Looking at what has happened over the years, we have seen the rise of the temporary worker. People have been unable to get full-time work since the Financial Crisis as a result of economic woes as well as compounded regulations, …
by Daniel Carter Eighteen years after the collapse of the dot com bubble, US tech companies find themselves in another precarious situation. During the current economic expansion, stocks like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (FAANG) have led the soaring Nasdaq …
by Daniel Carter His supporters claim he is as a genius who is playing public policy like 4-D chess. His detractors claim he is a bumbling fool who may also be highly corrupt. To me, his intellect, strategic ability and moral …
by Daniel Carter The anti-gun narrative coming from the mainstream media has been relentlessly pushed upon us for a month and a half now. They have insinuated that anyone who challenges the arguments of the Parkland students is a monster, exclaimed …
BY JOHN MAULDIN Just like the weather, financial markets go through cycles. Most years, weather doesn’t change suddenly. We get some transition time between the colder and warmer seasons. I fear we may be in an economic transition right now. And it may …
https://twitter.com/epomboy/status/981693562332073984 World stock markets on BRINK: ‘Epic’ bubble about to BURST, experts warn WORLD stock markets could plummet this year because valuations are likely to hit disproportionate levels, taking them to “epic bubble levels”, experts have warned. Paul Gambles, Managing …
By Mark Angelides After news reached our ears (eventually) of the “migrant caravan” wending its way through Mexico, President Trump responded boldly by first threatening NAFTA and foreign aid, and then planning to send in the National Guard. Not an …
by Ruby Henley The Second Amendment is being challenged as we speak. You may not read that from most publications, but this is the way I see it. Deerfield, Illinois has banned assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. You are probably …
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Herbert Ponting Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctica 1911 Something must be terribly wrong with the world. A few days ago Elizabeth Warren agreed with Trump on China, now Bernie Sanders agrees with him about Amazon. What’s happening? …
By Harry Dent Right now, Millennials are the largest cohort of homebuyers in America. And even though they’re waiting longer to get married, start a family, and buy a home… and they’re more likely to skip buying a starter home …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Interest rates “may go higher and faster than people expect,” the Fed may have to “sell more securities,” and “as all asset prices adjust to a new and maybe not-so-positive environment,” there’s “a risk that volatile …
Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Founder and Editor James Grant and CNBC’s Rick Santelli discuss the otherworldly nature of credit markets. Santelli Exchange: Jim Grant on the markets from CNBC. Margin Debt hits historical levels, watch this spread! CLICK ON CHART …
Seriously this is just posturing and it is bullshit. It was meant to appease people and keep them from showing up themselves as many comments all over the internet were talking about doing. This does not appease me. They can’t …
by Dr. Eowyn On March 30, 2018, I published the post, “Application for ‘March For Our Lives’ permit was made months before Parkland school shooting,” on a fascinating email that a contact of European researcher Ole Dammegard had received from …
by Chris Black London is well known for its ethnic diversity and sprawling multiculturalism. Just to give you an idea, native Brits are a minority in their country’s capital since 2012, and currently speaking, London’s mayor is a radical left-wing …
Please hug someone next to you, the copper liquidation is absolutely horrifying. btw GSCI Industrial Metals (monthly) could be reversing near-term pic.twitter.com/vpfua5aaCj — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 4, 2018 New York’s luxury real estate market is in correction Real estate sales …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Condo price volatility causes whiplash. But the single-family house price surge is just crazy. Get this: The median price of a single family house in San Francisco in March soared by 25% year-over-year, or by $337,500, …
by TFittonJW Particularly outrageous that State allowed the Soros operation to help direct taxpayer funds to other groups. JW smashed through the State Department’s stone wall: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-doj-records-show-obama-administration-helped-fund-george-soros-left-wing-political-activities-albania/ Here’s some more background: Watchdog reveals Obama administration provided $9 million to George …
by Chris Black If you were not paying attention, the White House threatened on Tuesday to slap tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, which will affect 1300 categories of products. Chinese imports that will suffer from 25 …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Prices of detached houses plunge C$207,000 from a year ago as sales collapse. After having ballooned for 18 years with barely a dip during the Financial Crisis, Toronto’s housing market, Canada’s largest, and among the most …
by stockboardasset A little over a month ago, after we first brought the market’s attention to the crisis quietly unfolding in consumer debt, Business Insider has finally caught up, acknowledging that “lower-income consumers and younger borrowers with substantial student debt moving at a …
vol indexes remain elevated. could this be the sign of a major directional shift for US markets? pic.twitter.com/dUHkzgW7h9 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 3, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/981290911715024900 We must warn, if the pivot 2,536 is violated in a downside break, then the …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter With US auto sales facing some stiff headwinds, timely data is no longer wanted, said GM Monday night, when it announced that it would no longer report new-vehicle unit sales in the US on a monthly …
Money manager Michael Pento says the biggest unreported story is the skyrocketing interest rate of LIBOR. What’s that? Pento explains, “LIBOR, and people don’t understand or talk about it, is the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate. This rate has gone from …
by Ruby Henley Please scroll down for the update on the shooting. While I was finishing this first report, the shooter was identified. That will be in PART 2. PART 1 A witness to the shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in …
by Ruby Henley There has been a shooting at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. There are reports of seven victims with one fatality. It is said the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There is an unverified …
by Chris Black In order to prevent the so-called caravan of 1500+ illegal immigrants from South America from entering the United States, President Trump announced on Tuesday that he’ll deploy the military to the US-Mexico border. The POTUS told reporters …
Memorandum on the New 10-Year $38 billion U.S. Aid Package to Israel Starting in 2019, the U.S. will give Israel $38 billion over the next 10 years – $3.8 billion per year, which is $10.41 million per day. This is in line …
https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/980879597804847108 Goldilocks Who? 50% More Corporate Credit Downgrades vs Upgrades Q4 17 In a near-ZIRP world, US corporations can’t help but overfeed at the debt trough. As Default Rates Rise, Banks Hike Debt Interest Rates 1% in 6 Months “Wall …
by Ruby Henley President Trump has been successful in communicating with Mexico concerning the crisis of the migrant caravan invasion into the United States. Mexico halted the caravan on Monday evening, and immigration officials are in the process of registering …