Groundhog Day Drives Stock Market 666 Points Below Ground: What that says about the frosty season ahead

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by David Haggith I’m pretty sure the nation’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, knows more about the weather than he does about markets, and I’m not all that sure he knows anything about the weather! In fact, I don’t understand the underground methods of this rodent resident of Gobbler’s Knob at all. It would seem to me that … Read more

22 Hillary Emails Released from U.S. Dept of State – 1 Confidential 1.4(b) 1.4(d) with 'Pls print'

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https://foia.state.gov/search/results.aspx?publishedBeginDate=20180202&publishedEndDate=20180202 This one, in case people came to the comments section looking for a link https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/Litigation_F-2016-07895_32/F-2016-07895/DOC_0C06174170/C06174170.pdf And, she was asking Justin Cooper to print it. He was her unofficial tech support guy that actually worked for her husband at the Clinton Foundation. And no, he did not have a clearance. So yes, this is evidence … Read more

Crash of Outsourcing Giant with 70,000 Employees Globally Sparks New Panic

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“Not another Carillion,” says UK government to soothe frazzled nerves, as entire industry is teetering. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Since the sudden downfall of the British infrastructure giant Carillion two weeks ago, investors’ nerves in London are frayed. And short-sellers, scanning the horizon for their next prey, seem to have found it. … Read more

When the markets crash…

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Day 1 All 3 breakers go off and by noon the markets are closed. The brokers call in their margin calls. The higher the drop the bigger the margin calls. The result is when the market crashes high leveraged investors need to liquidate other assetts like gold, silver, bitcoin, realestate to cover these margin calls. … Read more

Central Banks Will Disappoint

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via the MacroTourist Last week, markets got all excited about comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda that Japan’s inflation is “finally close” to the BoJ’s 2% target. Overnight, there were suddenly all sorts of articles speculating on the end of the BoJ’s extraordinary easy monetary stimulus. This pattern happens time and time again. A Central … Read more

Yahoo Journalist Stunned That His Carter Page Article Was Used To Justify Spy Warrant

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Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff said Friday that he was surprised to find out that an article he wrote about Carter Page prior to the election was used to obtain a spy warrant against the former Trump campaign adviser. <snip> “Obviously the information that I got from Christopher Steele was information the FBI already had,” he … Read more

Wage Inflation is Finally here, and it’s Toxic for the Fed

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Even uber-doves are now looking over their shoulder. There have been all kinds of carefully phrased semi-hawkish statements emanating from carefully contained semi-hawkish Fed governors recently. Today, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan repeated what he has been saying for a while – that the “base case” should be three rate hikes … Read more

Political Correctness Serves the Ruling Elite

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by Charles Hugh-Smith No wonder the Ruling Elites loves political correctness: all those furiously signaling their virtue are zero threat to the asymmetric plunder of the status quo. The Ruling Elites loves political correctness, for it serves the Elite so well. What is political correctness? Political correctness is the public pressure to conform to “progressive” speech acts by uttering the … Read more

LIST: 4 things "both sides" tend to agree on, although there are some politicians who truly are either a Democrat or Republican.

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Surveillance: The Same Democrats Who Denounce Donald Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers War: “The rare occasion the media swoons over Trump: when he embraces war” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/positive-trump-media-coverage-when-he-embraces-war “The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria” https://theintercept.com/2017/04/07/the-spoils-of-war-trump-lavished-with-media-and-bipartisan-praise-for-bombing-syria/ NBC journalist Brian Williams (who years … Read more

The Canadian Stock Market Will Crash! – This Is Why

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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen regarding the massive level of instability at the TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) as it drops more than 200 points. The stock market is overheating and something we at WAM have been warning about for so long is finally coming true. The heavily manipulated derivatives markets … Read more

French Diversity In All Its Glory

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwc_jip7ihY At least five people suffered gunshot wounds and dozens were injured as violent clashes between Afghan and Eritrean migrants broke out in and around the French port city of Calais. READ MORE: on.rt.com/8y9t   h/t Jim

ECONOMIC CRASH LIKELY? Stock Market Insanity & Risk Reaching Nose-Bleed Levels

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BY SRSROCCO With the Dow Jones Index falling 665 points today, the risk of a large market correction has just increased significantly.  Ironically, I discussed the very indicators that were setting up for a huge market correction in my newest video which I recorded on Tuesday.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the video posted on my … Read more

Joe DiGenova Calls for a Federal Grand Jury

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIs-b2R9Ytc Synopsis: In the wake of the release of the FISA memo today, legendary former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joe DiGenova has called for a federal grand jury to investigate the crimes of major government official involved in the fake Trump memo, which was bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton … Read more

New Technology Helps Find Thousands Of Mysterious Maya Structures Below Guatemala

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An immense, interconnected network of ancient cities was home to millions more people than researchers previously thought. A group of researchers has identified the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, superhighways and other human settlements belonging to the ancient Maya that have been hidden for centuries under the jungles of northern Guatemala. This finding … Read more

The 1% Gets A Scare — More To Come?

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by John Rubino Most Americans have spent the last few years pressed up against the proverbial bakery window, watching the 1% enjoy a life of ever-increasing wealth and seemingly total indifference to the multitudes who aren’t favored by zero interest rates, big trust funds and political/corporate connections. The one consolation for the have-nots has been … Read more