Month: January 2019

COLD WAR II: China’s Plan to Break off US Allies. “There’s a reason Beijing is pressuring Canada – not the US – over Meng Wanzhou’s arrest. Australia and New Zealand could be next.”

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via thediplomat: On the issue of Huawei, China realizes that the United States has enlisted its allies to collectively encircle the Chinese high-tech company. This sets a precedent for the United States to gather allies to suppress China in other areas in the future. The Chinese official media Global Times published a particularly stern editorial entitled … Read more

President Trump Just “Dunked” On Nancy Pelosi With A Power Move That “Has Never Happened In The Annals Of Congressional History”

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by Michael Snyder President Trump has done it again.  Less than 24 hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially “disinvited” him from delivering the State of the Union address on January 29th, President Trump delivered a power move that we will be talking about forever.  Just minutes before a congressional delegation including Pelosi was scheduled … Read more

Investors Beware: “The World Economy Is Headed For A Recession In 2019 Unless Something Happens”

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by Michael Snyder  Global economic activity has been slowing down dramatically in recent months, and now the mainstream media is filled with dire warnings that a global recession is dead ahead in 2019.  And without a doubt, things do not look good right now as economic numbers from all over the globe just get bleaker and … Read more

Solar Investment Plunges Amid Panel Glut

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By Irina Slav Global spending on solar energy declined by almost a quarter last year to US$130.8 billion, mainly on the back of a regulatory policy overhaul in China that led to an oversupply of solar panels, driving prices down. This, in turn, resulted in an 8-percent slide in overall renewable energy investments to US$332 … Read more

Even Apple is starting to cull positions. A rise in US unemployment may be underway already.

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via Yahoo: (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will cut back on hiring for some divisions after selling fewer iPhones than expected and missing its revenue forecast for the holiday quarter, according to people familiar with the matter. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive officer, made the disclosure to employees earlier this month in a meeting the day … Read more

What do you think happens next? 2008 – 2018

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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1086022343569346563 what do you think happens next? pic.twitter.com/PBTwM28SSZ — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 17, 2019 Richmond Fed Factory Gauge Falls Most Ever as Shipments Drop With the US data staring to deteriorate, following the rest of the world, seems probabilities favor rates following as well. $TLT pic.twitter.com/V8a6a7OgPu — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) January 17, 2019 Forget the … Read more

Walls Across America

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  For all the bloviating we hear from Democrats about how walls are immoral and even racist, the Democrats sure do love to live behind walls themselves.       h/t MrJustNsane

Euro-Gold Ratio Is A Canary In The Monetary Coalmine

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Authored by Tom Luongo, For weeks I’ve been telling my subscribers that something changed in the gold market. Since Donald Trump’s election there was a pretty clear pair trade between the U.S. dollar and gold. And that trade was most manifested in the price of gold in euros. During last summer gold experienced its worse (in terms … Read more

NFLX misses everything then guides lower

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Netflix Free Cash Inferno pic.twitter.com/U8W5PTanzm — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 17, 2019 Last October, when Netflix reported stellar Q3 earnings and guidance there were many skeptics who said there is no way Netflix could possibly hit its impressive forecasts. They were right, because moments ago the video streaming company reported Q4 earnings which missed on revenue and revealed light guidance … Read more

May Survives No-Confidence Vote but has until Monday 21st to present New Proposal

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by Martin Armstrong The British pound moved higher following the British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government narrowly surviving a no confidence vote brought by the opposition over the handling of BREXIT. The vote was narrow with May winning by just 19 votes. Our sources were correct that she would survive. However, while the 21st seems to be … Read more

For a party obsessed with reducing fossil fuels, Democrats and their media operatives with bylines sure believe in maximum gaslighting.

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  YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Beto Fans Insist: This Is Not a Drill.  Scott Rosenberg and David McCabe, Axios: No, Beto O’Rourke did not live-stream his teeth cleaning on Instagram — any more than Al Gore ever actually claimed to have invented the internet. But if you were under the impression that O’Rourke did precisely that, you’re … Read more

Google employees have meltdown when they hear the word “family” during a company presentation

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A Google executive sparked a fierce backlash from employees by using the word “family” in a weekly, company-wide presentation, according to internal documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Many Google employees became angry that the term was used while discussing a product aimed at children, because it implied that families have children, the … Read more

Who Could See It Coming? – Dead Reckoning the Minsky Moment

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by Jesse “In particular, over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance.” Hyman Minsky, The Financial Instability Hypothesis “Twenty-five years ago, when most economists were extolling … Read more