How Healthy are American Banks? – Chris Whalen

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In Whalen’s view, banks will soon face increasing margin pressure as well as, eventually, deteriorating credit conditions. Filmed on August 2, 2019 in New York.   Chris Whalen, chairman of Whalen Global Advisors, dives deep into the current state of the U.S. banking industry. He argues that while American financial institutions have largely recovered from … Read more

Save the banks? No thanks.

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by T2H “If we can save the banks, we can save the world.” – Greta Thunberg What’s the definition of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? The central banks are owned and operated by psychopaths. Not expecting much in the way of empathy for humanity or the living planet … Read more

Here’s How We Are Silenced by Big Tech

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by Charles Hugh-Smith This is how they silence us: your content has been secretly flagged as being “unsafe,” i.e. “guilty of anti-Soviet thoughts;” poof, you’re gone. Big Tech claims it isn’t silencing skeptics, dissenters and critics of the status quo, but it is silencing us. Here’s how it’s done. Let’s start with Twitter. Twitter claims it … Read more

Liquidity Crisis

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by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, you have made many unbelievable forecasts in so many markets around the world. But your forecast that we would see a liquidity crisis after Labor Day and dollar hoarding is at the top of the list. There is nobody who saw this coming. Your computer can see things nobody can. Looking … Read more

Have Stock Investors Gotten Too Complacent?

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by Dana Lyons Near-term volatility expectations just dropped to a record low relative to those further out. One effective way of measuring sentiment in the stock market is by using the volatility market, specifically the “term structure”. As we’ve mentioned in the past, “term structure” compares near-term expectations versus those further out. For example, let’s compare … Read more

John Rubino – Beware of the Fed Repo Man

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from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back… Debt keeps on increasing at increasing rates. That should be good news for the repo market. And yet, Fed’s Repo man is in a quandary. How could chaos reign in a stodgy market that’s been around since 1917. The premise is simple. Buy securities to loosen liquidity. Sell securities … Read more

To Fix the Economy, Fix Healthcare

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By Patrick Watson If you are American and you have health insurance, you probably get it from either your employer or some kind of government program. Or possibly both, if the government is your employer. Almost no one in the US gets health insurance on their own. We can’t afford to buy it and insurers can’t afford … Read more

That Time Keynes Had a Point

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By John Mauldin John Maynard Keynes once said: “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” While true, it doesn’t … Read more

Chinese EV maker Nio reports $460M loss, cancels the earnings call

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by ilikepancakez You literally can’t make this it up. How bad are your numbers when it’s better to just cancel the earnings call all together? via QZ: China’s electric vehicle maker NIO landed on the New York Stock Exchange a year ago when investors were pouring billions of dollars into China’s electric car industry. But it’s since become obvious that … Read more

STRONG Mom Who SILENCED Beto Speaks Out On FOX And Friends – She’s Fired UP!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvI7ovlSDP0 100% Fed Up reports, an incredible video of a brave, young woman confronting Beto O’Rourke at one of his small rally’s in Aurora, CO went viral. The woman in the video, who tells O’Rourke she’s a mother of four, can be heard telling O’Rourke, “Gun owning Americans heard your speech and heard what you … Read more

Russia’s FM Lavrov Reacts To Americans BANNING Russian UN Delegetation From UN in New York

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The U.S. denied visas to members of the Russian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York to discuss the matter. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, said the U.S. move justifies a tough response from Moscow and the … Read more