THE END OF PLASTIC STRAWS – McDonalds Leads The Way & Will No Longer Supply Plastic Straws

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8z1NwwTGH8 company announced it would adopt paper straws at all of its U.K. locations this year. It’s not known at this time what material McDonald’s will use for its alternate straws in America, but paper seems to be the option of choice for food chains ready to ditch plastic straws. Plastic straws have come under … Read more

BTFD (Buy The Dip) philosophy

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by cwwmbm So, I’ve been doing some thinking that it would be nice to see some stats behind BTFD mentality. For that, the formalized metrics would have to be established of: What is the “dip”? When do you exit to avoid being in the future dip? What’s the performance like? Obviously, the stats would have … Read more

Unhinged Leftists Act Outraged Over Obama’s Detention Centers (VIDEO)

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by Chris Black The American left and their lapdog mainstream media lackeys are totally unhinged these days, bursting with outrage over President Trump’s alleged Nazi-styled detention centers/concentration camps for illegal immigrants’ children. There’s a slight problem with the left’s virtue signaling: all those Auschwitz-like detention centers, where illegals’ kids receive free healthcare, free shelter, free … Read more

If Deutsche Bank Stock Price Hits In The Single Digits On The US Market, It Will Be Game Over

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If Deutsche Bank stock price hits in the SINGLE digits on the US market, it will be game over. as of now it is below 11.00, $10.90 to be exact https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/db If $db price goes below $10 many funds have rules that would require the stock’s liquidation. This move has been a few years in the making … Read more

Most Notably Zero-Interest Rates Following The 2008-09 Financial Crisis Has Set The Stage For The Mother Of All Financial Disasters.

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Doug Noland: The Stage Set Is for the Mother of All Financial Disasters U.S. Home Prices at Least Affordable Level Since Q3 2008 (Home prices rising faster than wages in 64 percent of local markets) Yesterday, I discussed how the median price YoY on existing home sales is almost 2 times average hourly earnings growth, a … Read more

Definition of Free Trade = Gov’t is Free to Change the Definition to Freely Get Revenue

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by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: I live in Alberta, Canada and for years as a sign maker I had to order materials from the United States. I can assure you that the problems you mention are no different than the problems we encounter when buying American products: tariffs; customs duties etc. and as well paying in $US which really hikes our prices. We … Read more

Switzerland Reject “Real Money” Proposal to Eliminate Banks from Creating Electronic Money by Lending

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by Martin Armstrong In Switzerland, we get to see how people who are really clueless about how the economy works still manage to get outrageous referendums on the ballot. A radical plan to transform Switzerland’s financial landscape was rejected, thank God, which would have barred commercial banks from electronically creating money when they lend. These people have … Read more

States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules

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States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/states-can-require-internet-tax-collection-supreme-court-rules-jiomtl5c Text in the article: The U.S. Supreme Court freed states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in sales taxes from internet retailers that don’t currently charge tax to their customers. Siding with states and traditional retailers on a 5-4 vote, the court overturned … Read more

Existing Home Sales Slump As Housing Affordability Is Now Becoming A Crisis

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from Zero Hedge Following a disappointing April for home sales data, and weakness in May’s building permits data, our fiorst glance at May sales suggests all is not well. Existing home sales slipped 0.4% MoM (and were revised lower in April), well below expectations o a 1.1% rebound. This dropped the Existing Home Sales SAAR to 5.43mm – … Read more

Earnings Estimates – The Fade Begins (And ‘X’ Marks The Accounting Magic Spot)

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, With roughly 98% of the S&P 500 having reported earnings, as of mid-June, we can take a closer look at the results through the 1st quarter of the year. During the most recent reported period, 12-month operating earnings per share rose from $33.85 per share in Q4-2017 to $36.43 which translates into … Read more

The Truth Is Now Perfectly Clear: They Kill Our Money, Our Innocence And Our Children

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Stefan Verstappen interviewed by Sean of SGTreport Through the lens of history the TRUTH has become perfectly clear: The enemies of humanity have usurped our monetary system, our education system, our media and our government. Now they are actively destroying our culture, innocence and – quite literally – our children. They have amassed so much power, they can … Read more

Bombshell: Obama’s Cyber Chief: Susan Rice Gave ‘Stand Down’ Order In Response To Russian Meddling

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Former President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity czar confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice told him to “stand down” in response to Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Michael Daniel, whose official title was “cybersecurity coordinator,” confirmed the stand-down order during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing held to review the … Read more

Why are these children being moved around secretively in the middle of the night in NYC?

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EXCLUSIVE: Children from the southern border are being brought to NYC after being separated from their families.Overnight, @joshrobin captured video of unusual activity at a foster agency in East Harlem. #MorningsOn1 pic.twitter.com/WhiN27wb5T — Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) June 20, 2018 via huffintonpost: Children who were separated from their families crossing the U.S. border were brought … Read more