via Economica : Population demographics in the developed world paint a grim economic picture. Rapidly aging populations and plummeting birth rates mean drastic declines in productive population and a commensurate drop in energy consumption. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint), …
via The Future of Freedom Foundation: “What do you have to lose?” Such was the grand sum total of Donald Trump’s appeal to minority voters in his presidential campaign. Essentially, “Yes, I have nothing to offer you and don’t care …
by Michael Snyder One of the primary reasons why the middle class in America is disappearing so rapidly is because of skyrocketing health care costs. Families all over the country are being absolutely crushed by extremely high health insurance premiums, ridiculously high deductibles …
by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen anything like this since Hawaii first became a state back in 1959. Kilauea began erupting on May 3rd, and it hasn’t stopped rumbling yet. In fact, authorities are telling us that Hawaii has been struck …
Venezuela recovers its gold from Citigroup. Argentina is trying to move away from the central bank. The IMF is pushing austerity on the people and the people are angry. There are now more job openings than there are unemployed people …
via Jill Mislinski Here is a summary of the four market valuation indicators we update on a monthly basis. The Crestmont Research P/E Ratio (more) The cyclical P/E ratio using the trailing 10-year earnings as the divisor (more) The Q Ratio, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Veterans in this industry are saying this is the best freight market they have ever seen.” But shippers struggle with rising costs. Orders for Class 8 trucks – the heavy trucks that haul trailers across the …
By Lance Gaitan You usually find me sifting through important economic data and analyzing how it’ll affect the Treasury market. That’s my wheelhouse. We’ll get to that stuff soon, after we talk about the forces (political and otherwise) that moved …
via Zerohedge: Being a Chief Investment Officer at Soros Fund Management, the $26 billion family office run by billionaire George Soros who reportedly lost $1 billion following the Trump election as a result of bearish market bets, is not easy: recall that …
by Simon Black This morning after my plane landed from Bangkok, I was having breakfast in the business lounge in Sydney and glanced at the local paper, The Australian. The front-page headline told the story of yet another banking scandal: “Cartel case …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The propaganda laced with bold lies is enveloping the media. The JOLTS report (Job Openings and Labor Turnover) released today alleges that the number of job openings in April hit a record. Of course, the April …
From Real Engineering: In 2005, a new submarine proved so threatening that the U.S. leased its technology in order to counter the silent threat…
This week, financial advisor Mike Mitchell answers a listener question: “I have a 403(b) retirement plan with $250,000 in it. Can this amount be rolled over to another self-directed retirement vehicle?” – Ben B. (FTM Platinum Member) According to Mike …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIEYQSBxtZw Tolerance for each other, bottom line we all bleed the same way. SG
via Financial Sense® Wealth Management Deutsche Bank credit default swaps (insurance against default risk) are moving back up today: Unicredit (Italian Bank) CDS moving back up after a 2-3 day respite while its stock price remains weak: Monte CDS moving back up: …
by Disobedient Media Over the past few months, many questions have been raised regarding the ‘mysterious Maltese Professor,’ Joseph Mifsud, and his involvement in the Trump – Russia saga. Disobedient Media broke coverage of Joseph Mifsud’s connections to UK intelligence, as well …
via Schiff A lot of seemingly positive economic data came out last week, but in his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff said it is just feeding into a delusional economic narrative that ignores the most fundamental storyline – debt. Everybody …
Archive: http://archive.is/5AmGf From the article: “U.S. border agents made more than 50,000 arrests in May for the third month in a row, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, an indication that escalating enforcement tactics by the Trump administration — including …
From the Daily Mail no less. The videos of the AZ suspected sex trafficking camp have finally got some attention. But, it is a reasonable way down the page! via Daily Mail : Abandoned camp near Tucson, Arizona, was uncovered by …
I call bs … voter fraud already AC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLfVPxswkdA The death toll from the Fuego volcanic eruption rose to at least 75 while the search for over 200 missing people continues, as seen on footage filmed in Los Lotes on Tuesday. Furthermore, as many as 3,200 people have …
via usnews: The world has become less peaceful in the past year as longstanding global conflicts remain unresolved and the United States and other world powers face political instability, an international study finds. The 12th annual “Global Peace Index” by the Institute for Economics and …
AMD tops Intel with its 32-core Threadripper 2, which will ship this year. “Intel wowed the Taipei crowds on Tuesday with a 28-core Core chip, which the company promised by the end of the year. One day later, on Wednesday, AMD …
Josh Sigurdson does another Freedom Minute update, this time on a mysterious story, something we wouldn’t usually go into. A UFO was caught stalking a U.S. aircraft carrier for days in November 2004 according to newly released Pentagon documents. The …
by Ruby Henley A disturbing conflict is taking place as we speak in Tucson, Arizona. Below is a short video from Facebook by Veterans on Patrol. If you take the time to watch it, you will understand what a critical …
by Charles Hugh-Smith We’re going to get a synchronized global dynamic, but it won’t be “growth” and stability, it will be DeGrowth and instability. To understand the synchronized global meltdown that is on tap for the 2021-2025 period, we must …
Dow stock Caterpillar is quietly falling after soaring 70% last year. Here’s why that matters from CNBC. What ever happened to “synchronized global growth?” Nobody is suddenly looking for economic recessions in new corners of the globe. But amid a …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC_LwX_woyU Yup, the democrats have zero platform besides being anti Trump. They are Done! AC
By Rodney Johnson I had a finance professor in college who referred to self-evident ideas as BGOs, or blinding glimpses of the obvious. The term stuck with me, and my kids have heard it their entire lives. And it came …
by stockboardasset A history of economic cycles dating back to the mid-1800s reveals a troubling outlook for today’s Central Bank induced bull market of hopes and dreams, which could be in the later innings. It is quite evident that Americans have quit …