Study: Far-left extremism is linked to violent, psychopathic, and narcissistic tendencies.

A new peer reviewed quantitative study published in Current Psychology finds evidence that far-left extremism is a predictor of violent, psychopathic tendencies & narcissism. Naturally, extreme leftist movements draw in such types who welcome violence.https://t.co/1ndBIYyHhn — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 31, 2023 (2-2) end 45 communism goals. Ideological Subversion works. …

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Land Of Confusion! US Mortgage Demand Drops 3.7% From Previous Week, Under Biden: Mortgage Purchase Demand Down -44%, Refi Demand Down -87%, Mortgage Rates UP 106%

by confoundedinterest17 Under Biden, the US economy is a land of confusion. Under Biden’s Reign of Error, Mortgage Purchase Demand is down -44%, Refi Demand is down -87%, and Mortgage Rates are UP 106%. Mortgage applications (demand) decreased 3.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) …

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The Swamp will protect its own

Grassley & Comer To Wray: Provide The Unclassified Documents Or Face Contempt WASHINGTON – House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today issued the following statements after their discussion with FBI Director Christopher Wray about producing to Congress the unclassified, FBI-generated record alleging a …

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BOOM: White House refuses to address the fact that today the majority of Americans believe the President himself is corrupt… Karine Jean-Pierre’s stunned

White House refuses to address the fact that today the majority of Americans believe the President himself is corrupt. pic.twitter.com/ly2a6uiIH5 — @amuse (@amuse) May 31, 2023   ‘Wow!’ Stunned John Kirby Stammers Out a Denial and Leaves Podium after White House Reporter Details Joe Biden Bribe Allegations and Whistleblower Charges, …

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Middle Class Families Can’t Afford Homes Anymore As Mortgage Rates Hit Record Levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJo-iqhgNQ 90% of Americans say that owning a home is a key part of the American dream. But today, more than half of them believe they will never own their dream home, and about 70% of U.S. households can’t afford the average-priced home, especially when considering that mortgage rates have …

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Wall Street Investors have officially abandoned the Housing Market. MBS Market has completely collapsed.

Wall Street Investors have officially abandoned the Housing Market. With Redfin reporting a colossal 49% crash in investor purchases in Q1 2023. This is the biggest annual decline on record. Even bigger than the drop that occurred in 2005 right before the last crash. pic.twitter.com/9GyHqzHCKl — Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) May …

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Sweet Home Chicago? Chicago PMI Unexpectedly Plummets, Longest ‘Contraction’ Streak Since Great Financial Crisis

by confoundedinterest17 Sweet Home Chicago? After the unexpected resurgence in April, Chicago PMI plunged in May from 48.6 to 40.4 (against expectations of 47.3). That is the ninth straight month below 50 (in contraction)… Source: Bloomberg That is the longest streak of prints in ‘contraction’ since the Great Financial Crisis. …

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Pakistani Rupee Racing Turkish Lira to the Bottom

by Chris Black Pakistan is a disaster waiting to happen, but Turkey deserves its own post for being geopolitically unique. Turkey’s central bank net reserve balance tumbled negative last week.  A black market for currency has formed, reminiscent of Venezuela. Could see a scenario à la Venezuela since 2016 in …

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Goldman Sachs, the Bank That Almost Sank World Economy in 2008, Is At It Again

by Chris Black Goldman Sachs’ online bank, Marcus, is the only large bank offering a competitive interest rate (https://www.bankrate.com/banking/money-market/rates/) on its savings accounts – over 400 times that being offered by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and even Citibank. Marcus (https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings/high-yield-savings) is the online banking platform offered by Goldman Sachs …

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Adam Hamilton: Gold Stocks Soaring Again

Guest Post by Adam Hamilton at Zeal LLC: The gold miners’ stocks are soaring again, just blasting to new upleg highs this week!  They are following their metal higher and amplifying its gains like usual.  Yet despite their dramatic surges in recent weeks, both gold and gold stocks have lots …

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AIER: De-dollarization Has Begun…

Guest Post by Peter C. Earle at the American Institute for Economic Research:   Last week, China and Brazil reached an agreement to settle trades in one anothers’ currencies. Over the past 15 years, China has replaced the United States as the main trading partner of resource-rich Brazil, and as such …

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Jordan Roy-Byrne: It is Risky to be Out of Gold Market Now

Guest Post by Jordan Roy-Byrne at thedailygold.com: Gold is on the cusp of a major breakout from its super-bullish cup and handle pattern. The measured upside target is $3000/oz, and the log target is roughly $4000/oz. These targets may sound extreme, but breakouts from multi-decade bases are rare but very …

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Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time

Guest Post by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of those who lack the necessary skills. The labor force and the job market are referred to as if they were monolithic structures. But they’re not monolithic, they are complex …

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Five Reasons Gold and Silver Could Rally Soon

Guest Post by Richard Mills from Aheadoftheherd.com:   Earlier, we listed the various reasons why the US dollar is headed lower. But this doesn’t mean all safe-haven assets are in for a reality check. In fact, this might be an opportune time to invest in precious metals, in particular gold and silver, …

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Jay Powell’s Fed hasn’t yet realized the full gravity of what’s coming… There are clear risks of devastating market crashes, domino bank failures, a highly destabilizing Credit contraction

RELAX everything’s going to be fine, if there was ANY chance of collapse all the “experts” on the main collapse subreddit would be all over this. /s via realclearmarkets: “In purely technical terms, all these together are betting heavily on lower interest rates all over the world in the not-too-distant …

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Interest rates likely to move HIGHER

by okie1 New data just came in. Use of fed’s liquidity facilities declined again: View post on imgur.com This is where the money was coming from to create the demand for T bills, which is what was bringing rates down at the lower end of the yield curve. T bills …

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THE BIG STOCK MARKET CRASH IS A MEME

by Chris Black I don’t know how to tell you that and how many time we will have to tell you that (stop reading fear-porn-selling retards like Snyder) but the stock market will never “crash” ever again. At most it will drop 10%, they will halt trading, printers will go …

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