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Is it just a coincidence that the biggest protests since 2009 have hit Iran shortly after a secret agreement was revealed between Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh to destabilize Iran? And shortly after a new Executive Order was issued by President Trump allowing him to seize US assets of anyone he deems a “human rights … Read more

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As I noted this past weekend, 2017 was a year for the record books. Not surprisingly, the strong advance fostered a surge in investor optimism which pushed allocations to equities to the second highest level on record. And leveraged to boot. Importantly, don’t mistake record margin debt levels as people borrowing … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwSyGgvTLMA In Hempstead, a Long Island town where the typical property tax bill tops $10,000, residents have lined up all week to prepay those taxes for next year. They have been trying to save thousands of dollars before the new federal tax bill, which goes into effect on New Year’s Day, sharply limits deductions for … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYi4Kf3AuCY Congress Preparing For A Showdown! http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/36…

I often wonder how many people were actually killed FOR their journalism in 2017…. https://apnews.com/9162715258fe462586f5c23fe3cac674/Media-group:-81-reporters-died,-threats-soared-in-2017

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7njs21/remember_clintonlynch_tarmac_meeting_clinton/ Background on tarmac docs: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-29-pages-fbi-clinton-lynch-tarmac-meeting-documents-previously-withheld-justice-department/ And then JW exposed the classified records on Weiner laptop: h/t TFittonJW

Unhappy New Years Day: “Last Jedi” Knocked Off Number 1 by “Jumanji” Reboot It seems like New Years Day was an unhappy one for “The Last Jedi.” On its 18th day of release, the latest “Star Wars” movie was supplanted at number 1 on the box office chart by the reboot of “Jumanji.” “Jedi” took … Read more

The Board of Supervisors Thursday scheduled a special meeting next week to extend a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of hepatitis A in San Diego County. The board is required to renew emergency declarations every two weeks, but its next regularly scheduled meeting isn’t until Jan. 9. County health officials recently reported 574 hepatitis … Read more

Einhorn: If you look at the obvious problems from the financial crisis, we solved none of them. And we went on a different way, and we basically, went the bailout route. And said we are going to create a whole lot of moral hazard, and we’re going to sweep as much of this stuff as … Read more

PHOTOS=> Sanctuary State Signs Pop Up on California Highways for the New Year: “Felons, Illegals and MS13 Welcome!” Anonymous Street artists moved out to highways once again to ring in the new year by posting messages to the “Welcome to California” highway signs. The signs were put up north of Lake Havasu, Arizona, Primm, Nevada … Read more

by Thinker It is no secret that President Trump and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have had a contentious relationship since Trump took office. For the last year, the FBI has been busy investigating the fake Russian collusion story that has torn the country apart but failed to indict Hillary Clinton of any wrongdoing with … Read more

by Thinker A U.S. District Court Judge in Alabama has ruled that a predominantly white town in Alabama can separate themselves from their otherwise racially-mixed school district and return to segregation. _ Hit the thumbs up button if you want to see more content like this. Want more Roland Martin? Watch NewsOne Now every weekday … Read more

A truck has plowed into pedestrians in San Francisco, causing a number of injuries. Several medical crews have been dispatched to the scene. At least seven people were injured in the incident, which took place at about 3.30 pm local time. Two people suffered serious injuries, according to the San Francisco fire department. Locals are … Read more

by Adam Taggart In this final podcast of 2017, Chris sits down with Robert Helms and Russell Gray, better known as The Real Estate Radio Guys. They run one of (if not the most) popular podcasts on real estate investing. Chris and I got to know Robert and Russ well during this year’s Summit At Sea, their week-long … Read more

Former Fed insider Danielle Booth says, along with a “bond market debacle,” the world will see inflation right along with it. Booth explains, “Look at lumber prices, look at the cost of packaging, plastics, raw materials, the producer price index . . . is at a six year high right now. It’s called the mother … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith Here are some resolutions I’m pondering adding to my daily routines. Since “We are what we repeatedly do” (attributed to Aristotle), i.e. we are what we do every day, resolutions have little consequence until they become daily habits. With that in mind, here are some resolutions I’m pondering adding to my daily routines: 1. Mourn what … Read more

by James Hall The never ending overdose of Bitcoin coverage in the press and on social media would have one believe that the manna of financial subsistence is leading us all out of the wilderness. Whether this crypto circulation of a promise to pay is actually a currency is very much an open question. What we … Read more