Turkey the Poster Child of Emerging Market Crisis

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by Martin Armstrong During the 1980s, I was called in to create a hedge for a bank against the Turkish lira which nobody made a market on. I had to create a synthetic hedge for the currency was moving into what became hyperinflation.  The Turkish lira has begun to fall ever since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the … Read more

Japanese winemakers face deportation from France despite making ‘exceptional’ red

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Kick out the hard-working people and keep the terrorists. Flawless logic.   A Japanese winemaking couple in France could face deportation, with French authorities saying that their business is not profitable enough… even though they have been credited with producing an outstanding red wine. Rié and Hirofumi Shoji who live in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in … Read more

THE AMOUNT OF INSTITUTIONAL DAMAGE BEING DONE TO THE FBI BY ITS HILLARY/OBAMA CAPTURE IS ENORMOUS AND NOT YET FULLY APPRECIATED

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Michael Goodwin: Peter Strzok’s arrogance is the product of a corrupt FBI. Watching FBI agent Peter Strzok battle with Congress, my initial reaction was pure anger. His repeated, arrogant insistence that he had done nothing wrong despite tons of evidence to the contrary convinced me he deserved immediate firing — if not the firing squad. … Read more

The Left’s War On Public Health

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Juul Madness. The smoking rate for American adults and teenagers has hit an all-time low, but public-health activists are working hard to reverse the trend. They’ve renewed their attack on the vaping industry and singled out Juul Labs, the makers of an e-cigarette so effective at weaning smokers from their habit that Wall Street analysts … Read more

Significant Activist Hedge Fund Activity (Last 7 Days)

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by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of influencing management in some way. There is evidence that following activist investors into investments can generate excess returns. Schedule 13G forms, in contrast, are filed … Read more

BLUE STATE BLUES: These Tax Laws Are Holding Back California’s Housing Market.

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“The state’s efforts to save homeowners money are now keeping many of them locked in their homes — and potential buyers locked out.” Virginia Postrel: In pricey areas, two enormous tax distortions will still encourage California homeowners to stick to the old homestead. One is the federal capital gains tax, which kicks in on any … Read more

Rand Paul brings some common sense and logic to the Russian/2016 election discussion in an interview on CNN. (10:29 long)

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Paul really brings some sanity to the discussion talking about what really should be done with the knowledge that the Russians may have messed with our election. He also brought up an interesting reason why they may have done it. He shoots down the irrational talking point that Trump should demand the extradition of the … Read more

Federal Judge censors LA times article about a CA detective with ties to Mexican Mafia

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A federal Judge over the weekend ordered the LA times to remove information from an article that contained information about a plea deal filed under seal, but was accidentally made public via the PAACER system. The original article is still available via the wayback machine, and the censored article has nearly all of the reported … Read more

Hillary Comes Unhinged Over Trump SCOTUS Nominee Kavanaugh ‘They Want to Take Us Back to the 1850’s’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0IKymnCm_U Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, On Friday, twice-failed presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, was honored with a ‘Women’s Rights Award’ by the (AFT) American Federation of Teachers. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…

Democrat Leader Sparks Liberal Civil War On Live TV, Dooms Their 2018 Chances

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3Z70Ag8ko Kara Curry for RWN reports, Many have begun to take notice of the pattern of increasingly savage and even aggressive rhetoric, as well as the escalating physical violence directed at President Donald Trump, his supporters, the Trump administration, Republican leadership, as well as those that adhere to a conservative or right-leaning ideology. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: … Read more

Putin Can Destroy Democrats

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRAXSUwIwU Synopsis: Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Finland for their first face-to-face bilateral meeting. In their opening statements, Trump looked confident. He spoke off the top of his head, reciting the issues he was hoping the two could address. Putin looked strangely nervous – even cowed by the presence … Read more

Offending People Is Necessary to a Free World

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If you can’t offend people you do not have free speech. Just because it offends you doesn’t mean it offends others. Grow up! We can’t allow the Marxists to dismantle every aspect of our society. Censorship is how they silence the opposition. Censorship is how they silence the truth. Because they have to. Their world … Read more

Trump administration pushes warrantless surveillance bill, and we must stop it

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This article alleges that the US government is using a hypothetical “drone attack” scenario as an excuse to pass a sweeping surveillance bill: The Trump administration’s preferred legislationuses a sledgehammer approach where a scalpel is required. This is a classic case of the government turning an inch into a mile: The bill also authorizes these … Read more

If Russian hacking is a “direct attack on American democracy”, what was COINTELPRO? An irrelevant fluke to be swept under the rug and forgotten by the general public?

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by Vasilias-Philosophos For those of you who don’t know, the FBI’s COINTELPRO—COunter INTELligenge PROGram—was a program which sought to actively sabotage/discredit a slew of leftist dissident movements, organizations, and leaders using subversive/deceitful/manipulative and extremely illegal, amoral, and anti-democratic tactics. Among others, the dissident movements which were targeted by the FBI included the civil rights movement, the black panthers, … Read more