China takes aim at U.S., Taiwan in new military blueprint BEIJING – China sharpened its hostility toward the United States and Taiwan in a new high-level report on its future military strategy that accused Washington and its allies of undermining …
by BrutalTruth101 “Chris Swecker: It would be difficult to overstate how egregious and in violation with the Attorney General guidelines and probably several civil statutes that type of operation would be without predication. And in this case… I don’t see any …
Sprott Media, Released on 7/23/19 James’ new book is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble: Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos. Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years’ experience …
• Insider: “It’s time to decide, do we run the technology, does the technology run us?” • “I really don’t buy the idea that big tech is politically neutral.” • “Are we going to just let the biggest tech companies …
by John Ward Institutional selling, AI confusions, US Fed nerves, firing monetary blanks, Gold, banking crises and euro anarchy On the US Dow index over the last few months, major institutional investors have been selling at a rate barely seen 1929. …
By The Phoenix Yesterday I asked, just what exactly is terrifying the Fed? As a brief recap, there are three main issues grabbing their attention. 1) The collapse of German banking giant Deutsche Bank (DB). 2) China’s banking system entering …
by chartr When Disney bought Marvel 10 years ago they acquired the rights to some of the most beloved superhero characters of all time. They also seemed to acquire a super power of their own: flawless execution at churning out …
via @TaviCosta: Germany has the most dovish rate policy in the world today. Only 4 economies have tight monetary policy. Currency war at its best. #gold Also: Are US yields too high relative to Bunds and global rates in general? …
via valuewalk: bout 40 million Americans had a credit card declined in the past year, according to a new report from CompareCards.com, a LendingTree company that helps consumers improve their credit health. Having a credit card declined can be surprising, embarrassing and frustrating. It …
The U.S. Army has been quietly conducting a new classified operation involving at least 10 UH-60 Black Hawks in and around Washington, D.C., for months. This mission came to light after the service asked Congress to shift $1.55 million in …
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via WSJ: It is unclear whether fine-tuning rates will be enough to revive decade-old expansions Central banks world-wide are poised to unleash some of the most aggressive monetary stimulus since the financial crisis a decade ago. But the circumstances are …
Large June rise in private sector liquidity may reduce odds or delay necessary US #QE4. Not the backdrop for a weak USD. And China’s #PBoC already easing again. World economy set to weaken further over coming months. Yield curves beginning …
Authored by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlov blog, Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of …
The people in 1936 experienced far worse… AC
via latimes: Although it’s Chinese policy driving the restrictions, data privacy advocates say that for Americans to participate in the creation of these tools represents the crossing of a concerning new threshold. They view the moves as part of a problematic …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Oh dear, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg. But there are some warm-spots too. June is generally a strong month for house prices in Canada, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index. But this June, the …
by Kimble Charting Crude Oil (NYSEARCA: USO) and the S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP: .INX) have peaked and bottomed together several times in the past 9 months. See points (1) and (2) on the chart above. In summary, the correlation between Oil and …
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by Chris When I see charts like that of BTC today, I can only see a “”market”” fully under the control of lightening-fast algos. If you blinked, you might have missed the “new” price that suddenly developed across and entire …
via washingtonexaminer: LAS VEGAS — Joe Biden struggled to answer whether he could promise the American people that they could keep their doctors under his healthcare proposal. “Well look, I can’t promise — I can promise them that if in fact the …
Funny + powerful. We need more vids like this. Comedy can cut through the mind’s firewalls. AC
by Daisy Luther Just in case we haven’t provided you with enough creepy dystopian news lately, the nation’s leader in Creepy Dystopia, California, has a brand new program. The “Cradle to Career Data System” will study and document everything about …
By Robert Rapier This is the final article in a series based on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019. Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, global natural gas trends, and the continued explosion in the growth of …
By Chris Puplava, FS The technical picture of the US stock market isn’t all that healthy right now. In fact, the only other time we have seen divergences in breadth this large was during the blow-off years of the tech …
https://twitter.com/Occupy_Wisdom/status/1152683919311065088 how will central banks and world gov't trough out global pmi? pic.twitter.com/TqbDBY1aHf — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 21, 2019 #US $SPYLeading Eco Indicator vs. Financial ConditionsInteresting…🤔 pic.twitter.com/8wtWPcjhPm — Tim 🇦🇺 (@MillennialMacro) July 21, 2019 Global stocks have lost $174bn in …
The market is fundamentally and technically overvalued to an extreme. Beware the idea that the Fed has repealed the business cycle. Instead they have created the biggest asset bubbles yet. The unwind portends a nasty recession on the horizon.$DIA $INDU …
One thing I did not understand about Chinese corporate debt was how short-term it was! Short-term as % of total liabilites is ominous. @IIF via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/5CiX7iACjb — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) July 18, 2019 "Beijing is forcing large banks to …
