Even Apple is starting to cull positions. A rise in US unemployment may be underway already.

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via Yahoo: (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will cut back on hiring for some divisions after selling fewer iPhones than expected and missing its revenue forecast for the holiday quarter, according to people familiar with the matter. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive officer, made the disclosure to employees earlier this month in a meeting the day … Read more

What do you think happens next? 2008 – 2018

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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1086022343569346563 what do you think happens next? pic.twitter.com/PBTwM28SSZ — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 17, 2019 Richmond Fed Factory Gauge Falls Most Ever as Shipments Drop With the US data staring to deteriorate, following the rest of the world, seems probabilities favor rates following as well. $TLT pic.twitter.com/V8a6a7OgPu — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) January 17, 2019 Forget the … Read more

Walls Across America

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  For all the bloviating we hear from Democrats about how walls are immoral and even racist, the Democrats sure do love to live behind walls themselves.       h/t MrJustNsane

Euro-Gold Ratio Is A Canary In The Monetary Coalmine

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Authored by Tom Luongo, For weeks I’ve been telling my subscribers that something changed in the gold market. Since Donald Trump’s election there was a pretty clear pair trade between the U.S. dollar and gold. And that trade was most manifested in the price of gold in euros. During last summer gold experienced its worse (in terms … Read more

NFLX misses everything then guides lower

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Netflix Free Cash Inferno pic.twitter.com/U8W5PTanzm — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 17, 2019 Last October, when Netflix reported stellar Q3 earnings and guidance there were many skeptics who said there is no way Netflix could possibly hit its impressive forecasts. They were right, because moments ago the video streaming company reported Q4 earnings which missed on revenue and revealed light guidance … Read more

May Survives No-Confidence Vote but has until Monday 21st to present New Proposal

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by Martin Armstrong The British pound moved higher following the British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government narrowly surviving a no confidence vote brought by the opposition over the handling of BREXIT. The vote was narrow with May winning by just 19 votes. Our sources were correct that she would survive. However, while the 21st seems to be … Read more

For a party obsessed with reducing fossil fuels, Democrats and their media operatives with bylines sure believe in maximum gaslighting.

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  YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Beto Fans Insist: This Is Not a Drill.  Scott Rosenberg and David McCabe, Axios: No, Beto O’Rourke did not live-stream his teeth cleaning on Instagram — any more than Al Gore ever actually claimed to have invented the internet. But if you were under the impression that O’Rourke did precisely that, you’re … Read more

Google employees have meltdown when they hear the word “family” during a company presentation

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A Google executive sparked a fierce backlash from employees by using the word “family” in a weekly, company-wide presentation, according to internal documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Many Google employees became angry that the term was used while discussing a product aimed at children, because it implied that families have children, the … Read more

Who Could See It Coming? – Dead Reckoning the Minsky Moment

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by Jesse “In particular, over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance.” Hyman Minsky, The Financial Instability Hypothesis “Twenty-five years ago, when most economists were extolling … Read more

VIDEO: STRANDED BUS with Pelosi and Democrat Lawmakers IS DRIVING CIRCLES AROUND US CAPITOL BECAUSE TRUMP CANCELLED THEIR TRIP

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On Thursday afternoon, President Trump informed Speaker Pelosi her “public relations” trip to Afghanistan, Egypt, and Brussels has been postponed so that she can stay in DC and negotiate with him. The President canceled Pelosi’s flight just one hour before she was scheduled to depart — Pelosi and other lawmakers were on the bus en … Read more

THEY DON’T WANT TO LOSE REELECTION AFTER ONE TERM LIKE THE DEM FRESHMAN CLASS OF 2008

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  Pelosi Struggles to Keep Dems United During Government Shutdown. “Moderate, freshman Democrats open to deal.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and the rest of the Democratic leadership are struggling to present a unified front during the ongoing government shutdown, as moderate and freshmen members of the majority appear eager to cut a deal with President … Read more

FITTON: Judicial Watch exposed Speaker Pelosi’s abusive use of military aircraft back during her first speakership.

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by TFittonJW Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Department of Defense (DOD) detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s multiple requests for military air travel. The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal DOD email … Read more

5 Hidden Ways That Globalization is Changing

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by visualcapitalist Globalization has been a powerful force in shaping modern human history. The world economy has become increasingly connected and interdependent over recent decades, and conventional wisdom suggests that this will only continue in the years ahead. But while it’s tempting to extrapolate the past effects of globalization into the future, such a leap … Read more