Airbnb Turns to Brussels for Help as Anti-Tourist Backlash Intensifies in Europe

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The trend in its European markets is not Airbnb’s friend. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Airbnb has a big problem on its hands in Europe, its most important market for listings. The region’s bustling tourist destinations are growing increasingly disaffected with tourist rental property platforms as the cons of unfettered tourism … Read more

Boeing, Airbus to lose $39 billion in contracts because of Trump sanctions on Iran

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Boeing and Airbus will lose contracts worth roughly $39 billion to replenish Iran’s aging fleet of commercial planes as part of the Trump administration’s reimposition of sanctions. “The Boeing and Airbus licenses will be revoked,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a group of reporters Tuesday. “The existing licenses will be revoked.” The aircraft sales were … Read more

What is the true benefit to having a credit card that has an annual fee?

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by Tangential_Diversion They usually have significantly better perks that are worth more than the annual fee if you use them correctly and you’re in their targeted demographic. I’ll use the Chase Sapphire Reserve as an example. It’s a rewards card with a $495 annual fee. Some perks are a $300 yearly travel credit, a refund on TSA PreCheck/GlobalEntry, … Read more

Why is T down so much? (52 week low)

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I see two things: Telecom is in a bad stop, Warner deal hopes are weakening. TMUS/S isn’t being received well. Huge reallocating into Bonds with rising yields;competing against T’s yield. I’m beginning to buy a stake in T recently, extremely oversold. I appreciate the dividend, the cash flow, the Biz. With or w/o Time Warner, … Read more

QQQ Rebalancing

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  Was reading the wiki on QQQ and stumbled upon this: The only time the index is to be rebalanced again is if: One company is worth 24% of the index. Those companies with a weighting of at least 4.5% constitute 48% of the index. That latter condition is kind of close to being met, but what … Read more

Forecasting The Next Recession: Updating Our Outlook For Recession Timing

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via  Guggenheim It has been six months since we published Forecasting the Next Recession, which laid out the analytical basis for expecting the next recession to begin in the late-2019 to early-2020 timeframe. With several policy developmentssince then, and based on the evolution of incoming data, we maintain our view that a recession is likely to begin in … Read more

If you only consume media in your native language consider the wealth of information you are missing out on.

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the majority of the world lives in a tiny bubble never even considering the possibility that the world around them can not be understood through their narrow world view. I think most conspiracy theorists consider themselves not part of the ignorant masses however it’s not enough to simply have an open mind if you aren’t … Read more

The Food Pyramid – How the U.S Government continues to be influenced by Agricultural companies

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by adamreddy The American Government started publishing significant dietary guidelines in the 1980s with focus on improving American health. In 1992 the USDA (U.S Department of Agriculture) published the food pyramid – a definitive guide to healthy eating. Looking through the pyramid, there are some things which appear to convey the wrong dietary advice. The food pyramid focused … Read more

False flag events are a staple of human history. Now that the public is evolving, the nature of the false flag is evolving as well

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False Flags & Fake Reality: “False flags” have been going on since before biblical times and are a part of every nation’s policy. Intelligence agencies exist to do little else, they plan and execute false flags to set the course of events. It’s their greatest single tool, and one used most often. This article argues … Read more

Collection of screenshots from official documents by the FBI, CIA, DIA, DoD, and State Dept… MKULTRA, UFOs, Remote Viewing, Illuminati, False Flags & more.

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by Ninjakick666 Album of 100+ screenshots from various CIA, FBI and State Dept. documents… Here’s a bunch of links to various government news sites and below that the FOIA archives… then at the bottom just the UFO stuff from all the .gov resources I could find. Theres a lot of UFO stuff… https://www.federalregister.gov/ https://www.justice.gov/usao/pressreleases https://www.justice.gov/psc/press-room https://oig.justice.gov/press/ … Read more

Rep. Ro Khanna – Legalizing marijuana will create jobs, increase desperately needed tax revenue for state and local governments, 61% of Americans support legalization.

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What is Congress waiting for? With more than 61 percent of the U.S. public in favor of reforming federal cannabis laws, including liberals and conservatives alike, it really does look like it’s just a matter of time before the Reefer Madness camp is finally and forever defeated. Legalizing marijuana will create jobs, increase desperately needed … Read more

Those Cuneiform Tablets Stolen From Iraq…Again: Something is *still* going on with the Baghdad Museum looting story. At a very deep level, this may be related to what is going on in Syria and Iran…

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they’re looking for something. https://gizadeathstar.com/2018/05/those-cuneiform-tablets-stolen-from-iraq-again/ This is the juicy stuff IMO! First, here’s an excerpt from the news report: Hundreds of 4,000 year old tablets that were looted in Iraq and bought by the U.S. company Hobby Lobby seem to hail from a mysterious Sumerian city whose whereabouts are unknown, a U.S. law enforcement agency just … Read more