Officers from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers at the border are dispatched to “sanctuary cities” across the country. The Trump administration is deploying tactical law enforcement units from the southern border as part of a spiked up operation in the country’s “sanctuary cities”, an escalation in the fight against president against localities … Read more
In a nutshell, these eight turncoats voted with ALL of the Democrats to tie the Commander in Chief’s hands via a War Powers Resolution Act specifically limiting Trump’s actions against Iran. Here is the list of Republicans who voted with Dems to prevent Trump from killing any more Iranian terrorists without their permission (Spoiler, no … Read more
To stop the spread of the coronavirus much of China has effectively shut down. What’s not been fully appreciated is how extensive the closures are. By our calculations 760 million are living under some kind of residential lockdown. https://t.co/ZuO31QVi6g — Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) February 15, 2020 It’s one of the largest social control experiments … Read more
by visualcapitalist Even though you’re reading this article in English, there’s a good chance it might not be your mother tongue. Of the billion-strong English speakers in the world, only 33% consider it their native language. The popularity of a language depends greatly on utility and geographic location. Additionally, how we measure the spread of world languages can … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO Jim Rogers: Where can we go with the West in decline? … David Morgan: The economic impact of the coronavirus will be immense … Rick Rule: We’re in a Goldilocks market for gold mining stocks … Guggenheim on the coming exponential rise in silver … Egon von Greyerz: The Dow will crash 95% … Read more
The coronavirus that emerged from China’s Hubei province over a month ago and has spread to two dozen countries is already fueling mistrust from the U.S. government on whether China can provide accurate information. U.S. mistrust of China goes as far back as the 1950s, when national authorities set unrealistic production quotas that led local … Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=10Y3MS It means that people are betting the economy is gonna falter in the short term driving the yield for long term bonds down as the price goes up. An inverted yield curve is used as a sign of recession. AC
If China’s factories remain closed beyond Feb, the US GDP hit would be ~25 bps per month starting in Mar and probably grow exponentially thereafter. The Global Value Chain can probably withstand up to a month of Chinese production outages, given the inventory buffers. #economics pic.twitter.com/4xNkCsPpIj — Aneta Markowska (@AnetaBMarkowska) February 13, 2020 Market bulls … Read more
https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1228444174120128512 It's getting serious now…#China #coronavirus Via @VipulV2304 https://t.co/WE2tKN2W8Z — Tuomas Malinen (@mtmalinen) February 15, 2020 NEW: 2nd doctor diagnosed with coronavirus at Japanese hospital – NHK https://t.co/eUoE2b20hL — BNO News (@BNOFeed) February 15, 2020
I just heard someone call into a radio show talk about how they went to a medical supplier to buy some face masks today. He was told the CDC has requisitioned all supplies nationwide and there were none available for sale and none in the future until this crisis ends. “In March 2012, Barack Obama … Read more
by northmantrader Time to check in on the good old $VIX. Crushed again on Friday following another week of meaningless chop during trading hours. The broader price ranges continue to be printed in overnight hours, be it magic overnight lows leading to gap ups and ramps, or, as on Friday, seeing highs made during pre-market an … Read more
The US Dollar Index (DXY) has now closed above 99 for over 48 hours. How long will this Dollar Index rally last?
“Abstract The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. … Read more
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The Fed’s counterfeiting has created the biggest economic bubble in history. A severe economic crisis will be the inevitable result. Indications from Fed Chairman Powell are that more QE will be on the way. Can an increase in the disease succeed in being the cure?
Trump and Federal Reserve are pumping up the stock market non-stop, speculative sentiment is now out of control. At some point this market will collapse. The Mississippi Bubble of 1718-1720 The Mississippi Bubble was an economic bubble in France in the early 1700s that developed in parallel with Britain’s disastrous South Sea Bubble. The mastermind behind the … Read more
by David Haggith During its brief and utterly failed attempt to reduce its balance sheet (called quantitative tightening), the Federal Reserve only rolled off securities at a rate of $50 billion a month. It is now purchasing US treasuries at a rate of more than $55 billion a month: The Federal Reserve continues to add more … Read more
