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The House Intelligence Committee announced Saturday that it has reached a settlement to obtain bank records from the private intelligence firm that produced a controversial dossier alleging ties between President Trump and Russia. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/357650-house-intel-panel-says-it-will-get-access-to-fusion-gps-bank-records https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/u-s-house-panel-says-agreement-reached-over-fusion-gps-bank-records Let the games begin…   The answers are in Fusion’s bank records. Fusion has doggedly refused to divulge the names … Read more

by David Haggith Is the Federal Reserve’s Great Unwind already coming unwound? I thought it would be good to check up on Federal Reserve balance sheet reduction since the Fed is supposed to be up and running on the move out of quantitative easing this month. It should be fascinating to see what progress the Fed is making … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn  Last month, it came to light that a West Point graduate and infantry officer in the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, is a communist and an “official socialist organizer” of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Rapone‘s advocacy for communism was discovered when he, in solidarity with former NFL football player Colin … Read more

WTF??? Lawyers for the conservative publication Washington Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee Friday that the organization was the original funder for the anti-Trump opposition research project with Fusion GPS. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-free-beacon-funded-original-fusion-gps-anti-trump-opposition-effort/article/2638850 Now it makes more sense: The Free Beacon was originally part of a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization called the Center for American Freedom, but … Read more

https://youtu.be/NOYENRWib5Q The Left has been desperately working for months to find any shred of evidence that Donald Trump had even the slightest connection to Russia during the presidential campaign. Despite having the full support of their friends in the media, they have consistently failed to find anything substantive. At first, I assumed the liberal elites … Read more

by visualcapitalist $63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization If you add up all the money that national governments have borrowed, it tallies to a hefty $63 trillion. In an ideal situation, governments are just borrowing this money to cover short-term budget deficits or to finance mission critical projects. However, around the globe, countries have … Read more

by Robert Carbery   While many watchers of the economy are troubled by the many credit bubbles we have going on right now, the U.S. economy seems to be picking up its pace of growth under the Trump administration. And we’ve only just begun.   Though the stock market riding at record highs means nothing … Read more

by Chris Black   IMAGE CREDITS: WIKI. They’re not sending their best is an expression coined by President Trump during last year’s presidential campaign, when he was describing the huge amount of criminals and “bad hombres” who were jumping the fence in the US from Mexico, with almost zero vetting. That phrase just got a new … Read more

by Robert Carbery Human beings desire to be free. They want to live with people like them and reside in a nation that protects those freedoms while maintaining a rich culture to be proud of.   Catalonia, the region around Barcelona, Spain, is struggling to declare its independence from Spain.   Catalan lawmakers voted on … Read more

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by Mark Angelides After the shocking treatment of voters in the Catalan “referendum” which saw people literally dragged out of voting stations and elderly people bleeding in the streets, added to the iron fist threat of taking back power from the autonomous region, Catalonia’s elected officials have voted 70 to 10 to declare independence from … Read more

Kitco News, Released on 10/27/17 Ron Paul sees a lot of pain in store for Wall Street. The former congressman and now a chief ambassador to Goldco sees as much as a 50 percent correction in store for equities. “A 50 percent pullback is possible,” Paul said, doubling down on his original June forecast of … Read more

If the economy is doing well, housing prices are rising, incomes are increasing, unemployment is getting lower, bonds are rising, stocks are rising…why are REAL indicators like this showing a different picture? Which one do you think is correct? A deep economic CRISIS is present with the U.S. despite what we are being told. The … Read more

by Ruby Henley I have come to a conclusion that Stephen Paddock was child sex trafficker most likely flying the children from the Philippines into the United States.  I believe that his business Paradise Ranch LLC was the headquarters in Nevada and Paradise Ranch in the Philippines was the sister headquarters in the Philippines.  I … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter There are a lot of them. It’s called “crisis” for a reason. What is the most severely unaffordable housing market in North America as measured by local household incomes in relationship to local home prices? By this measure, I’m happy to report that San Francisco, which sports the highest median home … Read more

by AMY S. This is a tough topic, because people either don’t won’t to believe it or are not capable because they lack the knowledge to comprehend what is being said. When you understand that our country can only operate based on debt/credit, not physical dollars, you finally see that the USA is a huge Ponzi … Read more

Saudi Arabians are up in arms because a humanoid robot who doesn’t “cover up” or abide by the country’s strict laws was granted citizenship at a tech conference in Riyadh this week. Sophia, created by Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong, was given official status Wednesday at the Future Investment Initiative conference. “I am very honored … Read more

By Michael Snyder Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things.  For decades, the elite have been pulling the strings behind the scenes in both major political parties.  That is why nothing has ever seemed to change very much no matter which … Read more

by David ‘When the next market correction will be’ is a very difficult, if not impossible, question to answer given the number of variables at play. In all honesty one can only speak in general terms when attempting to make these kind of macro economic forecasts. Often, the catalyst for such an event is not even … Read more

by Chris Black According to Twitter’s CEO official announcement on Thursday via a blog post, the US social media giant took the decision to ban the Kremlin-backed news outlets Sputnik and RT from advertising on their platform. Twitter’s move on Thursday makes for one of the most aggressive decisions ever made by a US social … Read more