Month: April 2019

by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “They may try to run this poor thing straight up and over a cliff. Recall the 2000 top was in March but they briefly ran it back in Sep 00. Ditto in Oct 07. When warning signs are ignored, the endings are abrupt. Maintain safety nets, but don’t assume stupidity has limits.” – … Read more

By Global Risk Insights South Africa is facing an energy crisis. The once distinguished national public energy provider, Eskom, has been driven to the point of collapse by “years of corruption, incompetence and political meddling”. Under the Presidency of Jacob Zuma, Eskom went from making a billion Rand profit in 2008 to making a 2.3 … Read more

by Troy The U.S. stock market has rallied significantly over the past 3.5 months. But do you know what’s rallied even more? JNK, or more colloquially known as JUNK. (JNK = junk bond ETF). Junk bonds often move in the same direction as the stock market, something that Michael Milken discovered in the 1980s. Go … Read more

via CNBC: Fraudsters are targeting the HR functions of businesses of all types and convincing employees to swap out your direct deposit banking information to an offshore account. One nonprofit in Kansas City describes several attempts per month, involving scammers trying to convince payroll personnel to change information about where to send employee pay. The … Read more

https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1116021547083472896   Watch Jamie Dimon and Six Other Bank CEOs Get Grilled by Congress The heads of seven huge U.S. banks are set to testify before the Democrat-led House Financial Services Committee.  

via @TaviCosta: But China CDS is at its lowest level since 2008. How do you square this circle?    

via readynutrition: We live in the golden age of technology, whether we want to or not.  And because of the need or desire to have a smartphone and keep it on your person at all times, there are things we can to that will boost our “technology health.” In 2018, 95% of Americans said they owned … Read more

By David Stockman   Car sales in China, the world’s largest vehicle market, continue to tumble…. In March, retail sales of sedans, SUVs, minivans and multipurpose vehicles dropped 12% to 1.78 million units. This is after an 18.5% drop in February and a 4% drop in January.     https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-10/chinese-car-sales-thrashed-march-unprecedented-collapse-slump-continues  

Powerful: Candace Owens slams the Leftist media. “If they were serious about the rise of hate crimes, [the Leftist media] would be examining themselves and the hate they have drummed-up in this country.”        

Nick Givas from The Daily Caller reports, Sen. Chuck Grassley explained why he wasn’t interested in seeing President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns, on “Fox & Friends” Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkEV5pRq04U Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/08/gr…      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTVkbFZIR3I While it may be the stuff of science fiction today, the advancement of nanotechnology in the coming years will make it a bigger threat to humanity than conventional nuclear weapons, according to an expert. The U.S., Russia and China are believed to be investing billions on Nano weapons research. https://marygreeley.com/?p=83982    

This is great news! Tulsi is going to set fire to the debate stage. She’s been underestimated, blacklisted by msm and smeared now we’re going to see her head to head with all the other candidates and she will do laps around all the corporate democrats and will finally put to bed the myth that … Read more

by Michael Snyder We aren’t supposed to have a major blizzard in April.  Less than a month after a “bomb cyclone” caused apocalyptic flooding in the central part of the country, another “bomb cyclone” is hitting the exact same area.  One meteorologist has called it “a life-threatening storm”, and at this moment over four million people … Read more

EU is now trying to push back the BREXIT until 2020, this is exactly what thought they were going to do. The US is preparing for a hard brexit, which means a no deal BREXIT. The minimum wage increase did not solve problems, it made the problems worse, we need to go to the source … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith There is more than a little “let them eat brioche” in the blind faith that the masses’ patience for pillage is infinite. We’ve reached an interesting moment in history where we each have a simple choice: we either go with blind faith or we go with the bottom line, i.e. the facts of the … Read more

Assange is being spied on in the Ecuadorian Embassy. NYT is no projecting trying to get ahead the spying, declass and the OIG report. Collins releases Bakers testimony. Barr putting together a team to investigate, Barr admits that Trump was spied on. MSM trying to say that Obama’s separation of children is different than Trumps. … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What’s the Fed Trying to Say? My fancy-schmancy Fed Hawk-o-Meter jumped 18% from 22 to 26, after having been on a downtrend for four Fed meetings in a row. Something’s up. The Fed Hawk-o-Meter checks the minutes of the FOMC meetings for signs that the Fed sees the economy as strong … Read more

This influx of illegal migrants is opening us to invasion AKA globalization as a part of the leftist and globalist agenda. There is NO will on the left to stop it. HC had promised, if elected, to dissolve our borders within 6 months. This agenda was taken up by the Democratic Party and now, with … Read more

by Michael Snyder A plague of epic proportions is ripping through the global pig population, and CNBC is warning that this unprecedented outbreak of African swine fever “could lead to significant shortages” of pork in the global marketplace.  As you will see below, the price of pork has already risen 38 percent over the last 4 weeks, and … Read more

via @OccupyWisdom : The subprime share of the mortgage market at the peak of the housing bubble was $600,000,000,000. The amount lost in the crypto market from Dec 2017 till today was $648,000,000,000. The difference: derivatives    

Be afraid, be very afraid https://t.co/2GmmWPXAVq — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) April 10, 2019 Last year, the gap between accounting earnings and announced earnings was $200 billion, or about 17%. That's the largest gap since 2010. https://t.co/phIlF5XTo9 — Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) April 10, 2019 People are worried about stock-market liquidity. Denver investor preps options strategy for … Read more