Is It A (Bull) Trap?

by Lance Roberts   On Tuesday, I discussed the issue of the markets being stuck between various short and longer-term moving averages. To wit: “Despite those more macro-concerns, the market has had a phenomenal run from the ‘Christmas Eve’ lows and has moved above both the Oct-Nov lows and the 50-dma. This is clearly bullish in the … Read more

Tulsi Gabbard: I support auditing the Fed.

by bradok Tulsi Gabbard said in response to a Q&A session after a town hall speech today that she supports Auditing the Federal Reserve and has supported legislation to do so in the past. The connection of the Fed to conspiracy probably doesn’t need a lot of highlighting here.        

Debt Is Back with a Vengeance

By Harry Dent In this, the second week of February, we got news that the Federal debt just hit $22 trillion! Can’t say this is news to us. The Federal debt has been doubling about every two administrations (about every eight years): $5 trillion to $10 trillion under President Bush… $10 trillion to $19 trillion … Read more

5 Ways to Make Money while Living Off the Grid

Living off the grid, takes research, planning, and preparation. You will have to research many things such as: where is the best place to live, what resources you will need, how to obtain food, purifying water, herbs and other ingredients to make medicine, ways to protect yourself and your loved ones from assailants, and more. … Read more

Article 13 and EU Copyright Law explained: This is how Europe will destroy the Internet

by Migmag360 ” The new EU copyright law is going to have drastic affects on the freedom and openness of the Internet. Beyond banning memes, Article 13 of the European Copyright Directive 2018 will result in automated surveillance and centralized control of the Internet. The directive makes online platforms liable for the content generated by … Read more

UK Socialized Medicine Fail 30,000 Dead Due To Record Long Hospital Waiting Times

by Natura Naturans The figures should be a wake-up call to the government and the socialists in the United States. Socialized medicine is designed to fail. No amount of additional government will fix it either. The UK insists that it’s chronic underfunding in social care and a mounting staffing crisis is creating dangerous pressures in hospitals. … Read more

The Top Earning Celebrities, Dead and Alive

by visualcapitalist Wealth does not always follow fame, but when properly monetized, stardom can be a powerful tool for building a fortune. The act of turning one’s self into a marketing machine is epitomized by 21-year-old Kylie Jenner, who was the fourth highest earning celebrity in 2018. Leveraging her massive social media following, Jenner has turned … Read more

Very worrying signals when a moderate slowdown leads the central bank to change 180 degrees its normalization path.

A strong economy does not need the Fed to revise rate and balance sheet strategy. Very worrying signals when a moderate slowdown leads the central bank to change 180 degrees its normalization path. pic.twitter.com/JwwmZOupKD — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) February 16, 2019 https://twitter.com/AndysCycles/status/1096800802893524994 Extremely overbought with worse fundamentals. Massive downside here. More than in Oct/Dec of … Read more

The Incredible Shrinking Singapore Stock Market

his more than two-decade career as a capital-markets lawyer in Singapore, he’d helped more than 30 companies list on the country’s stock exchange, bringing to market everything from a grocery store chain to a pawnbroker. Business had been good, but it was starting to dry up. Lee decided he had to get out. “I saw … Read more

Jeffrey Gundlach interview – Corporate debt is the biggest risk

DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach joined Yahoo Finance’s The Final Round on Wednesday, February 13 to talk about Fed policy, the state of the economy, risks facing the markets, and developments in American politics ahead of the 2020 elections. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-gundlach-interview-yahoo-finance-transcript-195148936.html

Stocks don’t do well when monthly retail sales less food service are down 1.5% or more. The average S&P 500 return in the next year is -11.03%.

via upfina: The December retail sales report was so terrible that it implies a recession is coming soon if the data is accurate. There’s always a chance the data is incorrect because these results are revised. This time there is a cloud over the report because the government was shutdown for part of December. There isn’t … Read more

China’s housing glut casts pall over the economy

“A building binge leaves cities with 65 million empty apartments” TOKYO/HONG KONG — For many single men in China, buying an apartment is a prerequisite for marriage. Yan Zhong, a 34-year-old resident of the northern city of Jinan, has hopes to do both. But lately, he has started to have second thoughts — at least about … Read more

BIDEN IN EUROPE: AMERICA TODAY IS ‘AN EMBARRASSMENT’

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a European audience Saturday that America under the current administration is “an embarrassment.” President Obama’s vice president focused his criticism on the United State’s family detention policy, global warming policy, and the Trump Administration’s stricter limits on political refugees. The comments came at the Munich Security Conference, where the … Read more