via Investors: The new report from the Government Accountability Office — a federal auditing agency — shows that of the $3.7 trillion the federal government spent in 2015, $3.2 trillion of it didn’t require authorization by Congress that year. In …
Alicia Powe for the Gateway Pundit reports, Investigative journalist Laura Loomer blasted executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter for lying to Congress about suppressing conservative content and censoring Trump supporters in an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06HCeSztxXQ Read …
via confoundedinterest: (Bloomberg) Here’s another reason Donald Trump is “not at all happy with the Fed” and will continue to be frustrated by the world’s No. 2 economy. He is the first president to suffer the new normal of China becoming more creditworthy than …
via creditbubblebulletin: December 13 – Financial Times (Chris Giles and Claire Jones): “When the European Central Bank switches off its money-printing press at the turn of this year and stops buying fresh assets, it will mark the end of a decade-long …
Ron Paul: Brace for a market meltdown that may rival 1929 crash from CNBC. via CNBC: Ron Paul is warning this year’s corrections could be a precursor to an epic market collapse that may come sooner than investors think. …
via telegraph.co.uk: The pillars of the global financial system are fundamentally unstable and could lead to a frightening chain-reaction in the next crisis, the world’s top watchdog has warned. Giant “central counterparties” (CCPs) that clear much of the $540 trillion (£428 trillion) …
via themacrotourist: It seems like a lot of hard-money-hawks were caught off guard by last month’s dovish shift by Powell. I have had more than a couple of conversations with different market participants who have expressed disbelief about how quickly Powell …
Bloomberg: “The Bubble’s Losing Air. Get Ready for a Crisis” “The ‘everything bubble’ is deflating. The fact that it’s happening relatively slowly shouldn’t blind us to the real threat: The world is dangerously underestimating how hard it’ll be to deal …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving the gold market and the overall economy. Stories include: What portfolio theory says about gold, central banks go big on gold, and silver to reach $18 in …
by Thinker How is it that a General under the Obama/Clinton administration can lie under oath in front of a committee and not go to jail, and now under Trump administration and in a room without a camera, General Flynn …
via scmp: Authorities in Guangdong, nation’s manufacturing powerhouse, told all future purchasing managers’ indexes will be produced by National Bureau of Statistics Ruling comes ahead of what is likely to be tough start to 2019 for China’s economy as trade war …
via Bloomberg: What began guardedly, as traditional lenders retreated post-Lehman, has exploded into a financial-industrial complex rapidly approaching $1 trillion, with money streaming in from pension funds, insurers and hedge funds. It’s part of a decade-long borrowing spree that has …
via Bloomberg: The Bloomberg analysis found that loans issued about six years ago have the highest cumulative loss percentage compared to any other year since the financial crisis ended. This indicates that students who took a loan in 2012 have …
by NaturalHedgehog 18% | [Fidelity Southern Corporation (LION)](https://bravos.co/LION) | Merging with Ameris Bancorp (Bank holding company) 13% | [Coeur Mining, Inc. (CDE)](https://bravos.co/CDE) | Mining stocks are rising on relief that the U.S./China trade war is not escalating (Mining) 11% …
via dividendgrowthinvestor: A dividend king is a company that has managed to increase dividends to shareholders for at least 50 years in a row. There are only 26 such companies in the US, and perhaps a couple more in the rest …
” Since its peak in late January, the S&P 500 financials index has fallen more than 20%—typically considered the threshold for the start of a bear market. Concerns about economic growth and the increasing cost of borrowing money may be making investors …
$VIX wave 3 coming? pic.twitter.com/PmZetGgPte — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 17, 2018 Final resistance pic.twitter.com/aklxpgAOpg — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) December 17, 2018 $VIX (daily) should be much higher pic.twitter.com/zfBxKosP99 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 17, 2018 $VIX >25 – Vol Funds Go Wild …
Another day where spreads rise, market falls, commodities lose steam and dollar creeps up. This is not the Fed, not trade wars, not political. This is the hangover of a decade of global monetary excess. pic.twitter.com/5lPzMg4u5t — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) …
By Harry Dent I see China as the center of the greatest bubble period in modern history. The emerging world has been on an urbanization tear, especially since 1980, and China has led the way! But, it’s not done so …
by SP Charles posts an excellent and insightful essay on the downward mobility of the middle class as a cause of the “Yellow Vests” uprising. He points out the economic forces. The middle class, virtually by definition, is not prepared …
by WARREN MOSLER Analyst Opinion of Container Movements Simply looking at this month versus last month – this was a terrible month. The three month rolling averages significantly declined. This is the first dataset I have seen which could be …
David Jensen interviewed by Sean of SGTreport David Jensen emailed me recently to say “all hell is breaking loose in the Palladium markets” and as David explains it, the unallocated paper precious metals Ponzi scheme may come unraveled once and for all due to …
by Geoffrey Grider On the stand, Godinez said that he was “bewildered” by being called a white supremacist and immediately cried out, “I’m Mexican!” After that, as the attack continued, both men said that members of the group, including Keenan, …
Searching “Hillary Clinton e” produces no mention of email but the 1st autocomplete suggestion is emoji. Adding the m produces no results. Searching every other politician with “em” gives email as the 1st result. Taking the search to duckduckgo …
From CNN Business: California regulators no longer plan to tax text messages. The California Public Utilities Commission said a new FCC ruling prevented the state from levying a tax on text plans. The state hoped to add new monthly fees onto wireless customers’ …
Dozens of news outlets reported that America has the most mass shooters in the world. Many say that shows America needs more gun control. From John Stossel: CNN claimed that “the U.S. has the most mass shootings”. The WSJ reported that “U.S. leads …
Road To Roota, Released on 12/17/18 Fed decides on Fed Funds Rate Change on Wednesday…any decision is the WRONG decision and will soon be exposed as such! Will Trump use the Fed as the scapegoat for market destruction? Very Likely! …
by Thinker “Deep state Europe is feeling the same effects as “deep state” USA…the people feeling the same way. Tried of being taxed to death in nations with corrupt leadership who “TRUTH” is showing they weren’t supporting and representing the …
Outrageous Taxpayer spending by the Left. What a piece of Garbage. It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi …
The US has been learning how to ‘switch’ genes on & off of small sea life for years, and are finally ready to release their genetically modified critters into the wild as tiny spies. What they learned was microbes will …