Juicy Fed DD, Fed’s Famous Last Words

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by ComicalEconomical At the onset of 2008, Ben Bernanke said the Fed was not looking for a recession. Later that year, Q4’08 GDP delivered a -2.8% print. Just last Friday, Jerome Powell said the Fed is not forecasting a recession. Obviously the Fed never forecasts a recession. But them saying they don’t expect a recession to happen … Read more

Negative interest rates are bad and central bankers should feel bad for trying to shill them

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by SFWonlyInvest The idea is companies can borrow at near-zero interest rates (because safe government bonds are negative yielding), they are inclined to borrow a lot while simultaneously returning money to shareholders. Those shareholders, seeing such low bond yields, will invest that money into other equities.The flaw in this theory is that it doesn’t account … Read more

WePonzi Braindead Investors – Get it?

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by damien008 WeWork is now the largest owner of property globally. 80% of all people live in a WeHome. Operating losses run at three times revenues. Softbank keeps funding the losses with up-rounds in order to mark-up its own book. There are now hundreds of public hold-cos with fully controlled VC deals participating in similar … Read more

The case against a 100% S&P 500 ETF portfolio

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by etienner The case against a 100% S&P 500 ETF portfolio A lot of investors have a 100% S&P 500 portfolio, especially in the United States. Over the long-term, a simple portfolio like the one mentioned above performed greatly over the past 50 years. However, I think it is possible for investors to have a … Read more

Mentions of ‘recession’ in financial news websites headlines vs SP500

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by atc2017 I’ve created a dashboard which shows the (rolling) average of headlines mentioning ‘recession’ as percentage of total headlines in the dataset. Since this gave some interesting results I decided to add more terms (eg TRUMP, TENSION or headlines with negative or positive connotation), in order to see how they compare the sp500. You … Read more

Soros Fuels Dark Money Judicial Group That Fights Kavanaugh, Trump Nominations.

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via freebeacon: A “dark money” group that was established to push back against the judicial nominations of President Donald Trump, and which was at the forefront of the battle against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and continues to go after him to this day, was heavily financed by liberal billionaire George Soros around the time of its inception, … Read more

Why Your ETF Investments Pose Epic Level Risk! Unlike Anything We Have Seen

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Passive investing through ETF’s have given investors the chance to have their money in something they know nothing about. They simply want money in the stock market and they can easily trade broad indexes, commodities, anything really. While this has some very clear positives, investors are unprepared for events that will take place in which … Read more

Democrats Have LOST Their Polling Advantage, Social Justice Policy VERY Unfavorable

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Democrats Have LOST Their Polling Advantage, Social Justice Policy VERY Unfavorable. Bear in mind this is a favorability poll and polling aggregates for vote are different and still favor Democrats (hard to get that in the title with only 100 characters) But what we are seeing is that far left ideology, social justice and wokeness, … Read more

China increases gold reserves, taxes US oil

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSzl30XSI74 Beijing has more gold in its reserves than at any time in the past six years. China-watchers attribute the 100-ton increase to the country’s ongoing trade war in the US. Meanwhile, retaliatory tariffs on US goods went into effect in September. RT America’s Rachel Blevins reports for News.Views.Hughes.

June 5, 2003: Jeffrey E. Epstein donated $30 MILLION this year to Harvard for the founding of a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program.

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http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2003/6/5/people-in-the-news-jeffrey-e Elusive financier Jeffrey E. Epstein donated $30 million this year to Harvard for the founding of a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program. While the mathematics teacher turned magnate remained unknown to most people until he flew President Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa to explore the problems of AIDS and economic … Read more

Thesis: The schooling system is designed to make people emotionally retarded

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by TheBirdmanArises Kids lack emotional maturity, life experience, and coping tools. When these characteristics are jammed together via schools or situations that lack oversight, conflict will arise. Children are also encouraged to think hierarchically, as they are constantly in the position of needing people to take care of them and to give them guidance and … Read more

PRIVACY: A proposed Denver law would ban police from using facial recognition technology.

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via denverite:   Connor Swatling doesn’t want Big Brother watching you. The Denver resident has introduced a ballot measure banning the Denver Police Department and every other city entity from using facial recognition technology for law enforcement purposes. DPD does not currently use the technology, department spokesperson Sonny Jackson said. He added that the department does … Read more

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “CNN’s reporting is not only incorrect, it has the potential to put lives in danger.”

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Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, It’s undoubtedly better to leave some stories alone, and this may be one of them. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov perhaps put it best when he called it “pulp fiction” (and what’s more American than that?). But this one is so exemplary of how the news is cooked … Read more

Let’s just call this what it really is: The Existing Homeowners Value Protection Act.

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BONKERS: A 1% Growth Limit Across The Front Range Could Be Up For Vote On Your 2020 Ballot. The state Title Board, which determines how measures appear on ballots, approved Golden resident Daniel Hayes’ Initiative 122, an updated version of a measure he introduced earlier this summer. It would limit the number of residential building permits … Read more

I Hope This Isn’t True But It Probably Is…

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Prosperity Breeds Idiots. At the start of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel In the First Circle, a Soviet diplomat on home leave in Moscow tries to make an anonymous call to the U.S. embassy. His purpose: warning the Americans of a Soviet theft of atomic secrets. But he gets a dull-witted, indifferent embassy staffer on the line, … Read more