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Authored by Constantin Gurdgiev via CaymanFinancialReview.com,

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com,

Frankly put: retirement is now a myth for the majority...

The Origins Of The Retirement Plan

Back during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress promised a monthly lifetime income to soldiers who fought and survived the conflict. This guaranteed income stream, called a "pension", was again offered to soldiers in the Civil War and every American war since.

Between 2000 and 2015, at least 207,468 minors were married in the United States.

As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, despite an overall fall in child marriage since 2000 (25,583 to 9,247), there are still a shocking number of young children legally married in the country. Only 14 percent married other minors, meaning 86 percent wedded an adult.

As the infographic below shows, the youngest to marry since 2000 were three ten year olds.

Authored by Ben Garrison via GrrrGraphics.com,

Earlier this week I was on the Jesse Lee Peterson show out of LA.

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Unsurprisingly, the Republican tax plan moving forward in the U.S. Congress and championed by Donald “Drain the Swamp” Trump, is very swampy.

Today’s post will highlight a few examples.

First, let’s hear some of what billionaire fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach had to say. Via Bloomberg: