Because of the #Fed propping up the market post-GFC (cheap money), leverage ratio for small cap non-financials is near all-time highs! Spread btn large & small caps is at record levels. And consider, the floating rates between large caps & …
A video definitely worth watching. Warren Buffett’s 5 best investing tips: Don’t buy or sell based on headlines. Don’t try to profit from bubbles. Put your emotions aside. Always invest in productive assets. Always bet on America. h/t dmwes4
$SPX 52 week highs only 4% today vs 33% in January. Other divergences like this led to periods of weakness. https://twitter.com/TommyThornton/status/1026154017314037760 Chart (@TheTerminal): Emerging/developed markets volatility divergence – https://twitter.com/SoberLook/status/1026287789288112129 Don’t count on strong future #StockMarket returns when buying at high …
https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1026171612507320320 https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1026473498691203072
CBC to Russian Trolls – Propagandizing the people is our job (Link to relevant material below) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/russian… https://www.vox.com/2018/3/12/1711149… http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/…
by Avi Gilburt of Elliott Wave Trader Last week, I wrote an article about how I view the potential effects of an economic collapse on American society. Unfortunately, many of our readers took it as an opportunity to post their perspectives on Trump …
by Brian Maher via Daily Reckoning The calendar has rolled to August… The “dog star” Sirius is prominent in the predawn sky. And the canine days of summer are upon us. In The Iliad, Homer depicts the rise of Sirius as an …
President Trump: Donald Jr. did nothing illegal in meeting Russian attorney to get ‘dirt’ on Clinton https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p…
from SGTreport: Here is the PROOF that You Tube is SHADOW BANNING BOTH SGTREPORT YOU TUBE CHANNELS. I am asking President Trump to ‘Look into it” immediately as he has vowed to do regarding TWITTER’S shadow banning of Conservatives and Libertarians. …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg6rmxPK_tk Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loose upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is …
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by howmuch Apple is easily the most valuable company in the world. Its stock has been on a relentless upward march for the last two years straight, and the latest earnings report brings more of the same good news for shareholders. If …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A Friday-afternoon-in-August disclosure. Here’s its rap sheet of ongoing official scandals. Friday afternoon, when no one was supposed to pay attention, Wells Fargo filed its 10-Q quarterly report with the SEC. It’s under “Note 13: Legal Actions,” which …
via pjmedia: WASHINGTON – Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told PJM that the rising federal deficit does not contradict the GOP’s message of fiscal responsibility because “both parties share the blame” for spending more than the federal government brings …
via talkingpointsmemo: Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the Sunday Times newspaper that “intransigence” by EU officials “is pushing us towards no deal.” He put the chance of Britain crashing out without a deal at 60 percent. Britain and the EU say …
by ONPOINT Throughout the month of July, Florida locals have been shocked at the mass animal deaths occurring across their beaches. Thousands upon thousands of small fish have washed up on their shores. However, larger animals such as dolphins, whale sharks, …
Unions Take a Hit After Supreme Court Ruling: States are ordered to stop collecting millions of dollars in fees from public workers. Public-sector unions are facing steep falls in revenue and trying to prevent the loss of members in the …
via accordingtohoyt: “Note that the peak for 24 was approximately half that of 23. Also note that we are currently already as low as the minimum that ended cycle 23, at approximately 8.5-9 years into an average-11-year cycle. Theoretically, we still …
via sultanknish: Here are a few things that are effectively legal in San Francisco: drugs, public defecation and shoplifting. And here are some of the things that are banned or will be banned in the City by the Bay. Straws. Fur …
via thecollegefix: So-called Confucius Institutes hosted by American colleges and universities have long drawn concern from both lawmakers and academic groups for promoting Chinese Communist propaganda and squelching academic freedom. Since few colleges have acted against this source of free and easy money, the U.S. …
via NYT: For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy. The signs of potential trouble — vanishing pensions, soaring medical expenses, inadequate savings — have been …
via theatlantic: What to do when a school is infested with vermin, when textbooks are outdated, when students can’t even read? Perhaps the answer is sue the government. That’s what seven students in Detroit have done. Their class-action suit filed against …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGRnDhpyjs4 Chris Agee for the Western Journal reports, Ahead of what historically has been a rare exhibition of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, some Republicans are saying their Democratic rivals have refused to participate in an annual softball game. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: …
Look for President Trump to declassify the June 2017 Carter Page FISA renewal this month, says investigative reporter, Paul Sperry. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and then-Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe both signed offon the June 2017 Carter Page FISA renewal–things …
Fake intelligence as well as plagiarized quotations had been slipped into an official intelligence report pertaining to Iraq’s WMD presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell on February 5, 2003. This was the report used …
via dailymail.co.uk: Police arrested 18 people after the girls were lured into working at sex parties The alleged ‘Madame’ of the operation was among those detained in the raids Liliana del Carmen Campos Puello allegedly recruited the underage girls A …
https://twitter.com/RandyEBarnett/status/1026214743294574595 Alison Lundergan Grimes on Rand Paul: “Just ask his neighbor. He can be beaten.” — Adam Beam (@adambeam) August 4, 2018 Democrats and the media will continue to incite violence and the violence will continue to escalate until Democrats …
FLASHBACK: Frenzied, Angry Mob Turns on Reporters in a Dangerous Physical Altercation. “You may not remember it. No president was asked about it. No Democrat candidate was made to disown it. It didn’t get much press. Not like this week’s mob.” …
This is one of the most infuriating “interviews” I’ve ever seen. https://youtu.be/WgOfdaXGNlY Bonus: Gower goes on to discuss this interview in a panel interview. The woman on the panel says Lauren and Stefan aren’t “firm friends with the facts”. This …
Proving yet again that crime does pay and reporting it does not. We are going to get what we reward. That’s why this kind of corruption is particularly insidious. via nakedcapitalism: The Wall Street Journal has just published a story …