BY PATRICK WATSON You’ve heard the old line about three kinds of falsehoods: lies, damned lies, and statistics. All three are easy to find on the Internet. Unlike lies, though, statistics can be useful if taken with a grain of salt. For instance, …
Via Marketwatch Millions of Americans who lost manufacturing jobs during the 2000s have long ”known” China was to blame, not robots. And many helped elect Donald Trump as president because of his insistence that China was at fault. Evidently many …
by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC The mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets are just wrapping up a truly-extraordinary earnings season. Naturally this first quarter under Republicans’ new corporate tax cuts fueled surging profits. But sales were up big too, which is no mean …
via Danielle Park Nomi Prins, author of “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World,” discusses how easy monetary policy has affected the global economy. Here is a direct video link. David Rosenberg’s recent corporate debt to GDP cycle chart goes well with …
via ZeroHedge Frequent readers will recall that it was Andrew Lapthorne’s revelation back in late 2015, which was behind the following chart, indicating that virtually all net debt issued this century has gone for one thing: to fund buybacks, i.e. wealth …
by stockboardasset Over the last two years, academic researchers have identified various methods that they can transmit hidden commands that are undetectable by the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google’s Assistant. According to a new report from The New …
by DCG Well, this is disappointing. Gov. Fallin’s term ends in 2019. From Fox News: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Friday vetoed the “Constitutional Carry” bill that, if passed, would have enabled handgun owners in the state to carry without first obtaining a …
by Dr. Eowyn The New York Daily News reports that on April 18, 2018, New York governor Andrew Cuomo warned banks and insurers to stay away from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the gun industry because of the “reputational risk” they will incur …
Physical Gold Fund, Released on 5/11/18 Click Here to Listen to the Interview http://www.physicalgoldfund.com/Download/Audio/TGC-May-2018.mp3 Topics: *Update on gold markets *New phase of financial warfare with Iran *Financial system chokepoints *US Dollar payments system *SWIFT transfers and third party influence *How …
by Simon Black On October 22, 1981, the national debt in the United States crossed the $1 trillion threshold for the first time in history. It took nearly two centuries to reach that unfortunate milestone. And over that time the country …
Source: Michael J. Ballanger for Streetwise Reports Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses movements in the U.S. dollar. There was an article written a few days back where the author vehemently denied that the U.S. dollar could go any lower and where …
by stockboardasset Lorenza Martinez, director of the Payment System of the Bank of Mexico, informed Reuters in a telephone interview last week that more than five Mexican financial institutions have recently observed “unauthorized transfers,” resulting in hundreds of millions of pesos stolen. Cybercriminals …
by Marshall Swing of The Church Of Acts Gold and Silver are on the exact path down that I wrote about many weeks ago (actually many months and years ago, but who is counting). The COTs, open interest, and open interest movements reveal …
by Thinker The history of most Africans in positions of dictator political roles, shows the truth about who put them there. History of Africa explains why after centuries African life hasn’t changed much in the way of being robbed of …
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is currently being treated for pancreatic cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The former Democratic senator from Nevada underwent surgery Monday to remove a tumor from his pancreas, Reid’s …
via xinhuanet: Israeli war jets fighters carried out on Monday afternoon an airstrike on a Hamas military facility in northern Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported, according to Hamas armed wing and paramedics. Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades said in a …
via Zerohedge: President Trump surprised pundits and assorted watchers of the ongoing simmering trade war between China and the US on Sunday, when he pledged to help China’s telecom giant ZTE Corp “get back into business, fast” after a U.S. …
by Lance Roberts A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the coming “Pension Crisis.” The important point made was the unrealistic return assumptions used by pension managers in order to reduce the contribution (savings) requirement by their members. “However, the reason assumptions …
via Rethinking Economics: Few remember the nuts and bolts of how the banks got bailed out in 2008. It shouldn’t have happened, and in fact, the bailout bill didn’t pass in Congress. The Dow dropped 740 points from its highs of …
Alan Greenspan on Gold and Central Banks Last month Dr Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, spoke at our inaugural investment summit on gold and central banks #globalinvest18 pic.twitter.com/Ixfth3dhlt — World Gold …
By Bob Shanahan In March, Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year old Stephon Clark who was holding nothing other than a cell phone. The cops thought he had a gun and he was running through the neighborhood smashing car …
by visualcapitalist In your everyday life, a minute might not seem like much. But when it comes to the vast scale of the internet, a minute of time goes much further than you ever could have imagined. That’s because the internet …
Guest post by thinkofanamefast Market profit margin ratios are around 10% vs perhaps 7% historically. Combined with PEs being high (although Birnyi associates has 17 for 1 year forward (not bad but a lot due to tax cuts, repatriation, and …
by TicklesMcFancy So I make 13.50. I pull about 2400 pre tax and take home about 1600 after taxes, health benefits, and a healthy 401k deposit, which I highly recommend. Start that shit early and play the market. I have a …
by Tweetystraw Four years ago, one of my siblings alerted me that my Dad’s satellite TV bill had crept up to about $160/month. A single premium channel (to get his Westerns,) but otherwise, not Hong specials He lives in a …
Financial Engineering Run Amuck #Stocks – #Economy | If the yield curve flattens, or even inverts, expect to see additional selling pressure on the financial sector. The banks, regional banks especially, will be laggards of the sector. @TradingNation #FED $DJIA …
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by John Vibes, Activist Post: A police department that relies on facial recognition software has admitted that it has a false positive rate of over 90 percent. What this means is that nearly every person who is marked as a suspect …
