Where do we go now? After record US close, global markets struggle for further upside in wake of negative European sentiment readings

by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Preview Ahead of the Open Global stocks and US futures are mixed this morning after yesterday’s record close of US stocks, in early trading with front-month Dow Jones minis +0.10%, S&P 500 minis -0.02% and Nasdaq 100 minis -0.03% The US market is ripe for a melt-up, according to Bloomberg today, with valuations constrained and “afraid to miss … Read more

Give This Stock Market Bubble A Round Of Applause – The S&P 500 And The Nasdaq Just Hit Brand New Record Highs

by Michael Snyder Stocks just closed at a brand new all-time record high, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is coming to theaters, and a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin just won the 768 million dollar Powerball jackpot.  If those are the top headlines today, then everything must be good in ‘Murica at the moment, right?  Of course that is not true … Read more

FITTON: HUGE: Judicial Watch Forces FBI To Admit Hillary Clinton Emails Found in Obama White House — Also Confirms Over 49,000 Clinton Server Emails Found on Weiner Laptop

by TFittonJW   Heavy lifting gets results: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-admits-hillary-clinton-emails-found-in-obama-white-house/ Also Confirms Over 49,000 Clinton Server Emails Found on Weiner Laptop (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a senior FBI official admitted, in writing and under oath, that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President. The FBI … Read more

Teenager sues Apple for $1bn, claiming facial recognition led to false arrest

via engadget: An 18-year-old from New York has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Appleover a false arrest he says happened because of what he believes to be Apple’s face recognition system. NYPD officers arrested Ousmane Bah on November 29th after he was falsely linked to a series of Apple Store thefts in Boston, New Jersey, Delaware and Manhattan. … Read more

How to Defeat the Government/University Complex, Which Is Turning Frustrated Kids into…

Isaac Morehouse says the people who got duped in the college admissions scandals weren’t the schools that accepted unqualified students but the parents who paid the bribes to get their children in. He’s right. Today we discuss the increasingly irrelevant preparation for the real world that the existing government/university complex gives Americans — a preparation … Read more

US stocks near record levels just as the rest of the world continues to form lower highs! Momentum is fading.

US stocks near record levels just as the rest of the world continues to form lower highs! Momentum is fading. Hard to find reasons to buy US stocks at these historically extreme valuations. pic.twitter.com/AtxQKiRm9M — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 22, 2019 Stress & Liquidity diverging. $SPY pic.twitter.com/MeMzFkT4co — PlungeProtectionTeam (@gamesblazer06) April 23, 2019 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1120717825730056197

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son got caught up in the Bitcoin frenzy and reportedly lost $130 million

Billionaire Masayoshi Son reportedly made a massive bet on bitcoin near the peak of the digital currency’s frenze in 2017. The founder of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank personally lost over $130 million when he sold his position, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Son has a reputation for making big, risky bets but has had a successful … Read more

Buzzfeed took $1.5m directly from Obama’s Priorities USA?

by TrentonJay https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/ Uhm… @BuzzFeed – You took $1.5m direct from (Obama’s) Priorities USA?! Did you cut Fusion GPS out of the deal or something, @BuzzFeedBen? WTF, man?! No wonder you had such a big lay-off in January… pic.twitter.com/Zl37shFmvz — Connected Single-Wides (@2xwide_dreaming) April 23, 2019 He got it from the FEC website: https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2016&data_type=processed&recipient_name=Buzzfeed&min_date=01%2F01%2F2015&max_date=12%2F31%2F2016 Checkout the entire thread: https://twitter.com/2xwide_dreaming/status/1120699907403321344 He’s … Read more