Why Is Social Media So Toxic?

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The desire to improve our social standing is natural. What’s unnatural is the toxicity of doing so through social media. It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social and economic disorders that have little to do with politics. In this context, social media isn’t … Read more

America’s Debt: A Recipe for Disaster

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by Bill Bonner YOUGHAL, IRELAND – Back in Ireland for a few days, we take up an agreeable routine. We read and write in the morning. In the afternoon, we lay stone, closing the open gable ends of our old barn. We’ve done stone masonry in France, Argentina, and now here. (There are no stones in … Read more

The Market Is Gunning For Its Early-2018 Lows

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by Jesse Colombo After last week’s powerful sell-off, the U.S. stock market opened much higher this morning, with the Dow up as much as 352 points. Mainstream investors and TV commentators were excited, as they usually are, that the sell-off may have created an excellent “dip-buying” opportunity. I wasn’t buying it one bit, however: Last … Read more

Why gold prices are rising

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From Livemint: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says that “fear” has made a comeback and gold is benefiting as stocks slide and investors fret more about the possibility that the US economy may tumble back into recession. Bullion’s recent advance “happened on the back of the market sell-off and spike in volatility,” analysts including Mikhail Sprogis and … Read more

Why’s France so Worried about Italy’s Showdown with Brussels? The French Megabanks Are On The Hook

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By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. France was just served with a stark reminder of an inconvenient truth: €277 billion of Italian government debt — the equivalent of 14% of French GDP — is owed to French banks. Given that Italy’s government is currently locked in an existential blinking match with both … Read more

Declines Hit the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Seattle prices fall sharply. New York condo prices nearly flat for the year. First feeble declines in San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, etc. Something is afoot. On the surface, it still looks strong. Single-family house prices in the US rose 5.8% in August compared to a year ago (not seasonally-adjusted), according to the … Read more

Trading The Big Call

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by northmantrader What if you had access to the perfect big market call? The one that says where the market is going in the future, not for a small move, but a big move? You’d position for it of course and you’d wait until the price target is met and laugh yourself silly all the way … Read more

Ready to get off Facebook? Here are 5 alternatives

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From Reason: Facebook can’t seem to do anything right. The social media giant has been the subject of countless negative headlines since the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of “fake news.” With November’s midterms rapidly approaching, Facebook has taken steps to course-correct. Earlier this month, for instance, Facebook deleted 559 pages and 251 accounts that … Read more

Top Rising/Falling Stocks Today (and Why)

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by NaturalHedgehog Quick roundup of the top rising and falling stocks today (30 October 2018), as of mid-morning. This list is limited to companies with market cap >$100 million, and also excludes VIX, short ETFs, etc, as these just reflect the market, rather than individual companies. Today Company Driving the stock +88% Electro Scientific (ESIO) … Read more

Housing prices, Consumer confidence, Investment

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by WARREN MOSLER More housing weakness: Highlights Growth in home prices, as it is for home sales, is almost at a standstill, at least on a monthly basis for Case-Shiller’s 20-city adjusted index which inched only 0.1 percent higher in August. Year-on-year, the unadjusted index is still growing at healthy rate of 5.5 percent which, … Read more

AAPL Still Following Its Quarterly Pattern

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by Tom McClellan We are in a time when “normal” relationships are not working, and when any slight hint of misperformance is getting punished.  So it is fascinating to see that AAPL’s normal quarterly price behavior pattern is still “working”, something I discussed here back in August. AAPL’s share price has a pretty regular pattern which plays itself … Read more

Liberals Laugh And Applaud As Hillary Clinton Says ‘All Blacks Look Alike’ In Racist Joke During Recode Interview

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by Geoffrey Grider Hillary Clinton joked in a Recode interview with Kara Swisher about how black men like Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and former Attorney General Eric Holder ‘all look alike.’ During an interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher on Friday, Hillary Clinton made a joke that sent her audience into side-splitting laughter and applause. Interviewer Swisher upon hearing the … Read more

The Truth About the Migrant Caravan Leaked—What They’ve Been Purposefully Hiding Has Surfaced

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