Trump Victory Odds Soar As The Hillary Clinton 'Death Cross' Strikes

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 14:00
ABC, Fox News, and Rasmussen now have polls suggesting Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton nationally and for the first time during this campaign RealClearPolitics 'tracker' has Trump with a 0.2pt lead - the unofficial "death cross" of Clinton's campaign as Wayne Allyn Root right remarks "Hillary is sinking faster than the Titanic." Voters are putting their money where their polls are too as bookies odds of a Hillary victory in November are tumbling.

These Americans Are Preparing For War With Their Own Government

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 12:54

Venezuela is Collapsing and the Military Just Got Involved

by Ben Winsor, SBS News:
The president deployed troops this weekend claiming the US threatens to invade, as tensions escalate in the Latin American state.
Troops have been deployed around Venezuela’s capital of Caracas and in ‘every strategic region’ this weekend during the country’s largest ever military exercise.
The government claims the exercises are in response to the threat of invasion from the United States, but the real reason for the government’s state of emergency declaration is likely much closer to home.
For over a year now, Venezuelans have been suffering under an ever deepening economic and political crisis.
Bare supermarket shelves are common. Vital medicines are in short supply. Crime is rising. Blackouts occur daily. To save electricity, the government asked public sector workers to only show up on Mondays and Tuesdays – and this could soon extend to private companies as well.
All this in one of the largest oil producing nations on earth.
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British Lord Proposes "Fix" To Pension Crisis: Work Until 70 To Get More Money

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 17:42 In this increasingly gloomy world for retirees everywhere, one person has come up with a modest proposal: the UK's Lord Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, who judging by his title hardly has much to be worried about his own personal retirement funds. That said, Turner also happens to be the former chairman of the UK Pensions Commission, and as such his opinion will be closely followed. What he said is the following: people should work until they are 70 and then be rewarded with a more generous state pension. 

Gold Fund Inflows Surge To Highest Of The Year

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 17:20 With high-yield bond funds suffering the largest redemptions in their history, this week saw gold fund flows soar to their highest in 2016 as buyers took advantage of the lower prices following the same path as George Soros, Stan Druckenmiller, Jana Partners, and Canada's financial giant CI Financial.

Lowest Common Urinator?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 17:10 Presented with no comment...

Another Unicorn Bites The Dust

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 17:00 More bad news for the unicorns after Theranos, uBeam and Lending Club scandals with the latest T. Rowe Price quarterly slashing the value of equity in Upwork, a player in the online staffing platform space. The initial investment of $15.8 million in 2012–4 is now worth a mere $7.3 million, and is now in free fall as third CEO in two years more than doubles the fees charged by the troubled staffing platform.

Is Soros Funding Another Movement To Destabilize A New Democratically Elected Government

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 16:28 What remains to be answered definitively is whether or not George Soros and Open Society Foundations are funding a highly politicized opposition movement in order to weaken the democratically elected new Polish government despite an overwhelming and unprecedented popular mandate.

BlackLiesMatter - Activist Group Leader Arrested For Sex Trafficking, Blames "Conservative Trolls"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 16:00 We are pretty sure this story never made it on the Facebook Trending timeline. One of the leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Charles Wade, was arrested on human trafficking and prostitution charges during an April sting operation in Maryland, according to multiple press reports. As HeatSt.com reports, Wade, the co-founder of Operation Help (sometimes known as "Hush") is accused of forcing a 17-year-old girl into prostitution. Wade issued a statement on Twitter Wednesday afternoon blaming "conservative trolls" for the unfairly spreading the story, which he claims is mostly false (just the tip?). He says that he was arrested because he was "too trusting."

Sweden's Holy War On Children's Books

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 15:30 Taken to its extremes, the urge to cleanse a culture of elements that do not live up to the politically correct orthodoxy currently in political vogue unsettlingly echoes the Taliban and ISIS credos of destroying everything that does not accord with their Quranic views. The desire "not to offend," taken to its logical conclusion, is a totalitarian impulse, which threatens to destroy everything that disagrees with its doctrines. Crucially, who gets to decide what is offensive?

"The Time Is Now" For Markets To Price In China's Next Slowdown, A Gloomy Morgan Stanley Warns

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 14:58 "With it now taking 6.5 units of debt to produce 1 unit of GDP, additional gains from the lending channel are limited, in our view. China data already suggest diminishing returns from a flagging stimulus. Our China economic activity indicator (MS-CHEX) is at 3% versus 10% last month, while property sales in top cities have slowed to 15%Y in the first two weeks of May compared to 55%Y in April. If we think China growth softens again over the summer, the question for markets is how far ahead of this prices react. The risks are rising that the time is now."

Rate Hike? This Chart Says Don't 'Bank' On It

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 14:30 Bank stocks spiked on rate hike speculation; however, potential chart resistance suggests their upside may be limited.

Immigrants Dwarf American Households In Welfare: "Obama Seeks $17K For Every Illegal Minor"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 13:30 Who exactly is the burdensome, broken and disturbingly unsensible welfare system being run for?

The Washington Post's Modest Proposal To "Fix Democracy": Root Out "Ignorant American Voters"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2016 - 12:25 "Unfortunately, we can’t trust you... Never have so many people with so little knowledge made so many consequential decisions for the rest of us.... If you have no clue what the hell is going on, you also have a civic duty to avoid subjecting the rest of us to your ignorance."

Latest Stats: Obama is Nation’s Top Gun Salesman

by Tim Brown, Freedom OutPost:
These stats demonstrate clearly that the more Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah goes after guns and attempts to infringe on the rights of the people to keep and bear arms, the more Americans buy more guns.
New statistics are out that have been put into a well done infographic. These stats demonstrate clearly that the more Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah goes after guns and attempts to infringe on the rights of the people to keep and bear arms, the more Americans buy more guns.
Ammo.com reports:
“In 2012, we nicknamed President Obama “The Greatest Gun Salesman in America” because of the effect his 2008 election had on the sale of firearms and ammunition. Now with America preparing for the 2016 presidential election, we take a comprehensive look at just how profound the “Obama Effect” has been on the firearm industry, especially as more Americans own more guns than ever before.”
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David Morgan: There Will Soon Be a Run to Gold Like You’ve Never Seen Before

by David Morgan, Silver Seek:
Mike Gleason: I’m happy to welcome back our good friend, David Morgan, of TheMorganReport.com. David, it’s always a pleasure to talk with you. How have you been?
David Morgan: Mike, I’ve been well and thank you for the interview.
Mike Gleason: We’ve seen some very positive and encouraging market action in the metals this year with silver up close to 19% year-to-date, and gold up 18% as we’re talking here on Thursday morning. Although, the precious metals are pulling back sharply this week. Assess the market action so far here in 2016, and talk about what’s driving this recent pullback.
David Morgan: Well, early on, I stated that we would see a good 2016. I still believe that. Obviously, we got off to a great start. Gold had its best first quarter in like thirty-five years, and that’s not me saying it. That is like Reuters, Bloomberg, mainstream financial media. That’s a fact. However, that’s based on percentage terms. In other words, it’s had a huge run up on a percentage basis, but from a very low level. And the same thing with silver. So one, they were just really oversold. It’s been way overdone as far as time duration. I mean, silver’s been in the doldrums for almost five years, gold around the same amount of time, slightly less.
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