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by Thinker   What is it that is really going on when there is a shooting or a major weather event going on? It all seems to be a pattern and all has to do with money. Did Puerto Rico just get a go ahead to wipe away $92 Billion in Debt, most created by … Read more

by Michael Snyder I didn’t expect that I would be getting “the Trump treatment” this early in the campaign.  Last week, I wrote an article about the Las Vegas shooting that posed 16 questions that I did not feel were being addressed by the mainstream media adequately enough.  That article was picked up by Zero Hedge, and it … Read more

by Robert Carbery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jXnzkz0rxc&t=29s The State of California is leading the nation yet again in reckless liberal experimentation with its latest decision to become a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants starting in 2018.   Lawmakers early Saturday sent Governor Brown a sanctuary state bill that he is expected to sign after he demanded some changes … Read more

by Ruby Henley The latest to emerge is on the pro-ISIS Al-Battar Media Foundation website, who released a two-minute video in English titled Rightful Revenge, unearthed by the https://www.memri.org/  The video presents excerpts from an eye- witness’s testimony about the attack, from statements by the Las Vegas Sheriff, and from an old recording by British … Read more

Here he is on the member list: https://www.dhs.gov/niac-members The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) shall provide the President through the Secretary of Homeland Security with advice on the security of the critical infrastructure sectors and their information systems: https://www.dhs.gov/national-infrastructure-advisory-council James Murren: CEO of Mandalay Bay/MGM Resorts International is a sitting member of the Homeland Security … Read more

by Michael Snyder The video that you are about to watch shows exactly why we need to “drain the swamp”.  In Washington D.C. it is all about the money, and those that don’t play by the rules get punished severely.  But if we don’t start to fight back against this corruption, we will never have a … Read more

by Ruby Henley I have believed from the beginning that Stephen Paddock was an Muslim convert, who committed this heinous Las Vegas massacre in the name of ISIS.  It appears I am correct.  Imagine that.  Snopes and Media Matters are debunking that claim this morning, and I think they will be proven wrong very soon. … Read more

By Michael Snyder Don’t worry – even though the employment numbers are terrible the mainstream media insists that everything is going to be wonderful for the U.S. economy in the months ahead.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy lost 33,000 jobs during September.  That was the first monthly decline in seven years, … Read more

Corporate America Spends More Than It's Taking In… All fun and games until someone goes bankrupt pic.twitter.com/RCIWIrksoX — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 6, 2017 US Non-fin corporate debt % GDP at bubble levels. A reason why stagnating financing innovation is occuring or better yet limited growth pic.twitter.com/ziLTa7RfWC — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 6, 2017 #IMF, #WorldBank Leaders: … Read more

by FS Source: CNN Money CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index is giving an extreme greed reading on the market, hitting a new multi-year high of 95 out of 100. It tracks seven different indicators: stock price momentum, 52-week highs and lows, breadth, put and call options, junk bond demand, market volatility, and safe haven demand. … Read more

by Ruby Henley Paddock definitely had a room with a view.  He built a sniper’s nest with 23 guns, which no one saw him amass.  However a dancer at the Wynn Resort, one of the biggest hotels in Las Vegas, said if there had been metal detectors, lives might have been saved.  Dionna, 29, was … Read more

by Ruby Henley The following pics will prove that it was indeed Stephen Paddock and his girlfriend, Indonesian Marilou Danley, at the 2017 anti-Trump rally in Nevada.  She is rumored to be Muslim, but it is proven that she has an Australian passport.  He met her in a high-stakes casino, and they became partners. They … Read more

STOCKS SMASH NEW RECORDS…  The S&P 500 posted an eight-day winning streak and its sixth straight record close. Financials and information technology led advancers in the index. The move higher in financials follows a rise in yields sparked by the House passing a $4.1 trillion budget, the first concrete step toward tax reform. Wall Street … Read more

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, I did a fairly extensive analysis on the release of the 9-page “Trump Tax Cut” plan.  The most important aspect of that discussion was the difference between 1982, the last time there was permanent tax reform, as compared to today. “Comparing Trump’s economic policy proposals to those of … Read more

by John Rubino The late stages of financial bubbles are always tough for rational analysts. Focused as they are on the numbers, such analysts are relatively immune to the emotion that drives the action at market extremes, so they find themselves making predictions that turn out to be “wrong” for months and sometimes years. Then … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Missing Chinese money? Hardest hit is the priciest segment: detached houses. Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area plunged 35% in September compared to a year ago, to 6,379 homes. The plunge in volume was spread across all types of homes. Even condos got hit: Detached houses -40.4% Semi-detached houses -30.2% … Read more

by Ruby Henley More news is coming out this morning on Stephen Paddocks, and it is not as cut and dried as I thought.  This is a very complex case, and it seems everyone is reporting different aspects of the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States. Paddocks did not act alone. … Read more

by Robert Carbery After the high body count in Las Vegas at the hands of a man (likely men) with many guns, liberal lawmakers and the liberal mainstream media alike are pouncing on this opportunity to jam through their gun control agenda. This latest act in our nation’s spate of mass shootings killed almost 60 … Read more

James Murren Direct Connection to Dubai Saudi Arabia. During Murren’s tenure, MGM joined with Dubai World in the development of the Las Vegas Strip’s CityCenter. When CityCenter opened in December 2009, it represented the largest single private development and the largest green project ever undertaken in the nation’s history[6][7] and America’s number one generator of … Read more