Ten Hindenburgs So Far

by Tom McClellan The stock market has been doing something peculiar lately.  In an obvious uptrend, we are starting to see an increasing number of NYSE-listed issues making new 52-week lows.  When the number of New Highs (NH) and New Lows …

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The Risk Of An ETF Driven Liquidity Crash

by Lance Roberts Last week, James Rickards posted an interesting article discussing the risk to the financial markets from the rise in passive indexing. To wit: “Free riding is one of the oldest problems in economics and in society in general. Simply …

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Trade Deficits Cost Jobs & Shrink GDP

by Spencer P Morrison, NEE On Monday the Trump administration announced that it would impose 10 percent tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods—including many consumer goods which have been exempt until now.  This rate will increase to 25 percent …

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The irresistible allure of American Show Trials

by John Ward Why are we so fascinated by the Brett Kavanaugh Karno’s Circus? The Slog investigates.   ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ I’ve spent over forty years seeing bits of America (tip: it’s huge, I still have 80% to go) and it remains a …

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Quake swarm near Puerto Rico!

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#{“autoUpdate”:[“autoUpdate”],”basemap”:”grayscale”,”feed”:”1day_m25″,”listFormat”:”default”,”mapposition”:[[18.312810846425442,-65.7806396484375],[19.078990851489117,-64.8138427734375]],”overlays”:[“plates”],”restrictListToMap”:[“restrictListToMap”],”search”:null,”sort”:”newest”,”timezone”:”utc”,”viewModes”:[“list”,”map”],”event”:”pr2018273012″}   That is all it is Volcanoes of the Caribbean Islands https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/carribean.html   AC