CIVIL WAR – Trump attacks NY Govonor and NY State “you want your Independence? That Won’t happen!”

Cuomo’s been calling daily, even hourly, begging for everything, most of which should have been the state’s responsibility, such as new hospitals, beds, ventilators, etc. I got it all done for him, and everyone else, and now he seems to want Independence! That won’t happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 14, 2020 POTUS Starting … Read more

Boeing customers cancel staggering 150 Max plane orders, deepening crisis as coronavirus roils air travel

Boeing customers cancelled a staggering number of 737 Max orders last month, deepening the crisis the company faces amid the coronavirus pandemic and the continued grounding of its best-selling plane after two fatal crashes. Boeing shares were down more than 3% shortly after the company posted the dismal figures, trading near session lows. BA stock … Read more

Top mistakes small business owners make on the PPP application that I, a PPP application processor often see

by whatsthisallabout247 I hope this is helpful and you review your current applications to fix these common mistakes: Insufficient backup such as 941 forms, Schedule C tax returns and payroll summaries Answering “no” to question 7 on the application where it asks you if your payroll calculation is for employees who live in the United … Read more

Goldman Speaks Again: downturn will be 4 times worse than housing crisis, then an ‘unprecedented’ recovery

The global economic hit from the coronavirus crisis will be far worse in the near term than the financial crisis, according to Goldman Sachs. In the U.S., second-quarter activity likely dropped 35% while unemployment could hit 15%. However, the recovery in the second half of the year could be stronger than anything the U.S. has … Read more

Update: The governors of NY, NJ, CT, PA, DE, and RI have formed a multi-state council to create a regional framework to gradually lift the stay at home orders.

https://twitter.com/NYCSpeakerCoJo/status/1249811884150308865 Governors on East and West coasts form pacts to decide when to reopen economies (CNN)States on the country’s East and West coasts are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen from the stay-at-home orders each has issued to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The first such group to be announced came … Read more

UN Will Be Broke By The End Of The Month

The United Nations could run out of money by the end of the month as it faces a near-unprecedented funding crisis, the secretary-general has warned. Almost a third of member states have not paid their annual dues leading to a £1.3 billion black hole, António Guterres said in a statement on Tuesday. The shortage of cash has meant vital … Read more

David McAlvany: DOW 15,000 Is Our Downside Target

MiningStockEducation.com, Released on 4/14/20 David McAlvany has served as CEO of the McAlvany Financial Group since 2008. Portfolio management began with Morgan Stanley during the 2000 and 2001 tech crisis where he avoided major losses and benefited clients from the early stages of a commodity super cycle. Founding MWM in 2008 he and his team … Read more

JPMorgan just revealed it thinks a lot of people won’t pay their credit card bills

via CNBC JPMorgan is building its credit reserves in anticipation that people might not be able to pay their credit card bills. The bank’s first quarter earnings statement showed its credit reserves increased by $6.8 billion from the prior year, 56% of which was allocated for its consumer card division. “Given the likelihood of a … Read more

LOSING THEIR MINDS: Man arrested twice in 3 hours for entering Wawa without mask, making threats, cops say

A 70-year-old Toms River man was arrested twice in less than three hours Saturday after violating the state’s emergency orders during the coronavirus pandemic by entering separate Wawa stores without a mask and threatening to hit people with a pipe, authorities said. Stephen Breza became belligerent when he walked into a Wawa on the 100 block of … Read more

Mass layoffs UNCOVERED. Piecing together the WARN notices from US labor offices, these employers come to surface:

by Badatu 9,991 layoffs: YMCA 1,498 layoffs: Cinemark 1,463 layoffs: Hy-Vee 1,354 layoffs: Punch Bowl Social 1,328 layoffs: Trans States Airlines 506 layoffs: Take 5 Oil Change 407 layoffs: Paper Source 395 layoffs: Cisco ​ More details: YMCA submitted 19 WARN notices in March, laying off a total of 9,991 employees in eight states, 3,400 of … Read more

The Sad Truth About The OPEC+ Production Cut

By Simon Watkins Quite aside from the subtler elements of the oil deal announced late last week that are likely to undermine its ability to stave off further oil price lows in the coming weeks, the basic facts of the deal are sufficient to do so: global supply is to be cut by (sort of) 10 million … Read more

Alasdair Macleod: Destruction Of The Currencies THIS YEAR

Alasdair Macleod interviewed by Dunagun Kaiser on Reluctant Preppers Alasdair Macleod returns to Liberty and Finance / Reluctant Preppers to lay out the emerging facts which he says are confirming his predictions for this year, including: the end of the credit expansion cycle, deepening global recession, a banking crisis, monetary supply inflation with loss of buying power, the destruction … Read more

The Safe Haven Problem

by Shaun Richards At a time of crisis people look for what are considered to be safe havens. I say considered to be because this subject has been a regular feature on here in the credit crunch era and we have observed some ch-ch-changes in behaviour. For example we have seen investors be willing to … Read more

Technically Speaking: The Reward Doesn’t Justify The Risk

by Lance Roberts  In this past weekend’s missive, I discussed the market’s completion of the 50% retracement. To wit: “From a purely technical basis, the extreme downside extension, and potential selling exhaustion, has set the markets up for a fairly strong reflexive bounce.  Such an advance will ‘lure’ investors back into the market, thinking the … Read more

OPEC+ Deal Is “Too Little And Too Late”

By Nick Cunningham “The historic agreement that we saw…is only 10 mb/d. But that is only half of the story,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said on Fox Business. “When you add up all of the production cuts around the world, we are going to be much closer to 20 mb/d coming off the market.” After … Read more