Hello 1987…
"IT'S TOO MUCH, TOO FAST!"$SPX is up +25.9% within the past 125 trading sessions, so I put together a chart showing every time that happened since electronic trading began in 1983. It's not bearish unless you squint and lie to …
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When to contribute to your IRA. An original study of five different approaches.
by jerschneid I have been curious about how to time my contributions to my IRA. Is it best to do dollar cost averaging over the year, dump it all in at the beginning or try to time the market? I did …
Europe Has Been Warned: Currency War Is Next Phase Of Global Conflict, Europe Is Defenseless
Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The Telegraph, London Currency war is the next phase of global conflict and Europe, the chief parasite, is defenceless Europe has been warned. Any use of monetary levers to hold down the …
Massive explosion at biggest gas refinery in America
A fire at the largest oil refinery on the East Coast turned the early morning sky a bright orange and yellow and awakened startled residents with explosions that shook homes Friday. The fire broke out at the Philadelphia Energy …
If Facebook and Google don’t fix their problems, advertising execs say they could go somewhere else
via CNBC: This year as executives from the world’s biggest brands and ad agencies gather for the annual Cannes Lions advertising festival, Facebook and Google, which control the majority of all digital advertising, are facing unprecedented scrutiny. The largest companies …
Maximize happiness/minimize cost
by uselessfoster So a couple weeks ago the Mr. and I reviewed our finances and decided that “lifestyle creep” was cutting into our savings and we weren’t really any happier for it. So we made a motto to maximize happiness …
The Contraction Is Here
The contraction is here folks! Philly Fed confirmed the horrible numbers from NY Empire. Philly Fed at 0.3 is in line with ISM Manufacturing below 50!! How to trade it? -> https://t.co/Z6kRG6AG8z pic.twitter.com/UhXxYfI5Rw — Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno) June 20, …
FITTON: BIG ARMS SCANDAL: Smoking gun docs uncovered by Judicial Watch show Obama/Clinton were aware arms going to Syria through Benghazi and were warned about rise of ISIS, and they were supporting terrorists in Syria. Obama/Clinton created Syria/Iran mess.
by TFittonJW One of our most important finds in our 25 years of operation: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-defense-state-department-documents-reveal-obama-administration-knew-that-al-qaeda-terrorists-had-planned-benghazi-attack-10-days-in-advance/ BIG ARMS SCANDAL: Smoking gun docs uncovered by @JudicialWatch show Obama/Clinton were aware arms going to Syria through Benghazi and were warned about rise of ISIS, …
Will you be able to recover your losses rapidly?
by Brian Maher from The Daily Reckoning How far might markets plunge next time around? And will you be able to recover your losses rapidly? Answers — possibilities, rather — shortly. And is one of Wall Street’s oldest chestnuts of investment …
Is This The Beginning Of The End For Tesla’s Solar Business?
By Irina Slav Tesla held just a 6.3-percent share of the residential solar installations market in the first quarter of this year, falling to the third place for the first time since Wood Mackenzie began tracking this industry in 2013. The …
If You’re Not Watching Puerto Rico, You’re Missing a Glimpse of the Future
By Rodney Johnson They lie, cheat, and steal? No way! In 2014, Puerto Rico issued $3.5 billion in bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the Commonwealth. Now the island’s fiscal managers, a group known as the PROMESA …
The Bad News About Record-Low Unemployment
By Robert Ross Unemployment is the lowest it’s been in 50 years. That means most people who want to work can find a job. It also means people are making more money and buying more stuff. All good. More people …
Budget Talks Stall As Politicians Reach Impasse Over Spending Cuts And Debt Ceiling
This article was written by Mac Slavo and originally published at SHTFplan.com One of the most threatening issues facing the United States today is the government’s massive debt. Instead of figuring out how to fix the problem, politicians want to spend more …
Trump’s Trade War Is Paralyzing Business
By Patrick Watson Last week the Business Roundtable, an organization of large company leaders, released its quarterly CEO Economic Outlook Index. The index tracks what executives expect for sales, capital spending, and hiring over the next six months. The good …
Animation: The Basics of the Stock Market
by visualcapitalist Since its inception, the stock market has been one of the most powerful and consistent sources of wealth creation available. Although stocks see more volatility than other assets, they have also averaged a real return of 6.7% per year …
Fund Manager: Might Take A Debt Jubilee For All Households For Fed To Save Economy
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “The latest University of Michigan consumer confidence report noted that its index tracking those who think it’s a good time to buy a home has fallen by a hefty eight points in the past two months …
PRAGER U: Who Cares About the National Debt?
The interest payment on our debt is currently $300 billion dollars per year, heading towards a projected $1 trillion dollars within a decade. At that point, a fifth of all federal taxes will go towards the interest on the debt, …
“They’re Right, It ‘Is’ Different This Time…”
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, They’re right. It IS different this time. It’s worse. Much, much worse. What is? Everything. In terms of preparedness for the next recession that is. Debt is higher than ever, be it corporate debt, government debt, …
Why US Commercial Real Estate Is Another Dangerous Bubble In The Making
Authored by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While most people – including mainstream economists – seem to believe that our bubble problems ended when the U.S. housing bubble burst in 2008, the reality is that there are even more bubbles forming today than before …
Median US Home Sales Price vs Median US Household Income 1984-2017
by shewent (Tools) Basic Excel (Source) CPI 1984-2017 (manually adjusted income and housing prices to 2017 dollars using average cpi per year) data fromhttps://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0 Median Sales Price of New Homes Sold in the US 1963-2017 data from https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/uspricemon.pdf US Median Household Income …
U.S. Consumer Debt Is Breaching Levels During the 2008 Financial Crisis
via MarketWatch: U.S. consumer debt hit $14 trillion in the first quarter of 2019 Consumer debt is growing to worrisome levels. Ben Mohr, senior research analyst of fixed income at investment consultant Marquette Associates, calculated that total U.S. consumer …
Global Power–Iran War, Left-Right Conflict, Concentration of Firearms
by SP Several author’s come from the perspective that a global elite (the globalists) are about to crash the global economy as a part of their efforts to re-engineer the global geopolitical structure through chaos, with them in charge, of course. …
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, May Update
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Vancouver housing bubble sags. Toronto down 3.4% from peak. Calgary and Edmonton back to 2007. Montreal sets new record. National index ticks up the least for any May in 21 years of data. Home prices across …
Quantitative Easing Has Prevented A Debt Crisis – But We’re Reaching the Physical Limits of QE
via cassandracapital: The rise of Quantitative Easing (QE) and other so-called Unconventional Monetary Policies has been one of the most important changes to the world in the last decade. Trust me – it’s right up there with the election of Donald …
It’s happening again for the third time in 25 years
it's happening again for the third time in 25 years pic.twitter.com/lhfOTRE8Ed — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 19, 2019 There it goes. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries are back below 2% pic.twitter.com/wW4ktoMnQM — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) June 20, 2019 Lots of comment …
Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Probably Offers You Nothing
By Rodney Johnson The dark days of 2009 now seem like forever ago. We didn’t know which banks would survive. The Fed made all banks take bailout money so that citizens wouldn’t know which ones were in trouble and then drain them …
FED: Economy Slowing… Trump’s Potential Fed Nominee Reportedly Wants Rates at Zero
via CNBC: The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-1 to keep the benchmark rate in a target range of 2.25% to 2.5%. The action sets up a possible confrontation between Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump, who has …
BYND short interest rising again. Setting up a future squeeze
by MikeThePutz Edit: 1 minute ago S3 updated their new stock borrow costs from the original 90-110% fee to now 90-250% fee. I’m trying to confirm with them and to see why the increase in just an hour? …
Overweight and Obesity around the globe
by k1next https://raw.githubusercontent.com/camminady/overweight/master/bmi.mp4 Data: The data is taken from https://ourworldindata.org/obesity People with a BMI >= 25 are defined as overweight. People with a BMI >= 30 are defined as obese. Data is available for the years 1975-2016 for many countries around the …