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Date Sent: 2017-04-25
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, April 26, 2017 |
New Home Sales Jump, Tied For Highest Since 2008 As Median Selling Price Rebounds
New Home Sales Jump, Tied For Highest Since 2008 As Median Selling Price Rebounds -- US Home Prices Rise At The Fastest Pace Since July 2014 -- Spring housing: 'Strongest seller's market ever' -- Einhorn: "The Longs Say Stocks Can Only Go Up, Seemingly To Infinity And Beyond. -- Bitcoin Back Near Record Highs As SEC Reviews ETF-Blocking Decision -- Is This Finally Our Flying Car? -- Democrats: Trump Must Surrender On Funding For A Border Wall To Avoid A Government Shutdown .... -- The Rise of Homeschooling Was Broad and Bipartisan -- It's Time for Everyone to Admit That Ivanka Trump Is Probably Evil -- How Africa Got Left Behind -- An Angry Canada Responds To Trump's Lumber Tariff... -- Hannity: Liberal 'fascism' trying to silence every conservative voice -- Facebook's thought police -- The Libertarian Angle: Shut Down the Government -- Al Gore's New Group Demands $15 Trillion To Fight Global Warming -- Economics in One Image -- O'Reilly goes public after Fox ouster: 'You're going to be shaken' -- Koch Industries and Other Corporations Lobbied for Donald Trump's Cabinet Picks, Filings Show -- Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI -- 3 Off-grid ways to save money on your electric bill -- Spring housing: 'Strongest seller's market ever' -- Turkish Airstrikes On Kurds Complicate U.S. Operations In Iraq And Syria -- Is Macron the EU's last best hope? -- Obama Press Secretary: Former President Will 'Reengage' If Trump Crosses 'Red Lines' -- HERBERTS SHOULDN'T WEAR TIE-DYE -- Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up -- Digital Banks Are Moving Past the Idea of Passing Around Paper Money -- UPDATE on Morhpeus Titania, aka Thomas Costanzo, arrested 4/20 by Federal Agents -- 04-25-17 -- Tarzan Keith, 'Mr T' - James Bovard - Dr. Judy Mikovits, PhD -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED) -- Alan Greenspan, Sellout --
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News Link • Housing
New Home Sales Jump, Tied For Highest Since 2008 As Median Selling Price Rebounds
04-25-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Confirming the strong housing data reported earlier by Case-Shiller which showed the fastest pace of home price appreciation since 2014, moments ago the Census reported that New Home Sales rose 5.8% in March to an annual pace of 621K units, just shy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
US Home Prices Rise At The Fastest Pace Since July 2014
04-25-2017
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http://www.zerohedge.com
While it is unclear if the Chinese, tired of fighting regulations in Canada, are behind the latest jump in home prices, today Case-Shiller reported that its index of Top 20 cities rose at a 5.9% annual rate, the highest increase since July 2014, citi
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Housing
Spring housing: 'Strongest seller's market ever'
04-25-2017
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http://www.cnbc.com, Diana Olick
Even as more homes come on the market for this popular sales season, they're flying off fast. Home prices have now surpassed their last peak, and at the entry level, where demand is highest, sellers are in the driver's seat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Einhorn: "The Longs Say Stocks Can Only Go Up, Seemingly To Infinity And Beyond.
04-25-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
We Have Seen This Before"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Back Near Record Highs As SEC Reviews ETF-Blocking Decision
04-25-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Bitcoin is up 8 days in a row, pushing back above gold, shaking off its 'fork' concerns and testing towards $1300 today as the SEC announces that it intends to review its decision to reject a bitcoin ETF proposed by the Winklevoss twins.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation
Is This Finally Our Flying Car?
04-25-2017
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https://mail.google.com, Jeffrey A. Tucker
Every living human being dreams of a flying car.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Democrats: Trump Must Surrender On Funding For A Border Wall To Avoid A Government Shutdown ....
04-25-2017
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com by Michael Snyder
Is Donald Trump going to unconditionally surrender to the Democrats and completely give up his dream of building a border wall in order to avoid a government shutdown on his 100th day in office?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
The Rise of Homeschooling Was Broad and Bipartisan
04-25-2017
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https://fee.org, Kerry McDonald
Homeschooling is the oldest form of education. Its roots span generations and geography, and children all over the world learn the skills of their culture through their family and throughout their community.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Family
It's Time for Everyone to Admit That Ivanka Trump Is Probably Evil
04-25-2017
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russia-insider.com by Riley Waggaman
The Trump Age is the age of soft illusions. And Ivanka Trump is the crown jewel
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
How Africa Got Left Behind
04-25-2017
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https://fee.org, Marian L. Tupy
Robert Colvile's excellent article on Prince Charles's misunderstanding of the causes of African poverty provides a good opportunity to take a closer look at Africa's economic history.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Canada
An Angry Canada Responds To Trump's Lumber Tariff...
04-25-2017
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
And What It Means For The Economy
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Hannity: Liberal 'fascism' trying to silence every conservative voice
04-25-2017
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http://thehill.com, By Rebecca Savransky
Sean Hannity late Monday blasted "liberal fascists" attempting to "silence" conservative voices after a former guest accused the Fox News host of sexually propositioning her.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook's thought police
04-25-2017
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http://theweek.com, Edward Morissey
The social panic and media hysteria over fake news continues unabated. And once again, Facebook's reaction is all wrong.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Libertarian Angle: Shut Down the Government
04-25-2017
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fff.org by Future of Freedom Foundation
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the possibility of federal government shutdown.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Al Gore's New Group Demands $15 Trillion To Fight Global Warming
04-25-2017
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http://dailycaller.com, Michael Bastasch
A group of executives who want to fight global warming has published a new report calling for countries to spend up to $600 billion a year over the next two decades to boost green energy deployment and energy efficiency equipment.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economics in One Image
04-25-2017
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https://www.youtube.com, corbettreport
Have you ever agonized over le mot juste for explaining catallactics to your friends?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
O'Reilly goes public after Fox ouster: 'You're going to be shaken'
04-25-2017
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http://www.wnd.com, Chelsea Schilling
'I'm very confident the truth will come out. ... There's a lot of stuff involved here'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Koch Industries and Other Corporations Lobbied for Donald Trump's Cabinet Picks, Filings Show
04-25-2017
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https://theintercept.com, Lee Fang, Nick Surgey
Many of Donald Trump's cabinet nominations faced vocal opposition from constituents and public interest groups.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ted Talks
Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
04-25-2017
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TED
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by th
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Housing
Spring housing: 'Strongest seller's market ever'
04-25-2017
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http://www.cnbc.com, Diana Olick
Even as more homes come on the market for this popular sales season, they're flying off fast. Home prices have now surpassed their last peak, and at the entry level, where demand is highest, sellers are in the driver's seat.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • WTF?
Turkish Airstrikes On Kurds Complicate U.S. Operations In Iraq And Syria
04-25-2017
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moonofalabama.org
A few hour ago the Turkish airforce hit Kurdish and Yezidi positons on both sides of the Singal mountains in east-Syria and west-Iraq. Near Derik in east-Syria more than 20 bombs destroyed a YPG headquarter, a radio station and a media center.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • France
Is Macron the EU's last best hope?
04-25-2017
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http://www.wnd.com, Patrick J. Buchanan
Pat Buchanan looks at Le Pen's chances against young En Marche! candidate
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Obama Family News
Obama Press Secretary: Former President Will 'Reengage' If Trump Crosses 'Red Lines'
04-25-2017
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Prison Planet.com by Steve Watson
In the meantime Obama will take $400,000 from Wall St Bank for one speech
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Robert Lee
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Feature Article • American History
HERBERTS SHOULDN'T WEAR TIE-DYE
Paul Rosenberg
The term "Herbert" referred to a stiff, rule-keeping bureaucrat. Tie-dye was the clothing of hippies; it was made with bleach and strings. Being old enough to remember how things were "back in the day," I'm always half insulted to see very
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up
04-25-2017
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http://www.popsci.com
Like everything else in the 1960s, NASA's Saturn V rocket set a mark for extreme. At 363 feet tall, with 7.5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, it lifted six moon-bound missions into space. Retired in 1973, it remains the tallest, heaviest, and most
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Currencies
Digital Banks Are Moving Past the Idea of Passing Around Paper Money
04-25-2017
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https://motherboard.vice.com
Cash is king, until it's not. Part of the emerging generation of fintech startups, the new digital-only banks--colloquially known as the challenger banks by the financial technology "in" crowd--appear to be approaching consumer banking very differ
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Gina Kynast
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Alan Greenspan, Sellout
04-25-2017
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https://www.libertarianinstitute.org
Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economic Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations. One can be sure, then, that his new comprehensive book, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, reflects
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