60 Minutes: Australia is on fire because it is dry, It is dry because private water companies and corrupt politicians profit from it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5B42fFEXhg&feature=youtu.be
Action Needed: Rising Yield Pressures… The strong rally in risk asset prices comes with a warning that liquidity-surges often end suddenly.
Action Needed: Rising Yield PressuresThe Global Liquidity backdrop has changed radically.Fed has delivered biggest ever 12mth boost.The strong rally in risk asset prices comes with a warning that liquidity-surges often end suddenly. act@liquidity.com for report and reccos pic.twitter.com/CquwmQXTNI — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) January 8, 2020 Impact of #FED on Global Liquidity .. ask act@liquidity.com … Read more
US stocks substantially more expensive than global peers across all metrics
"US stocks substantially more expensive than global peers across all metrics" https://t.co/wweCXi10Zl pic.twitter.com/GAhHa4Xi9v — Trevor Noren (@trevornoren) January 8, 2020 The S&P 500 is now more overvalued than ever, per this measure S&P 500 price-to-sales ratio is well above its dot-com bubble peak Wall Street strategists have been calling for fairly modest gains for U.S. … Read more
“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” . Even the church.
"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" . Even the church. #SAD Btw, the Vatican exorcist (Gabriele Amorth) wrote several books on exorcisms. Fascinating stuff. The back door way into believing in goodness/God is studying evil. #TheGoldenRule https://t.co/icKC2NySTU — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) January 8, 2020
Newt Gingrich: Liberal Democrats wring their hands when we take out a bad guy. They don’t seem to worry about the bad guys when they are killing Americans.
Liberal Democrats wring their hands when we take out a bad guy. They don't seem to worry about the bad guys when they are killing Americans.https://t.co/4sFxiFdXKg — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 9, 2020
Why GDP Growth Estimates Are Surging
by UPFINA The decline in the trade deficit in November is a huge deal. The deficit fell from $46.9 billion to $43.1 billion which was the narrowest deficit since October 2016. This was lower than estimates for $43.9 billion. However, estimates were only so low because the advanced trade in goods report told us about the … Read more
These are basically the loosest financial conditions in 27 years. 1/8/2020: No shorts left in the market; Stocks at ATH’s
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1215000451587956736 1/8/2020: No shorts left in the marketStocks at ATH’s Buyers Market Bulls and Super Bulls buying High hoping to Sell HigherHot Potato Market Fed waiting on the sidelines to bail out Trump and the BullsAnd the most boring market you will ever see 😉 — Reminiscences of an American Capitalist (@4Awesometweet) January 9, 2020 … Read more
Trump is exaggerating both the strength of the U.S. economy
Trump is exaggerating both the strength of the U.S. economy and the degree of our energy independence. The economy is merely a bubble fueled by reckless monetary and fiscal stimulus, and a sustained rise in oil prices is as dangerous a pin now as it was in the past. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) January 8, … Read more
Rand Paul: This Is Absurd!
SenatorRandPaul, Released on 1/8/20 Dr. Rand Paul is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. Elected in 2010, he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility, and a warrior against government overreach. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, Rand was a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky., … Read more
Tucker Carlson – San Francisco is like Mumbai in India
The idea of giving needles to addicts is a way to keep the addicts from dying sooner, rather than later, and filling up hospitals with non-paying patients. The money the addicts steal goes to buy the drugs that the politicians get kick-backs for letting enter their cities. This keeps the money flowing to those that … Read more
Iran missile strike was to ‘save face’ – Ned Ryun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc-tGER4G5g Ned Ryun of American Majority joins Scottie Nell Hughes to weigh in on President Trump’s response to the Iran missile strike on two US bases in Iraq. He argues that Iran doesn’t have the “capabilities” to wage WWIII and that this is obvious to the leadership in Tehran.
Saker: To The Idiots That Think This Is Over, It Ain’t!
Via The Saker, Looks like Round 1 is over. Let’s begin with a small recap of events: Iran fired a relatively small number of short range missiles at one, possibly two, US bases The IRGC indicated that if Iran is attacked, then so will Israel Trump tweeted “so far, so good” The US reported no … Read more
Come Home, America: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Wars-Without-End
by John W. Whitehead “Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation. America must be restored to a … Read more
Americans over 40 are half as likely to get hired — and it’s worse for workers over 50
Via Marketwatch Tom Brady is a now free agent, but the NFL player doesn’t have the same worries as millions of Americans over 40. Workers over 40 are only about half as likely, or less, to get a job offer than younger workers if employers know their age, according to research released this week conducted by economics professor … Read more
John Rubino – World Governments have Given Up on Fixing Financial System, Past Point of No Return
Financial writer and book author John Rubino says, “We have entered a new stage which feels like one of the end stages of this process—when governments just give up and don’t even pretend to try and control their finances anymore. Well, we are there. That’s when it will be clear to everybody that is the … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan quit Royal Family
by Dr. Eowyn After British taxpayers spent £32 million ($41.9 million) on their wedding less than two years ago in May 2018, and $3 million on refurbishing their residence Frogmore Cottage, Prince Harry and his D-list Hollywood-actress wife Meghan Markle just announced they’re leaving the royal family. Latest instance of Meghan bossing Prince Harry around, directing him to sit … Read more
Ron Paul: Trump has ‘too many neocons around him trying to aggravate things’
RT, Released on 1/8/20 Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The Fed. An unwavering defender of the US Constitution, Paul has been an advocate of sound money, … Read more