US markets continue to get weaker and more fragile. Liquidity continues to concentrate off exchange.

US markets continue to get weaker and more fragile. Liquidity continues to concentrate off exchange. This issue gets ignored during big bull runs but will become acute as soon as the selling starts. Feedback loops will be disastrous. pic.twitter.com/KAChQTtEE3 — Dave Lauer (@dlauer) November 29, 2021 Off exchange liquidity trading means private entities complete a … Read more

Lower than 2008…

  Lower than 2008 https://t.co/D5MubkBP2b — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) November 29, 2021 Perfect example of why cost-push inflation destroys consumer confidence and the high input costs lead to slowing growth, eventually resulting bankruptcies and unemployment rising. Cost-push badDemand-pull good — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) November 29, 2021 It’s Black Friday, ‘70s-Style. “Strawberry prices go up in the fall because … Read more

End of an era: Barbados becomes a Republic – China invests half a billion dollars there

Prince Charles landed in Barbados last night ahead of a historic ceremony removing his mother, the queen, as head of state after 55 years. The Caribbean island will become the world’s newest republic as it swears in its first president, Governor-General Dame Sandra Mason, on Tuesday Chinese pressure is said to be fuelling a drive … Read more

Dems Driving Up Energy Prices on Purpose

The Democrat agenda depends on deliberately driving up energy prices in order to make their green energy boondoggles appear less outrageously wasteful and destructive than they really are. That approach has been painfully obvious from the beginning of the Biden administration, which has done everything possible to drive up the cost of energy by throttling … Read more

The rich may pay less tax in 2022 with Democrat’s “Build Back Better” Bill

The Build Back Better Act that House Democrats passed Friday has tax provisions with different start dates and duration. Households’ tax bills may vary greatly from year to year, especially from 2022 to 2023, if the legislation succeeds. The roughly $2 trillion climate and social policy measure House Democrats passed Friday would create a fluid … Read more

Amazon poised to pass UPS and FedEx to become largest U.S. delivery service by early 2022, exec says

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/29/amazon-on-track-to-be-largest-us-delivery-service-by-2022-exec-says.html Dave Clark, Amazon’s CEO of worldwide consumer, told CNBC on Monday that the company is on track to become the nation’s largest delivery service by the end of 2021 or early 2022. Analysts have long predicted Amazon would overtake carriers like UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service, thanks to its increasingly in-house network … Read more

Just a reminder, US government debt ceiling deadline is this Friday, December 3rd.

(CNN)While Democratic leaders plan to take a victory lap Monday to celebrate President Joe Biden signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill, other pressing issues remain for lawmakers when they return for session this week. All eyes will turn to finishing negotiations on the separate multitrillion dollar economic bill that would expand the nation’s social safety net, … Read more