By Michael Snyder How can a company that is going to generate $2,000,000,000 in negative free cash flow in 2017 be worth 70 billion dollars? Netflix has soared in popularity in recent years, but so have their financial losses. Just like during the original tech bubble, investors are ignoring basic fundamentals and are greatly rewarding … Read more
Long considered the titans of Wall Street, hedge fund managers have long thrived under a simple premise: They are smarter than the average investor and can produce bigger profits. That image of the slick, well-connected trader, making bold bets with hundreds of millions of dollars, has attracted trillions from wealthy investors, pension funds and endowments … Read more
by David Haggith If I can show you that economists, central bankers and stock analysts are blind in the area of their expertise to the most obvious setup for disaster ever, then you’ll realize we are perfectly poised for potentially the greatest stock market crash in history. Many times in the past few months, I’ve heard these people … Read more
by Mark Angelides We are all aware that the MSM is following an agenda and that their purpose is not to inform the population (or their specific viewership) of events that are taking place, but rather to shape narrative. This is known by pretty much everyone, but what is often unexamined is the reason behind … Read more
by Mark Angelides The Western Media has been complicit in covering up the real facts about the “refugee crisis”, it is in the pages of non-English language newspapers and websites where we find the real, and in some ways terrifying truth behind this mass-migration of people. The Swedish news site, Svenska Dagbladet reports that the … Read more
by Robert Carbery The constant hammering of false narratives and widely accepted facts against our president with no evidence to support is becoming dangerous. Trump is not the threat to democracy that the Left has been insisting for the last couple years. The current attempt to delegitimize our duly elected leader is an actual threat … Read more
By Michael Snyder If everything is going to be “just fine”, why are so many big names in the financial community warning about an imminent meltdown? I don’t think that I have seen so many simultaneous warnings about a market crash since just before the great financial crisis of 2008. And at this point, you … Read more
by John Rubino Housing is hot again, but lately it’s been overshadowed by flashier bubbles in government debt, tech stocks and possibly cryptocurrencies. Still, the warning signs are spreading. Today’s Wall Street Journal, for instance, reports that homeowners are back to using their houses as ATMs: Homeowners Are Again Pocketing Cash as They Refinance Properties … Read more
by tsukeisawa The Democrats are up in arms about the Trump budget. Cruel, Barbaric, Mean are some of the nicest words they have used to describe it and it just goes downhill from there. As usual the spokespeople of the Trump administration have not been able to defend the budget effectively so it falls upon … Read more
by Michael Snyder What would America look like today if the dream of our Founding Fathers of a limited central government had actually been realized? We have become so accustomed to big government that many of us simply assume that this is the only way that things can be done. But the truth is that … Read more