WOW, how scary is this…?

https://twitter.com/jimmckee18/status/1284535341165109249 259,848 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Friday, the biggest one-day increase so far, according to WHO. 27% was in the U.S. 7,360 new deaths worldwide pic.twitter.com/7oeOmBMsh6 — BNO News (@BNOFeed) July 18, 2020 Despite some indicators flashing …

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Labor Market Continues To Stagnate

by UPFINA With the recent labor market slowdown in the past few weeks, the economy has come precariously close at times to ending the streak of declines in initial unemployment claims. Technically, if you look at unadjusted claims, they were up …

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Corporate Defaults, Mortgage Delinquencies Are Skyrocketing, % Of Countries In A Recession Worse Than Ever

CORPORATE DEFAULTS ☠ pic.twitter.com/mHPEOYA3Hj — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) July 17, 2020 MORTGAGE DELINQUENCIES 👇 pic.twitter.com/cfa0HDUMSP — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) July 17, 2020 U.S. BANKRUPTCIES 👇 pic.twitter.com/f74YC6Fall — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) July 16, 2020 Looks very similar to …

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The ‘Most Crowded’ Trade Ever

by UPFINA Usually, there isn’t unanimity in the Bank of America fund manager poll which asks which is the most crowded trade, but there was in July because of how well tech stocks have done. As you can see from the …

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Yes, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple have collaborated with China, but their actions were legal. It’s time for Prez Trump to use his 1977 Act powers to make collaboration illegal.

Over the years, @Google, @Microsoft, @Yahoo and @Apple "have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate" with the Communist Party of #China, says US Attorney William Barr in speech. pic.twitter.com/pZMxzerbU5 — Steve Herman (@newsguyusa) July 16, 2020 It’s time for …

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Volatility Not Buying Small-Cap Rally?

by Dana Lyons Despite the big small-cap rally yesterday, the volatility market didn’t budge. After holding key support levels in prior days, the recent market laggards scored big gains yesterday. This includes the Russell 2000 Small-Cap Index (RUT) which jumped some …

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IMPORTANT: Proposed SEC filing changes that will affect you

by mikebcity If you use 13F filing data in your investing research then please take a few minutes to read this important message. You may have already seen the SEC proposal https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed.shtml?__s=cvwgmhfkxsnsnrbvs6py to dramatically raise the required reporting threshold for 13F filings. This …

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States/Cities With Active Recalls

by uvontheterrible A growing list of states and cities are currently attempting to impeach or recall governors, mayors and other officials who have abused their power – Full list in post – Get out there and do your part! These are …

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Jason Burack: Bank Runs Are Back in China?

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 7/15/20 Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contrarian. Jason co-founded the startup financial education company Wall St for Main St, LLC, to try to help the people …

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Second Phase Real Estate Collapse Pending

by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Real estate, especially commercial real estate, is likely to be the first segment of the real estate market to enter the second phase of an extended collapse.  The COVID-19 virus has created an atmosphere where continuing …

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