maybe this is called a bubble pic.twitter.com/ztWsnAB3VQ — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 10, 2018 A very high #earnings bar has been set for 2018@biancoresearch pic.twitter.com/gOx90ls32n — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) April 9, 2018 pic.twitter.com/DdK7J208lk — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 9, 2018 Auto …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A 39% plunge in three months. But it was spectacular while it lasted. Previously super-enthusiastic retail investors don’t like what they’ve been seeing in the stock market since January. That’s clear from TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index, …
The biggest lie on the Street is This time it’s different…. Now I understand why the deep state is going after Trump He must know about this scam that Wall Street and China set up. I remember when he first …
Tucker Carlson is questioning legitimacy of reported Syrian chemical weapon attacks “All the geniuses tell us that Assad killed those children, but do they really know that? Of course they don’t really know that, they are making it up,” Carlson …
by Michael Krieger, libertyblitzkrieg.com An alleged new ‘chemical incident’ in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter New Chapter 11 bankruptcies in the US spiked 63% year-over-year in March to 770 filings, the highest number of filings for any month since April 2011 (when there had been 789 filings as companies were still …
BY PATRICK WATSON You may have noticed that stocks have stopped going straight up. That’s not a big deal by itself. Bull markets and high volatility can coexist, and often did until the last few years. The scary part is that …
1984, HERE WE COME: California legislature introduces bill to make it illegal to run a news site without employing fact-checkers. This one would clamp down on criticism of ANY Official Story. The bill is titled “SB1424 Internet: social media: false …
By Chris Black Do you remember how President Trump used to tell us during his presidential campaign and even after how America’s wars in the middle-east were catastrophic for our country, that we were fighting wars for others and …
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Keith Haring Retrospect 1989 Longtime and dear friend of the Automatic Earth, professor Steve Keen, wrote an article recently that everyone should read (that goes for everything Steve writes). It’s hard to select highlights, but I’ll give it a …
by howmuch Founding a new company carries all sorts of risks, not the least of which is the cost associated with leasing an office and hiring employees. But where is the best city to start a new company, and what …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/983137195874713600 Did the Morgan Stanley Developed Market Economic Cycle Indicator just put in a top? h/t ZeroHedge pic.twitter.com/3XJUEcoo2O — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 8, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/982818315440656384 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/982782121524826112 Small, subprime auto lenders are shutting down as banks & private-equity firms cut off …
Real estate isn’t supposed to be a speculative asset. Yet we have learned over the years that it absolutely is. People have taken every dollar the banks and lending institutions will give them and bought the maximum they could get. …
by Glagaire There is a thread currently trending about the most recent Syrian gas attack and I can’t really tell if its populated by people with a serious deficiency in critical and analytical thought or whether its a deliberate attempt to control the …
by Ruby Henley Facebook will soon be letting you know what they did with your private data. The most shocking thing you will learn is that your private texts were traded on the platform’s Messenger feature. You will learn that …
by John Rubino When an entity needs to borrow ever-greater amounts of money to survive, the markets – that is, the people who are being asked to lend the money – eventually rebel. This rebellion takes the form of rising …
By Mark Angelides Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is seeking his third consecutive term in office as his country goes to the polls today. But instead of just the traditional electoral battles between candidates, Orbán must face an even greater threat: George …
by Ruby Henley Dustin Nemos is one of those truth seekers I follow on YouTube, and he stays on top of all that is occurring around us. He is intelligent and well versed. One aspect I have come to …
by Ruby Henley Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, also known as Diamond and Silk, noticed six months ago that their popular Facebook page was dropping in engagement. Wish I could tell them the same thing happened to me, too! Along …
via Looking4Alpha The US Federal Reserve balance sheet had grown to over 4.5 trillion US Dollars at it’s peak and over the years had an immense – probably NOT unintended – impact on US equity markets. Since the balance sheet’s peak levels …
In your opinion, will the Fed persist in increasing interest rates this year if the market continues to see increased volatility? Many investors and analysts are starting to believe that the financial system is looking weak and that a market …
I remember when cell phones first came out. Some people were definitely concerned about the possible effects that radiation might have on brains, but that was pooh-poohed as crazy talk. Some countries (like Switzerland, France, Finland, Israel, Sweden) issued …
Trade Wars are just an excuse to sell — we've known for a while this moment in time would come. Libor, Libor, Libor Pants On Fire — Stocks Can't Go Up b/c soaring short term rates pic.twitter.com/2Wo4TaNvMh — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) …
Just because the stock market is near all-time highs doesn’t mean there is no risk from a black swan. Trends researcher Gerald Celente says, “I want to tell everyone what our major signal that we are watching closely that …
From Birch Gold Group The reason the historic Great Recession of 2008/2009 happened is multi-faceted and complex. The short version is the banks were allowed (through the repeal of Glass-Steagall) to invest savings into derivatives. Here’s what happened: This required security backed mortgages, …
by Ruby Henley The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action recently announced support for a lawsuit brought by Guns Save Life challenging the Deerfield, Illinois’ gun confiscation ordinance. The lawsuit challenges Deerfield’s recent attempt to criminalize so-called “assault weapons” …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In the jobs report today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics provided a trove of granular data on which industries and governments created jobs over the past 12 months, and which destroyed jobs – with some counter-intuitive …
New California Bill Creates “Fact-Checkers” To Filter Your Online Content. Proposition SB-1424 would essentially make the state king of what you see and what is considered fact. Key points from the bill : (a) Any person who operates a social media Internet …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the dramatic fall of the stock market as euphoria bubbles the markets at an epic scale. The stock market is currently having its worst second quarter since 1929, soon …
by Chris Black Three off-duty French soldiers were arrested and detained by police after saving a woman from robbery. This is how France (and other EU countries, like the UK) is conditioning its “tax-farm” to have a victim mentality and …