This Trade Rally Is One Tweet Away From a Crash

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Everything is awesome in financial markets. The sense that a trade deal may finally be on the cards sent stocks and crude soaring in the U.S. Thursday, while flight-to-safety trades such as bonds and gold slumped. Both sides seem to be moving toward a phase one agreement that would involve jointly reducing tariffs … Read more

Danielle DiMartino Booth: Fed Trying to Engineer Impossible Soft Landing… Forbes: The Recent Repo Scare Carries A Deeper Warning

Speaking at the New Orleans Investment conference, Danielle DiMartino Booth, expert US Federal Reserve critic, as well as CEO and chief strategist of Quill Intelligence, told attendees that significant indicators are pointing to a looming financial crisis in the US and abroad. Despite the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates three times in four months, DiMartino … Read more

This Agency Is Investigating Why the Fed Is Bailing Out Wall Street Again

via wallstreetonparade: Jelena McWilliams is a Trump appointee who currently serves as the Chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the federal agency responsible for insuring the deposits of commercial banks and savings associations in the United States. McWilliams also knows her way around Wall Street. Her resume at the FDIC states that “Before entering public service, … Read more

10-Reasons Why Productivity Is Declining

by Mike Shedlock Economists debate whether the decline in productivity is real. It is real. let’s investigate 10 reasons why. Productivity Measurement Brookings questions the Productivity Slump. It cites measurement issues. Much of the recent debate, and related research, on productivity measurement issues has focused on this decline in productivity in the U.S. Predating the financial … Read more

Jason Burack: NY Fed Discloses Repo Madness Averages $190 Billion/Day Not $120 Billion! Dollar Rallying Anyways?

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 11/7/19 Despite the NY Fed disclosing recently that Repo Madness averages (means that some days it’s a lot higher) $190 billion dollars per day and not $120 billion dollars per day, the US Dollar Index is rallying and back over 98. The Fed’s official balance sheet increased another … Read more

Mind Markets Melting Both Ways

via morningporridge: Stock Markets are staging a Melt-up! China and the US have agreed to roll back sanctions. Whoopee! Everything is fine and dandy.  No… it’s not. Might be time to hedge with some puts. As stocks as soared, bonds suffered. Earlier this week I asked a number of clients for their predictions on markets in 2020 … Read more

NBC News Asks American Voters About Impeachment – Their Answers Say EVERYTHING You Need to Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSR99Y0EkHo Chris Enloe from The Blaze reports, The Democrat-led House impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump is driving the national discourse thanks in part to the amount of coverage the mainstream media is dedicating to it. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.theblaze.com/news/nbc-ask…

Saudi Arabia Bullies Ultra-Rich Into Buying Aramco Stock

By Julianne Geiger Saudi Arabia is hitting up its wealthy citizens to buy stock in the Saudi Aramco IPO, Bloomberg sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The citizens Saudi Arabia is asking include the wealthy Olayan family—which has existing Aramco ties–as well as Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal who in 2017 ranked as the 45th richest … Read more