More Stock Hedges Being Trimmed

by Dana Lyons Stock market rallies don’t typically die until investor sentiment becomes overwhelmingly bullish; we are starting to see more signs of that. The stock market likes to climb a “wall of worry” as they say. The point of that Wall Street-ism is that as long as there are plenty of skeptics out there, there are … Read more

Leftists Such as John Podesta, Maddox, McCain, and Others Celebrate and Laugh as Roger Stone Begs for His Life – UPDATE: Fox News Laughs on VIDEO

Leftists Such as John Podesta, Maddox, McCain, and Others Celebrate and Laugh as Roger Stone Begs for His Life – UPDATE: Fox News Laughs on VIDEO McCain: Rot in hell, Roger Stone. — Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) November 15, 2019 John Podesta Verified account @johnpodesta Just about to take off on a long transatlantic flight in … Read more

The Rich’s Reputation Keeps Getting Worse

by Bill Bonner Give me some of that. Give me some of that money. I want some of that money. – Donald J. Trump YOUGHAL, IRELAND – The stock market is hitting new high after new high. But the economy is slipping. Wall Street and the rich flourish; Main Street and the middle classes fall behind. … Read more

Ruh roh: Tlaib “frantically” asked campaign for personal money; ethics probe announced

by DCG From Fox News: The House Ethics Committee on Thursday released a trove of striking internal campaign communications sent in 2018 by Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, in which Tlaib urgently requested money from her congressional campaign to defray personal expenses — and, a government watchdog said, possibly violated federal law in the process. The document … Read more

Did the Fed Just Lose Control of Its Main Tool?

Photo by Wikimedia.com | CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group It started back in September, when a seemingly “shocked” Fed clamored to regain control as repo rates suddenly skyrocketed. Then, in October, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell decided to start growing the Fed’s balance sheet “as necessary” with “organic” quantitative easing (QE) in order to try to maintain order in the markets. Finally, … Read more

Will Consumers Bail Out The Economy

by Patrick Hill Consumers are viewed by many economic analysts as the last hope to keep the economy humming as the manufacturing sector seems to be in a recession. To wit, in the newly released third-quarter GDP report, personal consumption accounted for 100% of GDP growth.  However, weakness in the business sector may trigger a … Read more

Speaker Pelosi Selected “Bribery” For Impeachment Narrative After Focus Group Polling in Key States…

by sundance The preferred impeachment narrative amid Democrat party leadership surrounds creating articles of impeachment that are based on constitutional principles, not hard-line partisan politics.  However, with the latest shift by Speaker Pelosi to focus on the word “bribery” it is now discovered the reason for the impeachment change was a political focus-group: (Washington Post Article … Read more

Case Closed! “Do you have any information regarding the President of the United States accepting any bribes?” YOVANOVITCH: No. “Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the President of the United States has been involved with at all?” YOVANOVITCH: No.

“Do you have any information regarding the President of the United States accepting any bribes?” YOVANOVITCH: No. “Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the President of the United States has been involved with at all?” YOVANOVITCH: No. pic.twitter.com/QjKyAwdzoc — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 15, 2019

Ignoring It Won’t Make It Go Away: The Fed’s Bubble Will Burst… The End Is Nigh! Jim Rickards: A Crash Is Coming

It’s almost impossible to find a kernel of truth in the Empire of Lies. As is always the case, the outlook from the Federal Reserve is sunshine and rainbows. The President has the same erroneous view. But ignoring the biggest bubble that the Fed has ever created will not make it go away.   The … Read more

Trouble Ahead? S&P 500 v Top IPO’s of 2019

🧐>>S&P 500 v Top IPO's of 2019 https://t.co/PqwEashY1C pic.twitter.com/BR2y5v6S6Z — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) November 15, 2019 $AMZN completely neglecting this run-up in overall stocks. Over 15% divergence since July. The stock broke a 4-year support and recently formed a death cross. It's one the most important charts out there. If this #1 market-darling … Read more

US household debt nears $14 tn in Q3…. Delinquencies rise

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-household-debt-nears-14-tn-q3-ny-195703932.html Borrowing by American households rose for the 21st straight quarter in the July-September period and is more than $1 trillion above the prior peak set in 2008 at the outset of the global financial crisis, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said Wednesday. Amid attractive interest rates, total household debt rose 0.7 percent to … Read more

What’s different about China’s GDP number? Is China growing at 6% as it lets everyone else believe? Can China come out of this without devaluing its currency?

via Michael Nicoletos: 1/ #China’s GDP is an input number and not an output figure like in western economies. National accounts are based on data collected by local governments which are rewarded for meeting growth targets; hence, they have an incentive to skew the data they provide to the Central Gov. 2/ Looking at different data … Read more

The Economy Is Painted Into A Corner And The Market Loves It

The economy is painted into a corner. – Equity earnings at its widest spread against inflation since the GFC – Core CPI now above the entire Treasury curve. – Strong bullish case for precious metals Thanks for having me @GuruHavenHQ @Simple_Trendshttps://t.co/fAwpBVewtt — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) November 15, 2019 big miss on ip as mfg … Read more

Trump Derangement Syndrome Fatigue: Impeachment Viewership 32% Lower Than Comey Hearings

Fatigue from Trump Derangement Syndrome? The first day of impeachment hearings only brought in 13.1 million viewers. The number becomes bleaker considering how many channels carried the hearing. The numbers for these major hearings have declined since the Comey hearings: The 13,098,000 who tuned in on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN and PBS marks … Read more