On Wire

by Umar Farooq Amazon’s current ratio has been deteriorating regularly in the last five years. As it is not really making enough “real cash,” the company could be easily beset by a liquidity crisis subsequent to a decline in revenue growth. “If we take a closer look at its reported TTM “Net Cash Provided from … Read more

by Umar Farooq The recent events taking place foreshadow a U.S. dollar collapse. Deteriorating relations with China could suggest worsening trade dynamics going forward, but in reality, this risk is substitutable with all big U.S. trading partners. It doesn’t matter if this happens through border taxes or import tariffs, withdrawing from the WTO or involving itself … Read more

by Umar Farooq   Gold futures have posted the biggest monthly gain since June, on investor anxiety over moves by the President Trump that included imposing restriction on entry of seven predominantly Muslim nations’ citizens and dismissal of the acting U.S. attorney general for refusing to implement the order. The dollar has weakened and headed … Read more

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By Gabrielle Seunagal   The prevalent liberal bias throughout Hollywood is painfully obvious to any truthful American. Hollywood has exerted liberalism throughout popular movies, television shows, and music. Actors and actresses openly endorse liberal candidates and ideologies in their speeches and on their social media pages. The general consensus is that liberalism personifies humanity and … Read more

By Gabrielle Seunagal   Liberals are the most bigoted and dogmatic individuals in America. This is ironic because the word liberal is defined as “open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.” Leftists discriminate against “new behavior and opinions” that contrast with their own, even to the extent of using threats … Read more

by Amna El Tawil   Russian security agents, Sergei Mikhailov and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev, have been accused of treason because they were cooperating with the CIA. The arrests of spy officials who worked for the KGB successor FSB’s Center for Information Security were first reported by Russian media earlier this month.   The accusations … Read more

by Amna El Tawil   Priests should spread peace, love, forgiveness, and tolerance, but it seems like the pastor of a mainly immigrant Catholic church has a suggestion for all those who are protesting Trump – to kill themselves. He says that protesters should commit suicide by taking a “flying leap off the nearest building”. … Read more

by Pamela Williams The appearance of chaos within the Trump Administration at this time is being highly exaggerated by Main Stream Media. In fact, he is moving swiftly to fill the voids left by the Obama Administration. If Obama had not led this Country down a path of destruction by allowing the Far Left to … Read more

by Umar Farooq “Global economic policy uncertainty is near 20-year highs while the VIX is nearing 20-year lows. This is an odd configuration for these two series. Usually as economic policy uncertainty moves higher, the VIX moves higher with it. That is not the case today. In the scatter plot below which plots monthly data … Read more

by Amna El Tawil   It’s safe to say that Donald Trump’s presidency has a very rocky start. Constant protests from the first day he entered White House, Women’s March, President of Mexico refusing to pay for the wall, protests due to Muslim ban, the UK petition to stop his visit to that country, and … Read more

by AMY S. Expert Warns Peter Schiff is a well-known commentator appearing regularly on CNBC, TechTicker and FoxNews. He is often referred to as “Doctor Doom” because of his bearish outlook on the economy and the U.S. Dollar in particular. Peter was one of the first from within the professional investment field to call the … Read more

by Dana Lyons Speculators (a.k.a., “dumb money”?) are holding their largest net-short position in the history of the VIX futures contract. Every week, the CFTC releases their Commitment Of Traders (COT) report on the collective positioning among major futures players. Like most market data, the majority of the time, we do not find the COT report … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orZ14_VLHg Despite recent gains in their sector, the CEOs of major U.S. financial institutions have been selling their own stock. This should grab the attention of investors like you. Here’s what we have found usually happens following big market decisions by corporate insiders.

by Amna El Tawil Terrorism has no religion, although most people tend to think otherwise. The statement proved to be correct when masked gunmen entered a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, killed six, and wounded eight people.   The Reuters reports that two suspects had been arrested, but gave no details about them … Read more

by Amna El Tawil For weeks, British lawyer Graham Guest’s petition to stop Trump’s visit to the UK didn’t get much attention. Things have changed now as the number of signatures passed 1 million and more and more people are signing it. The main reason for the sudden outburst of petition signatures is Trump’s infamous … Read more

by Amna El Tawil The 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, introduced an executive order a few days ago forbidding refugees and individuals from “terror-prone” countries to enter the country. This decision was met with an outburst of disapproval from millions of people around the world and the US which is why people … Read more

by Pamela Williams When a Miss Universe contestant was asked what she thought about President Donald Trump – she understandably looked a little blank. Miss Kenya Mary Esther looked completely shocked when Steve Harvey asked her the tough politics question. “Arguably, no United States president has had a more active first 10 days in office. … Read more

By Michael Snyder It doesn’t take much of a trigger to push extremely large crowds of very angry protesters into committing acts of rioting and violence.  And rioting and violence can ultimately lead to widespread civil unrest and calls for “revolution”.  The election of Donald Trump was perhaps the single most galvanizing moment for the … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Wall Street hocus-pocus has done an awesome job. The Dow-20,000 hats have come out of the drawer after an agonizingly long wait that had commenced in early December with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tantalizingly close to the sacred number before the selling started all over again. What a ride it … Read more

by Pamela Williams A new book is coming out by author Edward J. Epstein on Edward Snowden. Epstein did an intensive study into Snowden’s revelations concerning the Intelligence Community, and he said Trump is right to challenge the Community’s status quo. He indicates that the Intelligence Community is so politicized that it has lost its … Read more

by Pamela Williams I woke up to this, and I thought I was having a lucid nightmare. PHOTO FROM: #IMWITHHER: Clinton: 'This is not who we are' – The Hill (blog) https://t.co/Hzkl0Vsm2j #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/3rU0auqTxm — Hillary Clinton Fans (@fans_clinton) January 29, 2017 Hillary Clinton just had the gall to tweet to the world: ‘This is … Read more

by Phil Sometimes we forget the basics. In our video series, there’s a lesson called “The Secret to Consistent 20-40% Annual Returns on Stocks” and I hope you’ve seen it.  Although the low implied volatility of the market has made it a rough year for option selling, we were still able to scratch out just … Read more