Category Archives: chicago
Sessions Humiliates Rahm: “No Amount Of Federal Funds Will Help A City That Refuses To Help Its Own Residents”
All the latest moves coming from Jeff Sessions would seem to imply that the beleaguered Attorney General has every intent of aggressively pushing forward with Trump’s agenda in order to mend broken fences with the White House and try to keep his job. The latest such move comes in the form of the following rather […]
Violent July Leaves Chicago Murders On Pace To Exceed 2016, The Bloodiest Year In Two Decades
One month ago, President Trump vowed to “send in the Feds” after Chicago’s murder rate continued to track roughly in-line with 2016, the most violent year for the city in nearly two decades. Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this […]
Goldman’s Clients Are Confused About Inflation: Here’s Why
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Jul 30, 2017 In his latest weekly kickstart, Goldman’s chief equity strategist David Kostin (who has maintained his year end S&P price target of 2,400 of -3% from current levels), says that the one topic most confusing (and important) to Goldman’s clients in the past week, was what happens to inflation […]
Small Town Suburbia Faces Dire Financial Crisis As Companies, Millennials Flee To Big Cities
College graduates and other young Americans are increasingly clustering in urban centers like New York City, Chicago and Boston. And now, American companies are starting to follow them. Companies looking to appeal to, and be near, young professionals versed in the world of e-commerce, software analytics, digital engineering, marketing and finance are flocking to cities. […]
INABILITY TO POST BAIL CAN’T FORCE DEFENDANTS INTO JAIL TIME BEFORE TRIAL, INTREPID JUDGE RULES
thedailysheeple.com / CLAIRE BERNISH / JULY 20, 2017 Lacking sufficient funds to bail oneself from jail after arrest has long mandated a lengthy stint behind bars while awaiting trial; but this modern iteration of a Dickensian debtor’s prison system may finally have met its match in a judge from Chicago, who — perhaps fed up — ruled […]
Republican Operative “Commits Suicide” After Leaving Strange Note
shtfplan.com / Mac Slavo / July 16th, 2017 Another suicide in the realm of Clinton politics is finally making its way into the light. This time, it’s a Republican operative who was said to be looking for the 30,000 missing emails from Hillary Clinton. A longtime Republican operative from Chicago’s North Shore (who was at the center of a confusing Wall Street […]
Watch: The Left Prepares For War With New “Self-Defense” Training Club
shtfplan.com / Mac Slavo / June 27th, 2017 You may recall that last April, leftist social justice warriors admitted that they received a major beat down when they went up against Trump supporters on the streets of Berkeley. Following that altercation, many of them took to Reddit to complain that they were outmatched, and needed more weapons, […]
Cab Drivers Union Says Chicago Taxi Industry Near Collapse
zerohedge.com / By Jeff Schuhrke of In These Times / Jun 18, 2017 In addition to repaying loans on their medallions, taxi operators also have to pay thousands of dollars each year in city expenses, like the ground transportation tax and medallion license renewal fee—expenses that rideshare drivers are not subject to. (Cab Drivers United/ Twitter) Ghana-born […]
CHICAGO POLICE REFUSE TO REVEAL “HEAT LIST” PRE-CRIME SURVEILLANCE TACTICS – JOURNALISTS SUE
thedailysheeple.com / NICHOLAS WEST via ACTIVISTPOST.COM / JUNE 13, 2017 The Chicago police department continues to march toward what it calls “policing in the 21st century.” If their conduct is any indication, that police work would include systemic corruption, unlawful detention, torture, racial profiling and mass surveillance. However, activists and journalists continue to work hard to expose even more […]
Stocks Rebound As Chicago PMI Changes Its Mind, “Corrects” Earlier Dismal Data To Highest Since 2014
What a total farce. After Market News International reproted a dismal 4-month low drop in Chicago PMI this morning which sparked a decent reality check drop in stocks, they decided to change their mind. 0945ET – U.S. MAY MNI CHICAGO REPORT BUSINESS INDEX AT 55.2; EST 57.0 – lowest since Jan 2017 1121ET – CORRECT: […]