[Jack Hammer]

An elaborate discussion of the simple fact that Americans are destroying the nation from within with a virulent form of cultural Marxism.

It doesn’t take a genius IQ to see it - it only requires an open eye and common sense, which, alas, is not very common these days.

[USS Alaska]

Although the United States economy is in good shape – with essentially full employment

With 94,000,000 OUT OF THE WORK FORCE, the feds can make the employment rate anything they want it to be.

It is an imaginary, meaningless number, that is believed by no one and is repeated by msm talking heads in order to further the message from the polit-bureau.

Up is down, right is wrong, the sky is green, the grass is blue and the unemployment rate is less than 5%, if you don't believe that, you will be shot.

[expat_panama]

 

Happy Morning and stocks chaulked up another distribution day!  Futures traders foretell another -0.44%.   Metals don't look safe either, -0.68% for futures although gold/silver prices are still stable.

It's "claims day" again:

8:30 AM Initial Claims
8:30 AM Continuing Claims
8:30 AM Durable Orders
8:30 AM Durable Orders, Ex-Transportation
10:00 AM Pending Home Sales
10:30 AM Natural Gas Inventories
 

Meanwhile:

How To Keep Emotional Out Of Your Investing - Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg
Hedge Funds Spend More Than Ever on Elections - Jen Wieczner, Fortune
Astounding Economic Illiteracy of Trump's Advisors - Don Boudreaux,CH
Jill Stein Is a Big Oil and Big Bank Profiteer - Yashar Ali, The Daily Beast
How Obama Brought Valley to DC, Bad Values Too - Jenna Wortham, NYT
Global Economic Policymakers Out of Weapons - Satyajit Das, Bloomberg
NFL in Decline: Goodbye to Football? - Geoffrey Norman, Weekly Standard
China Capital Flight Flashes Warning - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph

[caver]

Lies in the very first sentence. Why read this crap?

[Charles Martel]

Although the United States economy is in good shape – with essentially full employment and an inflation rate close to 2% – a world of uncertainty makes it worthwhile to consider what could go wrong in the year ahead.

When was this written, during the "Roaring Twenties"?

[ViLaLuz]

Lost me at sentence #1.

[I want the USA back]

Full employment? Wrong. A lie.