India’s Vehicle Sales Plunge amid Shadow-Bank Debt Crisis & Contagion Fears

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Shadow banks provided 40% of new loans for vehicle purchases. Car sales in India, the fifth-largest auto market in the world, plunged 24% in June, compared to June last year, after they’d already plunged 26% in May, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers reported. Year-over-year declines have been dragging on for … Read more

Europe’s economy this summer/fall

via @RaoulGMI: There is a lot going on in Europe that feels like it’s coming to a head soon… probably by the end of the summer. The EU economy is in mild recession… But it is unlikely to deteriorate further for a month or two until the CESI up-cycle finishes around the end of the summer … Read more

Gold Is For Freedom And Benefit

by Egon von Greyerz Lemmings have a herd mentality. But following the crowd, can have grave consequences like falling off a cliff and drowning in the ocean. Many investors have the same instinct. They follow the crowd and buy or sell when other people do. This probably won’t end in the same disaster as the … Read more

Here’s How Much the Top CEOs of S&P 500 Companies Get Paid

by visualcapitalist How much do the CEOs from some of the world’s most important companies get paid, and do these top CEOs deliver commensurate returns to shareholders? Today’s infographic comes to us from HowMuch.net and it visualizes data on S&P 500 companies to see if there is any relationship between CEO pay and stock performance. For Richer or … Read more

Bearish Case For $EA

by enronCoin After the big dip in 2018, $EA has been a solid stock to long this year. It opened the year around $77 and touched $108. BUT $EA employees and investors got shitfaced on the 4th of July and anyone holding calls got cucked. I had a small position in puts that could have … Read more

5 armed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] boats in the Persian Gulf Wednesday unsuccessfully tried to seize a British Oil Tanker

#BREAKING: Today five armed IRGC vessels in the Persian Gulf unsuccessfully attempted to seize a British oil tanker according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident-CNN via @HamdiAlkhshali — ELINT News (@ELINTNews) July 10, 2019 BREAKING: Five armed #Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [#IRGC] boats in the #Persian Gulf Wednesday unsuccessfully tried … Read more

US judge ruling debunks Mueller report for claiming false ties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba8C70ilAjc A US federal judge has told the Justice Department it must stop alleging that a Russian firm accused of election interference was funded by the Kremlin – or face ‘a range of potential sanctions’. The rebuttal comes in response to unsubstantiated claims from the Attorney General, William Barr.    

This may be your last chance to take advantage of Puerto Rico’s best tax benefits

by Simon Black Imagine a place where you could spend all day sitting on a beautiful beach, sipping piña coladas, mingle with some of the most fascinating people you’ll ever meet, and not pay any taxes… It’s the classic dream of the offshore tax paradise. Unfortunately, that dream is largely dead due to Uncle Sam’s aggressive … Read more

Marc Faber: global economy is on the cusp of a recession

Goldseek Radio, Released on 7/9/19 Click Here to Listen to the Interview http://radio.goldseek.com/nuggets/faber.07.09.19.mp3 According to Dr. Faber, the global economy is on the cusp of a recession. Investors are advised to batten down the hatches. A global / domestic economic maelstrom of epic proportions where paper assets denominated in the reserve currency lose up to … Read more