C&I loan growth y/y tumbling towards zero amid industrial recession, the U.S. 2-10s yield curve has steepened to the widest since October 2018.

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c&i loan growth y/y tumbling towards zero amid industrial recession pic.twitter.com/5B5DBt6xBp — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 29, 2019 The U.S. 2-10s yield curve has steepened to the widest since October 2018. pic.twitter.com/lQwFyfyqDw — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) December 30, 2019 The median price of Manhattan apartments fell to $999,000 in each of the past two quarters. It … Read more

“Risk Free” Markets are now completely broken.

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The stock market is rising again thanks to the growth hormones and steroids of the FEDpic.twitter.com/FuFeKuRm1Z — Wim Grommen (@wimgrommen) December 30, 2019 oops pic.twitter.com/dqvFJQtqZt — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 29, 2019 $VIX spooked about something pic.twitter.com/0AhFiCByIc — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 30, 2019

In One Map: Where the U.S. Economy is Built

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by howmuch Economic growth headlines the news in good times and bad. Financial analysts continually forecast and tweak outlooks for the U.S. and the global economy. With the holiday season coming to an end, Americans spent 3.4% more than the prior year on top of an 18.8% growth in online sales. Although the political focus has been … Read more

This story is being killed in news rooms all around the world

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Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria … Read more

Stocks Are the Opiate of the Masses

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By Jared Dillian The stock market is the opiate of the masses. Oh sure, the days of watching Jim Cramer mash buttons on his console with his sleeves rolled up to his armpits are pretty much over. And nobody really day trades anymore, except for masochists. And, despite a 10,000-point rise in the Dow since … Read more

3 Ways to Play the Healthcare Surge

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By Robert Ross 2019 was a good year for stocks. US stocks have rocketed 28% this year. This is the second largest annual gain since 1999. And the tenth straight year stocks have climbed higher. This has a lot of investors worried that stocks could tank soon. But this bull market is far from over. My research shows … Read more

WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT.

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There’s no getting around the fact – no matter how much one wants to – that Rachel @Maddow’s performance on Russiagate was one of the most paranoid, unhinged and fact-free debacles of sustained media propaganda, fear-mongering, conspiracy-mongering and deceit in many years: https://t.co/wvXGpBOerS — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2019

MSM: swarms of giant drones in Colorado and Nebraska night sky, and nobody knows where they’re from!

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swarms of giant drones in Colorado and Nebraska night sky, and nobody knows where they’re from!! Mysterious swarms of giant drones have dotted the Colorado and Nebraska night sky since last week, the Denver Post first reported. The drones appear and disappear at roughly the same time each night in swarms of at least 17 … Read more

The Hour Is Getting Late

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by Charles Hugh-Smith After 11 years of “the Fed is the market” expansion, the Fed has now reduced its bloated balance sheet by 6.7%. This is normal, right? So here we are in Year 11 of the longest economic expansion/ stock market bubble in recent history, and by any measure, the hour is getting late, to … Read more

VIDEO: “Joe Biden savages Texans for allowing citizens to carry in church.”

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Benny Verified account @bennyjohnson Biden savaged Texans for allowing citizens to carry in church. Three months later, an armed Texas Christian dropped a church shooter with one shot. The gunman could have killed many, many more had there not been multiple armed Christians ready to defend their flock to the death Biden savaged Texans for … Read more

FBI Analyst Gets Jail Time for Illegally Accessing Right-Wing Lobbyist’s Email to ‘Protect’ Mueller

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We’ve seen the horrible FBI abuse revealed by the IG report issued by Michael Horowitz. But what it revealed was not just the specific abuse but an attitude under former Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe that allowed such things to happen, of people thinking they were entitled to do what they want … Read more

Big Banks Turn Bearish On Oil Next Year

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By Julianne Geiger As the year draws to a close, the Brent and WTI oil benchmarks are trading at $66.55 and $61.54, respectively. From $60.65 to $64.50, investment bank and analyst projections for Brent crude prices next year are starting to come in. Most forecasts had the luxury of OPEC’s deeper production cuts under the … Read more

How to Manage Your Budget Without Problems – Tips from Rabato

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Every day, consumers are bombarded with countless advertisements and seemingly valuable retail offers. Reasonable consumer behavior is based on certain principles that ensure one’s money is well-spent. Here are five useful budgeting tips provided by Rabato.    Keep Track of Bargains Effectively   Today, hot deals and discounts from retailers may be found in a … Read more