IWB by Dana Lyons The percentage households’ financial assets currently invested in stocks has jumped to levels exceeded only by the 2000 bubble. Updating one of our favorite data series from the Federal Reserve’s latest Z.1 Release, we see that in the …
Here is the IMF, talking about just a small percentage of the risks in China. Does this mean that China the only country with issues? No. Not even close. But where there are risks, we must identify them. In your …
Venezuela is the perfect example of what a central bank can do to a currency. Completely destroy it. This is what happens to fiat currencies with central bank control. They expand it until it devalues entirely. Central planning is a …
by Daniel Carter If you are a freedom loving American, you are probably well aware of the rabid social justice movement. United States college professors have successfully indoctrinated the past few generations with Marxist/Communist ideas, and now it has finally culminated …
by Daniel Carter Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, candidate Trump galvanized millions of faithful supporters with a message against the Deep State. “Drain the swamp” was the motto he used to signify the coming destruction of the old and …
by Daniel Carter Let’s be honest, the Middle-East has been a complete disaster for longer than most of us can imagine. Once the US firmly planted itself in the Middle-East in 2001, the destabilization of an already volatile region really started …
By Michael Snyder The price of Bitcoin continues to rise at an exponential rate, and the financial world is in a complete state of shock. Just yesterday, I marveled that the price of Bitcoin had surged past the $13,000 mark for …
by Michael Snyder It appears that something unusual is happening along the California coastline. Over the past 24 hours, California has been hit by 46 earthquakes. That is approximately twice the normal daily number, and much of the shaking has …
by Chris Black Former president Barack Obama gave recently a very friendly interview to CBS News’ financial analyst Mellody Hobson which went under mainstream media’s radar for obvious reasons. During the interview, Barry suggested that that what happened in Nazi …
From Birch Gold Group Since WW2 the U.S. has witnessed eleven economic recessions. During this time economists have noticed an interesting trend: all those past recessions, except for one in 1960, were preceded by an increase in the price of oil. …
by Ruby Henley Blackwater founder Erik Prince, ex-CIA officer John Maguire, and Oliver North are advising President Trump to create his own private global spy network, which would report directly to him and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. At this point, …
Greenspan: Tax overhaul will do ‘very little’ for growth; inflation is biggest danger Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan said the Republican-sponsored tax overhaul plan will do “very little” for economic growth. Instead, he said in an interview with CNBC that …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTDbbDwy_o Freedom Caucus Members Push To Hold Hillary and the FBI Accountable During Powerful Press Conference. ~~ Links: 1) http://thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/f… 2) Thumbnail image – Rep Matt Gaetz.jpg Fox News, http://thegatewaypundit.com 3) Music – Youtube Audio Library “Ambient Ambulance” https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/ VIDEO: …
By Michael Snyder Either the Republicans are going to give Democrats virtually everything that they want, or the federal government will shut down at the end of the day on Friday. We have been through this process time after time, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mZ-SPCFC8 Trump Just Uncovered Elizabeth Warren Stole $5 BIL From Taxpayers – What She Did With It Will Make You SICK! ~~ Links: 1) https://freedomdaily.com/trump-just 2) Thumbnail image – 1-17-1200×630 (1).jpg Warren, https://freedomdaily.com 3) Music – Youtube Audio Library “Ambient …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Accounting irregularities” If you’re holding shares or bonds of a company, such as Steinhoff International Holdings — which acquired Mattress Firm Holding in 2016, Sherwood Bedding in 2017, and a bunch of other companies — well, …
by Dr. Eowyn The Congressional Accountability Act (CAA) of 1995 requires Congress and legislative branch entities to follow many of the same employment and workplace laws applied to private business and the rest of the Federal Government. In all, 13 civil rights, …
The complete failure of this system is being exposed. The amount of leverage has always, every single time, caused a crisis to expand faster and harder then originally thought. There are no soft landings, Janet Yellen. Only crashes, loss of …
By Chris Black Eastern Europeans have a saying: we’ve just got out communism, after 45 years of Hell, only to discover that the West is marching (this time benevolently) into the same hellhole we’ve just managed to escape from. …
Quantitative Easing (QE) and Equity and Credit Performance pic.twitter.com/bPE6kXGSiN — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 5, 2017 CenBanks are the biggest risk to asset prices and the global economy. El-Erian's preview of major central banks in 2018. https://t.co/AxLEEKmMbk pic.twitter.com/2UtGcN3VH9 — Holger Zschaepitz …
Market analyst Lynette Zang predicts in the next crash, “real estate, stocks and bonds will all crash.” When will this happen? Zang says, “Enjoy your Christmas,” but in 2018, all bets are off. Zang explains, “In 2018, I don’t think …
by Michael Snyder At one elementary school in California, 96 percent of the students are not proficient in either English or math. How is that even possible? Unfortunately, the more the federal government gets involved in education, the worse it seems to get. …
By Michael Snyder It should upset you that virtually everything stocking the shelves of our major retailers seems to have been made somewhere else. As a nation, we are consuming far more wealth than we are producing, and that is …
by Chris Black If you’re not up to date with the politically correct lingo, you should know that the concept of protected classes was created by leftists and it’s pretty much similar with the notion of identity politics. Basically, a …
by Anthony B Sanders Another day in the land of Central Bank bubbles. According to Bloomberg, transportation stocks have rallied more than 8 percent in a week, realigning them with industrials at new highs in a coupling that is one …
In your opinion, how can it possibly be considered that this is a good economy when the bank literally gives you money to buy a home?! Mortgage When credit flows easily, people will take it. Payday loans. Cash Money. …
by John Ward The media’s macro portrait of ‘everything’s alright really’ looks like the daubings of an infant when you get closer to the canvas. Nowhere is this more apparent than than in the micromadness of the US Car sector. …
h/t David Stockman Rather than attempting to "justify" or dismiss valuations, it's better to accept that speculative pressures (we read via market internals) can allow enormous, temporary deviations from valuation norms over portions of the cycle. Just don't imagine those deviations …
By Michael Snyder This is what can happen when you go to a socialized healthcare system. A lot of people out there believe that the United States has a free market healthcare system, but that is actually not true. The …
by Chris Black It’s an undeniable fact that Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, also known as Mutti Merkel (Mother of Refugees), is one of the persons accountable for European Union’s (failed) open borders policies. The thing is, back in 2015, Chancellor …