Bitcoin, which offers up until now a “free currency” not subject to the whims of the Federal Reserve, and threatens the control by that organization and those beholden to it…
The Illusion Of Prosperity
Authored by 720Global’s Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, For the last 50 years, the consumer, that means you and me, have been the most powerful force driving the U.S. economy. Household spending now accounts for…
The Insanity of the Democratic Party:
The Insanity of the Democratic Party: You do not have the right to your own time nor the product of your effort. However, another human does have the right to…
Re Writing History
If the Democrats want to purge their history of fighting to preserve slavery by tearing down statues of prior heroes, that is their prerogative in their communities. It makes one…
Hospitals are hurting because people are going to the doctor less
Patient health insurance is also shifting from more lucrative plans to government ones Getty Images By EMMACOURT REPORTER Hospital operators haven’t been having a particularly good time in recent months.…
The Whiskey Rebellion: A Model for Our Time?
Murray N. Rothbard The Whiskey Rebellion: A Model for Our Time? In recent years, Americans have been subjected to a concerted assault upon their national symbols, holidays, and anniversaries. Washington’s…
Federal Indictment Alleges Chrysler And UAW Execs Stole Millions From Employee Training Programs
For any UAW employees out there who still think their union is anything more than a ponzi scheme designed to effectively tax membership while enriching a few ‘bosses’ at the…
Who Is In Bed With Russia?
The Thought Crucible Which Party’s economics more closely resembles Russian economics? Which Party turned over half of Europe to Russia after WWII ? Which Party called for the unilateral disarmament…
If Russian Hacking Of The 2016 Presidential Election Is The Threat To America That Democrats Suggest, Why Does The DNC Fail To Cooperate With Investigators?
If Russian Hacking Of The 2016 Presidential Election Is The Threat To America That Democrats Suggest, Why Does The DNC Fail To Cooperate With Investigators? (see: DNC Server: Most Critical…
Data Suggest That ObamaCare Actually Caused More Americans To Die.
Authored by Robert Murphy via The Mises Institute, Namely, the states that took advantage of ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion saw a worse impact on their mortality rates than the states that rejected the…
Democratic Party In The Process Of Destroying Bernie Sanders And The Division He Represents.
The divided Democratic Party is in the process of destroying Bernie Sanders and the division he represents. In April last year a local Vermont news publication revealed that the Justice…
The End Of The (Petro)Dollar: What The Fed Doesn’t Want You To Know
Authored by Shaun Bradley via TheAntiMedia.org, The United States’ ability to maintain its influence over the rest of the world has been slowly diminishing. Since the petrodollar was established in…
“THE OLD ARE EATING THE YOUNG”; DAS FEARS RISING SOCIAL TENSIONS
Authored by Satyajit Das, originally posted at Bloomberg.com, Around the world, a generational divide is worsening… Edmund Burke saw society as a partnership between those who are living, those…
Why Has Meuller Not Recused Himself?
Meuller has a personal and professional relationship with Comey. They are and have long been allies. Comey regards his predecessor at the FBI as a mentor, while Mueller considers Comey his protégé.…
Putin then said that “if there is some kind of persecution, we would be ready to offer political asylum to Mr Comey.!
Vladimir Putin, when speaking in a live call-in show with the Russian nation, the Russian president likened Comey to Edward Snowden, who was granted asylum in Russia in 2013, and…
Yes There Was “Obstruction Of Justice” And Much Worse!!
Yes There Was “Obstruction Of Justice” And Much Worse!! The obstruction of justice occurred before and during the 2016 presidential election. The Obama Administration, Barak Obama, Loretta Lynch, James Comey,…
Something Amiss Under The Surface?
Gold Near Post-Election Highs As Crude Tests 2017 Lows:: Bitcoin Extends Overnight Gains, Rises 200% Year-To-Date With Treasury yields at their lowest since the election, it appears…
FISA Court Finds “Serious Fourth Amendment Issue” In Obama’s “Widespread” Illegal Searches Of American Citizens
A newly released court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) found that the National Security Agency, under former President Obama, routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through…
Is Free Trade Always The Best Course?
“Adam Smith: “In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it…
Saudi Power Struggle Could Destabilize The Entire Middle East
Authored by Cyril Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, Political instability in Saudi Arabia is growing as King Salman bin Abdulaziz begins to overhaul the Saudi government, putting a long list of family…
Venn Diagram of the Day
1. Venn Diagram of the Day (above). Inspired by the March 6, 2013 article Salon article titled “Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle” (by David Sirota), here’s a slice: Chavez became the…
Marx, Orwell, And State-Cartel Socialism
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When “socialist” states have to impose finance-capital extremes that even exceed the financialization of nominally capitalist economies, it gives the lie to their…
Couldn’t Happen Here!.Turkey To “Confiscate” Gold “To Help Citizens Earn Money”,,It Already Happened Here Once!
Authored by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, The dwindling credit of Turkey and significant decline in its currency, has led to the new clever idea of confiscating gold with a smile.…
China To Ban North Korean Coal!..Will Import More From The US. Trump Is Winning
China Bans North Korean Coal! In a show of solidarity with the U.S. against North Korea, China has stopped buying coal from the communist regime after last week’s missile test. Now,…
Millennials Are Abandoning The Postwar Engines Of Growth: Suburbs And Autos
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Where’s the growth going to come from as the dominant generation makes less, borrows less, spends less, saves more and turns away from…
Syria, Empire, & The Power Of Signaling
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Trying to reduce the carefully choreographed drama to one stage and one audience risks misunderstanding the signal. It seems many media observers are…
The Unavoidable Pension Crisis
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, There is a really big crisis coming. Think about it this way. After 8 years and a 230% stock market advance the pension funds…
Indian drugs are often not bioequivalent
Roger Bate Western regulators have found evidence of it, scholars unearthed empirical support for it, but now even the lead lobbyist for its industry admits it; most Indian medicines are…
Trump Right Once Again!! Susan Rice “Unmasked” Trump Team
Once again it appears that Trump was right: the conspiracy theory that a close Obama associate worked to “unmask” the Trump team, resulting in the ongoing media spectacle over “collusion”…
Just In Case You Were Not Sure That The New York Times Is Democratic Propaganda !!
Hillary Plans On Setting A Reporter Straight…. Recently released Huma Abedin State Department emails – acquired by Judicial Watch via FOIA request, reveal Clinton State Department staff planning to summon New York Times…
Pay Attention Folks, Russia And China Bypassing US Dollar Means The End Of The Free Lunch!
by Tyler Durden Apr 1, 2017 7:09 PM The Russian central bank opened its first overseas office in Beijing on March 14, marking a step forward in forging a Beijing-Moscow…
“The Trump Folks, If They Found Out How We Knew What We Knew About Staff…””
Evelyn Farkas admits that Trump Team was under Surveillance, “wiretapped” by Obama Administration!!!! EVELYN FARKAS: …that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about…
Why Obama Care Will “Explode” . It Is Being Funded Illegally..!!
This month, Harvard Ph.D. Jerome Corsi of InfoWars (@jerome_corsi) and a CPA “who worked for two years for a major U.S. accounting firm as an outside auditor for Freddie Mac,” confirmed a 2012 scheme hatched…
Here’s Why Italy’s Banking Crisis Has Gone Off The Radar
Authored by Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at Wolf Street Here’s Why Italy’s Banking Crisis Has Gone Off the Radar For a country that is on the brink of…
Obamacare ‘Explosion’ Could Come On May 22nd, Here’s Why
As the Atlanta Journal Constitution points out today, the Trump administration has until May 22nd to decide whether they will continue to pursue the Obama administration’s appeal to provide subsidies…
ABC Reports That Retired Teachers In Texas Are Projected To Pay Double Or Triple Their Current Premiums For Healthcare Beginning September 1.
Since 1985, the state has provided healthcare for retired teachers through a plan called TRS Care. As of last year, 261,500 retired teachers, dependents and their surviving spouses, according to…
The Democrats and Their Russian Leaders Are Upset Trump Won
John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a…
Regardless Of Who’s In Power, The Overlapping Crises Are Coming.
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises. Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation…
Russia” stone-throwers on the left may have been living in Russia-funded glass-houses after all…
The story behind this Podesta-Russia link is explained in full gore by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog; dot connectors, Twitter diagram creators and newly minted Russia-conspiracy sleuths from sea…
Initial Jobless Claims Surge Most In 10 Months:: Have To Wonder Why Yellen Wants To Cause A Rescission!
US Job Market Not As Strong As Perceived
Despite endless streams of Fed Speakers proclaiming, in one form or another, that “we are at, or close to, full employment;” many in America – judging by the election of…
Even In America Socialism Does Not Work:::The Long Run Economics Of Debt Based Stimulus
Authored by MN Gordon via Acting-Man.com, Onward vs. Upward Something both unwanted and unexpected has tormented western economies in the 21st century. Gross domestic product (GDP) has moderated onward while…
Collapsing Pensions Are About To Bring Hell To America
Along with the student loan debt bubble and other major financial factors, the looming pensions crisis is bound to be the death of us all. Because it’s based on a…
Russia’s Largest Bank Confirms Hiring Podesta Group:: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!!
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has confirmed that it hired the consultancy of Tony Podesta, the elder brother of John Podesta who chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for lobbying its interests…
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NY Teamsters Pension Becomes First To Run Out Of Money As Expert Warns “Pension Tsunami” Is Coming
The New York Teamsters Road Carriers Local 707 Pension Fund has won the unfortunate award for “First Pension to Officially Run Out of Money.” According to the New York Daily…
Why Socialism And Liberalism Never Work:: Science !!!
Humans beings appear to be hardwired to have a sense of fairness. This is puzzling from an evolutionary perspective, which you would have thought would mean we were predisposed to…
Iran confirms: US paid ransom
Foreign and Defense Policy, Middle East, Terrorism Back in September, I testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the allegation that the Obama administration had paid Iran a ransom—at…
Democrats Pick A Racist To Head DNC:::Perez Doesn’t Think White People Are Protected Under the Voting Rights Act
Democrats Pick A Racist To Head DNC Perez Dropped Voter Intimidation Charges Against Black Panthers Who Brought Weapons to a Polling Place…Perez Doesn’t Think White People Are Protected Under the…
Italy’s Crisis Will Be Worse
Submitted by Daniel Mitchell via The Foundation for Economic Education, Early last month, in a column on my hopes and fears for 2017, I fretted about fiscal chaos in Italy…