How Derivatives Work
by Chris They are accounted for using a “net” position. Example: Imagine that DB has sold a credit default swap to party A, but then also bought a credit default swap from party B on the same underlying position. Let’s …
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10 Numbers That Prove That We Are Rapidly Becoming A Nation Of Government Dependents
by Michael Snyder As the middle class disintegrates and poverty grows, more Americans than ever are becoming dependent on the government just to survive. Today, we live in a country where most workers do not earn enough to support a middle …
Where Does The Tradition Of Wearing Halloween Costumes Come From?
by Michael Snyder The modern tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween can be traced back more than 2000 years to the Celts of ancient Britain. During a Druidic festival known as Samhain, which is still celebrated by Wiccans and other modern pagans, …
Is the Fed’s Medicine “Gradually” Pricking the Commercial Real Estate Bubble?
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “People are concerned about all that capital chasing limited opportunities.” After a decade of “emergency” measures such as QE and zero-interest-rate policy designed to pump up asset prices – now ended – we get this: “Everyone …
How gradual has monetary tightening been?
https://twitter.com/greg_ip/status/1055529416028250115 tightened financial conditions pic.twitter.com/I6PKXqEocg — Sam Ro 📈 (@SamRo) October 25, 2018 Rising Rates Fan Equity Fears Over $14 Trillion of Company Debt Bloomberg–3 hours ago Over the past decade, non-financial corporate debt worldwide has swelled 68 percent to $14 trillion, according to Sanford C. …
Canada Is Spending A FORTUNE! – Debt SKYROCKETS!
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the stunning level of spending by the Canadian government as the number breaches $300B pushing up Canada’s debt ratio. The deficit has been ranked at $19B. The overall spending …
Indicator Suggesting Another 20% Decline?
by Kimble Charting Many savvy investors look at the NYSE Composite to gauge the health of the broader market. With the markets in correction mode, we will look at this broad-based stock index for clues about the stock market correction. In the chart …
It only just begun…and already “Markets in Turmoil” specials. You can’t put a $20T plug under markets (supply & demand) and expect it won’t have opposite effects removing it
It only just begun…and already "Markets in Turmoil" specials. You can't put a $20T plug under markets (supply & demand) and expect it won't have opposite effects removing it. We also have no idea how much QE was levered up …
1962 United States False Flag/Propaganda Attempt, Operation Northwoods, Unclassified In 1997
by justinmorris9343 Due to high volume of False Flag/Propaganda posts… I thought I’d post this. I always thought this was extremely interesting. This certainly makes me believe the MAGA bombs are 100% Fake. Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag …
Why Would Republicans Do A Bomb Scare To Mess Up The Vote They Know They Are Going To Win?
This is all about the midterms, just so you’re all aware. Don’t forget. We know we are going to win. Because true americans are HARDER than pussy liberals on welfare wanting their crumbs… Trumptards aren’t behind this.. Its the democrats …
The Chart About Tesla’s Financials Makes Me Scratch My Head
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Tesla reported earnings today – a profit, its third quarterly profit ever, and its first profit based on operations rather than the sale of taxpayer-funded pollution credits. So it’s time to reflect. I have always given …
Pipe Bombs – Saint Soros – First Death In Migrant Caravan – War Between Democrats And Republicans – Election Chaos.
by Ruby Henley While George Soros responds to Republican Matt Gaetz’s video of migrants allegedly being paid to join the migrant caravan, the first death has occurred. It is all so sad, and while these people trek toward the U.S. …
Stock Market Crash! The Dow Has Now Plunged 2,368 Points From The Peak Of The Market
by Michael Snyder The level of panic that we witnessed on Wall Street on Wednesday was breathtaking. After a promising start to the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average started plunging, and at the close it was down another 608 points. …
How Retirees Can Diffuse the Tax “Time Bomb” Most Plans Are Sitting On
From Birch Gold Group Retirees already have plenty of things to be concerned about. Now, they can add tax planning to the list. Anyone who has taxable income files a tax return each year, and does a certain amount of tax planning throughout …
New home sales bombed in September
via Angry Bear Needless to say, this morning’s report on new home sales was another big miss in the housing sector. Not only were sales a new 12 month low, they were the lowest in nearly 2 years, and are …
DotCom Deja Vu
by jessefelder The following is an excerpt from a recent chart book from The Felder Report Premium. In a recent interview for RealVision Stan Druckenmiller spoke about how he realized late in 2000 that rising interest rates (second pane in the chart below), oil …
TRUTH ABOUT BOMBS STARTING TO COME!
As we watch the hysterical, lunatic left blame everyone from Trump, the GOP, MAGA supporters, and #MAGABomber, the truth is slowly starting to leak out. Paul Sperry is all over this story, and more and more it is looking like …
With homebuilding stocks down 40%, investors hope Fed gets the message and slows rate hikes
via @JeffCoxCNBCcom As the stock market, and homebuilders in particular, experience difficulty, it could put pressure on the Fed to ease its pace of interest rate hikes. Homebuilder shares plunged 40 percent from their mid-January high, a move reminiscent of their …
This Bank Lost 50% Of Its Value And Taught Us All A Lesson We Forgot
via The Dividend Guy After so many years investing in a bull market, we tend to forget things can go wrong. Some people are afraid and stay on the sidelines, but most of us keep investing. After all, those who have …
Global economy is running out of momentum: Kemp
via John Kemp The global economic outlook is deteriorating, with a broad range of asset prices and real-time economic indicators pointing to either a slowdown in growth or an outright recession occurring in 2019. the bottom 90% of Americans are not …
More Than Half A Million People: America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Rapidly Exploding On Both Coasts
by Michael Snyder The homelessness crisis in the United States is getting a lot worse, and it is happening at a pace that is absolutely frightening. Did you realize that more than half a million Americans are homeless right now? …
Teetering On The Brink Of Disaster: 14 Of 19 Bear Market Signals Have Now Been Triggered
by Michael Snyder October 2018 is turning out to be a lot like October 2008. The S&P 500 has now fallen for 12 of the last 14 trading days, and it is on pace for its worst October since the …
Perfect summary of the two choices America has
DHS can confirm that there are individuals within the caravan who are gang members or have significant criminal histories. Millions of taxpayers dollars trafficked through food stamp fraud went to terrorists who funded their activities at home and abroad, according …
The stock market faces ‘unlimited downside risk,’ warns veteran trader
via Shawn Langlois So, you must positioning yourself for that tasty bounce we’ve grown accustomed to over the course of this stubborn bull market. Well, don’t, warns J.C. Parets, the technical analyst behind the All Star Charts blog. “There is unlimited downside …
Trump: ‘You Don’t Give Power to an Angry Left Wing Mob’… Ralph Nader: Lead-Up To Midterms ‘Looks Eerily Like 2016’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XbvZUgLLo Ralph Nader joins Larry with his take on Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Plus, why he thinks the waning days of midterm campaigning “looks eerily like 2016.” Also, Larry talks with Breitbart’s Joel Pollack and former deputy labor secretary …
FITTON: THE WALL is not enough: President Trump should order criminal investigation of how the “caravans” have been organized and financed. Based on our team’s reporting from Guatemala, it is likely Americans involved.
by TFittonJW Meanwhile, here’s latest from our team on the ground in Guatemala: https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/young-angry-men-gangbangers-march-towards-u-s-yelling-vamos-para-alla-trump/ Here’s another key find (that the leftist media hates) about the ISIS threat in the region: https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/100-isis-terrorists-caught-in-guatemala-as-central-american-caravan-heads-to-u-s/ Our recent Judicial Watch discussion: The seemingly large person in pic …
James O’Keefe discusses the power of the US propaganda machine and why he’s fighting it
Project Veritas Action, Released on 10/23/18 “The media has more power than all three branches of government…somebody has to hold them accountable.” Looks like O’Keefe is about to drop another bomb. And what’s up with the double standard by the …
Significant Insider Trading Activity (Last 7 Days)
by badpauly This is a list of the top 20 companies that experienced the largest change in insider shares in the last seven (7) days. The SEC defines an insider as any officer, director or 10% shareholder. It is not …
Paid protesters are REAL! The Dem Plan To Turn Their Open Border Dream Into America’s Nightmare
Paid protesters are REAL: ‘Crowds on Demand’ firm sued in $23MIL extortion plot “Paid protesters are real,” writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real …
McAlvany: Get ready for “epic volatility” … Mike Maloney on the coming global margin call …
by John Rubino McAlvany: Get ready for “epic volatility” … Max Keiser on Trump’s winning streak … Mike Maloney on the coming global margin call … Brien Lundin: Expect gold sp;