Soros Foundation Leaving Hungary

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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

By US Standards, America Should’ve Been Bombed for What Happened in Texas, 25 Years Ago Today

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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

The Core Right To Self-Defense Is Under Attack – US Gun And Taser Laws – Europe’s Knife Laws.

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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

U.S. Pension Fund Collapse Isn’t a Distant Prospect, America Will Be In Worse Fiscal Shape Than Italy, Mozambique And Burundi By 2023…

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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

Worldwide Debt Default – Michael Pento

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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

Draining the Swamp Commences: Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe Referred by DOJ for Criminal Prosecution

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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

Can’t Misconstrue Blankfein’s Words: “Central Banks Around The World Are Buying All The Risky Assets”

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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

Air Force Awards $1 Billion Contract For ‘Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon’

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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

You’ll Be Shocked to See the Deductions You’ve Lost Under the New Tax Bill

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BY JOHN MAULDIN The Republican Congress had to scramble to find additional sources of revenue in order to make up tax reductions for corporation and lower tier income groups. And they found some of that revenue by taking away deductions. There are literally scores of smaller deductions that you were previously able to itemize that will not … Read more

The clearest example of why legal weed is a bad investment — Oregon farmer’s grew 3x the amount that whole state smoked

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by unfixablesteve It’s literally a weed and grows like one. A recent Sunday afternoon at the Bridge City Collective cannabis shop in North Portland saw a steady flow of customers. Little wonder: A gram of weed was selling for less than the price of a glass of wine. The $4 and $5 grams enticed Scotty … Read more

The Moment When Stocks Figure Out That Soaring Yields Are Not Good

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$SPX cannot handle soaring UST10Y @ 2.911 pic.twitter.com/O1Qqp3BoUt — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 19, 2018 the moment when $SPX figures out that soaring yields are not good pic.twitter.com/wzkXguRSxI — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 19, 2018 The UST10Y looks like it wants to explode higher pic.twitter.com/4UqjkhCzJX — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 19, 2018 Glancing at the platform, it seems … Read more

SHOCK: PEAK S&P500 P/E MULTIPLE?

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via the MacroTourist Let’s talk earnings for a bit. Specifically, how the 2017 tax cut affected S&P 500 earnings. We all know the story. America’s corporate tax rate was uncompetitive and created distortions in the economy that prevented companies from investing in the U.S. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was designed to level … Read more

Over 95% Of World’s Population Breathing Dangerously Polluted Air, Says New Report

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by stockboardasset Most of the world’s population resides in regions where air quality contains life-threatening pollutants. An estimated 95 percent of people are breathing unhealthy air where ambient (outdoor) fine particulate matter concentrations (soot particles) surpass the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guideline of 10 µg/m3, a new report has discovered. Almost 60 percent of the world’s population … Read more