Mortgage delinquencies soar by most on record. Number of unpaid credit card accounts in April increased 10,000% from a year ago. Number of unpaid auto loans up 350%.

Delinquencies among borrowers for past-due mortgages are soaring, a sign that Americans are struggling to pay their bills due to a wave of layoffs or lost income from the coronavirus pandemic. Mortgage delinquencies surged by 1.6 million in April, the …

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Fight The Fed

by jessefelder “In my opinion, you have to be wildly optimistic to believe that corporate profits as a percent of GDP can, for any sustained period, hold much above 6%. One thing keeping the percentage down will be competition, which …

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The Fed has broken the very concept of markets.

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1263048041352888321 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1263124303014506502 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1263107542101766153 United States Debt Holders By Size. Japan is the second largest holder of Treasuries. pic.twitter.com/Wfz44kCeDT — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) May 20, 2020 Central banks are causing massive inflation in sovereign bonds and disguising real risk. In any …

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“This is still the most bearish bear market that we have seen so early in a global recession. It’s too early to call the all-clear.”

https://twitter.com/TenYearNote/status/1262888028533477376 https://twitter.com/ThinkTankCharts/status/1262828860233695233 In Georgia, where restaurants have been open for three weeks, bookings are still down by 84% https://t.co/fqlY1AT9Xr — The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 20, 2020 The retail sales report in the US suggests a disastrous fall in personal consumption …

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Buying markets at a forward P/E of 23 because a central committee self-admittedly has flooded the system with money it has digitally created is not investing. It’s stupefied herd behavior. And no, it doesn’t build immunity.

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1262688423896375299 Price/Earnings to Growth (PEG) ratio is Price to Earnings (P/E) divided by the expected earnings growth rate. This particular example shows a 5-year earnings growth expectations. The ratio's value is the highest for at least 25 years How this …

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Worst global, economic crisis in 90 years?

Worst global, economic crisis in 90 years. https://t.co/GdcCDJZU3U — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) May 18, 2020 https://t.co/XMhjk6yL8J — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 18, 2020 "The proponents of 'Modern Monetary Theory' are wrong in suggesting that a government that issues debt in its …

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Dow closes up more than 900 points. On the same day the Atlanta Fed estimates Q2 real GDP at -42.8%. Meanwhile, 100,000+ small businesses have closed forever.

On the same day the Atlanta Fed estimates Q2 real GDP at -42.8%. Meanwhile, 100,000+ small businesses have closed forever. Totally normal. https://t.co/cCm7EkMRgH — Nomi Prins (@nomiprins) May 18, 2020 https://twitter.com/vixsquared/status/1262454006326210561 "It's different this time""It's different this time""It's different this …

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ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment for April 2020 is, 39.6% net of BLS errors

The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged …

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Why Assets Will Crash

by Charles Hugh Smith The increasing concentration of the ownership of wealth/assets in the top 10% has an under-appreciated consequence: when only the top 10% can afford to buy assets, that unleashes an almost karmic payback for the narrowing of ownership, …

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D-Day Week For Tankers

by TheCuriousKea This is the week that if we don’t see positive momentum in the tanker sector then you better be long or gone because we are in for a rough ride on a limp dick sideways. Here’s the factors: …

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