State, Local Taxes Set Records… Income, Sales, Property ALL Hit New Highs

Real state and local income, sales and property taxes all hit records in 2017, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau. State and local governments collected a record $404,509,000,000 in individual income taxes in 2017, according to the Census Bureau. Before 2017, the greatest level of individual income tax revenues collected by state … Read more

ELIZABETH WARREN’S RESEARCH HARDEST HIT

Study: Medical bankruptcies may not be as common as thought. Medical bills can push patients over the financial cliff, but a new study says this may not happen as often as previous research suggests. Hospitalizations cause only about 4 percent of personal bankruptcies among non-elderly U.S. adults, according to an analysis published Wednesday in the … Read more

REVOLT OF THE RULING CLASS

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/976874550112768001 I get the feeling that Washington believes the current unrest is just another Tea Party they can ignore, ridicule, co-opt, or shut down. That may prove to be a grave mistake.   h/t SG

LEAVING FACEBOOK — IT’S GONE VIRAL!

Next Worry for Facebook: Disenchanted Users. “Rising number of users claim to be abandoning social media giant, prompting a warning from some analysts that its growth could slow.” Throughout previous controversies in recent years, Facebook’s user population has climbed steadily, providing the critical base that draws an ever growing gusher of advertising revenue. Now Facebook is … Read more

ALERT: Obama CAUGHT Abusing His POWER To Benefit Close Friends’ Private Investment Firms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3vFKdBF2U Ryan Saavedra for the Daily Wire reports, A new book released on Tuesday by Peter Schweizer, the author of “Clinton Cash,” claims that former President Barack Obama used his executive powers to financially benefit his close friends. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/28458/…

STOP THIS SPENDING BILL , HR – 1625 : Anti Gun , page 1982 – Tracking Chips and Databases on People page 1951- – CLOUD ACT page 2201 , Deep State Data SPYING Loopholes ….. Bill is ANTI – FREEDOM , 100 %.

http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20180319/BILLS-115SAHR1625-RCP115-66.pdf Pisses me off that Ryan talked GEOTUS into accepting this Spending bill. Too much bad shit and too much special interest cash. I would love if he vetoed this and shut everything down until they can get their shit together and present a proper spending bill     American Congressman Doug Collins of Georgia … Read more

Congressman Jim Jordan, this is the worst bill I have ever seen in my 10 years in office, far worse than anything obama ever tried to pull

by Jake Congressman Jim Jordan, this is the worst bill I have ever seen in my 10 years in office, far worse than anything obama ever tried to pull on the American people! https://youtu.be/ejDDHBCy9No Congressional Phone Numbers https://www.house.gov/representatives Senate Phone Numbers https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Rand Paul: Well here it is, all 2,232 budget-busting pages. Well here it … Read more

Why I Am Non-Partisan

by Chris This Venn diagram pretty accurately captures my reasoning for not getting too worked up over which party is better than the other. Truly a distinction without a difference. While we are all mainly bickering about wedge issues, the ecosystem is collapsing, irreplaceable energy reserves are expended in SUVs, and massive deficits, debts, unfunded … Read more

After Flooding Europe With Migrants, Germany Asks for Institutionalization of Mass Migration

by Chris Black German Chancellor Angela Merkel is known in the Muslim community as “the mother of refugees”. Migrants call her ‘Muttie Merkel” (mother Merkel) and are very happy to take selfies with the former communist party apparatchik. The thing about Angela Merkel is that she owns the European Union migrant crisis, after she invited … Read more

The Libor problem is also a US Dollar problem

by Shaun Richards There is much to consider today as we consider the actions of our lords (ladies) and masters or rather our central bankers. Last night brought something which as we have noted before was in the category of “no surprises” sung about by Radiohead. In view of realized and expected labor market conditions … Read more

All Aboard the Bankruptcy Express

by Bill Bonner Bankruptcy Express Meanwhile… Yesterday, we described how the U.S. government has changed over the last three decades. Now, neither party is worried about deficits… or the U.S. federal debt, which hit a new milestone last week, at $21 trillion. Instead, they are all onboard the Bankruptcy Express… Democrats, Republicans, Congress, bureaucrats, and cronies… … Read more

S&P500 Runs Into A Brick Wall

by stockboardasset Glancing through the chartbook this morning, the S&P500 R2 and R1 rejection is a magnificent sight to see. Overhead supply is unlocking once more… Downside projections could point to a pivot reversion fo 2,536. Weekly Bollinger Band Analysis S&P500 monthly has stalled for the most part of 1Q2018. The line in the sand for the … Read more

Huma Abedin wept ‘he is going to kill me’ when FBI re-opened Hillary server probe because her emails were on Anthony Weiner’s laptop

Hillary Clinton’s Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri’s new book contains details about some of the most dramatic moments of the 2016 campaign  In an excerpt published in Time magazine, Palmieri recalls having to tell Clinton that FBI Director James Comey reopened the Clinton email probe  She also captured Huma Abedin’s reaction when the aide found out … Read more