The Rothschild family is one of the most powerful, wealthy, and influential groups in the world. Their dynasty stretches back hundreds of years to every corner of the earth. They’ve been able to maintain their dominance because they were able to ensure financing of companies, governments are more in so many different countries. There’s an … Read more
#VIX #XIV #VXX #volatility In 1992, the CBOE hired Robert Whaley to develop a tradeable volatility product on equity index option prices. A year later, in 1993, the VIX was born when the CBOE started publishing real-time quotes on the implied volatility of the calculated S&P 500 index options. In those early days, I very much doubt … Read more
by Chris Black Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: yet another article about Sweden reaching unimaginable cuckness levels. But it’s their fault, as every news that comes from Sweden nowadays is increasingly more shocking than the previous; it’s like they’re trying to do their best in raising the bar of insanity to absurd heights. … Read more
By Michael Snyder If the economy is doing just fine, then why is homelessness at levels not seen “since the Great Depression” in major cities all over the country? If the U.S. economy was actually in good shape, we would expect that the number of people that are homeless would be going down or at … Read more
Merkel is obliviously out of touch with the native German people. I hope she’s forced to resign sometime soon, so the German people can move on without her. AC
Pre-dawn waits for door busters diminish, but Black Friday weekend still important for retailers After paging through the door buster ads, Jean Wendt, her sisters and nieces will head out around 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day to begin their Black Friday shopping. The sisters have gone holiday shopping together for years, back to the days … Read more
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen who was also born and raised in Norway regarding the bubbles we see expanding in the stock market, housing markets and currency in Norway at an unsustainable rate. Looking back at the Norwegian Kroner versus the US Dollar, it becomes clear that Norway’s reaching a … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Canadians, fasten your seat-belt. Here are the charts. The Financial Crisis in the US was a consequence of too much debt and too much risk, among numerous other factors, and the whole house of cards came down. Now, after eight years of experimental monetary policies and huge amounts of deficit spending … Read more
by Chris Black We just got word of yet another guilt-ridden, feel-bad flick from our enemies in Hollyweird, this time a so-called western dubbed “Hostiles. And yes, this is a progressive (as in a politically correct) Western. John Wayne rolls into his grave like a ventilator. The movie can be described as the latest … Read more
https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/933449988276916224 TROUBLE? What is the predictive power of the yield curve? Shape of the yield curve, advanced by 15 mths, has a decent fit w/US GDP growth. But yield curve inversions over-predict recessions. https://t.co/1mo5QwepsZ pic.twitter.com/Ysd5YCKe4F — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) November 22, 2017 Financial imbalances? You think? pic.twitter.com/F2ZNo5SM40 — John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (@hussmanjp) November 22, … Read more