Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Residential Construction Skids, Nonresidential Construction Stagnates. The delay gave markets a break from lousy data. OK, it looks like GDP growth, released last week for the fourth quarter (+2.6% annualized rate), will be revised lower on …
The credit markets are stalling, this is a sign that we are close to a recession. The markets are still increasing, moving towards an all time new high. China car sales in January declined the most in 7 years, China …
by Mark Nestmann I was starting to feel sorry for the 800,000 federal employees who hadn’t received paychecks for more than a month. Then Donald Trump caved to the Democrats and ended the government shutdown. There’s now a bipartisan effort in …
From Brandon Smith The mainstream economic community has a notoriously short attention span and a lack of long-term perspective. After the longest government shutdown in American history subsided, the mainstream proclaimed the fight well and over – in other words, nothing …
President Trump is in the process of building a wall on the southern border to fend off caravans, drug dealers and human trafficking. Is Congress going to give the President the money he wants to secure the border and America? …
From Birch Gold Group The temporarily-ended government shutdown didn’t have had a large effect on the U.S. economy, but it may have revealed something disturbing about the savings of 80% of Americans. They aren’t prepared if the economy get worse. MarketWatch published some recent …
GOODWIN: Trump down, but not out… Battered, bruised and beaten, Donald Trump faces a grim reality. Halfway through his term, his presidency is at low tide. The polls have cratered and his necessary retreatover using a shutdown to get wall funding …
https://youtu.be/GAaCjW8uxkQ MAJOR UPDATE! As of Fri. Jan. 25th, 2019, President Trump announced that the government would reopen for 21 more days in order to discuss a “resolution deal” for the border wall. If no deal is reached as of Fri. …
More NBC/WSJ poll: Pelosi’s negatives shot up during government shutdown more than any pol // now the most unpopular politician tested in the survey. pic.twitter.com/pSMBFydwx7 — Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) January 27, 2019 POLL: Nancy Pelosi most unpopular national politician in …
YouTube/PeterSchiff, Released on 1/25/19 Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major …
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 …
via Bloomberg: The U.S. government produces data—a lot of data, from figures about the economy to steel to crops to commodity trading. And the partial federal shutdown has slowed the flow of data to a trickle, thanks to the closure …
Students were quick to blame Trump for the government shutdown… until they learned about the offer he gave Democrats that was shot down. Kinda shows how the Media like CNN and MSNBC can easily manipulate people into joining one …
For over a month, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been seen as the main opponent to Trump’s plans for a border wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP5dSsMiSsk
Top of the Drudge Report https://drudgereport.com US GOVT SHUTDOWN AGREEMENT REACHEDANNOUNCEMENT SET FOR 1 PM EST US.GOVT TO REOPEN 'TEMPORARILY'@realDonaldTrump atlast has some sense dawned on you….or r u scared of #MuellerFriday — Adv M Ramiah (@murugesh1234) January 25, 2019 …
by WARREN MOSLER Euro area business growth close to stalling at 5½ year low in January (Markit) Flash Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index at 50.7 (51.1 in December). Services PMI Activity Index at 50.8 (51.2 in December). Manufacturing PMI Output …
By Lance Gaitan The partial government shutdown is obviously affecting federal employees that aren’t getting paid, but for the most part, life goes on. These federal workers might be in a pinch right now, but eventually they’ll get paid back …
by FS Ryan Sweet, Director of Real-Time Economics for Moody’s Analytics spoke with Financial Sense’s Jim Puplava on the impact of the government shutdown on U.S. GDP and how it’s not only affecting thousands of American families but is beginning to trickle …
via Sven Henrich: The government shutdown, the longest in history, comes with a hidden revelation: Millions of Americans are financially unprepared for the next economic downturn. Worse, they are highly vulnerable, with few protections available to them. Ten years after the …
Cassandra Fairbanks for the Gateway Pundit reports, President Donald Trump has given lawmakers a new proposal to end the shutdown and secure our southern border — by promising three years of protection for DACA recipients. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGdDPyqM37g Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019… …
Politicians are elected to represent us. They are here to protect our interests over their political interests. Refusal to try to work toward compromise is putting politics over people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0otXdTiUCM&feature=youtu.be AC
Neoliberals love to use immigrants like pawns: http://archive.is/IO0rQ
Via The Babylon Bee U.S.—The economic toll of the government shutdown is growing by the day, and experts now believe the cost of having the government partially closed down is nearly as bad as the economic toll of a functioning …
Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster Aides on Capitol Hill fear that a dramatic government failure may be the only thing to force President Trump and the Democrats back to the table. As the longest government shutdown in American …
The U.S. government may be shut down but it’s still doling out large sums of taxpayer dollars to foreign causes that American citizens may not consider a priority. In the last few days alone, Uncle Sam dedicated millions of dollars …
by Daisy Luther As I’ve written before, the government shutdown is a perfect demonstration of our politicians participating in partisan showmanship, with poor people as the victims of their theater. As individual states desperately attempt to take care of the people …
I like this guy a lot. I wish he was still on mainstream media. I guess his views were to on point for them. Another great video. h/t Banana Fighter
by Danny Ratliff As we are now in to day 26 of the government shutdown, the 800,000 federal employees and contractors being used as political pawns go without their first paycheck. This whole ordeal, while unfortunate, is a great reminder …
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 …
