China’s Debt to GDP Ratio Is Now Over 300%!!!

According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), China’s debt to GDP Ratio is now over 300% at 303%!! China’s debt tops 300% of GDP, now 15% of global total – IIF https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas… 2018 Bank of International Settlement (BIS) Report: Hong Kong, China bank sectors vulnerable to crisis https://www.scmp.com/business/banking… Beijing Lets One Slip: Obscure Data … Read more

This is the Most Important Chart You’ll See Today

By The Phoenix Breadth is starting to breakdown. As I write this, breadth are on the verge of breaking a bearish rising wedge formation. Why does this matter? Because breadth leads stocks. Throughout 2018, breadth (black line) was warning that stocks (blue line) were due to correct (red squares in the chart below). Breadth was … Read more

SUMMER SCORCHER! DC LIKE DEATH VALLEY

Dangerous Heat Wave Expands from Plains, Midwest to East into This Weekend At a Glance Hot temperatures are spreading from the Plains to the East Coast. The heat index will rise to dangerous levels in parts of those regions. This level of heat could become deadly, especially in large metro areas. Widespread daily record highs … Read more

The Chinese Space Station is Falling to Earth Today!

A space station is about to fall from the sky. The Chinese station Tiangong-2 is scheduled to drop out of orbit on 19 July and fall into the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Chile. Tiangong-2  – which translates as “heavenly palace” – was launched in September 2016, and it was never intended to be a permanent … Read more

PAUL CURRY: The Squad to Re-Elect President Trump.

via townhall: “Donald Trump, by injecting himself into the Democrat’s civil war and compelling the Pelosi establishment to embrace the Squad, may have just pulled off a classic Tom Sawyer move. Rather than allowing the Democrats to reign in their extreme left flank and quell the temper-tantrum-like calls for impeachment, he has gotten the left to … Read more

Iran rolls out ‘substantial’ offer to Washington in exchange for lifting sanctions

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has offered to immediately ratify the JCPOA Additional Protocol in exchange for the immediate removal of US sanctions. Under the original 2015 JCPOA deal, the Protocol was intended to have been ratified in 2023. Iran came up with an offer to permanently allow enhanced inspections of its nuclear program … Read more

It’s the Volatility – not the Temperature!

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, in relating your comments on weather and how the winters will spike to record cold and then the summers will spike to record highs, is this the same as a panic cycle in markets? HC ANSWER: Yes. Our computer looks at the weather the same as it does with the price … Read more

Singapore Economy Turns Down & China Exports Decline

by Martin Armstrong They are calling it an unexpected contraction in Singapore’s economy which is in line with our Economic Confidence Model which bottoms in January 2020. In addition, China’s exports have also declined by 1.3% during June. Gross domestic product in export-reliant Singapore declined by a shocking 3.4% in the second quarter from the … Read more

James Rickards – Trump Wins if Economy Avoids Recession, Who Bails Out Central Banks in Coming Chaos

Best-selling financial author James Rickards is not seeing a recession anytime soon. In fact, he is not forecasting a recession until after the 2020 Presidential Election. What does that mean for the chances of a second Trump Presidency? Rickards says, “If you put recession odds at 35%, and that is probably high, then the inverse … Read more

We Are in for Decades of Ultra-Loose Monetary Policy

BY JARED DILLIAN President Trump recently nominated Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is the United States director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which I had never heard of until her nomination. Shelton is a Republican and believes in the adoption of a gold standard. She currently believes … Read more

Washington Post: Bernie Sanders’ campaign staff has unionized: Demands $15 per hour, 100%-Paid Healthcare. Campaign Leadership Fighting to Resist

Brian Riedl @Brian_Riedl This is my favorite story of the day. Bernie Sanders’ campaign staff has unionized and is demanding a $15 per hour “living wage” and 100%-paid health care for those earning under $60k. The campaign leadership has thus far resisted. Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay … Read more