Protesters interrupt Chicago Commission vote on Obama center… Library off to rocky start

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Obama Presidential Center vote expected Thursday CHICAGO — The Chicago Plan Commission is expected to vote Thursday on whether to approve the $500 million Obama Presidential Center. Former President Barack Obama hopes to build the center on the South Side, but some in the community are demanding guaranteed benefits before he can do so. Moments after the … Read more

Childbirth rates drop to 30-year low

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via livescience: The number of babies being born in the United States continues to fall, with the birth rate reaching a new record low in 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, about 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S., which is 2 percent lower than … Read more

Big Rates Shock Looks Imminent…

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https://twitter.com/clivemaund/status/996904044307329025?s=11 This chart, which is of a long T-bond proxy. It looks like it is on the point of breaking down from a giant head-&-shoulders top. If it does interest rates will soar…. Too many canaries to ignoreh/t @Nordea pic.twitter.com/4OD1RRPgxW — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 17, 2018 If > R2 3.101 UST10Y, then R3 3.224 is … Read more

Fed Tightening Cycles Coincide With Or Lead To Bursting Of Global Asset Bubbles.

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Fed Tightening Cycles Coincide With Or Lead To Bursting Of Global Asset Bubbles. Is President Trump The Next Hoover? pic.twitter.com/7PyInwq6xY — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 16, 2018 Short-term Treasury yields close at highest levels since '08… 3-mo: 1.92% 6-mo: 2.09% 1-yr: 2.32% 2-yr: 2.58% 3-yr: 2.76% pic.twitter.com/zVCfMCDOOG — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) May 16, 2018 maybe you … Read more

BREAKING: ANTHONY WEINER ELECTRONIC DEVICES SEARCH WARRANT UNSEALED. NEW YORK POST REPORTS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpk_XX5LSU8 Search warrant for Weiner’s electronic devices unsealed https://nypost.com/2018/05/17/search-… But Clinton did visit Putin at his home. At the time, Putin was serving as Russia’s prime minister after spending eight years as its president, from 2000 to 2008. http://www.newsweek.com/clinton-russi…

America’s Long-Term Challenge #2: The Looming Retirement Crisis

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by Simon Black Last week, the financial services giant Northwestern Mutual released new data showing that 1 in 3 Americans has less than $5,000 in retirement savings. It’s an unfortunately familiar story. And Northwestern Mutual’s data is entirely aligned with other research we’ve seen in the past, including our own. The Federal Reserve’s most recent Survey … Read more

President Trump Gets DIRE WARNING from Investigator – The Coup is in Motion!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfWsRxnQA4U Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, Judicial Watch’s Director of Investigations, Chris Farrell told Lou Dobbs Tuesday evening Trump needs to fight like hell because Mueller’s witch hunt is a slow-motion political coup. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/…

Seattle renews contract with Wells Fargo because no other bank wants city’s business

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by DCG Seattle socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant protests Wells Fargo More like no other bank wants to deal with socialist councilmember Kshama Sawant and the attacks on Seattle businesses. From Seattle Times: The city of Seattle will keep banking with Wells Fargo & Co. after it could get no other takers to handle the city’s business. The City Council … Read more

This Graph Shows That No Other Country Competes with the U.S. Military

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by howmuch President Trump is busy implementing his “America First” foreign policy agenda on the world stage. He has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal, scheduled a meeting with North Korea, and rattled American trade partners with threats of tariffs. Amid all these news stories, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that Trump also just signed … Read more

CNN, NYT, ABC News, C-SPAN Take Trump Out of Context to Falsely Suggest He Called Immigrants ‘Animals’

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via mediaite.com: President Donald Trump held a meeting on illegal immigration at the White House on Wednesday and one particular moment went viral… but for all the wrong reasons. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims expressed her frustrations with the federal government to the president regarding the handling of criminal illegal immigrants and cited MS-13 gang members as an example. Responding … Read more

Give Me 5 Minutes and I’ll Prove Why You Must Sell All of Your Stocks and Buy Just THESE 4!

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If it’s not completely clear to everyone at this point: Central banks print billions and billions of dollars. They buy shares or corporate debt. Stocks rise. Institutional investors follow suit. Retail investors tag along. As time goes on, there are fewer and fewer profitable trades, squeezing and narrowing the pathway. Eventually, only a handful of … Read more

Market Timing Beats Time in the Market (At Least Since 1871)

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by portfolioperfection “Everyone agrees that it’s appropriate to divide the space of a portfolio between different asset classes,” i.e., dividing your portfolio between different asset classes (e.g., 60% stocks and 40% bonds). However, it remains controversial to divide the time of your portfolio between different asset classes as market conditions change, also known as market timing. It is an alternative … Read more

Every Day the Fed Allows Bond to Mature in QT, the S&P 500 Falls

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https://twitter.com/northmantrader/status/996452701167812609?s=11 via The Macro Tourist: When Kevin Muir used to trade the S&P 500, he identified how Fed QE buying very directly affected the stock market. Not in some esoteric, debatable, tangential way, either. They pre-announced the days they’d be active in the markets. And huge bids popped up on those days, over and over. … Read more