There is a political conspiracy to corrupt our democratic system with a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money. As a Libertarian living in a Democratic controlled State, I can tell you that the dems are also guilty of gerrymandering. However, with GOP controlling 33 State legislatures, attack on our democracy is now mostly a red … Read more
by Anthony B Sanders December existing home sales, according to the National Association of Realtors, fell -3.6% from the previous month. This was worse than the expected -1.9% decline. But on a positive note, existing home sales ROSE 1.1% on a Year-over-year (YoY) basis. The bad news? The inventory of existing home sales fell to … Read more
by howmuch Bitcoin ATMs allow consumers to exchange their cash for Bitcoins, and vice versa. Although the Bitcoin machines are not ATMs in the more traditional sense that we are accustomed, these kiosks are connected to the internet in order to accept cash deposit, exchange for Bitcoins or send Bitcoin to a public key on … Read more
by Chris Black Following the Democrats’ failure to keep the government shut over DACA, and months after a crowd of DACA aficionados crashed Nancy Pelosi’s news conference, the same crowd of cheerful (and presumably illegal aliens) folks bit the hand that feeds them (literally) and raided Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’ house in New York … Read more
Merkel’s attack on TRUMP: German leader tells Davos STRONGER EU is needed to take on US ANGELA Merkel lashed out at Donald Trump at the Davos World Economic Forum today and called for the EU to press ahead with a shared foreign and defence policy to take on the US and China. Angela Merkel joined other … Read more
He added that while President Trump shut the government down, “all of us in the Democratic caucus, not just the moderates, but the liberals as well, came to the view that if we carried it on much longer, two things would happen: A. No one would budge. The public would lose support of the shutdown. … Read more
Isn’t it great?.This is my wife’s check and I assume the same will be on mine. That should be about $170 extra bucks a month for our household. We are going to upgrade my car. Put it back into the economy and the train keeps a rollin. h/t William
In the linked article, it details everything from how greed, lying, cheating and outrageous payouts and salaries rule the day. In essence, you’ll learn you have no voice in the organization you trust to protect your rights. Their priorities have NEVER been about machine guns, silencers, or even semi-auto “AK-47’s”, which past NRA President Heston … Read more
The number of war criminals being discovered among asylum seekers in Sweden is rapidly increasing with the Swedish Migration Board claiming cases have doubled in the last two years. In 2014, the Swedish Migration Board reported 12 asylum seekers to the Swedish police’s commission on war crimes but that number rose to 21 in 2015, 41 in … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcyiwhfeR8 On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] – an executive order which bypassed lawmakers and offered similar legal status to an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrants. In June 2017, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others announced plans to challenge DACA in court if the Trump administration … Read more
by Anthony B Sanders Jerome Powell has been approved by The US Senate as new and improved Federal Reserve Chair. Well, at least the new Chair since I think he will just continue the same policies as former Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen. (Bloomberg) Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio said that the bond market has … Read more
Police in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have launched a new pilot programme which will see them confiscating expensive clothing and jewellery from young people if they look too poor to own them. Officers say the scheme will see them target younger men in designer clothes they seem unlikely to be able to afford legally – if it is not clear how … Read more
Government rules for the internet have been debated for nearly as long as the internet has existed, even before a professor coined the term “net neutrality” 15 years ago. The internet has changed our lives and grown beyond what anyone could have imagined. And it’s done so, for the most part, with very few—but often … Read more
President Donald Trump, Republican lawmakers and political watchdogs are furious that the FBI failed to preserve five months of text messages between FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok – but the news divisions at CBS, NBC and ABC have largely ignored the story. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said the missing texts are relevant because Page … Read more
They left a few out Justice Department Sends Letters to 29 Jurisdictions Regarding Their Compliance with 8 U.S.C. 1373 The Department of Justice today sent the attached letters to 29 jurisdictions that may have laws, policies, or practices that violate 8 U.S.C. 1373, a federal statute that promotes information sharing related to immigration enforcement. … Read more
by stockboardasset Russian military jets of the Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation unit (Pacific Fleet) in Kamchatka, a peninsula in the Russian Far East, have been drilling at supersonic speeds along the country’s Pacific coastline preparing for a rapid enemy incursion. Earlier this week, fighter-pilots conducted supersonic air battles as high as 20km (12.4274-miles) in the stratosphere, while they simulated intercepting enemy fighter aircraft at … Read more
Incredible speed! 1,500 Chinese workers connect a new high-speed railway with three existing lines, in 8 and 1/2 hours. xhne.ws/NC0cp
Weak-Dollar outflows? Trade Wars? Or Pension-fund outflows? Take your pick, but stocks are getting slammed… The weakness seemed to start around Wilbur Ross’ comments on China’s “Direct Threat” but has extended as Pension flow concerns rise… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-24/stocks-are-suddenly-tanking
by John Rubino For the past few years the “strong dollar” has been so central to the global financial story – enabling ever-lower interest rates and ever-higher financial asset prices pretty much everywhere – that it’s easy to forget how illusory “strength” is for fiat currencies. Since mid-2017 that illusion has been evaporating, as the … Read more
by CainRedfield Everyone always talks about whether or not to go long/short before the earnings announcement. Everyone is always thinking about opening a position before the announcement, and I am not here to say this is a bad strategy or a wrong one. I just wanted to talk about a less mentioned strategy that I feel … Read more