Authored by Ritesh Jain via WorldOutOfWhack.com, I had written about some observation from singularity university almost 18 months back and if you look around then it seems everything is falling in place. The original article below: Singularity University, based in …
But will the big banks play along? By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. On Friday the ECB launched, with minimal fanfare, a brand new system aimed at enabling banks to settle payments instantaneously across Europe, helping them to …
via newsbusters: The (mostly) kind obituaries for former President George H. W. Bush have highlighted the decency and civility that marked his long career, often as a less-than-subtle jab at the current Commander-in-Chief. “Never a proponent of ‘kinder and gentler’ politics, …
France’s Marine Le Pen’s 2011 Presidential Campaign Ad Has Come True: Prediction Fulfilled – Hall of Wins Real: “Choose your France”: the National Front caught in the caricature game Posted on 17 November 2011 https://www.nouvelobs.com/politique/election-presidentielle-2012/20111114.OBS4495/choisis-ta-france-le-front-national-pris-au-jeu-de-la-caricature.html https://youtu.be/7cdMf64e3o0 https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1069582544360955904 Schools join now …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Instead of “bubble” or “collapse,” it uses “valuation pressures” and “broad adjustment in prices.” Business debt, not consumer debt, is the bogeyman this time. Preventing another financial crisis – or “promoting financial stability,” as the Federal …
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Our job is to navigate changing markets and we use technical and macro analysis to identify major market turns amidst periods of conflicting signals, emotional markets and often high uncertainty while staying keenly aware …
via newstatesman: After a long period of economic expansion, a slowdown has begun. But in an era of high debt and low interest rates, states have little ammunition to deploy. recession always comes in the end, but the matter of foretelling when …
ECRI Recession Alert in Negative territory 🔻-4Indicates Recession or a Plunge on track> pic.twitter.com/VPVVS9OMgO — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) November 30, 2018 📌Margin Debt and S&PTop this time? or not? Without a severe Decline?Amazing pic.twitter.com/JHWarCpMcb — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) November 30, …
by John Adams from Adams Economics In the past week, economist and former political advisor John Adams visited Australia’s Federal Parliament to speak to politicians about how sick the Australian economy is and how this will result in a devastating Economic Armageddon. John …
by Kenneth Boyd of CPA Accounting Institute for Success It’s no secret that tax law in the United States is extremely confusing. Even the length of the official tax code is subject to wild speculation; people estimate it to be somewhere …
by John Ward Although the outcome of the Brexit saga remains opaque, the time has come to see it as a symptom of a much bigger trend. I continue to feel that sovereign withdrawal from the EU is nothing like as …
via CNBC: It’s only been five years since Americans hit a grand total of $3 trillion in consumer debt and yet, by the end of 2018, that figure is expected to jump by another trillion. In the first nine months …
via etf daily news Low interest rates led companies to pile on debt for M&A, and the amount of debt rated in the lowest tier of investment grade is near a record, representing roughly 35 percent of corporate bonds and …
https://twitter.com/oli_hood/status/1068264845173243905 something is not right if the stock market needed this much fake trade news & Fed dovish comments pic.twitter.com/BUan5T7QoT — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2018 nothing to see here pic.twitter.com/U1ErwHzqg1 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2018 Fund Mgrs See …
by sundance Former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion today to avoid a congressional subpoena requiring testimony on December 5th to a joint House committee. James Comey is attempting to limit his legal risk exposure by controlling the venue for testimony. (Tweet …
by Michael Snyder Real estate, oil and the employment numbers are all telling us the same thing, and that is really bad news for the U.S. economy. It really does appear that economic activity is starting to slow down significantly, but …
by Michael Snyder Life expectancy in the United States has been falling in recent years, and we haven’t seen a trend like this since the days of World War I. When I was growing up, life expectancy was continually rising, …
by cyclonenation04 TL/DR: Due to the significant growth of index fund use, voting rights and control of public companies are held by an ever shrinking group of index fund managers (Vanguard, Blackrock, Fidelity, State Street) https://www.wsj.com/articles/bogle-sounds-a-warning-on-index-funds-1543504551?mod=mhp https://outline.com/DGK9Td (if paywall) There no …
by Thinker By Election Day 2016, taxpayers will have paid out more than $16 million to fund Bill Clinton’s pension, travel, office expenses and even the salaries and benefits of staff at his family’s foundation, federal records show. Since he left …
From Bloomberg: It’s official now that Jack Ma, chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., is a member of the Communist Party. He’s also the richest of a growing gaggle of high-net-worth individuals in China, who between them control $6.5 trillion. …
Portfolio Wealth Global, Released on 11/29/18 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has …
BY ROBERT ROSS “Jeff Sessions leaving office is a definite win for the cannabis industry.” That’s a quote from Jeffrey Zucker. He’s the president of Green Lion Partners, a business strategy firm focused on the cannabis industry. Zucker refers to the …
via upfina: The September CoreLogic Case-Shiller index wasn’t terrible, which is encouraging since many housing related indexes have shown weakness recently. The problem with this report is it’s from September. Therefore, it doesn’t quell investors’ nerves about the direction of the …
by Martin Armstrong Most people have little idea WHY big money was targeting buying farmland in Canada, USA, and Australia. It was more than just Chinese investment. With interest rates down to negative, capital has been looking for returns. They were …
by FS In today’s Lifetime Income podcast, Jim Puplava and Laurence Kotlikoff explain how long-held retirement rules of thumb are failing to meet the needs of individuals in today’s world. According to Kotlikoff, “conventional financial planning is asking the wrong …
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital Stock markets are rallying today on the belief that somehow the US and China will sign a trade deal at the upcoming G-20 meeting. Investors are buying this narrative despite the facts that… 1) The …
There is going to be a reset of this unpayable debt, and financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter contends, “It’s going to happen, and I hope for not a very long period of time. I am hoping it’s …
by Michael Snyder The U.S. economy is definitely deviating from the script, and we just got more evidence that “Housing Bubble 2” is bursting. Experts were expecting that new home sales in the U.S. would rise in October, but instead …
by Michael Snyder Can you remember a November as cold and snowy as this one has been? I certainly cannot. Over the course of this month, the United States has been hit by freakishly cold and snowy weather, and another …
By Leonard Hyman and Bill Tilles for WOLF STREET: Last week, the NY Times ran a front-page story on Saudi Arabia’s efforts to purchase nuclear fuel enrichment capabilities and as many as 16 nuclear power generating plants from the US. The principal concern expressed here …