U.S. Consumers On An Unprecedented Debt Binge As Credit Card Debt Soars To An All-Time Record High

by Michael Snyder Americans are on an absolutely spectacular debt binge.  Does this mean that the economy is getting better, or does this mean that U.S. consumers are totally tapped out and are relying on borrowed money to make it from month to month?  On Monday, the Federal Reserve announced that total consumer credit in … Read more

Liberals Are Freaking Out About The Nomination Of Brett Kavanaugh, But It Is Conservatives That Should Be Concerned

by Michael Snyder The weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth has begun on the left, but the truth is that Donald Trump could have nominated someone far more conservative on Monday night.  Over the next several months there will be endless protests in Washington D.C. as liberals moan and groan about “the end of our … Read more

The Real Collusion: If Russia Did ‘Hack Our Elections’ In 2016, They Did So With The Blessing Of President Barack Obama

by Geoffrey Grider “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.’ ‘I understand. I will transmit the information to Vladimir and I stand with you, President Obama” In 2018, the fake news media is absolutely obsessed with trying to prove that presidential candidate Donald Trump ‘colluded with Russia’ to affect the outcome … Read more

Abedin Emails Show Clinton Foundation-State Department Haiti Links.

by TFittonJW Abedin Emails Show Clinton Foundation-State Department Haiti Links. https://t.co/uQGhab3gWN — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 9, 2018 Judicial Watch herculean efforts bore more fruit. Interesting in light of the current crisis: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-huma-abedin-emails-reveal-additional-instances-clinton-sending-receiving-classified-emails-unsecure-server/

6 Million Bitcoins Are Lost or Stolen, Could Scarcity Problems Eventually Push Price Higher?

by stockboardasset At the Building on Bitcoin (Twitter hashtag #BuildingOnBitcoin) conference last week in Lisboa, Portugal, Jameson Lopp, a former engineer at BitGo and engineer at CasaHODL, revealed on stage that 4 million Bitcoins are lost and about 2 million Bitcoins have been stolen. An estimated 4m BTC lost, 2m BTC stolen. @lopp at #BuildingOnBitcoin pic.twitter.com/xsXayfKiaP — Willy Woo … Read more

Helms & Gray: Real Estate Investing 101

by Adam Taggart We talk a lot on this site about the wisdom of owning tangible assets. And we’ve decided it’s time to start focusing more intently on educating our readers how to invest in the largest tangible asset market of all: real estate. The global real estate market currently stands at over $200 trillion. This … Read more

Glenn Greenwald: MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics. It Encourages and Rewards Them.

via theintercept: DURING THE 2016 primary and general election campaigns, various MSNBC hosts were openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton. One of the network’s programs featured Malcolm Nance (pictured above), whose background is quite sketchy but is presented by the cable network (and now by NBC News) as an “intelligence expert” and former intelligence officer for the U.S. Navy. On … Read more

Another Drawback to the Housing Bubble

By Harry Dent I’ve been ranting for weeks now about it… People don’t understand that sky-high home prices are bad for countries, cities, businesses, and consumers. And only the 62% of people who already own homes are feeling the “bliss” of the bubble. They’re the ones who want prices to keep going up so they … Read more

Keith Weiner: We Are Headed To A Monetary Reset (Which Is Not A Good Thing)

by Keith Weiner of Monetary Metals Before it collapsed, the city of Rome had a population greater than 1,000,000 people. That was an extraordinary accomplishment in the ancient world, made possible by many innovative technologies and the organization of the greatest civilization that the world had ever seen. Such an incredible urban population depended on capital accumulated over … Read more

Texas earthquake history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpiPgYLBlk0 Almost all of the earthquakes in Texas have been caused by one of two sources. The major source is relief of tectonic stress along fault lines. These are most common in the Rio Grande rift belt, the Panhandle, the Ouachita Belt, and the Coastal Plain. Small earthquakes have also been attributed to well injections … Read more