by Troy By now everyone is aware that these “crash & rally” patterns are usually followed by a pullback or retest. Most of these pullbacks/retests occur once the S&P has reached its 50% retracement. But with the S&P now having retraced 60% of its Q4 2018 decline, many traders are doubting whether or not the S&P … Read more
by Jesse The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for November was revised up from +176,000 to +196,000, and the change for December was revised down from +312,000 to +222,000.… (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors. The annual benchmark processalso contributed to … Read more
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via theamericanconservative: Earlier this week, the collective leadership of the United States intelligence community briefed Congress on the Worldwide Threat Assessment Report. In doing so, they provided testimony that seemed to contradict virtually every aspect of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including the decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, the threat posed by Iran, North Korean … Read more
via marketwatch: The stock market today mirrors the years 2000 and 2007, when prices peaked The bulls are back. The S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.09% rose nearly 8% in January and was 14% off the December lows. Which begs the questions: What slowing global growth? What reduced earnings expectations? What trade wars? Who cares. It’ll all sort itself out. … Read more
by Tom McClellan The stock market’s relationship to its normal seasonality has gotten wacky lately. October to December is supposed to be an up period for stock prices, and instead we saw a very sharp correction. In recent years, January has typically seen a meaningful decline, but the stock market instead powered higher. In fact, the … Read more
by Golem XIV While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to “Deutsche-it”. If the UK leaves the EU the EU will survive. But what happens when – and surely it’s no longer if – but when Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest … Read more
by Thinker Patriots to arms and tweets! Let your president know that there are those who have put laws in place to allow immunity for LIES!!! How low can a politician go when the people aren’t looking??? What laws to they pass to allow them to live above the laws? We wait for the next … Read more
You can read the details from his backup account, which uses his real name: Just got an e-mail from Twitter Support. I'm suspended for this. People are spreading a lie about Mike Pence, and I pointed out that it was a lie. So now I'm suspended. pic.twitter.com/dteI9SCcRs — Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 2, 2019 h/t … Read more
2 HOURS INTERNET CUT-OFF FOR KIDS… SWITCH OFF Government urges parents to limit their children’s social media use to TWO hours at a time Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies’s formal guidelines come after content promoting suicide and self-harm was linked to death of Molly Russell, 14 CHILDREN should be limited to just two hours-a-time … Read more
Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Senate advanced a measure this week to rebuke President Trump for withdrawing troops from Syria and Afghanistan in a bipartisan effort to defend the only thing the left and the right still agree on: endless foreign wars. While the left and the right barely ever manage to eke out … Read more
by John Ward The black night of journalism ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ I bring good news; Greece ventured out onto the Sovereign debt markets earlier this week, and sold all €10billion worth at a stroke. Athens is saved. Let the bells ring out for our glorious European Union. What, we wonder will Greece do with the money? In … Read more
by John Rubino We Baby Boomers timed it perfectly. We came of age during in an era of plentiful jobs and relatively high wages. Public pensions were generous. Stock, bond and home prices were low, and have since risen strongly, enriching anyone who managed to save regularly. College was (by current standards) insanely cheap, allowing … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “I prefer not to scare you at this point, okay. But it’s something that we’ve been able to withstand”: CEO David Simon. Mall-landlord Simon Property Group – as it says, the largest real estate investment trust “in the world” by market capitalization, with 234 “destinations” for shopping, dining, entertainment, and mixed-use … Read more
by chartr Made this in response to the (mostly positive) feedback on the supermarket margin chart. A few people requested doing one on a higher margin, slightly more interesting company. Apple reported results yesterday evening so I thought this might be of interest. Original: https://www.instagram.com/chartrdaily/ Data: Apple’s 8K SEC filing. https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/51268dba-b785-4694-a936-beae1f4e72a9.pdf Tool: Sankey Matic. … Read more
For More Information See: http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/is-she-the-next-obama-why-is-the-mainstream-media-working-so-hard-to-promote-kamala-harris https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/27/next-barack-obama-2020-224179 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/its-kamala-harris-race-right-now/ar-BBSU20K https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/01/21/kamala-harris-announces-presidential-campaign/2632083002/ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/28/18187024/2020-us-presidential-election-who-is-running-for-president-cory-booker https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/30/kamala-harris-2020-democratic-voters-1135956 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/kamala-harris-new-2020-democratic-frontrunner-oakland-speech https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/note-kamala-harris-takes-early-round-race-front/story?id=60680906 https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/politics/2020-rankings-democrats/index.html https://www.salon.com/2019/01/22/kamala-harris-crowned-instant-democratic-frontrunner-following-2020-announcement/ https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/five-reasons-kamala-harris-is-the-brand-new-2020-democratic-party-frontrunner https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/29/18201965/abc-wapo-poll-democrats-biden-kamala-harris https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/new-obama-kamala-harris-is-trumps-biggest-2020-threat/news-story/69f4f7049b195772a33bd74770bf4551
This is an audio segment from my tri-weekly podcast Mini Ice Age Conversations* MIAC #175 When Growing Seasons Won’t Produce Enough Food to Feed the World http://adapt2030.libsyn.com/miac-175-when-growing-seasons-wont-produce-enough-food-to-feed-the-world
Kate Fazzini for CNBC reports, A new government report calls China the top cyber-espionage threat to government agencies and U.S. businesses, and warns that the country has “the ability to launch cyber attacks that cause localized, temporary disruptive effects on critical infrastructure — such as disruption of a natural gas pipeline — for days to … Read more
Extremes of colliding air masses record heat on one side and record cold on the other in N. America and Europe. This indicates that the weakening magnetosphere is allowing the jet streams to bend and break. Massive ice growth on Great Lakes, global temperature rundown and Antarctica cools again. Unsettled science as now new discoveries … Read more
The Fed doesn’t love you. The Fed doesn’t care about you. The Fed doesn’t care about your 7 Shares of Amazon. Stop it. Stop being ridiculous. If the Fed cared about you, they would printed money in 2007 and 2008. But they waited until institutions needed bailouts. Why? They made a mistake? They didn’t see … Read more
This is a comprehensive breakdown of what’s happening in Italy right now. I go through several factors which highlight some of the issues plaguing Italy at this time. Do you think there will be more bank failures and more bailouts? This was inevitable. Italy is now in a recession. Of course we’ve seen this happen … Read more
A socialist student confidently approached Kaitlin Bennett in Florida to debate about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but got a dose of cognitive dissonance instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljL3sdF32uo Taxation without representation is theft and it is a crime! First they said it was “just the rich” they wanted to tax. now its everyone who makes 200k? They are too dumb … Read more
From Birch Gold Group There are lessons from the 2008-09 recession that the banking industry should have taken note of to prevent egregious lending errors from happening again. But it looks like those lessons were ignored, and history may naively repeat itself. This time, the alarms are sounding because of $1 trillion in the corporate leverage … Read more
Mac Slavo January 31st, 2019 SHTFplan.com If you need a hammer for any reason, the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism policing unit will consider you a potential terrorist. They are also asking that anyone who sees someone doing something suspicious, like purchasing a hammer, to report it to the enforcers. Buying a hammer is suspicious and is … Read more
via CNBC: The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) came in at 48.3 in January, compared to 49.7 in December. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the Caixin PMI to be 49.5 last month. It was the second-consecutive month of contraction and the lowest reading since 2016. A private survey on China’s manufacturing sector showed on Friday … Read more