Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
The toxic dollar is bringing hell in a handbasket.
Along with the student loan debt bubble and other major financial factors, the looming pensions crisis is bound to be the death of us all.
Because it’s based on a future promise to pay, it has long been a benefit dangled to solve strikes and union disputes – because, in the end, it is just more debt, whether private or public.
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,
The U.S. shale cowboys are back on their horses and leading a strong recovery in the oil patch that is not expected to falter even as WTI prices dropped last week below $50 per barrel for the first time in more than two months.
One day after Twitter stock tumbled after a pervasive hack showed just how vulnerable the underperforming social network (where 15% of total users appear to be bots) remains, moments ago McDonalds tweeted to president Trump, in what appears to be the latest hack of a prominent account, that "You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands."
The confrontational tweet was even pinned for a moment:
Update: echoing comments made by Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top House Democrat said that the Trump budget proposal is "dead on arrival."
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Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
A funny thing happened on the way to a low-risk environment: loans in default (non-performing loans) didn't suddenly become performing loans.