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by AlexPitti As you can see from the table below, the Fed has cut rates 17 times with the S&P 500 within 2% of its record high since 1980. Table of all rate cuts at record highs Stocks rallied 17 out of 17 times 1 year after these rate cuts, the S&P 500 is up … Read more

Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users – Microsoft is finally revealing exactly how many people are using its Slack competitor Microsoft Teams. The software maker says that more than 13 million people are using Microsoft Teams daily, along with more than 19 million weekly active users. This is the first time Microsoft … Read more

by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver.com   Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has utterly given in to external market pressure to pump air into The Everything Bubble… Fresh off his capitulation in December to stave off The Great Recession Part 2 by ceasing the Fed’s rate-raising, now he is greasing the rails toward 0% interest rates again, an … Read more

via livewiremarkets: If bond yields were the litmus test it would be easy to believe that inflation in most countries is at zero or below. Bonds should provide investors with a real return from the income yield, but this is not the case. The graph highlights the steady downward trend in benchmark 10-year yields over the … Read more

Authored by Emmanuel Sessegnon via The American Institute for Economic Research, People love South Park. In an age where shows attempt to avoid controversy at all costs, South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone practically go out of their way to find it.  When asked by the Huffington Post which group they have angered the … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How out-of-whack is the discrepancy in growth between incomes, rents, and house prices? The “San Francisco Housing Crisis,” as it’s called on a daily basis, is an extreme. But housing costs in major urban areas in the US have been eating up more and more of household incomes, as house prices … Read more

Ron Paul Liberty Report, Released on 7/12/19 President Trump wants The Fed to flood the economy with (even more) credit. The so-called “independent” Fed has indicated that it’s going to comply. A bigger bubble means an even bigger bust must occur at some point. Central planning is right on course to where it always ends … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The peaceful left has made death threats against Ava and her family for her imitation of AOC. Her family posted this on Twitter and announced that they have deleted all posts because the right to freedom of speech does not exist if you disagree with the left.  

by Troy The market expects a Fed rate cut soon as the stock market pushes to new highs. Today’s headlines: Fed rate cut AAII sentiment Volatility of volatility Using copper to trade stocks Are bonds and interest rates reversing? Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock … Read more

From Birch Gold Group Last year was a record year for corporate share buybacks. The appeal of a buyback “gravy train” appeared to be too lucrative for investors to resist. This year, the trend of companies buying shares to make math work in favor of better share prices seems to be increasing. But what if this method crashes … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVw_DrI1VkY CORRECTION: ABC News obviously covered the story but no one reported it including ABC News. They covered the drug use but not the bribe.