The Real Reason The U.S. Is Interested In Iran

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By Kurt Cobb The American obsession with Iran is about oil and natural gas. If these two resources had been absent, it is hard to imagine such an intense American focus on the country from the time of a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-backed coup of Iran’s elected government in 1953 to today. The Foreign Policy magazine piece linked above … Read more

Federal Reserve Admits It Pumped More than $6 Trillion to Wall Street in Recent Six Week Period

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via wallstreetonparade If the Federal Reserve was looking for a media lockdown on news about the trillions of dollars in cumulative repo loans it has funneled quietly to Wall Street’s trading houses since September 17 of last year, it could not have found a better cloud cover than Donald Trump. First the impeachment proceedings bumped the … Read more

Looks like it’s hot war now Iran pushed alot of launch button’s

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Missiles were fired early Wednesday in multiple locations across Iraq, a senior U.S. militarysource in the country told Fox News, describing it as a series of attacks on U.S. forces from Iran. The source told Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin: “Under missile attack from Iran. These are either cruise missiles or short-range ballistic … Read more

BREAKING: US Airbase just got attacked – 01/07/20

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#BREAKING: @AlMonitor Pentagon corespondent @JackDetsch_ALM reports Al-Assad Airbase in Iraq (housing US troops) has been hit by 6 rockets, casualties unclear — ELINT News (@ELINTNews) January 7, 2020 More rockets incoming at Al-Asad beyond the first six, a defense official tells me. https://t.co/zwtewJA0n0 — Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) January 7, 2020 Breaking: A US Defense official … Read more

New Earth-Sized Planet Found In Habitable Zone of Nearby Star! Truth Talk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CEq59Q7QHQ A few months ago a group of NASA exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest. Because my expertise lies in modeling the climate of exoplanets, they asked me to figure out … Read more

Mystery Viral Outbreak In Hong Kong Has People Raising Many Questions

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWI2tk-o-Ro Hong Kong initiates ‘serious response’ level as mysterious sickness recalls deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) that killed 700 people back in 2002-2003. This new outbreak occurs just after the government has launched a new plan to respond to unknown infectious disease… And just after the protests have started again in Hong Kong. Learn … Read more

277 People A Day Leave New York

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Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, New Yorkers are fleeing the state in droves due to high taxes. The result is an overabundance of homes few can afford… Bloomberg reports Manhattan’s Flood of New Condos Could Take Six Years to Sell. Manhattan is glutted with even more luxury condos than most apartment-shoppers realize. The borough has … Read more

Could the ‘New’ Shanghai Accord 2 Ultimately Lead to a 2020 Crash? a correction this year?

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Could the ‘New’ Shanghai Accord 2 Ultimately Lead to a 2020 Crash? a correction this year? ask act@liquidity.com for report pic.twitter.com/vK1WReFLwN — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) January 7, 2020 Global Liquidity rides high again – will it lead to an equity correction later this year but from significantly higher equity levels ? higher bond yields … Read more

Widening divergences … ISM Manufacturing vs.: 10yr yield; financial conditions; global manufacturing; semiconductor stocks

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Widening divergences … ISM Manufacturing vs.: 10yr yield; financial conditions; global manufacturing; semiconductor stocks@SoberLook @MacrobondF @Refinitiv @IHSMarkit @natixis pic.twitter.com/hahzjJlPTe — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) January 6, 2020 $SPX vs. ISM – The current spread is the largest we have seen since 1996. Here's the $SPX vs. ISM, but done via Z-score to standardize. The current … Read more

Stocks acting like it’s the beginning of an economic expansion or the end.

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Stocks acting like it’s the beginning of an economic expansion or the end. After 70% of the yield curve already inverted at record valuations… My call is the latter. pic.twitter.com/sNd2jeLNd0 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) January 7, 2020 'Global retail investor interest in EM equities has dwindled, as indicated by the shrinking outstanding shares of … Read more

Manhattan has so many new, unsold condos it would take six years, at the current pace of sales, to unload them all

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Manhattan has so many new, unsold condos it would take six years, at the current pace of sales, to unload them all https://t.co/yoWC5S3DcV — Bloomberg Pursuits (@luxury) January 6, 2020 About 85% of newly built units haven’t been formally listed Large ‘shadow inventory’ is a drag on struggling sales market Manhattan is glutted with even … Read more

Most Weakness Since The Financial Crisis

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by UPFINA On December 11th, the Fed didn’t hike or cut rates. It released its Minutes from that meeting on Friday which we will review here. The Fed discussed the rise in the stock market when the Minutes stated, “A few participants raised the concern that keeping interest rates low over a long period might encourage excessive … Read more

Picture worth a 1,000 words. How many of the inorganic inputs that inflated Bubble #3 are REPEATABLE or sustainable?

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Picture worth a 1,000 words. How many of the inorganic inputs that inflated Bubble #3 are REPEATABLE or sustainable? Two decades of bubbles, while structural problems metastasized & ignored by Fed@RobSKaplan @neelkashkari @marydalyecon @EricRosengren @benbernanke @RaphaelBostic pic.twitter.com/VXDhjmSr1S — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) January 6, 2020 Investment grade leverage pic.twitter.com/cF7bYE8v5R — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) January 4, 2020 … Read more

America is a nation lit only by propaganda

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by Fabius Maximus Summary: As I wrote seven years ago, America has become a nation lit only by propaganda. Our films show how the media industries are building a new America on the ruins of the America-that-once-was. It has been done before in other nations before, and seldom ends well. ID 121371683 © Rahmad Kurniawan | Dreamstime. … Read more