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Awan was fired & barred from accessing the House’s computer system since February, but DWS only fired him TODAY. It literally took getting him arrested for her to stop paying him. Oh well. I’m sure it’s fine. Nothing to see here. Let’s get back on Russia people- We need to uncover corruption! http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/25/feds-arrest-it-staffer-for-wasserman-schultz-trying-to-leave-country.html http://www.fox5dc.com/news/270108922-story http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/debbie-wasserman-schultz-aide-arrest-240960 … Read more

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by Mark Angelides The “Better Deal” which will supposedly lead the Democrat party to electoral victory in 2018 and 2020 is simply more of the same junk aimed at giving more control to Big Business and shutting down the small business owner. It is an Ideology wrapped in a Populist flag and it will fail. … Read more

by Michael Snyder Is it proper for a sitting member of Congress to call for the president of the United States to be “eliminated”? Despite all of the chaos and all of the violence that we have seen so far, Democrats continue to stir up even more anger and even more hatred. Words have power, and … Read more

by Marco Janssen Today on The Janssen Report: while chaos ensues in the world and big headlines about terrorism create fear, we must also look through the smoke and mirrors. Events are conveniently used by (central) bankers to rationalize their insane policies. These crazy policies of keeping interest rates close to zero (or even below) are maintained … Read more

By Michael Snyder Humanity is steamrolling toward a date with extinction, and yet most people have absolutely no idea that this is happening.  Most of us like to think that we are part of the smartest, tallest and fastest generation in human history, but science has actually shown that the exact opposite is true.  Compared … Read more

DC Foreclosure Activity Increases 60 Percent From Year Ago, Bucking U.S. Trend; Q2 Foreclosure Activity Below Pre-Recession Levels in 49 Percent of Metros IRVINE, Calif., July 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s largest multi-sourced property database, today released its Midyear 2017 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™, which shows a total of 428,400 U.S. properties … Read more

by Mark Angelides A Wisconsin company, Three Square Market, that deals in “tech for break rooms” (??!?!), has just announced that they will begin implanting their fifty plus employees with microchip technology. The most amazing aspect of this is not that they have such technology, but that people are actually going along with this sick, … Read more

BY SRSROCCO While the highly inflated value of the U.S. Retirement Market reached a new high this year, something is seriously wrong when we look behind the scenes.  Of course, Americans have no idea that the U.S. Retirement Market is only a few steps from falling off the cliff, because their eyes are focused on the … Read more

by howmuch We’ve all seen superstar athletes perform amazing feats in crowded stadiums, but even more impressive are these superstars’ pay. Not only do sports attract millions of viewers, but sports also attract the big bucks. We’ve created a graph of the highest paid athletes in different sports categories. In the above diagram, the highest … Read more

by Pamela Williams Lara Trump, the beautiful wife of Eric Trump, spoke with Martha McCallum of Fox News.  She feels exactly the way most of us on IWB do.  We are pulling for President Trump to take action with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking him to investigate Hillary Clinton and her ties with Russia.  Actually this … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Landlords are reading the memo, but it may be too late. Shares of Amazon multiplied by a factor of ten since 2009. Shares of Wal-Mart are flat over the past five years but are up 30% since the beginning of 2016. Since mid-2015, shares of Best Buy are up 58%, Home … Read more

by Pamela Williams This is the best tweet by President Trump I have seen in a long time! “So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?” So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys … Read more

by Robert Carbery   While history points to likely Democratic victories in the upcoming midterm elections, the numbers show a very different story that does not bode well for the left’s chances in peeling back the right’s hold on power next year.   Five recent poll numbers (yes, I know, polls can only mean so … Read more

by Pamela Williams This has all gone too far, and it is abusive to anyone with a brain to continue on with this narrative.  I just read an article stating the Fusion GPS co-founder will not testify to Senate Intelligence Committee.   Why not?  Could it be, because it is the dossier that Comey and the rest … Read more

By Michael Snyder One mystery trader has made an extremely large bet that the stock market is going to crash by October, and if he is right he could potentially make up to 262 million dollars on the deal.  Fortunes were made and lost during the great financial crisis of 2008, and the same thing … Read more

by Michael Snyder What do you think of the job that President Trump has done so far? According to Real Clear Politics, Trump has an average approval rating of just 40 percent right now, and that is extremely low for a new president. Traditionally, the American people have given new presidents a “honeymoon period” of … Read more

by SpontaneousDisorder The markets are grinding toward a peak setting near records in low volitility, valuation, investor commitment to stocks and optimism. This indicator shows just 16.7% bears currently, the rally since 2009 has seen incredible investor optimism by this measure. https://s23.postimg.org/xedq3fspn/investorsintelligence.png Source: http://www.yardeni.com/pub/stmktbullbear.pdf This is reflected by the lack of short sellers, an article … Read more

By Michael Snyder I know that politicians aren’t supposed to talk like this, but I don’t care. I am not a politician and I never will be. And I am not running for Congress because I want a career in politics. We have enough career politicians right now, and so we definitely don’t need another … Read more

https://twitter.com/DonDraperClone/status/888501676327489540 Total loan book: originations + new – charge-offs/maturities Forward PE: 17.8x pic.twitter.com/rhixS9w62r — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 21, 2017 Chart Of The Week h/t @zerohedge pic.twitter.com/K2jRdaa7Ip — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 21, 2017 Don't be alarmed there could be a major shift out of US Stocks pic.twitter.com/U1aslVKoTX — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 21, 2017     $VIX … Read more