Stock Buybacks: Worst Mistake Ever

By Harry Dent A lot’s driving this bubble we’ve been in since 2009, but good fundamental trends and things like demographics and technology are not among them. The biggest inflator has been the $13 trillion worth of quantitative easing (QE) …

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The Coming Credit Meltdown

via Zerohedge: With investor attention increasingly focusing on what most believe will be the catalyst for the next financial crisis, namely a tsunami in corporate defaults as a result of the disastrous combination of record leverage, higher rates and an …

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FITTON:FBI met w/Clinton-DNC spy Steele 13 times in 2016 and paid him 11 times to get Trump. And then fired him. And then used Bruce Ohr to get Steele’s anti-Trump dirtt. Ohr communicated w/Steele dozens of times.

by TFittonJW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-doj-records-showing-numerous-bruce-ohr-communications-with-fusion-gps-and-christopher-steele/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/  

Recession Signs Everywhere

by John Mauldin This month, the Federal Reserve joined its global peers by turning decisively dovish. Jerome Powell and friends haven’t just stopped tightening. Soon they will begin actively easing by reinvesting the Fed’s maturing mortgage bonds into Treasury securities. It’s …

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FITTON:HUGE Scandal: Hillary Clinton put classified info on Internet equivalent of public park bench and Chinese took advantage. Clinton protected from fallout by Strzok. Judicial Watch suing for answers. submitted a minute

by TFittonJW   Judicial Watch keeps on pushing: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-for-details-of-an-intelligence-office-meeting-with-fbi-regarding-security-threats-caused-by-hillary-clintons-illicit-email-system/  (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it is suing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for details of a meeting with the FBI regarding national security threats associated …

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Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! VIX short positioning by speculators is more extreme than it was just prior to the market selloff in Q4 2018.

Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! Previous inflow extremes also preceded significant market selloffs. Record bullishness at near record valuations can never a good sign. Credits to @jessefelder pic.twitter.com/fSpEIEVr20 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 1, 2019 …

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US Still Cleanest Dirty Shirt Among Manufacturing Giants, Germany Drops to Debt Crisis Levels, Japan Contracts, China Counts on Government Bailout of Private Sector

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But the US shirt is getting dirtier. Germany’s manufacturing data “makes for uncomfortable reading.” Much of the glowing press coverage today was focused on the uptick in manufacturing data coming out of China, as reported by …

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The trillion dollar animal agriculture industry that spends hundreds of millions lobbying the US Farm Bill wants you to keep eating subsidized food that is shown to cause chronic diseases

by wowwaowow I don’t understand how people think TPTB dont include the animal agriculture industry. The #1 predictor of disease is diet/lifestyle. dont be fooled into thinking the disproportionate rates of chronic disease in the US is anything but design. …

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