via upfina: Changes to weekly aggregate hours worked includes the changes to the length of the workweek and the growth in payrolls. It gives a more detailed picture of the changes to the labor market than headline job creation. We touched on changes to aggregate hours worked in our previous article. Let’s delve deeper. For manufacturing, in … Read more
by VamosRamon After Argentina went full retard in the primary’s, and like someone had predicted, we had a black monday and the market went berserk. The country devaluated the peso by almost ~30% and the people who had savings in USD started pulling them out of the banks in fear of another crysis. After letting the dollar … Read more
by jmaraaa I wanted to post my story because it may help someone who feels shackled by high interest debt. As the result of a series of poor choices, I ended up with high interest debt (from more than one lender) that left me living barely paycheck-to-paycheck. The total amount of debt wasn’t even that … Read more
by urriola35 Trump is pumping the markets, getting a Fed rate cut, and restoring confidence so he has the cushion to unleash his biggest tariffs yet. Keep buying the cyclicals up to the meeting and then load up on OTM Puts out 2-3 weeks. Keep Apple, John Deere, Caterpillar, Boeing, and United Technologies in … Read more
by friendly-cephalopod Our beloved American car company that has been around forever is a piece of absolute dog shit that will go bankrupt in the next year. Here’s why 103 Billion in long term debt – Over the last 3 years this has increased by 12% 226 Billion in total liabilities – 10% increase … Read more
via CNBC: Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate finance committee, is proposing to raise taxes on capital gains to the same rates as ordinary income. Wyden estimates the plan could raise $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion over a decade, and the revenue would be used to shore up the Social Security Trust … Read more
by Wesia Everyone knows about Disney’s streaming service coming out in November (Disney+). And according to this article: link to article Investors are pricing in a 6-8 million subscriber base by the end of the year and a 10 million number would be huge for the stock. But I think investors are severely underestimating Disney+ … Read more
by investingnoobhelp NYC economy is dying for local NYC residents. It might seem okay from any outside view but when you touch base at what’s actually going on here, it looks like the city had been undergoing recession for quite a while. Real estate(rent/purchase) is too expensive for the average family. Even in … Read more
via upfina: The backdrop of the August PPI report is treasury yields have been rising quickly this week and the Fed is about to cut rates. Yields are still historically low, but if the selloff in treasuries is to continue, we will need to see a pickup in inflation. The Fed would rather PPI be modest … Read more
Who Does Congress Represent? Ilhan Omar is a brave woman. She has embarrassed the corrupt Democratic Party that, together with the Republicans and many evangelical Christians, have sold out America to Israel. More and more people have come out in her defense, refusing to be silenced by the criminal state of Israel. Dr. Paul Kindlon … Read more
Banks in HK are showing signs of panicked need for deposits. The money is running : deposit rate offers: China Merchants Wing Lung, 5% for 1mo HSBC, 4% for 7d Hang Seng, 4% for 7d : All while overnight HIBOR is 67bps and 1mo HIBOR is 1.85%. #HKQUIETPANIC #HKexit — 🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 (@Jkylebass) … Read more
Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine, said Thursday there will be no trade deal between the U.S. and China before the presidential election. At a presentation in London, Gundlach said President Trump is the “irresistible force” but that China has every incentive to attempt to wait out his presidency. Trump won’t do a deal … Read more
by Jim Dey Wow — calling the lying swine in state Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s office lying swine really got their back up. Who knew? They should take it as a badge of honor when they issue a misleading press release touting good news from a devastatingly negative 397-page financial report that is, for the most … Read more
by confoundedinterest The CFR Global Monetary Policy Tracker is updated through September 1. The Index of Global Easing(-)/Tightening(+) holds steady at -6.68, significant easing, as markets anticipate a further Fed rate cut this month. Easing monetary policy are Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia in South America, the European Central Bank, Australia, China, Turkey, Poland and Finland. Tightening? Pakistan, Sweden, the UK and Canada. Almost 80% … Read more
via gnseconomics: There is renewed hope in the markets after central banks, most-recently the ECB and China, have added easing measures. The working narrative is that these will, once again, renew global growth and allow governments, corporations and consumers to go even more deeply into debt. But will the increase in liquidity work this time around? … Read more
Draghi faced unprecedented #ECB revolt as German, French, Dutch governors resisted QE. Those 3 governors alone represent half of Eurozone GDP. Other dissenters incl governors from Austria, Estonia, as well as members on ECB’s Board incl Lautenschlaeger & Coeure, BBG reports. pic.twitter.com/odtaLy8i2Q — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) September 12, 2019
UPDATE: US budget deficit smashes $1 trillion mark, highest in 7 years The U.S. government’s red ink for fiscal 2019 swelled past the $1 trillion mark in August, the first time that level has been eclipsed in seven years, the Treasury Department reported Thursday. The total shortfall rose to nearly $1.07 trillion, thanks to a … Read more
Corporate debt issuance has been on the rise in recent years, and demand from investors is spiking. Companies have taken advantage of the situation to issue bonds with low borrowing costs. But, as the FT explains, the money isn’t necessarily translating into economic innovation.
via americanthinker: The machinations of an illiberal left, on display in its ever-increasing violence accompanied by the ululations of a propagandist media in contravention of an imaginary “white supremacist” right, have riven the nation into diametrically opposed camps. The right will never accept socialism, while the left will accept nothing less. Trump Wins Those on the … Read more
by TXreddest This is simply a representation of Google’s ability to keep sheeple in the dark. If they do not know what to search(many don’t know about HAARP) then they will get the programmed information desired by the elite. People have been conditioned to the “G’s” through Wi-Fi and have no idea what 5G really … Read more