The Biggie that Used to Be Strong: Nonresidential Construction Spending Suddenly Sags

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Only feeble signs of manufacturing returning to the US (you’ve got to build the plants first). Construction spending, an important part of the US economy, has essentially gone nowhere over the past 18 months – the longest period of drought since the great recession. Total construction spending – residential and nonresidential, … Read more

From Less-Splendid Housing Bubbles to Crushed Markets in America, July Update

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Chicago struggles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Charlotte reach new highs. Drum-roll for Detroit and Cleveland! This is the other side: Not every metro in the US has experienced the kind of blistering housing bubbles occurring in Miami or the San Francisco Bay Area, as illustrated in The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in … Read more

Best Economy Ever: Lowe’s Laying Off Thousands And Outsourcing Maintenance And Assembly Jobs

via Zerohedge: Home-improvement chain Lowe’s told thousands of workers this week that their roles were being eliminated and that the company was outsourcing maintenance, assembly and janitorial services,according to the Wall Street Journal. Maintenance staff and assemblers were notified that they were being laid off, according to employees, and that their roles are going to be outsourced to … Read more

Stock Market Nears the Moment of Truth

by Kimble Charting As investors prepare for the Federal Reserve announcement today, they are feeling pretty good. That’s mostly due to the performance of the “big 3” stock market indexes: the S&P 500 IndexINDEXSP: .INX, Dow Jones IndustrialsINDEXDJX: DJI, and the NasdaqINDEXNASDAQ: .IXIC. As you can see in the upper half of today’s chart, all three are at all-time … Read more

Strongest Economy Ever? Just Ignore The Negative Revisions

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last 18-months, there has been a continual drone of political punditry touting the success of “Trumponomics” as measured by various economic data points. Even the President himself has several times taken the opportunity to tweet about the “strongest economy ever.” But if it is the “strongest economy ever,” then why the … Read more

New Tariffs, Stocks Plunge, Manufacturing Falls Again And More Layoffs – But Everything Is “Fine”?

by Michael Snyder Things are starting to go downhill rather quickly now.  A day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade, we received a whole bunch more bad economic news.  Most Americans don’t realize it yet, but our economy is in serious trouble.  We haven’t seen anything … Read more

Degradation of literally EVERYTHING

Seems that way, doesn’t it. Everything in today’s society seems to be treated with or practiced in a half assed, not as good, neglected and indifferent way. Examples I’ve noticed (Observations noticed here in NW OHIO): 1. Restaurants. Once fancy, high end restaurants now feel like run of the mill burger joints these days. Restaurants … Read more

Time Magazine Reports That Quinnipiac Poll Out Wednesday Found That 33% Of Americans See Barack Obama As The Worst President Since WWII

by Geoffrey Grider More Americans consider Barack Obama to be the worst President since World War II than they do any other president, according to a new poll. It is less than 3 years since Barack Obama left office, and already Liberal media outlets are forced to report the truth that he is considered to be the … Read more

Why Oil Prices Plunged Today

By Nick Cunningham Oil traders – along with financial markets everywhere – were disappointed with the decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve despite the first interest rate cut since the global financial crisis a decade ago. The Fed cut rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday, and one would think that the monetary easing would … Read more

Forecasts showing a VERY LARGE hurricane possibly making landfall near Jacksonville, FL

https://gfycat.com/scholarlyidealisticaardwolf Just saw this from the latest forecast. It travels through the Bahamas and eventually either makes land fall or sits just off the coast for an extended period. This forecast actually has it strengthening and gaining size considerably after approaching the coast! Heads up East Coast!   h/t I’m with Trump.