Shopping for an Ecommerce Platform? Be Choosy!

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Ecommerce is growing approximately 23 percent each year. Yet nearly half (46 percent) of small businesses in the U.S. do not yet have a website. What is the most important decision you’ll make when you’re establishing an ecommerce store? Well, setting your product lineup is certainly important as it dictates the very nature of your … Read more

Morgan Stanley Says We’re In A Bear Market But Investors Just Don’t Realize It Yet

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via @tomwfranck “I think we’re in a rolling bear market,” said Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist. “It’s fooling everybody at the index level, but there’s a lot of pain out there.” The strategist’s comment came as the S&P 500 fell 0.3 percent and the Dow Jones industrial average slipped nearly 1.2 percent. The most bearish strategist tracked … Read more

Rising Interest Rates THREATEN Canadian Housing Bubbles! – This Won’t End Well

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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the risks the Canadian housing market are seeing as the bubble continues to gain pressure all while interest rates rise. Prices have been rising dramatically in many local housing markets throughout Canada to a level that cannot sustain itself. In recent months, the rallies … Read more

Massive Genetic Study Reveals 90 Percent Of Earth’s Animals Appeared At The Same Time

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Landmark new research that involves analyzing millions of DNA barcodes has debunked much about what we know today about the evolution of species. In a massive genetic study, senior research associate at the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University Mark Stoeckle and University of Basel geneticist David Thaler discovered that virtually 90 percent … Read more

Democrat New York Attorney General: Let’s Prosecute People Twice For The Same Crime

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On Thursday, after news broke that President Trump had pardoned Dinesh D’Souza for his campaign finance violations, the New York Attorney General’s office immediately tweeted out that they’d like to pass a state law to unjustifiably jail those who had been pardoned for federal crimes. In fact, they’d like to violate the constitutional prohibition on … Read more

US warns of ability to take down Chinese artificial islands in The South China Sea

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The Pentagon on Thursday ratcheted up rhetoric about China’s militarization of islands in the South China Sea, even as the Trump administration presses China for cooperation on North Korea. When asked by a reporter about the ability of the US to “blow apart” one of China’s controversial man-made islands, Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, director of … Read more

Sears – Stock down 18%+ so far today… Another 63 stores to be closed

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https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/shld?mod=MW_story_quote Here’s the list of 63 stores Sears is closing in the ‘near future,’ and there are more coming Sears* 10001 N. Metro Parkway West Phoenix Arizona Sears 100 S. Puente Hills Mall City of Industry California Kmart 910 North China Lake Blvd. Ridgecrest California Kmart 9881 W. 58th Ave. Arvada Colorado Sears 320 Towne … Read more

Visa DOWN: Millions affected as ‘service disruption’ blocks payments across UK and EUROPE

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VISA has been hit by a “service disruption” which is blocking payments across Europe – with one frustrated customer comparing it to “the apocalypse”. Others described scenes of “bedlam” in supermarkets. Paymentsense, an organisation which offers card facilities to small and medium-sized companies, confirmed the issue was affecting businesses across the UK. They Tweeted: “There … Read more

New Jersey Reintroduces Obamacare Individual mandate Tax

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via NJ.com: Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed a law preserving a critical yet controversial part of the Affordable Care Act that President Donald Trump‘s administration repealed last year. One of the laws creates a statewide individual mandate, which will require all New Jerseyans who don’t have health coverage through a government program like Medicare or their jobs to buy a policy, … Read more

How to Avoid 30 Years of College Loan Debt

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by FS Paying Back College Loans Student debt has topped $1.5 trillion in the US, and many are concerned about their ability to both pay for college and cope with loans after graduation. But it isn’t as dire as some imagine. If a person’s total debt at graduation is less than their starting salary, they … Read more

Why Silicon Valley Might Be the Next Enron

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BY JOHN MAULDIN I recently released a series of articles about the looming crisis I call “the Train Wreck”, which received a lot of attention and comments. Some of my readers view this crisis as being a repeat of the 2008 fiasco. That’s partly right. We will have a painful economic and market downturn, but the causes will be … Read more

Mueller Investigation Started by Fraud, Roseanne Dangerous, Credit Crisis Coming

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The Mueller investigation into Russia colluding with the Trump campaign was started with FBI paid spies. Congressman Trey Gowdy calls them “informants,” but other top former federal prosecutors call them spies that were hired to plant phony evidence to try and get Trump kicked out of office. Roseanne Barr was fired from her show, and … Read more