Month: May 2019

via Lexington Law Survey: One in Four Seniors Wish They Had Taken This Basic Financial Advice Sooner The philosophy “live life with no regrets” can help people embrace the present instead of ruminating about the past or worrying about the future. However, there’s a caveat that you should be able to healthily move forward and learn … Read more

By Robert Rapier Over the weekend, I saw a passing reference on Twitter to the declining energy content of gasoline. Intuitively I know this to be correct for reasons I discuss below. But the poster linked to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) that I hadn’t previously seen. The EIA doesn’t directly tabulate the energy … Read more

by Fabius Maximus Summary: We have been on the RussiaGate merry-go-round for almost three years, yet we still have more questions than answers. Let’s take a ride and look at the madness of Republicans and Democrats as they play with the few facts the Deep State has given us, frantically protecting their party’s interests. Here we … Read more

by Jesse “Anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held onto them saw most of his or her adult life pass by before getting back to even.” Richard M. Salsman “Ordinarily, the financial risk in a market, and hence the risk to the economy at large, is limited because the assets traded are finite. There … Read more

by Troy The stock market’s rally is extremely persistent to the point where it looks like every single -1% pullback is being bought. This is quite rare, and the last time we saw this was February 2000 (top of the dot-com bubble). Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most … Read more

From Birch Gold Group On Tuesday, POTUS took to Twitter and called for the Fed to cut rates by 1%, pointing to 3.2% GDP growth and “wonderfully low inflation.” China is adding great stimulus to its economy while at the same time keeping interest rates low. Our Federal Reserve has incessantly lifted interest rates, even though … Read more

by Tom McClellan A little bit of fear over the old saying about “Sell in May and go away” has led the VIX Index to pop up through its 50-day moving average (50MA), but stopping right at its upper 50-1 Bollinger Band.  The VIX’s pattern of higher lows is not confirming of the higher price highs, … Read more

I felt so bad after watching her break down yesterday that I tried to go to her website to help … there is no website … everything, her twitter, facebook, instagram EVERYTHING is “no longer available” she is correct and not exaggerating one bit … her entire LIFE is ruined by these power-tripping losers   … Read more

In light of Mueller Report and Barr signaling ‘investigating the investigators’ THIS EXCHANGE IN CONGRESS BETWEEN TREY GOWDY AND PETER STROK IS HUGE! The Dems are FOOOOKED. HAHAHA Blatant obstruction! And wait till Strok is back to answer questions! Investigation OVER GAME OVER This one exchange…the answer to this question.. Is the entire house of … Read more

If developed markets crashed, could investors see a potential rally in emerging markets? While it’s an unlikely scenario, it’s not without precedent explains Hedgeye Macro analyst Darius Dale in the clip above. “You could go back to 2002 when China was first taking off and dragging EM up with it,” Dale explains. “You could go … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIMj5T-632I Two words people: FOOD PILL.  

“you’re free to go” “Am I being detained?” That made my IQ drop slightly     AC

by visualcapitalist It was only six years ago that venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” to describe any privately-held startup worth $1 billion or more. At the time, such valuations were so rare that they deserved a special name – but since then, it’s fair to say that the landscape has shifted dramatically. … Read more

THE LETTER: WARNING PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5986068/WHSC-to-AG-4-19-19.pdf On the Warpath: Emmet Flood’s Letter Signals a New Phase RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I think it is safe to say that the New York Times story yesterday that we were the first to highlight was CYA. They were trying to get out in front of things and acknowledge the … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Headline number looks promising. The question is whether employment will lag the other indicators that are decelerating, or provide the support that turns them around. And note the .1 drop in the work week is equivalent to maybe to something over 100,000 jobs: Highlights That sound you hear is the economy revving … Read more

via Zerohedge: North American Class 8 net order data shows the industry booked 14,800 units in April, down 57% from a year-ago. The number also marks a sequential decrease of 6.2% from March. The decline is being blamed on companies filling orders from a bloated backlog of last year’s record purchases and buyers juggling remaining orders. … Read more