via @GMoneyResearch: Central Bank Balance Sheet Growth… % increase from Q2 2007 – Q4 2018 1. Swiss National Bank = 807% 2. Bank of Japan = 508% 3. Federal Reserve = 369% 4. European Central Bank = 223% 5. People’s Bank …
by FS Though expectations continue to run high for positive impacts from a U.S.-China trade deal, it won’t change the economy or stock market’s fortune for long, says Felix Zulauf, head of Zulauf Asset Management and Zulauf Consulting. China and the …
via washingtontimes: Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez says a loss by his party in 2020 will be attributable to one thing: a “lie, cheat and steal” playbook preferred by President Trump. Mr. Perez offered a prima facie case for political foul …
By Dagny Taggart We usually don’t discuss politics here at The Organic Prepper, but when I heard that Joe Biden officially entered the 2020 Presidential race, I just had to say something. Okay – a lot of things. There are myriad reasons Biden …
by kit8642 The guy who has bragged about writing the patriot act recently bragged about getting a Prosecutor investigating his son fired. Wouldn’t be the first time he saved his sons ass… Wait, didn’t Joe help bring us the 1994 Crime Bill, that exploded the …
Background: Deutsche Bank is the largest bank in Germany. It has been caught up in scandal after scandal…and it has (apparently) made some REALLY bad loans…. Last year we were told that the collapse of Deutsche was nowhere near…and that …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Dollar hegemony is a tough nut to crack. China is taking another baby step in promoting the internationalization of the renminbi and nibble on the hegemony of the US dollar: It’s pushing a proposal to add …
via advisorperspectives: This morning’s release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 147.0, down 1.5 from the previous week. Year-over-year the four-week moving average of the indicator is now at -0.70%, up from last …
From Birch Gold Group According to CNN, next week the U.S. and China will begin the first of at least two scheduled trade war talks in an effort to move closer to ending their trade disputes. The White House was quoted in …
Will Lehr interviewed on Reluctant Preppers “Safe as Money in the Bank?” Thanks to the carefully managed facade of solidity and stability, you are likely to believe that what you deposited into your bank account or safe deposit box belongs to …
by Kimble Charting Crude Oil and the S&P 500 peaked last fall together and bottomed at the same time in December. Could they both be peaking together again this week? Joe Friday suggests keeping a close eye on the Crude Oil pattern this week. …
by TFittonJW Big beyond belief — FBI also admits 49k Clinton emails on Weiner laptop: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-admits-hillary-clinton-emails-found-in-obama-white-house/ Great Inside Judicial Watch discussion: And was high energy with Lou Dobbs last night: #DTS– @TomFitton: @JudicialWatch has uncovered 5 classified emails Hillary tried …
Record valuations and leverage alone do not make a market top. Add macro timing: -Faltering consumer confidence-Liquidity drying up-Negative economic surprises-EPS growth deceleration-Yield curve inversions-Extreme VIX short-China shocks to comehttps://t.co/9DrQo35QlK — Kevin C. Smith, CFA (@crescatkevin) April 26, 2019 The …
By Robert Ross For about a week last month, the yield curve inverted for the first time since July 2006. Prior to that, this happened in July 2000 and April 1989. There’s a pattern here… each inversion hit about 18 …
National Trend to Mandate Renewable Energy as Major Power Source is Ill-Conceived and Foolish. “Ever since Al Gore and his gang of climate scammers came on the scene in the 1990s, we have been fed a steady diet of lies …
By Patrick Watson It’s not a good sign for your health if your blood pressure drops too low. Similarly, the economy is probably sick when its circulatory system slows down. You don’t need a blood pressure gauge to know it either. …
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, just shut down the massive channel used by Spain's independent leftist political party Podemos. And it did this just days before the general election This is actual, extreme election meddling by a foreign corporationhttps://t.co/PxzZ722Mk8 …
by WARREN MOSLE Headline number looks strong, but details show weakness, particularly personal consumption expenditures which continue to decelerate: Highlights The consumer isn’t on fire but still contributed to a very solid 3.2 percent growth rate for first-quarter GDP. Net exports …
via 321gold: I did an interview a couple of weeks back and predicted that the stock markets would begin a large decline soon. I based that on tea-leaf reading of the DSI readings for the S&P, the Nasdaq and the Nikkei. Since then …
by Natura Naturans George Monbiot and the climate change heart of darkness George Monbiot appeared recently on Frankie Boyle’s far-left political chat show, “New World Order.” A columnist and environmental activist, Monbiot explained how we have to save the planet. And …
From Birch Gold Group Long-term Social Security has a shortfall of $43 trillion (officially reported by the Board of Trustees), and an imminent benefit cut of 25% by 2034. Despite these sobering facts, Social Security raised benefits for 8 million recipients by 2.8%, effective January …
by TrailDust When all else fails, circle the wagons and resort to bullying tactics “Project Veritas confronts former US Attorney Jim Letten at Tulane University, where he is now employed as a dean at the law school. Letten resigned in …
By John Mauldin I recently made a case that the Fed’s monetary policy is turning Japanese. Let’s examine how that worked for them. From one perspective, it has done quite well. From another, they have paid a cost. Is it worth …
The S&P500 future is up 26.9% from its December lows.Earnings forecasts are down by ~6%. Who needs earnings when you've got #greenshoots? (& #Fed?) $SPY 😜💰🔥 pic.twitter.com/IeIie0V1Fe — Martin Enlund ⚡️🦆🚁 (@enlundm) April 24, 2019 While the S&P 500's valuation …
by TFittonJW Telling the truth about Schiff on Lou Dobbs last night: Judicial Watch has two ethics complaints pending on Schiff anti-Trump misconduct: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-ethics-complaint-over-rep-adam-schiffs-contacts-with-glenn-simpson-and-michael-cohen/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-calls-upon-office-congressional-ethics-investigate-whether-rep-schiff-rep-speier-disclosed-classified-information/
By Tsvetana Paraskova A week before the U.S. announced it was ending sanction waivers for all Iranian oil customers, U.S. President Donald Trump had a phone call with Libya’s eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar who is marching on Tripoli against the …
In discussing comments made by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on felons and terrorists voting from prison during a CNN town hall, CNN’s Don Lemon says he was “stunned” that Democrats are ok with terrorists voting …
Can team Trump keep the economy going until after the 2020 election? Journalist and book author Charles Hugh Smith says, “I think you are pushing a little bit on a string to get a 10 year long expansion to stretch …
