2018, the year that will go down in history as the blowoff in the Grand supercycle wave 5 pic.twitter.com/5cJ9Fqmz6T — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 30, 2018 wow, one for the record books: Remember, Remember, the great crash of December 2018 pic.twitter.com/DAtX2MPBBk …
by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Du-GFSTUYAAj-9B.jpg This year’s top-performing asset class isn’t stocks, bonds, commodities, or real estate. And no, it’s not crypto-currency either. It is cash. That’s right. Cash is the top performing asset class year-to-date. Beating out U.S. …
via Sarah Cooper: Like everyone, appearing smart during meetings is my top priority. Sometimes this can be difficult if you start daydreaming about your next vacation, your next nap, or bacon. When this happens, it’s good to have some fallback tricks …
by Thinker Using a government office and tax dollars for personal gain or for a group that has spent most of its time stopping the “TRUTH???” History continues to show more negative stories than positive ones from most of the …
by axolotl_peyotl Why does the US government need to pay interest to the Federal Reserve to have new currency put into circulation? I have not found a single, solitary answer from a proponent of the Federal Reserve System, not even …
This is a heck of a good idea, force teachers to stick to what they were hired to do, not preach against one party or the other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3l4n6A3z58 and, not to post alot of threads, saw this first and whew …
The stock market has found itself on shaky ground. Many investors have piled on and bought the dip. With nearly a decade of bull market behind them, investors feel very confident about many more years of growth ahead. Unfortunately, they …
Is this what the beginning looks like? Is this a test run of an EMP style weapon to see if they can knock out power and communications at the same time, perhaps just in a limited test run? These transformers …
by Ian Shilling The McClatchy Fake News article is below. I am surprised that McClatchy have sunk so low – they used to be a fairly reasonable outlet (for the mainstream) – this article is totally ridiculous and on a …
by Michael Snyder If a doctor tells you that his patient’s condition is swinging up and down wildly, is that a good sign or a bad sign? Of course the answer to that question is quite obvious. And if a doctor …
by CelineHagbard Today, McClatchy DC Bureau put out a piece claiming Cohen’s cell phone put him in Prague at the time of the alleged meeting between him and Russian officials. Their headline — Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Homebuilders, a bedraggled bunch recently, breathe a sigh of relief, but get crushed anyway. “NOTICE: Due to a lapse in federal funding this website is not being updated,” the Commerce Department’s website says currently on the …
Widespread flu activity across the country NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) – Federal authorities are reporting widespread flu activity across the country and two states with especially high levels. Colorado and Georgia were singled out for high rates of influenza-like illnesses …
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Francis Tattegrain La ramasseuse d’épaves (The Beachcomber) 1880 I haven’t really written about finance since April of this year, and given recent fluctuations in what people persist in calling the markets, maybe it’s time. Then again, nothing has …
Via Campus Reform Campus Reform rounded up the five most viewed Campus Reform videos of 2018. While students had a lot to say on various issues, they didn’t always offer a lot of knowledge on those issues. In 2018, Campus Reform videos …
via CBS NEWS: The Fed’s interest rate hikes are doing more than hitting consumers in the credit cards. They’re also making it much more expensive for the U.S. to carry its debt load. While they’re not currently a subject of President …
by GR Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive. “Parent” as a verb gained widespread use in the 1970s, which is also when parenting books exploded. The 1980s brought …
by Charles Hugh-Smith While wages have supposedly gone up 3.4% in 2018, taxes and fees are rising at much higher rates. Here’s a list of tax and fee increases hitting residents of one of the counties I call home; the list …
Wells Fargo CEO Survives to 2019 as Scandals Burn Through Bank’s Ranks Tim Sloan’s year featured a cap on growth and calls for ouster The months ahead mean ‘more distraction, more personal pain’ Tim Sloan’s biggest achievement of 2018 might …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078187419898470400 2018 Returns…Cash $BIL: +1.7%Bonds $AGG: -0.5%Gold $GLD: -3%High Yield $HYG: -4%Investment Grade $LQD: -4%US REITs $VNQ: -10%S&P 500 $SPY: -11%International REITs $VNQI: -11%Commodities $DBC: -12%MSCI World ex-US $ACWX: -17%Emerging Markets $EEM: -18%Oil $USO: -25% — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) December …
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital The next crisis is here. And yes, it is a crisis. Ignore anything the media says about this, we are seeing selling that is on par if not worse than the 2008 collapse. And it’s …
via Twitter: #JOURNALISM: Also: UPDATE: Yahoo Lifestyle: Melania Trump gets mocked for wearing Timberland boots while visiting the troops. ANOTHER UPDATE: Flashback: Maher: I’m “Hoping” For “A Crashing Economy” So We Can Get Rid Of Trump, “Bring On The Recession.” The entire …
by David Haggith So, the bull market bounced back, right? Not so fast. When one appreciated reader suggested there would be a huge plunge the day after Christmas, given how badly the market plummeted the day before Christmas, I cautioned against …
by Michael Snyder According to the Department of Agriculture, if this government shutdown stretches into February there won’t be money for food stamps. And it certainly looks like this shutdown could last for quite a while, because President Trump is …
by Michael Snyder The Dow Jones Industrial Average just posted its biggest single day point gain ever. On Wednesday, the Dow shot up 1,086 points, which shattered the old record by a staggering 150 points. It truly was a remarkable day, …
by TFittonJW Full discussion vid: And the Judicial Watch release on Judge Lamberth’s discovery ruling: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-judge-opens-discovery-into-clinton-email-usage/
by Daisy Luther (Dec. 26, 2018) The preliminary numbers are in and it appears that Americans exceeded last year’s shopping frenzy with an even more extravagant one this year. Mastercard says that spending was up 5.1%over last Christmas, which brings us to …
The U.S. stock market has been excessively volatile. Every day it’s a wild one. What’s impossible to determine is where the bottom is. Nobody knows. What we can determine is where we keep our savings throughout this time. People have …
from the US Department of Congress: Funding for a portion of the federal government expired on December 21, 2018. The Department is prepared for a lapse in funding that would necessitate a significant reduction in operations and is currently implementing its …
by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals We could also have entitled this essay How to Measure Your Own Capital Destruction. But this headline would not have set expectations correctly. As always, when looking at the phenomenon of a credit-fueled boom, the destruction does not …