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US Pending Home Sales Barely Bounce Off Record Lows Despite Tumbling Rates In Feb After reaching a record low last month - with the decline blamed on weather - pending home sales bounced modestly in February (up 1.8% MoM vs -0.6% MoM exp and -10.% MoM prior). Year-over-year home sales continue to decline (down 0.6% YoY)... Source: Bloomberg ...just barely off of all-time-record lows... Source: Bloomberg Pending home sales in the South, the biggest home-selling region in the country, increased 2.7%. They rose 4.6% in the Midwest and edged up in the West. Contract signings dropped in...

From Civilian To Military Economy: This Is What A Declining Empire's Economy Looks Like Authored by Bryan Lutz via DollarCollapse.com, “A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy.” ~ Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912) Empires don’t announce their decline. They reveal it in the data… And...

Alberta Separatists Say They Have Enough Signatures To Force Referendum On Leaving Canada A group pushing for Alberta to break free from Canada announced Monday that it has submitted nearly double the number of signatures required to force a referendum -- which could come as early as October. While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith opposes independence, she has assured Albertans that she will not try to thwart a referendum if the signature hurdle were cleared.   A signature in support of an independence referendum is collected atop a mountain in Alberta (via Stay...