by visualcapitalist Today’s tech founders have unique insights into the evolving arena of innovation and are keenly aware of why some companies succeed more than others. Many have worked with multiple startups and have gone on to invest in successful tech unicorns. This week’s chart comes from First Round’s State of Startups 2018 survey, in which 529 founders … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO In his latest report, commodities analyst Marin Katusa lays out the case for a sea change in gold’s relationship to the overall market. Here’s hoping he’s right: Gold Just Had Its Biggest One Day Influx EVER On Friday June 21st, the largest gold focused Exchange Traded Fund (GLD) saw over $1.5 billion flood into the … Read more
Via Global Macro Monitor, Technically, no. Spiritually? Not sure, but definitely, there’s is something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. S&P Flat For Past 17 Months Even with all the Sturm und Drang since the massive volatility shock of January 2018— which includes a technical bear market > 20 percent sell-off from September 21st to December 26th and … Read more
via Zerohedge: On the heels of dismal weakness in all regional Fed outlook surveys, Chicago PMI just collapsed from 54.2 to 49.7 (drastically missing the 53.5 expectation) and back into contraction for the first time since Dec 2015. This was well below the lowest estimate of 51.0 from 25 economist surveyed. Business barometer fell … Read more
by howmuch In 2019, the U.S. national debt reached a new milestone of $22 trillion. Taking on debt enables the government to increase its spending on various domestic programs or make up shortfalls from tax revenue. One of the main ways the U.S. government borrows money is by issuing treasury securities, which represent an “IOU” from the … Read more
by confoundedinterest Alarm! The US Treasury yield curve, the on-off the run curve, dollar swaps curve, and the overnight indexed swaps curve are ALL downward sloping at the short-end signaling turbulence. The US Treasury term premium remains negative. Term premium is the excess yield that investors require to commit to holding a long-term bond instead of a … Read more
by TFittonJW Massive Update: No one is doing more heavy lifting: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-strzok-page-emails-reveal-fbi-efforts-to-muddle-comey-testimony-on-clinton-emails-fbi-media-collusion/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-begins-massive-voter-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-as-part-of-judicial-watch-lawsuit-settlement/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-testimony-of-clinton-email-administrator-clinton-lawyer-cheryl-mills-communicated-with-him-a-week-prior-to-testimony/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-statement-on-supreme-court-ruling-world-war-i-veterans-memorial-cross-will-remain-standing/
by TFittonJW Heavy lifting gets huge results. Relentless: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-justice-department-granted-immunity-to-hillary-clintons-lawyer-who-destroyed-33000-emails/ Heather Samuelson also testifies under oath in Judicial Watch court-ordered deposition that, contrary to what she told the FBI, she was in fact aware that Clinton used private email account as secretary of state
by Dennis Miller There is a three-headed investment bandit lurking in the weeds looking to steal your wealth. Savvy investors must deal with them – all at the same time. First up is the safety bandit. If you invest in stocks and bonds, they can default or go down in value, robbing wealth from your nest … Read more
via YAHOO: Sen. Bernie Sanders, challenged at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate on how he would pay for universal health care and his other proposed programs, admitted income taxes on the middle class would have to go up — but maintained that the savings in medical expenses would more than offset the tax hike. Sanders, … Read more