Were Trade Wars Inevitable?

by Charles Hugh-Smith Trade in which mobile capital is the comparative advantage is a system of Neocolonial exploitation of developing-world nations. Were trade wars inevitable? The answer is yes, due to the imbalances and distortions generated by financialization and central bank stimulus. Gordon Long and I peel the trade-war onion in a new video program, Were Trade … Read more

Retail Investor Bullishness Bites Dust after Huge Trump Spike

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A 39% plunge in three months. But it was spectacular while it lasted. Previously super-enthusiastic retail investors don’t like what they’ve been seeing in the stock market since January. That’s clear from TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index, which dropped another 12% in March, after having plunged 23% in February, the biggest month-over-month … Read more

From the Clinton Email Archive: “The best way to help with Israel with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Assad”

by shadow332 Go to 2.05 It should be obvious to everyone at this point. Now apparently “white supremacists defend Assad”. https://kek.gg/i/4ttxtV.png white supremacists urge Trump not to go to war in Syria Liberals: “GO TO WAR WITH SYRIA CAUSE IT’LL PISS OFF THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS” So this is how they get the political left to … Read more

If the FBI Can Raid the Office of the President’s Attorney Are We Still a Constitutional Republic? Is the raid on Trump’s lawyer related to the push for war with Russia over another “chemical attack”?

This is So beyond the pale! This HAS to STOP! Fire Sessions, Rosenstien & Mueller. This is NOT the way that justice is supposed to happen in this country! The establishment is pissed that the people didn’t vote the way they wanted it, so now they are abusing the authority of the fbi and the … Read more

Hungary Election Also Shows EU’s Days are Numbered

by Martin Armstrong Viktor Orban has clearly won the parliamentary elections in Hungary winning 74.6% of the votes on Sunday in Budapest. His party could take 134 seats in the 199-seat parliament giving it a constitutional two-thirds majority. This is an amazing landslide victory for Orban that no American president has ever reached such a majority. The record is 61.05% … Read more

Tucker Carlson goes on epic rant against war in Syria… ‘We have seen this movie before and know how it ends.’

Tucker Carlson is questioning legitimacy of reported Syrian chemical weapon attacks “All the geniuses tell us that Assad killed those children, but do they really know that? Of course they don’t really know that, they are making it up,” Carlson said during his opening monologue. “They have no real idea what happened. Actually, both sides … Read more

Indicators Are Off The Charts Signaling A Recession

Soros, Rockefellers and Rothschilds join in and begin purchasing cryptocurrency. These central bankers realize that cryptocurrency is going to change the world and they are beginning to purchase them to maintain control.Subprime auto has imploded, we are back to 2008 levels. The richest 1% own over 50% of the wealth. Market message indicates that a … Read more

Chicago Suburb That Banned Firearms is Now Facing HUGE Repercussions

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Indianapolis murder/stabbing suspect in the country illegally was under deportation order

by DCG From WTHR: The man accused of stabbing two others Saturday (March 31st) night is in the country illegally. Christian Ortez, 35, first came into the country illegally from El Salvador in September 2016 near Hidalgo, Texas, according to Nicole Alberico, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Border officers caught him and arrested him immediately, but he was … Read more

Yield Curve Is Entering The Danger Zone

via BBG  When it comes to the Treasury yield curve, going inverted isn’t the “great move” that Tom Cruise boasted about pulling off when piloting his F-14 Tomcat jet in the cult classic movie Top Gun. After widening in early February, the trend has reversed with yields on two-year notes approaching those on 10-year securities again. … Read more

Man Profits With Bitcoin, Loses His Profit In The Alt-Coins, Then Owes The IRS $50K He Doesn’t Have

from Zero Hedge A Reddit user who was “surprised” to learn he owed the IRS roughly $50,000 from his crypto-trading profits – money that he had not set aside when he cashed out his bitcoins at the height of the boom – complained in a viral post that crypto trading “ruined his life.” The alleged trader, who … Read more