Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter And states need it! Tax day is approaching, and the gnashing of teeth is spreading across the nation. But there is one tax that people love to pay voluntarily – and have a huge amount of fun and excitement doing so: the lottery. Playing the lottery is a special tax for … Read more
by Dana Lyons Long-term interest rates are facing a potentially key test on their path to higher levels. Everyone knows that U.S. interest rates have been in a secular downtrend since the early 1980’s. As a result of action taken during the financial crisis, that downtrend accelerated, creating an “extraordinarily low-rate” regime. As we noted at … Read more
by visualcapitalist Today’s chart is best viewed full-screen. Explore the high resolution version by clicking here. Can money buy you happiness? It’s a longstanding question that has many different answers, depending on who you ask. Today’s chart approaches this fundamental question from a data-driven perspective, and it provides one potential solution: money does buy some happiness, but only to … Read more
The British and American intelligence agencies/governments can not be trusted…especially when making dangerous accusations against other countries without providing any tangible evidence. German politicians question US-led campaign against Russia: It is “not so long ago that the British and American governments lied to the entire world: intentionally and consciously lied to justify the attack on Iraq.” … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AasMrX4Xaoc Comey, Brennan, and McDonough were the “highest-ranking officials at the FBI, CIA and White House” and were working in concert to ensure an investigation was initiated, congressional members told this report https://saraacarter.com/new-documents… Documents suggest possible coordination between CIA, FBI, Obama WH and Dem officials early in Trump-Russia probe: investigators http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8S4GBJWVA Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, On Wednesday afternoon, Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced his office will be reviewing the FBI and DOJ’s procedures ‘related to a certain U.S. person.’ Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/b…
by Thinker When a man who has a basement full of baby skulls, a throne room with a serpents face and the carving of a nuclear apocalypse says there isn’t a hell, could it be because the place where he lives seems to represent that? * This story has been updated to include a statement … Read more
America’s three largest banks, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, have seen a 180 percent increase in deposits during the past decade, for a total of over 2.4 trillion… Too Big To Fail Banks: They Continue To Get Bigger and Bigger – Top 3 Banks control majority of Americans Wealth The friendly neighborhood bank is … Read more
by Jesse “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down their life for their friends. You are my friends if you do what I command… And this is my commandment— love one another.” John 15:13,17 Stocks managed to end the first quarter in very quiet trading with an afternoon rally. Oh, well done. … Read more
by sundance Curious timing. One day after the Department of Justice announced felony charges against FBI Agent Terry J. Albury for leaking confidential information to the media, fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe launches a legal defense fund. (Reuters Story Link) Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and DAG Rod Rosenstein on the recommendation from the FBI Office … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlf5nzK79BI Well then…let’s send all these communist loving treasonous pieces of trash to China, since they love it so much! DL
If they aren’t legal they aren’t immigrants, they are illegal aliens. (although many immigrants are here on visas or permanent residency. Citizenship has strict requirements.) AC
by DCG The drawings of a young, suspended teen boy/WRAL photo No need to wonder if the FBI is doing their job. No need to wonder if any troubling behaviors gave local Florida law enforcement plenty of opportunities to investigate and arrest the Parkland shooter — and even take away his guns — long before he shot up Marjory … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUWGgX_QNI For More Information See: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politic… https://newswithviews.com/watch-canad… https://www.churchinneed.org/wp-conte… https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
Via Casey Research Justin’s note: Venezuela just introduced its own cryptocurrency. That’s right… The country battling chronic food shortages, runaway inflation, and widespread violence launched the world’s first government-backed cryptocurrency. Each one of these coins is supposedly backed by one barrel of oil, so the government is calling it the “petro.” President Nicolás Maduro claims the … Read more
via Zero Hedge For the 26th straight month, US spending growth has exceeded income growth. Both income and spending were in line with expectations but the much-watched PCE Deflator was a little hot (+1.8% vs 1.7% exp) at its highest in 11 months. Which meant that Real Personal Spending was unchanged in February, after dropping … Read more
Image by iStock.com/simonkr From Elena Popina and Kamaron Leach at Bloomberg: Move over, Facebook. U.S. investors have a new punching bag among the FAANGs: Amazon.com, Inc. Facebook Inc. gave up the top loser spot to Amazon.com, which lost $53 billion in market value on Wednesday after Axios reported that President Donald Trump is “obsessed” with regulating the e-commerce behemoth. The social media giant had … Read more
Russia Says It Will Expel 60 U.S. Diplomats in Retaliation for Trump’s Move U.S. consulate in Russia’s second-biggest city to be closed ‘There is no justification for this response,’ U.S. counters Russia said it’s expelling 60 U.S. diplomats and closing the American consulate in St. Petersburg and will retaliate in kind to other countries that … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrv3G9X6q7Q Hank Berrien for the Daily Wire reports, Speaking at the Fourth Global Opinion Leaders Summit in Japan over the weekend, former President Barack Obama lamented the wide array of news sources that exist now as opposed to the days when three television networks controlled the dispensing of news, opined that his administration had shut … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IEWDHNc2k Amanda Shea for the Daily Vine reports, One of the key elements to destroying our Christian nation was to remove God from every facet of society. Obama succeeded in doing that under the guise of “separation of church and state.” Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://daily-vine.com/lawmakers-just…