via business-standard: A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook. Earlier that day, a local woman wrote a Facebook post saying she was walking home and intended to kill herself when she got there, according to a police report on the case. Facebook called to warn … Read more
via Kurt Schlichter: There’s no hack cliché like the New Year’s prediction column cliché, so with that in mind, here’s my Top 10 Predictions for 2019 column, and my general prediction is that 2019 will be even crazier than 2018! 10. Out of Afghanistan Too: Yeah, our 17-year war will largely end as we bring … Read more
They completely avoid answering the question! It happened last weekend with Judge Jeanine and happened again tonight. 44 minutes into the video and the odd thing is they always let them get away with avoiding the question. h/t Jake
by Shaun Richards Yesterday we took a look at the low-level of bond yields for this stage in the cycle and the US Treasury Note yield has fallen further since to 2.63%. Also I note that the 0.17% ten-year German bond yield is being described as being in interest-rate cut territory for Mario Draghi and … Read more
by Martin Armstrong While the BitCoin people have hated me for not agreeing with them that a private currency could displace the currencies of all nations and BitCoin would be the new “reserve currency” killing the dollar, to me they are in serious need of help. They have ZERO comprehension of governmental power and ZERO understanding of what is going on … Read more
Sears is closing 80 more stores in March. Manufacturing has declined. Trump tweeted that the gas prices are low, Trump is using all the tricks the DS and the CB have used in the past. He lowered the gas prices to keep the economy moving along while he prepares for the transition. The central bankers … Read more
via Reuters: The Japanese yen soared in early Asian trading on Thursday as the break of key technical levels triggered massive stop-loss sales of the U.S. and Australian dollars in very thin markets. The dollar collapsed to as low as 105.25 yen on Reuters dealing JPY=D3, a drop of 3.2 percent from the opening 108.76 and … Read more
A RARE triple-vortex polar blast is threatening to thrust the UK into a snowy January as a plume of sub-zero air across Britain will lock the nation into Arctic misery until spring, forecasters have warned. Near unprecedented changes in the atmosphere above the North Pole will collude to create a perfect storm of brutal weather … Read more
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital In December, Jerome Powell confirmed that he is going to implement a financial reset. That reset will crash stocks. We know this because the Fed didn’t even HINT at tapering its Quantitative Tightening program at this latest Fed FOMC despite stocks staging the worst December since the Great Depression. This … Read more
So a recession is looming? The natural chain of events is already in motion AC