US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data. The company embroiled in a privacy row has “direct connections” to all major US wireless carriers…

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This is about as big brother as it gets. Anyone want to guess who the biggest customer probably is? We have become slaves to our technology. It’s ingrained in everything we do and it won’t be long before it will be commonly embedded into humans as the elite tech folks push the limits of becoming … Read more

Have Prices and Wages Peaked?

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By Lance Gaitan I write about inflation extensively because it directly affects bond prices. When inflation rises, bond prices fall, and vice-versa. (And, of course, my readers book profits off those price moves via Treasury Profits Accelerator.) Wholesale (producer) prices usually foreshadow what’s to come in consumer prices. If it costs more to produce a gallon of milk, … Read more

LOOK OUT BELOW!!

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by Jim Quinn 30 year mortgage rates are at seven year highs. I refinanced at 3.25% years ago. Now rates are at 4.75% and rising. Remember the housing bubble that burst from 2006 through 2012? Well, home prices nationally are now about 10% higher than the 2005 bubble peak. Meanwhile, real wages have stagnated and … Read more

Some recommended honest Journalists who write about Israel – to counteract the mainstream media propaganda

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by Ian Shilling Jonathan Cook: West’s Failure to Act Will Be Cause of the Next Gaza Massacre https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2018/05/16/wests-failure-to-act-will-be-cause-of-the-next-gaza-massacre/ Blog https://www.jonathan-cook.net/ Norman Finkelstein Explains the Extraordinary Evil That Is Israel https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/05/16/norman-finkelstein-explains-extraordinary-evil-israel/ Blog http://normanfinkelstein.com/ Gilad Atzmon http://www.gilad.co.uk/ Uri Avnery http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/ Uri Avnery is now over 80 years old and used to be a member of the Knesset. He has been mixing with Israeli leaders … Read more

The media crossed a line with these low blows against Ivanka Trump

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xpi2cmzo4Y The Patriot Pulse reports, Leftists attack any woman who steps out of line with their liberal ideology. They think they can bully Ivanka Trump into turning on the president because she’s not a hard-core conservative. But the media crossed a line with these two recent attacks on the First Daughter. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://patriotpulse.net/the-media-cr…

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Blackouts, hyperinflation, hunger: Maduro faces reelection as Venezuela deteriorates.

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Blackouts, hyperinflation, hunger: Maduro faces reelection as Venezuela deteriorates. Since Maduro took over from Hugo Chávez — his mentor, who died in 2013 — Venezuela’s crisis has steadily intensified as a result of lower oil prices, corruption and a socialist system plagued with mismanagement. But as Maduro has sought to further consolidate power in the … Read more

WASHING OUT BAD REGULATION

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If you’ve bought a dishwasher recently, like I have, you’ve probably noticed that you need to run it on the heavy setting to get your dishes clean – and it runs for hours to do so. You can probably guess why – “energy efficiency” regulations from the Department of Energy. However, the law authorizing the … Read more

Mauldin: A Liquidity Crisis Of Biblical Proportions Is Upon Us

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BY JOHN MAULDIN Last week, I mentioned an insightful comment my friend Peter Boockvar—CIO of Bleakley Advisory Group—made at dinner in New York: “We now have credit cycles instead of economic cycles.” That one sentence provoked numerous phone calls and emails, all seeking elaboration. What did Peter mean by that statement? In an old-style economic cycle, recessions … Read more

Can you really make 10% returns yearly?

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by big_deal 8-10% is an accurate historical average rate of return on equities (stocks) over the long term. However, here are some very critical qualifications on these returns: These values are nominal total returns over a period of time with higher average inflation rate, higher average dividend rate, and lower company valuations. The expected returns over … Read more

Acting Assistant Attorney General MIA for Congressional Oversight Hearing with Gowdy

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by Thinker No show because the story isn’t stright that is going to be presented to the American people under oath? Trey Gowdy Gets Pissed and Agrees to SUBPOENA Assistant Attorney General! Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Trey Gowdy cannot believe the acting Assistant Attorney General has not shown up for the Congressional … Read more