Month: January 2019
KAROL MARKOWICZ: How the Trump presidency made me a better American.
via nypost: Nearly two years after his inauguration, I have concluded that President Trump has made me a better person. For starters, I’m more compassionate. After the election, I was as dazed and confused as anyone in the political-media bubble. To understand what happened, I devoured reporting about Trump voters and sought to understand them. I … Read more
ELIZABETH WARREN’S “DUKAKIS TANK” MOMENT
via legalinsurrection: The release of her DNA test results right before the midterms is almost uniformly seen as a public relations disaster, from which she still is trying to recover. Rather than confirm the validity of her claim when she was climbing the law professor ladder to Harvard to be Native American, it turned her into a laughingstock. Then … Read more
REPORT: DA Never Interviewed Cop Before Justifying Murder of Innocent Dad in Raid on Wrong Home
via thefreethoughtproject: Wichita, KS – In December of 2017, police responded to a prank call, also known as a “swatting,” at the home of Andrew Finch. When the entirely innocent and unarmed father answered the door during the raid, Officer Justin Rapp was recorded on video killing him in cold blood. After the coverage died down … Read more
Deutsche Bank Collapse Could Be the BIGGEST RISK To the Global Financial System in 2019!
Money has always been concentrated. Whether it’s geographic concentration or in terms of the societal aspect. Today we see a wealth gap which hasn’t been observed or a very long time. The middle class is disappearing and the majority of individuals are finding their way out of cash and into poverty. The trouble is that … Read more
Long-Term “Buy & Hold” Crushed Stockholders in Largest Markets Except US & India. But for the US, Luck’s Running Out
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Ugly long-term charts that Wall Street doesn’t want us to see. And now US stocks are infected too. How well does a buy-and-hold strategy work in the stock market over the long term – as measured in years and decades? In the largest markets around the world, it has crushed investors. … Read more
An Inside Look At The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like An Aggressive Form Of Cancer
by Michael Snyder The character of a nation is a reflection of the character of millions of individual people, and one of the fastest ways to get a sense of the character of individual people is to visit their homes. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and if that is … Read more
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019
by John Rubino Much about 2019 is uncertain. But a few things are pretty much guaranteed, including the following: Government debt will rise at an accelerating rate Like a life-long dieter who finally gives up and decides to eat himself to death, the US is now committed to trillion-dollar deficits for as far as the … Read more
OFFICIAL LIST OF WORST 4TH-QUARTERS IN $SPX HISTORY
via @OddStats: 2018 ended up 9th all time and 3rd worst since the index expanded to 500 stocks in 1957.
Current US yield curve – Now inverted from 1Y to 7Y
by SpontaneousDisorder The government borrows from the market for different lengths of time. ie from 1 month to 30 years. The interest rates (yield) vary according to what the market demands at any moment. This is the yield curve. An inverted yield curve is the unusual situation of the market demanding more yield for shorter … Read more