via rollingstone: October 4th, 2018, was a busy news day. The fight over Brett Kavanuagh’s Supreme Court nomination dominated the cycle. The Trump White House received a supplemental FBI report it said cleared its would-be nominee of wrongdoing. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens …
via Zerohedge: The parade of weak bank earnings continued on Tuesday when UBS, one of the first major European banks to report, announced that it had missed analysts’ profit estimates (though it did record a rise in full-year profits) due …
via mishtalk: Corporate America is doing far better than most expected under Trump’s tax cuts. But the cuts didn’t pay for themselves. I am a firm believer the ideal corporate tax rate is zero. Yet I was against Trump’s tax cut. …
via MarketWatch: When the leader of one of the biggest economies in the world gathers his chiefs for an economic pep talk, the rest of the world best listen up. At the top of the radar for investors returning to …
via Zerohedge: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp (PBGC) said in a Friday press release that it believes Sears Holdings Corp’s “continuation of the plans is no longer possible” following the Company’s October bankruptcy, after it was revealed in a Friday …
via Bloomberg: If you’re looking for one of the worst ideas in contemporary banking, look no further than Germany. The mooted merger between Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG would make a mockery of any notion that EU governments are serious about ending …
via upfina: The stock market is in a unique situation because the government shutdown has delayed many economic reports from being released. The government shutdown has lasted 31 days which is 10 days longer than the previous record long shutdown. It’s …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Yesterday’s release by China’s National Bureau of Statistics that shows China 4Q GDP slowing to 6.4% in CY2018 vs 6.8% in CY2017 has rekindled worries about a deceleration in global growth US stocks index future are …
Korean exports appears to have collapsed in January – bad news for global EPS growth! 🇨🇳🇰🇷🌍 $KRW pic.twitter.com/q4ThQkQp3O — Martin Enlund ⚡️🦆🚁 (@enlundm) January 22, 2019 pic.twitter.com/48ZTamk4Vh — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 22, 2019 hold on to your pants pic.twitter.com/0Id8dIv7L4 — …
With 18.7m followers and a roster of fans that includes the Kardashians and Naomi Campbell, the Instagram page of beauty company Anastasia Beverly Hills offers crafty demonstrations of how to use its products to get the perfect eyebrows and lips. In one …
by Michael Snyder IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde made headlines all over the globe this week when she declared that “the risk of a sharper decline in global growth has certainly increased”. As you will see below, signs of economic trouble …
by Michael Snyder If you add together all of the money owned by the poorest 3.8 billion people living on this planet, it would roughly equal the wealth controlled by the 26 wealthiest men in the world. Oxfam has just …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The social media/search giants have mastered the dark arts of obfuscating how they’re reaping billions of dollars in profits from monetizing user data, and lobbying technologically naive politicos to leave their vast skimming operations untouched. I’ve been …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But first-time buyers cling to hope. Sales of newly built detached houses in Australia plunged 6.7% in December 2018 from November, to just 4,622 houses, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), easily whizzing by the …
One of the largest manufacturing industries in all developed and emerging countries is represented by the chemical industry. It is central to the modern world economy, converting raw materials into thousands of products that we use on a daily …
by John Rubino The business cycle has its stages, and they’re usually both predictable and logical. For example, governments tend to generate a lot of tax revenue late in an expansion as more people get jobs and start paying income …
Here is today’s articles mentioned in this news update: 1. A Weakening Global Expansion Amid Growing Risks https://blogs.imf.org/2019/01/21/a-we… 2. Davos 2019: What you need to know about ‘the world’s most exclusive business bash’ https://www.thelocal.ch/20190121/davo… 3. IMF cuts growth forecasts for …
by TFittonJW Enjoy the Judicial Watch video: Was on Fox ten years ago talking about Air Pelosi…. Back when I was 40…there was controversy about Speaker Pelosi’s travel (caused by JW”s investigations and litigation). And now, thanks to President Trump, …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The net result of a rigged system is the vast majority of the gains in income and wealth flow to the very tippy-top of the wealth/power pyramid. We often hear how the system (i.e. our economy) is …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBWMouLSwJQ It’s a shame so many Americans don’t understand what’s going on in Europe. Between Brexit, the yellow vest movement, the Eastern Europeans, Italy, Greece, etc, it’s a whole new ballgame. And it all started with Trump. The EU is …
The [DS] is pushing their agenda with their latest event involving boys from a religious school.Fox accidentally puts up a graphic showing RBG already gone. Blueprint Q lay out the plan to get rid of the swamp. Strange messages, tweets …
By Tsvetana Paraskova Last year’s heightened volatility in energy markets—typically a welcome background for fund managers to make profitable trades—proved to be less than stellar news for energy-focused funds. Energy-exposed funds have been suffering since 2016—first because of subdued volatility, …
Senate Democrat Accuses House Republicans Of Colluding To ‘Derail’ Mueller Probe, Calls For Investigation A Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling for an investigation of House Republicans he claims have colluded with the Trump White House to derail …
The [DS] is pushing their agenda with their latest event involving boys from a religious school.Fox accidentally puts up a graphic showing RBG already gone. Blueprint Q lay out the plan to get rid of the swamp. Strange messages, tweets …
by DCG Why are people supporting Netflix? I’m guessing the “newbs” who sign up are either unaware of the CRAP Netflix supports or they just don’t care. I wonder if new subscribers are aware of the following: Garbage: “Chilling Adventures of …
via bongino: Transcripts of former FBI General Counsel James Baker’s October testimony to Congress reveal that he believed Hillary Clinton should have been charged for her “alarming, appalling” mishandling of classified information, according to the Epoch Times. Baker told Congress he argued …
by John Ward On a point of order, I think Mrs May was out of order by pitching up at the House of Commons this afternoon in contempt of a demand by said House that she must come up with a Plan B …
by Chris If you want to see the “Russia Gate” sausage factory up close and personal, watch as Lee Camp brilliantly takes down one of the more odiferous links when he exposes the who behind the New Knowledge group that …
Bill Holter interviewed by Sean of SGTreport Bill Holter joins me to discuss the coming global economic reset, precious metals, and the latest high crimes and misdemeanors of the mockingbird media and deep state criminals who are aligned against President Donald J. Trump.
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders For those that still believe the US markets are weak and poised for a total collapse, we want to bring something to your attention. Throughout weeks of uncertainty about China trade deals, the US government shutdown, …