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Stocks plunged on Wednesday after the yield on 30-year Treasurys dropped to a new low and the spread between two- and 10-year Treasurys inverted for the first time since 2007. The inversion of the yield curve compounded concerns of an economic slowdown in the US, as the occurrence has preceded each of the last seven recessions. Disappointing economic data from Germany and China caused the rally in global bonds as investors shifted away from equities toward the relative-safety of long-term treasuries. Visit the Markets Insider homepage for more stories. US stocks plummeted on Wednesday after the spread between two- and 10-year Treasury...

SI has a bunch of Top 10 lists commemorating 2019 being the 150 the anniversary of college football. They did not bother having a list of the wackiest, and head scratching moments in the sport. It is these moments that make the sport special.

Being a celibate gay Christian means being an object of suspicion. The wider LGBTQ community sees you as shockingly conservative (“You think gay sex is wrong?”), while the wider evangelical community sees you as worryingly liberal (“You call yourself gay?”). One day, someone will be expressing disgust toward your “fundamentalist” beliefs. On the next, someone else is targeting your “perverted” sexual orientation. Disparate groups see you as an existential threat, and their attacks can be fierce, as recent online responses to conferences like Revoice and ministries like Spiritual Friendship and Living Out would attest. Researchers Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets...

VIDEO Eric Trump charged that the mainstream media is hiding the fact that President Trump's jar at the Iowa State Fair Corn Kernel Poll is overflowing with kernels. Is he right? Well, he challenged us to Google this which I did and it turned out that Eric Trump is exactly right. As of now (August 14), you can't find any picture of Trump's jar at the Corn Kernel Jar. Fortunately the Iowa State Fair lasts a few more days until August 18 so hopefully someone will take a picture of that jar and post it to the Web for all...

Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, has been hiding out at a secluded $3M oceanfront property in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal The property is owned by her tech CEO boyfriend Scott Borgerson, 43, who has been seen running errands in the area and walking Maxwell's dog The British socialite was a long-time consort of Jeffrey Epstein and the alleged procurer of victims in his underage sex trafficking ring Maxwell hasn't been seen publicly in three years and hasn't left the home amid new focus on Epstein's alleged co-conspirators following his apparent suicide on Saturday 'She's become a real homebody, rarely ventures...

You should be afraid, very afraid. Or so I’m told when I imprudently open email solicitations and read the news articles linked in those solicitations. Why should I be afraid? Because, if I’m like most Americans, I am approaching old age with too little savings to enjoy a secure and adequate retirement. The frequent warnings may contain a kernel of truth (see here, here, and here). Still, it’s hard to see much evidence for the scary headlines when we examine the relevant income statistics. They show the elderly and retired are doing pretty well. What is more, their incomes compare...

The current federal budget fiscal year still has two months to go, but the deficit is already bigger now than it was for all of last year, and heading to more than $1 trillion. Naturally, the Trump tax cuts are getting the lion’s share of the blame. But the latest data on spending and revenues from the Treasury Dept. make it abundantly clear that it is out-of-control spending, not tax cuts, that are driving the deficit upward. Unfortunately, no one in Washington seems to care. From October last year through July this year, total revenues climbed 3.4%. That’s faster than...

Roughly one month ago, the White House announced that we were closing in on a safe third country agreement with Guatemala, scoring what was perceived as a major win on immigration for President Trump. At the time, we noted that there were several serious flaws in the plan which might prevent it from coming to fruition. One was the fact that the deal was being cut with a lame-duck president who was on his way out (Jimmy Morales) and we didn’t know who the next leader would be or what their view on the deal might look like. Also,...

Threatening to fool around with how the courts are constituted is yet another excursion toward totalitarianism on par with that found in every cheap, repressive dictatorship. Old Joe Stalin would probably think spending eternity in Hell is no small price to pay if it meant the Democrats in America were ready to impose his policies on hapless Americans. But those Crazy Dems just keep on pushing the envelope further and further. Now they’re threatening the Supreme Court. The way the Dems see it, if the Courts rule against their wishes then it stands to reason that there’s something wrong with...

Meanwhile, no one's asking now that someone's been able to pull it off, will prison 'suicide' be the best way to bury the truth? For any still holding out hope that the FBI will unearth the truth about Jeff Epstein’s curious ‘suicide’ in the Manhattan Correctional Center’s prison: Don’t hold your breath. Media reports on Epstein’s prison death should be—but isn’t—officially categorized as “alleged suicide”. For starters, the FBI will be investigating not provable facts, but allegations.

For the first time since the Great Recession, a major signal of impending recession has emerged. The inverted yield curve has sent investors running away from the stock market this morning, and appears to corroborate earlier warnings that the US economy is heading into a major problem: U.S. stocks tumbled at open Wednesday after the inverted yield curve, one of the most reliable indicators of a recession, sparked a new wave of investor fears, erasing the short-lived bump from TuesdayÂ’s trade easing.For the first time since 2007, the yields on short-term U.S. bonds eclipsed those of long-term bonds. This...

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019”. SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) incidents of targeted violence are impacting our Nation frequently and indiscriminately; (2) a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-jurisdictional behavioral threat assessment and management process on a Federal, State, local, and Tribal level complements the development of better methods for strategically preventing targeted violence in communities, including schools; (3) the United States has the capability to rapidly develop behavioral threat assessment and management guidelines and best practices; (4) the United...

Time to restructure the courts and take down PlannedParenthood.

A teenager who claims her mother took her electronics away seemingly resorted to what might be the last imaginable place to tweet from: a refrigerator.The plight of 15-year-old Twitter user "Dorothy" was noticed earlier this month after she kept tweeting about how her mom kept taking gadgets away from her, leaving her unable to tweet.The account, which appears to function as an Ariana Grande fan page, posted a tweet on Aug. 4 that read: "im leaving forever. my mom took my phone. ill miss u all sm. im crying. goodbye."Twitter, which shows where users' tweets are sent from, showed that the teen's...

Back on August 4, 2019 our editorial friends at the New York Times declared that “We Have a White Nationalist Terrorist Problem.” (H/T C.J. Hopkins) Of course they think that. Bless their hearts. Just imagine how things look from the New York Times building. Here they were, skimming along as unconcernedly as a seagull, basking in the sunset glow of the First Black President and finally, after 20,000 years of bigotry, gay marriage, and then the roof falls in. Some outer-borough yahoo gets elected President of the United States. What’s the first thing that the Good People would think? Exactly....

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What makes a great college football stadium? The best-of-the-best have the perfect mix of location, history, scenery, traditions, technology and, of course, fans who provide ultimate home-field advantage. In honor of college football's 150th anniversary, here are the top 10 stadiums in the sport's history.

GEORGIA – Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were indicted on Tuesday by a grand jury on tax evasion charges by the Northern District of Georgia. The 12-count indictment, obtained by CNN, also alleges the Chrisleys committed bank fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, among other offenses. The married couple are stars of the USA Network reality series “Chrisley Knows Best,” which follows their family’s over-the-top lifestyle and activities. Before the indictment was issued, Todd Chrisley took to Instagram to deny the claims, implying the charges are based on evidence presented to investigators by a disgruntled former employee. He alleged...

A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday shot down an attempt by House Judiciary Committee Democrats to link their subpoena for former White House counsel Don McGahn to a separate request for secret grand jury information from the Russia investigation after the Justice Department accused them of trying to "game the system." Normally cases are assigned to judges randomly, which the DOJ said is meant to keep parties from “attempting to game the system” by “shopping” for a judge they like. But in a Tuesday court filing, the department alleged the Democrat-controlled committee was trying to do exactly that by exploiting...

What if it were neither murder nor suicide? ~Huge Snip~ But there is a more promising and seemingly more concrete body of evidence, which offers insight into Epstein’s psychological profile and possible motive.According to the New York Post, court documents released the day before his death disclosed that Epstein “had an insatiable sexual appetite” and “required three orgasms a day.” If true, then how would Epstein go about indulging his sexual urges while in jail? One likely way would be autoerotic asphyxiation, a practice by which an individual intentionally restricts the flow of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual...