Mac Slavo | If you’ve been following mainstream financial analysts and pundits you’d think that the U.S. economy was booming again.

AP | The Latest on congressional action on the GOP health care bill and the $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill.

Daily Caller | Sounding the alarm about Jared Kushner’s ties to liberal bankroller George Soros and Goldman Sachs.

Zero Hedge | Could Bitfinex, the world’s largest, Hong-Kong based cryptocurrency exchange, be headed for a Mt. Gox-style collapse? It’s starting to look that way.

Michael Snyder | Puerto Rico has collapsed financially and has “filed for the equivalent of bankruptcy protection”.

Breitbart | Schumer, however, praised others on both sides of the aisle for their efforts in the budget deal.

Michael Snyder | One sector of the economy that is acting as if we were already in the middle of a horrible recession is the auto industry.

Reuters | The Trump administration plans to replace Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry as chief overseer of federally chartered banks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Zero Hedge | “Risk assets are performing well and investors are clearly bullish.”

Daily Sheeple | In recent years, experts have provided many different estimates for how many human jobs will be lost to automation, and in what time frame.

Bloomberg | Austria is seeking ways to make digital services like Alphabet Inc.’s Google or Facebook Inc. pay taxes for transactions with the nation’s internet users.