via Crisis By The Phoenix Global growth is officially dead. The markets picked up on this first, with Copper, Lumber, Industrial Metals and other economically sensitive asset classes collapsing starting in May. Looking at those charts, it was easy to single out the …
via Jill Mislinski A cyclical downturn in construction sector growth is underway, and set to intensify. We know this from monitoring leading indexes specific to major sectors of the economy, whose distinct cyclical swings can precede those in the overall economy. Notably, growth …
via WSJ: Pfizer Inc. plans to resume its practice of raising drug prices early next year after bowing to pressure from President Trump over the summer when the company rolled back some increases. Pfizer, among the world’s biggest drugmakers by …
via Tim Kilgore As benchmark interest rates in the U.S. rise and the pace of corporate earnings growth slows, Moody’s Investors Service warned Friday that an unprecedented number of corporate credit ratings could be added to the “junk” pile. Moody’s …
Markets have consistantly underestimated the degree of Fed tightening pic.twitter.com/Y0rU81ngIh — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) November 16, 2018 https://twitter.com/UPFINAcom/status/1063446868309487616 JNK warnings started way back in Nov ‘17 when it fell below its declining 200 day MA. An ugly week …
by Charles Hugh-Smith When was the last time a monopoly or quasi-monopoly was broken up? A generation ago, or was it two generations ago? The Ruling Class that wants us to love our servitude incites us to seek divisions: between red and blue, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The area of Silicon Valley and San Francisco – comprised of the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara – is one of the most expensive housing markets in the US. Atherton, a town …
by Michael Snyder A lot of people are shocked by how rapidly things are beginning to move. The U.S. economy is slowing down at a pace that we haven’t seen since the last recession, and this is something that I have been …
by Dr. Eowyn Inés San Martin reports for Crux, Nov. 15, 2018, that the United Nations Human Rights Committee wants to make abortion and “assisted suicide” — a euphemism for euthanasia — a univeral human right. A “General Comment” is a …
https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1063540668528771078 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1063546163985620994 Despite the lack of liquidity … there is a buyer in the market and it is the companies themselvesNovember is a record month of BUYBACKWait for December and January pic.twitter.com/IDOZqpxEXC — Amit Noam Tal (@amital13) November 16, 2018 …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1063481183479259137 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1063450589655388160 More than likely Trump admin was briefed on this chart. IG Corporate Debt is the stress point right now. $GE could be the first domino to drop pic.twitter.com/MD8ydAPueR — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 16, 2018 The weakness in credit …
The rabid bidding war among American cities to be the location for Amazon’s new “headquarters” was essentially a scam. Bezos always knew where Amazon was going: right next door to his buddies at the Pentagon, with another location in New …
by WARREN MOSLER Note the deceleration began with the collapse in oil capex in 2015: The year end tax cut caused a onetime increase in earnings that subsequently flattened out and may now be declining: Seems Saudis are raising prices: …
by NaturalHedgehog Each day I go through the top rising and falling stocks today, and look for (a) what the company actually does, and (b) why the stock is moving so much. Hopefully this saves you some digging! Below are …
by Kimble Charting CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Trouble started for the S&P 500 in 2000 when momentum diverged for months, it broke below multi-month trading range support, 200-day moving average, and multi-year rising support at (1). Trouble started for the S&P 500 in …
People can’t breathe n are wearing masks can’t go out or to work I’m getting an asthma attack just looking at it As California Wildfires Death Toll Rises Again, an Air Quality Disaster Worsens https://t.co/b52Q8n1ZRx pic.twitter.com/ajxz7Sj20g — Sean Breslin (@Sean_Breslin) …
via calculatedriskblog: From the NY Fed: Total Household Debt Rises for 17th Straight Quarter The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, which shows that total household debt increased …
by Thinker Is Amazon working for the people or against them??? History and actions are showing that there are questionable actions coming from those who have not openly supported the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump. Since Hillary …
by John Rubino The sense that something isn’t right out there just got a lot stronger. And the Fed, in response, is now tiptoeing back towards QE. Let’s start with the sudden bad news: Chipmaker Nvidia plunges after missing on …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvC3vhY8qOI Fed Claims Economy Is Great…Which Means Prepare For A Crisis! The Fed is patting itself on the back. Its manipulation of the economy has put it “in such a good place.” Have they really done it? Does central planning …
Many investors might assume that corporate buybacks indicate the best times to buy a company’s shares. History shows otherwise! Learn why corporate stock market timing is usually wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ueXnXfNQOU
Authored by Haley Zaremba via Oilprice.com, Canadian oil producers are in an increasingly tough predicament. With high and increasing oil demand around the globe over the last year, Canadian oil production has increased accordingly. All of this is simple and …
via northjersey: The first winter storm of the season caught state officials off guard Thursday, leaving commuters enraged, stranded on snow-covered and ice-slicked roads and wondering why so little was done to prepare. And they weren’t shy about their anger. Commuters …
Anxiety is an occupational hazard, a fact of life, for professional traders. After all, even on good days, something is always going wrong, somewhere. But when everything starts to go wrong at once, imaginations can run wild. Like now, when …
Ok people… I did something no-one bothers to do… READ THE CASE LAW the judge based his decision on. https://openjurist.org/569/f2d/124/sherrill-v-h-knight Robert SHERRILL v. H. Stuart KNIGHT, Director, United States Secret Service, et al., Appellants. 1977 In this case the judge determines that …
by Daniel J. Mitchell via Mises Wire The most disturbing outcome of the recent mid-term election isn’t that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be a Member of Congress. I actually look forward to that because of the humor value. Instead, with the Democrats now controlling the House of …
Francine McKenna interviewed by Jason Burack on Wall St For Main St Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, forensic accountant and transparency reporter at MarketWatch.com, a Dow Jones publication, Francine McKenna http://retheauditors.com/ Francine’s Market Watch articles can be …
by Dr. Eowyn These two maps show clearly why the Demonrat Party is pro-open borders and pro-illegal immigration. Map No. 1, on the estimated percentage of “undocumented immigrants” in the United States, is from the Washington Post, February 9, 2017: Map …
by Amy S. While major news organizations might cheerfully report a farmer’s almanac prediction, their doing so shouldn’t lend much weight to the claims. But before we thoroughly confuse you, let’s get one thing straight: There is both a …
by LaneDash I noticed it’s not 100% current, as 1 or two companies have changed hands recently. But regardless, it’s a sobering visualisation of the power and control a handful of corporations have on public opinion https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6 1One of the …