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Authored by Mark Glennon via WirePoints.com, Deputy Governor Dan Hynes today released the first details of the Pritzker Administration's plan for addressing Illinois' pension crisis. The administration will pursue three of the worst ideas availab...

There's a persistent belief across America that crime is on the rise. Since the late 1980s, Gallup has been polling people on their perception of crime in the United States, and, as Visual Capitalist's Nick Routley notes, the majority of responden...

Authored by Tom Engelhardt via TomDispatch.com, What dreamers they were! They imagined a kind of global power that would leave even Rome at its Augustan height in the shade. They imagined a world made for one, a planet that could be swallowed by a s...

A bipartisan team of US senators is preparing to hit Russia with additional sanctions over its 2016 US election interference and military operations in Syria and Ukraine. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are spearheading the m...

Authored by Tim Donner via Liberty Nation, This is the first of a two-part series on a massive scandal that has gone largely unreported, based on an interview on Liberty Nation Radio with Luke Rosiak, author of Obstruction of Justice: How the Deep S...

This ought to win Deutsche Bank some badly needed good will with global prosecutors investigating the bank for its involvement in various financial frauds - not to mention Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters. According to a Bloombe...

Authored by Ben Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca via CFR.org, In a widely discussed New York Times op-ed, Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders excoriated share buybacks as "corporate self-indulgence,� diverting profits away from investment and wo...

The International Monetary Fund is reportedly making plans for the "day after" embattled President Nicolas Maduro's fall, according to Bloomberg. Though there's been little momentum in military defections following US-backed opposition leader Juan ...

Submitted by James E. Miller, Diary entry - January 30, 2021 Quitting would be the honorable thing to do. But I can't. Not at this juncture. There's so much to unburden myself with. The latest order decreed from on high has me finally connecting...

An international "fake news" committee is set to hold hearings on May 28 in Canada, and plans to include will "demand" testimony from a who's who of powerful internet and social media giant CEO's. The list of invitees includes Mark Zuckerberg and C...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort serve between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison for his conviction last August in a Virginia courtroom on eight financial crimes, including bank fraud and tax fr...

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The shrill voices of climate change hucksters get louder every day. Supposedly the world will end in 12 years. It won't. Someone asked me on Twitter today "who are you to debate climate scientists." Well, w...

In keeping with the global stagnation that has enveloped the auto industry, the latest EU/EFTA vehicle registration data paints an ominous picture to start 2019 in Europe, where passenger car registrations dropped 4.6% year over year and sales declin...

Nothing can make New Yorkers happy: first, they demand that Amazon abandon its plans for a Long Island City HQ2, and now that Jeff Bezos has complied with their demands, they are threatening to boycott the online retailer. An angry Long Island City ...

Warren Buffett's lifetime business partner, 95 year old Charlie Munger, spoke yesterday after the Daily Journal annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles. The -alue investing guru weighed in on numerous topics, but none more timely than proposed dem...

Authored by Nomi Prins via The Daily Reckoning, In the land of the Federal Reserve and its market-manipulating mechanisms, there's now an unofficial market term called the "Powell Put� or the "Powell Pivot.� It is in direct reference to Fed chairm...

Since the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX filed for bankruptcy protection last month after claiming that its founder and CEO, Gerald Cotten took the private keys to the exchange's cold-storage wallets to his grave after dying suddenly in Jaipur,...

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who hasn't played football during the past two seasons and headlined a controversial Nike ad in 2018, has agreed to quietly settle his lawsuit which accused the NFL of colluding to prevent him...

Authored by Luigi Zingales via ProMarket.org, As soon as Amazon announced the location of its new headquarters, an intense media battle started on the rationality of the fiscal subsidies offered by the two chosen states to attract the new headquarte...

The top brass of the Obama FBI went to great lengths to justify their decision not to recommend charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information, according to Judicial Watch, which obtained evidence tha...

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, This just shows what can happen when you let crazy people run a state for several decades... In the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility of moving to the west coast was "the California dream� f...

A tiny, 80-year-old shack in Portsmouth's South End is causing quite a stir after being listed for $2 million. The 320-square-foot home is located on a .34-acre lot bordering Marcy, Pray, and Partridge streets is expected to sell at a premium well ...

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Worms Turning And so now along comes Andy McCabe, former Number Two at the FBI, publicizing his new book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, on this Sunday's...

Foreign Investors dumped over $77 billion in US treasuries in December - the most on record - even as yields fell amid the carnage of the Mnuchin Massacre...   Foreign investors also liquidated stocks and corporate bonds in December... Interesting...

2019 is off to the best start to a year since 1991 for the S&P 500... As Earnings expectations have their worst 3-month drop in four years... And macro data collapses... That is the biggest weekly collapse in US Macro data since June 2011... So, ...

Police in Illinois have responding to calls of an ongoing active shooter situation at an industrial park in Aurora, Illinois, which is located about 40 miles east of Chicago. The active shooter was first publicly confirmed by the city on their Twitt...

President Trump may have derailed this own national emergency declared on Friday to authorize an additional $7 billion for his long-promised border wall.  While speaking with reporters outside the White House, Trump said "I didn't need to do this. ...

Former Goldman banker Roger Ng has been sitting in a Malaysian jail cell since he was arrested in November and charged with abetting his employer's efforts to mislead investors in the three Goldman-organized bond offerings that helped capitalize the...

Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, After 8 weeks of non-stop rallying, the bear mocking is back which is ironic. Why? Well, because bears are right. About what? Well, everything. Yes stock markets have been screaming higher in recent w...

The Toys'R'Us liquidation continues to reverberate within the supply chain, and moments ago it crushed the stock of toy maker Mattel, which plunged as much as 15% forcing a trading halt, after the company slashed guidance, expecting sales growth to...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed Amazon on Friday after the Seattle-based online retailer backed out of a $3 billion deal for a second North American headquarters that would have brought 25,000 - 40,000 jobs to Long Island. "Here's Bezos and h...

The most perplexing aspect of the post-Christmas stock rally, which has sent the SPX almost 20% higher from its December lows, continues to confound investors. As we discussed earlier this week, one of the more bizarre observations to emerge over th...

Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out to be right. A couple of bad months and the "normalization�...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told AP on Thursday that his foreign minister has held secret talks in New York with the US special envoy to Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, and predicted he would remain in power despite a global campaign to unseat him...

Submitted by Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Today we have a behavioral finance tale called "The Ultimatum Game�. It is the most replicated study in the field, and shows quite conclusively that humans are hardwired to value fairness over money. An uncomf...

After unveiling his intention to declare a national emergency that would allow him to redirect some $7 billion in additional funding for his border wall, President Trump said Friday that "we will be sued...and we will possibly get a bad ruling...and ...

Back in December, when we described what was happening to the market in Q4 in the simplest possible terms, we said it was nothing more (or less) than a scramble by hedge funds to deleverage and liquidate (both the baby and the bathwater) ahead of an ...

Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via Oilprice.com, Fracking and the booming short-cycle shale production in the Permian have revolutionized not only U.S. crude oil production. The prolific shale basin in West Texas and New Mexico has also shown U.S. ...

Are hedge funds, especially of the value-investing bent, merely trackers, hoping for stock price mean-reversion? That's one conclusion that emerges when looking at all the names who flooded into PG&E stock in the fourth quarter, when the now defaul...

Twitter banned a user who tweeted on Thursday that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "put her boyfriend on staff," posting a screenshot of publicly available information showing that Riley Roberts has a "mail.house.gov" email address and is listed as "staff."...

Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com Niall Ferguson, British economic and financial historian, believes that Bitcoin (BTC) is "an option an digital gold,� as he said in a interview with a blockchain magazine Breaker Mag on Feb. 13. image c...

Now that President Trump has officially declared his plans to declare a national emergency to authorize an additional $7 billion for his promised border wall, political observers will be waiting to see what Democrats and Republicans in Congress do ne...

Authored by Dennis Miller via MillerOnTheMoney.com, The mainstream media is citing reports, with widely varying percentages, that many young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism - and are supporting socialist candidates. The media provides exten...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was reportedly back at the Supreme Court on Friday for the justices' private conference, reports The Hill.  Ginsburg attended the meeting in which the justices consider requests to review cases, according to the Supreme ...

While stocks continue to surge on the back of the daily "China trade talk optimism on again/off again" narrative, it is worth remembering that as recently as December, the market was driven by something far more tangible - the ongoing shrinkage of th...

Submitted by Michael Every of RaboBank, What a difference a day makes. Twenty-four little hours. Yesterday we were kicking our heels. Now anyone who was still clinging to the belief that we are in market business as usual should be kicking themselve...

After plunging in January, UMich Sentiment was expected to rebound modestly in February (helped by the biggest rebound in stocks in a decade) but it dramatically beat expectations, jumping from 91.2 to 95.5 (93.7 exp). Current Conditions and Expecta...

One day after she took full responsibility for Amazon's shocking decision to pull out of Long Island City due to a hostile political reception in New York, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again grabbed the spotlight on Friday morning w...

Before signing the border funding bill that has now passed both the House and Senate, President Trump is reportedly planning to announce his plan to declare a national emergency to source an additional $7 billion in funding for his border wall beyond...

Come on!! Dismal data this morning from import,export prices to industrial production has sparked a comical buying panic - Dow futures are up 500 points off overnight lows...  ...