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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-10/ford-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-in-europe-eyes-plant-closures Ford Motor Co. said it will cut thousands of jobs, weed out slow-selling variants and potentially close entire factories in Europe, as the carmakers’s global cost-cutting drive targets a region that has been a drag on earnings for years. The overhaul marks another sign of pressure on traditional automakers as they grapple with fundamental … Read more

by howmuch GDP per capita is a critical metric for understanding the economy. It’s a measure of a country’s economic output that takes into account the number of people who live there. GDP per capita takes the gross domestic product and divides it by the number of people who live there. It’s the best measurement … Read more

by Ruby Henley This is the reason for the wall! A California police officer was shot and killed day after Christmas when he stopped a car without a license plate. He was not an ordinary police officer, as he was a legal immigrant who migrated to this Country legally to become a police officer. Not … Read more

by Michael Snyder Is the mainstream media overhyping the economic impact of the government shutdown for political purposes?  Of course they are.  Once upon a time the mainstream media in the United States at least attempted to maintain a facade of objectivity, but those days are long gone.  In this case, they want to stir … Read more

by Michael Snyder At this moment the race for the Democratic nomination in 2020 appears to be completely wide open, but there is one potential candidate lurking in the shadows that could change everything.  For a moment, I would like you to imagine what a perfect presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2020 would look … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith To get a good seat at the banquet of consequences, the owner of capital has to shift his/her capital into scarce forms for which there is demand. The Banquet of Consequences is being laid out, and so the question is: where will you be seated? The answer depends on two dynamics I’ve mentioned … Read more

May caves, offeres Brexit Deal concessions, this deal again is not for the people it is for the central bank, it needs to be scrapped. The holiday season did not go as well as everyone thought, Macy’s and now Kohl’s are reporting weak sales. The automobile apocalypse is hitting China hard, the central bank economy … Read more

Americans without health insurance are too often forced to go to emergency rooms, where costs are drastically inflated. Now, New York City has launched a program to provide all residents with healthcare and a primary care provider. RT America’s Trinity Chavez reports for the News with Rick Sanchez. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gJCqYCUMds  

by Lynette Zang of ITM Trading For the first time since 2008, no junk bonds were issued in December 2018. “This is clearly more than year-end jitters,” said Guy LeBas, a strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. “What we’re seeing now is pretty typical for end-of-credit-cycle behavior.” Voila, they too are calling the pattern shift that indicates the end … Read more

NYT makes a major correction with the story about Manafort, still no Russian collusion. Trump hits the press hard with fake reporting. The [DS] is now going after Trump tax returns, Grassley blocks. Lindsey Graham says Mueller and Barr best friends, coincidence? Rosenstein will exit once Mueller report is out or when Barr is in. … Read more

by Jesse “What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.  The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” Robert Kennedy “Fundamentally, narcissists are stuck emotionally at the approximate development stage level of a three-year-old, and … Read more

TradersChoice.net, Released on 1/10/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Normally, this would be ironic: The Fed doesn’t need to borrow; it creates money when it needs some. So it wouldn’t pay interest. But these are not normal times. The Fed reported its preliminary results this morning for the year 2018. The headline is that it sent $65.4 billion of its profits to … Read more

by Dennis Miller When the Fed bailed out the banks at the expense of seniors and savers, interest rates tanked while investors sought out solid dividend-paying stocks. Interest rates are now rising, and the Fed remains hell-bent with continuing their aggressive monetary policies. Many pundits predict the market is due for a major correction. With a … Read more

Just watched an excellent video by Stefan Molyneux titled “The truth about Trump’s Wall Speach” where Stefan gives some hard facts about immigrants and welfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Nmsc7BQAk&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop   Welfare use varies among immigrant groups. Households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico (73 percent), the Caribbean (51 percent), and Africa (48 percent) have the highest … Read more

via Bloomberg:   hat just happened? I last wrote one of these newsletters on Dec. 20, the day after the last Federal Reserve monetary meeting. (More on my disappearance later in this commentary.) Since that date, stocks have staged a spectacular decline worldwide, accompanied by an equally spectacular rally in government bonds that has pushed yields lower. However, … Read more