by Jesse Colombo Business Insider published a piece this week called “China’s hopes of becoming the world’s largest economy are hitting a major roadblock“: China’s economy is growing at its slowest pace in nearly three decades, and some economists say …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “Our advice is to own as little exposure U.S. equity exposure as your career risk allows.” – Martin Tarlie, member of portfolio allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo investment management The following is an excerpt from the …
by WARREN MOSLER The ‘labor market’ is not a ‘fair game’ as people need to work to eat, and business only needs to hire if it likes the return prospects, so real wages should be expected to remain depressed without …
via sentimentrader: Fear is slipping Even while the S&P 500 remains below its 200-day average, the VIX has slipped to a multi-month low and is well below its long-term average of 20. This has consistently led to trouble over the short- …
by SpontaneousDisorder Source https://twitter.com/TN/status/1093634317979447296 Another indication that the rally in stocks is accompanied by extreme sentiment. I think it should top about here. I posted a couple of weeks ago some sentiment indicators. https://www.reddit.com/r/economicCollapse/comments/aj3lfv/optimism_has_already_returned_to_the_stock_market/ To update that the daily sentiment …
by confoundedinterest One of the world’s most important borrowing benchmarks staged its biggest one-day decline in a decade on Thursday. The three-month London interbank offered rate for dollars sank 4.063 basis points to 2.697 percent, the largest one-day slide since May 2009. The move …
via marketwatch: An escalating trade war, a hard landing in China, and Brexit could prompt a global recession U.S. investors are once again paying attention to the dark clouds gathering over the global economy, with reason to fear that the next …
Global PMIs pic.twitter.com/dOOn35O4nw — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 8, 2019 Darkening ‘Global Economic Skies’ Pull Stocks Lower Global stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday, and were set for their first weekly loss in seven, as investors worried about …
San Francisco is one of the richest cities in the world. It’s given us music, technology and elegant architecture. Now it gives us filthy homeless encampments. One urban planner told me, “I just returned from the Tenderloin (a section of …
Associated Press Published on Feb 4, 2019 Subscribe 925K (4 Feb 2019) Scientists at Columbia University in New York say they created a robot that has learned to be self-aware and adapt tasks to its abilities. (Feb. 4) (4 Feb …
Definitely with Rand Paul on this. And most people who disagree with Rand Paul are Democrat! Liberal War Mongers! Make War and MOAR WAR! h/t Interferon
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Getting rid of MBS faster and shifting to short-term Treasury bills will be on the list. The Fed shed $32 billion in assets in January, according to the Fed’s balance sheet for the week ended February …
BY PATRICK WATSON Taxes are a touchy subject. Nobody likes paying them, but (unless you’re an anarchist) we all realize at least some taxation is necessary. We just want it to be fair and reasonable. Exactly what that means is a never-ending debate. …
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can …
by jameilious Brexit has been a real omnishambles from day 1, only happening after a gambit from David Cameron failed horribly. I have a theory that it’s on purpose. Very few politicians want brexit so why not ruin it so …
by Thinker Our words and actions define our character, not our religion, race, or birth nation. For many New Yorker’s, it is a state that represents new life, another chance, freedom. Politicians are elected by the people who believe that …
via visualcapitalist: Nobody wants the embarrassment of seeing their debit card declined. To help, bankers came up with a seemingly beneficial solution. Overdraft protection is a service that allows card users to pay for items even if they temporarily do not …
Severe damage to global growth has been spotted – prepare for a rough ride in the months ahead. I don't think the policies were/are in place by CBs to counter this rapid slowdown. Any mol pol maneuver by CBs work …
by altFnine This is a very serious privacy matter you ALL need to be aware of! For such a massive thing, I’ve only heard echos about it. Not even whispers and this is a really big problem. As if we …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Standard Chartered has forecast that Russia will overtake Germany as the world’s fifth largest economy, possibly as early as next year in 2020. Would you care to comment if that is possible? GP ANSWER: It is clear …
by TIMOTHY_TRISMEGISTUS The plan has ways been endless war, and for much of the 20th centuries the US entered and exited engagements at will, with only minor propaganda necessary to assuage the people. After Vietnam, their failed intentions to invade …
by Dave A fascinating post by Wolf Richter, quoting an NBER report/model that found lowering rates too far, for too long, gives an undue advantage to the market leader. This reduces competition, which in turn reduces productivity, and also ends …
Reagan White House Budget Director and best-selling author David Stockman says, “Yields are going to go up, and we are going to have a day of reckoning in terms of this whole massive artificial structure of debt that’s been created. …
by John Ward The last few days have seen yet more worrying demonstrations of media narratives peddled by the Unelected States, cynically peddled by the suppliant old media, and unthinkingly accepted by social media victims across the Globe. Let’s interrogate …
by GR Consider: Trump’s a Nazi: Praise for Holocaust survivors, and a touching rendition of “Happy Birthday.” (With Trump waving his fingers like a conductor). Trump hates minorities: Brags about record low black, Hispanic, and Asian unemployment — while …
From Brandon Smith The mainstream economic community has a notoriously short attention span and a lack of long-term perspective. After the longest government shutdown in American history subsided, the mainstream proclaimed the fight well and over – in other words, nothing …
by BoMcCready Here’s the interactive version. I posted this yesterday, but I’m re-posting this version to show last night’s ratings and also add scales to each graph. Source: Nielsen Tool: Tableau
A lot of tension in the markets, so here's a couple of examples of that. This bounce will have to fade soon. Nothing fundamental has changed since December. Every major economy is continuing to slow.$TYVIX $TLT $VIX $WTIC $SPX pic.twitter.com/xDWmV2tAu1 …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Something big is happening in the gold market right now, and nowhere is that more apparent than in central banks of emerging economies. Last year was a watershed in the size of official …
by David Haggith Here is a single chart that proves how completely the Fed’s end-game for its recovery failed, which means the fake recovery, itself, is failing. It’s not hard to figure out what happened here. Talk about a euphoric rise …