by JamesColesPardon I, like many of you, have been paying attention to the world and know that something is going on in Venezuela. What is it? Who is Juan Guaido? Is he an interim president, or a so-called president? Why …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “In 30 years, I’ve never seen anything like this”: CEO of warehouse operator Pacific Mountain Logistics. Sales at merchant wholesalers (except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices) fell 1% in December 2018, compared to November, to $497.2 billion …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Something has to give. Starting to be a fascinating phenomenon: Rates charged by trucking companies and other transportation providers continue to surge on a year-over-year basis even as the volume of shipments has dropped below where …
via nysun: Coming soon to a public television station near you is a documentary favoring the gold standard. If that seems improbable it may be from underestimating the determination of Steve Forbes. He is the author of the book “Money,” on …
U.S. stock funds set for record monthly withdrawals: Lipper NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors fled U.S.-based stock funds in the latest week, setting those investments up for their biggest month of withdrawals on record, Lipper data showed on Thursday. …
by revcanon I just saw a commercial for a nationally known tax preparer that said, “Next year, your tax refund won’t arrive until after February.” As if this was some new timeline we’ve never experienced. This is absolutely normal. Your …
by FS In today’s Lifetime Income podcast, Jim Puplava and Laurence Kotlikoff explain how long-held retirement rules of thumb are failing to meet the needs of individuals in today’s world. According to Kotlikoff, “conventional financial planning is asking the wrong …
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(AUDIO PODCAST) MIAC #142 Geologists Forecast Longer Colder Winters Based on Geologic Record http://adapt2030.libsyn.com/miac-142-…
Ok people… I did something no-one bothers to do… READ THE CASE LAW the judge based his decision on. https://openjurist.org/569/f2d/124/sherrill-v-h-knight Robert SHERRILL v. H. Stuart KNIGHT, Director, United States Secret Service, et al., Appellants. 1977 In this case the judge determines that …
via dailywire: A California-based public relations firm is offering paid protesting services to its clients. Crowds on Demand, out of Beverly Hills, offers “protests, rallies, flash-mobs, paparazzi events and other inventive PR stunts,” according to their website. “We provide everything including the …
via Larry Elliot As a profession, economists are absolutely hopeless at forecasting recessions. That is true not only in the years before a severe downturn. It happens when the storm is about to break. Back in 2008, the Bank of England …
by Chris Martenson Dreamstime We’re all going to have to be a lot more resilient in the future. The “long emergency“, as James Howard Kunstler puts it, is now upon us. If ever there was a wake-up call from Mother …
https://medium.com/swlh/russian-engineers-developed-an-ai-based-avatars-app-for-old-iphones-apple-didnt-let-it-go-live-aaeb3ff16298 “Too similar to Animoji, which creates a misleading association with Apple products.”, — The App Store Review Team In other words, your app is better than Animoji, and they don’t want the competition. h/t philippbatura
read the bill here: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB100 It is the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100 percent of electricity procured to serve …
Odd how this doesn’t cause massive backlash in the US media, just a sort of detached observation: https://tinyurl.com/yd5g38wu
Unions Take a Hit After Supreme Court Ruling: States are ordered to stop collecting millions of dollars in fees from public workers. Public-sector unions are facing steep falls in revenue and trying to prevent the loss of members in the …
Jul 6 – FS Insider interviews Russell Napier, well-known financial historian and co-founder of the Electronic Research Interchange (ERIC), to discuss a breakdown in the global monetary system, primarily with emerging… https://www.financialsense.com/subscribe
In season 4-e7 (on Netflix) Bourdain, a former addict himself, discusses with addiction treatment specialists how addiction to pharmaceutical opiates often leads to heroin dependence. Great episode. Can you believe a couple years ago congress passed a bill (92-2 …
by cbus20122 Please be skeptical, as I do the same. I’m not even fully on board with a lot of technical analysis, especially bad technical analysis. I like fundamentals more than anything else, but enjoy the idea of backing up fundamentals …
by: Stefan Gleason President Donald Trump recently took to Twitter to boast, “The U.S. has an increased economic value of more than 7 Trillion Dollars since the Election. May be the best economy in the history of our country. Record Jobs numbers. Nice!” …
via Jill Mislinski Here is a summary of the four market valuation indicators we update on a monthly basis. The Crestmont Research P/E Ratio (more) The cyclical P/E ratio using the trailing 10-year earnings as the divisor (more) The Q Ratio, …
Emmanuel Macron breaks record, promotes New World Order 7 times during speech while denouncing Nationalism inside our own congress. I just hope Trump isnt falling for this bullsh*t because congress seems to be eating it up? h/t Jake
The pharmaceutical companies have bribed so many doctors, so many journal editors, that medical articles can no longer be trusted. American medicine has become completely corrupted. The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so …
SJWs are infiltrating companies and causing them to implode by attacking customers. SJWs only know how to shame and bully. That’s it. They can’t make money because they’re communists. h/t zenmasterzen3
by Jon Rappoport “Let’s see, US Deep State actors from intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, and the Department of State, along with US allies, played a MAJOR role in creating, funding, supplying, and sustaining ISIS, while purportedly doing everything possible to …
via Markit Summary Global PMI signals weakest economic growth rate since November 2016. Broad-based slowdown among major countries. Eurozone sees strongest growth, though US closes the gap. Price pressures remain close to seven-year high. Global economic growth slowed sharply to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpzKhyWEZhk I believe in Diversity…let’s abolish Welfare and Affirmative Action for Freeloaders no matter what race they are! AC
iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy to shed $10B in debt March 15 (UPI) — iHeartMedia — the parent company that operates iHeartRadio and iHeartCommunications — said Wednesday it’s agreed to cut more than $10 billion worth of debt by filing for …
by Joe Guzzardi Displaced American IT workers, and recent grads struggling to find a tech job, just received good news. A February U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo advised employers hoping to hire a foreign-born engineer that they would have to conclusively prove …