it also takes a great deal of oil and gas production to cover … Read more