Month: December 2018

The Fed Explains the Rate Hikes: To Prevent Financial Crisis 2

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Instead of “bubble” or “collapse,” it uses “valuation pressures” and “broad adjustment in prices.” Business debt, not consumer debt, is the bogeyman this time. Preventing another financial crisis – or “promoting financial stability,” as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors calls it – isn’t the new third mandate of the Fed, … Read more

Planet In Turmoil: Over 1,400 Earthquakes Have Rattled Alaska Over The Past 3 Days

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by Michael Snyder The shaking in Alaska still hasn’t stopped, and that has many residents wondering if the worst is still yet to come.  Friday’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake could be felt 400 miles away from Anchorage, and it was the most destructive quake that the city has experienced since 1964.  But those living in the region can’t … Read more

The Sky Is Falling Sideways, Where Are The Risks?

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by Kimble Charting While many analysts are talking about the sky falling in stocks, the chart below reflects that the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY) may simply be in a sideways trading range. As well, the S&P 500 remains within the uptrend channel (testing the lower support). Seen this price action before? Yep, back in 2015-2016. At that point (1), the … Read more

France is out of control

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France is out of control! unreal https://t.co/6Xra0CeoQH — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) December 2, 2018 ‘What French culture” @EmmanuelMacron pic.twitter.com/0mNNqSxzSx — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) December 2, 2018 Perhaps @EmmanuelMacron, you could sort out the shithole that is your own country before dishing out threats to Britain… 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/rmahV6UnwB — Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) December 2, 2018 https://twitter.com/andreascseh/status/1069296610499121152

License To Rally? Not So Much For Now…

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Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Our job is to navigate changing markets and we use technical and macro analysis to identify major market turns amidst periods of conflicting signals, emotional markets and often high uncertainty while staying keenly aware of risk to our thesis at any give time. In last weekend’s Bear Trap we discussed the … Read more

The first signs of the next recession

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via newstatesman: After a long period of economic expansion, a slowdown has begun. But in an era of high debt and low interest rates, states have little ammunition to deploy. recession always comes in the end, but the matter of foretelling when is a hazardous exercise at best. Indeed, recessions can remain out of sight to policy-makers … Read more

Sources of electricity – Are we going green?

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via Pontiac2: This is just my first tough – Green is expensive and most of world is undeveloped compared to EU and NA. So most of world is uninterested in green and expensive energy. Especially when they can have cheaper gas power plants that can be easily converted to coal or oil ones in case of crisis. And … Read more