Americans are angry! Is it helping?

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by Fabius Maximus Summary: I am on the road this week, moving from the San Francisco Bay Area to make a new start in the Heartland. Posts will be brief, appearing irregularly. Let’s start with an addition to the “smackdowns page” (listing my mistakes). A fake but good quote! “Anger is easy. Anger at the right … Read more

Danielle Park – Banks, Robots Taking Jobs

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Talk Digital Network, Released on 7/14/18 Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling Dynamite: An insider’s wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts,” as well as a popular daily financial blog: http://www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney … Read more

Anonymous San Franciscan’s full page ad warns residents to “watch your backs” because city can’t do anything about homeless crisis

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by DCG Truth. From Yahoo (via Business Insider): An anonymous resident of San Francisco placed a full-page ad San Francisco Chronicle Friday to draw attention to the city’s homelessness crisis after an alleged experience with a scissors-wielding homeless man in a downtown cafe left her feeling “horrified.” The woman detailed her account in the ad, titled “Watch your … Read more

New Illinois program automatically deducts $ from workers’ accounts, put it in retirement accounts

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A new state program will automatically deduct money from the paychecks of about 1.2 million Illinois residents for retirement savings. The move could reduce the use of food stamps, Medicaid and other publicly funded social programs, said Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs. Illinois Secure Choice is being phased in more than three … Read more

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…