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Stephen Roach says the world is set up for the unwinding of three mega-trends: unconventional monetary policy, the real economy’s dependence on assets, and a potentially destabilizing global saving arbitrage   After years of post-crisis despair, the broad consensus of forecasters is now quite upbeat about prospects for the global economy in 2018. World GDP … Read more

Are bonds ready to collapse? What’s your opinion on bonds from what you have seen since the Financial Crisis?   Financial analysts have been keeping an eye on bonds. Bonds have been expanding further and further despite giving a worse incentive to do so. Even the most risky areas of the world have been showing … Read more

by Anthony B Sanders Swedish retailer H&M, operating in 62 countries with over 4,500 stores and, as of 2015, employ around 132,000 people, suffered a downward sales shock leading to a decline in their stock price. (Bloomberg Intelligence) — The scale of the revenue miss in this key fashion quarter should initiate more radical change … Read more

By Chris Black According to the latest data released on Friday, illegal immigration on Mexico border has surged unexpectedly, and it’s now back to Obama-era levels, which means that President Trump’s gains with regard to border crossings are beginning to wear off; thus building a “big, beautiful wall” should be a top priority for the … Read more

BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official says the bloc’s executive Commission will decide next week whether to trigger an unprecedented procedure against Poland that could see the country lose its voting rights in the EU. The step has been discussed in reaction to new Polish bills overhauling the judicial system which the EU … Read more

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Catherine Austin Fitts breaks down Trump’s investigation into a missing 29 trillion dollars https://youtu.be/6IxT9qeR6is https://www.infowars.com/29-trillion-missing-from-pentagon-dod-announces-audit-under-trump/ US Debt Visualized in $100 Bills http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html MSU SCHOLARS FIND $21 TRILLION IN UNAUTHORIZED GOVERNMENT SPENDING; DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT FIRST-EVER AUDIT Contact(s): Mark Skidmore, Andy Henion Earlier this year, a Michigan State University economist, working with graduate students and a former … Read more

by Ruby Henley A cross at Ventura Park is still standing after the Thomas Fire devoured all around it.  Many in California see this as a sign of hope while all else around them is lost.  There was little time to gather belongings and flee.  Firefighters died as they fought to save homes, as innocent … Read more

By LV It’s July 4, 2016.  Although it is Independence Day, a national holiday, an unusual meeting is taking place inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, D.C.  FBI Director, James Comey, is meeting with one of his lead investigators, Peter Strzok, concerning the Clinton email case. Unbeknownst to the two men is the presence of … Read more

by Thinker In May of this year,the story was told in a different manner than what it’s being reported today. NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – J.G. Wentworth, a specialty finance company that buys structured settlements and annuities, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, saying it had a “prepackaged” reorganization plan supported by more than 90 … Read more

  One of the gravest problems of our generation is the global? ?misallocation? ?of? ?capital. Currently, out of $100 trillion of global investible capital, only 1.4% is spent a year on facilitating innovation that is meant to improve the society’s overall efficiency and future quality of life. That problem is in turn caused by the … Read more

In your opinion, is China positioned better than the U.S. over the next few decades? In China, we have seen certain areas booming while other have fallen. Massive quantities of stimulus has been entering the system since the Financial Crisis. That still goes on today. Subsidiary companies of the government prop up equities, real estate, … Read more

Some businessmen like to shine under the bright lights of the media, others like Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi, have a rather discreet approach to success. An Engineer in hydraulics, graduated from Polytech Lille (graduate when named School of Engineers of Lille) in 1978, he produced tunnel boring machines in the 1980s with AMIS (Artois Maintenance Industries … Read more

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By Michael Snyder Did the FBI attempt to swing the outcome of the 2016 election in a certain direction?  I know that question sounds completely outrageous, but this is exactly what one member of Congress is now claiming.  For a long time we have known that elements within the Deep State have been actively working … Read more

by Michael Snyder Many are applauding the FCC’s decision to repeal net neutrality, but I believe that this is a huge mistake.  Hopefully the worst case scenarios will not play out, but if they do we could be looking at the end of the Internet as we know it today.  We have all become quite accustomed … Read more

@StockBoardAsset Anyone notice the trend in wages & salary growth? pic.twitter.com/ZuUe79fgcs — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 13, 2017 America’s Wage Hope Hammered – Real Earnings Suffer Longest Slump Since 2009 For the first time since November 2009, real average hourly earnings tumbled for the 4th month in a row. Despite all the hype, all the hope, and … Read more

by Chris Black The FCC (Federal Communications Commission ) voted (3-2 vote) on Thursday to roll back Obama era legislation that established far reaching rules regarding how ISPs (internet service providers) should treat traffic on their networks. The 2015 net neutrality legislation was one of the most important regulatory action of Barack Obama’s administration, and … Read more

by Michael Snyder You just can’t make this stuff up.  All over America we push our young people to get good grades so that they can get “a college education”, but then once they get through college many of our young people are completely unequipped to deal with the real world.  Personally, I spent eight years … Read more

By Michael Snyder A conference committee has been merging the tax bills that were passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, and even though we could still see some minor changes, it looks like the major parameters of the final bill have now been agreed upon.  The final bill will be known as … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Highlights Optimism among small business owners is surging, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), whose Small Business Optimism Index rose 3.7 points in November to 107.5, the highest level since November 2004. The monthly jump in small business sentiment beat analysts’ forecasts with 8 out of the 10 components of … Read more