Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter As banks pull back from mortgage lending amid inflated prices and rising rates, “shadow banks” become very aggressive. In the first quarter 2018, banks and non-bank mortgage lenders – the “shadow banks” – originated 1.81 million …
by stockboardasset Las Vegas, one of the epicenters of the real estate crash in 2007 to 2009, has yet to recover from its August 2006 speculative bubble peak, but recently, upside momentum in 2018 prices has Fitch Ratings, a nationally recognized statistical …
by Fabius Maximus Summary: Being fearful and forgetful makes us an easily ruled people. Easily aroused to panic, yet amnesic about it once the news shifts to a new threat — so that we never learn from experience. What a pitiful …
Via Fox Public works projects around the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago could cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $200 million, The Washington Examiner reported Saturday. Illinois approved a $224 million legislature budget earlier this month that included $174 million for road work near …
2nd chart via @Callum_Thomas https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1008156535523106816 h/t @OccupyWisdom
Greg Hunter gives the Weekly News Wrap-Up for Friday, June 15th The long awaited Inspector General (IG) report on the FBI and how it handled the Clinton email (exoneration) case is out, and it has destroyed the reputation of fired FBI Director James …
via Steven Pearlstein, Analysis Let’s recall those heady days of 2006 when home prices were rising 10, 15, even 20 per cent a year, allowing millions of homeowners to refinance mortgages and collectively take out more than US$300 billion in cash …
by stockboardasset via Mish I ran China’s 14-page, 545 item tariff list through a translator. You can download the translated doc. The New York Times reports U.S. and China Expand Trade War as Beijing Vows to Match Trump’s Tariffs. The Trump administration said …
This is really important for people to remember that it is very easy to cheat the system. Recent discussions on brigading, people don’t realize how much information is missed because of upvoting and downvoting specific topics. This video shows that …
Our tax dollars are propping up huge dictatorships and undemocratic process. But our leaders say we’re for ‘preserving and expanding democray’. via globalresearch.ca: A. “Foreign Military Training in Fiscal Years 2015 and 2016 Volume I and Volume II (Country Training Activities),” …
Make sure to watch the whole thing. I’ve seen a few of these before but there are many more including the shock wave which destroys the camera filming the event.
by DCG Imagine my distress. From Fox News: A new report shows Samantha Bee’s late night show “Full Frontal” hasn’t been able to regain its advertisers after the host called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—” on her show in May. The liberal comedian …
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https://www.google.com/search?q=nasdaq%3Aemb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://heisenbergreport.com/2018/06/15/theres-a-big-problem-in-emerging-market-liquidity-and-here-it-is/ Near-term liquidity in EM is a big problem. Several factors are having an adverse impact, but some of that is improving. EM EXD technicals are better now, long-term fundamentals are good, spreads have risen far more in EM …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmfbjWChfok Greenspan a lil devious globalist elf! AC
I did no analysis on these stocks at all other than making sure they were listed on the NASDAQ and in the healthcare industry. They were also the 25 lowest market cap healthcare stocks listed. I used finviz to find …
As each progressively larger bubble (post 1995) inflates the imaginary net worth of households, real savings plummet. These metrics diverge the most right before the bubble bursting & resulting #recession ensues https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1007699655948492801 do not look at this pic.twitter.com/pPo008WDOt — Alastair …
Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “The establishment has stolen $50 trillion plus, and they want to keep it, and they want to invest it in the space based economy and not have to give it back to the pension …
The era of Angela Merkel may be coming to an end as longstanding disagreements on migration policies between her and her Bavarian allies threaten to come to a head and potentially unseat the German leader, who has been at the country’s helm …
via thescottishsun.co.uk: The newly formed virus, named H7N9, has killed over 600 people in China A NEW strain of deadly bird flu which kills 38 per cent of those infected and could spark a global pandemic has been identified in China. …
John Wedger talks about the investigations he conducted, and the way the system worked to try to stop him and anyone else investigating and reporting. Threats against his person and family, some of which were carried out. https://youtu.be/4E42k5p-Qu0 h/t jubale
by Thinker When you say exclusive, don’t you think that the story would be coming from the source itself? CBS running a headline calling it exclusive about Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the best press secretary that ever was is quitting. Should …
Via Zerohedge.com One of four FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s email server – not Peter Strzok or Lisa Page, referred to Clinton as “the President” in a text exchange with another FBI employee four days after interviewing the Democratic candidate, according to Thursday’s …
James Comey didn’t just deviate from the rules. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the …
The point of the republic and the constitution was to balance the political needs of rural versus city. And to prevent tyranny of the majority by the uneducated masses. AC
by Adam Taggart Après moi, le déluge ~ King Louis XV of France A hard rain’s a-gonna fall ~ Bob Dylan (the first) As the Federal Reserve kicked off its second round of quantitative easing in the aftermath of the Great Financial …
via chicagotribune: Of all the silky lies being told in Washington over the findings of the FBI’s inspector general on the biased culture of those investigating Hillary Clinton’s email server, one lie seems to be ignored: It’s the silky lie told …
In a recent article in GQ headlined “Are Kids the Enemy of Writing?” the novelist Michael Chabon describes a conversation he had many years ago with a writer he admired. At the time, Chabon was engaged to his now ex-wife, and …
Green olivine gemstones are falling from the sky in Hawaii as the erupting Kilauea vent is now send gemstones up 12,000 feet with the ash and when it comes down, you can find a bowl full if you look for …
Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/…