SEC’s Clayton Slashes Investor Safeguards To Entice More Companies To Go Public

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By cutting companies disclosure requirements, investors are left with less information from which to make investment decisions…from Zero Hedge It looks as though the Securities and Exchange Commission isn’t happy enough just allowing CEOs like Elon Musk to retain their C-suite position after committing egregious frauds like faking the largest buyout in history. The commission, under Jay Clayton, continues … Read more

Organic Collapse In Money Supply Supplanted By Synthetic Growth = Centrally Directed Melt-Up

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by Econimica The demographic situation the world faces is unprecedented and unparalleled in modern history.  All the deaths of the past few centuries warfare were blips on the radar compared to what is taking place now.  Given the infinite growth economic model, the situation is beyond repair and no repair will be attempted.  The only goal … Read more

BRIAN STELTER’S HOT TAKE ON ABC/EPSTEIN STORY IS EVERYTHING WRONG WITH JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ‘FIREFIGHTERS’ TODAY:

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via redstate: “Tuesday’s video clip caused widespread outrage, particularly on the right, with many commentators using it to stoke hatred of the media writ large,” Stelter wrote in his newsletter last night. Just to review: ABC News’ public face is George Stephanopoulos, the former communications director for Bill Clinton. In 2015, Stephanopoulos donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, which … Read more

Warren’s Medicare For All: The Longest Political Suicide Note In Recorded History.

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via lidblog: Left-leaning  commentator William A. Galston wrote in the Wall Street Journal:  Medicare for all Ms. Warren insists that if Democrats are willing to put up a fight, they can get Medicare for All done. As I recall, the Light Brigade was full of fight, but its charge into enemy lines still yielded an epic catastrophe. Ms. … Read more

IT IS HAPPENING! Katie Pavlich Ties ABC’s Epstein Cover-Up To Clintons, Stephanopoulos

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https://twitter.com/cjtruth/status/1192448902710124544?s=19 Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich drew a straight line from ABC’s alleged quashing of a bombshell Jeffrey Epstein story to the network’s news anchor with ties to the Clintons. Pavlich, who appeared Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” suggested that ABC’s reluctance to cover a story that tied former President Bill Clinton and others to the late … Read more

Square has fallen 40% since it 2018 peak. The company reported, yesterday after the bell, Q3 sales growth of 43% and a 42% increase in gross profits

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Square’s stock dropped in August after guidance for adjusted revenue fell short of analyst expectations of $599 million. Yesterday’s print show adjusted revenue of $602 million. Investors should bear in mind that Square continues to grow revenue at an impressive rate in a total addressable market that Square estimates (in the US alone) at almost … Read more

Why the prospective $70 billion buyout of Walgreens may signal the stock-market rally is about to end

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If investors ever needed a clear signal that this is the top of the market, they now have one. Walgreens Boots Alliance shares surged Wednesday amid speculation that the U.S.-listed drugstore group has been considering a $70 billion take-private deal. If private equity can pull it off, it would be the biggest leveraged buyout ever, dwarfing the … Read more

WeWork and Uber cost SoftBank’s Vision Fund a quarterly loss of $8.9 billion

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We now know exactly how much all the WeWork drama of the past few months cost SoftBank, one of its largest investors. As Investor’s Business Daily reports, SoftBank has reported a quarterly loss of 970.3 billion yen in its Vision Fund, which amounts to an $8.9 billion loss for the quarter ending September 30. WeWork wasn’t responsible for all … Read more

China’s 2020 Crisis: $283 Billion of Maturing Local Debt

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China will face another potential financial crisis in 2020 when local governments must pay-off over $283 billion in maturing municipal debt. The Sino-U.S. trade war has cost the Chinese economy about $117 billion as the Trump administration relentlessly ratcheted up tariff rates over the last two years. China protected domestic jobs by directing local government … Read more

Pretty crazy the bottom 50% of households owe 36% of all debt but only own 6% of assets. Their growth in liabilities have been outpacing income growth for several decades.

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Pretty crazy the bottom 50% of households owe 36% of all debt but only own 6% of assets. Their growth in liabilities have been outpacing income growth for several decades. #ConsumerIsSolidNarrative pic.twitter.com/Gn82LddboE — Greg (@GS_CapSF) November 7, 2019  

Nearly 90% of the world’s internet users are being monitored

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via mashable: A new report claims, surprise, social media isn’t really that free. Instead, it’s full of bad faith actors manipulating elections and government officials surveilling users. The report, 2019 Freedom on the Net, comes from “independent watchdog organization” Freedom House. And after reading the whole thing (PDF), that still feels like it’s underplaying the growing tire … Read more

Commerzbank Steps Up Plan to Pass on Negative Interest Rates

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(Bloomberg) — Commerzbank AG is intensifying efforts to charge clients for keeping deposits at the lender to ease the pain of negative interest rates. Germany’s second-biggest publicly listed bank has been passing on negative interest rates to corporate clients for some time, Chief Financial Officer Stephan Engels said Thursday on an analyst call. That effort … Read more

Anyone who sells anything before 100 is a chicken.

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Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Lots of chatter about a coming melt-up coming in stocks. And why not? If fundamentals or earnings growth no longer matter and markets are drowning again in artificial central bank liquidity may as well forego any valuation or fundamental discussion. Yet as we speak markets are getting to key … Read more

Just about anything Chinese, nobody knows the real data on this, and whatever is reported is likely falsified or embellished.

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by cbus20122 Jim Chanos still thinks Chinese RE is the most important asset class in the world. https://twitter.com/WallStCynic/status/1191899839124189184?s=20 Problem is, like just about anything Chinese, nobody knows the real data on this, and whatever is reported is likely falsified or embellished. The main questions that come to my mind now are if prices continue to drop and more people … Read more

TO TAKE OVER OUR…SMUGGLING ROUTES”??? Did relative of Americans killed in Mexico have Freudian slip?

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In the second video in the link, starting about the 3:20 mark: “Fighters had been sent on by foot to combat a cartel in, in our state.” “They came in…to uh, to fight and try to take over uh our you know, just some some smuggling routes, I guess. That’s what they’re warring over so…” https://www.foxnews.com/media/relative-langford-family-killed-mexico-fox-friends Just … Read more

Elliott Wave Technician: Very Sharp Rally In Silver Could Be Next Big Event In Markets

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by Captain Ewave of CaptainEwave Captain Ewave S&P500, Gold, & Silver: Trends & Trades Email: admin@captainewave.com Website: http://www.captainewave.com Nov 6, 2019 GOLD: Short Term Update It still looks like all of our wave *iv* correction is complete at the 1465.00 low, and that wave *v* higher in now underway. We could still be working on a wave *iv* bullish triangle also. … Read more