BY JOHN MAULDIN A Federal Reserve policy mistake is our top risk this year. Correction: The mistake is already happening. So that’s less a forecast and more a recognition of reality. The Fed is raising rates and reversing its quantitative easing. At the …
by Dana Lyons U.S. stocks are testing perhaps the most important line in the entire market. If you’ve followed us for any length of time, you know that our favorite equity market index is the Value Line Geometric Composite (VLG). As …
by Daisy Luther As I’ve written before, the government shutdown is a perfect demonstration of our politicians participating in partisan showmanship, with poor people as the victims of their theater. As individual states desperately attempt to take care of the people …
by Martin Armstrong Believe it or not, member of Congress continue to get paid even when there is a shutdown on the basis that Congress refuses to fund the government. Elizabeth Warren has come out and stated that she will …
by Troy Now that the S&P 500 has reached its 50% fibonacci retracement, its medium term outlook is no longer decisively bullish. As we mentioned before, 13 of 15 historical 20% declines saw a pullback/retest after a 50% retracement. Go here to understand …
via thediplomat: On the issue of Huawei, China realizes that the United States has enlisted its allies to collectively encircle the Chinese high-tech company. This sets a precedent for the United States to gather allies to suppress China in other areas …
by Ruby Henley I am in shock and awe this morning as I write this. That is the best description to summarize how I feel after researching the present status of the Mueller Probe and the unraveling of Trump’s legal …
By Irina Slav Global spending on solar energy declined by almost a quarter last year to US$130.8 billion, mainly on the back of a regulatory policy overhaul in China that led to an oversupply of solar panels, driving prices down. …
by StockCassandra https://twitter.com/GeorgeDagnino/status/1085086874824253440
by TFittonJW Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Defense (DOD) detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s multiple requests for military air travel. The documents, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But freight rates remain red hot. Freight shipment volume across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – in December declined about 1% from a year earlier, according to the Cass Freight Index, the …
The ‘eye of the storm’: SocGen says it can’t warn about stock-market problem enough Small-caps have traditionally acted as a canary in the coal mine for the larger market, as they tend to be more sensitive to growth worries and …
On Hannity right now….. A trove of emails and handwritten notes from Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr exposes the continuous contact and communication between the DOJ attorney and anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, according to notes and documents obtained …
by mikeleoncraft Throw this on the already mountain like pile of examples showing CNN acting as a disinfo agent, or political operative. Senator Josh Hawley askes AG nominee Barr some poignant questions concerning the corrupt FBI investigation. CNN cuts to …
by TFittonJW Worth highlighting in light of the loss of American lives in Syria today: 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/ (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified “Secret” documents from the Department of Defense (DOD)and the Department of State revealing that …
by Egon von Greyerz In 2019 the investment world will start to realise that asset markets don’t grow to heaven as stocks, bonds and property start their long journey down which will eventually lead to declines of 75% to 95% …
by Wayne Root Mohammed Ali once said, “It ‘aint bragging if you can back it up.” I’m not bragging. I’m proudly reporting facts. The first political commentator in the country to suggest President Trump should bypass Congress and use Executive Action …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlTLfTTKe0 There is wholesale stealing and criminality happening now. Totally out of control. The $269 Trillion missing/stolen/unaccounted for since Sept 10, 2001, $21 Trillion documented by Mark Skidmore, is now being covered up under the fraudulent guise of national security …
from Financial Survival Network Joe Messina says that just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Gaven Newsom is now the governor and he’s planning ever larger giveaways to illegal aliens. Where does he think the money’s going to come from? …
Photo by Bank of England | CC BY | Photoshopped from original From Birch Gold Group The pension crisis has been escalating for quite some time, and accounting for pension shortfalls seems next to impossible for state governments. The shortfall between pension assets and …
by jessefelder “For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.” -Warren Buffett “My greatest discovery was that a man must study general …
via Zerohedge: It is natural that we measure things by a familiar yardstick – the problem is that being so-biased or lazy, we can be deceived. Take gold. Popular belief has it that gold prices have not performed especially well …
by StockCassandra 2 days ago, services went to hell. https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/business/dallas-fed-texas-service-sector-activity-decelerates-retail-sales-growth/article_bb543482-0fcb-11e9-98fd-074a0502514b.html Texas service sector activity grew at a slower pace in December, according to business executives responding to the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey. The revenue index, a key measure of …
by DontLetHATEUniteYou Like we said, it is crazy that government is spying and recording everything, we are now saying that it would be crazy to have a score determining a person’s standing in society. We already have a scoring system …
Best-selling author of “The Age of Anomaly,” economist Andrei Polgar predicts, “The next crash will be the worst the world has ever seen . . . because problems have kept accumulating. Now, we have come to accept the unsustainable as …
http://www.waff.com/b75f7b2e-272b-4a49-9f4c-8e53048d3bf5 via WAFF: The government shutdown has many people across the Tennessee Valley worrying about how they’re going to make ends meet. Now, there is growing fear among those living in public housing complexes as HUD funding is only guaranteed …
The spotlight off this Operation Freedom Briefing focuses on the illegal surveillance conducted by Obama, Brennan & Clapper of President Trump, his team, Judges & Millions of Americans. https://davejanda.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/GeneralTomMcInerney031917.mp3
via thecollegefix: The Stanford College Republicans published two screenshots they argue proves The Stanford Daily is a “leftist propaganda outlet masquerading as an impartial news source.” The screenshots are of a platform written by a candidate running for the position of …
Survey: Americans Spend Nearly Half Their Waking Hours Looking At Screens Researchers calculate the average adult logs 6 hours, 43 minutes of total screen time daily — or 7,956 days over a typical lifespan! NEW YORK — For all the studies that …
