Core Durables Goods and Shipments MISS, Pending Home Sales MISS, Dallas Fed ‘Survey’ BEAT… “Never gonna let you down”… 12th Record Dow Close In A Row. One streak was broken today –…
In the previous episode of the currency wars, a few years ago, the Euro-Dollar exchange rate was in the spotlight. This…
Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Last month we noted that Hillary Clinton is looking to start her own “fabulous” TV…
At least 28 people were injured on Saturday evening after a pickup plowed into a crowd during a Mardi Gras parade…
In the first tangible step toward delivering on Trump’s campaign promise to halt unauthorized immigration from Mexico, the U.S. Customs and…
French authorities have made yet another monumental error in judgment after arresting Marine Le Pen’s chief of staff and bodyguard for questioning…
Submitted by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFPlan.com, As…
About a month ago, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz decided to ‘take a stand’ in defiance of Trump’s immigration executive order and…
One of these things is not like the other… The 30Y Yield just dropped back below 3.00% once again and…
Submitted by Daniel Mitchell via The Foundation for Economic Education, Early last month, in a column on my hopes and fears…
The latest GDP numbers from the World Bank were released earlier this month, and today’s visualization from HowMuch.net breaks them down…
Another day, another reversal of a legacy Obama policy. Moments ago, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed an Obama-era memo to…
The arrival of Mike Flynn’s replacement, Gen. H.R. McMaster as Trump’s new national security advisor could mean sweeping changes of the…
America’s Midwest farmers can’t seem to catch a break. First, an epic collapse of grain prices over the last couple of…
For the past several months we’ve warned that the taxpayers of the City of Dallas, despite all of the tough talk…
Analysts and traders alike were looking forward to today’s “black box” earnings from Tesla as it would be the first consolidated…
Submitted by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, I’m dazed & confused…economists and the consensus all acknowledge 2001 and 2007 were low interest…
Over the past year we’ve frequently written about the alarming homicide rates in Chicago (see “Chicago Violence Worst In 20 Years:…
If eight years under Obama rule, 6 of which included Republican majorities in Congress, taught us anything, it’s that Presidents have…
At the start of January, when the Mexican Central Bank spent $2 billion to defend its currency in a rare intervention…
Having come under pressure to address an uptick in incidents targeting Jewish institutions across the US, President Trump denounced anti-Semitism Tuesday…
Few business communities swing from boom to bust as reliably as Silicon Valley, but detecting shifts in this opaque world can…
Submitted by David Stockman via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, General Flynn’s tenure in the White House was…
Trump Is Playing You Note: Soren K is a group of 4 writers to whom I contribute on commodity market posts-Vince…
Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, I am unsure who first came up with the idea of taxing robots, but the…
Submitted by Don Quijones via WolfStreet.com, Untouchable. Inviolable. Immunity. Impunity. These are the sort of words and expressions that are often…
Submitted by Greg Piper via The College Fix, “Affirmative consent” is a fuzzy concept even for adults, which is why one…
Following Trump Chief of Staff Priebus’ comments earlier, it is clear, as Axios notes, President Trump’s biggest problem has quickly become…