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@MorganStanley The Hike that Breaks the Market’s Back As Debt Rises, the Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest … CNBC–3 hours ago The federal government could soon pay more in interest on its debt than it … The deficit is expected to total …

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Insiders are selling their company’s stock at a record pace, Fed chair says stocks are expensive

pic.twitter.com/CTG3xJU4G5 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 26, 2018 Stocks drop after Fed chair says stocks are expensive — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 26, 2018 POWELL'S MOST IMPORTANT COMMENTS pic.twitter.com/yafnSpLPkj — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 26, 2018 #Powell said that since the #Fed has …

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Real Wage Growth Is Actually Falling

BY PATRICK WATSON The US economy is at “full employment,” says the official 3.9% unemployment rate. The problem is that fully employed people haven’t seen enough wage growth. It’s a puzzle. Wages used to rise faster when unemployment was this low. That’s …

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The U.S. Housing Market and Home Builders Are In Trouble — good data and chart showing 2018’s ugly housing sector. US Home Builders down most in a year since 2008.

via palisade-research: Many of you know that I haven’t been exactly bullish on the U.S. housing market – especially the construction stocks. That’s why in early March I wrote about and recommended betting against the home builders (you can read that here and see how …

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15 Bullish Assumptions

by Michael Lebowitz If all goes well for nine more months, the post-financial crisis economic expansion will become the longest economic expansion in recent U.S. history. The U.S. stock markets are also on a tear, having just become the longest …

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Merkel government nearly collapsed today

it is about the boss of the german agency – the socialists want to get rid of him – merkhell as well but seehofer is his boss and gives a shit about them, very funny https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/spd-fordert-entlassung-von-verfassungsschutzpraesident-maassen-muss-weg-57230626.bild.html yesterday they all nearly …

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Yield Curve Forecasting 2020 Recession

via  RecessionAlert.com There is a lot of focus on the U.S. yield curve at the moment given its relentless move toward inversion (when short-term rates are higher than long-term rates). Can the history of the yield curve provide for useful forecasting …

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McConnell: “This is America. Evidence matters. Facts matter. We have never been – and do not wish to be – a society in which a single, uncorroborated allegation can wield veto power over somebody’s life. Everyone deserves better than this.”

Leader McConnell Verified account @SenateMajLdr This is America. Evidence matters. Facts matter. We have never been – and do not wish to be – a society in which a single, uncorroborated allegation can wield veto power over somebody’s life. Everyone …

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Senator Dianne Feinstein Calls For Halt Of Kavanaugh Hearing For Thursday – ‘FBI Must Investigate ALL allegations.’ – PLUS The Weaponized #METOO Movement.

by Ruby Henley They did it.  The Democrats seem to actually be getting their way by expecting Senator Charles Grassley to postpone Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing set for Thursday. I have no doubt Senator Grassley will grant Diane Feinstein her …

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America’s Looming Abyss

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Salvador Dali Galatea of the Spheres 1952  Axios reporter Jonathan Swan “broke” the story yesterday morning that Rod Rosenstein was going to resign before he would be fired, and he was on his way to the White House …

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