On Wire

by Michael Snyder Everybody agrees that healthcare costs are way too high.  Back in 1960, healthcare spending accounted for approximately 5 percent of GDP, and by 2020 it is being projected that healthcare spending will account for 20 percent of GDP.  And when you break those numbers down into actual dollars, they become even more staggering.  Back in 1960, an … Read more

by Chris Black To begin with, there is a warrior’s attitude, and I won’t explain it, you’ll have to understand it for yourself, which says: “No one is coming, it’s up to us.” With this preamble in mind, following the Texas church massacre where a psycho-killer murdered 27 people in a shooting rampage just a … Read more

By Michael Snyder The left is using the tragedy in Sutherland Springs to demonize the NRA.  Personally, I am so sick and tired of these relentless attacks, and I am proud to stand with the NRA, the Gun Owners Of America and every other organization that is working hard to defend our 2nd Amendment rights.  As … Read more

Do you think that this market is solvent? Perhaps it’s weak but maybe still solvent? Or is this thing totally a zombie being kept alive by central banks and stimulus in one way or another? The stock market keeps breaking records. Every day it seems the stocks just keeping going higher and higher. This has … Read more

by Ruby Henley Since Donna Brazile has come out of ruins of the DNC, she has written a book called HACKS.  In that book, I found an interesting comment.   Her friend, the “spook” told her after Seth Rich was murdered she “needed protection for herself, including cameras, alarms, and backup power at her house.” One … Read more

ELECTION 2017: Parties Watch for Wider Signals… Developing… What to Watch as Virginia and New Jersey Votes Are Tallied Both parties will be looking for signals about the landscape heading into next year’s midterms Tuesday’s gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey are the first big, statewide elections since Donald Trump won the presidency. Both parties … Read more

North American yield curves are narrowing further today, now with less than .5% between the 10- and 2-year Treasury yield in Canada, and less than .70% in the US. Both are now at the narrowest spread since the last market cycle peak in 2007. Here is my partner Cory Venable’s update chart showing the US … Read more

by Anthony B Sanders The SPX volatility index VIX is near an all-time low as The Federal Reserve attempts to raise their target rate and unwind their $4.46 trillion balance sheet. The question remains as to how further rate increases and balance sheet unwinding will impact equity volatility. (Bloomberg) Exchange-trade products betting that volatility will sink … Read more

by Robert Carbery In mid-October, Upwork, a global freelancing platform where businesses and individual freelance workers connect and collaborate online, released the results of a new study on the gig economy, in conjunction with Freelancers Union, titled “Freelancing in America: 2017”  — the most comprehensive measure of the U.S. independent workforce.   This is the … Read more

by David Haggith The Trump Rally pushed ahead relentlessly through a summer full of high omens and great disasters, all which it swatted off like flies. Even so, all was not perfect in the market as nerves began to jitter midsummer beneath the surface even among the most longtime bulls. Wall Street’s fear gauge (the CBOE Volatility Index) … Read more

The thing that bugs me is how dishonest it is. I was listening to the radio and they were talking about this, making it sound like he’s an idiot bla bla bla, so I was thinking, okay sure, he fucked this up but it’s probably not a huge deal… but then I got to my … Read more

by Mark Angelides The Revolutionary Communist Party is openly admitting that it is behind the major anti-Trump movements happening across the USA. This has been suspected by many of us, but in reality, they are being completely open about it. Why is it that the media refuse to cover this? And how is it that … Read more

by Mark Angelides You will hear about the Trump associates, you will hear about the famous, but you won’t hear much about two of the largest beneficiaries from Russian State linked investment in the Paradise Papers. Could this be because between the two of them they control the entire market of social media? When the … Read more

by Ruby Henley I did a report a couple of days ago about concerns surrounding the Emergency Nationwide Drill being performed at the same time that the Left organization Refuse Fascism/Antifa declared their protests to oust President Trump and Vice President Pence from office. The fact check site, Snopes called all our concerns to be … Read more

by Michael Snyder Do you want to be part of a movement to get pro-Trump candidates elected to Congress?  Six months ago, I publicly called for “an army of pro-Trump activists”all over the nation to run for seats in the House or the Senate, and it is actually happening.  In this article I am going to share … Read more

By Michael Snyder If the U.S. economy is doing just fine, why have we already shattered the all-time record for retail store closings in a single year?  Whenever I write about our “retail apocalypse”, many try to counter my arguments by pointing out the growing dominance of Amazon.  And I certainly can’t deny that online shopping is … Read more

BY SRSROCCO Investors need to be concerned that the U.S. Stock Market is well beyond bubble territory as it has now entered into the final stage of a Super-Charged Tulip Mania.  Not only are stock prices inflated well above anything we have ever seen before, but valuations are also reaching heights that are totally unsustainable.  Unfortunately, … Read more

by Chris Black President Trump was asked on Monday during a presser whether better (as in stricter) gun control laws could have prevented the Texas Church massacre. The POTUS  proved once again he’s awake and dropped a truth bomb: “Mental health is your problem here. This isn’t a guns situation. This is a mental health … Read more

by Michael Snyder Devin Patrick Kelley was a devout atheist that “hated Christians”, and that may help to explain why he specifically chose a church as his target.  According to Gateway Pundit, Kelley’s Facebook page (which has now been deleted) showed that he had liked pages such as “Atheist Republic” and “Friendly Atheist”.  Authorities tell us that the … Read more

by howmuch All throughout history, people have gone to cities to take advantage of the wealth and business. We wanted to know which metropolitan areas offered the best opportunities for Americans, so we looked at data for all 382 metros. Want to know where to make the most money? Check out this map! This map … Read more

by Robert Carbery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3v6AMDkBs In the wake of the recent terrorist truck attack in Manhattan perpetrated by an Uzbek immigrant in the U.S. on a diversity visa, we should look at whether or not diversity for its own sake has any positive benefits to us.   Brett Stevens of Amerika.org recently wrote a piece detailing … Read more

How to spot a stock market gone wild pic.twitter.com/Od1dhFqU3q — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 4, 2017 Article Warm Water Pulse From the Atlantic Ocean. Interesting to note, lines up w/ stock market tops of 1999/2008 pic.twitter.com/9f0BHnLH1J — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 5, 2017 Stocks over 50 (daily) Breadth for Small, Mid, & Large Breakdown.. Trump will need … Read more

Summary: A little bit of background to the Paradise Papers. The papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The 13.4 million documents were passed to German newspaper … Read more