EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign has been donating meals to hospitals across the country to feed doctors, nurses and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, Fox News has learned. Since last Thursday, President Trump’s reelection campaign has been calling up local restaurants and ordering large amounts of food to be delivered to more than … Read more
From Birch Gold Group It appears the “sleight of hand” that corporations use to inflate share prices and bloat balance sheets may be slowing down, for now. The website Wolf Street highlighted the beginning of the end for this round of corporate share buybacks: So far into this crash, over 50 companies have suspended share buybacks, accounting for … Read more
by Simon Black of Sovereign Man By the mid 1300s, the Republic of Florence in modern day Italy had experienced one of the greatest economic booms in human history. In less than a century, Florence had grown from a tiny, irrelevant backwater to become one of Europe’s largest cities and preeminent financial center. The expansion was truly impressive. … Read more
As we all deal with the many changes in day to day life brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, have you ever wondered just what the government has the power to do to protect public health and safety—and when and how can it exercise that power? In today’s episode, we discuss government police power and … Read more
no one at home is supervising them. I can tell you I am only seeing about 20 percent turn out for attendance on online, virtual learning. So you have to ask, what is the 80 percent doing during the day? Well, I think this video sheds light on that. This is truly sad. … Read more
by Give_me_the_science Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2
by Tom McClellan The past 3 weeks have seen a huge surge in the bearish percentage among the investment advisors and newsletter writers in the Investors Intelligence survey. Often these data are shown as the spread between the bulls and the bears, but for this week I thought it would be informative to look at just … Read more
by Shaun Richards The story of the credit crunch can be looked at through the prism of the central banks. Their modus operandi is supposed to be action followed say two to three years later by a withdrawal of the action but the latter fizzled out at best. The ECB back in 2011 with its … Read more
by John Mauldin I don’t think anyone believes we will go to back to anything like January 2020 normalcy anytime soon. We have no idea, even if restaurants and everything open, what shopping patterns will look like. Are we learning to live on less in our isolation? Seeing your 401(k) become a 201(k) may postpone a … Read more
Ian Miles Cheong Verified account @stillgray Chinese billionaire Liu Dian Bo bought an Australian private hospital for $900 million in 2015. Now he shut it down and fired 800 healthcare workers. Chinese billionaire Liu Dian Bo bought an Australian private hospital for $900 million in 2015. Now he shut it down and fired 800 healthcare … Read more
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Incredible compilation of stimulus actions taken globally. Basically, world injected liquidity the size of entire Chinese economy within span of a month. Speed and magnitude of response greater than any time in history. +Gc/btc benefit as new era dawns.https://t.co/s8mGZsahDN — Dan Tapiero (@DTAPCAP) April 2, 2020 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1245813613413183494
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1246029553803427842 Welcome to the depression https://t.co/4PHYLNpiuw — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 3, 2020 Portfolio leverage as a multiple of assets in risk parity funds, estimated – @SoberLook @WSJ pic.twitter.com/VRtNxiMEFv — Rob Hager (@Rob_Hager) April 3, 2020 Bloomberg: Mortgage Defaults Could Pile Up at Pace That Dwarfs 2008 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/home-lenders-brace-for-up-to-15-million-u-s-mortgage-defaults As many as 30% of Americans with home … Read more
The commodities-to-equity ratio is at a 50-year low. One of our core positions still is: Long gold & short stocks. Oil and energy stocks have big asymmetric upside here and makes sense as part of the long mix. pic.twitter.com/gITtzbxcRM — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 2, 2020 This is oil YTD folks… Absolutely destroyed. It’s … Read more
via medium Bottom line: There are separate consumer and office TP supply chains, and now that everyone’s working, and pooping, at home, the consumer chain is overstressed and the office one is, uh, backed up. “In short, the toilet paper industry is split into two, largely separate markets: commercial and consumer. The pandemic has shifted the … Read more
Trump China travel ban – January 31, 2020 Pelosi Come to Chinatown – February 9, 2020. Pelosi today: Trump didn’t act quick enough h/t GR
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Dear Martin, your public and private blog is the first I read every morning, it is my briefing. I received this email today (31.03.2020) from a friend living in Switzerland about sending me a package via normal mail … “this morning, I wanted to ship xxxxx and xxxxx to Greece, and … Read more
It seems like Americans are finally coming to terms with the grim reality… (by Half Dollar) Before the economic decision was made to abruptly suspend Silver Doctors Live, we were discussing coronavirus back when we were simply calling it the Wuhan Coronavirus. Indeed, we began covering it on January 20th, and just before we suspended the … Read more
Link to article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-donates-meals-coronavirus Since last Thursday, President Trump’s reelection campaign has been calling up local restaurants and ordering large amounts of food to be delivered to more than a dozen hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Washington state and Michigan. The campaign has been placing these orders anonymously, but Fox News learned about the … Read more
