V-Shaped Recovery Achieved – Third Quarter GDP Growth a Record Breaking 33.1 Percent…


Posted Originally on The Conservative Tree House on October 29, 2020 by sundance

For several months the Trump administration has been talking about a “V-Shaped recovery,” meaning the COVID-19 rebound would be as strong as the preceding quarter contraction.  Today the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the third-quarter economic stats reflecting exactly that, a V-shaped recovery.

The 3rd quarter rebound in GDP growth was 33.1 percent, larger than the 2nd quarter contraction of 31.4 percent.  And keep in mind this is with a major part of the U.S. leisure and hospitality sector remaining severely impacted. [See Table 3, Line 20]

Despite several blue states attempting to stall their economic recovery, overall the economy is rebounding as expected.  Obviously the threat of COVID has been weaponized as an election strategy. It is against the interests of the administration’s political opposition to support a more honest, open and engaged economic recovery.

[Table 3]

All of these economic indicators highlight the visible reality on the ground.  Despite the ongoing challenges there is good news for the most heavily impacted sectors of the economy: leisure and hospitality. Well over half of those jobs lost have been recovered. In the past four months 3.6 million jobs have been gained in this sector. Employment in food services and drinking places is still down by down by 2.5 million since the peak in February but the gain is significant and reflects a “V-shaped” recovery ongoing.

All sectors of the economy are gaining jobs back at a remarkable rate; and the key demographics are benefiting in proportion to the initial COVID-19 impact. [BLS Report HERE]  With the expiration of the “extra” federal unemployment benefits at the end of July/August, the negative incentive has been removed; more people are stepping back into the workforce.

A September 2020 comparison to September 2019 [LINK HERE] – [PDF HERE] shows last month’s retail sales jumped a whopping 5.4 percent year-over-year.  That means last month saw consumer spending 5.4% higher than consumer spending before COVID-19 hit the U.S. economy. Keep in mind two-thirds of U.S. GDP is driven by retail sales and consumer spending.

As many of you know I have been traveling extensively throughout the country as I continue to brief groups on background DC, DOJ and FBI information from my years of research. During these travels I make a point to visit sector-specific businesses to inquire about their economic and business growth status.

The disconnect amid a ground reality compared to business reporting and financial media is actually stunning. However, perhaps that is because my physical ‘on-the-ground’ inquires and reports are ahead of the natural lag in the economic data rolling up to the accounting level. Here’s what I can tell you with absolute certainty.

The amount of heavy equipment, industrial equipment, hardware and goods being moved around the country is more than I have ever witnessed or seen in decades of travel. The mid-west, mid-atlantic, southeast, and more specifically the south in general, has more haulers and semi-trucks on the road than I have ever witnessed…. ever…. by a substantial margin. The same is true for rail freight and cargo vessels.

Regardless of what financial pundits and economic media might be saying, the underlying economic activity in the U.S. right now is explosive and moving at a much more rapid pace than before the COVID crisis [statistically confirmed today]. Regionally, business owners and operators all report the same thing, and the same need for a larger workforce. All of them are hiring; however, some sector specifics and regional specifics are much more intense.

President Trump Make America Great Again Rally – Tampa, Florida – 1:30pm EDT Livestream…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on October 29, 2020 by sundance

After spending the night at Doral, President Trump and First Lady Melania will be traveling to campaign stops in Tampa, FL, and Fayettville, NC, today.  The first event is being held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.  Anticipated start time 1:30pm.

Trump Campaign Livestream – RSBN Livestream Link – Alternate Livestream

Is Europe Deliberately Crushing their Economy for the Great Reset?


Armstrong Economics Blog/European Union Re-Posted Oct 30, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1 (France): What the hell is going on?! This is so frustrating. I want, no, NEED someone to shed some real, unbiased light on this. Do you have some available?K

COMMENT#2 (Spain): Hi Marty,

Hope you’re ok. Jealous of you being in Florida!! (Assuming it’s still relatively sane over there.)

As you will no doubt know, Europe is heading back to total lockdown everywhere. Eastern Europe has been the worst, actually. They’ve gone totally tyrannical, ever since September.
Masks mandatory everywhere (incl. on the streets, parks, etc), cafes, restaurants, all culture, many/most shops and “non-essential” businesses now closed in most areas, and total lockdown in places like Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, etc.
There have been some small-scale demonstrations in recent weeks in Bratislava, Prague, Poland, etc – and the cops (and in some cases military) have used brutal force against the peaceful protesters (water cannons, tear gas, firing rubber bullets, etc). In Slovakia, they’ve threatened to jail people who participated, because in “state of emergency” long jail penalties can be given to anyone disobeying the rules that ban public/social gatherings, etc.

Also, Slovakia is doing mandatory “covid” testing of the entire population (except kids under 10 years of age)! It’s not technically mandatory BUT, anyone who will not have the document attesting a negative test result (which people must carry with themselves at all time in case they’re stopped by police, and also to be able to go to work or enter any shop) will be deemed “positive” and not allowed to leave home at all! So, if you don’t get tested, you’re screwed – not able to go to work, to buy anything in a store, or even to leave home because cops will be patrolling and asking for the document.

As I’ve told you some time ago… Westerners are under the illusion that people from formerly communist/totalitarian countries would resist tyranny. Well, they don’t. The VAST majority of people in all these countries are ok with all this tyranny; they think it’s for “public health” (aka for their own good), and they turn not on the tyrannical government but on the few who don’t want to obey these evil, anti-human, tyrannical mandates.

Aside of perhaps China (with their evil total monitoring, social credit score, etc etc) Slovakia is now literally right on top of the most tyrannical countries. No test, no leaving home! (And, of course, soon the “test” will be replaced by a “vaccine”, then a chip, etc – and everyone will get injected because otherwise they will have to be locked in at home and starve to death!)

Most people didn’t believe Europe would go back into lockdown… well, here we are. And it’s only October – the flu season hasn’t even properly started yet.
We’re soon going to envy those who lived under Stalin or Mao.

Depressing as hell….I don’t want to live in this sick tyrannical world.

Take care.
P

REPLY: I have friends around the world who are all writing in and becoming very concerned. Europe is intent on pushing the Great Reset, using this virus as the justification to crush the economy to force people to ACCEPT their Guaranteed Basic Income and to usher in the Great Reset. Instead of revising the system properly, they have taken the totalitarian approach to retain power. I seriously question if there will be any elections post-2024 and there is a high probability that we will see international war by 2027.

There is absolutely NO possible way these people do not know what they are doing. This is a deliberate action to use COVID-19 to crush the economy and the people into submission. If you simply look at the European share indexes, you see nothing remotely similar to the United States. They are down on average 30% for the year and they look like death warmed-over.

Rockefeller Family Tells Banks to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Oct 30, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

These people are absolutely insane. They think they should stop all fossil fuel produce now and leave cars stranded and eliminate any way to distribute food. I suppose they will suddenly realize that there are not enough horses and wagons to bring food to them in New York City. There is a real problem here when the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations are intent on reducing the population and eliminating democracies so they can impose their vision of the future by sheer decree. Perhaps this is a disease that comes from having too much money.

My Prediction on the 2020 Election


A MAGA Win if no interference!

The Great Red Wave Rising


What Blue Wave?

Have you noticed how loud and shrill Fake News has become in these last days before the election? The polls are screaming Biden ahead, Trump way behind. The polls were wrong in 2016 and are wrong in 2020.  We have a new factor, the “shy” Trump voter thrown into the mix. Shy Trump voters won’t talk to pollsters and when they do, they tell the pollsters that they are voting Biden. When you see what the left has done to Trump supporters, harassment and physical violence, you can understand why the Shy Trump voter holds his cards close.

So it comes down to this: who are you gonna believe? The Fake News and rigged pollsters, or your lying eyes?

What my “lying” eyes see are huge Trump crowds at Trump’s rallies, er “peaceful protests.”  People lining up for hours and even days before the rally starts, crowds lining the roads to just get a glimpse of the President when he drives by. Boat parades, car parades, even Amish buggy Trump support parades. The most recent Trump car caravan stretched over 6 miles!

America loves the President and the President loves America!

Compare that to the ‘enthusiasm” for the Biden campaign.  You know Joe’s in trouble when they  drag out Obama, who spoke to about 100 cars at his event. Obama, the poster boy for the Democrats, can’t even draw more than a hundred people now. Biden has spoken to “crowds” of 12.  Their excuse? “We don’t want these to be super spreader events!” Yeah, right.

Meanwhile, consecutive nights of rioting are happening in Philadelphia.

Mobs vs. Jobs.

Law and order vs lawlessness.

America First vs. China First.

The American people know, they want their country back. They know the Democrats are no longer the party of JFK, but the party of Mao and Stalin, radical America hating communists who want to control every aspect of your lives.

And so the Great Red Wave of 2020 rises….

Please vote for President Trump, vote like your life depends on it. Vote like your children’s lives depends on it…vote like your grandchildren’s lives depends on it….because they do.

VOTE MAGA VOTE TO SAVE AMERICA!

Tina

Happy Birthday Hill, ACB Confirmed


A Special Gift to Hillary

Hillary Clinton probably didn’t have much of a happy birthday considering how she had to share her special day with the momentous event of Amy Coney Barrett getting sworn in to the Supreme Court. 

There has been a lot of hateful lava spewing from Hillary’s volcanic head lately. The twice-failed presidential candidate seems to be in a very sour mood. She explained how it made her literally “sick to her stomach” to think that she’d have to endure four more years of Trump’s “abuse and destruction of our institutions, and damaging of our norms and our values, and lessening of our leadership.” She also went on to say that most Republicans are “cowards, spineless enablers” of Donald Trump.

Which institutions are getting destroyed? Well, we know the FBI has already been destroyed by partisan Democrat and Deep State operatives. Everything the FBI now does seems designed to protect swamp monsters such as Hillary Clinton. Norms and values? Hillary values the further lining her pockets with ‘pay to play.’ Such criminal behavior is normal to her. Hillary values her own power she’s mad that her leadership was ‘lessened.’ She needs it lessened still further by getting locked up. 

Justice Barrett is at polar opposites with the abortion-loving Hillary Clinton. A baby, moments from birth, can still be aborted according to Hillary because legally it’s not a human being. Barrett loves the Constitution and is a strong woman of real values including justice and the protection of individual rights. Hillary had her cake and ate it too. She also wanted to control the cakes of everyone else.

Sick to her stomach Hillary will gulp down more antacids should voters ‘enable’ Trump to win a second term. The hate in Hillary’s heart beats strong, but the love within Amy Coney Barrett is stronger.

—The GrrrTeam

What Klaus Schwab’s World Really Looks Like


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Oct 29, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The destruction of small businesses is just insane. I would expect this if we were faced with a real disease with 20% of the population dying. The death rate of this COVID-19 is really no worse than the flu. Politicians cannot be this stupid. The destruction of small business is NOT going to magically be reversed by opening up. This is deliberate and it is much more in line with Klaus Schwab’s Communist agenda.

It certainly seems that these politicians are, in fact, trying to carry out Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset. Nothing seems to make sense. I could not believe he has the audacity to put out his promo ahead of the US election saying you will own nothing. I lived in London. I loved it because there were small specialty shops where people still made shirts, and others handmade briefcases. I loved rummaging around the antique book stores. All of that is now gone. I really do not want to live in the type of world Schwab has been advising politicians to create.

I went behind the Berlin Wall. I saw the conditions firsthand. Like Schwab, they lied to the people and said the wall was to keep people out because they all wanted to share the glorious utopia of Communism.

Schwab & Soros Destruction of Western Culture


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Oct 29, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Dear Martin/AE team

Thank you for your and/or your incredible team’s replies to my questions. I understand how incredibly busy you all are, and I am so grateful for your insights. I’m trying with your help to figure out what’s happening!

Your work confirms that the rise and fall of great civilizations is a biological phenomenon driven by an invisible hand. Humans are players on the stage – assuming roles in the larger wave or cycle, apparently not directing it but somehow unconsciously acting out the rise and then the decline. As a Catholic, I believe God is the first, eternal, perfect unmoved mover driving the eternal rhyming cycle of time.

Currently, the Marxists and communists in their quest to be God and perfect the world, are destroying human rights, private property, religious freedom – essentially, everything that made the Christian West great. You have stated they will fail – so are their centralist, supranational post-human plans somehow manifesting (instead of causing) the inevitable decline? Are they just foolish, deranged actors responding unknowingly to the cycle? Like Judas who betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of silver, regretted his actions and then killed himself, or like Cain who destroyed his brother and then suffered eternal damnation, do think possibly the Marxist destroyers of the West are in fact part of God’s salvation plan? Are they like Judas and Cain – acting out a role? Unless they repent (and that doesn’t look too likely) they will suffer eternal separation from God. Betrayal and suffering were/are necessary for redemption/salvation. We have free will – to choose to worship God or be deceived by worldly sin. Is this the meaning of all this? Is this the passion we must suffer to reach salvation?

Their plans will fail you say, and revolutions will come, so please tell me: Is worldwide tyranny impossible because our desire for God will save us?

Thank you so much for everything.

Sincerely,

Margaret

ANSWER: They are playing God, for they neither believe in any God nor do they believe in the cyclical nature of the universe. The LEFT never believes in God. They see religion as a weakness and a fantasy indistinguishable from Santa Claus.

Dianne Feinstein is an example of how they are very much against religion on the left. Her opposition to Barrett is based entirely on religion. They will fail BECAUSE nobody can control the entire world and force it to accept their dogma. Human nature will never accept that objective. The last time this was attempted using Marxism, several hundred million people died in their fight for freedom.

People often ask me how did I survive their attempt to suppress me and to use Socrates to control the world rather than using it to save the world. They torture people all the time in the United States. As long as they do not leave a mark on your body, they pretend it is not torture.

This movie, “The Report,” exposes the true story about how America tortured people. It was John Brennan, the man against Trump, who was covering up the illegal actions of the CIA. There is a consistent theme that runs through these people — lie and lie again to cover up the previous lie.

They push you beyond the fear of death. You can arrive at a point where death is seen as a blessing in the hands of these people. They waterboarded a prisoner 182 times and got nothing because they have nothing to give. When you pass that point and they no longer can threaten you with death, you take all their power. You will never meet such people who think they are so righteous and that everyone else is just scum unworthy of life. Only then do you see the hatred that resides with the LEFT. They must rule at all costs and your death is simply something that you deserved. There is ZERO justice in our legal system.

They will fail, as they always do, because they neither respect human nature nor do they understand it. However, they will destroy Western culture and they truly want to bury all religions. This is part of the cycle. After the fall of Rome, India rose to be the world’s #1 economy. That is why Columbus set sail to try to reach India but bumped into the Americas instead. Yet, he called the inhabitants Indians. The #1 economy moved to China and then there were the Opium Wars. Eventually, Britain became the #1 world economy and they declined, passing the title to the USA post-World War I. The USA will decline as Schwab and Soros seek to end it as a superpower. They think they can muster the power inside the United Nations to take over the world. Both China and Russia will resist, and in the end, China will rise as the next #1 world economy.

Arizona Rally #2 – President Trump Make America Great Again Rally – Phoenix, Arizona – 5:30pm Livestream


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on October 28, 2020 by sundance

For the second MAGA rally in Arizona President Donald J. Trump heads to Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Phoenix. The anticipated start time is 5:30pm EDT

[Livestream Links Below]

Trump Campaign Livestream – RSBN Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream