Something is VERY wrong with this picture – VIX is getting hammered while FAANG looks like garbage?

Something is VERY wrong with this picture pic.twitter.com/m4QLPF7kFV — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) February 15, 2019 https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1096453542079094785 pic.twitter.com/BLTTMTwLBW — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 15, 2019 $SPX is pricing in a nearly 80% growth rate in earnings just for the next quarter – BUT THERE WILL BE 80% contraction into 4 quarters from now – good luck with that … Read more

Bears are right. About what? Well, everything.

by northmantrader After 8 weeks of non stop rallying the bear mocking is back which is ironic. Why? Well, because bears are right. About what? Well, everything. Yes stock markets have been screaming higher in recent weeks on hopium and central banks turning dovish, but ironically that’s as a reaction to bears being right. How can … Read more

Retail Apocalypse and Carmageddon Continue to Pick up Speed as Predicted Here

by David Haggith We now know that the Retail Apocalypse took another trip downhill during the all-important holiday season. December reports show retail sales declined more in one month than they have since … the Great Recession. Notice what a common refrain that comparison has become. Retail Apocalypse snowballs downhill Retail sales dropped 1.2% month-over-month in … Read more

Buffett’s firm sees something in Canadian energy, buys stake in Suncor

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/buffett-takes-new-stake-in-suncor-trims-apple-investment-1.1214660?fbclid=IwAR1KpNqCXwSQTKeY7PRc5DKFCem7meGZyzLsCt7toOrbe-s00KHcQ-vAu4Q “Billionaire Warren Buffett’s company has taken a new stake in Canadian firm Suncor Energy () and trimmed its huge Apple () stake. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKa.N) filed a quarterly update on holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company said it owned 10.76 million Suncor shares at the end … Read more

Confused About Buybacks? Here’s a Useful Primer.

by ApostrophePosse From Credit Suisse: “Disbursing Cash to ShareholdersFrequently Asked Questions about Buybacks and Dividends” “Investors are all over the map. Some swear by dividends,and others want buybacks only. Few have carefully and rigorously thought through their positions. Executives are buffeted by the strong views of investors, leaving them in doubt of the best course.”   … Read more

West Coast USA Snow Records Verify Jet Stream Shift

Most snow in 70 year across Seattle and parts of Washington State, Record snow pack Mammoth Mtn, California, new wind record set Mauna Kea Hawaii, tornado in Guatemala mid-winter and more snow n the way to break all totals in Seattle back to 1915. More storm warnings for west coast USA and B.C.    

Nearly all the warming in “Global Warming” is coming from adjusting the data.

by Playaguy I followed the money. The Carbon tax is worth $15 trillion. And who is the biggest supporter of the Carbon Tax? Big Oil   via cfact.org: A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.” “Thus, … Read more

A Dutch historian has become a social media star after an epic rant against the super-rich in front of the super-rich at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — This historian wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed pic.twitter.com/TiXSJZd89M — NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) January 29, 2019 Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists, turned heads in Davos after saying he found the conference’s mix of … Read more

OF COURSE THEY DO: Microsoft Wants To Pick The News You Read.

via dailycaller: A familiar player is getting into the censorship game: Microsoft just announced that the tech giant’s Edge web browser will feature a “NewsGuard” plugin that will display a big red exclamation mark and a scolding warning when users view news outlets its censors dislike. Media outlets hand-selected by NewsGuard and Microsoft, on the other … Read more

Fund Manager: A Financial System Headed For A Collision With Debt

by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The retail sales report for December – delayed because of the Government shut-down – was released this morning. It showed the largest monthly drop since September 2009. Online sales plunged 3.9%, the steepest drop since November 2008. Not surprisingly, sporting goods/hobby/musical instruments/books plunged 4.9%. This is evidence that the average household … Read more

World’s Largest Offshore Oil Field Partially Shut Down

By Irina Slav The Safaniyah oil field in Saudi Arabia—the world’s largest—is producing at a reduced capacity after a ship’s anchor cut a main power cable, Reuters reports citing a knowledgeable source. An earlier report from MarketWatch quoted information from Energy Intelligence suggesting production at the filed had completely stopped, sparking worry about global heavy oil supply. The worry … Read more

How news affects your investments

by independenttrader The number of publicly available data increases year by year. Every day we are overwhelmed with hundreds of news, some of which have nothing to do with reality. It is worth to ask yourself whether being “up to date” with the news is the obligation for the successful investor or maybe intensive information processing … Read more

Jimmy Dore: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the ‘new Alex Jones’

Jimmy Dore, host of “the Jimmy Dore Show” joins Rick Sanchez to discuss establishment media’s shift to pro-war propaganda. He balks at how the smartest broadcast journalists of NBC and CNN have been reduced to “Alex Jones level conspiracy theorists” and is particularly appalled at their smear campaign against presidential primary candidate and US Representative … Read more

The Worst Of Maxine Waters

by Thinker Martin for Ilovemyfreedom.org reports, Rep. Maxine Waters went berserk on Sunday and said President Donald Trump needs to “shut up.” During an interview on CNN, the California Democrat attacked the president, claimed he is an incompetent leader who can’t make a deal, and argued that he doesn’t understand how Congress works. https://youtu.be/ACGNz4NWyDk Rep. … Read more

TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY ORDER TEXT

Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2019 DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY CONCERNING THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION      The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens … Read more