Options Traders Have Never Been So Complacent

by Dana Lyons The CBOE’s Equity Put:Call Ratio just registered the lowest reading on record. Sentiment indicators can provide insight into the overall level of bullishness (i.e., greed, complacency, etc.) or bearishness (i.e., fear) in the market at a given time. When sentiment reaches an extreme in one direction or the other, the market becomes more … Read more

Yes, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple have collaborated with China, but their actions were legal. It’s time for Prez Trump to use his 1977 Act powers to make collaboration illegal.

Over the years, @Google, @Microsoft, @Yahoo and @Apple "have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate" with the Communist Party of #China, says US Attorney William Barr in speech. pic.twitter.com/pZMxzerbU5 — Steve Herman (@newsguyusa) July 16, 2020 It’s time for Chinese Spy employer Dianne Feinstein to become the first of many sitting Politicians to be … Read more

#JOURNALISM: ‘I’m… At A Loss For Words’: The Unraveling Narrative Behind The Atlantic’s Defund-The-Police ‘Shooting’ Tale.

via thefederalist: When social justice activist and lawyer Derecka Purnell was just 12 years old, she and her sister watched a police officer shoot a young boy in a city recreation center because he had ignored the basketball sign-in sheet. This jarring, emotional, and deeply unsettling story was published July 6 at The Atlantic, in the … Read more

Trend in Interest Rates

by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, Good morning. Repo rates have been creeping up ever so slightly and quietly. Points wise not much, but percentage-wise, numbers are getting bigger. Has everybody been lulled to sleep and looking the wrong way again? Best, E REPLY: The shift from a Public to a Private wave is in full motion. We can see this in Moody’s … Read more

FAA Documents Offer Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Mystery… It was NOT Military

Newly Released FAA Documents Give Unprecedented Look Into Colorado Drone Swarm Mystery As covered in previous reports by The War Zone, law enforcement agencies in numerous rural counties in eastern Colorado and adjacent areas of Nebraska and Kansas received an influx of reports of large drones flying in formations at night for a period of several weeks … Read more

Wolf Richter: Automotive, Airlines, Aerospace, Office Sector, Commercial Real Estate

Talk Digital Network, Released on 7/16/20 Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including … Read more

Now you can’t even criticize ELECTRIC CARS on YouTube without getting banned

by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) A former Tesla owner was censored by YouTube after criticizing electric cars and announcing that he reverted back to a traditional gas-powered vehicle. Rich Benoit made quite the name for himself in the electric vehicle (EV) community after getting into the business of refurbishing older models, including a 2013 Tesla S P85. … Read more

Second Wave PANIC BUYING Is HERE! – Fear Is Leading To Another “Supply Chain BREAKDOWN”

Josh Sigurdson reports on the latest news of panic buying throughout the world as stores lose stock of multiple items including soda drinks, canned food, pasta and rice. In places like Hong Kong, we’re seeing a second wave of panic buying whereas places like Australia are starting to already die down. But there’s more to … Read more

DHS Creates “Violent Opportunists” To Justify Police Violence Against Protesters

by mapi In a country wracked by police protests, it seems like DHS and their Fusion Centers will stop at nothing to justify their existence. Not even the recent “BlueLeaks” documents exposing how law enforcement and Fusion Centers work together to identify, monitor and arrest peaceful protesters seems to affect them. It has been at least four years since … Read more

Shell CEO: Don’t Expect V-Shaped Oil Demand Recovery

By Tsvetana Paraskova The global economy and oil demand are most likely not headed for a V-shaped recovery as the pandemic will have a knock on energy demand for years, Shell’s chief executive Ben van Beurden told IHS Markit Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin in an interview. “It’s most likely not going to be a V-shaped recovery,” … Read more

China: US Congress moves to shut down China’s influence in Universities

House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Address Threats Posed by Beijing-Run Confucius Institutes NTD Reps. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) have introduced a bill aimed to limit the influence of Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes on U.S. universities. “Confucius Institutes are directly funded by the Communist Chinese government, which suppresses freedom of speech, academic freedom, and … Read more

Hold Onto Your Cash Preserver! Prof. Edward Altman’s Z Bankruptcy Model Sees Chapter 11 Tsunami Inbound

“mega bankruptcies” right out of the article. “insolvency risk”, “inevitable reckoning”, and so many other quotes. All so important to understand why. Why is this happening? Why would the stock market rise if things weren’t doing so well? Why would Powell and Munchkin lie to me if they would be in trouble if they did, … Read more

Its happening: Bar calls out cisco, google, microsoft, and apple as CCP allies.

Attorney General William Barr blasted Hollywood and Big Tech for their apparent cooperation with China in a Thursday speech. Barr criticized Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others for kowtowing to Chinese policy demands in exchange for market access. In a speech at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Barr said, “I suspect Walt Disney would be … Read more