VIDEO: “Another day in Trump’s America” (POWERFUL)
People are so desperate to believe their own narrative, they jump at any change to show their outrage. AC
Month: March 2019
VIDEO: “Hidden Camera: Jim Jefferies EXPOSED”
“WATCH & SHARE what happens when Jim Jefferies thinks no one is watching.” h/t KOS-MOS
Powell Keeps The Bond Bull Kicking
by Lance Roberts In a widely expected outcome, the Federal Reserve announced no change to the Fed funds rate but did leave open the possibility of a rate hike next year. Also, they committed to stopping “Quantitative Tightening (or Q.T.)” by the end of September. The key language from yesterday’s announcement was: “Information received since the Federal … Read more
IT’S OFFICIAL; U.S. Silver Production The Lowest In More Than 70 Years
BY SRSROCCO With the latest release by the USGS, silver production in the U.S. is now the lowest in more than 70 years. We have to go all the way back until the year after World War II ended to see U.S. silver production less than it was in 2018. While many reasons can be … Read more
Jim Rickards: A Recipe For Massive Government Spending
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning I try to avoid partisan politics in my analysis. And I never try to tell people how to vote or what they should think. I trust my readers to make their own judgments. But sometimes I can’t avoid partisan politics because they can have a major impact on markets and the economy. … Read more
Chris Vermeulen: The Stock Market Head-N-Shoulders Pattern To Be Aware Of
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Our research team believes a moderately mild price rotation will unfold over the next 30 to 60 days where the US Stock Market will rotate downward. Particularly, the $INDU (Dow Jones Industrials) should move lower towards the $23,000 to 24,000 before finding support based on the longer term weekly chart. Keep … Read more
Why Europe is Changing its VISA laws & Calling it Pre-Screening
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong, Can you elaborate on the visa to Europe for Americans? The newspaper here say it’s just an electronic registration like ESTA for Europeans who want to travel to the USA and it’s misrepresented as VISA. Where is the fake new this time? Kind regards, M ANSWER: You must apply to … Read more
The Corruption in the Department of Justice/Deep State
by Martin Armstrong There is no doubt that Mueller used his special prosecutor role to engage in selective prosecution to further the role of the Deep State. Paul Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for cheating banks and the government out of millions of dollars. The prison sentence marks the end of a … Read more
The Real US National Debt Might Be $230 Trillion
By John Mauldin Trump has promised to free the US of debt. He pledged to pay all federal debt off in eight years. But so far, it’s been just talk. Two years into Trump’s presidency, the US national debt has grown by $2 trillion. The official, on-the-books federal debt is now at $22.1 trillion. $22.1 … Read more
Border Patrol Apprehends 400 Illegals in 5 Minutes in Beto O’Rourke’s District — Beto Wants to Tear Down the Wall There
In February Beto O’Rourke told NBC he wants to tear down the wall there. Evidently 400 illegals in 5 minutes is not enough! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/border-patrol-apprehends-400-illegals-in-5-minutes-in-beto-orourkes-district-beto-wants-to-tear-down-the-wall-there/ h/t Jwnlwplus4
WSJ: Housing crisis in california so bad its forcing companies to flee the state
SAN FRANCISCO—California’s economy is adding jobs far faster than affordable places to live, forcing some employers to leave the state as they expand. Companies that move from California have historically left behind its diverse industries, renowned public universities and balmy climate for states with lower taxes and lighter regulation. But now home prices and rents, … Read more
Elizabeth Warren says she wants to eliminate the Electoral College so that California can pick every US President
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com via foxnews: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she supports eliminating the U.S. Electoral College during a town hall broadcast on Monday night. “Every vote matters and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral … Read more
Recession is Coming
by northmantrader Let’s be very clear what yesterday’s full frontal capitulation by the Fed means: It’s coming. The next recession that is. It’s just a matter of the how and the when. Now mind you the Fed will never, ever overtly tell you a recession is coming. They can’t. Their underlying primary mission is to keep … Read more
List of Companies from FedEx to BMW Are Warning about the World Economy
via CNBC: Executives at FedEx, BMW, UBS and others are describing bleak macroeconomic conditions, which they say are weighing on business. The head of UBS says it was “one of the worst first-quarter environments in recent history,” while FedEx cites slowing international conditions and weaker global trade growth trends. Fitch Ratings also “aggressively” cut its … Read more
Guggenheim’s Minerd Says the Fed Has ‘Returned the Punch Bowl’… Bloomberg: This Might Be the Dollar Disaster Bears Have Waited For
Guggenheim’s Minerd Says the Fed Has ‘Returned the Punch Bowl’ Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Partners co-founder, reacts to the decision by the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to leave rates unchanged and scale back the Fed’s projected interest-rate increases this year to zero. Bloomberg: This Might Be the Dollar Disaster Bears Have … Read more
Shiller: Greater Than Average Chance of Recession in the Next 18 Months… Steve Keen: U.S. Is Going to Slow the Same Way Japan Has
Shiller: Greater Than Average Chance of Recession in the Next 18 Months Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller: Greater than average chance of recession in next 18 months from CNBC. Nobel Prize economist Robert Shiller says that the long expansion in the economy, housing & stock markets, combined with continued low interest rates, could mean the … Read more
The last two collapses in equities began immediately after a pause, and coinciding with a cut in rates.
via @OccupyWisdom : “Market sees nearly 50% chance of a Fed rate cut by the end of January 2020” This, for some reason is being interpreted as bullish. The last two collapses in equities began immediately after a pause, and coinciding with a cut in rates.
Forget Tesla, It’s China’s E-Buses That Are Denting Oil Demand
Excerpts: By the end of this year, a cumulative 270,000 barrels a day of diesel demand will have been displaced by electric buses, most of it in China, according to a report published 19 March by BloombergNEF. That’s more than three times the displacement by all the world’s passenger electric vehicles (a market where Tesla … Read more
JOHN MAULDIN: “Postponing the inevitable downturn with artificially low rates will come at a cost. The cost is a massive credit bubble that is already of biblical proportions.”
via marketwatch: The European Central Bank this month said it would keep record-low interest rates for longer. The news comes shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve gave in to the stock market and held off on further interest-rate increases. While investors celebrate the policy reversal, they might soon regret it. This stimulus may indeed buy the … Read more
Catastrophic Flooding In The Midwest Could Last “For Months”, And That Is Going To Mean A Dramatic Drop In U.S. Food Production
by Michael Snyder The worst flooding disaster in the history of the Midwest is just getting started, and as this crisis unfolds we are all going to be feeling the pain. The “bomb cyclone” that recently brought hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions to the middle of the nation was the spark that set off this … Read more
12 reasons why another financial crisis is imminent, followed by a global recession
pic.twitter.com/zn2f9Jx2Uc — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 20, 2019 List of Companies from FedEx to BMW Are Warning about the World Economy Executives at FedEx, BMW, UBS and others are describing bleak macro-economic conditions around the world… Trump will not be tweeting about FedEx today pic.twitter.com/bKRXkLfomU — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 20, 2019 – S.Korea March 1-20 Exports … Read more
The Chair Of The Federal Reserve Just Used The Term “Slowdown” To Describe What Is Happening To The U.S. Economy
by Michael Snyder Now even the Federal Reserve is publicly admitting that the U.S. economy is slowing down. And that is quite remarkable, because usually the Federal Reserve is extremely hesitant to say that an economic slowdown is taking place. As I pointed out the other day, in 2008 former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke kept insisting that … Read more
Which Nations Will Crumble and Which Few Will Prosper in the Next 25 Years?
by Charles Hugh-Smith Adaptability and flexibility will be the core survival traits going forward. What will separate the many nations that will crumble in the next 25 years and those few that will survive and even prosper while the status quo dissolves around them? As I explain in my recent book Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final … Read more
Only Gold Stands Against The Final Catastrophe
by Egon von Greyerz Have the Ides of March been delayed in 2019? Normally the Ides of March just means the date March 15th. Shakespeare made the expression ominous as it was the day that Julius Caesar was murdered. Today in 2019, the 29th of March seems more significant than the 15th. Because on the … Read more