by DCG SF DA George Gascon: Hypocrite and Bully This is so typical of the political elite: Do As I Say, Not As I Do. George Gascon is the demorat district attorney for San Francisco. He was appointed by fellow …
by Ron Paul Washington is once again gripped by the specter of a government shutdown, as Congress and President Trump negotiate an end-of-year spending deal. A main issue of contention is funding for President Trump’s border wall. Sadly, but not surprisingly, …
from Financial Survival Network 2555 is the low Dr. Charles Nenner expected on the S&P. He’s been out of stocks since January and thinks the decline will continue into first quarter of 2019. Today’s earnings look bad and the Treasury yield is down. …
credit is driving sell off in stocks pic.twitter.com/OZHAs7avfc — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 11, 2018 CDX NA IG versus $SPX: credit is the big hint of risk on/off for stocks pic.twitter.com/gGVbbKaFF3 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 11, 2018 Wall St. Ignored Signs …
Yep. China owns Long Beach port (purchased this year during the tariff news fiasco) And guess what? That is the EXACT port where federal grant money is going for the high speed rail project that just so happens to follow …
by Michael Snyder Netflix originally had a truly disruptive business model and they fundamentally changed the way that Americans consume media, but now they are heading for the same fate as Blockbuster. For years, Netflix was really the only game …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “The authorities should prepare contingency plans.” The big four banks are too exposed to mortgages. Even if the banks don’t topple, the economy will get hit hard. In its latest report on Australia, the OECD focuses …
by Michael Snyder If you want to understand the zeal with which social media platforms are now being censored, all you have to do is to look at what has been happening on our college campuses. There is a national …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1072279752772341760 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1072255320645427200 Oops! Yield on Deutsche Bank Coco Bond jumps above 12%, highest since 2016. pic.twitter.com/NcpAmrMB0K — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) December 10, 2018 TROUBLE for this weeks ECB meeting. Financial conditions in the Eurozone have dropped to lowest since 2016. …
by KOS Washington Post: Obama campaign to pay $375,000 fine for campaign finance violations – among the largest penalties in the agency’s history The $375,000 fine is the largest collected by the FEC in the past five years. It ranks …
by WARREN MOSLER China exports falling with tariffs: China’s November export, import growth shrinks, showing weak demand US exports turning south as well? The deceleration that started with the collapse of oil capex in Dec 2014 took a brief zig …
by Troy Last week’s market outlook was not clearly explained, so I would like to clarify. Our models have not yet turned long term bearish, although they are getting close to turning long term bearish. But while building new and better models like …
by Shaun Richards This morning has shown us that the way that the UK government deals with the private-sector has issues. From Reuters. Interserve Plc’s (L:IRV) shares sank almost 60 percent in value on Monday after the British outsourcing company announced …
by Charles Hugh-Smith We seem to be heading into a confrontation between the two forces of Modernism: the primacy of the individual versus the increasing technological and economic might of the central state. In Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” (May …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1071472937138614272 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1071570254730530817 Breaking down this support would virtually eliminate near-term potential for $SPX $ES_F to be saved & trigger the boxed scenario (in red) targeting 2189 pic.twitter.com/zymyBhbZYO — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) December 8, 2018 $SPX going back 20 years. Red circles …
2 NYC GOOGLE EMPLOYEES DEAD! (Both In Their 20’s) “Two New York City Google employees, both in their twenties, are dead. Twenty two year old Scott Krulcik and twenty seven year old Vanessa Marcotte, both of the NYC Google headquarters …
via goldsilverbitcoin: Professionals at investment bank JPMorgan say the next global economic crisis will start in 2020. Experts say the recession due to occur in two years will be less impactful than the 2008 crash, which sent the globe into recession and has …
via baumhedlundlaw: Newly released court documents show that Monsanto has been accused of using third-parties to hire an army of internet trolls to post positive comments on websites and social media about Monsanto, its chemicals and GMOs, and downplay the potential safety …
Because the press is awful. The media do this because they can’t achieve anything themselves. h/t GR
by Sparky1 No “one size fits all” but a general framework: 1. When you see normal people lose it 2. Loss of electricity on a regional scale for more than a week 3. Media blackout 4. When isolating parts of society …
by Natura Naturans “It could happen in a matter of months,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. ________________ 29 Sep 2018 -“The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” writes Dr Tony Phillips, …
In a rapidly slowing economy, wall street now bets it all on Fed that Powell can save the party — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 7, 2018 https://twitter.com/alexdgn/status/1070974562349785088 bad news seems like it good news again. horrible jobs data put bid in …
Trust this bounce? Think again $SPX pic.twitter.com/qvgOKfxBtq — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) December 6, 2018 As long as investment grade spreads widen – there is not much reason to believe the stock market should have a sustainable bounce pic.twitter.com/smDh275AOd — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) …
Via Marketwatch By 45, most millennials think they’ll be living the good life. But the reality is likely to be much different. According to a survey released Thursday by YCharts, an investment research platform, 65% of millennials ages 22-37 say …
by Martin Armstrong What is really amazing is how governments just fail to comprehend that revolution is instigated by corruption and taxes. Nevertheless, they just can’t help themselves. They have to keep taking cookies from the jar until it is …
by Martin Armstrong I have constantly warned after dealing with governments first hand for over 30 years, they NEVER see the problem as being them – it is always we the people. Their fiscal mismanagement is beyond repair and we should not …
by Michael Snyder Things are sure getting wild on Wall Street. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted almost 800 points before roaring back and recovering nearly all of those losses. The Dow closed just 79 points lower for …
by Michael Snyder It is a rumor that won’t go away. Mainstream news outlets Newsweek and Vanity Fair have both reported that Donald Trump and his political advisers have been considering replacing Mike Pence with Nikki Haley for the 2020 election. Of course there …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The Federal Reserve shed $54 billion in assets over the five weekly balance sheet periods that encompass the calendar month of November. This reduced the assets on its balance sheet to $4,086 billion, the lowest since …
via dailyreckoning: In 2017, the financial world was filled with talk of synchronized sustainable growth in major economies for the first time since before the 2008 global financial crisis. This was being proclaimed by global financial elites including Christine Lagarde, head …