Monetization Trumps Fundamentals

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via Econimica  When I’m wrong, it’s best to just admit it. I thought the market would be tanking soon into another ’00 or ’09 like collapse based on what I anticipated banks would be doing with their excess reserves. I believed the process of the Fed reducing its balance sheet coupled with rising interest paid on … Read more

THE CRAZY LEFT MIGHT BE SMALLER THAN IT SEEMS: For decades, the same group has been turning up over and over again–often with the same individuals and usually with the same lawyers.

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Here’s what’s new this week: A Sacramento County Superior Court Judge declined to drop felony charges against a leader of the so-called “Antifa.” The individual—47-year-old Yvette Felarca–was involved in a riot between approximately 300 Antifa types and 30 Alt-Right types in Sacramento in 2016. At that event, she was caught on video punching out one of the attendees. Unlike … Read more

Eleven Months Into Early Retirement

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by jasonlong1212 Model: I wish to maintain a portfolio that began in June 2017 at $1,025,772. My maximum withdrawal rate is 3% of each year’s starting balance, provided that the portfolio remains above $1M. Should the portfolio drop below $1M, I will lock back into a maximum $2500 per month ($30k per year) guardrail withdrawal … Read more

Why I Think the Stock Market Cannot Crash in 2018… But…

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But the crash-insurance policy is a one-time deal. And then what? The 85% of S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings so far disclosed they’d bought back $158 billion of their own shares in Q1, according to the Wall Street Journal. The quarterly record of $164 billion was set in Q1 2016. … Read more

Beating Goliath: A Small College’s Endowment Manager Beat Harvard With Index Funds

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by andthenisawtheblood Article link. Full Text: From his home office in Charlotte, one of the most successful investors in higher education plies his trade in blissful obscurity. Bill Abt employs no stable of hotshot bond traders. He doesn’t dabble in the fanciest Silicon Valley venture capital funds, hedge funds, or the latest computer-driven brainchildren of … Read more

MSM Attempting To Cover Up Latest Islamic Terror Knife Attack

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVHOTuxUQJA   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UJnd9vHo6U It’s being reported that the suspect behind a knife attack in Paris on Saturday was viewed by French intelligence as a possible threat to national security. The man, who’s thought to have been born in the Russian republic of Chechnya, was shot dead after he killed a passer-by in the city’s Opera … Read more

Death in Paris, a Eurovision protest, & keeping the money of the rich out of the hands of Government.

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by John Ward Another Sunday, another nutter to add to the list of reasons why Sadiq Khan says Britain has “an Islamophobia issue”. However, rather inconveniently for Mayor Khan, the attack took place in Paris. Again. Innocent people out on a Saturday night in the Opéra quarter (a smart-to-bohemian area I know very well in the … Read more

Iran Now Says it Will Start Releasing Names of Western Politicians That Took Bribes to Sign the Iran Deal if they Don’t Relax Economic Pressure of Iran.

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by SuperCharged2000 The quote. https://i.redd.it/yzu26w7myhx01.png Iran’s currency plunges after US pulls out of nuclear deal https://nypost.com/2018/05/09/irans-currency-plunges-after-us-pulls-out-of-nuclear-deal/ John Kerry’s Stealth Lobbying Backfired, Helped Kill The Iran Deal http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/08/white-house-john-kerry-stealth-lobbying-iran-deal/ Kerry’s daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national & physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was … Read more

Modern Slavery – Fantasy of Freedom

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A demonstration that brilliantly shows the true face of our reality— we are all wage slaves living under the illusion of freedom. Modern Slavery: Fantasy of Freedom (Jones Plantation) Mr. Jones owned a cotton plantation and many slaves. One day he was talking to the owner of the plantation next to his, and Mr. Jones … Read more

Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister suggest that her government may be preparing to hand him over to British and then American authorities.

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Assange, who has heroically fought to expose criminal conspiracies by imperialist war mongers, is being threatened with extradition to the US. If that happens, he faces criminal prosecution and even execution for his role in revealing the US government’s secrets. via wsws.org: Julian Assange is in immense danger. Remarks made this week by Ecuador’s foreign minister … Read more