The average contract rate on the 30-year fixed will likely end the day as high as 4.875 percent for the highest creditworthy borrowers and 5 percent for the average borrower. Tuesday’s move follows positive economic data in retail sales, suggesting that …
by Thinker Workers at California-based electric carmaker Tesla are facing an increasingly brutal management regime as the company seeks to ramp up production in preparation for its full-scale entry into the car market. The company is working out production issues …
By Harry Dent We’ve been waiting years for our fixed income trade of a decade… Our target’s at the top of the long-term Treasury Bond Channel near 3% on current 10-year yields. And recently, we advised our Boom & Bustsubscribers to …
By TIMP Staff (DCNF) Facebook has suspended roughly 200 apps suspected of misusing data they have gathered on the social media site, a vice president at the company said on Monday. The company has investigated “thousands of apps” and “around …
by Richard Rosso The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1EuMvQk3ho https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanic_a… Electric crews are standing by in case ash falling across the Ka’u District triggers power outages. Hawaii Electric Light said a light dusting of ash and moisture on utility insulators could result in electrical short circuits.
by jessefelder A couple of weeks ago Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting known to many as the “Woodstock for Capitalists.” I have never attended (I don’t like crowds) but I’m always curious to know what Warren Buffett and …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Japan systematically dumps US Treasuries while China hangs on. China increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds, notes, and bills by $11 billion in March to $1.19 trillion, the highest since October last year, according to …
The CEO is selling that $20 billion valuation to a lot of smart, rich guys. But WeWork’s entities are known as SPE’s (“Screwing Probably Expected”), and its landlords will be the first to go down. By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0-ZFcY9FQ Trump team ready to ‘pressure’ Mueller at probe’s one-year mark Giuliani bristled at the idea that the Mueller probe could last beyond the 2018 midterms, let alone go on for several years more. “I think that’d be absurd,” he …
via UPI: Archaeologists have recovered evidence of early cultural innovations dating to 67,000 years ago from a cave near the coast of East Africa. Until now, little was known about human history in East Africa over the last 78,000 years, …
by Ruby Henley WOW! One for the citizens of the world! Thank you, Senate – you have my heart. Where do we go from here? Spread the word – there is still hope to save Net Neutrality for the …
by whitethunder9 I started trading options with actual money May of 2017. I keep notes as I trade so I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way, going from noob to an intermediate level. Interested …
https://twitter.com/davidbcollum/status/996174507969843200?s=11 Notes From Underground: The Mother of All Debt Crises Everything in global financial crisis emanates from too much debt being unable to be serviced. The current situation in Argentina is that the state and private sector borrowers won’t be …
by contezpablinos I have been following the situation in China passively, catching up on a few articles and reading a few fund letters like Kyle Bass And its been posted here a few times too… The overall narrative on Chinese …
From Bloomberg: The cloud over Tesla continues to darken. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, a one-time ardent bull, continues to wave the caution flag, slashing his price target due to troubles in the electric-car maker’s production process for the Model 3 …
#BREAKING: Special counsel Mueller’s team has informed President Trump’s attorneys that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting President, according to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani – CNN https://twitter.com/AlBoeNEWS/status/996866310494539776 (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has informed President Donald Trump’s …
via breitbart: With week two of May 2018 now in the books, we find that CNN’s ratings have collapsed even more than last week, close to -30 percent in total viewers and an astonishing -35 percent in demo viewers. Before we …
by Jesse “So we may not be that far away from the next bubble bursting, and I could imagine, if I think about policy, what we just talked about, with the end of a recovery cycle, we’ve pumped $4 trillion …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UjgVMxNXDA Joel Skousen joins Alex Jones to read Congressman Hon. A.S. Herlong Jr.’s 1963 list of 45 communist goals that he presented in an attempt to warn America about the dangers of the movement.
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by sundance Inspector General Michael Horowitz has submitted the “Draft Report” of his OIG investigation to the principals involved. The IG investigation encompasses the FBI and DOJ conduct during the 2015/2016 Hillary Clinton investigation. The Draft Report encompasses the findings. The …
by stockboardasset Russia’s new weapons for the modern battlefield, including an array of hypersonic missiles and the latest nuclear systems, will secure the country’s security for many decades, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a conference with top military officials. Speaking in Sochi, …
In Pennsylvania, the state’s all-male congressional delegation is poised to gain several female additions, as women swept to House Democratic primary victories in a number of Democratic-leaning and contested districts. In Nebraska, another woman — a Bernie Sanders-style liberal the …
via ifstudies.org: The United States just hit a 40-year low in its fertility rate, according to numbers just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2017 provisional estimate of fertility for the entire U.S. indicates about 3.85 million births in 2017 and a …
Explosions intensified on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on Tuesday, spewing ash and triggering a red alert for aircraft for the first time since the latest eruption began 12 days ago. Ash and volcanic smog, or vog, as it is called, rose …
by Thinker Story by Thomas Phippen Federal authorities are investigating a New York health care company that received a $25 million grant after executives donated big money to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The U.S. attorney’s office in New York’s southern …
via Nordea Today we launch our new cross-asset strategy product, Nordea View, where we outline why we believe equity volatility is here to stay, with a negative market bias. Global macro momentum, liquidity trends, valuation and profit margin risks are …
by ajarndaniel http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/who_we_are All Trustees are appointed by the Queen on advice from Ministers after an open selection process. It goes without saying, but I don’t know anyone who’s been invited to this ‘open process’. The BBC Trust: The chairmen …
Largest Heist EVER In Human History – Literally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9EigEEAQeM The Americans are being screwed by their own politicians. h/t RobertAntonWilson