New poll spells doom for Democrats’ dreams of a blue wave: Three Senate Democrats are running behind their Republican challengers — leaving Democrats worried about the fall… Poll: Most ‘better off financially’ under Trump than Obama.

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WORRIES AT SALON: New poll spells doom for Democrats’ dreams of a blue wave: Three Senate Democrats are running behind their Republican challengers — leaving Democrats worried about the fall.   With the upcoming midterm elections inching closer, the Democrats’ odds of flipping the Senate are looking weaker and weaker, thereby increasing the pressure to secure the House in order … Read more

What Happens When Democrats Run Your State?

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Here’s What Happens When Democrats Run Your State Government. Examining How the Left ruined California Video clips used from the videos linked below the YouTube video at link:   HEADLINES FROM 2009: Socialism Isn’t the Future of the Democratic Party – It’s Their Present. (Classical reference in headline.)   h/t ND

What IBM Said about the IT Chaos at UK Bank TSB and Owner Sabadell, Now in its 12th Week

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Contracted to fix the fiasco, IBM estimates costs at $1.25 billion: sources. There’s even talk of divorce, after just 3 years of corporate marriage. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. As the blame game intensifies over beleaguered UK lender TSB’s never-ending IT nightmare upgrade, now in its 12th week, relations between the bank’s … Read more

Merrill Lynch’s Private Clients Still Hold Extremely Low Levels Of Cash And … … Run High-Beta Portfolios…. Margin Debt Is Starting To Look Like A Bitcoin Chart

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Merrill Lynch’s private clients still hold extremely low levels of cash and … … run high-beta portfolios. Buybacks Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft together this year are responsible for 71% of S&P 500 returns and for 78% of Nasdaq 100 returns. https://t.co/Ju908N41UZ pic.twitter.com/ItOVz7r828 — Trevor Noren (@trevornoren) July 10, 2018 MARGIN #DEBT IS STARTING TO LOOK … Read more

Have you noticed all the Finance media folks who 6 months ago told you Federal Reserve would never let curve invert now claiming an inverted yield curve will be meaningless this time… thats a bigger lie than SUBPRIME IS CONTAINED

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https://twitter.com/DividendMaster/status/1016744817051697152 What Happens Next? https://t.co/dy0g4zGVgL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 10, 2018 Harley Bassman: "The Yield Curve will not invert until near the December FOMC meeting" — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 10, 2018 Fed’s Bullard: Inverting Yield Curve ‘Key Near-Term Risk’ Officials have been split over how to interpret shift, which has often signaled short-term economic worry … Read more

‘Laugh so as Not to Cry’ Dept: The Comically Overpromised Pensions of Illinois

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via wirepoints: One graphic perfectly captures the absurdity of Illinois pensions over the past three decades. It’s what Justice Samuel Alito described as Illinois’ “generous public-employee retirement packages” when writing for the majority in the Janus v. AFSCME decision. “Illinois’ pension funds are underfunded by $129 billion as a result of generous public-employee retirement packages” he wrote. … Read more

President Trump Has Pardoned Dwight And Steven Hammond – They Have Just Walked Out Into The Sunshine As Free Men.

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by Ruby Henley Dwight and Steven Hammond were just pardoned by President Trump in an act of honor and compassion, bringing this Country closer to the truth.  No doubt the Deep State is in an uproar, but let them roar to the mighty heavens! The reasoning behind the incarceration of Dwight Hammond Jr. and his … Read more

Rising Wages = Shrinking Corporate Profit Margins … And Falling Stock Prices?

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by John Rubino Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a couple of charts that illustrate a relationship that’s not getting much media attention these days: The fact that tightening labor markets are forcing companies to raise wages, in the process squeezing their own profit margins. Historically this margin compression has been either a cause of or contributor to … Read more

TradeWar chart! S&P 500 Index future reverses gains as #Trump is said to release a list of an additional $200 billion in Chinese products to be hit with #tariffs. Everyone who bought the dip in cash session was wiped out in minutes

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#TradeWar chart! S&P 500 Index future reverses gains as #Trump is said to release a list of an additional $200 billion in Chinese products to be hit with #tariffs. Everyone who bought the dip in cash session was wiped out in minutes — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 10, 2018 US Equity Futures Tumble As US Readies … Read more

What’s About To Hit US Shores Will Knock Us All Out Cold—What Cost Are You Willing To Pay?

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For More Information See: https://www.fairus.org/issue/publicat… http://www.limitstogrowth.org/article… http://ww.rrojasdatabank.info/HDRP_2010_40.pdfhttp://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.454/sweden-to-become-a-third-world-country-by-2030-according-to-un.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/… http://wjla.com/news/inside-your-worl…

BIG Trouble For The Stock Market Buyback Bubble As We Haven’t Seen This Since 2007!

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by Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen of World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the continuation of stock buybacks in the markets as an act of desperation. The problem with that is, despite vast amounts of massive stock buybacks, share prices aren’t budging. We’ve seen this wavy sentiment for some time now that … Read more

Monsanto ‘bullied scientists’ and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court: “Monsanto has specifically gone out of its way to bully and to fight independent researchers…they fought science.”

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A lawyer recently had the courage to state what conspiracy researchers have been shouting from the rooftops for decades: Monsanto is anti-science and anti-humanity. The case is significant in part because the judge has allowed Johnson’s lawyers to present scientific arguments. The suit centers on glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, which Monsanto began … Read more

CIA-Linked Military Contractor Used Arizona “Black Site” to Secretly Jail Dozens of Migrant Children

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A major U.S. military and CIA contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets, according to a new investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Reveal learned about what some are calling the “black site” for migrant … Read more

Andrew Bridgen formally requests a vote of no confidence in Theresa May’s leadership: “The negotiations with the European Union appear to have deteriorated into a state of complete capitulation.”

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https://twitter.com/JackBMontgomery/status/1016661974367834112 Theresa May NO CONFIDENCE challenge BEGINS: ‘You have INSULTED the British people’ A TORY backbencher has submitted a furious letter of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May in which he accuses her of attempting to dupe the British electorate and of insulting their intelligence. In a letter to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of … Read more

Chart of the century gives gloomy market outlook

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From Rich Miller and Vince Golle at Bloomberg: A multi-colored graphic that’s made the rounds at the Federal Reserve hints at what Chairman Jerome Powell could face if President Donald Trump succeeds in throwing globalization into reverse: Higher prices for many goods and potentially faster inflation. Plugged as possibly the chart of the century by economist … Read more