S&P 500 real earnings yield continuing to fall; now at lowest since October 2008; Traders are unloading their massive short positions on UVXY

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S&P 500 real earnings yield continuing to fall; now at lowest since October 2008 pic.twitter.com/taLqAzLipH — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) April 6, 2021 Traders are unloading their massive short positions on UVXY pic.twitter.com/9sX9XTcnyb — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) April 6, 2021 If you wonder why the market is not moving The FED balance sheet has registered a … Read more

ABSOLUTE SLAVERY: Zero Carbon Agenda Deconstructed

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4lY6HWdfA What is a zero-carbon future? What does it look like? To imagine, turn off your heater. No airports. No shipping. No animals. Perfect surveillance state. In this Ice Age Farmer special report, Christian breaks The “Absolute Zero” plan and how governments are actively taking drastic steps every day to meet these dystopian goals for … Read more

Keiser Report | The ‘Complex Bets’ Behind the Next Crash | E1680

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PF51tpALZM In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the increase in leverage and ‘complex bets’ threatening to unravel at the slightest change in interest rates or stock prices. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Lawrence Lepard, an independent investment adviser, about the dollar, inflation and global trade.

Pelosi Could Personally Profit From Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is positioned to potentially personally benefit from President Biden’s $2 trillion spending bill – and here’s how she could do it. Biden last week announced his grandiose spending bill, which reserves $174 billion as subsidies for electric vehicles, charging stations and similar policies. Now, here’s where Pelosi comes into play. BIDEN’S $2T … Read more

Don’t Be Fooled by the Stock Market Rally

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by: Stefan Gleason Markets tend to move in cycles. They typically experience cyclical pullbacks after trending higher for a long period of time. Rarely do markets move straight up or straight down. The stock market has, however, essentially moved straight up since the March 2020 mini-crash. As the market moves higher, an increasing number of … Read more

Rickards: MMT Is A Disaster Waiting To Happen

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Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, MMT is the most potentially-damaging economic doctrine I have ever encountered, with the exception of communism… Let’s begin with the idea that the Fed and Treasury should be merged in practice so that the Fed will monetize any amount of spending or borrowing the Treasury wants. The … Read more

Biden Wants to Lead the World to Less Freedom

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by Peter Schiff of Peter Schiff Podcast Stock markets hit record highs. Weakness in Russell shows recovery is happening outside the US. Biden and Yellen push for collusion through global tax cartel. Nobody has voting rights. Democrats want to keep dumbing down the voter base. FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE

After record selling spree, Japan’s top insurers weigh buying U.S. bonds again

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https://www.reuters.com/article/japan-insurers-bonds-idUSL4N2LM10V Executives at Japan’s top four insurers, which manage more than $1.6 trillion in assets, told Reuters U.S. bonds are becoming attractive at yields near 2%. Japanese life insurers have been selling foreign bonds for eight months since July, their longest net-selling streak since the Ministry of Finance started compiling the data in 2005, mostly … Read more

“Upcoming Liberal policy debates include high-speed rail, universal basic income, ‘green new deal’ “

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Even if the resolutions pass, the government is under no obligation to implement them, but they have been a signal of where the party is headed over time OTTAWA — Liberals will debate proposals to create a network of high-speed rail lines across Canada, a green new deal for the country and a universal basic … Read more

In 2020, Russia spent a whopping $48 billion on war machines. The United States spent $750 billion.

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And we’re supposed to be afraid of these evil Russian people? The ten countries with the highest military expenditures are: The United States ($750 billion) China ($237 billion) Saudi Arabia ($67.6 billion) India ($61 billion) United Kingdom ($55.1 billion) Germany ($50 billion) Japan ($49 billion) Russia ($48 billion) South Korea ($44 billion) France ($41.5 billion) … Read more

Biden’s Policy to Double Gasoline Prices

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by Martin Armstrong Biden’s objectives, or should I say the people really running his administration which does not include even Harris, is to DOUBLE gasoline prices which is Part-B of this plan to “Build Back Better” which first requires you to destroy the economy as it currently exists. Part A was using the lockdowns to end commuting … Read more

#Technically Speaking: Despite Correction, Investors Are Exuberant

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by Lance Roberts  Despite the recent correction in the markets, leading to a hedge fund imploding, investors remain exuberant. The hopes for more stimulus, government spending, and Fed liquidity displace fears of a correction. Before we get into the technical review of the markets, I thought Jason Zweig summed up the current environment well. “This isn’t a … Read more

YELLEN: GLOBAL TAX! Agreement By June…

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Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to at least partially offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration’s proposed increase in the U.S. corporate tax rate. Citing a “30-year … Read more