Health Care

Link between sugar and cognitive decline.

Amazon, Berkshire, and JPMorgan will launch health care enterprise. More competition is better, but this is still cronyism.

Economy

Bank failures are on the rise.

The car bubble is beginning to collapse.

Will the eclipse trigger the crash? I stand by my prediction it will start in August, September, or October.

Hedge Fund manager predicts the crash will hit next Valentine's Day.

Last local K-Mart to close as Sears closes 43 more stores.

Tesla stock crashes.

War

Washington's aggression is the reason North Korea is seeking a nuclear deterrent.

"Indeed, the idea that North Korea is an expansionist threat to anybody, but most especially its kinsmen in South Korea, is a ridiculous joke.
After all, the GDP of North Korea is $17 billion and that of South Korea is $1.38 trillion. So the economy of the latter happens to be 81X bigger than the GDP of the former.
Likewise, South Korea’s population of 50 million is 2X larger than the North’s 25 million. And that’s to say nothing as to South Korea’s advanced technology, millions of skilled industrial and tech workers and absence of the abject poverty and even starvation which is rampant on the northern side of the DMZ.
So that gets to the heart of the matter. Namely, why is the US still occupying South Korea, thereby creating the pretext for Pyongyang’s fears that it is targeted for Regime Change and that it’s only hope of survival is to become a rogue nuclear state not to be tread upon?
As we will document further below, anyone not wearing the Imperial City’s self-serving blinders and false history can see that deterring Washington is the real treason for North Korea’s dangerous campaign to become a nuclear power."

Yep.

Documents reveal US government control of Hollywood.

The Pentagon's legal fake news.

US forces attack Syrian forces to save ISIS terrorists.

The US officially supports terrorists in Syria.

Bill to stop funding terrorists goes nowhere. So much for the war on terror.

Pentagon admits 600 civilian deaths in bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. The real number is over 4,000.

In the name of fighting terrorists, a bill would make it illegal to take your money out of the bank.

Obama and Clinton used fake news to build support for invading Libya.

Economy

Bankers, through their government allies, have rigged the economy in their favor.

"As further proof, let’s look at this data recently obtained by Zero Hedge. In the past 4 years, JP Morgan’s in-house trading group has had exactly 2 days of losses:

That’s not trading. Trading involves uncertainty and risk. This situation has none. It’s an extraction process — siphoning value from the market day after day with ironclad dependability."

That's impressive rigging.

Politics

A timely reminder that China helped get Bill Clinton elected in return for missile technology, people were arrested, but there was no investigation of Clinton.

Bogus request by leftist billionaires for New York to raise taxes on them.

Contrary to claims, nationalists win more seats in Netherlands.

"The Dutch elections on Wednesday have provided a whole bunch of Orwellian narratives. PM Mark Rutte’s right wing VVD party, actually the ‘business’ -or should we say ‘rent-seekers’ in 2017- party, who lost some 20% of the seats they had obtained in the previous parliamentary election in November 2012, down from 41 to 33 seats, is declared the big winner. While Geert Wilders’ very right wing party, PVV, won 25% more seats -it went from 16 to 20- and is the big loser." 

"What Rutte’s going to do next is form a new coalition, this time not with the left but with the center-right, and no-one will be able to tell the difference. If Dutch, and European, and global, politics have one main problem, it’s that. Left is right and right is left and winners are losers. If a guy like Dijsselbloem can squeeze Greek society dry in his capacity as Eurogroup head, while he runs as a leftist candidate in his own country, and loses hugely, anything goes."

Upside-down world.

Circumstances make it appear Obama did spy on Trump regardless of what rulers claim.

"How could DNI Director Clapper and CIA Director Morell say that no connection had been established between Trump’s campaign and the Russians, without there having been an investigation? And how could such an investigation be conclusive in exonerating Trump’s associates — without some use of electronic surveillance?
Did the FBI fly to Moscow and question Putin’s cyber warfare team?
More questions arise. If, in its investigation of the Russian hacking and a Trump connection, the FBI did receive the fruits of some electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign, were Attorney General Loretta Lynch, White House aides or President Obama made aware of any such surveillance? Did any give the go-ahead to surveil the Trump associates? Comey would neither confirm nor deny that they did.
So, if Obama were aware of an investigation into the Trump campaign, using intel sources and methods, Trump would not be entirely wrong in his claims, and Obama would have some ‘splainin’ to do."

We'll see.

David Rockefeller, possible the world's most powerful rulers, died at age 101.

Federal Reserve

Fractional reserve gold. Like bank notes, banks don't hold the gold they owe to people, so when you come to collect, it may not be there.

Regulation

Google blocks payday loan ads to boost banks and prevent poor people from getting small loans.

Federal Reserve

Link between NIRP and the war on cash and gold.

Tax and Spend

Italian government to bail out world's oldest bank.

Tax and Spend

Part of the war on cash includes a tax on cash withdrawals.

Federal Reserve

Modi declares war on cash so gold skyrockets. Consequences.

Economy

Banks post record profit.

Economy

Shrinking chocolate bar.

America's middle class, the forgotten man, is shrinking.

Uber, Lyft and sharing companies are wreaking creative destruction on taxi cab and hotel companies.

Roosevelt saved the bankers, not capitalism.

Environment

Paris Climate Accord takes effect.

Green tells the truth by promoting governments take over banks to end economic growth.

"When it comes to global warming, we know that the real problem is not just fossil fuels – it is the logic of endless growth that is built into our economic system. If we don’t keep the global economy growing by at least 3% per year, it plunges into crisis. That means we have to double the size of the economy every 20 years, just to stay afloat. It doesn’t take much to realise that this imperative for exponential growth makes little sense given the limits of our finite planet."

I love it when the truth leaks out.

Banks

Western central banks including BIS keep selling gold to keep the price low while China, Russia and others buy it to replace the dollar.

"Obviously, the sellers had no physical gold to sell so they conveniently dumped all this gold in the paper market. It would have been totally impossible for them to do this trade in the real gold market which is only physical of course. Western Central banks have no physical gold of any quantity to sell. This is why they must fabricate paper gold out of thin air in order to dump it in the market. In total these banks officially have around 23,000 tons of gold. I doubt they even hold half that figure. The rest is likely to have been sold covertly."

Oops.

Banks

China's monetary strategy is to move away from the dollar.

Economy

Deutsche Bank is in deep trouble, and we should care.

"However, we should keep in mind that this is potentially a very dangerous situation that could dwarf the Lehman debacle and send world markets into a tailspin. That said, however, we have just seen a turnaround on stupendous record volume in DB stock on Friday, which suggests that the crisis is set to ease at least over the short to medium-term, and if so world markets could rally. Mrs. Merkel and the German government have been caught in a dilemma over DB – after lecturing Greece and other southern European governments about the virtues of propriety for ages they can’t very well wade in and rescue Deutsche Bank, so it looks like the bailout will have to come from an international consortium of banks, via the simple expedient of printing up another few trillion, which gets more habitual the more times you do it, and there’s always the fallback position of a coordinated international bail-in, although for obvious reasons they are unlikely to resort to this until they have implemented the cashless society."

It's going to go. It may already be bankrupt.