Introducing the “Everything Bubble” Sentiment-o-Meter

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Since human wetware remains stuck in OS1.01, we can predict a remarkable reversal. The “Everything Bubble” has been a sight to behold. With central banks providing trillions to the big players and margin debt enabling small punters to leverage up, the hot money rotation has been a real merry-go-round as one asset and sector after … Read more

The Weekly Perspective with David Morgan – Is There a Great Depression Coming?

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from The Morgan Report David Morgan‘s weekly perspective… We’ve only had one depression in modern times: The Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the U.S. and the industrialized world. With unemployment at levels unseen since The Great Depression, one has to be wondering if the country will eventually dip into a major … Read more

Trump, Ben Carson Are ‘Tearing Down’ An Obama-Era Housing Rule Accused Of Funneling Money Into Wealthy Areas

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The AFFH rule was added to the decades-old Fair Housing Act by the Obama administration in an effort to hold local HUD grantees accountable to the idea of furthering affordable housing by producing and maintaining assessments of fair housing practices. Those assessments saddled HUD’s payroll with an estimated 64 additional employees, whose salaries cost American taxpayers up … Read more

Bill Gates Pushing to Eliminate Physical Money

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, why is Bill Gates pushing to eliminate all physical money? AS ANSWER: This is part of the strategy behind Microsoft. They continuously pretend to update Windows, yet they are tracking what you do to create profiles to sell that information. Eliminating physical money will further that hi-tech goal of knowing everything … Read more

This is what Portland looks like under Mayor Wheeler’s watch: “I don’t like it anymore””

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by DCG Portland: Day 50-something of rioting by Antifa/thugs/demorats. The result? THIS: I lived in Portland from 1995 to 1999. Sure, we had PLENTY of liberals there at that time. They were mostly hippies who hung out on the streets dancing and smoking pot. They were harmless. Today, not so much. The progressive leaders allow thugs to … Read more

Stocks Ride The Buy-Cycle

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by Dana Lyons The 3rd quarter of election years has been the best performing quarter of the entire Presidential Cycle — though, there are some caveats. While it is typically well down on our list of investing inputs, seasonality can have a meaningful influence on markets. In fact, in the long-run, there have been few trading … Read more