by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWxoc9XcAAluHi.jpg By definition, the largest companies by market cap are the most valued by investors in absolute terms. Of course, these companies change all the time. Secular trends rise and fall, and economic cycles rinse …
checkout the massive gap between $SPX & ECRI Index pic.twitter.com/ks93D6zpwq — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 14, 2018 ECRI Weekly Leading Index Growth does not look healthy pic.twitter.com/bhpYWFQMmR — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 15, 2018 US Retail Sales MM does not look like …
by FS In addition to the next anticipated fed rate hike, there’s a lesser-known factor set to take effect later this year that may impact markets, and may even cause a flash crash. The change that’s coming has to do …
via mindingthecampus: Federal efforts to alleviate the high and rising cost of attending college through student loans have morphed from a policy challenge to a fiscal time bomb threatening to blow up the financial future of tens of millions of Americans …
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning If you’ve ever lived through a life-threatening emergency — whether a car crash, train wreck or a steep fall (hopefully not) — you have noticed that time seems to slow down. You witness your personal jeopardy in …
Macro Voices, Released on 9/14/18 (Recorded on 9/13/18) Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Charlie McElligott to Macrovoices. Erik and Charlie discuss the curve steepener as a recession signal and the current impact that the dollar, real rates and inflation …
by Amy S. Greenhouse tips that can make your plants survive the winter THE greenhouse has always been the ideal retreat for keen gardeners, a place to keep green fingers working whatever the weather. But with winter approaching and electricity prices …
Remember 9 Hindenburg Omens in 9 trading days plus more $ short #VIX than Jan plus 5 MCM-HINDENBURG OMENS in last 9 days IS NOT NORMAL! pic.twitter.com/oBKuifgS2C — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) September 14, 2018 traders are net short $1 billion of …
Global #Liquidity collapses again 10 years after #Lehman and the #GFC pic.twitter.com/FrWz6JvFiQ — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) September 13, 2018 Asian GLI out now : Asia Liquidity Index™ at 31.8 of range 0-100Asia Policy-makers accumulate defensive USD forexreservesUS dollar likely …
by Michael Snyder Most Americans are just a single illness away from losing everything. In our country today, medical bills are the number one reason why people go bankrupt, and many of them even had “good health insurance”. As you …
The chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. says the company is still planning to forge ahead with an initial public offering in the second half of 2019. “At this point, it’s all systems go,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, who joined …
From Brandon Smith Almost every aspect of the global economic downturn, which started ostensibly in 2007-08 and is still ongoing to this day, can be traced back to the actions and policies of central banks. The Federal Reserve, for example, used …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGhhohac3U Trump declares National Emergency concerning Elections https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/trump-declares-national-emergency-deal-threat-election-meddling https://www.ktsa.com/trump-signs-order-to-impose-sanctions-against-foreign-meddling-in-us-elections/ EO signed yesterday President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in US elections and authorizing the Government …
Last week, the liberal publication ThinkProgress published a piece on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing with the headline “Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade and almost no one noticed.” The fact-checker for the Weekly Standard …
by Geoffrey Grider “We started with a simple little chip, and now it’s evolved into a whole other business. We’re in development right now of an actual chip that will be powered by the human body … and it will have …
by Dana Lyons An abundance of New 52-Week Highs AND 52-Week Lows has been a warning in the past. Today’s Chart Of The Day looks at a phenomenon that we’ve highlighted in the past on several occasions and which we have …
by DCG Can you imagine how many private contractors would go out of business if they couldn’t estimate construction costs properly and had overruns of over 50 percent on originally estimated costs? Course they have to make a profit – …
via Cormac Mullen Warnings from Wall Street are coming thick and fast as U.S. stocks sit near all-time highs. The latest, from Sundial Capital Research Inc., points to a (controversial) group of potentially bearish technical signals known as the Hindenburg Omen. Deteriorating …
via pjmedia: NEW: Sen. Feinstein: “I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court" and "referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.” pic.twitter.com/ORpIeiNhpI — NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) September 13, 2018 And Ashe Schow tweets: …
by Chris Black Let me begin with a statement: if you’re still active on Sundar Pichai-Jack Dorsey-Mark Zuckerberg’s digital ghettos, and by that I mean Google search-engine, YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, after everything that’s happened lately, i.e. all the …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But the cost of shipping surges, no holds barred. The signs that the infamous cyclicality of the transportation industry is changing direction once again are still timid. This industry is a thermometer of the goods-based economy. …
mission complete: jam everyone back into tech $SPX pic.twitter.com/R49893WJ6V — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 13, 2018 We warned you in the summer that despite the bulls constant claim of 'massive underlying demand and a shortage of homes', housing was slowing. https://t.co/SYe4b6bWub …
by warzog With NAFTA agreement looming and Canada clearly going to have their trade surplus pulled back or face major auto tariffs, where do you guys see the Canadian market and dollar going? Energy industry – Bearish Manufacturing – Bearish Finance …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1039911899654221824 This absurdity in credit markets shows what the top of the business cycle looks like: Corporate debt at extreme levels, Fed in tightening mode, but credit spreads near record lows. This is perhaps the greatest highlight from Jeff Gundlach’s …
via GPC The Fed has burst the Everything Bubble. No one has noticed it. Indeed, everyone in the US seems to be blissfully unaware. But the reality is that the massive bubble created between 2008 and 2018 is in the …
via missliberty: “An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it. The Creepy …
by Brian Maher of Daily Reckoning A raging hurricane — Florence — menaces the East Coast. Landfall is expected on Friday. Meantime, a different type of menace drifts into view… One prominent market indicator is presently blaring its loudest warning in …
by shadow332 The video is in the article and it’s long but there is some real damning evidence in it. If I was at this meeting I would stand up and ask what they were doing to stop racism in Israel. I’d …
That’s a perfect picture of socialism. The people live in poverty while the rulers live as royalty. h/t GR
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Women weren’t so lucky either. But who got the spoils? On the surface, the annual household income data released by the Census Bureau today, looks mediocre. But beneath the surface, it looks grim – grim for whom? Ha, …