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With borrowing costs rising and effects of tax cuts set to wear off, a shock could push the most vulnerable over the edge, and take the recovery with them via Jonathan Spicer  By almost every measure, the U.S. economy is booming. But a look behind the headlines of roaring job growth and consumer spending reveals how … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn If you need yet more evidence that Hillary Clinton is utterly corrupt, here it is. On December 13, 2016, five weeks after she lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, Hillary and her rapist husband, Bill, dined with Harvey Weinstein — the former Hollywood producer who is charged with rape, a … Read more

BY PATRICK WATSON Economists disagree about job automation. Some see imminent doom, others think we can adjust. There’s not a lot in-between. Time will tell who’s right. Meanwhile, the machines are climbing the skill ladder, learning complex tasks only the most skilled humans do now. Surgery is in that category. You might be thinking now that surgeon jobs are … Read more

The amount of global debt has reached a precarious level. In the U.S. alone, federal debt has more than doubled in just the past 10 years. But there’s much more to this dangerously unfolding debt drama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4KhpGhILSA

by visualcapitalist If you’re a college graduate, you likely went to school to pursue an important passion of yours. But as we all know, what we major in has consequences that extend far beyond the foundation of knowledge we build in our early years. Any program we choose to enroll in also sets up a track … Read more

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Keep an eye on the system’s buffers. They look fine until they suddenly collapse. The doom-and-gloomers among us who have been predicting the unraveling of an inherently unstable financial system appear to have been disproved by the reflation of yet another credit-asset bubble. But inherently unstable / imbalanced … Read more

by Adam Taggart While handily beating earnings, Facebook just announced revenue and user numbers lower than Wall Street hoped for on its Q2 2018 earnings call this afternoon. After trading up to a record high earlier today before the call, Facebook stock is now down a whopping 21%(!) in the aftermarket: So Netflix disappointed two weeks … Read more

Maddow is wrong. The White House didn’t edit a video or a transcript to remove a question posed to Putin. Plus: If you don’t want Trump telling people not to trust what they’re told by the news media, try not telling people things that aren’t true, just because you want them to be. Also: The … Read more

Futurist and economic researcher Chris Martenson says people can protect themselves with real assets as opposed to paper assets. Martenson says, “Real assets are the place you need to be if and when a paper tower comes crumbling down. I am diversified myself. I believe in land. I believe in real estate. I believe in … Read more

As a tax payer, I would like to be compensated for the bus ticket they get for the free ride and sack lunch they get to take home. Millionaire Democrat Wants To Tax Parents With More Than Two Kids As “Irresponsible Breeders”   A democrat congressional candidate in Pennsylvania has desires to tax parents who have more … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter No, it’s not Seattle. Denver is by far #1. New York isn’t even in the top 25. And it explains why rents in Chicago are collapsing. We’re going to shake up the status quo of apartment construction reporting. First, we’re going to lay out the status quo – the classic way … Read more

Saving this. This is true journalism. It’s what people imagine when they hear the word. They did a good job by actually going, gathering facts, and showing people those facts rather than telling them what to think about facts told them by other sources. https://youtu.be/gcnNRncS4B8 AC

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via wallstreetonparade: Citigroup, the Bank the U.S. Taxpayer Saved From Insolvency in 2008, Was Operating a Dizzying Array of Dark Pools and Trading Venues in 2014 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has had two separate Wall Street lawyers at its helm for the past five years (under both the Wall Street- friendly Obama administration … Read more

President Trump stands up for America and delivers a strong warning to Iran, but the deep states’s agenda is war. Tucker Carlson warns president Trump about a possible false flag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzOg3FpdAzI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3RCC2fMpwc Maxine Waters claims she is sent by God to get Trump impeached. Democrats revealed their hypocrisy when Obama used the IRS to persecute churches that support traditional values.