Every year I become more and more convinced that the high reputation of law enforcement agencies, and particularly of the FBI, owes much more to the role of same in popular fiction, television, etc, than it does to any real-world …
Russia will soon issue $6 billion in bonds accepting Yuan as payment for its oil exports to China in 2018. Note that Russia is the world’s largest oil producer. This is also set to coincide with Yuan oil futures contracts …
Signs point to strong shopping season… New York (AFP) – Americans shopped with greater gusto at malls and online this holiday season amid a strong labor market and cold winter weather, retail sales experts said Tuesday. Shoppers in the world’s …
By Michael Snyder We are nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the economic numbers continue to look quite good. On Monday, we learned that U.S. retail sales during the holiday season are projected to be way up compared …
by Michael Snyder Independently-controlled cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin may or may not survive in the long run, but blockchain technology is definitely here to stay. This technology has revolutionized how digital financial transactions are conducted, and it was …
by Ruby Henley I think Eric Braverman is destined to be in the news again soon. I know most of you remember Eric Braverman as Ex-CEO of the Clinton Foundation. As the recent news of President Trump’s unprecedented Executive Order …
Financial Survival Network, Released on 12/26/17 Short sellers need dopamine too. Bubbles are dopamine triggers, in fact some of the best known to man available without a prescription. We’re just wired to engage in behavior that spurs dopamine production. We …
Do you see CASH ADVANCE/PAYDAY LOAN companies websites, advertisements, and retail stores? Has there been an increase in the past 10 years? The average household has accumulated excessive amounts of debt. Their credit cards are maxed out. Their line …
Internet data mining expert Clif High has a brand new report called “Soaring Twenties.” Clif High says there is good news coming, but not just for 2018, many years after. Clif High explains, “There is a really interesting set of …
by Chris Black President Trump went on to Twitter on Tuesday and, to no one’s surprise, he started (again) controlling the news cycle by saying that the Federal Bureau of Investigation used the now famous “Pissgate” so-called dossier (a piece …
@NorthmanTrader There’s overwhelming evidence that the U.S. stock market is heading for disaster The economy is more leveraged than ever First up is Grant Williams, who sent me a monumental slide deck. Here’s an example of craziness: Grant Williams …
by Golden Jackass website The many new integrated non-USD platforms devised and constructed by China finally have critical mass. They threaten the King Dollar as global currency reserve. Clearly, the USDollar cannot be displaced in trade and banking without a viable …
by Chris Black It’s Christmas and we’ve just got word about one of the best-ever Christmas gifts a patriot could ever wish for: the US ambassador at the UN Nikki Haley just announced that she negotiated a $285 million cut …
The stock market’s record-breaking run keeps going, but for how long? John Templeton, the late investing guru, once said bull markets in stocks “mature on optimism” before they eventually “die on euphoria.” Chalk up 2017 as another year of maturity …
https://youtu.be/UacG9sh0INc The engineering here is awesome President Donald Trump has set in motion his plan to build an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall” between the US and Mexico. The border is about 1,900 miles (3,100 km) long …
by SpontaneousDisorder Here are charts of the previous bitcoin manias. The current crypto mania is occurring along side an intense mania for US stocks. The first parabolic peak in bitcoin occurred alongside one of the most significant stock peaks of …
"Sell The News": Investors Unexpectedly React To Tax Reform With Near-Record Redemptions https://t.co/Gzcp4L5v3F — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 22, 2017 Ron Paul On Bitcoin: “Our Problems Are Gigantic, People Are Desperate And Looking Everywhere” The former Republican presidential candidate, argues that …
by AMY S. Global Systemic Risk There is no better indicator of increasing globalization.The interdependence of massive global interactions and structures has caused systemic risk to increase exponentially in recent times. Tangible risks—in systems as diverse as energy exploration and production, …
By Robert Carbery With the meteoric rise of online retail in the age of Amazon, consumers have continued to opt more for shopping on the Internet in their pajamas as opposed to running out and getting their shopping done in …
by Chris US Consumers Tap Out: Personal Savings Rate Plunges To 10 Year Low While Americans Splurge The latest confirmation that the US consumer is now effectively tapped out came moments ago when the Dept of Commerce reported that in …
by Chris Black To begin with, let me make a little preamble and tell you a story which pretty much sums up the way the Obama administration (and others) skewed the truth about social issues with statistics. Mark Twain used …
In your opinion, what will crash FIRST? Stocks or Bonds? The financial markets are supported by a foundation of lies and mistruths. There’s no way around this. Have there been any moments in the market where reality has been allowed …
by Dave Bitcoin –14,35%- 13 277,21 Bitcoin Cash –25,71%- 2 262,82 Ethereum –17,70%- 644,34 Litecoin –16,12%- 254,96 IOTA –24,17%- 3,5796 The sell signal from bitcoin a few days back is looking better and better. Although the 4h forecaster can …
From Jeff Clark, Editor, Market Minute: There’s a cop car parked next to a stop sign at the bottom of a hill in my neighborhood. Nobody is in the car. It’s just parked there – with its red and blue lights …
by Egon von Greyerz In 1988, the UK magazine, The Economist forecast that 2018 would be the year of a new currency which they named the Phoenix. Quite a mind boggling prediction 30 years ago really, especially since 2018 in …
The Dow has closed at an all-time high 70 times in 2017. That’s more than any other year in history. The S&P 500 has not had 3% drawdown the entire year… Market is about 28% overvalued? One of the great …
Credit-Card Payments SURGE Americans increasingly relied on credit cards to make payments in 2016, and made more of those payments remotely, according to new data the Federal Reserve released Thursday. The number of credit-card payments grew 10.2% last year, to …
by Harry Dent Cycles reoccur throughout history, but they more rhyme than duplicate. Each bubble tends to get more extreme than the last one because there’s more wealth to chase it. Wealth is concentrated in the top 1% to 0.1% and …
by Ruby Henley I just read an article that reports bestiality is on the rise. It went as far as saying Germany was opening animal brothels due to the rise in migrants. A man who owned sheep said migrants were …
By Robert Carbery “My high-speed rail proposal will lead to innovations that change the way we travel in America,” Obama boldly proclaimed during his first year of his first term. A recent Investor’s Business Daily article pointed out that the …