Is The Trump Tax Plan A Sign Of Better Days To Come?

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by Umar Farooq   With financial markets eagerly anticipating a White House tax plan, Trump will also call for a sharp cut in the top rate on pass-through businesses, including many small business partnerships and sole proprietorships, to 15 percent from 39.6 percent, an administration official said.   Trump’s primary goal appears to be lowering … Read more

China Is Talking With The Europe About Building A Moon Village

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https://youtu.be/GkKJkHGYnJI from Dailymail.co.uk:   Tian Yulong, secretary general for China’s space agency, confirmed the plans ESA has described its ‘Moon Village’ as a launching pad for missions to Mars The lunar site could also support space mining missions and even tourism It could also act as a ‘pit stop’ for the further exploration of deep … Read more

Craig Hemke – Trump Feel Good Financial Narrative Crumbling, Markets Held Together With Electronic Bailing Wire & Digital Chewing Gum

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Financial Writer Craig Hemke says the system is being propped up and is very weak dispite the record stock markets prices. Hemke contends, “These markets are quite literally held together by . . . electronic bailing wire and digital chewing gum. . . . When you see this disconnect from economic reality, you know, hardly … Read more

A Rising (Central Bank) Tide Turns Everyone into a Genius

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Until the system implodes–you’re a genius. So you’ve ridden the markets higher–stocks, housing, commercial real estate, bat guano, quatloos, you name it–everything you touch turns to gold. What can we say, bucko, other than you’re a genius! It’s a market truism that rising tides lift all boats. But that’s not the really … Read more

The Enormous Contradictions Behind the Mass-Immigration Debate – or – How to Win Any Argument With Style

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by Mark Angelides We have all heard the arguments and the figures relating to the benefits of mass-immigration from poorer countries to richer countries. The advocates have shown us “irrefutable figures” that detail the economic benefits; they have berated us for our lack of morality. And the sad truth is, the argument can never be … Read more

The Democrats Get Trump And The Republicans To Fold, And That Means There NEVER Will Be A Border Wall

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By Michael Snyder Well, that didn’t take long.  Yesterday I reported that the Democrats were threatening to force a government shutdown if money for a border wall was included in the bill to fund the government, and one day later Donald Trump has unconditionally surrendered.  Despite all of Trump’s promises, a border wall isn’t going … Read more

Judge William Orrick is a Disgrace to America

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By Gabrielle Seunagal Life continues to prove that so called authority figures are not always as intelligent and wise as people would like to believe. This unfortunate truth reared its ugly head once again when a California judge made the foolish decision to block President Trump’s movements and withhold funds from cities that refuse to … Read more

The Housing Bubble Is Back – With One Big Departure From 2007: Today It's Part Of A Constellation Of Bubbles That Includes Government Bonds, Equities….

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by John Rubino Last week I ran into a friend whom I’d been worrying about. He’s a real estate appraiser and his work had been drying up as interest rates rose and homeowners stopped refinancing their mortgages. But now he’s back to being happily swamped because instead of refinancing, everyone is buying — often, he … Read more

Judge Blocks Trump Order On Sanctuary City Funding After New York Joins California In Sanctuary State Stupidity

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by Robert Carbery A federal judge on Tuesday, the 25th blocked a Trump administration order withholding funding from communities that fail to enforce federal immigration law or cooperate with US immigration authorities in another big blow to the Trump’s plan to “Make America Great Again.”   This news is just breaking today so more to … Read more

Trump Border Wall Request Only Equals 0.035% Of Federal Spending And Guess Who Still Wants Congress To Postpone Border Wall Funding

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CNS News reports: President Donald Trump’s request that Congress include $1.4 billion to fund the beginning of his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border equals approximately 0.035 percent of what the federal government will spend in total this year, according to the latest estimate of fiscal year 2017 federal spending made by the Congressional Budget … Read more

RED ALERT- U.S. Sends MOST DEADLY MESSAGE To North Korea WW3, Economic Collapse & Martial Law

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by AMY S. – U.S. Navy ships assigned to Commander, Task Force (CTF) 30 and CTF 70 are scheduled to begin a series of exercises with the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy March 21, 2017 to strengthen maritime interoperability and tactics, techniques and procedures. The U.S. routinely conducts CSG operations in the waters around the … Read more

Housing's Echo Bubble Now Exceeds the 2006-07 Bubble Peak

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by Charles Hugh-Smith If you need some evidence that the echo-bubble in housing is global, take a look at this chart of Sweden’s housing bubble. A funny thing often occurs after a mania-fueled asset bubble pops: an echo-bubble inflates a few years later, as monetary authorities and all the institutions that depend on rising asset … Read more