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by Ruby Henley There is a high probability that Stefan Halper is the spy, who was ‘inside the Trump White House.’ Below is a clip of Stefan Halper speaking to the BBC in 2017. Is the Trump FBI inquiry of Watergate proportions? Stefan Halper, a White House official under Nixon, says it's "moving in that … Read more

The average contract rate on the 30-year fixed will likely end the day as high as 4.875 percent for the highest creditworthy borrowers and 5 percent for the average borrower. Tuesday’s move follows positive economic data in retail sales, suggesting that newly imposed tariffs would not hit sales as hard as expected. The surge in rates … Read more

by Thinker Workers at California-based electric carmaker Tesla are facing an increasingly brutal management regime as the company seeks to ramp up production in preparation for its full-scale entry into the car market. The company is working out production issues with its new lower-priced Model 3, with a production target of 500,000 vehicles in 2018 … Read more

By Harry Dent We’ve been waiting years for our fixed income trade of a decade… Our target’s at the top of the long-term Treasury Bond Channel near 3% on current 10-year yields. And recently, we advised our Boom & Bustsubscribers to buy long-term Treasurys at around 2.99% on the 10-year. Now we’re thinking it could get … Read more

by Richard Rosso The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1EuMvQk3ho https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanic_a… Electric crews are standing by in case ash falling across the Ka’u District triggers power outages. Hawaii Electric Light said a light dusting of ash and moisture on utility insulators could result in electrical short circuits.

by jessefelder A couple of weeks ago Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting known to many as the “Woodstock for Capitalists.” I have never attended (I don’t like crowds) but I’m always curious to know what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have to say at the event. The two tweets below struck me as … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Japan systematically dumps US Treasuries while China hangs on. China increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds, notes, and bills by $11 billion in March to $1.19 trillion, the highest since October last year, according to the Treasury Department’s TIC data released Tuesday afternoon. Thus China is the number one holder … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0-ZFcY9FQ Trump team ready to ‘pressure’ Mueller at probe’s one-year mark Giuliani bristled at the idea that the Mueller probe could last beyond the 2018 midterms, let alone go on for several years more. “I think that’d be absurd,” he told POLITICO. “If we’re talking about the public having some degree of toleration for it … Read more

by Ruby Henley   WOW!  One for the citizens of the world!  Thank you, Senate – you have my heart. Where do we go from here?  Spread the word – there is still hope to save Net Neutrality for the citizens of the Internet. But it gets harder now, and we must speak out.  Next … Read more

https://twitter.com/davidbcollum/status/996174507969843200?s=11 Notes From Underground: The Mother of All Debt Crises Everything in global financial crisis emanates from too much debt being unable to be serviced. The current situation in Argentina is that the state and private sector borrowers won’t be able to pay the INTEREST on its dollar-based loans as the PESO weakens. It takes more domestic currency to … Read more