Lance Roberts: Is a bear market lurking?

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by Lance Roberts of Real Investment Advice: Is there a bear market lurking in the shadows? Such seems to be the question everyone is asking me as of late. Over the last couple of weeks, we have reviewed the bullish and bearish cases for the market. Sentiment Is So Bearish. It’s Bullish Bullish Or Bearish? … Read more

Jason Burack & Guest Harris Kupperman: $200 Oil? Oil Supply Deficit Keeps Expanding? $200 Uranium Coming Too?

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Wall St. For Main St., Released on 4/20/22 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, hedge fund manager Harris Kupperman aka Kuppy. Follow Kuppy on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/hkuppy Harris Kupperman aka Kuppy has been successfully investing in the markets for over two decades. He is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer … Read more

Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives can be heard yelling & shrieking after lawmakers voted to remove Disney’s special tax status—a privilege it held for 55 years.

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Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives can be heard yelling & shrieking after lawmakers voted to remove Disney’s special tax status—a privilege it held for 55 years. Disney employs 38 lobbyists in Tallahassee & donates generously to politicians. pic.twitter.com/ak7rBbB2vw — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 21, 2022

Canadian Banks are responsible for customer data breaches and leaked customer data, because of a loophole.

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by clearsmoke This is just my observation over the past 10+ years as an IT person. The Canadian banks use a loophole to have remote workers sit at empty workstations in their brick and mortar buildings. This allows them to move Canadian labour outside of Canada’s legal jurisdiction, while that foreign worker is represented by an … Read more

Shrinkflation – The Great Deception

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by TheNiteOw1 We all know “shrinkflation” exists, but I just experienced it big time last night/today. Made spaghetti for the family last night, I cook it like I always do, after it’s all done cooking, I pour the water out of the pot, and I look what I have in the pot. The amount of … Read more

US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman. Shawnee State University in Ohio had reprimanded Nicholas Meriwether, who then sued on first amendment grounds.

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A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to one of its professors after it rebuked him for refusing to use a student’s pronouns. In 2018, Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio, addressed a transgender student as “sir” when she raised her hand in class. This prompted … Read more

The Dam Is Finally Cracking: Creating “money” out of thin air and spreading it around to satisfy every constituency doesn’t increase productivity. It destroys productivity by incentivizing waste – the waste is growth Landfill Economy – and speculative bets on bubbles never popping.

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  The central bank problem will be impossible to solvehttps://t.co/3vbInmOcCl pic.twitter.com/0c4DW5nZVp — Patrick Artus (@PatrickArtus) April 21, 2022 https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1517246146086854656 3% 5s pic.twitter.com/PYM5roCN45 — Ed Bradford (@Fullcarry) April 21, 2022 Exactly and bond term premia could have a lot further to fall if #Fed manages to strip $2tr from b/s https://t.co/rWONdqZBbM — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) … Read more

Inflation rears its head in central and eastern Europe

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Money printing coming home to roost. Poland has been trigger happy with profligate government spending for a decade now. They spend massively on "social programmes" which are various direct cash hangouts to the people. How could you not eventually get inflation like this? — Matt 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇩 (@MattStirner) April 21, 2022

Karl Denninger Makes the Case that What NATO is Doing With Regards to Russia is Illegal: “NATO Is Invalid And The Nations In It Deserve What They Get

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NATO Is Invalid And The Nations In It Deserve What They Get [Comments enabled] Everyone wishes to argue “Article 5” of the NATO treaty, which is the mutual-defense pact. You get attacked and we all get attacked. Ok. What does Article I say? The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United … Read more

It’s official: Wimbledon announces all tennis players from Russia and Belarus – including those who have publicly condemned the war – will be banned from competing. Includes numerous top players.

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REUTERS: Wimbledon, the world's most prestigious tennis tournament, to bar all Russian players They originally said they'd ban Russians unless they denounce Putin. Instead, they're banning all Russians, including those who bravely denounced the war:https://t.co/yZqZ99VpTg — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 20, 2022 "Wimbledon’s Decision to Ban Russian and Belarusian Players Is Indefensible" Good article by … Read more