by FS Tian Yang, Variant Perception’s Head of Research, recently covered their must-read Understanding Leading Economic Indicators report with FS Insider. Yang explains the three major categories that most economic data fall into, how leading economic indicators (LEIs) help identify high risk/reward trades, …
The American recycling system is on the verge of breaking down, and it could mean higher costs for homeowners Recycling is going to get a lot more expensive for homeowners. Recycling companies used to make money shipping goods to China, …
Banks are now turning towards blockchain technology. HSBC completes its first trade-finance using blockchain. NYSE plans to settle bitcoin futures using physical bitcoins instead of fiat currency. St. Louis Fed says cryptocurrency is not currency, it is backed by nothing, …
If anything Kerry’s badgering is likely to make Iran come to the table just to get him to shut his mouth up: http://archive.is/ItGee
But the liberals won’t see the error of their ways no matter what outlets warn them it’s a strategic blunder to talk down to 90% of the population: http://archive.is/EKe3r
Guest post by howimademoney So first off a few things I have got to admit too…part of me got lucky. However I still learned some valuable lessons and thought I would share. I also live in an very affordable part of …
by AlexPitti It’s not news that the Italian government is undergoing challenges,. The economy has been a laggard in the Eurozone ever since the creation of the partial economic union because difficult reforms haven’t been made. The latest event in …
by KMoney911 Don’t make the same mistake I did. Last year I started new service for Spectrum cable, electing to install the equipment myself. They accidentally sent me two boxes of equipment. No big deal I thought and called in …
North Korea will invite the press in to witness the dismantling of their nuclear program. China is about to step in to take the place of a French oil company in Iran. China is building a train that will connect …
by db8cn After my wife telling me numerous stories of being ran off the road and close calls, I researched and ultimately purchased two $100 dash cams for both of our vehicles for a total of about $198 on Amazon …
by TFittonJW Great lawsuits (in addition to our fine t-shirts!)! Our big Judicial Watch update: Judicial Watch carries on its back the work of oversight of Mueller operation: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-emails-show-fbi-advised-comey-consult-muellers-office-prior-june-2017-testimony/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/justice-department-reveals-may-provide-judicial-watch-previously-redacted-portions-rosenstein-scope-authority-mueller-memo/ Nice victory for patriotic veteran Robert Rosebrock: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-scores-new-victory-76-year-old-veteran-criminally-prosecuted-allegedly-taking-photos-american-flags-veterans-affairs-facility/
by Ruby Henley I promised an update on my previous report, which can be viewed here – http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/no-wonder-john-kerry-and-the-eu-leaders-are-in-a-state-of-panic-bribes-taken-on-the-iran-deal/ Information can be found by going back in time, so I am going to start with a report from 2015. I am …
by Armstrong Economics QUESTION: why national debts eventually default Martin to answer this question you said: we need to introduce currency. France and Germany were less impacted by converting to the Euro than Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Why? Currency Inflation! …
https://twitter.com/TihoBrkan/status/995225958230712322 (2/3) The day of reckoning could be coming for China. Plethora of debt starts maturing this year, followed by 2019 & 2020. (3/3) Chinese stock market doesn’t seem worried for now. Same can be said about the overall #EmergingMarkets …
https://twitter.com/globalprotrader/status/994969292880924673?s=11 I’d say it’s a problem NOW and when we get a stock market crash and recession later this year, Fed Tax Receipts will dry up and those deficits turn from $1tln to 2 to 3… there’s a breaking point …
via Daily Reckoning: The official US government-released unemployment rate is meaningless. The LFPR measures the employment rate of adults in their prime working years, 25-54. LFPR has fallen 4.4% since 2000. But if you don’t show up as having actively …
https://twitter.com/movement_cap/status/996038696049807360?s=11 Amazing how many things are linked to the #LIBOR rate! #GC_F $GLD
via Mauldin Economics: Asking that corporations not take on too much debt, when that debt costs them almost nothing in interest, is unrealistic. Asking that the Fed not leave interest rates at emergency-condition levels for 10 years is not. In the …
via The Gold Telegraph: Paying an out and out penalty for saving your money. In Europe, negative interest rates have been used to attempt to kickstart inflation and to get banks to lend out money; if they have to actively …
California with its bankrupt economy, culture of unemployment, madcap representatives, crumbling power grid, crippling taxes, and unattainable real estate prices has created an exodus of Californians heading east. But California has always claimed to be at the heart of America’s …
Killer Mike: “Bernie Sanders Got Robbed”, Bill Maher proceeds to do damage control for the DNC and Hillary Well Killer Mike, a vocal supporter and surrogate for the Sanders 16′ campaign went on Real Time with Bill Maher last Friday …
by sematrix The international bankers, who see themselves as a post-national priest class, a chosen people of the cosmos, and the source of all manna, are actually insatiable grifters, predators and parasites upon the nations in which they roost, and upon …
Im not saying anything about this being the Mark of the Beast, but it still not good at all. Once they get this into everybody’s heads as the “normal thing to do”, what’s next? via businessinsider: Some 3,000 Swedish people …
In the future there won’t be speed cameras. If you don’t already have an approved driverless car, a prompt will pop up on your dashboard warning you to slow down or you’ll be fined. The car will report every time …
Borrowers in the U.S. are defaulting on subprime auto loans at a higher rate than during the financial crisis, according to Fitch Ratings. Lenders are responding by pulling back on financing to applicants with shaky credit histories and requiring higher …
by Geoffrey Grider GOOGLE SHOCKED THE WORLD THIS WEEK WHEN IT SHOWED OFF GOOGLE DUPLEX, ITS NEW TECHNOLOGY TO HANDLE TASKS OVER THE PHONE. SINCE ITS REVEAL ON STAGE AT THE GOOGLE I/O CONFERENCE, THERE HAS BEEN SOME NEW INFO REGARDING …
IF YOU’VE EVER HAD THE CHANCE TO HEAR THIS INCREDIBLE MAN SPEAK, YOU KNOW HE CHEWED WHOOPI UP AND SPIT HER OUT… Dr. Mitchell was the architect of “enhanced interrogation” aka waterboarding. The man is a hero. Dr. James Mitchell …
by sundance I have a sneaking suspicion the Machiavellian connections between the U.S. intelligence apparatus and multiple foreign agents/actors, including the work of Stefan Halper in the 2016 presidential election, are only a few days from fully surfacing. There could be enough …
via Zerohedge: Long gone are the days when the CDS market was naively seen as merely a simple hedge to long cash bond positions for vanilla investors (negative basis), or more conspiratorially, a means to naked short the bonds of …
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/14/g…-says.html About a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the tech giant’s involvement in Project Maven, a controversial military program that uses artificial intelligence, Gizmodo reports. Project Maven, which harnesses AI to …