Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent breaking news that Trump is nominating Stephen Moore for the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve. Moore is a so-called Fed critic as he has been critical of Jerome Powell’s raising of …
by notayesmanseconomics Yesterday brought something of a change to the financial landscape and it is something that we both expected and to some extent feared. Let me illustrate by combining some tweets from Lisa Abramowicz of Bloomberg. Biggest one-day drop in 10-year …
by JoeBlowgun Missouri just banned all Federal gun control laws and i mean All of them. All Ammo and accessories including items that require tax stamps. Hello Fully Automatic weapons including newly manufactured ones not the just the pre 1986 ban. …
by Michael Snyder Now even the Federal Reserve is publicly admitting that the U.S. economy is slowing down. And that is quite remarkable, because usually the Federal Reserve is extremely hesitant to say that an economic slowdown is taking place. As …
https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1106377564577247233 https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1106188316251226114 U.S. PROSECUTORS PROBE FACEBOOK'S DATA-SHARING DEALS: NYT oops — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 13, 2019 Facebook Chief Product Officer Resigns Along With WhatsApp Head Facebook stock fell in after-hours trading Thursday, follow an announcement that two executives were leaving …
by WARREN MOSLER A bit of an uptic from a very low number, with last month’s data revised still lower and the outlook still looking very soft: Highlights For retail sales, no period has more seasonal extremes than the busy …
Feds splurge on lobster, pianos, golf carts in race to spend ‘use it or lose it’ budget It turns out September, not April, may be federal taxpayers’ worst nightmare. The end of the government’s fiscal year usually brings an orgy …
by Jesse Colombo As the current economic cycle becomes increasingly long-in-the-tooth and macroeconomic and earnings data deteriorate, it is time to start thinking about the next recession. In particular, I wanted to point out that the U.S. federal debt burden has never …
What is investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts looking to put money in? She has long been lukewarm on gold, but not any longer. Fitts now says, “The world is choking on debt. . . …
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ZeroHedge reports, Former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova says civil discourse is over in America, and recommends voting and buying guns because “we are in a civil war.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zx00WXUSHU Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-0…
via MarketWatch: The Tax Policy Center estimates how many people paid no federal individual income taxes in 2018 Tax-filing season has begun. Americans have until April 15 to file their income taxes. There’s been some good news for workers over …
by DCG Baby killers Planned Parenthood hardest hit. From OregonLive: The Trump administration on Friday set up new obstacles for women seeking abortions, barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. The new policy is certain to be challenged in court. The …
Stocks gyrated on Wednesday as Wall Street tried to interpret a release from the Federal Reserve which summarized its crucial meeting last month where the central bank indicated it would be patient on future rate hikes. As of 2:30 p.m. …
via yahoo: Washington (AFP) – More massive than the US economy, the national debt hit a new record of $22 trillion under President Donald Trump but Republicans who traditionally rail against debt and deficits have remained mum. The sum of …
The federal budget deficit in December totaled $13.5 billion, helping to push the deficit for the first three months of this budget year up 41.8 percent from the same period the previous year. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the …
The states are: California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Virginia https://www.washingtonpost.com AC
https://www.projectcensored.org/21-trillion-missing-us-federal-budget/ “Despite disabled links and neglect from officials, the verification of over $6T inspired Skidmore and his students to comb through thousands of Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports for 1998-2015. Regarding his findings Skidmore stated, “This is incomplete, but …
Amazon paid no federal taxes on $11.2 billion in profits last year, according to group’s analysis Amazon, the e-commerce giant helmed by the world’s richest man, paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 billion last year, according to an …
by TFittonJW Judicial Watch shaking things up in California: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Time-s-up-for-voters-who-don-t-vote-Miss-two-13565476.php Californians across the state could find that they are no longer registered voters now that a suit by a pair of conservative groups has been settled by Los Angeles County and Secretary of …
via mises: In our Principles of Microeconomics courses, we sometimes consider whether a firm should shutdown some line of production. A firm shuts down when it ceases operations, when it closes down and stops its production. The firm stops spending money …
by David Haggith We are in the end time of an unprecedented era of financial expansion — the greatest expansion of the world’s money supply ever attempted, expansion of the Federal Reserve’s vast and unchecked powers far beyond what the Fed …
by hammertime84 Marginal tax rates and potential confusion around them have been in the news a bit lately. I’d never actually seen the effective rate and marginal rate plotted together this way and it worked out well. I used the …
The US Federal Reserve is investigating how Deutsche Bank handled billions suspicious payments from Danske Bank, as regulators try to unravel who was involved in one of the largest financial scandals in history. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said …
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll043.xml Including the Democrat which proposed the measure SPEZ for references: https://projects.propublica.org/represent/bills/116/hjres28 Introduced to the House by Nita M. Lowey (Democrat. New York) And she is, clearly, included within the Nay column. h/t betany
via aier.org: In fiscal year 2018, $137 billion was paid “improperly” by the federal government, according to arecent report. That number sums all the improper payments by what the government calls high-priority programs. They are programs with improper-payments estimates exceeding $2 …
Sources: Jekyll Island Gang http://www.kamron.com/economics/jecke… JP morgan buys the banks https://www.nytimes.com/1917/02/14/ar… John Mccloy- world bank president https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J…. https://www.historyhit.com/facts-abou… Only one american wallstreet banker went to jail https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/ma… Bailtout list: https://projects.propublica.org/bailo… Grayson Bernake video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c452733…
by David Haggith In a surprisingly candid admission, two former Federal Reserve chairs have stated that the Federal Reserve alone is responsible for creating all recessions in the United States. First, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said that Expansions don’t die …
via americanthinker: Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy? In only five more days of the already “longest government shutdown in history” (25 days and counting, as …
by TFittonJW Big news today! https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-court-orders-discovery-on-clinton-email-benghazi-scandal-top-obama-clinton-officials-susan-rice-and-ben-rhodes-to-respond-to-judicial-watch-questions-under-oath/ (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced today that United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that discovery can begin in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides will now be …