Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
When people are dependent on the government they are much easier to control.
We are often told that we are not “compassionate” when we object to the endless expansion of government social programs, but that is not how the debate should be framed.
Market veteran Art Cashin, the head of NYSE floor operations for UBS, made an interesting observation earlier today just minutes before the close, as US stocks headed for another record finish after shrugging off the worst mass shooting in US history.
Asked by CNBC’s Kelly Evans to explain how US stocks have continued to outperform while the 10-year Treasury yield has remained anchored below 2.5%, Cashin acknowledged that, during a career that's spanned more than six decades, he's never seen anything like today's market.
Authored by Richard Kocur via The Mises Institute,
Recently, Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a single-payer healthcare plan called “Medicare for All.”
Sanders titled his approach for nationalizing one-sixth of the American economy as “Medicare for All” in order to offer a template for his vision of the U.S. healthcare system.
"The present moment of blissful delusion is remarkable to witness. Take it in..." says John Hussman of Hussman Funds.
In the following few words and updated charts, Hussman exposes the farce even further...
Three months after Tesla disappointed shareholders by missing "bigly" on Q2 deliveries, Elon Musk has learned from his mistake, and reported Tesla's "all time best quarter" for Model S and X deliveries in Q3, with a total of 26,150 vehicles, more than the 25,000 expected, of which 14,065 were Model S and 11,865 were Model X, reversing the Q2 drop in the car which has received increasingly mixed reviews.
Combined, Model S and X deliveries represented a 4.5% increase over Q3 2016, Tesla's previous best quarter, and a 17.7% increase over Q2 2017.