House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler last week over his ‘Moby Dick’-like obsession with impeaching President Trump – days before Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski wiped the floor with Congressional Democrats during a contentious five-hour hearing on Tuesday in front of Nadler’s panel. Pelosi’s comments came during a closed-door Capitol Hill meeting of Democrats […]

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, In a concept paper called “Treat Wealth Like Wages”, the ranking member of the US Senate Finance Committee laid out a plan late last week to radically overhaul the tax code in a way never before seen. Just as you’d expect from the title, his central idea is to […]

And the hits keep coming for the ‘trillionaire-to-be’ CEO of WeWork as Bloomberg reports that the lenders are looking to revise terms on Adam Neumann’s massive personal credit line amid collateral concerns as the real estate company’s valuation plummets. Bloomberg details that Neumann arranged a credit line of as much as $500 million from JPMorgan Chase […]

Altria stock, which already had a disappointing 2019, tumbled to fresh five year lows after the CDC announced during a Thursday briefing that 530 people have fallen ill from the mysterious vaping-related lung ailment that has raised alarms across the U.S., up from 380 “confirmed and probable cases” that the government reported last week. Worse, […]

One of the reasons for the sharply hawkish response to yesterday’s FOMC meeting – one which saw both the dollar and yields spike – is that as we pointed out yesterday morning, in the hours ahead of Powell’s press conference, Wall Street consensus quickly shifted with many expecting the Fed to announce some form of […]

A FedEx pilot was arrested in the southern Chiense city of Guangzhou last week after flying deliveries throughout Asia from the Guangzhou airport, according to the Wall Street Journal.  A FedEx Express airliner at Hong Kong International Airport. Chinese authorities detained a FedEx pilot at the company’s regional hub at China’s Guangzhou airport. PHOTO: ALEXANDER SHCHERBAK/ZUMA PRESS […]

Japan’s richest man, Masayoshi Son, may be setting himself up for one of the most epic ponzi unwinds in history, and his juggling act between his personal fortune, SoftBank and SoftBank’s Vision Fund is starting to paint a picture of him as Elon Musk on steroids.  Just like Musk, the SoftBank founder has pledged a whopping […]

Via SaraACarter.com, A Chinese national pleaded guilty yesterday to federal criminal charges for running an Orange County-based “birth tourism” business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and Chinese government officials, charging them tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States so their children would get U.S. citizenship. Dongyuan Li […]

And now a plot twist: with Trump under relentless attack for the past three years to disclose his tax returns, on Thursday morning the president struck back, suing Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to block an attempt by New York state prosecutors to obtain eight years of the president’s tax returns in a probe of whether […]

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, In the aftermath of the tightest election that Israel has seen in a long time, headlines all over the world are boldly declaring that “the Netanyahu era is over”.  But that is not necessarily true.  At this point it is going to be […]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a new report about hypersonic weapons, including hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) and hypersonic cruise missiles (HCMs), and their development as the race for hypersonic technology heats up with Russia and China.  Hypersonic weapons fly between Mach 5 (3,836 mph) and Mach 10 (7,672 mph) and have the ability […]

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, After 9/11, the concept of the “false flag attack” gained prominence in American culture, and ever since, more and more people are starting to question the official narrative whenever new crisis events occur. It is possible that this is why there has not been another attack in the US […]

A convicted drug dealer who is running several social media accounts from a UK prison using a contraband cellphone has published what appears to be the first footage of notorious UK criminal Charles Bronson, whose decades of violent crime have been the subject of movies and TV shows. In the video, Bronson appears to coyly […]

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Laura Nolan, a former Google software engineer who left the company in protest of Project Maven, Google’s since-abandoned artificial intelligence development program for military drones, says killer robots could commit atrocities. If governments turn control of their weapons systems over to fully-autonomous machines, we may face devastating, unintentional calamities or […]

A rumored fraud at a small payrolls processing company located in remote Clifton, New York, drained the bank accounts for thousands of employees at companies that use its service. According to WSJ, money intended for employee paychecks and tax payments disappeared after an online payrolls company known as MyPayrollHR mysteriously folded. All of a sudden, […]

Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Global Islamic Terrorism is universally recognized as today’s big threat and has been the justification for all sorts of changes, especially to life in the West after 9/11. The Islamic terrorists whom we are supposed to fear on a daily basis more or less believe in […]

A Secret Service memo has requested the need for jet skis to protect President Trump’s family and friends — while at vacation properties at President Trump’s exclusive south Florida Mar-a-Lago Club and other properties in the Hamptons.  The memo said the agency needs two jet skis and a trailer to “enhance safety/security for protective assignments […]

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Chief financial officers in the United States have started to prepare themselves and their finances for a recession. For the first time in several years, economic uncertainty is now their lead concern, replacing worries about the difficulty of hiring and retaining talented workers. According to CNN, 53 percent of chief financial […]

Russia, China, and the US are all racing towards the Arctic region, trying to establish their military dominance in part of the world where $35 trillion worth of national resources could be hiding underneath the ocean floor. Now Russia is dashing its way into the Arctic, announcing on Monday that new missile defense systems have […]

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, A gun store in Arizona has run out of both the AR-15 and the AK-47 rifles they put on a sale named the “Beto Special.” This gun sale was in response to threats made by Communist Beto O’Rourke, who said:  “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your […]

A Chinese woman who allegedly paid $400,000 in bribes to ensure her son was admitted to UCLA as a fake soccer player was arrested in Spain on Monday night and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, according to the LA Times.  Chinese national and British Columbia resident Xiaoning Sui was taken into custody […]

What’s the end game here? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has just arrived in Jeddah for talks with Saudi leaders over a response to the weekend attacks on two of the kingdom’s major oil facilities.  After a prior press conference by the Saudi Defense Ministry where it for the first time assigned public blame on Iran for […]

With just over an hour left until the Fed’s latest announcement, traders are hunkering down ahead of what could be a very volatile market response Why? While there is certainly the possibility that the Fed will make some unexpected announcement following today’s FOMC meeting, especially with consensus rapidly shifting to expect Powell to announce some […]

Authored by Danielle DiMartino Booth via QuillIntelligence.com, California Mega-Port volumes are negative thus far this year, the longest stretch since the Industrial and Great Recessions; echoing the weakness, Cass Freight Shipment Volumes are down 4.5% versus last year While the Bloomberg consensus calls for a modest export expansion in the third and fourth quarters of […]

The attack on a Saudi Arabia oil facility, now being blamed on Iran, that caused crude oil futures to spike more than 10% to start the week is likely going to start hitting consumers at the pump over the next couple of days, according to Bloomberg. Despite retail gasoline futures jumping as much as 20 cents […]

Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, Whenever a central bank introduces easy monetary policy, as a rule this leads to an economic boom – or economic prosperity. At least this is what most commentators hold. If this is however the case then it means that an easy monetary policy can grow an economy. […]

Update: California has predictably challenged the move, and has vowed to file a lawsuit, according to Bloomberg. Governor Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, said that the White House’s action was motivated by oil companies.  *** The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked an Obama-era waiver allowing California to set its own standards for automobile emissions, a move which President Trump claims will […]

It was back on August 6, in an article titled “Forget China, The Fed Has A Much Bigger Problem On Its Hands“, where we explained why in response to the coming dollar funding shortage and liquidity crunch (we warned about this month’s repo crash over a month ago), we first said that Fed will likely […]

Though it appears President Trump has already signaled that war with Iran has been averted for now, instead opting to kick the can further down the road with a just announced measure to “substantially increase” sanctions on the Islamic Republic, Saudi Arabia has unveiled the long awaited “evidence” of Iran’s alleged involvement in the Aramco […]

Authored by Rusty Weiss via The Mental Recession Representative Ilhan Omar created a whirlwind of controversy when she deleted a tweet from 2013 that wished a Happy Father’s Day to a man named “Nur Said.” “Happy Father’s Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father […]

Democratic political activist and noted donor Ed Buck was arrested Tuesday night at his West Hollywood apartment where two men died of meth overdoses and a third, 37-year-old man, overdosed last week. The arrest came hours after President Trump was in the area for a fundraising blitz.  Ed Buck and current House Intelligence Committee Chairman […]

Authored by Craig Murray, The conscientious judges of the European Court of Human Rights published a judgement a fortnight ago which utterly exploded the version of events promulgated by Western governments and media in the case of the late Mr Magnitskiy. Yet I can find no truthful report of the judgement in the mainstream media […]

New images have surfaced on social media earlier this week revealing China’s supersonic spy drone rolling through the streets of Beijing during a rehearsal ahead of a parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The rehearsal was conducted on Sunday and lasted through Monday morning. Observers across […]

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Following a ban on virtually all semi-automatic firearms, New Zealanders face 5 years in jail if they refuse to hand them in. A France 24 report on the government’s new buyback scheme showed a line of gun owners wilfully giving up their guns in response to the […]

By now, most people have accepted that climate change is real, and that it is happening. What we can’t all agree on though, is what the main cause is. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, close to an absolute majority of the world’s scientists are adamant that we as humans are the main factor behind the speed and extent to […]

Authored by Dagny Taggart via The Organic Prepper blog, The United States and Russia have quite the bumpy relationship. Talk of war between the two powerful countries isn’t anything new, and anyone who is paying attention knows that such a war would be devastating for much of the world. Two recent research projects show just […]

Earlier on Monday morning, we detailed how the embattled US drugmaker Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a long-anticipated move aimed at shielding the company and its owners, the Sackler family, from financial ruin as they shoulder the brunt of the blame for igniting the opioid crisis with their aggressive marketing tactics of OxyContin. […]

Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, With President Trump’s long overdue firing of John Bolton on September 10th, a window into the battle between neocon zombies infesting the White House and Donald Trump was made visible once more. As much as people enjoy oversimplifying American politics- clumping all “right wing politicians” together […]

The global automotive industry has been nothing short of a full fledged wreck over the last 12 to 18 months, with major markets like China, Europe and the U.S. all slipping as overextended consumers struggle to find the means necessary to purchase vehicles – even with interest rates worldwide near all time lows.  And according to […]

Authored by John Vibes via The Mind Unleashed blog, In late June, a college student named Matty Roberts created a Facebook event called “Storm Area 51: They Can’t Stop Us All,” after watching a Netflix documentary about the secret military base. For some unknown reason, the event went viral and quickly gathered millions of followers, who spent […]

Authored by Danielle DiMartino Booth via QuillIntelligence.com, With stocks at all-time highs, any significant correction will have a devasting effect on the 55% of boomers who have retirement savings; of the 10,000 boomers retiring daily 1,500 have at best two years of living expenses while 4,000 will be living solely off Social Security University of […]

Now that prosecutors have blamed what they have described as a criminal organization operating inside JP Morgan, it appears the largest bank in the US by assets is resorting to an old strategy for sloughing off accusations of corporate fraud: Blaming it all on an acquisition. According to Bloomberg, two traders who joined JPM’s precious […]

Authored by Max Gulker via The American Institute for Economic Research, In a Democratic primary field that looks like the cast of a Christopher Guest ensemble mockumentary, three candidates have established an early lead – Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Sanders and Warren represent very distinct visions of the party’s left flank, but not in […]

When it comes to the shady events in the shadow banking world of collateral assets and repurchase agreements, nobody does it better than interdealer broker, ICAP, which is not only intimately familiar with just how the Fed’s plumbing vision takes place in the real world, but also happens to be the go to firm for […]

As the left-wing smear against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh continues to unravel amid a journalistic malpractice scandal at the New York Times, original Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s “lifelong friend” and alleged witness now doubts her story.  Leland Keyser, who Ford claimed was one of five people at a party in the 1980s where she says Kavanaugh sexually […]

Authored by Marie Huillet via CoinTelegraph.com, Equities portfolio manager turned crypto fund executive Travis Kling has argued that Bitcoin has come into its own as a unique hedge within the current macroeconomic climate. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph In an interview with CNN on Sept. 15, Kling argued that the specific properties of Bitcoin make it an exceptional […]

The US has reportedly traced the cruise missiles used during a weekend attack that crippled half of Saudi Aramco’s oil production back to their point of origin: Iran. Or at least that’s what one US official is telling CBS News. Many have argued that there’s zero upside for Iran in carrying out attacks like this […]

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, “Iran has launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply,” declared Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Putting America’s credibility on the line, Pompeo accused Iran of carrying out the devastating attack on Saudi oil facilities that halted half of the kingdom’s oil production, 5.7 million barrels a day. […]

There’s something rotten in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, an intelligence sharing community that includes the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Canada on Friday revealed that it had arrested the former director general of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Coordination Center, one of the country’s top intelligence officials, but Canada wouldn’t say exactly […]

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last few days, the internet has been abuzz with commentary about the spike in interest rates. Of course, the belief is that the spike in rates is “okay” because the market are still rising.  “The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was poised for its largest weekly rally […]