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Seems like the FDA has its priorities all f*cked up. Where’s the big-monied kratom lobby when we need it? And why doesn’t the media ever talk about this? Probably because big pharma spends millions on ads, and media execs own lots of stock in pharma companies.   ADRs: Prevalence and Incidence The first question healthcare … Read more

by Jesse Pretty strong stuff in this video. Remember the ‘chair throwing’ incident at the Nevada convention that was widely reported? This may be the result of the concentration of the ownership of media and the overturning of the ‘fairness doctrine’ along with the gutting of the FCC. I doubt that MSNBC is worse than Fox News … Read more

by Jesse Colombo A few days ago, Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed, told an attendees at an event at Howard University that Wall Street is “forgetting the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis“: “The shareholders got bailed out. The boards of directors got bailed out. Management got bailed out. So from their perspective, … Read more

https://twitter.com/TAPAlerts/status/986775083971694592 Hmm…I wonder what the protests will be like when Mueller finishes the probe without charging Trump with anything.   h/t GR

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – George Soros’ Open Society Foundations will close their office in Budapest and move their eastern European operations to Berlin, Austria’s Die Presse newspaper reported on Thursday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed Soros, a Hungarian-born U.S. financier, for a host of ills and pushed through legislation cracking down on non-governmental organizations … Read more

When reports claimed that a chemical attack killed 70 civilians in Syria earlier this month, the Trump administration was quick to place the blame on the Syrian government—despite having no evidence—and they claimed that the horror of such an atrocity deserved retaliation in the form of targeted airstrikes. While the United States military maintained that the … Read more

Why is everyone booing her and she’s kicked out for simply asking a question and stating the facts of reality about a real criminal referral? Jesus this is bizzaro world   JB

by Ruby Henley On April 14, 2018, the cream of the crop in law-abiding American citizens rallied together in state capitals across this Country.  Honorable in their endeavor to protect the United State Constitution, Patriots shook hands and spoke out. There was not one incident that occurred in any of the 50 rallies that disturbed … Read more

From ZeroHedge: Exactly one year ago, in its Global Financial Stability report, the IMF issued a stark warning when looking at the soaring level of private sector debt: it found that more than 20% of U.S. corporations are at risk of defaults once interest rates rise, and calculated that the combined assets of firms threatened by default – … Read more

U.S. Pension Fund Collapse Isn’t a Distant Prospect. It Could Come in 5 Years Warnings about looming public pension disasters have regularly cropped up since the 1950s, pointing to problems 25 years or more down the line. To politicians and union leaders, 1  the troubles were someone else’s predicament. Then crisis fatigue set in as the big … Read more

https://sdbullion.com http://www.silverdoctors.com/precious… The yield curve will invert, leading to a shrinking of the money supply, and a recession later this year, Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategy tells Silver Doctors. He says bonds currently are the “most mispriced assets in the history of the world.” He sees a world wide default on debt coming. The … Read more

by Chris Black According to multiple reports on Thursday, it looks like the swamp is finally getting drained, or at least partially. More precisely, we’ve just learned that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been referred by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to the US Attorney’s Office for the District … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Muddling through at depressed levels: Saudis set price. If they decide to hike as below, it will happen: OPEC’s new price hawk Saudi Arabia seeks oil as high as $100 Apr 18 (Reuters) — Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia would be happy to see crude rise to $80 or even $100 a … Read more

from Zero Hedge We can finally put to rest any financial, economic, ideological or simply philosophical debates why stocks have risen over 300% since the March 2009 post-crisis lows of 666, and we have Lloyd Blankfein’s underperformance mea culpa to thank for putting it so simply and succinctly, even a majority of fintwit might actually get it. From … Read more

by stockboardasset The United States Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company, with a $928 million contract to design and prototype new hypersonic missiles. These high tech missiles can travel five times the speed of sound and outmaneuver the most advanced missile defense shields in the world, announced … Read more

via byMike Mish ShedlockSaxo Bank provides an ominous economic outlook in its second quarter report. What follows below are snips from a 35-page report by Saxo Bank. I condensed the report for readability. Any emphasis in italics is mine. Until the final paragraph what follows are snips from various Saxo Bank analysts. End of a Cycle … Read more