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Mass Federalization: How Washington Is Bailing Out Failed States, Decapitating Competitive Ones, & Ending America As You Knew It

Mass Federalization: How Washington Is Bailing Out Failed States, Decapitating Competitive Ones, & Ending America As You Knew It Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, An astonishingly sweeping, radical movement to level cities and states is underway, propping up the failures and pounding down those that have been successful. Most everything is being federalized. The […]

Franklin Graham: Jesus would be vaccinated for Covid-19

Franklin Graham: Jesus would be vaccinated for Covid-19

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Locked-Down Americans Fatter-Than-Ever As Krispy Kreme Unveils ‘Free-Donuts-For-The-Vaxxed’ Promo

Locked-Down Americans Fatter-Than-Ever As Krispy Kreme Unveils ‘Free-Donuts-For-The-Vaxxed’ Promo Let’s hope Krispy Kreme is working on a vaccine for diabetes, because it’s latest promotion isn’t exactly a net-positive for the public welfare. The donut-maker has announced that, starting Monday, anybody who presents proof of vaccination at any Krispy Kreme location can receive one free glazed […]

We Don’t Need The Great Reset, We Need The Great Rebalancing

We Don’t Need The Great Reset, We Need The Great Rebalancing Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Perhaps we have collectively “lost our mind.” Perhaps what we need is not a new technology but a new way of living that uses existing technologies to echo “old ways” that worked rather well on much […]

Donald Trump To Create His Own Social Media Site, The Gab Community Goes Full TDS In Response

Apologist Justin Derby responds to the Gab community going into full-on Trump Derangement Syndrome mode after Trump announced that he is going to be rolling out his own social media site in the summer of 2021. BREAKING: Trump To Start Own Social Media Site, ‘Trumper’, This Summer: BREAKING: Trump to Start Own Social Media Site, […]

Bonds & Big-Tech Bid, Banks & Bitcoin Break As Dollar Dumps

Bonds & Big-Tech Bid, Banks & Bitcoin Break As Dollar Dumps Big-tech was aggressively bid from the second the cash market opened (and that dragged the S&P, and The Dow, along due to the weightings). Small Caps were slammed (the last hour saw weakness once again)… Nasdaq had its best day vs Small Caps since […]

Goldman: There Is No Bubble, There Is No Bubble, There Is No Bubble

Goldman: There Is No Bubble, There Is No Bubble, There Is No Bubble When the most respected bank in the US feels compelled to publish A 42-page “guide to bubbles and why we are not in one” in response to what is a clear outpouring of client concerns that we are, in fact, in one […]

The Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings: Exposing the “Blood Libel” Against White America

As Steve Sailer notes, the MSM finally has a Great White Defendant in the Atlanta mass shooting. But […]

Airline Stocks Hit Turbulence On Europe Gloom Despite Soaring US Air Travel 

Airline Stocks Hit Turbulence On Europe Gloom Despite Soaring US Air Travel  The US cash market open sparked a panic rotation into big-tech (growth) and out of value (Small Caps). One of the worst performers of the cash session has been airlines due to Europe gloom despite a boost in US travel over the weekend.  International Consolidated Airlines […]

JPM Makes A Surprising Discovery: Daytraders Are Evolving, And Starting To Hedge Their Massive Gains

JPM Makes A Surprising Discovery: Daytraders Are Evolving, And Starting To Hedge Their Massive Gains Last August, just before we learned that SoftBank was forcing a marketwide gamma squeeze in tech names, a little-followed quant at JPMorgan, Peng Cheng, came out with what may have been the most prophetic at the time market analysis, when […]

First Details Of Biden’s $3 Trillion “Build Back Better” Infrastructure Plan Have Just Leaked

First Details Of Biden’s $3 Trillion “Build Back Better” Infrastructure Plan Have Just Leaked Weeks after the administration previewed (via Bloomberg) its plans to push ahead with the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to fund its infrastructure ambitions, the first details of the Biden’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure-climate plan have just been leaked via the […]

Guggenheim Warns Fed’s Powell Is Giving “Conflicting Guidance” To Bond Investors

Guggenheim Warns Fed’s Powell Is Giving “Conflicting Guidance” To Bond Investors “The [bond market] selloff has largely run its course,” says Guggenheim CIO Scott Minerd, confirming his call from two weeks ago to ‘buy the dip’ in bonds as investors’ “reach for yield” puts downward pressure on 10-year Treasury rates, likely rendering the current yield […]

MILENIO: Mexican Drug Cartel Gangs Are In 1000 U.S. Cities

In 2020, the DEA reported that Mexican drug cartels are active in 62 U.S. cities.  A Mexican source s […]

“What Idiot Pre-Announces A Cyberattack?”: Biden Admin Has Spent 2 Weeks Touting Russia Response

“What Idiot Pre-Announces A Cyberattack?”: Biden Admin Has Spent 2 Weeks Touting Russia Response Earlier this month a report from The New York Times was the first to reveal that the Biden administration is planning a series cyberattacks targeting Russia in the “coming weeks”. Anonymous senior US officials told the Times that a “series of clandestine actions across Russian networks” will be […]

Physics Professor Calls For The Abandonment Of “Quantum Supremacy” As Anti-Racism Measure

Physics Professor Calls For The Abandonment Of “Quantum Supremacy” As Anti-Racism Measure Authored by Jonathan Turley, In a Scientific American article entitled, “Physicists Need To Be More Careful How They Name Things,” two professors and a journalist call for the abandonment of the term “quantum supremacy” in physics because it is “uncomfortably reminiscent of ‘white supremacy.”  Physics […]

US Hits China With Human Rights Sanctions In Major Joint Action With Western Allies

US Hits China With Human Rights Sanctions In Major Joint Action With Western Allies In coordination with the newly announced European Union sanctions on select Beijing officials for the alleged ongoing major crackdown on Muslim Uighurs, the Biden administration has hit Beijing with its own punitive sanctions, setting tensions further on edge just two days after the […]

Robots Continue Encroaching On Human Employment, Replacing Accountants As Well As Automakers

America’s newspaper of record had an interesting item earlier this month titled “The Robots Are Comin […]

Why Did American Indians Go From The Copper Age Back To The Stone Age?

you look at a map of Lake Superior, you’ll see the U.S. – Canada border runs down the middle of the […]

Who’s Scared Of A Few Bps?

Who’s Scared Of A Few Bps? Submitted by Adventures in Capitalism Over the past few months, bonds have had one of their sharpest selloffs in history. This should be no surprise. JPOW and Yellen have been quite clear that they intend to create epic levels of inflation and shred bondholders. History is replete with paper […]

Is A 20%-Stronger US Dollar On The Cards?

Is A 20%-Stronger US Dollar On The Cards? Authored by Martin Enlund and Andreas Steno Larsen via Nordea, The USD should be rising 20% in YoY terms instead of falling 15% according to relative growth expectations. Unless the Biden-administration annihilates the USD, there are strong reasons to expect a sound USD comeback this year. Quote of the […]

Saudi Arabia Floats Peace Deal To End War In Yemen, Spark Economic Revival

Saudi Arabia Floats Peace Deal To End War In Yemen, Spark Economic Revival Amid a growing number of Houthi-launched attacks on Saudi Arabian oil refineries which recently inspired the kingdom to launch a round of naval drills intended to intimidate, Saudi Arabia has proposed a sweeping cease-fire agreement that would end the world’s worst humanitarian […]

New Jersey Halts Reopening, NYC Asks Cuomo To Do The Same, As Mutant COVID Spreads

New Jersey Halts Reopening, NYC Asks Cuomo To Do The Same, As Mutant COVID Spreads Update (1200ET): Gov. Cuomo has just announced that the minimum age for vaccinations in New York will be lowered to 50. #BREAKING: Starting tomorrow at 8am, all New Yorkers age 50+ will be eligible for the vaccine. Let’s #VaccinateNY! — […]

Into EU Close…

Into EU Close… Having trod water overnight, the US cash market open sparked a panic rotation into big-tech (growth) and out of value (Small Caps). The modest drop in Treasury yields (10Y -3bps) has apparently triggered the resurgence, erasing Small Caps recent outperformance… But now we are at crucial resistance level, and if the last […]

The Fed Has Forced Investors To Take On Excess Risk

The Fed Has Forced Investors To Take On Excess Risk Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Since the “Financial Crisis,”  the hope was that inflating asset prices would trickle down into economic growth. Unfortunately, after a decade of monetary interventions and artificially suppressed interest rates, the wealth gap has exploded. More problematic is the Fed has […]