by Martin Armstrong Macron is pushing for the European Finance Minister to raise money by selling EU bonds and then distribute the money to the 19-member Eurozone. France is very heavily indebted and here once again we have simply the …
by Ian Shilling Bill Clinton, in his Acceptance Speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention, called his Professor at Georgetown Carroll Quigley “a big influence on him.” Maybe you should read what Slick Willy was reading and what he was taught before …
Google Scott Adams… Google search results 4 and 5 are phony pix of me in Nazi uniform Click the 4th link, goes to a phony Twitter account, 15 followers Is Google intentionally trying to screw me over? If the photos …
This is different from 2016 in so many ways when we were last at this kind of technical level:1) Draghi took proactive coordination off the table today. 2) Fed is already doing QT. Pausing doesn’t stop that. 3) BoJ already …
by Shaun Richards This morning has seen a barrage of economic data released by the National Bureau of Statistics in China. This gives us an opportunity to see if they are catching the economic cold that we have been …
The U.S. stock market has been been gapping up on the open and selling off later in the day recently. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by objectively …
Far-left extremists are raising money on Patreon to “inspire insurrection.” Far Left Watch has done a good job of collating what violence-inspiring lefties are getting away with on Patreon, so you’ll want to click over. But first, this: Patreon is …
How likely is an earthquake in the Midwest, South? The Big One could be coming The big earthquake, in the New Madrid (Missouri) Seismic Zone. But don’t start quaking in your running shoes and try to escape to Texas because …
CHANGE: Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast for First Time. Streaming services snatched their biggest piece of the TV pie ever in 2018. According to FX’s annual report on the number of scripted originals on TV, the number of …
YouTube/BenSwann, Released on 12/13/18 The Yellow Vest protests in France have only received a small amount of media coverage in the U.S. and there may be good reason for it. Is the fact that these protests began over a Carbon …
wow $4700 destroyed the Hillary campaign! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7RL-P7-QY&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1BhHORxCNTGQIhC0ZE-_WfWRtLy1cesiWG6CpF0K9kHW5m2UgJE9IFz2A You can’t make this stuff up. “Does Google now know the full extent to which its online platforms were exploited by Russian actors in the election two years ago?” Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York …
by New_Life Tom Lee (who had originally predicted $25k by EOY) is tired of making BTC forecasts.. Funny that… https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/13/wall-streets-bitcoin-bull-tom-lee-we-are-tired-of-people-asking-us-about-target-prices.html Even as recently as Oct he was saying $25k by EOY was on the table, sobering lesson that a so called …
by John Rubino I thought I’d seen all the “Peter Schiff Was Right” videos, but just stumbled onto this 2006 CNBC classic pitting Schiff against a new cast of (in retrospect) clueless antagonists, including a “chief economist” with some quaintly …
by Michael Snyder https://youtu.be/sodyRRM4s3g Is it appropriate for a pastor to buy a $200,000 Lamborghini for his wife? When news came out that Greenville pastor John Gray had given his wife a Lamborghini sports utility vehicle for their eighth anniversary, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The price of rising interest rates. The FDIC just released the aggregated third-quarter performance metrics of the 5,477 banks and thrifts it insures. The amount of their combined assets ticked up to $17.7 trillion. These assets – mostly …
by David Haggith If we don’t beat the establishment before the next downturn, we’re going to see the same bailouts and money printing we’ve seen before but on a deliriously insane level. This is not me being a permabear. In fact, …
by Hubert Moolman of HubertMoolman.wordpress.com Previously, I have shown how we could be close to major financial crisis with the monetary system at the center. The following chart that shows the ratio of gold to the monetary base was used: The chart shows …
https://twitter.com/MehulD108/status/1073202307423236096 [RTRS] – U.S.-BASED LOAN PARTICIPATION FUNDS POST $2.5 BLN WITHDRAWALS OVER WEEKLY PERIOD; LARGEST WITHDRAWALS ON RECORDS DATING TO 2003 -LIPPER — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 13, 2018 [RTRS] – U.S.-BASED CORPORATE INVESTMENT-GRADE BOND FUNDS POST $3.7 BLN WITHDRAWALS OVER …
via @EconguyRosie: In one of the most ridiculous comments I have heard all year long, a CNBC guest this morning actually told viewers that households are under invested in equities. It seems to me that the data would suggest the opposite …
John Rubino interviewed on Reluctant Preppers “The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm.” ~ JRR Tolkien What are the real reasons we should suspect that our financial lives are not as we are being told? And who …
via visualcapitalist: Innovation can be a major competitive advantage for any developed economy. However, achieving a sustainable rate of innovation isn’t necessarily a straightforward exercise. The reality is that innovation is a complex and difficult outcome to measure, and there are …
Consumers plan big holiday spending despite drop in economic optimism from CNBC. via CNBC: The percentage of Americans viewing the economy as excellent or good dropped 8 points to 50 percent, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic survey. Those …
via CNN: New York (CNN Business)America’s finance chiefs fear the economic expansion is nearly over. Almost half (48.6%) of US chief financial officers believe the United States will be in recession by the end of next year, according to the …
via dailyreckoning: The buck stops here, said Truman. But Trump says it stops with the next fellow in line. Let it be the next president’s toothache. Last year administration bean counters unfurled a worrisome chart before the president… It revealed an …
via themacrotourist: Think back to this past summer. The US dollar was rallying hard, having risen from 88 DXY in the spring to 97 as August drew to a close. At the same time, the American stock market was on fire, …
More financial technology startups are wading into a crowded, stodgy business: checking accounts. Last spring, personal finance app Acorns and lending startup SoFi announced new debit cards. “Neobank” Chime has been offering free online checking accounts since 2014, and it …
The company values itself at $24 billion. Dell is projecting $87.5 billion revenue this fiscal year (up 9% from previous year). The company has $50 billion in debt. Dell was recently taken private in a $24.4 billion buyout in 2013. …
via Bloomberg: City bets investment profits from bonds will fund health care Tactic has been used widely for pensions, with mixed results It’s a “considerable risk,” a “bad idea,” or, as one expert put it, “insanity.” And it may be …
Chance of U.S. downturn 30% in next 12 months, a 9 year high Bond giant overseeing $1.7 trillion issues economic outlook U.S. growth will slow and the risks of a recession climb in 2019 as the near-decade-long economic cycle ages, …
These guys are dropping BOMBS on the Clinton Foundation! EXPLOSIVE: The Whistleblowers on Clinton Foundation ( highly credible non-partisan investigators, who conducted the investigation with their own funds reveal the #ClintonFoundation operated as an agent of foreign governments and should …