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  • Feeling Underpaid? This Is What Wage Inflation Around The World Looks Like

    Eight years of unconventional monetary policy, NIRP, ZIRP, QE, and asset bubbles as far as the eye can see, but where is that all important product of successful monetary policy – at least in a conventional Keynesian sense, where a steady increase in the cost of living and the loss of purchasing power is defined […]
  • Where Does The Future Lie? Orwell Or Huxley

    Submitted by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, Are you more worried about a 1984-esque future or ‘A Brave New World’-esque future? Unfortunately, the two go hand in hand. George Orwell simply took the past and laid out what government ALWAYS gravitates toward – total control. We live in a delusion with our brains filled with propaganda. Over […]Read More
  • Crude Oil Fractals & Funding Fears

    Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, From June 2014 until late January 2015, oil prices (WTI) fell about 60%. From June 2015 until late January 2016, oil prices (WTI) fell about 60%. The exact track each annual trading history took to achieve those results is different (2014-15 much more straight ahead and persistent; […]
  • Gawker Ordered To Pay Hulk Hogan $115 Million In Sex Tape Lawsuit

    In a closely watched trial by the media community, shortly after 7pm on Friday night, and less than six hours after starting deliberations, the jury sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and awarded him $115 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media. The trial lasted two weeks. The award consists of $55 million […]
  • Meet Two Of The Men Who Will Determine Whether Trump Becomes President

    One of the things that seems to have never sunk in for Donald Trump’s GOP rivals (or at least until they were either sitting back at home on the couch reflecting on why they were beaten so badly or else talking sheepishly to reporters on Capitol Hill about their plans to retire from politics after […]
  • Illinois College Will Stop Arresting Students For Passing Out Constitution

    Submitted by Robert Gehl via DownTrend.com, An Illinois college has reversed its position and will allow students to pass out copies of the U.S Constitution on campus. It’s a good move, since the Alliance Defending Freedom threatened to sue them if they didn’t. Under the old policies, students were threatened with arrest if they passed […]Read More
  • Greek Banks Admit To Charging Customers To Exchange Big Bills For Smaller Ones

    Earlier this month, a reader noticed something rather disturbing. Piraeus Bank seemed to have added a new line item in one of its reports and that new line item appeared to suggest that the bank was set to charge customers for exchanging €500 notes for smaller bills. And it wasn’t just Piraeus. Other Greek banks […]
  • The Government Actually Has A Zombie Apocalypse Plan – And It’s Just Been Declassified

    Submitted by Jake Anderson via TheAntiMedia.org, A few years ago, the Center for Disease Control launched a zombie preparedness initiative that drew significant attention. The Department of Defense followed suit and developed an entire training course intended for the Joint Operational Planning and Execution System (JOPES). The complete response plan, called CONPLAN888, was recently declassified, and […]