Even in this era of extreme wealth and brutal inequality, the contrast is jarring. The heirs of Sam Walton, Walmart’s notoriously frugal founder, are amassing wealth on a near-unprecedented scale — and they’re hardly alone. The Walton fortune has swelled by $39 billion, to $191 billion, since topping the June 2018 ranking of the world’s richest families. Other American dynasties are close behind in terms of the assets they’ve accrued. The Mars family, of candy fame, added $37 billion, bringing its fortune to $127 billion.

The Kochs, the industrialists-cum-political-power-players, tacked on $26 billion, to $125 billion. So it goes around the globe. America’s richest 0.1% today control more wealth than at any time since 1929, but their counterparts in Asia and Europe are gaining too. Worldwide, the 25 richest families now control almost $1.4 trillion in wealth, up 24% from last year.

To some critics, such figures are evidence that capitalism needs fixing. Inequality has become an explosive political issue, from Paris to Seattle to Hong Kong. But how to shrink the growing gap between the rich and the poor? As the tension increases, even some billionaire heirs are backing steps such as wealth taxes. “If we don’t do something like this, what are we doing, just hoarding this wealth in a country that’s falling apart at the seams?” Liesel Pritzker Simmons, whose family ranks 17th on the Bloomberg list, said in June. “That’s not the America we want to live in.”

Attorney General William Barr has ordered an investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Barr said he "was appalled" to learn of Epstein's death "from an apparent suicide while in federal custody." He also said it "raises serious questions that must be answered." UPDATE 2: Barr just announced his investigation is over and it was a suicide, with no collusion no obstruction.

The BOP’s suicide prevention protocol entails, first and foremost, human eyes on the prisoner 24 hours a day. It also requires a strict deprivation of anything — shoelaces, sheets, pillowcases — that could possibly be used to hang oneself. It also requires disabling anything that could be used to tie a noose — vents, sprinkler heads, etc. Third, is there a video of Epstein’s cell at the crucial time? There should be, and it will reveal exactly how and when Epstein killed himself.

There’s no way that man could have killed himself. I’ve done too much time in those units. It’s an impossibility. Between the floor and the ceiling is like eight or nine feet. There’s no way for you to connect to anything. You have sheets, but they’re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen. When you’re on suicide watch, they put you in this white smock, a straight jacket. They know a person cannot be injurious to themselves.

The clothing they give you is a jump-in uniform. Everything is a dark brown color. Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars. They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death. You want to write a letter, they give you rubber pens and maybe once a week a piece of paper. Nothing hard or made of metal. And there’s a cop at the door about every nine minutes, whether you’re on suicide watch or not. It’s my firm belief that Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide. It just didn’t happen.

For the most part, it can easily feel like no one cares about you anymore. Your skills are ubiquitous, you have no true community, and God doesn’t exist. So what, you may ask, is exactly the point? We have created a society that now offers almost none of the things that make people truly happy. Family, community, spiritual belonging — these are the foundational and primal building blocks of human happiness, and they are rapidly disappearing.

With the destruction of the family, the church, and the community, the reasons people have traditionally had for their very existence are in danger of receding into the past. And the outcome is predictable: isolation, depression, anxiety, despondency, drug abuse, and death. Destroy the family, abandon the community, raze the church to the ground.

What could go wrong?

Everything.

Let’s start with 1929. As I repeatedly remind my readers, most large stock market crashes tend to happen during the fall, and on October 29th, 1929 there was a devastating stock market crash unlike anything that the United States had ever seen before. That date is generally considered to be the start of the Great Depression

1939 was the year when World War II started. It was the most catastrophic war that the world has ever seen, and it didn’t end until 1945. It is estimated that somewhere between 70 million and 85 million people were killed…

1949 was a year of great change, and it was really when the battle lines of the Cold War between the east and the west definitely solidified. During this year, the Communist Party of China was able to take full control of mainland China... it was the year of the Berlin blockade, and NATO was formed.

1959 was the year when Fidel Castro came to power. Thanks to the success of the Cuban revolution, Cuba became the first communist power in the western hemisphere…

1969... The Year Everything Changed. It was the year of the Moon landing, Woodstock and the Manson murders. During this year Richard Nixon was sworn in as the president of the United States, 250,000 Americans marched on Washington to protest the Vietnam War, and the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded.

1979 was the year of the Iranian Revolution. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in February, and the Iranian hostage crisis began in November... 1979 was also the year when Margaret Thatcher first became prime minister of the UK.

1989 was another year of revolution. In June of that year the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing were brutally crushed by the Chinese government. George H W Bush was sworn in as the president of the United States during this year, and huge protests on both sides of the Berlin Wall ultimately resulted in the collapse of the East German government.

1999 was the year when Bill Clinton came very close to being removed from office. On February 12th, the United States Senate narrowly acquitted Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice. 1999 was also the year when the euro become the official currency of the European Union...

2009 was definitely a year of “change”. On January 20th, Barack Obama became the first African-American to become the president of the United States. Meanwhile, the nation was greatly suffering from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that 8.8 million jobs were lost during the “Great Recession”, and millions of Americans also lost their homes as a result of the subprime mortgage meltdown.

So now here we are in another year that ends in 9. So far in 2019, we have seen mass shootings, crop failures, dramatic escalations in our trade war with China, and a potential war with Iran is looming on the horizon. Americans are angrier, more frustrated and more divided today than ever before in modern American history, and the mainstream media continues to stir the pot on a daily basis. The stage is definitely set for things to explode during the second half of this year, and a lot of people that I have been talking to feel like things could really start breaking loose at any moment. To a large degree, 2019 has already been a year of tremendous upheaval, but many believe that the worst is still yet to come.

Meanwhile, China is also hoarding gold. In fact, July was the eighth month in a row in which the Chinese increased their reserves… China bought nearly 10 tons of gold in July, marking the eighth consecutive month the country increased its reserves, Bloomberg reported Wednesday morning. The purchase is another signal from China that it’s gearing up for a prolonged trade conflict with the US. Gold serves as a historic safe-haven investment, and its price typically rises when markets and other currencies see increased volatility or prolonged weakness.

So why are the Chinese suddenly stocking up on everything? Well, the truth is that the answer to that question is quite obvious. The trade war between the United States and China is rapidly escalating, war in the Middle East could erupt at any time, the global economy has been steadily slowing down, crops are failing all over the planet, and everywhere we look we seem to see rising political instability.

In fact, we even see it in China’s own backyard. After weeks of unprecedented political protests in Hong Kong, it looks like we could be right on the verge of a brutal crackdown. The relative stability that we have been enjoying for the past several years is ending, and it appears that the months ahead could potentially be quite chaotic.

People often talk about the so-called wealth gap, but what if the very money you have in your wallet (if the government hasn’t yet taken it) is what’s creating the problem in the first place? Tim Picciott goes into how central banks and vast debt creates vast poverty as the middle class is destroyed and inflation runs rampant. The employment numbers are skewed by the government as it doesn’t count the labor force participation rate which makes up for an alarming amount of unemployment.

As the Fed lowers interest rates this problem is only going to get worse. The currency is in a state of crisis and the dollar will crash. It’s been papered over with debt for years and that debt has been carried over to the consumer and the overall price of living. It may be history’s greatest con job. Stay tuned as we continue to cover these issues closely!

"Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country’s recent shooting tragedies, Universal Pictures and the filmmakers of 'The Hunt' have temporarily paused its marketing campaign and are reviewing materials as we move forward," a Universal Pictures spokesperson told Fox News late Wednesday.

DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told Fox News that the movie is “harmful to a culture that surely needs messages of unity and understanding” during the current climate. “It says something sad about the state of the ‘entertainment’ industry that this movie ever got conceived and produced. Hollywood clearly thinks it is OK to stereotype so-called deplorables and set them up for a hunt,” McCall said. “Thank heavens some sensible outlets are pulling the promotional ads.”

Political satirist Tim Young makes a living by poking fun at topical issues but thinks “The Hunt” goes over the line. “Why would anyone think it's a great idea to have a movie about hunting down someone who doesn't agree with them politically? It's remarkable to me that the left blames Donald Trump's rhetoric for violence, then literally spends millions to normalize the killing of people based on politics,” Young told Fox News.