by DCG Tax dollars at work. From NY Post: It’s a loophole big enough to squeeze a pension through. Joe Percoco, the disgraced former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will be able to cash in once again on his time in government and collect his pension — despite three felony convictions on corruption charges. Voters gave judges the … Read more
by Tom McClellan Make me Emperor for a day, and I would compel the FOMC to outsource interest rate policy to the bond market. Why should we pay 12 experts, most with expensive Ivy League PhD degrees, to do what the bond market can do far more efficiently (and cheaply)? This week’s chart compares the 2-year … Read more
by Thinker In this video, Luke gives you the latest breaking news in Harare, Zimbabwe with Jeff Berwick of The Dollar Vigilante. We cover the white farmers, bitcoin cryptocurrency community, the soft coup against Mugabe, the real social economic situation on the ground, hyperinflation, the run on the banks and so much more. Investing in … Read more
Germany Opts Out Of World War III After US Nuclear War “Doomsday Plane” Goes Airborne In Aftermath Of Believed To Be Spetsnaz Takedown Of NATO Warplane By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers As the world’s two superpower countries Russia and the United States continue walking on the edge of the abyss … Read more
by Thinker In the U.S., U.K., Israel, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and China citizens from all these nations live, work, and many own businesses and property in those not their birth nations. So how is it that the people are all getting along and the leaders of these nations are making accusations and dropping bombs … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park returns… The stock markets are in transition from ABB (Always be buying) to ABS (Always be selling). Unfortunately there’s going to be a lot of collateral damage along the way. Even if the markets don’t decide to finally come down now, it’s a certainty that that day is coming soon. So … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Heather Wagenhals joined us again to talk about the FBI scam. Scammers got a hold of the FBI’s identity theft reporting data base. Then they started a sophisticated campaign to convince those already victimized people to disclose financial information and scammed them yet again. The people thought they were communicating with the FBI, … Read more
by Thinker Former FBI Director Comey talking about questionable tapes about the president and golden showers? What happened to integrity? Not in the land filled with pedophiles, liars, and thieves. How do you own someone? Get them in a position they would never be caught in and have it recorded? What would you do to … Read more
By John Murphy JP MORGAN CHASE SUFFERS DOWNSIDE REVERSAL ON FRIDAY… Friday had to be a very discouraging day for investors in bank stocks. After reporting first quarter earnings that were much higher than expected, bank stocks opened higher before plunging in heavy trading. Chart 1 shows JP Morgan Chase (JPM) suffering a big downside reversal (in very … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Konstantin Kosachev, the head of International Affairs for Russia’s Federal Assembly, publicly stated: “There can be only one political assessment: It is a blatant violation of international law and it is an attack on a sovereign state without proper grounds.” Strangely, he is correct. International Law under agreements in the United Nations does not … Read more
Wow he goes off…like OFF I’ve never seen him do anything like this ever. https://youtu.be/c3QftFpihPE AC
He Turned on Us. If you hire a subcontractor to build a bathroom, and he starts building it in a different dimension that you instructed him to … you aren’t “turning on” the subcontractor if you criticize him or even decide to fire him… you are holding him accountable. He made an agreement with you … Read more
via Brad DeLong CRISIS, RINSE, REPEAT: Key economic data from the periods following the 1929 stock-market crash and the 2007-2008 financial crisis suggest that the current recovery has been unnecessarily anemic. If policymakers refuse to heed the lessons of the New Deal era, then the next crisis is destined to be as prolonged as the last. When … Read more
by stockboardasset While Chicago continues to hemorrhage residents for a third consecutive year, a small community 25-miles outside city limits has unleashed an innovative marketing campaign, using comic strips to lure in city dwelling millennials. In a new comic-strip ad campaign, Homewood, Illinois, promotes itself as a “hip, diverse, urban neighborhood that Millennials can afford,” said CityLab. … Read more
by KneelB4Zod! Just wow: Columbia professor Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on Syria https://youtu.be/v8wrp0A2zIE “They sent in the CIA to overthrow Assad.” “We have made a proxy war in Syria it’s killed 500,000 people, displaced 10 million.”
An entertaining view of US foreign policy. One too many “ignore” perhaps, we don’t seem to ignore many. h/t RB
Spoiler: a lot of the money is being funneled into corrupt people’s pockets. California’s high-speed rail project is facing an audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation as costs continue to climb. The inspector general’s audit, announced Thursday, will examine the Federal Railroad Administration’s oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to … Read more
ANNALS OF LEFTWING AUTOPHAGY: #BoycottStarbucks trends on Twitter after video shows arrest of two black men at Philadelphia location. Amid outrage, Starbucks issued a statement online, writing, “We apologize to the two individuals and our customers and are disappointed this led to an arrest.” During a Facebook Live statement uploaded Saturday afternoon, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWSLwHDd3FY Joshua Caplan for the Gateway Pundit reports, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told the Fox Business Network Wednesday that he believes House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision not to seek re-election is closely tied to his underlying presidential ambitions. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/g…