Inflation Expectations Fading As Breakeven Rates Tumble

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via Eric Basmajian Summary: Breakeven rates have come down significantly from the peak several weeks ago. We have forecast the reduction in break-even rates for the past couple of months. As inflation expectations fade, nominal rates will continue to fall. BREAKEVEN RATES On March 13, 2018, I penned a research note to members of EPB Macro Research titled, … Read more

Macro Surprise Indices Are Warning Trouble Ahead

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via jsblokland Macroeconomic surprise indices have become increasingly popular in recent years. To many investors they matter more than the actual macro-economic numbers, which should make macro surprise indices a useful tool for forecasting the direction of financial markets. But, while I do agree with the former, the latter isn’t necessarily true. Surprise indices matter The … Read more

US moves to strip citizenship from war criminals

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SALEM, Ore. – Federal authorities on Wednesday began legal proceedings to strip U.S. citizenship from two Bosnians, including one living in Oregon, for war crimes including executing civilians during that country’s civil war in the 1990s. The move by the U.S. Justice Department comes years after Rasema Handanovic and Edin Dzeko were extradited and later … Read more

Internal Memo Shows Sinclair Threatening Employees to Keep Mouths Shut About ‘Must-Read’ Scripts

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So-called “news stations” are forcing their anchors to read these scripts like actors. We need laws like Canada that prevents this corporate propaganda from being pushed as “news.” They don’t allow this since “a licenser may not broadcast….any false or misleading news.” We need to break up the 6 media monopolies and make it a crime to … Read more

How an extra GPS tracker on a drug dealer’s car unraveled a corrupt Baltimore police force that robbed homeless people and resold confiscated heroin and ecstasy back on the street

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A shocking look into Baltimore’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force, that would routinely rob citizens of money and drugs, then turn around and sell them back on the street. The task force even robbed a homeless man of his money.   Seven of the eight men in the Gun Trace Task Force were arrested March … Read more

For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages.

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https://apnews.com/d716aac4ad744b4cae3c6b13dce12d7e/APNewsBreak:-US-suspects-cellphone-spying-devices-in-DC The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law enforcement agencies — which use such eavesdropping equipment themselves — have been silent on the issue until now. In a March 26 letter to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the Department of Homeland … Read more

Elizabeth Warren Voters Tell Her To Take The DNA Test (The Time Has Come)

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Elizabeth Warren is silent as even her supporters urge her to prove her ridiculous claims of native American lineage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1iXFwuTbq0 I suspect she already took a DNA case to see. If it had been positive for indigenous American genes, she would have published it. Since it was negative, all she can do sidestep and dance. … Read more

Playing for All the Marbles

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Global Plunge Protection Teams must be ordering take-out food; every night is a long one now. The current stocks/bonds game is for all the marbles, by which I mean the status quo now depends on valuations and interest rates remaining near their current levels for the system to function. If interest rates soar … Read more

‘These People Cannot Be Fired’: The Deep State, Explained

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What is the Deep State? Since the moment Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, he’s been met with a resistance, including people working within the government to undermine its leader. Polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that a Deep State exists, and that “it’s secretly manipulating or directing national … Read more