Dan Nevins on Yield Curve, Recession and Thin Air Spending Power

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by FS As markets flirt with fears of a recession, many point to the recent yield curve inversion as a telling sign that recession is imminent. Financial Sense Insider spoke with Daniel Nevins, a financial analyst, investment professional and behavioral economics researcher to get his take on current conditions. See Dan Nevins on Why You Shouldn’t Get … Read more

Oil Demand Growth Weakest In Nearly A Decade

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By Nick Cunningham Global oil demand continues to see downgrades from major energy forecasters, with several downward revisions in just the past week. The U.S. EIA said in its Short-Term Energy Outlook that it expects oil demand to grow by only 0.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) this year, the latest in a series of downgrades from … Read more

Assange, Varoufakis, Brexit

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by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Max Ernst The Angel of the home or the Triumph of Surrealism 1937  A friend of mine here in Athens, Greece, named Wayne Hall, who’s of Australian descent but moved here at about the time Napoleon headed for St. Petersburg, and works as a translator and language teacher, sent me a mail a … Read more

Automatic rejection of asylum if you pass through any other country first!

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BIG United States Supreme Court WIN for the Border on Asylum! https://t.co/9Ka00qK1Ob — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2019   WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes … Read more

FITTOn: NOT FUNNY: Mrs. Clinton again is “joking” about her email misconduct. A federal court judge is furious about the cover-up and her lawyers have a few more weeks left to convince the court why she shouldn’t be questioned under oath by Judicial Watch

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by TFittonJW And one wonders why I often look like I am on the verge of exploding: Read the judges remarks here and you will see he is not laughing: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-federal-judge-criticizes-state-and-justice-departments-on-clinton-email-cover-up/  

Visualizing The World Economy When Purchasing Power is Taken into Account

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by howmuch When comparing the economies of different countries, one of the most common methods is to use “purchasing power parity.” Purchasing power parity (PPP) compares international economies by standardizing the prices within a “basket of goods”. In other words, PPP accounts for the differences in standards of living (such as the different costs of a carton … Read more

Google Nest Is Censorship & Surveillance In Your Home

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Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Google wants you to bring Big Brother into the privacy of your home with its Google Nest surveillance system. Google’s Nest Hub surveillance system is constantly looking for its owner’s face and technically can’t be shut off. After making sure certain information is censored on behalf of the political establishment, … Read more

America Needs Jobs, Not Chinese Imports

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via amgreatness: J.P. Morgan estimates that President Trump’s tariffs will cost American families up to $1,000 next year. We have heard this before and we’ll hear it again. But the fact is that tariffs have not yet—nor will they likely—increase the cost of living. Further, the myopic obsession with the price of goods ignores the more pressing problem: … Read more

Europe is in a dark place and it just got darker

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by youme QE is disinflationary because it perpetuates overcapacity and unproductive debt, yet it is massively inflationary on risky assets because the objective is to make rising government spending cheap. Hyperinflation created in financial assets as sovereign bonds artificially inflated More QE from Draghi this morning because they don’t know what to do. They have … Read more

Soaring Health Insurance Costs Create Another Obstacle to Retirement Security

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From Birch Gold Group Health care expenses, inflation, and retirement savings are some of the things to consider when you’re nearing retirement age. Any one of them can present an obstacle to your retirement security. A recent rise in health insurance costs may present yet another obstacle. The average health insurance premium for a person aged 55-64 is … Read more

The Suicide Rate In The U.S. Has Hit The Highest Level In 50 Years, And There Is Concern That It Will Go Much Higher

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by Michael Snyder Despite the fact that more money is being spent on suicide prevention efforts than ever before in our history, the suicide rate in the United States continues to rise dramatically.  As you will see below, one new study has discovered that our suicide rate actually increased by 41 percent between 1999 and … Read more

San Francisco man may close store after being bitten by homeless person twice in four months.

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The business owner says he often finds homeless people selling and doing drugs inside his restrooms. “About every half hour to hour we have some kind of incident, another theft, violence, crazy people walking around, people who need mental health… there should be facilities where people can do drugs… there’s needles everywhere… people have threatened … Read more

A “Looming” Recession Is a Golden Opportunity

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by Money Metals  It’s the most widely anticipated recession in history. The recession hasn’t arrived yet – and may not do so anytime soon – but the mainstream media still can’t stop talking about it. Consider this strange article from NBC News. It purports to show that young adults are posting dark, ironic memes to social media in … Read more

Water discovered on ‘Super-Earth’ raises first real hope of alien life

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K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or ‘exoplanet’, known to have both water and temperatures that could support life. The discovery, published today in Nature Astronomy, is the first successful atmospheric detection for an exoplanet orbiting in its star’s ‘habitable … Read more