By Lance Gaitan Early this week, the market shook off Thanksgiving blues and started with a bang! Stocks bounced sharply, and Treasury yields moved up in tandem. Last week’s start was a different story. Stocks fell sharply. Treasury bonds were mostly …
"We are near the period where the Fed attempts to persuade Wall St. all is well despite history showing pauses in rate hikes are an acknowledgment of a slowing business/profit cycle," h/t @CoryLVenable pic.twitter.com/W1PJkaJinW — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 28, 2018 …
by Michael Snyder There is a growing consensus that once the next economic crash finally arrives that it will be significantly worse than what we experienced in 2008. This is something that I have been saying for a very long time, …
How the First World War sowed the seeds of identity politics. As we mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, it is clear that the moral wounds it inflicted on Western culture have not healed. …
Wikileaks has started a legal fund on GoFundMe to sue the Guardian, over a story they say is false. The GoFundMe has raised almost 12,000 in under an hour. The Guardian cites unnamed stories without any evidence whatsoever, that Julian …
Most expensive mansion in Chicago taken OFF the market after failing to find a $50million buyer for two years as assessors claim massive abode is only worth $19.36million The Lincoln Park mansion was built approximately a decade ago by Richard …
by SP Quoting from Nafez Ahmed’s website: So I did this exclusive interview for a feature article inspired by Ubisoft’s new console game, Tom Clancy’s The Division, with The Guardian. My interviewer, Guardian games and tech editor Keith Stuart, did a fantastic job of …
by howmuch Unemployment in the U.S. is now hovering around its lowest point in almost half a century, and pretty much anyone who wants a job right now can get one. But here’s one segment of the workforce that may not be …
a slowdown is already here pic.twitter.com/XWVe85o2QL — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 27, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1067324055815114752 https://twitter.com/ThomasPace10/status/1067246787168256002 pic.twitter.com/KGLawyIa3P — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 27, 2018 pic.twitter.com/jwx6gGbuDi — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 27, 2018
via calculatedriskblog: From Merrill Lynch: We look for 3Q GDP growth to be revised slightly lower to 3.4% qoq saar in the second release next week. We continue to track 2.7% for 4Q. [Nov 21 estimate]. emphasis added From Goldman Sachs: [W]e lowered …
We’re close to neutral! Or not! But we might raise! Or not! “The Federal Reserve’s Vice Chairman Richard Clarida has recently crossed the wires arguing that gradual rate hikes were appropriate ‘as data shows the way to neutral policy stance.” …
by Michael Snyder America’s twin economic “generals” are both in very deep trouble. General Electric was founded in 1892, and it was once one of the most powerful corporations on the entire planet. But now it is drowning in so …
by Michael SnyderWe are witnessing a fundamental transformation of America. Some welcome the changes that are happening, while others are greatly resisting them. But one thing is very clear – the United States is a very different place than it …
by Graham Summers via Gains, Pains & Capital Ignore the day-to-day moves in the markets, in the big picture, some MAJOR is happening… namely, that the Everything Bubble is bursting. By creating a bubble in sovereign bonds, the bedrock of the current financial system, …
by Geoffrey Grider What the Google patents describe are sensors and cameras mounted in every room to follow us and analyze what we’re doing throughout our home. They describe how the cameras can even recognize the image of a movie star’s …
by NorthmanTrader If I keep this up I’ll soon be accused of being a permabull 🙂 Oh I’m kidding. Yes I’m macro bearish but trade direction practical and data and technicals matter. Hence a quick follow up to the Bear Trap case, specifically 2 key …
John Adams of Adams Economics interviews Harry Dent Economist John Adams and I discuss our conversations with Author Harry Dent during his recent Australian tour. Specifically, we pose the question, will the central banks simply try to print their way out of a crisis …
From Sprott Media: Jim Rogers, veteran investor and author of “Street Smarts,” weighs in on the U.S.-China trade war ahead of the G20 meeting. Rogers considers current investing opportunities around the globe and the risks that could manifest with a bear …
by CuriosityBout Microsoft, for 3 decades, has stayed in the top 10 most valuable companies. Let’s put that in perspective. In 2000, GE was the most valuable company, and today it’s desperate. Sears, same thing. And while Apple and Amazon …
Bloomberg: Grim Stock Signals Piling Up as Wall Street Mulls Recession Odds Nine turbulent weeks and a correction in U.S. stocks have left analysts with a thorny question. What’s the market saying about the economy? And while few see incontrovertible …
by ceud During a bear market, tech and other growth companies are generally the ones that experience the biggest corrections in share prices due to poor fundamentals and high P/E ratios. However, it doesn’t change the fact that investing in general …
by Shaun Richards A feature of the credit crunch era has been the way that central banks have concentrated so much firepower on the housing market so that they can get house prices rising again. Of course they mostly hide …
by Fabius Maximus Summary: The results of fourth wave feminism begin to appear. Marriage is dying, people are living isolated lonely lives. The stress on America society will be immense as these trends continue. “The sexual revolution, however, wanted men and women …
via Press For Truth: The following video was produced by Press For Truth Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. owns a company called Sidewalk Labs, and they are working with the Canadian government to launch a new “smart city” at the waterfront of …
by Michael Snyder You have got to watch this video! I have to admit that I was mesmerized when I first starting watching it. This baby appears to be less than a year old, and yet it already throws a massive …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter itcoin plunged to $3,738 at the moment. Down nearly 40% from two weeks ago, and down 81% from peak-mania of $20,078 on December 17, 2017. It’s back where it had first been on August 12, 2017. …
by John Ward The leader of the most powerful nation in the world is a feral oaf who nevertheless talks a degree of sense about migrants, trade deals in general, and the Brexit disaster in particular. The leader of the only …
via resourceworld: One of the most widely read financial analysts over the past half-century was the late Richard Russell, long-time editor/publisher of the Dow Theory Letters. One of his most important investing considerations, that major, long-term markets frequently come in three segments, …
If you are wisely skeptical, the calls to slow rate rises when we are barely above negative real rates should be telling you why stocks are vulnerable to a big decline. Last bubble peak rates were 5.25%. This time everything …
Kids don’t need much. Lots of great memories can be had without digging into debt. 3 in 10 Americans Are Still Paying for Last Year’s Holiday Expenditures But that won’t stop them from tacking on still more debt. “Holiday …