Month: May 2019

“She treats me as she might treat her maid or her pilots or makeup artists or her wardrobe consultants.”     h/t CK

from Zero Hedge When Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing told Deutsche Bank shareholders at the bank’s annual general meeting this morning that he was prepared to make “tough cutbacks” at DB’s struggling investment bank, he wasn’t kidding. Four sources familiar with the bank’s thinking reportedly told Reuters that the bank is planning serious cuts at its US equities business, including … Read more

by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan If the United States’ central bank, the Federal Reserve, stops printing money, the stock market will crash. However, the continual printing of money could cause a crash of its own. Either way, we are in a lose-lose situation when it comes to the decisions made by central bankers. Will the stocks crash in … Read more

by northmantrader Remember all that talk of optimism in Q1 and into April? It came easy after markets rallied hard following the Fed caving. The Q1 slowdown was just temporary, it’s going to be like early 2016, easy Fed is all that matters. Besides, a trade deal is just around the corner. Don’t you know? Look … Read more

by Simon Popple of Brookville Capital Everyone knows what’s going on. Many choose to do nothing. Bury their heads in the sand. A few are prepared to shout out loud. Remind everyone what’s happening. Unfortunately, a lot of very sensible and well-intentioned folk have been discredited – because they’ve got it wrong. Not the outcome (we don’t know … Read more

By Irina Slav Staying true to their promise from the campaign trail, Alberta’s Conservatives have introduced a bill to repeal a carbon tax introduced by their predecessors at the helm of the province, the New Democratic Party. Reuters reports that the repealment of the carbon tax was planned to be the first piece of legislation to be … Read more

by Simon Black Last week the price of Bitcoin was double what it was on April 1 of this year. Then it crashed by almost 20% in matter of days. Then it surged again. And at the time of this writing, the price of bitcoin is just shy of $8,000. That’s a pretty volatile ride. Naturally … Read more

BY PATRICK WATSON People are worried robots will take their jobs. That’s a legitimate fear sometimes, but it’s not new. It is just another step in a process that started long ago. The bigger question is whether job automation is good. If we want the economy to grow, the math is pretty easy. It’s a … Read more

by Clive Maund of Streetwise Reports Gold and silver dropping back again late last week had investors in the precious metals sector feeling despondent, especially as their fears were magnified by at least one analyst calling for gold to drop to the low $900s or even lower, which is normal when prices sink, but our charts are instead … Read more

by Kimble Charting Is the DAX index from Germany about to send a bearish message to stocks in Europe and the States? Sure could! This chart looks at the DAX over the past 9-years. It’s spent the majority of the past 8-years inside of rising channel (1), creating a series of higher lows and higher highs. It … Read more

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the inevitable fall of the Australian housing market as some markets see an annual decline of as much as 15% with Melbourne falling 10% and Sydney falling 10.9%. Some economists warn that we will see the market dip further to 20%, others say 25%. … Read more

By Irina Slav U.S. grid-connected energy storage capacity this year is set for a twofold increase to 712 MW from 376 MW last year. What’s more, between 2019 and 2024, storage capacity will soar to almost 5 GW, of which 90 percent will be battery storage, IHS Markit said in a new report. This will make the … Read more

via GLP: In addition to Brennan’s public veiled assassination order, Pelosi live just now at press conference called for an assassination attempt on President Trump’s family, administration or staff. “I pray for the President of the United States. I wish that his family, his administration, his staff would have an intervention (happen to them). For … Read more

    AC

FLASHBACK: Ana Navarro Compares Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Michael Avenatti to the Holy Spirit. She’s just one of many in the MSM who lionized Avenatti: That Time the Media Dubbed Michael Avenatti ‘Savior of the Republic:’   h/t ED

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100% Fed Up reports, While Democrats call Republicans “extreme” on the vote in Alabama against abortion in any case including incest and rape, 2020 presidential candidates on the left are going to the opposite extreme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsjENWOuBI Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://100percentfedup.com/dem-candi…      

100% Fed Up reports, Remember the “Dumb and Dumber” movie, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels? This week, both of the liberal actors who starred in the hit comedy revealed their disgusting intolerance for anyone who doesn’t agree with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0zcYN13Vqw Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://100percentfedup.com/jeff-dani…    

by Tom McClellan The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) measures shipping rates on a type of cargo ship which hauls “dry” cargo, such as iron ore, coal, etc. as opposed to tankers hauling oil, or container ships hauling big steel boxes of stuff.  The BDI has long been considered as an important leading economic indicator, because if … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn How come this didn’t make the national news in 2014? The Quinnipiac Poll is a major pollster, based at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Called a “gold standard” pollster, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute employs about 300 interviewers, with a full-time staff of ten, and does not accept clients or outside funding. According to … Read more