Overworked Americans are stuck in a financial groundhog day The U.S. had the fastest wage growth since 2009 in January. But in many other ways, American workers feel like they are working harder to achieve the same result. Does today feel a bit like yesterday, and the day before that? Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day. In the … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter And who was buying? Answers emerge. The S&P 500 index hit an all-time high on January 26, which was a Friday. The following week, it started to fall, including a messy 2.1% selloff on Friday that brought the weekly loss to 3.8%, the worst such decline since the selloff that ended … Read more
inShare From Birch Gold Group On January 31, two full days before the stock market’s recent sell off, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan issued a warning. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, he said: I think there are two bubbles. We have a stock market bubble and we have a bond market bubble. Experts are always making predictions about … Read more
The conditions for a crisis are already here. Regulation tends to be backward looking anyway. For example what chance would they have of preventing the buildup of the recent short VIX trade phenomenon that blew up? Approximate zero. There are so many markets in a dangerous condition today anyone of them could blow up as … Read more
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-02-07/a-crash-course-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hottest-trade-video Before whirlwind, banks turned volatility into the hot item VIX was seen as sure thing — until it suddenly wasn’t anymore https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-06/volatility-inc-inside-wall-street-s-8-billion-vix-time-bomb?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=180207&utm_campaign=ritholtz L O L $VIX pic.twitter.com/QQXjX3bd1i — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 7, 2018 h/t @Schuldensuehner
by Dana Lyons This week’s epic selloff included back-to-back 90% Down Days on the NYSE; was it the usual sign of capitulation? Waterfall-type declines like we’ve seen in the stock market this past week typically end when the last holdouts give up, or capitulate. That makes sense since, if there is nobody left to sell, the … Read more
BY SRSROCCO While U.S. oil production reached a new peak of 10.25 million barrels per day, the higher it goes, the more breathtaking will be the inevitable collapse. Thus, as the mainstream media touts the glorious new record in U.S. production that has both surpassed its previous peak in 1970 and Saudi Arabia’s current oil production, … Read more
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“So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but it can’t be helped right now” Pg 45. BURNER PHONES CONFIRMED!!! AC
From Noah Smith at Bloomberg: Remember recessions? Those times where the stock market goes down, unemployment goes up and businesses stop investing? There was a really big one about a decade ago, but that was a long time ago – there are plenty of young workers now who were kids back when names like Lehman … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_7TkN9Lh3A MS-13 was founded in California for children of Hounduran immigrants and moved to Honduras. They are a branch of freemasonry under the Knights of Columbus.
By David Stockman Flush. Rinse. Repeat. BTFD! Well, you could also give a good whack to the weak hands, burn the over-boughts, call in the sideline cash and get giddy about the fundur…mentals! After all, the man on bubblevision said nothing has changed since the January 25 high at 2873 on the S&P 500. So there’s that: Another easy peasy 6% gain … Read more
“Finally, and related to nothing, but I just saw my first Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Made me want to key the car.” This is so ironic coming from Hillary supporters. It’s like watching Nazis diss Muselini for being a tyrannical statist. AC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVsRPj4J8Ck “The Democrats Lost And We Would Win Again!” Sarah Sanders OWNS ABC Reporter Today During Sarah Huckabee Sanders Press Briefing (2/7/2018) She Takes ON ABC Reporter Jonathan Karl who insists President Trump is the one shutting down the government and press secretary sarah sanders tells him that the democrats lost last time and they … Read more
Like all Democrats NO STAMINA. Pay attention to Rep. Matsui (D-CA), in the orange blazer, who dozes off repeatedly while listening to Nancy Pelosi filibuster on the House floor. Rep. Matsui succumbs to Pelosi at 0:04 – 0:19 and again at 1:35 – 2:15. (February 7, 2018)
With the 6.4 quake that struck Taiwan shaking buildings off foundations, buckling roads and damaging bridges, there is a new paper from NCU Professor Lee Chyi Tyi that points to a 100 year cycle of quake activity. Now lets overlay that with the intensifying grand solar minimum and repeat of 1815 solar activity, this appears … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Feb. 06, 2018 – 2:28 – Journalist Sharyl Attkisson says there’s been a pattern of surveillance abuse within the intel community for at least a decade and American communication companies are part of it. #Tucker http://video.foxnews.com/v/5727672901001/?#sp=show-clips Well, to be fair, any journalist who dared to do actual journalism and ask questions … Read more
As many on here know, kratom is about as addictive as coffee, helps people get through opioid withdrawal, relieves chronic pain, does not get you “high”, and is not the cause of death among any who have died while having kratom in their system. All 44 of them, as compared to about 63,000 from opioids. … Read more
A federal judge has ruled that Esther Koontz’s constitutional rights were violated when she was denied a Kansas teaching job over her refusal to renounce the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel A federal judge has ruled that Esther Koontz’s constitutional rights were violated when she was denied a Kansas teaching job over … Read more
by Chris What a day! With a real battle going on between the VIX sellers and futures buyers on one side and the cash sellers on the other. Up down, down up, on and on. The Dow futures went as high as 25,239 at one point after being some 735 points lower early in the morning … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWvRJSZVIs Alex Jones presents an audio clip From Michael Savage’s radio program where he helps verify what was suspected here on Infowars about the artificial nature of the stock market plunge.
Disgusting. Israel is genociding the Palestinians and their racial war, their genocide, their apartheid and brutal occupation of Palestine must stop. BOYCOTT ISRAEL! h/t naturalproducer
San Francisco is retroactively applying marijuana legalization to prior convictions dating to 1975, which means that thousands of felonies and misdemeanors will be re-sentenced or dismissed. This is how we begin to end the failed “war on drugs.” https://t.co/r1gAl7TnQL — Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) February 6, 2018 San Francisco will retroactively apply California’s new marijuana … Read more
by stockboardasset The Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) has released a report to the United States Congress on Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the overseas contingency operation (OCO) to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The report covers the status of foreign operations from the period of Oct. 01, 2017, to Dec. 31, 2017. According to the bombshell audit, … Read more