“The Great Reset” Is Coming

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BY JOHN MAULDIN The US government on-budget deficit was $100.5 billion in October. It was $63.2 billion in the same month a year earlier. I see little hope it will reverse. There is no appetite in Congress or the public for lower spending. Nor will we see the kind of tax policy changes that would generate … Read more

WE HAVE THE WORST POLITICAL CLASS IN OUR HISTORY

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Michael Barone: Who’s to blame? Weak leaders, weak institutions, weak voters? In the wake of the midterm elections, conservative analyst Yuval Levin saw no winners. “It is the weakness of all sides, and the strength of none, that shapes this moment.” You can see what he means. President Trump hasn’t gotten everything he wanted — … Read more

The Business Cycle & the Suicide Rate

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by Martin Armstrong   The press is all abuzz about the suicide rate is up 33% in 20 years and they blame the lack of funding as if this alone will cure the problem. They never seem to simply correlate this with economics. Now we have more than 47,000 Americans committed suicide in 2017, according … Read more

Solar Magnetic Field Oscillations Confirm Global Cooling is Upon Us

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by Martin Armstrong   Professor Valentina Zharkova gave a presentation of her Climate and the Solar Magnetic Fieldhypothesis at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in October 2018. At the core of her work on the solar background magnetic field observed from the Earth, she revealed four pairs of dynamo waves, the pair with the highest eigenvalues are … Read more

What are the areas which stand to benefit from a continued boom in eSports & where are the largest existing & potential markets

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by WhenImTryingToHide THE GAME DEVELOPERS The people who make the games themselves that people compete in will clearly be the benefactors of these trends. The challenge here is that the people who make traditional games may not be the same people that make the games that fuel eSports and even game streaming. But some names to … Read more

CDC & DoD investigating deadly disease threat posed by fast-multiplying exotic tick – Asian Longhorn Tick – CAUSES HUMAN HEMORRAGIC FEVER

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A new invasive tick species capable of transmitting several severe diseases is spreading in the United States, posing an emerging threat to human and animal health, according to a pair of reports issued Thursday. The Asian longhorned tick is the first invasive tick to arrive in the United States in about 80 years. It’s native to … Read more

I Read The News So You Don’t Have To – Market News (November 30, 2018)

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by ogordained UNITED STATES Futures are down ahead of the G20 summit Donald Trump canceled a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina. Trump will meet with Xi Jinping to discuss the trade war The Fed will likely continue its rate-raising campaign in December “another increase in the target range for the federal funds rate was likely to be … Read more

Mueller’s mere existence protects: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Baker, Kortan, Rybicki, Yates, Carlin, McCord, Laufmann, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Warner

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by sundance Former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion today to avoid a congressional subpoena requiring testimony on December 5th to a joint House committee. James Comey is attempting to limit his legal risk exposure by controlling the venue for testimony. (Tweet Link – Document Link) In an open or public hearing classified information cannot be discussed. The primary … Read more

The only places I was able to find any references to this story was at the right-leaning Washington Examiner and the blogosphere.

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JAZZ SHAW: Well, Look Who Was Sneaking Into The US With The Caravan. You’ll never guess. Or maybe you will: When the media was showing all of the pictures of women and children in the caravan and chastising the White House for saying the group contained gang members, I guess the photographers somehow missed this guy. … Read more

This move would put Japan back in the power projection business in a way it hasn’t been since the Great Mariannas Turkey Shoot of 1944.

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SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE WHO’S BEEN PAYING ATTENTION: Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier.’ Japan is preparing an order for roughly 100 US-designed F-35 stealth fighter jets in a deal that could potentially upend the balance of power in Asia, according to sources familiar with the process. That order would include … Read more

US Bank Reserves 10% – EU Bank Reserves 1%

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: What mechanism prevents banks from creating fraudulent electronic deposits of currency? As an IT systems admin, I have the ability to add / subtract / adjust ERP systems inventory / costing outside the normal users ability. I could add widgets to the system at will, but fraud can’t be sustained very long, … Read more

America Needs a New National Strategy

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by Charles Hugh-Smith A productive national Strategy would systemically decentralize power and capital rather than concentrate both in the hands of a self-serving elite. If you ask America’s well-paid punditry to define America’s National Strategy, you’ll most likely get the UNESCO version: America’s national strategy is to support a Liberal Global Order (LGO) of global cooperation … Read more

The Father of Index Funds Sounds a Warning on Index Funds

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by cyclonenation04 TL/DR: Due to the significant growth of index fund use, voting rights and control of public companies are held by an ever shrinking group of index fund managers (Vanguard, Blackrock, Fidelity, State Street) https://www.wsj.com/articles/bogle-sounds-a-warning-on-index-funds-1543504551?mod=mhp https://outline.com/DGK9Td (if paywall) There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was … Read more

The economy is getting worse. What this means for stocks

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by Troy The U.S. economy is starting to deteriorate, which is what typically happens in the last year of a bull market. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on any given day, week, or month. *Probability ≠ certainty. … Read more

Intergenerational Conflict Will Get Worse

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by Jeff Deist via Mises Wire The excellent British online magazine Spiked recently published this article warning about deteriorating attitudes toward elderly people in the UK.  As the article points out, there is more to the problem than logistical and financial concerns about providing socialist medical care to an aging population. Nor do increasing lifespans in the West, with attendant increases in loneliness and age-related morbidity, … Read more

This Is How the “Everything Bubble” Will End

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via Nick Giambruno: I think there’s a very high chance of a stock market crash of historic proportions before the end of Trump’s first term. That’s because the Federal Reserve’s current rate-hiking cycle, which started in 2015, is set to pop “the everything bubble.” I’ll explain how this could all play out in a moment. But … Read more

Supreme Court set to limit asset forfeiture

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What does the government always want? More money. Over the last few years many have taken to a practice called asset forfeiture, where they take what you have and many times never return it, even if it is proven that the person did nothing wrong. This is a terrible practice and too common. Stopping it … Read more

Assange Update – Who is Craig Murray and Why is Mueller Not Mentioning Him?

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by Thinker Status of the Julian Assange Hearing in Federal Court today regarding the unsealing of the possible pending charges against Assange and Wikileaks. Discuss why Craig Murray, Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and Wikileaks Associate, is important to this whole narrative, and delve into why Mueller and the Fake News Media never mention him. … Read more