by Martin Armstrong The Treasury and Finance Ministry of Turkey announced that the country’s net external debt stock totaled $286.2 billion going into the end of the 3rd quarter of 2018. The country’s net external debt stock to its gross domestic product (GDP) ratio was 34.4% at the end of the third quarter of 2018. However, … Read more
by Shaun Richards A feature of the credit crunch era is the repetition of various suggestions from governments and central banks. One example of this has been the issue of Eurobonds which invariably has a lifespan until the nearest German official spots it. Another has been the concept of central banks overshooting their inflation target … Read more
Via Breitbart Pop icon Cher said Sunday that Los Angeles, California, “can’t take care of its own” residents, much less newly arrived illegal and legal immigrants. Cher said she failed to understand how the city of Los Angeles in the sanctuary state of California could afford to admit and take care of any more immigrants when … Read more
by John Ward In a triple-header of revelations today, The Slog assembles the evidence to condemn the Prime Minister as an anti-democratic, unconstitutional and enthusiastic supporter of Superstate hegemony and coordinated European defence. We trace her suspicious rise to power, the defence agreements signed during 2018 that nobody knew about, and how the media have been … Read more
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The International Monetary Fund issued a bold and stark warning to governments around the globe. If these governments want any hope at all of surviving the next global economic recession, they had better get their debt under control. While the financing of the debts held by governments is not a huge problem currently, … Read more
by howmuch The Economist’s Intelligence Unit recently released its 2019 Worldwide Cost of Living report, which compares 400 individual prices across 160 products and services in 133 cities around the world. Our latest visualization takes 20 of these cities, as provided in the free version of the report, and compares the cost of four different products … Read more
by GoldCore China has lent trillions of dollars to other countries, including the U.S. “There are challenges facing the world in terms of how do you have transparent projects that are high quality, where the debt is transparent. China moved so fast that in some part of the world there is just too much debt,” … Read more
by FS We spoke with Reshma Kapadia, a senior writer at Barron’s, about her recent article “How Your Kids Can Ruin Your Retirement, and How to Make Sure They Don’t,” to understand how parents can protect their retirement in the face of rising college tuition costs. Making the Best Decision It isn’t necessarily always the best idea to … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjE_omcnH9o The increase us of drone sometimes threatens our privacy and even safety. https://marygreeley.com/?p=84149
For the third year in a row France is experiencing hard vineyard decimating frosts requiring use of fires and paraffin candles to keep the vines warm. Huge hail events in Brazil and Greece, the end of Solar Cycle 24 is near and feet of snow still dump across parts of the USA and Europe. … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQCPlfUSqYY Comey And McCabe Should Be Charged With… https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/12/…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=62ldskI2_Cg Border patrol has become UBER service for illegals then using their offices to register democrat voters. MM
A team of Israeli researchers has “printed” the world’s first 3-D vascularized, engineered heart. On Monday, a team of Tel Aviv University researchers revealed the heart, which was made using a patient’s own cells and biological material. Until now, scientists have successfully printed only simple tissues without blood vessels. “This is the first time … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTW4ZIT6Ikc There also telling them everything is free.
by Michael Snyder Since the last financial crisis, we have witnessed the greatest corporate debt binge in U.S. history. Corporate debt has more than doubled since then, and it is now sitting at a grand total of more than 9 trillion dollars. Of course there have been other colossal corporate debt binges throughout our history, … Read more
by Michael Snyder “Florida Man” just keeps getting into more trouble. In recent years, “Florida Man” has become one of the Internet’s hottest memes, and there is never a shortage of new material because residents of the state seem to have a knack for getting arrested for some of the most bizarre crimes imaginable. So … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith There are no extreme “fixes” to secular declines in sales, profits, employment, tax revenues and asset prices. The saying “never let a crisis go to waste” embodies several truths worth pondering as the stock market nears new highs. One truth is that extreme policies that would raise objections in typical times can be … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A stock market that is so uniquely dependent on corporations buying back their own shares in record amounts is in a very fragile position because share buybacks have a history of suddenly getting slashed when times get tough. And then, who’ll be the buyers? (11 minutes)
5G is coming to the US, this will be need to usher in the blockchain so we can transition into a new economy. Trump is controlling the narrative, he tweeted out and hammered the Fed, this is all planned. The Patriots are now on the offensive and the [CB] is on the defensive. The IMF … Read more
EVERYTHING IS WONDERFULMARKETS ARE CHEAPSENTIMENT IS MODESTA US TRADE DEAL WILL FIX EVERYTHING [NOT] https://t.co/AFDP32xwQX — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 15, 2019 Remember China March trade, esp imports contracting further? Want to see wut it looks like per country breakdown? It's ugly. Everyone is seeing Chinese demand slowing, even France😬. Red everywhere. Even stellar Australian exports … Read more
You've probably noticed that $VIX has gone from over-20 to under-12 within 60 trading days (about 3 months). Would you like to see on a $SPX chart every time that's happened in the past? Bears see 2007.Bulls see almost everything else. pic.twitter.com/SIFu3oyPZq — OddStats (@OddStats) April 14, 2019 Early 2018 marked an important top — … Read more
Gold implied vol now at all-time lows! Meanwhile: Near 50% of US yield curve inverted. Stocks near record overvalued.Record margins.Longest bull market ever.Outrageously bullish sentiment.Fed flipped dovish.Record global debt/GDP. Nothing wrong here… pic.twitter.com/EnusG9yTER — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 14, 2019
via @crossbordercap: Cross-border flows have jumped higher, underscoring the renewed confidence of international capital ask act@liquidity.com for the reports.?
via @AndysCycles: The index is 2.33 times more expensive than it was at the top of the housing bubble. 3 valuation charts for your amusement. Corporate profits up 3% per year since 2006. $SPX over total business sales at all-time high. SPX over total construction spending at all-time high.