via Daniel Lacalle For 2019, the key factors that we need to think about are what is going to be the outlook on three levels: monetary, macro, and earnings. Watch my entire interview at Real Vision here. In general, considering where expectations are right now, we are still in a stealth downgrade mode, Industrial production, and ISMs are slowly descending … Read more
by Troy The S&P has now retraced more than 50%, which was the standard post-crash target outlined a few weeks ago. The stock market is exactly where it was a few months ago. This demonstrates the stock market’s “bullish bias” – it goes up more often than down. Absent significant macro economic deterioration, it’s very … Read more
Lynette Zang interviewed by Sean on SGTreport The economic slowdown is now global, and far more advanced than we thought. With US national debt poised to surpass $22 Trillion this year, what calamity lurks just around the corner? Lynette Zang believes it may be a hyper inflationary depression from which no holder of fiat will escape. Please consider supporting … Read more
Transcripts of Former Top FBI Lawyer Detail Pervasive Abnormalities in Trump Probe. Former top FBI attorney James Baker admitted to House lawmakers in October last year that the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was riddled with abnormalities. Confronted with a damning summary of abnormalities, bias, and omissions, which … Read more
via MarketWatch: Russell 2000 is up 8.8% in the first 12 sessions of 2019 Much has been made about the performance of stocks so far in 2019. Small-cap stocks, as gauged by the Russell 2000 index RUT, +1.04% , are off to their best start to any year in the past 32 years, boasting a gain of 8.8% … Read more
via Bloomberg: HPS, Z Capital sold deals that can hold more CCC rated loans Such CLOs offer higher debt returns to compensate for the risk Some of Wall Street’s biggest buyers of leveraged loans are gearing up to profit from a U.S. economic downturn. A growing number of money managers that buy the loans and bundle them … Read more
via hussmanfunds: While we don’t presently observe conditions to look for a ‘buying opportunity’ or a ‘bottom’ from a full-cycle standpoint, we do observe conditions that are permissive of a scorching market rebound, even if it only turns out to be the ‘fast, furious, prone to failure’ variety. We wouldn’t dream of removing our safety nets … Read more
via CNBC: “The loss was due to a host of issues including the partial government shutdown, the impact of tariffs, instabilities in financial markets, the global slowdown, and the lack of clarity about monetary policies,” said Richard Curtin, chief economist for the Surveys of Consumers. “Aside from the direct economic impact from these various issues … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith The goal of the Cultural Revolution isn’t to persuade, it’s to enforce compliance. A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial means. Thus the primary tools of a Cultural Revolution are not redistributing power via elections … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: Phoenix, AZ — In March of 2016, Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder for gunning down Daniel Shaver, an innocent husband, and father of two. The shooting was captured on body cam footage, part of which was released the following May. On Thursday, a jury, apparently blinded by the badge … Read more
This has been a fun rally in a downtrend. Dont be a greedy 🐷 — Leni (@TweetLeni) January 18, 2019 remember how excited everyone was this time last year? pic.twitter.com/5fUWUlrNG0 — . (@StockCats_2009) January 18, 2019 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1086385885271207937 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1086426770209939456 Odds of Fed interest rate hikes are now lower than odds of rate cuts in 2019.$SPY $ES … Read more
Mike Maloney, founder of GoldSilver.com, recently completed a marathon, 81-minute interview with Nicholas Merten of the DataDash YouTube channel. The conversation was far reaching, covering Mike’s entry into the world of precious metals, his alliance with Robert Kiyosaki, and how Mike thinks the next financial crisis may play out.
Cassandra Fairbanks for the Gateway Pundit reports, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has blocked a third bill to reopen most of the government without funding the wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaDVAPQhqqg Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019… The Hill reports, “the Senate GOP leader didn’t explain his objection from the Senate floor but he has warned for weeks that he will … Read more
Ben MArquis for the Conservative Tribune reports, As part of the left’s blind opposition to President Donald Trump — particularly with regard to his illegal immigration policies — a number of Democrats have called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4giuzoLt-M Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/hou… As part of the left’s blind opposition to President … Read more
Randy DeSoto for the Western Journal reports, Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Tom Homan has appeared regularly on Fox News since the government shutdown began, but said he has not been asked on CNN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_colf2_lQ Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/former… Homan told The Daily Caller that his last appearance on CNN in the spring was to … Read more
Glowing space billboards could show ads in the night sky We’re accustomed to being bombarded by ads. TV, radio, smartphones, newspapers and magazines, movie theaters, billboards — all of them feeding us with a steady supply of messages designed to influence our purchasing choices, among other things. Now, though, a Russia-based startup has a plan … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: Seattle, WA — A Seattle police officer has been demoted from his rank of sergeant after he stalked an innocent man at his place of work — for over 40 minutes — to demand an apology. Former police Sgt. Frank Poblocki is now a mere officer after his temper tantrum caught on body camera. … Read more
China’s economic growth rate for 2017 has been revised down to 6.8 per cent from 6.9 per cent as part of annual data revisions, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday. The estimated size of the economy at the end of 2017 was down by 636.7 billion yuan (US$93.9 billion), or 0.8 per … Read more
Bloomberg article tl;dr – Compared with hard economic data, [market-based models that predict recessions are] more forward-looking. But not only can markets get it wrong, they’re also prone to rapid reversal, undermining their reliability as the harbingers of doom. “You cannot get the equivalent of a thousand-point drop in the real economy in 24 hours, … Read more
by WhenLuggageAttacks Wall Street Journal Article – Link for Subscribers Wall Street Journal Article – Link for Non-subscribers tl;dr – The report, known as the beige book, was based on information collected through Jan. 7. With the usual flow of economic data constricted by the partial government shutdown, the anecdotes compiled in the beige book will … Read more
The [DS] is pushing their agenda and using all their ammunition, when the time is right boom. Trump took the hammer to Pelosi and has exposed what they were up to. The caravan is moving towards the border. The code by Maggie is now revealed, it seems that [RBG] will most likely retire this month … Read more
via businessinsider: A startup called Ambrosia that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with the blood of young people is now accepting PayPal payments for the procedure online. Jesse Karmazin, a Stanford graduate who founded Ambrosia, told Business Insider this week that the company was up and running in five US cities. Ambrosia recently completed its first clinical trial designed … Read more
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital This week is options expiration week… Wall Street’s favorite time to ramp the markets in order to insure the maximum number of options contracts expire worthless. THIS, nothing else, is why the markets rallied this week. Tweets from the President or some statement by a Fed official were simply the … Read more
via UPFINA The government shutdown is now 27 days old and shows no sign of letting up. According to Oxford Economics, the shutdown will hurt GDP growth by 0.2% if it continues until the end of the month and 0.6% if it lasts the whole quarter. The longer the shutdown lasts, the larger the multiplier, … Read more