by Dana Lyons Near-term volatility expectations just dropped to a record low relative to those further out. One effective way of measuring sentiment in the stock market is by using the volatility market, specifically the “term structure”. As we’ve mentioned in the past, “term structure” compares near-term expectations versus those further out. For example, let’s compare … Read more
from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back… Debt keeps on increasing at increasing rates. That should be good news for the repo market. And yet, Fed’s Repo man is in a quandary. How could chaos reign in a stodgy market that’s been around since 1917. The premise is simple. Buy securities to loosen liquidity. Sell securities … Read more
By Patrick Watson If you are American and you have health insurance, you probably get it from either your employer or some kind of government program. Or possibly both, if the government is your employer. Almost no one in the US gets health insurance on their own. We can’t afford to buy it and insurers can’t afford … Read more
By John Mauldin John Maynard Keynes once said: “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” While true, it doesn’t … Read more
by ilikepancakez You literally can’t make this it up. How bad are your numbers when it’s better to just cancel the earnings call all together? via QZ: China’s electric vehicle maker NIO landed on the New York Stock Exchange a year ago when investors were pouring billions of dollars into China’s electric car industry. But it’s since become obvious that … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvI7ovlSDP0 100% Fed Up reports, an incredible video of a brave, young woman confronting Beto O’Rourke at one of his small rally’s in Aurora, CO went viral. The woman in the video, who tells O’Rourke she’s a mother of four, can be heard telling O’Rourke, “Gun owning Americans heard your speech and heard what you … Read more
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You have to listen to this… Rudy goes full on naming names and connections. WOW. If you want the statement, skip to 5:45 mins. h/t Question EVERYTHING
The U.S. denied visas to members of the Russian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss the matter. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, said the U.S. move justifies a tough response from Moscow and the … Read more
It starts @ 6:51 into video, so skip to it if you want. This was taped Monday evening & covers a lot but obviously was before (yesterday’s) Tuesday’s floor show theatrics by peLOUSY & co. He’ll have a WHOLE lot more to share next week. He appears live on the same Youtube channel every Monday night … Read more
“Yes, I know he donated literally a million dollars to charity, but we have to make sure he’s ideologically pure first!” AC
Speaker Pelosi’s decree changes absolutely nothing. As I have been telling Chairman Nadler for weeks, merely claiming the House is conducting an impeachment inquiry doesn’t make it so. Until the full House votes to authorize an inquiry, nobody is conducting a formal inquiry. h/t Anonymous JD
by magnora7 Figureheads are weak points. Leaders are useful, to a degree. But for any real revolution of the mind to occur, in a way that affects the culture and actually lasts, it has to be widespread throughout all the people. A deeply held value will be passed down even after the leaders of the … Read more
by Woodchipper_AF for centuries central bankers have turned the populace into debt livestock. If you operate at that high a level it makes perfect sense to view functioning people as a resource to be harvested.
by zackharris101 https://youtu.be/4zPFkVJxR08 Information is power. Information change beliefs and beliefs control actions. What information have you been lied to about to support corporate profit?
by Playaguy When Google takes full Page ads out telling us we can trust them with our dat, you can be sure we cannot trust them with our data. Let’s all pretend they were not government backed to begin with now. via mashable: The tech giant made a play for Washington Post print edition readers today in the form … Read more
by Lumyai This “promotional video” freaks me out; It’s as if Boston Dynamics is going out of their way to NOT put a gun on that thing .. and yet, what could be a more obvious next-step? Think programable guard dogs that can hold firearms — I can’t think of a more obvious use-case scenario than … Read more
by Live_Gur Rep Rashida Tlaib takes an aggressive tone with a witness over whether they’re a ***gasp*** conspiracy theorist. https://twitter.com/katrinabhaydon/status/1176551629291737088 Tlaib: “Are you a conspiracy theorist?” Also Tlaib: “…I thought maybe there was something like a conspiracy thing going on there…” ME: WHAT?
via freebeacon: The Trump administration has warned the state of California that it will face consequences if it fails to submit plans addressing what the Environmental Protection Agency called the “worst air quality” of any state in the country, according to a Monday letter from the agency. The letter from EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler states that 34 million … Read more
by The Phoenix Yesterday’s drop did a lot of damage to the rally. Stocks rolled over after hitting resistance (red line). They also broke the bearish rising wedge formation they’ve been forming over the last month (blue lines). This is very bad news. Stocks had every reason to break to new highs between the Fed pumping … Read more