Probably Nothing To Worry About….

don't mind the gap pic.twitter.com/18I7RQca5o — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 20, 2019 A more detailed look at the flow/volume/participation into the highs $ES_F #geometrics pic.twitter.com/ThVyd6GF0o — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) February 20, 2019 If everything is SO great – then how come one of the strongest performing stocks of the 2009 to 2019 era has gone down the … Read more

More Global Slowing… Fed’s Daly Says She Sees More Headwinds, Including Slower Global Growth, Uncertainty, Tighter Financial Conditions

https://twitter.com/RVAnalysis/status/1098374449630343170 20 Feb – 08:36:14 PM [RTRS] – FED'S DALY SAYS SHE SEES MORE HEADWINDS, INCLUDING SLOWER GLOBAL GROWTH, UNCERTAINTY, TIGHTER FINANCIAL CONDITIONS — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 21, 2019 China excavator sales YoY vs. M1 YoY cc $CAT pic.twitter.com/L6prSSjzd5 — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) February 20, 2019 <50 print Australia PMI — global slowdown pic.twitter.com/VYpHTFDW84 — … Read more

The 10 GOP senators who may break with Trump on emergency

Here are 10 Republican senators who could vote against the president. Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) Sen. Cory Gardner (Colo.) Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) Sen. Jerry Moran (Kan.) Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.)     https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/430683-the-10-gop-senators-who-may-break-with-trump-on-emergency   … Read more

Michael Ballanger: The Importance Of Being Smart (And Limiting Your Losses When Trading)

by Michael Ballanger via Streetwise Reports The Importance of Being Prudent (and Using Stop-Loss Orders) A few weeks ago, I published one of my more noteworthy missives entitled “The Time to Be Short (Again) Has Arrived,” in which I advanced the notion that the level of the 200-day moving average for the S&P 500 (2,742) was about as … Read more

PSY-OP ALERT: CNN Is In U.S. Elementary Schools Spewing Lies & Propaganda About Venezuela

via silverdoctors: Heard of CNN 10? Me neither, until my young daughter came home from public school yesterday talking like a warmongering Deep State swamp creature… Hmm. Let’s see here. “No child left behind”. That may be what they say. That is, however, not what they mean. What they mean is something much worse. “No child … Read more

Is Venezuela On The Verge Of Becoming Another Syria?

by Brandon Smith Establishment elites have always had a predilection for regime change. Obviously, this strategy helps weed out nation states that might be uncooperative with their future plans for a fully centralized global economic and political order. We have also seen regime change occur when former puppet leaders go rogue and refuse to follow the … Read more

Is China’s Social Credit System A Preview Of The Coming “Beast System”?

by Michael Snyder Virtually everything that you do online and offline is being monitored, tracked or recorded by someone.  Could you imagine what life would be like if the government compiled all of that information into a giant database and used it to punish those that had engaged in politically-incorrect behavior?  Here in the United … Read more

Forced End of “Ponzi-Like Leverage” & “Fraudulent Lending” Turns Australia’s House Price Bubble into “Property Bloodbath”

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What banks & housing markets in Sydney and Melbourne are facing in 2019. As investors are fleeing Australia’s housing bust, sales of new houses have plunged to record lows, and home prices in the Sydney and Melbourne metros have dropped 12% and 9% from their respective peaks in mid and late 2017. Combined, the … Read more

My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Ticks Down, Still Red-Lines. In Passing, Fed Plants Seed for Removing “Patient”

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Oh dude, glad no one saw it. My fancy-schmancy Fed Hawk-o-Meter checks the minutes of the Fed meetings for signs that the Fed believes the economy is strong and that “accommodation” needs to be further removed by hiking rates, or that the economy is strong but not strong enough to raise … Read more

Where Investors Put Their Money in 2018

by visualcapitalist For most investors, 2018 was both an eventful and frustrating year. Between the looming threat of trade wars and growing geopolitical uncertainty, the market also skipped a beat. Volatility took center stage, and the S&P 500 finished in negative territory for the first time in 10 years. Although many asset classes finished in negative … Read more

20 Mile Wall Completed In New Mexico 47 Days Ahead Of Schedule.

  We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 – 47 days ahead of schedule! Many miles more now under construction! #FinishTheWall pic.twitter.com/TYkj3KRdOC — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2019 It’s Beautiful! The President will have it built before they mount ther historical battle to stop Trump’s … Read more

Millennials are Flocking to CBD For Anxiety Relief

via readynutrition: There has been a huge surge in CBD oil sales from Millennials. With this generation being dubbed “the most anxious,” they are often the butt of jokes stemming around being entitled, emotionally fragile, and lazy; but perhaps older generations have jumped to conclusions considering what the pressures Millennials are under. Recent surveys and studies have … Read more

70,000 STRIKE In Mexico! Workers Winning!

Of course this is blacked out in the U.S. MSM because in the context of the Class War the media is the tool of the corporate masters. When the worker class starts winning the real war, The Class War, the US television and mainstream print media black the story out. Good thing we have people … Read more

Former Facebook exec: “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. You are being programmed”

During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Social Capital, discussed how money is an instrument of change which should be used to make the world a better place. “Money drives the world for better or for worse. Money is going to be made and allocated – you have a … Read more

Next Shoe To Fall: Liquidation Of Calif. Warehouses Stacked To Rafters By Trade War Preemption

U.S. businesses have been pulling shipments forward ahead of expected tariff increases and China’s Lunar New Year holiday, when the nation’s factories shut down for several weeks. That stacked-up inventory is straining logistics capacity around the neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which together comprise the biggest U.S. trans-Pacific gateway. “In 30 years, … Read more