What Happened to the Presidential Cycle?

by

by Tom McClellan If this were a “normal” 2nd year of a presidential term, we would now be in a corrective period due to last until just before the mid-term elections.  But as many in the press have noted, we do not have a “normal” presidency, and the market is not tracing out a perfect normal … Read more

BOOM! Rand Paul Just Went Off On An Epic Rant Against The ONE Thing He HATES The Most in DC

by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vj4VKfVko Brock Simmons for the Gateway Pundit reports, Known for his fantastic Twitter tirades, in particular, his annual Festivus tweets, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul once again uses Twitter to demonstrate the outrageous waste his staff has uncovered in the current budget being debated on the Senate floor. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/…

Millennials haven’t saved two years’ salary — they’ve saved one week’s worth

by

via Rex Nutting: If you saw that story on MarketWatch by my colleague Alessandra Malito that said you should save double your annual salary by the time you’re 35 for your retirement, you might be wondering along with half of Twitter if that’s even possible. What with the stagnant wages, paying the rent, saving up for a house … Read more

Wall Street Vs Main Street

by

by Jim Quinn Interesting charts. In 2007, prior to the Wall Street created worldwide financial collapse, the Fed Funds rate was 5.25% and credit card interest rates were 15%. The Fed then provided free money to their Wall Street bank owners with a Fed Funds rate of 0% for the next 6 years. But your … Read more

Have We All Been Silenced?

by

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Leonard Misonne Waterloo Place, London 1899  Let me start by saying I have nothing against the English newspaper The Guardian. They publish some good things, on a wide range of topics. But they also produce some real stinkers. And lately they seem to publish quite a few of those. On Wednesday there was an … Read more

Trump’s Fed Nominee Advocated Abolishing Cash

by

By Barry Donegan Trump Federal Reserve Board of Governors nominee Marvin Goodfriend reportedly said in 2016 that cash should be phased out of circulation so the Fed can charge negative interest rates and force consumers to pay fees to keep money in savings accounts. Trump Federal Reserve Board of Governors nominee Marvin Goodfriend reportedly advocated … Read more

TreasuryDirect Now Pays 30x More Than Your Bank Savings Account

by

by Adam Taggart Now get a MUCH higher return on your cash (for less risk) TreasuryDirect.gov Six months ago, I alerted readers to the very attractive benefits that the TreasuryDirect program offers to investors who are defensively sitting on cash right now. Since then, those benefits have continued to improve. Substantially. Back in November, by holding extremely … Read more

Democrat blue wave collapsing Mueller investigation backfiring Dem Advantage in Generic Ballot Hits New Low

by

Big Blue Bellyflop: Dem Advantage in Generic Ballot Hits New Low For the very first time since April of 2017, when Real Clear Politics first started monitoring the average, the Democrat advantage in the generic ballot has dipped below 5 percent, to just 4.7 percent. Until this week, Democrats enjoyed a steady average of a … Read more

URANUS IN TAURUS: GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS 2018 – 2026

by

by William Stickevers On May 15th, 2018, Uranus, the planet of revolution, shocks, and unforeseen change, entered Taurus, the sign which rules money, staying there until April 26th, 2026. Traditionally, Taurus rules banks and private and public financial institutions. During the previous Uranus in Taurus period (1934 – 1941), massive banking failures across the nation required … Read more

Why Are So Many People Moving Out Of California?

by

by Michael Snyder In recent years, the number of people moving away from the state of California has greatly outnumbered the number of people moving into the state.  Reasons for the mass exodus include rising crime, the worst traffic in the western world, a growing homelessness epidemic, wildfires, earthquakes and crazy politicians that do some … Read more

What You Need to Know About CFD Trading

by

“You can’t reach success in investment if you don’t think independently” Warren Buffet The financial market is a volatile and challenging avenue to step foot in. If you have knowledge of the appropriate methods and instruments, you can go on to make enormous amounts of money. On the contrary, being unaware of the basics can … Read more

Did Texas School Shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis Have Links To Antifa Or Was He Just Copying Columbine?

by

by Michael Snyder Not again.  Yet another mass school shooting in America is making headlines all over the world, and this is another case in which the warning signs were there well ahead of time.  Dimitrios Pagourtzis had been wearing a trenchcoat to school all year, he had posted violent and disturbing messages on social … Read more