by Spencer P Morrison, NEE From Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Cost You a Penny: The big reason why so many Americans oppose tariffs is because they don’t understand them. They think tariffs are just another sales tax, and assume that imposing a 10 percent tariff on a product will increase said product’s price by 10 percent. That’s … Read more
BY SRSROCCO Have you noticed the absolute carnage taking place in the U.S. shale oil stocks? It seems as if Wall Street and investors are finally starting to grow weary of an industry that hasn’t made money in the past decade. Unfortunately, it took a longer than I expected, but the shale stocks have significantly … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Paris on Saturday saw a second major uprising of Yellow Vest protests. Many are now arguing that the rioting on the Champs-Elysees has been instigated by extreme elements that have infiltrated the movement to further a second French Revolution. Some 20 stores were looted or set on fire as well as one bank. Needless … Read more
by Martin Armstrong People have no idea that the Justice Democrats really stand for injustice. Their platform is the subjugation of everyone who disagrees and to force their beliefs upon the rest of society. They were founded by Kyle Kulinski (born 1988), who is at least an American, and Zack Exley (born December 5, 1969) who was the Chief Revenue … Read more
by Troy As the stock market rallies, it never ceases to amaze me how popular crash-analogues can be. The 1937 analogue has been quite popular recently, constantly shared and reshared on social media and trading blogs. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Decelerating global trade hitting home: U.S. manufacturing sector slowing as economy loses steam (Reuters) The Fed said manufacturing production dropped 0.4 percent last month. January was revised up to show output falling 0.5 percent instead of slumping 0.9 percent. Production at factories increased 1.0 percent in February from a year ago. Motor vehicles … Read more
via theorganicprepper: If you have any ground turkey in your freezer, you need to check to see if it’s among the more than 78000 pounds of meat that has just been recalled. Produced by Butterball, LLC, in Mount Olive, N.C, the turkey was sold in July under several brand names including Butterball, Kroger, and Food Lion. … Read more
by HuntersMarkTheDM Hey y’all, I just need a little nudge to get my brain in the right frame. I received a very nice annual bonus. YAY! Part of that was going to be a “fully” funded $2K emergency fund (we’re still in “turn the titanic” mode on funding it). The money was to hit … Read more
Lyft reported revenue of $2.2 billion and losses of $911 million in 2018. Lyft aims to value itself at about $20 billion Lyft Touts Revenue, Values in Video Pitch to Investor Prospects (Bloomberg) Roadshow for $2.1 billion IPO kicks off with drone shots, funk CFO lingers on revenue growth metrics — losses not so much … Read more
Investment case „forced mergers“?Not sure. As a trade, Eurozone banks do look interesting… pic.twitter.com/ajMCk0YqxY — David Schrottenbaum (@David_Schro) March 19, 2019 https://twitter.com/RVAnalysis/status/1107775765263704064
https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1107774076368510977 It's never been lower at 0.4% YoY…. [M1 for China] pic.twitter.com/cuNwSEYSW1 — Peter Ryan (@Pulpisafiction) March 18, 2019 https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1107959041047834626 Oil rally looks done on so many levels. pic.twitter.com/UvJQOv1KJO — Puff Dragon (@PuffDragon11) March 18, 2019
via scmp: Satellite imagery monitored the intensity of night lights in more than 3,300 cities and towns between 2013 and 2016 In 28 per cent of cases, the intensity of lights had dimmed, but urban planners are still assuming China’s urbanisation will continue, research shows The perception that China’s urbanisation is still in full swing is … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The services sector better hang in there. Now it’s the third month in a row, and the red flag is getting more visible and a little harder to ignore about the goods-based economy: Freight shipment volume in the US across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – … Read more
via privateinternetaccess: Several websites including Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak, and others have been blocked in Australia and New Zealand in direct contravention to civil liberties that citizens are supposed to have. The biggest of these internet providers, Telstra, has published a blog post defending their censorship action – even acknowledging that free speech has been sacrificed by company … Read more
by boringbluesocks I realize that this decision is highly personal, there is no right or wrong answer, and there is boatloads of information out there on the web about this. I’ve done a substantial amount of reading on it, but I am still interested in other people’s opinions. Here are my details: My husband … Read more
by traxtar3 Taking a data analytics course. Needed to compile and visually represent something from a very large data set. I compiled the obesity and diabetes and compared them to the median household income per county. This is just the initial plot. I’ve never used seaborn before and I got excited. Next is highlight the … Read more
by jaykewww Tool: Datawrapper Source: Bloomberg Billionaires Index
by sadomasochrist Hoping to get pointed in the right general direction. We had an urgent care visit for a strep throat that we got billed $1500+ on. They’re billing (edit) as a “billing modifier” even though the place is an urgent care. Their explanation is that “after 6, we charge it as an ER … Read more
I Love My Freedom reports, The meaning of “democracy” should be very clear, especially to proud Americans. And yet, a certain MSNBC guest seemed to not understand such a simple concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_EH4C0PRb4 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://ilovemyfreedom.org/video-msnb…
Jim Hoft from The GAteway Pundit reports, Christopher Steele from Fsuion GPS admitted in private congressional testimony that he used random online comments from CNN’s website back up his alleged claims against Donald Trump and his campaign when he created the anti-Trump dossier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbGNPdMTe4 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
If not it’s not their credit cards and student debt, it eventually comes around with something unexpected. Those who have no savings or a minimal amount won’t realize what they’ve been doing is a problem until it hits them in the head. Too many people are dangerously close to the edge and we’ll see how … Read more
Here we go again. What began the crash in October is now about to start. The only way we won’t see a contraction in April is if the central bank activity exceeds that which the buybacks would normally be buying up. Of course, I will be tracking all of this for The Money GPS subscribers. … Read more
Sara Carter was on Hannity earlier. She said as the investigation continues, the DOJ will discover so much more malfeasance within the DOJ & fbi that went far beyond Hillary’s emails & Trump spying. She said a lot of other things will be unearthed and that’s what they’re afraid of. 20:30 for Sara. 29:00 for … Read more
From Donald Trump Jr.’s most recent op-ed on Big Tech censorship of conservatives: As Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives becomes ever more flagrant and overt, the old arguments about protecting the sanctity of the modern public square are now invalid. Our right to freely engage in public discourse through speech is under sustained attack, necessitating … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith America’s aristocracy is not formalized, and that’s the secret of its success. If there is one central irony in American history, it is this: the citizenry that broke free of the chains of British Monarchy, the citizenry that reckoned everyone was equal before the law, the citizenry that vowed never to be ruled … Read more