It’s official: Blue Wave has been canceled in Florida!
Looks good but keep the fight up until November 8th. TY
Ben nails it…Raising the false flag
Just a reminder: We don’t know who the bomber is, therefore we don’t know their motives, therefore it is impossible to say if President Trump “incited” the bomber. Yet CNN says it anyway. Pipe bombs did not contain igniter and …
It will be interesting to see which winds down first: Venezuela’s debt to Conoco, or Venezuela’s ability to barter it down.
OIL FROM A STONE: Conoco Is Collecting $2 Billion From Venezuela—One Barrel of Oil at a Time. Conoco has received an initial payment of $345 million in the form of “cash and commodities” from Venezuela’s state-run oil company, the Houston-based company …
Migrant Caravan NOT Walking, Transported Using Flatbed Trucks to US Border
“The migrant caravan to the US is not walking. That is all for show and just part of a Democrat production. The migrants are actually being carted on the back of flat bed trucks.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/migrant-caravan-not-walking-theyre-being-transported-to-us-border-on-the-back-of-flat-bed-trucks-video/ Someone yesterday posted a thread …
I Read The News So You Don’t Have To – Market News (Oct. 26, 2018)
by ogordained United States Durable Goods Orders report was positive, up 0.8% Largely due to defense orders Transport orders fell Capital goods orders -machinery and whatnot- fell for the second straight month The GDP report comes out today at 8:30 – growth is expected at 3.5% The Kansas …
The Wall Street analyst who called this stock-market rout sees another nasty drop for the S&P 500
via Market Watch There is more pain in the pain trade ahead. That is according to Michael Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist, who said, during an interview on CNBC midday Thursday, that a current market rebound belies a market that …
Ghosts Of 1987 Stock Market Crash Suddenly Appear
via Rob Isbitts I have been tracking the parallels between 2018’s S&P 500 price movement and that of 1987 since early this summer. I keep trying to ignore it, but to quote that famous Seinfeld scene with a painting called “The Kramer”… “He …
Stocks dropping following disappointing earnings from Amazon and Alphabet
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are dropping this morning following disappointing results from Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alphabet (GOOG.L) and negative earnings guidance from European large-cap stocks US stocks index futures are declining and are pointing to a sharp decline to the start of …
Bankrate.com Survey: 60% of Americans Say Their Finances Same or Worse Since 2016 Election
Close to 40 percent of individuals polled by Bankrate.com say their personal financial situations have improved since President Trump was elected. Among households earning less than $30,000 a year, 78 percent say that their financial situation hasn’t improved since 2016. …
Will Student Loan Debt Be the Owed-Money Burden That Drives the Next Financial Crisis?
via wharton: That rising student debt is one of the creeping threats of our time is hard to refute. Student debt has more than tripled since 2004, reaching $1.52 trillion in the first quarter of 2018, according to the Federal Reserve …
Psychological Trick to Reducing Expenses
by Chi_FIRE We don’t talk a whole lot in this sub about expense management, despite the fact that it is a critical component of financial independence. Some expenses are harder to reduce than others. For me, it was eating out …
Interesting Statistics for those people who will stop working because they are financially independent
by KillingTime56 Many people are afraid to stop working even though the experts would say they are financially independent. Though stock market returns in the future maybe different than in the past a study of stock market behavior in the …
Snapchat loses 2M more users and shares sink despite business growth
Snapchat continued to shrink in Q3 2018 but its business is steadily improving. Snapchat’s daily active user count dropped again, this time by 1 percent to 186 million, down from 188M and a negative 1.5 percent growth rate in Q2. User count is still …
If a housing bubble existing in the USA collapsed international markets in 2008, would a housing bubble occurring in Asia, Australia, Europe and New Zealand collapse international markets in the near future?
by Macropod Why do I ask? When I visited China last month, I learned that an apartment in Beijing and Shanghai costs $10,000 USD per sq. ft. Yeah, whoah! Not only this, but the inflation rate is so high that …
A map that shows where real estate prices are rising the fastest (as well as declining the fastest) across the US for anyone looking to invest in real estate
Map is in the link below: https://i.imgur.com/aYCBMSs.png
How Derivatives Work
by Chris They are accounted for using a “net” position. Example: Imagine that DB has sold a credit default swap to party A, but then also bought a credit default swap from party B on the same underlying position. Let’s …
A Visual Guide to State Taxes
by howmuch The midterm elections are right around the corner, and President Trump just announced he wants to cut middle class taxes by 10 percent. It’s obvious people don’t like paying taxes, and letting workers keep more of their paychecks could …
10 Numbers That Prove That We Are Rapidly Becoming A Nation Of Government Dependents
by Michael Snyder As the middle class disintegrates and poverty grows, more Americans than ever are becoming dependent on the government just to survive. Today, we live in a country where most workers do not earn enough to support a middle …
Where Does The Tradition Of Wearing Halloween Costumes Come From?
by Michael Snyder The modern tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween can be traced back more than 2000 years to the Celts of ancient Britain. During a Druidic festival known as Samhain, which is still celebrated by Wiccans and other modern pagans, …
CBS News Actually Blames Russian Bots for Creating The Political Environment Ahead of the “Pipe Bombs” Event Yesterday
CBS News went on the air yesterday and attempted to place blame on those pesky Russian Bots for the pipe bomb mailings yesterday. In true Democratic party style, the party seems incapable of doing any kind of introspection and seems …
Is the Fed’s Medicine “Gradually” Pricking the Commercial Real Estate Bubble?
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “People are concerned about all that capital chasing limited opportunities.” After a decade of “emergency” measures such as QE and zero-interest-rate policy designed to pump up asset prices – now ended – we get this: “Everyone …
Migrant Caravan Grows to 10,000 Then Greedy Democrat Admits What He Wants To Do for His NEW “VOTERS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT8c_qW0UoE Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, A Democratic senator criticized President Donald Trump for his call to block a caravan of migrants from reaching the United States and said the United States should help the mass of people …
FANGS Bite the Big One After Hours
by Jesse The spokesmodels, cheerleaders, and stock pimps were all smiles today as the equity indices were bouncing back hard. But alas, after the bell both Amazon and Alphabet, the behemoth formerly known as Google, shit the bed on their …
Can the US Troops Deployed at the Border Stop the “Migrant Caravan”?
By Chris Black As I already predicted in yesterday’s article (Midterm Distractions: Pipe Bombs, George Soros Funded Caravans and Conspiracy Theories), the Bombocaust is already starting to show signs of being nothing more than a false flag: Wow, potentially …
WHOA: Dems TERRIFIED After Minnesota GOP Senate Candidate Suddenly Vaults Into Competitive Position
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QwYI6hkkho Hank Berrien for the Daily Wire reports, A new Star Tribune/MPR News Minnesota Poll found that Republican State Sen. Karin Housley is making her battle against Sen. Tina Smith, the Democratic incumbent, into a real horse race, as she …
The Average Stock Is Overvalued… “Somewhere Between Tremendously & Enormously”
Authored by Vitaliy Katsenelson via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, My business is to constantly look for new stocks by running stock screens, endlessly reading (blogs, research, magazines, newspapers), looking at the holdings of respected investors, talking to a large network of investment professionals, …
The press, of course, will ignore the Obama era history and pretend this is the first time an administration has ever acted this way.
BASED ON THE OBAMA ERA, PRETTY PLAUSIBLE: The press, of course, will ignore the Obama era history and pretend this is the first time an administration has ever acted this way. h/t GR
TWO-MINUTE WARNING: The Democratic Party is Calling!
The Democratic Party is Calling! It’s satire, but is it really? h/t ED
There’s a big gap between the polls and how it feels like this election ought to go
CONRAD BLACK: About That ‘Blue Wave.’ Those repelled by Trump will not soften until he has retired as president, as with those who hated Franklin D. Roosevelt for spurious ideological or mythic reasons (such as that he gave Eastern Europe to …
Deutsche Bank Dropping under $10 a share
It has been speculated, that if DB drops under $10, this would be the point of no return. This morning DB dropped to $9.96 https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:DB Last month DB biggest investor sold it’s entire share. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-07/deutsche-banks-top-investor-selling-its-entire-stake-under-orders-china Is this the final moments …