Fed’s QE Unwind Marches Forward Relentlessly

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the sell-off, it ignored the whiners on Wall Street. The fifth month of the QE-Unwind came to a completion with the release this afternoon of the Fed’s balance sheet for the week ending February 28. The QE-Unwind is progressing like clockwork. Even during the sell-off in early February, the QE-Unwind never missed … Read more

Internet Giants: Who Owns Who on the Web

by visualcapitalist View a high resolution version of this graphic In the brick and mortar world, decades of consolidation has led certain conglomerates to wield massive amounts of control in the banking, consumer goods, alcohol, and auto sectors. And although the internet is incredibly vast in scale and much newer, it’s also heading in a similar direction. As a result, it’s not unusual … Read more

An important redpill that explains exactly why Liberals and their "Gun Control" bullsh*t is retarded.

A quick OCR and edit: There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. Population is 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.00925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is … Read more

California's About To Go Venezuela

CA Dems are moving further to the left: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/think-california-politics-is-on-the-far-left-fringe-just-wait-for-the-next-elections/2018/02/04/80e679c2-05e5-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html   h/t FuzzieMuff

Judicial Watch is taking San Francisco to court over Sanctuary City Policy

Read more: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r… Judicial Watch announced that the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County overruled San Francisco Sheriff Vicky Hennessy’s move to end a Judicial Watch taxpayer lawsuit challenging the Sheriff’s sanctuary policy. The lawsuit challenges restrictions on the ability of sheriff’s deputies to communicate freely with Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) about inmates’ … Read more

The 100 Most Dangerous Cities in America

by Dr. Eowyn Using the most up-to-date FBI crime data for the 2016 year (the 2017 year total crime data are still incomplete), Neighborhood Scout compiled a list of the 100 most dangerous cities in America with 25,000 or more people, based on the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents. Violent crimes include murder, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated … Read more

Here we just have an example of literally the richest man on Earth, Jeff Bezos worth over $100 billion, and his company, the biggest retailer on Earth, didn't pay 1 cent in income tax to the US government.

I don’t think we should be giving Jeff Bezos a medal for figuring out how to fuck over the system so bad, that one of the world’s largest companies didn’t pay any income taxes last year. And that was before the massive Trump Tax Cut which dropped the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.   Thanks … Read more

An Inconvenient Truth About Social Security

by Dennis Miller Did I achieve a journalistic milestone? I got my first tip from an insider. What I learned is darn important for our readers. Our article “The Social (IN)Security Charade”, discussed how the government gave us a COLA increase and took it right back by increasing medical premiums. The tipster confirmed I was spot on … Read more

What is the VIX and what does it mean?

Extreme Value ? What Is the VIX and What Does It Mean??? Lots of people think they know about the VIX, the “fear index,” but I bet you’d be surprised to find out how it’s calculated and what it’s really designed to represent. This video clears some of that up.