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via marketwatch: We’re due for a prolonged bear market I often read articles, along with the comments, to gauge the stock market’s sentiment from an anecdotal perspective. I recently noticed a quote by investor Sir John Templeton: “For 100 years optimists have carried the day in U.S. stocks. Even in the dark ’70s, many professional money … Read more

Mike Maloney covers all the trouble brewing in the global economy in this 11-minute video – including data he promised to show you last week.    

by Chris Well, there’s a dozen reasons for why the markets are falling hard right now, so it’s hard to really pinpoint any one of them as being the most important. Flat yield curve, housing in rapid decline, trade “decisions” with China that turned out to be anything but and very prematurely announced. Add it … Read more

Just when we thought the bogus Assange smear couldn’t get worse, Politico asks the world to hold their beer. It appears that a certain segment of American society hate Donald Trump more than they love their own country. They would rather see America burn down to the ground (metaphorically speaking), than accept the fact they … Read more

by Thinker Bill and Hillary Clinton are on their book tour, just like Michelle Obama, and some people are getting a steal of a deal on tickets while others aren’t. One thing for sure that the authors are feeling is a lack of buyers or listeners. As more and more people in the world go … Read more

from Zero Hedge Earlier this morning, Nomura’s Charlie McElligott noted something which in retrospect was quite prophetic: the cross-asset strategist highlighted that his Risk Parity model showed that the market’s most important strategy is in “de-risking” mode as the economic cycle turns sharply: In a positioning confirmation / “nod” then to this growth- and inflation- slowdown scenario, it … Read more

By Bill Bonner BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The historic powwow at the G20 in Buenos Aires last weekend could turn out to produce some positive results. At least the Chinese and the Americans are thrashing around. Maybe they’ll knock down a trade barrier or two by accident. But the good news this week is that nothing … Read more

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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the massive bubble ready to burst at any moment in Hong Kong as the city continues to face declines. Following HSBC’s announcement in October that they planned to raise their prime lending rate, Hong Kong faced its first decline in 29 months. Hong Kong … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4VYYRp0Kc More reason to vote them people out and keep out!!   AC

by moneymetals U.S. government agencies could run out of operating funds starting on midnight this Friday, December 7th. At issue: President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. He wants Congress to commit $5 billion for construction of a wall along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border. The migrant caravan that recently attempted to crash the border near Tijuana … Read more

by Geoffrey Grider After a decade long absence, the U.S. has regained the distinction of most competitive economy in the world, according to the World Economic Forum. In fact, only Japan made a bigger improvement of all 140 countries in the survey. Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States economy has regained the crown as … Read more

BY ROBERT ROSS I don’t blame you. The yields on energy master limited partnerships (MLPs) are very tempting. If you’re not sure what these are, energy MLPs are companies that own the pipelines that transport oil and natural gas around the US. And they often pay huge dividend yields. The top five oil MLPs have an average dividend yield of … Read more

After more than 200 people fall ill, raw beef recall expands to 12 million pounds (WTXL) – As the U.S. Department of Agriculture investigated an October recall on beef, officials realized some patients were falling ill from products not included in the initial recall, so they decided to expand it. More than 12 million pounds of … Read more

by John Rubino A quick recap of the past couple of months: Stocks plunge. The politicians, bureaucrats and bankers who depend on artificially-elevated financial asset prices start to panic. The Fed announces that maybe it won’t have to raise interest rates any more, and the president announces a truce in the trade war with China. The … Read more

Most adults living unhealthy lifestyles d as those who smoke, drink more than 14 units of alcohol, eat fewer than five portions of fruit and vegetables, are obese or have low rates of physical activity. Half of adults have two or more of these risk factors. Although there are signs some people are giving up … Read more

by LV Several Wall Street investment bank traders are munching on their lunch, which was hand-delivered from Delmonico’s Restaurant directly to their desks. The topic of discussion du jour is a recent Bloomberg interview with JP Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic, the so-called “half god, half man” of quantitative and derivatives research.  Kolanovic fears that the growth in computer … Read more