from Zero Hedge One year after China did not import even one ounce of US soybeans as the trade feud was escalating at the end of 2018, in November 2019, China – which has found itself roiled by soaring food prices – saw its imports of US soybeans surge to the highest in 20 months after more … Read more
by The Phoenix The Santa rally has ignited stocks to new all-time highs. However, the bigger story is that the stock market is showing zero indication that President Trump will step down as President. If anything, the stock market has begun discounting a landslide win by Trump in the 2020 election. Early in his first term, the President … Read more
Bill Barr just dropped the hammer on the hypocritical Democrats and this wound will take years to heal. Bill Barr just broke up a massive scheme to illegally funnel foreign money to Hillary Clinton and darn near every Democratic political candidate and organization. The list of the Dem organizations taking this illegal money is astounding … Read more
McCain reportedly gave Comey five new Steele reports that were not previously in possession of the FBI, although it’s not clear if McCain knew at the time that Steele was no longer an FBI source. Regardless, the new reports were allegedly obtained by McCain from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. Fusion GPS was notably hired for anti-Trump … Read more
Fox Business, Released on 12/26/19 Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take … Read more
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — When John Rockhold drew a low number, No. 12, in the 1971 draft lottery, his adolescence in the San Fernando Valley forever changed. Seeking to avoid the Army, he signed up for the Navy just after graduating from Granada Hills High School. As an enlisted petty officer, he spent … Read more
A decade after a federal probe exposed the U.S. Census Bureau for hiring serious criminals to enter the homes of unsuspecting Americans to gather statistics for the decennial count, the shocking practice continues. As the agency prepares to employ half a million workers in the coming months, it is still enlisting criminals such as sex … Read more
Do you think we will see a Minsky Moment in the stock market in 2020? Or can printing money out of thin air and giving the money to banks solve any potential issue? A Minsky Moment refers to a period of distortion in the financial system which invariably ends very badly. Both Vanguard and Guggenheim … Read more
But I thought that everything was awesome? The Fed’s official balance sheet is now up over $400 billion dollars ($405.645 billion to be exact) since the end of August 2019! The Fed’s balance sheet has been growing at a $25.352.81 billion dollar per week pace in the last 16 weeks since QT prematurely ended, the … Read more
by Michael Snyder When the Russians take decisive action, it is usually for a reason. As you will see below, the Russians have suddenly decided that now is the time to create an organization that will be tasked with detecting, tracking and potentially destroying incoming asteroids. Are they doing this now because they have finally … Read more
by narworker2 Generally speaking, when you need financing, you pay interest or equity upside in the future in exchange for capital today. If you are able to achieve some kind of Adam Neumann-esque hat-trick and get paid to borrow money, you are more or less a genius. Enter CrowdStreet, a crowdfunding platform that has made geniuses of … Read more
It’s a timeless story: Lower expense ratios keep more of your money working for you, which can help give you a better chance for investment success. Here’s another timeless story: Investors in Vanguard ETFs® (exchange-traded funds) and mutual funds know that we work hard to relentlessly drive down costs, year after year. Well … here we … Read more
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xndOzBhbg3M The Trump economy is hitting all time new records, the NASDAQ hit 9000 for the first time, Holiday sales are up, why, Trump and the patriots put more money back into the pockets of the people, boosted confidence with the market which enabled people to spend money. Trump is continuing the pressure on China … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyexCEPLsck The [DS] is trapped, they are trying to figure their way out of this fake impeachment, each direction they go is a dead end. The plan has failed, the patriots are getting ready to strike. [No Name] confirmed to be involved in the Steele Dossier. Durham has a double meaning, think taking the country … Read more
by Michael Snyder Everything is great in America, isn’t it? After all, the new Star Wars movie just came out, stock prices just hit another all-time record high, and Americans spent more money on Christmas gifts this year than ever before. According to some people, this is the greatest time to be alive in all … Read more
“A Fokker 100 passenger jet belonging to Bek Air airline lost altitude and crashed into a two-story building during take-off from Almaty International Airport, local authorities have confirmed. While there were “multiple survivors”, at least 14 people were killed and dozends injured in the crash, many critically. Dozens of rescue personnel and medics continue to … Read more
I have worked as a senior analyst at a well known investment bank for many years now. I come here to give you all some inside info on what cannot possibly be prevented. Here is a video to get you up to speed with some basic facts. Abstract: January 2020 will collapse the entire global … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed “market” as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in. The last thing punters and pundits expect is a stock “market” crash, yet a “market” crash is already baked in and here’s why: real markets … Read more
Major Winter Storm is on its way for North Dakota on Sunday December 29, 2019 and it will bring 6 to 12 Inches of Snow or More and it will bring a lot of Snow in Fargo and Grand Forks including Bismarck North Dakota and it will Cause Snow Drifts and it will bring … Read more