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You only get 2 pencils is brilliant messaging Mr President please repeat this across the nation — JA (@jesse_altman) December 10, 2025 As part of an unscripted riff on his trade agenda, Trump declared, “You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.” He added, “You always need steel. You don’t …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, All three pillars propping up workforce spending are cracking. Plan accordingly. Karl Marx and Henry Ford both understood the key pillar of an industrial economy: the workforce has to earn enough to buy the output of the economy. If the workforce doesn’t earn enough to have surplus earnings to spend …
https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1868776221615759669 Yup pic.twitter.com/EUPCKrVnbz — Alex Desjardins (@PrimeTrading_) December 16, 2024 DJIA topped in Dec ‘99, and the NASDAQ didn’t top until 3/4/2000 — TitansJets (@TitansJets) December 16, 2024 Textbook Head & Shoulders pattern playing out for Nvidia $NVDA – does it get a close below the important $132 level tomorrow? pic.twitter.com/ho7srqGIO7 — Barchart (@Barchart) December …
by Michael Why is demand at food banks all over the country higher than it has ever been before? The media keeps insisting that economic conditions are just fine, but it has become quite obvious to everyone that this is not true. In particular, the rising cost of living has been absolutely crushing households from coast to coast. In …
Police have recovered a massive drone that was apparently abandoned in the Brooklyn Naval Yard. A photo obtained by The Post shows an NYPD officer holding up the unwieldy aircraft, the body of which appears to measure more than 5 feet in diameter. Cops responded to an emailed tip alerting them to the presence of …
https://twitter.com/MichaelMOTTCM/status/1868730221060669462 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1868717408447586665 BREAKING; Trump plans to cut EV support and impose tariffs on battery materials globally, per CNBC — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 16, 2024 The $TSLA bubble will go down in history: A carmaker that fumbled with its car business & convinced the market it was an "AI" company. Without any "AI" to show for …
‘The former prime minister claimed that the lesson of Donald Trump’s victory in America is that “any politician today, who is promising management of the status quo and not fundamental change of it, will lose.” He insisted that the UK and other countries he works with through the Tony Blair Institute need to adopt a …
by Substantialmajestic I finally watched the Joe Rogan interview of Mike Benz. He worked for the state department and also heavily researched the censorship online. At first he thought it was a culture war. However, when he dug deeper, he kept seeing gasoline executives speak at summits for “disinformation.” He cites two timelines. For one, the …
JUST IN: Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz collapses at NYYRC gala pic.twitter.com/s2lG2aQGxE — BNO News Live (@BNODesk) December 16, 2024 Donald Trump campaign adviser Alex Bruesewitz passed out and toppled over the lectern he was speaking from while onstage during a New York Young Republican Club gala Sunday night, concerning video shows. Bruesewitz was reportedly introducing …
by Martin Armstrong January 6 was a staged and orchestrated event intended to criminalize Donald Trump and his supporters. There is a slew of evidence pointing to US intelligence interference, with more emerging by the week. US intelligence agencies wasted additional resources to investigate their own bureaus, “FBI’s Handling of its Confidential Human Sources and Intelligence …
Most of the US stock market are tech, that has a very high valuation plot from multpl. com pic.twitter.com/YQgSP5LoRy — Data Driven Stocks (@stockdatamarket) December 15, 2024 European Stocks trading at an all-time record discount relative to U.S. Stocks 🚨 https://t.co/MBwckCKVD2 pic.twitter.com/c1nwYFwjLJ — Barchart (@Barchart) December 16, 2024 ZIRP allowed the government to run up …
by Martin Armstrong President Biden has commuted sentences for 1,499 people and issued 39 pardons. The majority of these commuted sentences were on behalf of people who were placed on home confinement rather than prison during the pandemic years. The people he has chosen to give a second chance seem suspicious. Dixon, Illinois comptroller Rita …
LEFTIES ON BLUESKY: There's a culture of just total impunity over there when it comes to violence. On Twitter, as far as I can tell, it's rare for people to post violent threats or musings under names identified with their IRL identities. Over there, they know they can do so without any risk. pic.twitter.com/3xRWdAo3Kl — …
by Martin Armstrong Inflation data is skewed and does not factor in the reality that the costs of basic necessities like food and housing have not waned significantly since COVID began. Shelter costs, in particular, have become unaffordable for the majority. Redfin recently reported that 74% of Americans earning under $50,000 are seriously struggling to maintain consistent …
Need to add a few more… – Jeffrey Epstein ‘suicide’– Trump’s servers connected to Alfa Bank – Inflation is transitory– Emails Hillary deleted were about yoga– Biden is sharp as a tack– Biden created millions of new jobs– Viktor Shokin was a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor — Uri Blago🇮🇱 (@UriBlago_v2) December 16, 2024 🚨 I've updated …
Enjoy your rate cut this week. There might not be another one for a long time. pic.twitter.com/Z04lWsu2Tn — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) December 16, 2024 This is what “sticky” inflation looks like. pic.twitter.com/zcKIeq34a2 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) December 16, 2024 Yields on 10-year Treasuries rose about a quarter of a percentage point last week, the biggest …
By Brandon Smith The term “False Flag” gets thrown around rather haphazardly these days and it’s important to recognize that a real false flag requires a particular end result – The public blaming the wrong culprit for an event that someone else (usually our own government) perpetrated. When it comes to the increasing fervor over …
Chase Hughes has some great info here on how to recognize and avoid the manipulation by our gubment and MSM h/t ColoradoRuby
If you have five or more of the below you probably have parasites: 1) Digestion problems 2) Episodes of nausea and vomiting 3) Anemia 4) Chronic inflamed joints and muscles 5) Array of vision problems 6) Assortment of dental problems 7) Skin problems of various kinds 8) Unexplained weight loss 9) Fatigue 10) Flu symptoms …
The global consumer is in secular decline (with an average 10:1 spending, saving, consuming capability over low-income nation consumers) …and the global low-income nation producers will have fewer and fewer customers of means to purchase their products. Few will acknowledge that a “free-market economy” amid depopulation of consumers is incompatible with a financial system that …
Yields pre-warning that history is about to repeat. 1972 national debts 400million2024 national debt 35 trillion. How does a 10 to 15% mortgage rate look like today? pic.twitter.com/9Ki8eewmJb — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 15, 2024 If gold repeats 1970s parabola move. The largest bull market in history will be in gold. 200 $ up …
Steepest drop since September 2008. pic.twitter.com/8lMdk43vdb — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) December 16, 2024 China’s retail sales rose by 3% in November from a year ago, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released Monday, missing the forecast of 4.6% in a Reuters poll. That marked a sharp slowdown from 4.8% growth in the previous month. Retail sales in October …
2 words. Bubbles. pic.twitter.com/mcXdx53aWg — The Great Martis (@great_martis) December 15, 2024 Where are we? https://t.co/k6Xv3ZGedR pic.twitter.com/c9XqZm4cMA — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) December 16, 2024 NVIDIA could very easily fall 70% next year. Very bad for #Bitcoin & #Crypto if so. 2025 could be a doozy #StockMarkets #CapitalRotation #Gold #Silver #PreciousMetals pic.twitter.com/MegZxOvzCV — Northstar (@NorthstarCharts) December 15, …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Marty, is it possible we are witnessing the greatest financial trap to unsuspecting global citizens as they ‘build a digital prison’ as many opine OR is this the perfect monetary system that will give opportunity to impoverished nations to rise out of the ashes? We see kids, millenials to Gen X, buying …
by Mike Shedlock Companies are mounting a campaign to soften the Trump’s trade threats, but Trump’s team says he is serious. Trump Not Budging on Tariffs The Wall Street Journal reports CEOs Want Trump to Change Course on Tariffs. He Isn’t Budging. Donald Trump’s tariff threats have triggered a behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to soften or alter …
