Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter For the first time in the US since the Financial Crisis. Let’s forget for a moment the Fed, its rate-increase flip-flopping, and what that might do in theory to the economy, and let’s look instead at what companies are actually doing, how they’re responding to the environment they find themselves in. … Read more
by Umar Farooq 2017 kicked off with a reflationary revival as the consumer price index (CPI) recorded 2.5% year-over-year (YoY) growth in January – Its highest reading since early-2012. Inflation has been trending upward since 2015, but its upward slope has only come to the forefront since the election. Although the current inflation rate is … Read more
By Michael Snyder For more than 100 years global debt levels have been rising, and now we are potentially facing the greatest debt crisis in all of human history. Never before have we seen such a level of debt saturation all over the planet, and pretty much everyone understands that this is going to end … Read more
By Gabrielle Seunagal A few days ago, Tim Pool visited a “No Go Zone” in Malmo, Sweden to document the present-day immigrant crisis. Upon doing so, he gained awareness of the critical issues in Malmo, attracting death threats along the way. Sweden’s decision to grant mass entry to immigrants has not served them well. The … Read more
by Gordon T Long The World Bank just released a telling report entitled “Trade Developments in 2016: Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade“. Though they deflect the problems in global trade to areas such as excessive regulatory initiatives and policy uncertainty (which is true), what is to be found buried in the appendix are the two … Read more
by Umar Farooq Investors are beginning to wonder if this Energizer Bunny of a rally can just keep going without taking a break or a fall. For the past couple of months, the question has hung in the back of investors’ minds: Is the stock market’s rally strong enough to continue without a correction? … Read more
by Umar Farooq Stocks continue to make new record highs, yet market dynamics point to fragility under the surface. The Dow Jones Industrial Average registered its eleventh record close in a row on Friday. And, if you take a look at just the S&P 500 in February, it’s on track to see the fewest declines in any month since May 1990. … Read more
by Mark Angelides In what must surely be one of the most disturbing massacres of people in recent years, the usual suspect protestors have kept their silence. The Christian population of Middle Eastern countries has fallen sharply over the last ten years (CNN suggests that in the city of Mosul, the Christian population has dropped … Read more
by Pamela Williams I have often wondered what it would be like to lose everything. I have been fortunate in my life to have never experienced a flood or a fire, but I do know what loss feels like. It seems even when loss occurs, if one has the refuge of home to cling to, one … Read more
OCTOBER 2016 – SHADOW GOVERNMENT MEETING EVERY WEDNESDAY EXPOSED! REFERENCED IN NEW FBI RELEASE FEB. 2017 – TRAITORS & PEDOPHILES ARE BEING BROUGHT DOWN – 7TH FLOOR NEW WORLD ORDER FIRED? Former CIA officer Robert David Steele explains how Flynn was really fired because he was in possession of a high-level Washington DC pedophile list … Read more