by UPFINA The November International Trade in Goods report showed a lower deficit than expected which raised GDP growth forecasts. Specifically, the deficit was $63.2 billion which was much below the consensus of $69.5 billion and even below the lowest estimate …
By John Mauldin Ignoring problems rarely solves them. You need to deal with them—not just the effects, but the underlying causes, or else they usually get worse. In the developed world and especially the US, and even in China, our …
Iraqi caretaker PM Abdul-Mahdi: The attack is a breach of the deal that permits US presence in Iraq. Called parliament for an extraordinary meeting. UPDATES: • Iraqi caretaker PM Abdul-Mahdi: The attack is a breach of the deal that permits …
Despite the stock market being significantly larger than the balance sheet of the Fed, it’s clearly apparent that every move they make has a direct and profound impact on what happens. Fed meetings have every investors on the edge of …
by David Haggith With stocks priced at record highs far above the economic landscape and still rising, the economy is still receding below. We’ll know at the end of January if the fourth quarter of 2019 was the worst of the …
BY JOHN RUBINO The 2010s were not kind to precious metals, in either nominal or relative terms. Gold and silver are down from their 2011 highs and waaayyy down versus equities and other favorite assets of the 1% like fine art …
Jack Posobiec Verified account @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Multiple Ukrainian agencies have raided the party offices and entities of former president Petro Poroshenko Authorities announced the searches involved tax evasion, money laundering, and the theft of servers with classified information from the …
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jan/19/health.medicineandhealth3 According to a John Hopkins study, the 3rd leading cause of death is medical errors. The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. “At that …
by Shaun Richards Firstly welcome to the new year and for some the new decade ( as you could argue it starts in 2021). The break has in some ways felt long and in other ways short but we have …
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FOR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Stop Lying. Ever since Donald Trump declared for the presidency, the mainstream media—apparently to protect us and themselves from the dreaded Donald (even though his candidacy and presidency were enriching many of them as never before)—have …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders The US stock market has recently rallied throughout most of the last year after the very deep downside price rotation in late 2018. Our researchers believe there is a very high likelihood of this trend continuing …
By Mining.com Engineers at the University of Illinois have developed an electrolyte that could help manufacturers produce recyclable, self-healing commercial batteries. In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the researchers said that they have created a solid polymer-based …
by Michael Snyder Many of us are expecting 2020 to be a very unusual year, and it certainly didn’t take long for the weirdness to start. In this article I am going to share several examples of this weirdness with …
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Political demagoguery is a valuable and effective weapon in the arsenal of the establishment elites. As long as there is a wide ideological division between groups in society, biases and desires can be tapped and …
CNN’s Brian Stelter Ratings Hit ROCK BOTTOM, Fox News Boasts Highest Ratings EVER apparently “orange man bad” wasn’t a good choice for a plot
via zealllc The US stock markets soared in 2019, blasting to dozens of new all-time-record highs. Euphoric traders attributed these massive gains to strong corporate fundamentals and US-China trade-war progress. But the real driver of stocks’ astounding ascent was the Federal …
Losing its magic. Latest venture capital barometer came out just awful. Clearly suggesting further GDP deceleration. This industry is the poster child for the imbalances we see in this cycle. Loads of easy money fueling loss-making businesses at inflated …
Oh no… 😳 https://t.co/5WcbRF7GpJ — Nomi Prins (@nomiprins) December 31, 2019 The U.S. economy is “structurally less recession-prone today,” Goldman Sachs economists said. That calls comes just months after Wall Street feared that an inverted yield curve was signaling an …
by The Phoenix Happy New Year’s Eve! As we wind down 2019, stocks are making a small pullback. Barring a complete meltdown today, stocks are about to finish 2019 with gains of over 28%. That’s an incredible return for a single …
“Iran’s most senior men in Iraq inc Falih Fayad, Iraq’s National Security Advisor and Hadi Al-Amiri, leader of al-Bina coalition (claims to be largest bloc in Iraq parliament) are among the so called ‘protesters‘ who have reportedly attacked the outers …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Companies with tangible net value of less that zero have increasingly outperformed the market for decades. Bloomberg comments Capitalists Without Capital Are Ruling Capitalism Some 40% of public stocks quoted in the U.S. have negative tangible …
Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, The setup is just too juicy. In my decades of looking at the stock market, there has never been a better setup. Exuberance is pandemic and sky-high. And even after today’s dip, the S&P 500 …
Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott of The Liberty Advisor about dire warnings by people like Jim Rickards regarding the debt tsunami which in Rickards’ opinion could upend the economy. As many praise the record breaking markets going into 2020, …
by SubversiveInterloper UN. This has been going on for decades. https://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/04/13/united-nations-peacekeepers-caught-running-a-child-sex-ring-2000-cases-of-sexual-abuse-reported/ https://apnews.com/e6ebc331460345c5abd4f57d77f535c1 https://www.wnd.com/2004/12/28177/ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/united-nations-soldiers-paedophilia-un-child-rape-ngo-staff-a7648791.html https://fightingmonarch.com/2019/08/31/the-united-nations-is-a-front-for-child-molesters/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/29/un-finds-more-cases-of-child-abuse-by-european-troops-in-car
by UPFINA As usual, there are a couple reasons the headline growth rate in new durable goods orders shouldn’t be taken at face value. That’s good because growth dramatically missed even the lowest estimates. Specifically, headline monthly new orders growth was …
By Jared Dillian The stock market is the opiate of the masses. Oh sure, the days of watching Jim Cramer mash buttons on his console with his sleeves rolled up to his armpits are pretty much over. And nobody really …
by Robert Ross Doom and gloom predictions about the stock market drive click. I get it. But those predictions have fallen flat for 10 years straight. US stocks keep marching higher, and history’s longest bull market keeps getting longer. Here’s …
Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his …
by DCG Lawmakers have to find a way to promote themselves in order to get re-elected. One way is to make new laws that they can tout in re-election fundraising efforts. Or they find a way to bring in more …
