Who knew the greatest economy in the history of the world, led by heroes, couldn't even stand a 2% Fed Funds rate? pic.twitter.com/OeJIUDZiMp — Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) December 6, 2018 This is truly sad… markets are momentarily …
via advisorperspectives: Market Cap to GDP is a long-term valuation indicator that has become popular in recent years, thanks to Warren Buffett. Back in 2001, he remarked in a Fortune Magazine interview that “it is probably the best single measure of where valuations …
via confoundedinterest: Chicago IL (should be ILL) is the poster child for an insane pension program (mostly to municipal workers and public school teachers). But not only in the city of Chicago, but the state of ILLinois as well. Consider that …
by Thinker Hillary Clinton didn’t win, and so corruption is coming to and END Under MAGA!!! MANHATTAN (CN) – Three years after the leak of the Panama Papers exposed a worldwide network of tax-avoiding shell companies, federal prosecutors brought charges Tuesday …
by Chris The Huawei executive arrest is playing out very poorly in the “”markets””. After all of the efforts to stem the losses taken by the CME last night, the futures have drited lower and lower, and look to be …
by Michael Snyder It looks like the turmoil for the financial markets is going to continue to get worse, and the mainstream media is really starting to freak out. Just a few months ago, they were continuously using the word “booming” …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter House prices down $265,000 from peak, down $60,000 from year ago. America’s most majestic housing bubble begins to deflate. In San Francisco, the median price of single-family house sales that closed in November fell to $1.435 …
by Chris After drifiting higher immeidately after the painful close on Tuesday, US stock futures went a bright shade of red immediately upon opening back up again at 6:00 pm. EST (~15 minutes ago). The reason? I think it’s related …
by lets_get_lowwerr French civilians are in a all out revolution against the French government. The French government is using TNT “flash bang” grenades against civilians, which can maim or kill. Media is not reporting on this in America Footage of grenades …
NOTE: Video includes ad from 0:38 to 1:32. We have reached the quickening of the global great awakening. From the United States to France to Germany and Italy, people around the world are beginning to recognize the agenda of the …
via visualcapitalist: There are two commonly held beliefs around income and age: 1) Earning trajectory is largely determined by the time a person is 35-years-old 2) Income is positively correlated with age How do these beliefs stand up to the actual …
by Michael Snyder Stocks aren’t supposed to crash in December. Most of the time we see a nice “Santa Claus rally” to close out the year, and so what happened on Tuesday is definitely extremely unusual. The Dow Jones Industrial …
by Charles Hugh-Smith What’s scarce in a world awash in free content and nearly infinite entertainment content? After 3,701 posts (from May 2005 to the present), here are my observations of the Alternative Media from the muddy trenches. It’s increasingly …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Homebuilder Toll Brothers just said it out loud. High-end homebuilder Toll Brothers, when it announced earnings this morning, made some peculiar comments. Not so peculiar was the plunge in new orders in its fourth quarter, ended October 31: …
by Michael Snyder Vibrant competition is absolutely essential in order for a capitalist economic system to function effectively. Unfortunately, in the United States today we are witnessing the death of competition in industry after industry as the biggest corporations increasingly …
by John W. Whitehead “This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is sick with war; everywhere …
by Deplorable Patriot The people in the photo below are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1951. Ethel ‘s age was 37 , Julius 35. Executed June 19, 1953 . They were charged Conspiracy to commit espionage. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied, with others, for the Soviet …
by WARREN MOSLER Imports are real benefits, exports real costs. Seems everyone of consequence has it backwards? A collapse in global trade can make 2008 look tame:
BY JARED DILLIAN I am the child of two public servants. Growing up, I thought making $80,000 a year was a big deal. Sure, there were doctors and lawyers in town. And I knew they were wealthier—but I couldn’t put an …
by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of influencing management in some way. There is evidence that following …
by Michael Snyder Optimism can be a very powerful thing. For a long time Americans believed that things would get better, and that caused them to take action to make things better, and that actually resulted in things moving in …
by Michael Snyder This story is absolutely amazing. Like so many others, actor Kevin Sorbo and his wife were forced to evacuate from their home during the recent California wildfires, and once they left they were not sure if they …
by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver It stands to reason that if we have indeed been experiencing an Everything Bubble, we will experience an Everything Collapse. According to Deutsche Bank and Bloomberg, more asset classes have fallen in unison this year …
https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1069673203512041472 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1069738317221163008 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1069736930886197248 What type of landing should US economy expect? Soft or Hard? pic.twitter.com/ASXN5UxBlD — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 3, 2018 ISM prices paid have been a pretty good lead this cycle on ISM. pic.twitter.com/MOTyEEbXbZ — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) December …
from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back, and just when you thought it was safe to go outside, there’s major rioting in Paris and other European cities. Is this a case of they’re mad as hell and not gonna take it …
By Bill Bonner BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The show went on! And, as we predicted, The Donald claimed victory… and stocks went up. When we left you on Friday, Mr. Trump was on Air Force One. He was on his way to …
by TFittonJW Great piece by Paul Sperry:https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/12/02/actually_mueller_appears_to_be_exonerating_trump.html Contrary to media speculation that Robert Mueller is closing in on President Trump, the special prosecutor’s plea deal with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen offers further evidence that the Trump campaign did not collude …
from Zero Hedge On a day when US and European auto stocks rallied (at the expense of shares of their Chinese competitors) following President Trump’s tweet (since complicated by comments from Kudlow and Mnuchin) that China might soon agree to reverse its …
Actions, especially ill-advised attempts to rush a U.S. border port of entry, have consequences. Monica Showalter notes this morning on The American Thinker that Puebla Sin Fronteras hasn’t updated its web site “since advertising for last week’s border confrontation. And the mayor …
via visualcapitalist: We are each entitled to our own personal world view. Unfortunately, when it comes to interpreting information and making objective sense of reality, human brains are hard-wired to make all kinds of mental mistakes that can impact our ability to make …