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by WARREN MOSLER Large drop from already historically depressed levels reverses year end spike, and inline with depressed mortgage applications: Highlights Sales of new homes slowed but not all the data in January’s new home sales report are negative. New home sales came in at a much lower-than-expected 593,000 annualized rate in January though, in offsets, … Read more

Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports Technical analyst Clive Maund explains why he believes the stock market rally of the past couple of weeks is not a resumption of the bull market. This is a very timely point to remind ourselves that when the market broke down and plunged a few weeks ago, it did … Read more

by Martin Armstrong We are beginning to observe institutional investors withdrawing from bonds issued by companies whose credit ratings are in question. Many are also selling off other classes of bonds in anticipation of higher rates. The trend toward investing in high yielding debt mainly by pension funds has begun to reverse albeit gradually. Because of … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlo6Up5H8sU Joshua Caplan for the Gateway Pundit reports, Michael Wolff, the author of ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’ walked off Australian television after faking an earpiece malfunction when pressed if he was “absolutely sure” that President Trump was having an affair. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/b…

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from Financial Survival Network Buck Joffrey of Wealth Formula joins the program… When it comes to investing, the rich truly are different than you and I. One of the ways they excel, while the rest achieve mediocre returns, is through their informal high net worth investment networks. These are groups of successful wealthy people who connect with … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith Finding work that fits who you are is rarely easy, especially if you don’t fit into the mainstream, and usually it requires a lot of compromises, hard work and dead-ends. But that’s the process. Establishing a satisfying career is difficult in today’s economy, doubly so for those who find life within hierarchical … Read more

“It’s a nasty subject, but it has actually been something that affected my life here in China, I have wanted to talk about it for ages and want to get the information out there… An estimated 70,000 children are kidnapped in China every year, although the Chinese government reported fewer than 10,000 kidnappings. According to … Read more

by Jon Hall,  Free Market Shooter Last week, CNN hosted a town hall with the survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Sheriff Israel and Dana Loesch. Among the attendees of the town hall were Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Rep. Ted Deutch, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch. In particular, we’ll focus on … Read more

by John Ward Buenos dias, muchachos…..We have already looked at how “hemmed in” the US Fed is on the question of rates. We have also seen the insane cynicism of quoted corporations using Zirp to get cheap loans, and then repackage them as “dividends” to the shareholders. We have also recorded for some years now the … Read more

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Money manager sees gold reaching $1,500 by year’s end, gold vs. bitcoin comparison is overdone, and why a new Japanese emperor and Tokyo Olympics could boost gold prices. Incrementum AG’s fund manager sees gold reaching … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park observes that Fed chairmen/chairwomen will come and go but the Fed is the Fed. That’s why the real underlying policy has not changed with Yellen’s replacement by Powell. And it won’t change. The small stick is getting ever smaller, namely interest rate manipulation and money printing. The bubbles will keep on … Read more

Twenty states are suing the Trump administration over the individual mandate in Obamacare that obligates people have health insurance or pay a fine, seeking an end to the entire law. In the lawsuit filed Monday, states said Congress’s decision to repeal the tax penalty as part of the Republican tax bill signed into law by President Trump, … Read more

Are you making your list and checking it twice? These traitors need to be voted out of Congress at all costs. House Democrats have introduced a bill banning semi-automatic firearms in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., announced Monday he is introducing the … Read more

“FedEx views assault rifles and large capacity magazines as an inherent potential danger to schools, workplaces, and communities when such weapons are misused. We therefore support restricting them to the military,” the company said in a statement. However, the company said it “does not and will not deny service or discriminate against any legal entity … Read more

Recently, NEO Coin became the center of a rumor. According to the rumor that is circulating on Reddit, various blogs, and other social media, NEO is the first cryptocurrency project that has reached the A- rating from Weiss Ratings. However, is this rumor true? Is NEO the first crypto to achieve such a high rating … Read more