Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Because that’s where the money is, on paper. But it’s not where the market is. There are plenty of brand-new apartments to choose from, thanks to a multifamily construction boom in major cities. These apartments are …
by Charles Hugh-Smith We’re living in a fantasy, folks. Bubbles pop, period. The nice thing about the “wealth” generated by bubbles is it’s so easy: no need to earn wealth the hard way, by scrimping and saving capital and investing it …
via Jim Leaviss As we pass the 10-year anniversary of the Lehman default and we started thinking about what we were doing back in 2008 (desperately moving my savings out of certain banks was high on the list for me, whilst …
by John Ward There has been a sensational twist in the Brett Kavanaugh case: yesterday Daily Telegraph business editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard revealed clear and strong evidence of illegal dirty tricks while investigating the Clintons when Slick Willy was President. Why is …
by Lily DF’s Ethically Challenged Business Ventures Dianne Feinstein has profited for 26 years from ethically challenged deals that have netted her and her crony husband tens of millions of dollars, enriching themselves at the expense of the US taxpayers. According …
By John W. Whitehead “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, …
By Bob Shanahan The full scale and scope of the student loan debt bubble is far from fully understood. Millions of young Americans continue to be encouraged to go to massively expensive universities for useless undergraduate degrees. The result has …
via sacbee: MIAMI Janet Burke, 71, opens the door of her Hollywood apartment with a smile. That’s how she greets Britt Weatherhead every Friday when he delivers a box of food that will keep hunger away. Cheese, milk, bread and fruit …
by howmuch If you want stark visual proof of global inequality, here it is. Both halves of this graph represent an equal amount of global wealth. The top half consists of the world’s eight richest billionaires. The bottom half represents …
by Dr. Eowyn Despite sex ed classes in public schools and a wealth of information on the Internet about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), increasing numbers of Americans still manage to get infected. So much for human rationality, which is the …
by Spencer P Morrison, NEE Too often the tariff debate is fought along economic lines: will tariffs create jobs or will they funnel wealth into dying industries? This line of reasoning is fundamentally flawed. Economics and politics—wealth and power—are inseparable, they …
It’s been 10 years since the 2008 financial meltdown. Money manager Peter Schiff warned the world about the last crisis and has a new warning about another coming financial crisis. Schiff says, “The problem is now we are on the …
by Stucky, TBP I have spent over 100 hours of research and thought on this Labor of Love. It is a short list, for sure, due to time constraints and needing to go to the bathroom. So, please, no criticisms — …
Percentage of unprofitable U.S. IPOs rivaling dot-com era @WSJ pic.twitter.com/t4Rhu96QYq — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) October 2, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1047316437612810241 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1047237784875012097 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1047255427807961088
These guys have some dank charts: https://fred.stlouisfed.org Here are a few neat ones: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HTRUCKSSAAR https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PERMIT https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RECPROUSM156N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTALSA also this https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/09/28/recessionalert-weekly-leading-index-update h/t WilliamNyeTho
by Thinker How many hold dual citizenship??? Illegals who the Obama/Clinton administration put before and in front of every Veteran and homeless American??? The words, actions, and vote of U.S. politicians are showing the people who is standing for a …
via NawMean2016: Data Viz link: Tableau Public Sources: 1) USDA Foreign Agriculture Service 2) UN Data (through the USDA FAS database)
via pentoport: Investors are experiencing huge moves in commodities, currencies, equities and in sovereign debt across the globe. And now the fall has arrived. Expect the volatility currently witnessed in markets to only surge. This is because global central banks have …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Our focus is on developing and deploying very specialized price modeling and predictive analysis systems. Our objective is to inform our members of these potential price moves and to assist them in finding successful trading opportunities. …
by John Rubino Mike Maloney on preparing for the coming crash with gold, silver, and cryptos … Max Keiser: Today’s stock markets are “totally high” … Jim Rogers on “the gigantic short position in gold and silver” … David Morgan: …
By Bob Shanahan If California is the gold standard among the 50 states in the country, then why are thousands leaving every year for lower taxed, less regulated, less Democrat-dominated locales? Reading the DC/NY-centric press, the Golden State is …
by Dana Lyons Outside of the 2000 dotcom bubble, U.S. households have never had more of their assets invested in the stock market. The U.S. stock market, i.e., the S&P 500, soared back to new all-time highs again today – always …
via nytimes: The production of the parent company, known as Pdvsa, has been hard hit by the country’s turmoil. It is struggling to meet more than $1 billion in payments due in the next couple of months on its bonds and …
by John Ward Geopolitics, planned supply cuts, bourse directionalising, energy wars and refinement cost manipulation are behind an increase in petrol prices. The investigation below shows why media drivel about ‘regional instability’ and ‘Russian blackmail’ as factors as complete hokum. Once …
by John Whitaker, NEE A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Researchshows that punishing illegal aliens for crossing the border dramatically reduces the risk of recidivism—they are less likely to try crossing the border a second time. Effective …
by Troy The U.S. stock market has made a breadth divergence recently. We examined the S&P 500’s breadth divergence yesterday. While this isn’t necessarily bearish, there are a cluster of signals in 2007 (near the previous bull market’s top). We are …
by badpauly This is a list of the top 20 companies that experienced the largest change in insider shares in the last seven (7) days. The SEC defines an insider as any officer, director or 10% shareholder. It is not …
via @OccupyWisdom: https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595330131861504 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595336045826048 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595342790250496 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595349417271296 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595368841093120 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595385865785345 Bonus: Your Central Bank Can’t Save You Next Time Bloomberg–7 hours ago Unless there can be an adult conversation in America over negative interest rates — the counterintuitive idea of borrowers getting paid and savers …
via thebeartrapsreport: Looking back over the last decade, stocks have only been this much loved four times. After the last dance with extreme euphoria in January, stocks lost 11.3% from January 26th to February 12th. Likewise, just before 2015-2016’s 14% equity market …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Every housing bubble requires the connivance of the banks and regulators. Australia is no exception. Sydney’s housing bubble, one of the most magnificent in the world, is deflating further. So far this year, home sales volume …