SINGAPORE, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Oil prices rose to their highest levels in 2019 on Monday, lifted by OPEC-led supply cuts and by U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures hit $56 per barrel for the first time this year, before edging back to $55.89 per barrel by … Read more
Last week in #projectfear: – Piss off Japanese & Chinese; – No closer to Brexit deal; – Labour splits; – TM defeated in pointless vote; – Honda announces closure of plant; – UK econ growth hits 6 yr low; – Children chant ‘fuck Theresa May;’ 39 days. It’s fine. https://twitter.com/NinaDSchick/status/1097517488106061829 The December industrial production figures … Read more
pic.twitter.com/ycRx4nOE1O — mikeo188 (@mikeo188) February 18, 2019 pic.twitter.com/DdI9yd3TNv — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 18, 2019 Yardeni Research Boom-Bust Barometer negatively diverging S&P500 pic.twitter.com/cNPynWAVq6 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 18, 2019 EU mfg complex headed <50 print pic.twitter.com/SxtSuH0yVG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 18, 2019
via seekingalpha: Despite the brief mini-bear of Q4 Berkshire’s stock buys exceeded sells by less than $1 billion despite a $100 billion cash position. The fact that Buffett didn’t buy the dip is important information. He did, however, make adds to six large banks, swamping all other actions on the buy side. Despite its large decline, … Read more
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From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold is the next global currency of choice, a new catalyst will drive silver prices higher in 2019, and Russia considers abandoning gold taxes to boost investment in the metal. Gold Will Become the … Read more
via CNBC: Equifax’s data breach on Sept. 7, 2017, stunned markets and American consumers, but where the data of those 143 million people disappeared to has remained a mystery. CNBC talked to experts, intelligence officials, dark web data “hunters” and Equifax to discover where they expect the data has gone, and what it is being … Read more
via theamericanconservative: On Tuesday, the jury in the federal court of Brooklyn found Joaquin “El Chapo”Guzmán guilty of all 10 counts of the drug trafficking offenses that had been brought against him. For good reason, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. However, Chapo’s incarceration leaves us with … Read more
When you see something hitting a RECORD level, you need to pay attention. But of course, there are trends. There are going to be instances where things go out of whack from month to month. It happens. But seeing a trend is very telling. What do you think is going on here? In a turn … Read more
by jessefelder The following is a recap of our recent twitter activity. To follow @TheFelderReport in real time send an email request tosupport@thefelderreport.com. Interesting spot here for the NYSE Composite as it rises to meet the confluence of horizontal resistance and the underside of the uptrend line that dates back to the 2009 low. As … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: (RT) — A BBC producer believes that scenes from a hospital in Syria’s Douma, which ignited a media frenzy in 2018 after showing children allegedly suffering from chemicals, were staged. But he says Assad did attack the town. Emotive scenes of Syrian civilians, among them crying, choking, half-naked children, dominated the airwaves in April last … Read more
Foreign ownership of thousands of U.S. aircraft cloaked in secrecy Why does a small East Texas town called Onalaska have more than 1,000 registered aircraft – and no airport? https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/foreign-ownership-of-thousands-of-us-aircraft-cloaked-in-secrecy/287-959247e4-3aba-4c0a-a83b-639145e81a64 “When you can conceal the true ownership of a plane, you’re putting a lot of people in jeopardy,” said Joe Gutheinz, a former Federal Aviation … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-jyFchuWM Feb. 18, 2019– Mary Greeley News – Tonight’s full moon, February 19th, presents the biggest full moon supermoon of 2019. From around the world, the moon will look plenty full to the eye on both February 18 and February 19 as it parades across the nighttime sky. https://marygreeley.com/?p=81724
by jessefelder “Never, ever invest in the present. It doesn’t matter what a company’s earning, what they have earned… You have to visualize the situation 18 months from now, and whatever that is, that’s where the price will be, not where it is today… If you invest in the present, you’re going to get runover.” … Read more
By Jared Dillian Somewhere in the last 30–40 years, we have become economically illiterate. Elizabeth Warren wants wealth taxes that would impose asset forfeitures of 2–3% on households with more than $50 million in assets. There are practical and legal problems with their implementation. But she wants to implement them anyway. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants a … Read more
Another great video from the Corbett Report. It amazes me how so many people fall for the same trick every time. I guess religions and cults have this trick figured out too. AC
by Jesse The Shanghai Gold Exchange is a bit different from most, because they deal in the exchange of actual physical metal for paper, rather than mostly paper for paper, in a mad game of Liar’s Poker played over a highly leveraged and apparently diminished base of physical assets. Gold is flowing from West to … Read more
Ron Paul, Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Released on 2/18/19 In a fitting legacy for my friend Walter Jones, Jr. who passed away last week, the US House made history by voting in favor of H.J.Res. 37, a resolution “Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have … Read more
by Simon Black “Sometimes [two and two are four], Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” One of the key themes from George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 is that the party can do and say whatever it … Read more
by TESS PENNINGTON Preppers may be known for their beans, bullets, and band-aids, but in a survival situation, they may also want to be known for their vast knowledge of zip-tie uses to get them out of hairy situations. In past articles, we have covered articles on how to use common household items like rubber bands, bungee cords, PVC, and tarps to use in an emergency … Read more
By Jared Dillian Somewhere in the last 30–40 years, we have become economically illiterate. Elizabeth Warren wants wealth taxes that would impose asset forfeitures of 2–3% on households with more than $50 million in assets. There are practical and legal problems with their implementation. But she wants to implement them anyway. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants a … Read more
by David Haggith Bears, like myself, picked the meat off market bulls throughout 2018. We scoffed at the start of the year when bulls concocted a narrative that said bears would starve because 2018 was going to be the year of “global synchronize growth.” We bears bawled that this was euphoric nonsense. Global economies fell off … Read more
Dan sounds off on weenie loser Andy McCabe, after spending the weekend in DC. “This was an illegal coup attempt on the President of the United States.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends True! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2019 Do You Believe In The Deep State Now? The revelation that top Justice officials … Read more
As President Trump outlined his plan for protecting America’s borders, a reporter from CNN accosted the president over his numbers on illegal immigration. Not only were President Trump’s numbers on immigration accurate, but the reporter has a troubled history going back decades. One America’s Pearson Sharp explains. The Cost of Illegal Immigration As Democrats in … Read more