via The Phoenix To recap yesterday’s piece concerning the recent shift in Central Bank policy, from mid-2016 onward: 1) Central Banks engaging in emergency levels of QE at a time in which their respective economies were growing. 2) Inflation bottoming then beginning to rise. 3) Bond markets starting to revolt. 4) Central Banks opting to walk … Read more
Sometimes i wonder if the people making decisions think it through before changing policies. Surely they knew shit like this would happen RIGHT?!? You know,druggies taking over AC
By Rodney Johnson The Supreme Court recently ruled that states have the right to regulate sports betting, opening the door for such activity in every state. Chances are, your state officials are burning the midnight oil developing regulations for sports betting because they want the tax revenue. After all, Pew Trusts estimates the industry could … Read more
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper The economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 is the stuff of prepper legends. For years, it was the example that we pointed to when trying to convince others that, yes, it really can happen. (Now, of course, that example has been replaced by the dramatic fall of Venezuela.) There’s even a … Read more
Authored by Jon Hall and originally appearing at Jihad Watch In a startling report by Dutch newspaper, Algemeen Dagblad (AD) it has been revealed that more than a thousand girls will be blackmailed and forced into prostitution over the course of a year in the Netherlands. The article details Watch Netherlands – a cooperative organization between the Center Against Child and Human Trafficking and Fier … Read more
BY SRSROCCO The U.S. and global economies are choking on a massive amount of debt. While Wall Street and the Mainstream financial media continue to rationalize the skyrocketing debt as merely the cost of doing business, the disintegrating fundamentals point to an economic catastrophe in the making. Of course, a full-blown economic meltdown may not occur … Read more
It’s not stealing, it’s just a confidential ownership transferral. AC
by Simon Black Last June, in one of the most egregious displays of economic insanity, Argentina was able to raise $2.75 billion by selling bonds with a ONE HUNDRED YEAR maturity. Even more miraculously, the bond turned out to be wildly popular with investors. So basically investors willingly forked over billions of dollars to a country that has … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEovoGPKXQI House Republican Call for Second Special Counsel https://www.c-span.org/video/?446001-… House conservatives demand an investigation — of Hillary Clinton https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-all-else-fails-prosecute-the-clintons/2018/05/22/339dd226-5df8-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c6dd2c55c1ad
Blackstone Group, Cerberus Capital and others face a little problem. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Demand for rental housing in Spain may have hit a wall, so to speak, while supply remains more or less unchanged, according to a new study by the real estate agency Fotocasa: Last year, 14% of Spanish adults had … Read more
by Martin Armstrong We have sent out emails to our clients and request that you respond to them ASAP. We do not flood people with constant emails. We do not require even registering to view the site. We also DO NOT sell your personal information to ANYONE. We have always respected everyone’s privacy and we are not desperate for money so … Read more
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by Brandon Smith The summer season is often about renewed hope and revelry in comfort, and this goes for economic comfort as much as anything else. In parallel to the old tale of The Ant And The Grasshopper, we are all tempted to act like the grasshopper, forget about the trials and tribulations of the world and … Read more
via RT: Identifying runaway debt as a problem is the first step in dealing with it. Then there is the dissonance between the politicians who at once decry the federal budget deficit, then vote for bills that cut taxes and raise spending yet again. It won’t take much more than the passage of time for the … Read more
via Bloomberg: When the market for any form of perceived value suddenly seizes up, its owners automatically gravitate toward stores of value they perceive are more stable, sane, and secure. Over a medium-term time frame, this has often meant shifting from risk assets to cash. To the US dollar. A fiat currency. A form of … Read more
via Economic Prism: When Fed-printed dollars are flowing freely through the banking system and out to consumers, bidding wars break out for everything. Stocks, bonds, housing…free debt means lots of easy capital with which to overpay for assets. And whoever it willing to borrow the most can overpay the most. What happens when that easy … Read more
by TFittonJW President Trump should intervene to get the truth out: If left to their own devices, Deep State would take years to release the truth: Judicial Watch is in court right now battling THIS Justice Department and THIS FBI: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-ask-strzok-page-preserve-records/
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/999660045704073216 Italy 🇮🇹 Euro liabilities of Financial System 24% of GDP, Debt to GDP 132% with short term maturities above 20% of GDP. Populists think they will exit the euro, print Lira and increase pensions, spending, salaries and export more to the countries they default on. Magic pic.twitter.com/eosYHbMgKS — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) May 24, 2018 … Read more
by John Rubino David McAlvany: We’re entering a secular bear market. Martin Armstrong: Interest rates are going to jump. Peter Schiff: The calm before the storm. Trace Mayer: Bitcoin is consolidating before the next leg up.
By Bob Shanahan Cover image via Pixabay America’s current economic situation is not one of financial security or encouraging growth. Below the surface of our 106+ month-long “recovery,” now the second longest on record, is a sense of anxious anarchy in American households. Working men and women are struggling to make ends meet and … Read more
by visualcapitalist In the high stakes game of international trade, holding onto a stockpile of foreign cash gives you options. Forex reserves can help buoy the local currency or even provide much-needed insurance in the case of a national economic emergency. And when reserves are plentiful, a country can even use them to wield influence on … Read more
by Kimble Charting Solutions The gold/silver ratio (atypically shown here in the reverse as the silver/gold ratio) has been a very accurate buy signal for silver time and time again. When the gold/silver ratio reaches 80 (or as displayed here in the inverse, about 0.125 as the silver/gold ratio), it has always paid off handsomely to load up … Read more
by COMPUTER1313 https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/05/19/why-many-rich-chinese-dont-live-in-china In 2017 more than 46% of Chinese with fortunes between 10m and 200m yuan ($1.3m-26.3m) were thinking of emigrating, according to a survey by Hurun, the research company in Shanghai. In a joint survey with Visas Consulting Group, a Canadian firm, more than three-quarters of respondents mentioned their children’s education as a reason. … Read more
