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The American Ruling Class
• https://www.lewrockwell.comA transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show with Tucker Carlson
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Economy - Economics USA
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Payless ShoeSource files Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to close all U.S. stores
• https://www.usatoday.comThe discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource is set to close all of its stores when its files for bankruptcy later this month. Veuer's Mercer Morrison has the story. Buzz60
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Why Monetary Easing Will Fail
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Alasdair MacleodThe major economies have slowed suddenly in the last two or three months, prompting a change of tack in the monetary policies of central banks.
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What Happens When More QE Fails To Reverse The Recession?
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Charles Hugh SmithThe smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn't impaired by debt or speculative valuations.
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Doug Casey on Money ?" How to Get It and Keep It
• https://www.caseyresearch.com, By Doug CaseyEven if you are already wealthy, some thought on this topic is worthwhile.
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What Happens When More QE Fails to Reverse the Recession?
• www.lewrockwell.com, By Charles Hugh SmithThe smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn't impaired by debt or speculative valuations.
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Proposed Federal Law Will 'Garnish Wages' from Paychecks of Student Loan Holders
• https://thefreethoughtproject.com, By Matt AgoristConsumer advocacy groups are calling the student loan paycheck deductions "mandatory wage garnishment" and are throwing up red flags.
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"Biggest Drop In More Than Nine Years"...
• http://theeconomiccollapseblog.comAll over America retailers are going bankrupt and closing stores.
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The market is now pricing in a greater likelihood of an interest-rate cut than a hike
• https://www.marketwatch.comInvestors growing concerned the economy might be too soft
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Two-Thirds Of All US Bankruptcies Are Primarily Caused By Medical Bills, New Study Finds
• theeconomiccollapseblog.com, Michael SnyderOur health insurance system is theoretically supposed to prevent Americans from going bankrupt when they are hit by huge medical bills.
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US Consumer Price Growth Slowest Since Sept 2016 As Gas Prices Plummet
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdanWhile headline and core CPI slowed in December, the print was still boosted by outsized gains in a few specific categories so it wouldn't be a great surprise to see some payback in January (and expectations were for a slowdown).
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Household Debt Up 18 Consecutive Quarters to a New Record, Card Stress Rising
• moneymaven.io by Mike Mish ShedlockHousehold debt is up 18 consecutive quarters to a new record high. Credit card stress is on the rise in most age groups.
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This Key U.S. Industry Is Flashing Danger…
• https://www.caseyresearch.comA key U.S. industry is sending us a warning. And it could spell serious trouble ahead for the economy at large. The good news is that there's still time to protect yourself. I'll show you how to do that at the end of today's essay. But
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West Coast real estate is now so expensive that married couples are moving in...
• https://www.marketwatch.com, By CATEY HILLWest Coast real estate is now so expensive that married couples are moving in with multiple roommates
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Green New Deal Would Kill Almost Everyone, Warns Greenpeace Co-Founder
• https://www.thenewamerican.com, by Alex NewmanThe "Green New Deal" proposed by congressional Democrats is a "recipe for mass suicide" and the "most ridiculous scenario I ever heard," Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore (shown) warned in an exclusive interview with The New American.
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AOC's Green New Deal Is a U.S. Version of Mao's Disastrous Great Leap Forward
• https://fee.org, William L. AndersonSupport for this proposal demonstrates a profound ignorance of even basic economic concepts.
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We're Overdue For A Sell-Everything/No-Fed-Rescue Recession
• https://www.zerohedge.comWe're way overdue for a sell-everything recession, one that the Fed will only make worse by pursuing its usual policies of lowering interest rates and goosing easy money.
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Telltale Signs of Recession
• https://www.oftwominds.comI'm seeing lifestyles that are out of stock and no longer available, even in China.
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Nearly $100 Billion Of CMBS Loans Come Due Through 2020
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdanConsidering the muted CMBS issuance activity during the recessionary years of 2009 and 2010, you could mistakenly expect a small volume of commercial mortgages to be maturing over the next two years.
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Another Idiotic "Free Money" Proposal, This One From Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
• https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish ShedlockThe economic lunatics are out in force, each upping the scheme previously proposed.
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Wealth concentration near 'levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,' study finds
• By Christopher IngrahamThe shift is eroding security from families in the lower and middle classes, who rely on their small stores to finance retirement and to smooth over shocks like the loss of a job. And it's consolidating power in the hands of billionaires, who are inc
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Next Stop: Recession!
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Chris MartensonWe've arrived at the end of the line
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Consumer Credit Hits $4 Trillion As Student, Auto Loans Hit All Time High
• https://www.zerohedge.comAfter a few months of wild swings, in December US consumer credit normalized rising by $16.6 billion, just below the $17 billion expected, after November's whopping $22.5 billion. The surge in borrowing in November brought the total to just above $4
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15% Budget Deficits And Helicopter Money
• https://www.zerohedge.comEariler this week, when the San Fran Fed published a paper that suggested that the recovery would have been stronger if only the Fed had cut rates to negative, we proposed that this is nothing more than a trial balloon for the next recession/depressi
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2019 Is the Dawn of a New Era in Energy
• https://www.caseyresearch.comJustin's note: If you haven't heard yet, Strategic Investor editor E.B. Tucker's working on a new venture. He plans to share all the details about this product at the end of this month. Leading up to that big announcement, we're featuring his
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Freedom of Choice is What Sets Capitalism Apart - Not Competition
• arcleinPoliticians are competing for the very machinations of control in our society. For the right to pass and enforce laws which apply to everyone (whether they agree with them or not) and to force them to pay for their enforcement. They are not simply co
