Leading Economic Indicators Flashing Warning Signals About the Global Economy Going Forward

Jason talks about leading economic indicators like demand for chemicals for the auto, housing and electronics as well as Chinese demand for chemicals flashing warning signals and FedEx, who ships goods for consumers and businesses all over the world warning about problems increasing in the EU and a general global economic slowdown outside of the … Read more

Retail Melts Down Before Christmas in the UK, Spreads to Continent

After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible.  By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. With just one week left before Christmas, Europe’s fashion retail sector is showing little sign of yuletide cheer. On Monday, the shares of UK-based online fashion and … Read more

Is All Lost? Record Share Buybacks But Stocks Get Crushed

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The vengeance of share buybacks: buyback queen Apple plunges. In the third quarter, share buybacks by S&P 500 companies totaled $203.8 billion, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices today. These are actual buybacks, not hyperventilated announcements of possible future share buybacks: Share buybacks in Q3 jumped 57.7% from a year earlier. … Read more

I Read The News So You Don’t Have To – Market News (Dec. 19, 2018)

by ogordained   UNITED STATES Futures are pointing to a positive opening this morning amid progress on US-China trade talks The Fed will make a statement at 2pm likely increasing rates for the fourth time Elon Musk unveiled his Boring Co. underground tunnel and allowed guests to take rides Another Musk project, SpaceX, is set to raise $500 million to help launch its … Read more

Facebook Allowed Netflix, Spotify, And A Bank To Read And Delete Users’ Private Messages; The social network also allowed Microsoft’s search engine Bing to see the names of nearly all users’ friends without their consent, according to a report.

by AssuredlyAThrowAway via NYT: For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews. The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained … Read more

$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.”

$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.” $21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon. And that’s before our premiums. https://t.co/soT6GSmDSG — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2018 $21 TRILLION of Pentagon … Read more

Top Economist: “If The Fed Raises Interest Rates Tomorrow They Should All Be Fired For Economic Malpractice”

by Michael Snyder The Federal Reserve is responsible for creating the stock market boom that we have witnessed in recent years.  Are they now also setting the stage for a stock market bust?  After hitting an all-time high earlier this year, the Dow has plunged more than 3,000 points from the peak of the market, and it would … Read more

Newly Discovered “Eavesdropping” Virus Turned Into A Bacterial Assassin By Biologists

Researchers have identified a virus that is capable of “spying” on the molecular communications between bacteria – and now they’ve weaponized the ability so that the virus kills bacteria on command. This approach has been used by researchers to attack bacterial diseases like salmonella, cholera, and E. coli. The work, published in the journal Cell, … Read more

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN – OH THE HORROR!

by Jim Quinn If the Federal government shuts down on Friday, will anyone notice? Other than the propaganda mainstream media, NO!!!! I love government shutdowns because average Americans realize nothing changes in their lives when it is shutdown. Markets used to crash and everyone would get worked into a tizzy when this ploy began years … Read more

LEGALIZED recreational pot in NY state, 2019

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he would push to legalize recreational marijuana next year, a move that could generate more than $1.7 billion in sales annually and put New York in line with several neighboring states. The highly anticipated proposal came in a speech in Manhattan on Monday, in which the governor outlined his … Read more

Bill Bonner: Good news about the coming crash

From Bill Bonner, Editor, Bill Bonner’s Diary: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The last leaves are falling from the trees. And the last days of December are counting down, like the quiet moments before an execution. Friday, the Dow fell nearly another 500 points. From Bloomberg: Investors rushed out of U.S. equity funds in the second-biggest weekly exit … Read more

Global consequences of revealing ‘state secrets’

From Jacob Hornberger at Hornberger’s Blog: Inadvertently released federal documents reveal that U.S. officials have apparently secured a secret indictment against Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks who released secret information about the internal workings of the U.S. national-security establishment. In any nation whose government is founded on the concept of a national-security state, that is … Read more

2019 could be a stellar year for gold

From Yahoo Finance: Gold has gotten a boost over the past three months, rising more than 4%, as investors flock to so-called “safe-haven” trades, and the commodity is headed even higher in 2019, according to strategists. “Volatility has reemerged across markets generally — commodities, equities, etc. If that volatility persists, it will be key. It is … Read more

Trump Foundation agrees to dissolve

From Common Dreams: The Trump family’s charity, the Trump Foundation, agreed to dissolve Tuesday amid a lawsuit filed by New York State which accuses the organization of a “shocking pattern of illegality”— but the Trumps’ legal troubles won’t end with the dissolution. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation last June, accusing the Trump … Read more

Voodoo Economics: Trump Advises Fed to “Feel the Market”, not Use “Meaningless Numbers”

via Yahoo: President Trump continued his months long criticism of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday as the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) begins its two-day monetary policy meeting. “I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any … Read more

600+ Chinese Mutual Funds Have Shut Down This Year, More Than in Prior 12 Years Combined

via Bloomberg: (Bloomberg) — China’s cleanup of its shadow-banking system is fueling a record number of liquidations in its $1.9 trillion mutual fund market. More than 600 funds have been closed this year, surpassing all liquidations in the previous 12 years combined, data compiled by Bloomberg show. It’s also more than triple the total last … Read more

Each time the #SP500 $SPX dropped over -13% in fourth quarter:

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1074999208338472961 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1075063005052891141 The last time the S&P 500 Index fell this much in the period between two policy gatherings was the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008.: https://t.co/Xt1lihhnZv via @jeffkearns pic.twitter.com/GDysPZ4KM6 — Alister Bull (@alisterbull1) December 18, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1075033218842284033 Market is being pumped via the FANGs – I'm sure it's the … Read more

“THIS” Powerful Force NOW Moves Against Us All and Few Realize It’s Happening…It May Be Too Late!

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“I Would Never Use Nancy Pelosi As My Source On Anything” Sarah Sanders OWNS Reporter

“I Would Never Use Nancy Pelosi As My Source On Anything” Sarah Sanders OWNS Reporter today during the white house briefing and white house press briefing and sarah sanders press briefing today many questions were asked about latest news and breaking news from the white house current events and business in politics and political news … Read more