Month: July 2018

WHOA! Sen. Gillibrand Grabs the Mic and Commits TREASON in Front of CHEERING Crowd

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEY8WYApAI Cassandra Fairbanks for the Gateway Pundit reports, Appearing at Ozy Fest in New York City, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said that the “first thing” Democrats should do if they regain the House and Senate after the midterms is “get rid of ICE.” Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…

By 2050 humans will attend own funerals as robots – Japanese ‘facing extinction’ as humans turn to silicon sex dolls

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by Tess On top of planning your pension and future financial security, now’s the time to put money aside for downloading your brain data, according to a leading futurologist who says we’ll be attending our own funerals as robots by 2050. Dr Ian Pearson, who has a self-proclaimed 85 percent accuracy record when looking 10 … Read more

Bernie-approved: Chicago mayoral candidate gives out hundreds of thousands of dollars to potential voters at church

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by DCG No wonder the good doctor is handing out free cash…his plan to solve the issues facing the city sound like typical, progressive talking points. Some of his ideas to fix Chiraq: End carjackings End homelessness End political corruption Honest government No more property tax increases Support sanctuary cities From Fox News: A millionaire businessman running for … Read more

Visualizing The Biggest Economic Bubbles

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by howmuch The sheer magnitude of how much money there is in the world can be quite staggering—and hard to understand. What if you could visualize every market in the world as a bubble? Earlier this year the total U.S. stock market cap surpassed $30 trillion. It then lost more than $1 trillion in a single month. Apple might … Read more

“Cliff Edge” Brexit Threatens $34 Trillion of Derivative Contracts: UK Regulator

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A high-risk blinking contest no one wants to lose. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. A messy, no-deal Brexit could throw 48 million insurance contracts and £26 trillion ($34 trillion) of derivatives deals into confusion. Nausicaa Delfas, head of international strategy at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), told delegates at a CityUK and Bloomberg event … Read more

FASTER, PLEASE: Trump Signs Bills To Build Vital Rural Hydroelectric Dams.

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via dailycaller: President Donald Trump signed bills Monday extending the amount of time before construction must start on five hydroelectric dams across five states. The bills cover dams located in Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Each piece of legislation gives the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) the authority to extend the deadline for construction … Read more

Feds: Backyard flocks sicken people in 44 states

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  via CSB news: Live poultry in backyard flocks are linked to several multistate outbreaks of salmonella infections that have now sickened 212 people in 44 states, federal health officials warned Monday. The most recent illnesses began on June 21, with 88 of the cases reported in the last month, the Centers for Disease Control … Read more

Trump Is De-Globalizing

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by SP Peter Koenig at The Saker Blog looks at the wreck that Trump is making of the global commerce status quo.  Where as we assumed he was more of a bull in the china shop, perhaps it is something very different. I think that this is BIG. The globalization effort of the last several decades most benefited the owner … Read more

P2P/Consumer lending market in China

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by ForwardInstance Has someone done good research around P2P/Consumer lending companies in China. I have done some preliminary research and below are my observations – Observations – P2P lending market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 35% to around $1 tn Top players listed in the US are Yirendai (YRD), Hexindai (HX), Qudian (QD), … Read more

China’s total credit market debt rose from $7T to $35T (~500%) in the last 9 years. Yet, despite it all, GDP and monetary velocity continue to decline

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COPPER: down -17.5% in 2018, the Chinese have not been able to centrally plan this market price higher = Bearish TREND @Hedgeye #reiterated China Not Messing Around: Serious QE Means Serious Currency Devaluation “They. Drew. First. Blood.” So said John Rambo, and a similar sentiment may well be echoing through the halls of Party central … Read more

Is GE a Falling Knife?

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by dvdmovie1 There’s value and there’s value trap. “It seems that GE is facing administrative issues on their end and each headline just keeps causing the stock to drop.” GE had nearly 17 years of awful management and rot set in. Their choice of “clean up person” after Immelt’s nearly two decades of awful was an … Read more