Ron Paul: Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.

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Ron Paul, Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Released on 10/28/19 President Trump is reversing his foreign policy decisions so quickly these days that it almost seems like he overturns himself before making the decision in the first place. Last week he was very clear that the US was pulling its troops out of Syria. “Bringing soldiers … Read more

It is not the rising level of debt that is the problem; it is the decline which marks peaks in both market and economic expansions.

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In a recent weekly newsletter (Subscribe for free e-delivery), I discussed the rather dramatic decline of short-interest in the S&P 500 which suggests a high degree of complacency by investors. As Wolf Richter recently noted: “Of the total shares outstanding of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, only 2.6% were out on loan … Read more

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teachers union instructs members how to push identity politics on students…. SERIAL OFFENDER: Leftist UNC student arrested AGAIN, this time for harassing pro-life demonstrator.

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‘We can’t ignore Trump’s bigotry and cruelty’ America’s second-largest teachers union wants to educate its 1.7 million members in how to practice inclusion in the classroom. Namely, by reminding students at every turn how they are different from others. The fall issue of the American Federation of Teachers’ quarterly journal, American Educator, is brimming with calls for incorporating … Read more

Causing His Enemies To Beclown Themselves Is Trump’s Superpower

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Was it Trump’s magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock? I’m beginning to think that hidden somewhere in the White House or Trump Tower there’s a magic wand that the president wields which turns his detractors— old Obama hands, make-believe conservative politicians and commentators, Democrats, and the media, into laughingstocks. If so, this weekend … Read more

PragerU: Public Pensions: An Economic Time Bomb

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Who cares about public pension liability? Well, you should – after all, it’s the reason entire cities and even states are facing bankruptcy. Joshua Rauh, professor of finance at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, paints a startling picture of just how broken the public pension system really is, and what will happen … Read more

When Did Halloween Become So Sick, Twisted And Gory?

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by Michael Snyder Have you noticed that each year the overall tone of Halloween just continues to get darker and darker?  The movies keep getting more graphic, the decorations keep getting more gory and even the costumes keep getting more twisted.  When I was growing up, I remember watching relatively benign cartoons such as “It’s … Read more

Personal memories of the 2008 Financial crisis…

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by Bulldogmasterace   I remember a lot of “oh shit”.. “what was going on?”. Sort of defeatist behaviour. Large CMBs and RMBs desks first got merged, then got smaller week by week. Until it was just a handful left as liquidity dried up and those products we’re not worth more than the toilet paper at … Read more

Trump Implies He Could Not Inform Congress/Pelosi Because Certain Members Would Have Informed the Terrorists and Gotten U.S. Troops Killed

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https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1188455047023222785 Reporter: Did you notify Pelosi ahead of time? President Trump: No, no I didn't. I wanted to make sure this was kept secret. I don't want to have men lost 😎#Baghdadi pic.twitter.com/rHLGK8TlY3 — Wojciech Pawelczyk (@WojPawelczyk) October 27, 2019 President Trump said Sunday morning that he did not tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the U.S. … Read more

While funding costs are declining, they are failing to stimulate investment and durable good demand, due to a reluctance to make longer-term commitments amid the current uncertainty

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While funding costs are declining, they are failing to stimulate investment and durable good demand, due to a reluctance to make longer-term commitments amid the current uncertainty Durables and long cycle capex have been at the centre of the weakness pic.twitter.com/riEDWzydJm — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) October 28, 2019 As financial conditions ease, capex … Read more

Analyst Who Called The Repo Squeeze Warns On ‘Combustible Cocktail’ Into Year-End, “There could be a broader de-leveraging across financial markets”.

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via heisenbergreport: BofA’s Mark Cabana – who repeatedly warned about a possibly imminent squeeze in short-term funding markets prior to the acute episode that grabbed headlines late last month and caught the Fed flat-footed – is worried that a “combustible cocktail” may create the conditions for another such episode at the end of the year. The … Read more

China’s industrial profits fall 5.3% in Sept as trade war toll mounts… Chinese property developers cutting prices…employees

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China's industrial profits fall 5.3% in Sept as trade war toll mounts – Reuters pic.twitter.com/vvdR6laUTX — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 27, 2019 "Some Chinese property developers are not only cutting prices…employees working for Sunac’s Tianjin unit told their entire staff to buy unsold properties in order to meet the co’s full-yr sales target. They're allowed to … Read more

Hilarious: Bill Maher: The Clintons Have ‘To Go Away’…Hillary is a Trump asset.

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Maher said, “[T]he Clintons, they’ve got to go away. I’m saying this now, a year out, or less, they can’t be at the convention, maybe on the video waving or something. But I’m serious.” Maher then agreed with Representative Justin Amash’s (I-MI) assessment that Hillary is a “Trump asset” and added, “Bill is damaged goods. I just … Read more

ICYMI: The rolling 3-month ratio of leveraged loan credit rating downgrades to upgrades has just spiked to the highest level since the GFC…. Subprime auto loans blow up… M&A transactions drying up like it’s GFC or tech bust again.

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ICYMI: The rolling 3-month ratio of leveraged loan credit rating downgrades to upgrades has just spiked to the highest level since the GFC. RM #DriehausAlts pic.twitter.com/PP15smgVev — Driehaus Capital Management (@DriehausCapital) October 26, 2019 tech pricing in a 2016-style rebound for 2020, but if that doesn't materialize — there will be trouble https://t.co/ooPEw92RBC — Alastair … Read more