Month: April 2019

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by Lance Roberts With the fourth quarter of 2018 reporting season now behind us, we can take a look at what happened with earnings to see what’s real, what’s not, and what it will mean for the markets going forward. Last November, I discussed an important issue which is not being fully recognized by the “always … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Marijuana has been prejudiced over the years by people who have never understood the risks and because there was concern that marijuana might compete with the paper industry. There was a campaign waged against marijuana that was born out of an anti-immigration movement against Mexicans. The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 and ran … Read more

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; you were friends with Milton Friedman. Do you agree with his view that the Great Depression was caused in part by the Fed refusing to expand the money supply? Isn’t Quantitative Easing expanding the money supply yet it too has failed to create inflation. Would you comment on this paradox? … Read more

Will The China’s Economic Collapse Happen In 2019? I have been warning for years that the greatest and final economic collapse in this century, would be China. Now that cracks in the great red dragon’s economy are widening, it’s time to prepare for the China’s Yuan crash and The Great Depression In China. China has … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER This has been know to be associated with the housing cycle: Framing Lumber Prices Down 30% Year-over-year This has taken a dive recently:   Global economy enters ‘synchronised slowdown’ (F) The global economy has entered a “synchronised slowdown” which may be difficult to reverse in 2019, according to the latest update of … Read more

by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In commentary posted SilverSeek, silver market analyst Ted Butler reports confirmation from former Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Bart Chilton that JPMorganChase assumed from the collapsing investment bank Bear Stearns a massive short position in silver and has been allowed to manipulate the … Read more

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news agency’s reporters conspired with a political operative to derail Nunes’ oversight work into the Hillary Clinton campaign and Russian election interference. The filing, obtained by … Read more

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 … Read more

by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Last week we had strong numbers out of China and our research continues to suggest the Chinese stock market could be poised for an upside price rally of at least 15% over the next 30+ days before possibly reaching a peak in June or July 2019.  Our Fibonacci predictive modeling system … Read more

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold demand will hit a four-year high in 2019, gold ready to break out due to numerous tailwinds, and why the long-awaited silver boom could be right around the corner. Metals Focus: Gold Demand … Read more

Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Podcast, Released on 4/8/19 Barclay Leib (@btl0823) founder and principal of Sand Spring Advisors, LLC, comes by the office to discuss asset allocation, forensic accounting and Wall Street history. 1:44 Rules for selecting fund managers 5:40 Where does “edge” come from? 8:18 Fun and games in fund returns 12:17 The famous … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The doses of Delusionol(tm) required to believe “this time it’s different” are becoming dangerous. Here we go again, another tech bubble is expanding like a supernova and the financial media is declaring (as it does during every bubble) “this time it’s different.” File Tech Bubble 2.0 under memories are getting shorter or this time is never … Read more

by Michael Snyder As a society we appear to be really dropping the ball, because the numbers indicate that American boys are deeply struggling in just about every area.  Many professionals are pointing to a “crisis of fatherhood” as one of the key factors, and as I pointed out the other day, approximately a third of … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObGvcYJLWHM The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is thought to have detonated an explosive charge on the asteroid it is exploring. https://marygreeley.com/?p=83975      

I Love My Freedom reports, Rep. Maxine Waters continues to ratchet up her threatening remarks towards President Donald Trump, and she may have just crossed a serious line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLx9FAuJyJc Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://ilovemyfreedom.org/that-a-thr…      

Stock market keeps rising without actual fundamentals supporting. But hey, who cares about fundamentals when we have the Fed who loves us, right? In mainstream finance, we’re always looking at the same handful of indicators. It’s actually quite an embarrassment. U3 unemployment rate, U.S. stock market, 200-day moving average, PE Ratios, and a couple others. … Read more

Collin Rugg from I Love My Freedom reports, Bias in our school system continues and it seems to be getting worse. According to a local news source in Virginia, Bella Moscato a sixth-grade student was given a homework assignment by her teacher where she was told to write about someone who she feels is a … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Companies buying back their own shares has “consistently been the largest source of US equity demand.” Without them, “demand for shares would fall dramatically.” Too painful to even imagine. Goldman Sachs asked a nerve-racking question and came up with an equally nerve-racking answer: What would happen to stocks “in a world … Read more

Shake-up at Homeland Security goes beyond Nielsen’s exit WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and White House allies pressing for a harder line on immigration sped up their campaign Monday to clean house at the Department of Homeland Security with a mission far wider than just the departure of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The dismantling of the … Read more

Rising risk of US and China housing slump causing recession – IMF https://www.theguardian.com/business/…    

Authored by Mac Slavo vioa SHTFplan.com, Without free speech returning in full force to college campuses across the United States, the country will see itself perish of politically correct induced culture. One American journalist says that the PC culture will be the entire country’s downfall. Nothing less than the U.S.’s survival is at stake, according to American journalist … Read more