“Monster” Irma Is Now The Strongest Atlantic Hurricane On Record, Florida Preps For “Catastrophic System”

Update 3: The Irma hits just keep on coming, with the NHC Atlantic Ops twitter page reporting moments ago that as of this moment, Irma is now the stronger hurricane in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico in NHC records…

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Thanks, Mnuchin: Lego Slashes 1,400 Jobs As Sales Of “Batman” Toy Sets Falter

Lego cemented its status as a vaunted turnaround story with the success of the “Lego” movies which – fun fact – were produced by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin…

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BRICS Ready to Challenge US Dollar Says Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to join forces with its partners to counter the excessive domination of the limited number of reserve currencies. Putin made his comments in his article published in the run-up to the BRICS summit…

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Ethereum, Bitcoin Crash After China Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal

Ethereum and bitcoin are crashing this morning, after China confirmed its recent threat of an ICO crackdown (reported here last Monday) when the central bank said on Monday that initial coin offerings are illegal and disrupt financial markets, according to statement on China’s central bank websit..

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Big Banks Vow To Destroy Bitcoin, Replace It With ‘Mega-Cryptocurrency’

Ten of the world’s major banks have vowed to destroy Bitcoin and make their own cryptocurrency, in a bid to dominate the market…

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Office of Poofness 9-3-17… “One Day” (or, “Holy Crap, another Poofness??”)

Yes, I felt like posting this new Poofness / Susan / Zap report, as a) I felt some alignments here, and b) it’s short. There are various “RV” type posts all over the place, which (as has happened often before) imply “we are close to the end”, so it is possible this Poof may be right…

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Chances of new financial system announcement and US civil war both skyrocketing

Evidence is mounting that both a new financial system and a civil war in the US are imminent. There is also a high probability the US east coast will be hit with a geo-engineered hurricane so severe that people are being asked to evacuate 60 miles inland, CIA sources say…

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A Labor Of Love With The Golden Jackass

Well, here we are…the unofficial end of summer. It’s Labor Day weekend here in the U.S. which means we are in the midst of a 3-day weekend. And you know what that means here at TFMR! Fresh Jackass for everyone! When Jim and I recorded this back on Thursday, time was somewhat short…

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How Monsanto & Bayer Are Trying To Take Over The Cannabis Industry

Responsible for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the pesticides that are sprayed on them, Monsanto is on the tips of everyone’s tongues lately…

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Facebook Exposed – “You” Are The Product

At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month…

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Are Grocery Chains About To Join The Retail-Bankruptcy Bloodbath?

Amazon officially assumed control of Whole Foods Market on Monday and by noon, channel checks at WFM stores revealed that its new tech overlords had already slashed prices by nearly 50%, sending bonds of its grocery-chain rivals reeling as grocers confronted a new dilemma: either slash prices to th..

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De-Dollarization Accelerates: China Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold

The world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to bypass U.S…

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You Have A Secret Bank Account, Use It: Anonymous

Take advantage while you can, but hurry before the elite delete the video from YouTube, warns Anonymous. You are a corporation , your birth certificate is a contract. You are traded like cattle. You are a slave…

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Rickards: “There Are Three Things Going On With Gold Right Now”

Jim Rickards joined Kitco News and Daniela Cambone to discuss the latest news and analysis from gold markets, geopolitics and even bitcoin. The Wall Street veteran took on the bigger picture facing metals investors and what could be just around the corner in a bubbling market…

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Harvey May Be “Costliest Natural Disaster In US History” With $190 Billion Price Tag

Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall near Cameron, La. on Wednesday after slamming Houston with a staggering 50 inches of rain, the largest rainfall ever recorded in the Continental US…

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Gold Flash-Crashes

After the shenanigans in US mega-tech stocks over the last two days and the seemingly well orchestrated melt-up to pre-J-Hole levels in the dollar, why should anyone be surprised that ‘someone’ decided to try to sell $1.1 billion notional into the Asian open…..

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Who Leads The Autonomous Driving Patent Race? (Spoiler Alert: Not Who You Think)

These days the broad consensus on the future of driving seems to be that the car of tomorrow will be (at least partly) autonomous…

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Princeton Finds That Bitcoin Transactions Are Definitely Not Anonymous

A team of Princeton researchers have discovered that every single Bitcoin transaction can be traced back directly to users, revealing their name, email address and even where they live…

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Wall Street Journal Lashes Out At “Our Political Central Bankers”

While the concept of ‘independence’ among the unelected central bank cognoscenti is as cute as the tooth fairy or santa claus, it is nevertheless defended by those on high as sacrosanct to our very democracy…

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