by John Rubino Michael Oliver: “Once gold breaks $1,300, $1,750 will happen quickly. And I like gold mining stocks better than gold” … Lynette Zang: “Doom loops” you need to understand … McAlvany: “Be the dip… I mean buy the …
The Fed FOMC meetings are behind closed doors. But after 5 years, the meeting minutes become public. We can get a glimpse of what is said behind the curtain and use it to our advantage. To get the depth of …
by Thinker The House of Representatives voted in favor of legislation to re-open some government agencies including HUD and the Department of Transportation, but this legislation is not going to be signed by President Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell has made …
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Today’s emerging markets are tomorrow’s powerhouses, according to a recent forecast from Standard Chartered, a multinational bank headquartered in London. The bank sees developing economies like Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, and …
by Michael Snyder Really strange things are starting to happen all over the world. We’ll talk about “the North Pole’s sudden shift” later in this article, but first I want to focus on the very unusual event which just took place …
by Jesse “The corporate bond market has all kinds of problems. I think investors should use the strength of junk bonds that’s happened as a gift and get out of them. Corporate credit, as a percentage of GDP, has never …
From Birch Gold Group In September 2018, we showed how FAANG companies were “bracing for impact” because of trade war tensions between the U.S. and China. Now it appears we have our first trade war “casualty” in the form of a …
via diamondandsilk: We all knew that Democrats would be emboldened following their takeover over of the House and they have been trying their best to push the narrative that voters sent a major message during the midterms. In reality, the blue …
by these-things-happen Starting today, taxpayers can go to www.irs.gov/freefile to find the Free File software product that matches their situation. Each partner sets its own eligibility standards, generally based on age, income or state residency. Taxpayers can do their taxes online from …
via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ Excessive debt, particularly in corporates ~70% of GDP. Raising rates vs. earnings 2/ Global banking/financial houses signaling crisis/instability now – German banking index, Italian banks, US financials down 2x broader market – Banks/Financials leading down 3/ Divided domestic …
via ECRI ECRI’s U.S. Weekly Leading Index (WLI) increased to 143.4 as WLI growth fell further to -6.5%, a 363-week low. On desktop click here to download WLI data for free, including the full history of its level and growth rate. On …
There is only so much gov't & fed can do to prop stocks, at some point, the market will figure out the global economy continues to implode. pic.twitter.com/uKrfk6pwhr — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 11, 2019 https://twitter.com/GreekFire23/status/1083843957539393536 The big declines in the …
by TraderStef via CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) The Federal Reserve may have driven itself into a dead end of a one-and-done interest rate hike in Dec. 2018, and they are holding their noses (see Porky Pig) over the stench of a …
Federal workers get $0 pay stubs as shutdown drags on OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Federal workers received pay stubs Friday with nothing but zeroes on them as the effects of the government shutdown hit home, deepening anxieties about mortgage payments …
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/10/19 Jason talks about new comments from Jerome Powell and other Fed members about how the Fed may either be reducing the amount of planned interest rate hikes in 2019 from 3 down …
by Egon von Greyerz Long term holders of gold have a different perspective of the world. They are not believers in instant gratification. Nor do they believe that a world based on money printing and debt can create sustainable wealth. …
He is going to give Schumer a few more days but that is it. Sean Hannity also asked him about 9th circuit stopping it. Updated . He was adamant about it, wall is coming will declare a national emergence, quote …
Crowdfunding wars: As police page reaches €1 million, gilets jaunes set up new campaign A crowdfunding campaign started for police in the wake of gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests has reached €1 million. The crowdfunding page came in reaction to …
The Federal Reserve is the most secretive public organization in the United States. The power that they wield is unknown to the public. It claims to be a central bank acting in favor of the American public but this couldn’t …
by ButterflyCatastrophe I’ve seen a lot of comments about people not understanding marginal tax rates, so I made a graph comparing the marginal tax bracket with the effective tax rate as a function of income. These graphs start at 0, because …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-10/ford-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-in-europe-eyes-plant-closures Ford Motor Co. said it will cut thousands of jobs, weed out slow-selling variants and potentially close entire factories in Europe, as the carmakers’s global cost-cutting drive targets a region that has been a drag on earnings for years. …
by howmuch GDP per capita is a critical metric for understanding the economy. It’s a measure of a country’s economic output that takes into account the number of people who live there. GDP per capita takes the gross domestic product …
via Bloomberg: hat just happened? I last wrote one of these newsletters on Dec. 20, the day after the last Federal Reserve monetary meeting. (More on my disappearance later in this commentary.) Since that date, stocks have staged a spectacular decline worldwide, …
by Thinker How can Elizabeth Warren, who just announced to the nation her intent to run for president in 2020, bash one of the top politicians in Washington D.C.? Mrs. Warren had the audacity to call out one of South …
via Kurt Schlichter Liberals are all about freedom…their freedom to tell us Normal Americanswhat to think, how to feel, and what to do. And the highest form of liberalism is the ban, a bar to an activity, institution, or attitude that they wish …
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Intrigue So we got the Dirty Rally I alluded to before Christmas. The imbalances I highlighted on December 23 called for a reconnect to moving averages off of the 2340 $ES zone and the 2001 analog structure suggested …
by Dave Right now, to my mind, there are a lot of upside risks – news events that could cause a large rise in prices. The largest of these is the tariff settlement. I mean, you know we will get …
Hospitals Restrict Visitors to Curb Spread of Flu AS FLU SEASON PICKS UP across the country, hospitals are restricting visitors in an effort to prevent spread of the virus. New York City and 19 states have experienced high levels of flu-like activity so …
via NBCNEWS: The country would face an economic hellscape if the government shutdown lasts “months or even years,” as the president has suggested it might, experts tell NBC News. The doomsday scenario might be unlikely — the longest the federal government has …
