A Minnesota judge has found aggravating factors in Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd — a finding that dramatically increases the likelihood of a longer sentence. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was found guilty last month of second-degree unintentional …
From Birch Gold Group Reality always wins in the end. It doesn’t matter if you’re excited about the economy or its outlook. Unless some economic scam is being perpetuated (unlikely), fundamentals always play a factor, and guide the U.S. economy through peaks and valleys. Fundamentals …
🚨🚨🚨 A @CNN director is caught on video admitting that the focus of CNN's news coverage in 2020 was "to get Trump out of office" & that they engaged in "propaganda" to make it happen. CNN isn't a news organization, …
Last week Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters she can refuse to seat members of Congress if she wants to. Pelosi and the Democrats are currently working to unseat the winner of the Iowa 2nd district race. This is something never seen …
Author: ‘Daily stressors — specifically the minor, small inconveniences that we have throughout the day — even those have lasting impacts on mortality.’ CORVALLIS, Ore. — Does an argument at the office on Monday still gnaw at you on Friday? Daily …
I think his days at Fox are numbered. h/t Frank Crow
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Well you said this winter would be long and the summer shorter. It is still snowing here in the heart of America. It looks like your computer is correct again. Instead of funding research for billion dollars to …
by Geoffrey Grider Three corporate giants from completely different industries have made a shocking announcement. Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co. and Xerox stated that they no longer donate to Planned Parenthood. In 1921, when Margaret Sanger started the American Birth Control League based …
via heraldmailmedia: BEIJING — China’s ambitious plan to assign lifelong scores to citizens based on their behavior has stoked international concern, even as the project remains nascent and numerous hurdles must be overcome before the experiment can be implemented nationwide. In …
by Simon Black My grandfather was just a toddler when soldiers came home from World War One in 1918. They brought the deadly Spanish Flu with them, which killed well over 50 million worldwide. As a young adult, my grandfather struggled …
Recycling, for decades an almost reflexive effort by American households and businesses to reduce waste and help the environment, is collapsing in many parts of the country. Philadelphia is now burning about half of its 1.5 million residents’ recycling material …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent imprisonment of a man in Nashville, Tennessee who rented his own home out through Airbnb for paying guests without a permit. Layton Jones listed his northwest Nashville home on Airbnb without a permit which …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1100877403730202624 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1100948374956765190 Equity investors still on the sidelines of this rally, Barclays: pic.twitter.com/KGXwDeTaWH — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) March 1, 2019
via Marketwatch: 1 in 3 ‘moderate income’ Americans experience financial insecurity Despite low rates of unemployment and reports of a booming economy, many American workers are struggling to make ends meet. One in three Americans with a “moderate income” has …
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/business/dealbook/stock-market-technology.html For much of the past decade, the fate of the stock market has been tied to the performance of a handful of the largest tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix led the market from one record …
by John Rubino We Baby Boomers timed it perfectly. We came of age during in an era of plentiful jobs and relatively high wages. Public pensions were generous. Stock, bond and home prices were low, and have since risen strongly, …
by John Ward Mainstream television “news” is now so awful – off the point, dumbed down biased, D-noticed and neo-propagandist codswallop mixed with lachrymose little boy saves tiger ‘human interest’ vomit – it’s time someone found another word for the generic. …
by Troy Now that the S&P 500 has reached its 50% fibonacci retracement, its medium term outlook is no longer decisively bullish. As we mentioned before, 13 of 15 historical 20% declines saw a pullback/retest after a 50% retracement. Go here to understand …
via vanguard: Beginning January 22, 2019, Vanguard will no longer accept purchases in leveraged or inverse mutual funds, ETFs (exchange-traded funds), or ETNs (exchange-traded notes). If you already own these investments, you can continue to hold them or choose to sell …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The Gulag Archipelago is not a distant memory; it lives on in every modern state, cloaked with modern-day technologies and the well-worn tools of suppression. The last thing addicts want to hear is the truth: the only thing …
Kanye West Reaffirms His Support of Trump in His First Tweets of 2019. “Trump all day,” he wrote, followed by dragon emojis — likely calling back to tweets from April in which he said he and Donald Trump share “dragon …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078408848342429696 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078437730579873793 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078374017227198466 If we just look at months that have a higher percentage of days with -2.0% intraday draw downs than Dec 2018 so far, the list is a bit more ominous. None of these were at the end …
BY JOHN MAULDIN I have long warned that demographic changes have made Social Security unsustainable. In 1940, the Social Security system had 159.4 workers per beneficiary. Then it went off the rails quickly. By 1945 the ratio was down to 41.9 and a decade …
by SP Charles posts an excellent and insightful essay on the downward mobility of the middle class as a cause of the “Yellow Vests” uprising. He points out the economic forces. The middle class, virtually by definition, is not prepared …
The housing market in San Francisco is so expensive that it’s commonly referred to as being in a crisis. Restaurant workers are fleeing the city’s unmanageable costs, The Guardian reported, and it’s changing the way the industry is serving customers. Some restaurants are having customers order at …
by howmuch The American government is fast approaching the $22 Trillion mark in national debt. That’s about 137% of our entire GDP, one of the highest rates of indebtedness in the entire world. If the government seems addicted to adding to the national balance …
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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1064369429759369217 The more time price spends <2720 – the higher the probability a significant move down will occur $SPX (weekly). I don't want to give downside projects just yet, but do notice where the next HVN resides, yes, it is …
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given …
