Update on Deflating Property Bubbles in Sydney & Melbourne

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Recent home buyers could be facing negative equity”: CoreLogic. In Sydney, Australia’s largest property market and Petri dish for one of the world’s biggest housing bubbles, home prices fell 4.6% in June compared to a year ago, with house prices down 6.2%, and prices of condos (“units” as they’re called) down … Read more

Keynesian Economics Is an Artifact of Cheap Energy

by Charles Hugh-Smith Printing / borrowing money to generate the unsustainable illusion of “growth” sets up the collapse of the entire Keynesian edifice. Of the many delusions of modern economics, perhaps the greatest is that the dominant Keynesian model reflects permanent dynamics of advanced economies. Economics, along with other social sciences, makes an implicit claim that … Read more

New #QAnon Avalanche: Deliriously Delicious Drops Detailing Dirt, Drama and Data of #DS Devolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_rdj9zj8zY #QAnon. Here. Follow. It’s our Bletchley Park, thecentral site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. According to the official historian of British … Read more

Someone Just Killed One of the Last Remaining Jaguars in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJSL5pAs4k One of just three jaguars known to be living in the U.S. was recently killed by poachers. Experts identified the jaguar’s pelt in a recent photo and say it is Yo’oko, a male jaguar (Panthera onca) that was known to roam the Huachuca Mountains in southern Arizona, the Arizona Daily Star reported. http://marygreeley.com/?p=71958

Blogger gave lecture on dealing with trolls, then stabbed to death by a troll!

via BOING BOING: Kenichiro Okamoto, a Japanese blogger and cybercrime consultant, was murdered in a restroom following a lecture he gave in Fukuoka on how to deal with Internet trolls. From The Washington Post: About 15 minutes after he concluded his talk, authorities say a man that had trolled and harassed Okamoto online attacked him in a … Read more

Saudi Arabia Uncovered Expose VIDEO – The Passioante Eye

“An oppressive religious state, showing very little tolerance inside its borders for the unrest and dissent that has found fertile ground elsewhere in the Arab world. http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/saudi-arabia-uncovered With unprecedented access to an intrepid network of young activists, Saudi Arabia Uncovered reveals the simmering dissent inside the secretive regime. It provides a rare look inside the … Read more

Visualizing the World’s Biggest Importers in 2017

by howmuch Imports are the lifeblood of a developed economy, they let consumers enjoy a wide range of products that they may otherwise be unable to find. Think about all the conveniences of modern life that usually come from other countries: avocados, French wine, clothing, iPhones—every room in your house probably has multiple imported items. … Read more

Its Not All About Numbers

by David Panizzutti This article is not so much about economics as it is about life. The two are more entwined than the average person wants to accept. I remember as a young boy a wise older friend told me that “you can not breath without money”, now let me tell you that every cell of … Read more

HEY LIBERALS! THIS WHISTLEBLOWER IS A HERO: Obama’s HHS Refused to Rescue Alien Minors It Placed with Criminals

It’s about time… finally someone does a great job of explaining why President Trump’s plan is 100 times better and safer than Obama’s plan. Hopefully, whistleblower Jason Piccalo will go on TV and start screaming this to the public. I hope he gets on Hannity or Tucker Carlson to show what has happened to many … Read more

BREAKING Germany crisis: Seehofer might resign, Merkel’s OWN party OPPOSES her on migrants. New INTL effort against migrants!

Hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc on Monday gave her a two-week ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching Germany into a political crisis that would also rattle Europe. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer’s CSU party at a meeting unanimously backed his call to give Merkel a fortnight to find a European deal on … Read more

On this day, 242 years ago in Philadelphia, 56 politicians with guts voted in favor of their own death warrant.

By June 1776, the British had taken over Boston, attempted to confiscate the arms of the local militias (leading to Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord). After their defeats at Lexington & Concord, the British determined to pacify Boston by force at the Battle of Bunker Hill. While the British prevailed, … Read more

Why Are Investors Pulling Money Out Of Global Stock Funds At The Fastest Pace Since The Last Financial Crisis?

by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen anything like this since the financial crisis of 2008.  Investors are taking money out of global stock funds at a pace that we haven’t seen in 10 years, and many believe that this is a harbinger of tough times ahead.  Global stocks lost about 10 trillion dollars in value during the … Read more

The New Cold War: Russia, China And The United States Are Feverishly Preparing For Nuclear Conflict

by Michael Snyder While most of the world is focused on the World Cup and other trivial pursuits, the three global superpowers are busy jockeying for nuclear superiority.  Historians will debate the extent to which the first Cold War ever really ended, but everyone pretty much agrees that a new Cold War has now begun.  … Read more

Democrats Are The Only Group Left That Believes The Mainstream Media

In what looks like a validation of the growing public expressions of anger directed at members of the media, a new Axios poll found that nearly all (a staggering 92%) of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believe that mainstream media organizations knowingly report false or misleading stories, at least occasionally. And while Democrats proved to be … Read more