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via wharton: The kinds of loose-to-nonexistent mortgage requirements leading up to the financial crisis are not exactly making a comeback. But today some loans are brushing up close to the post-crisis regulatory lines meant to prevent a repeat performance. That is the view of Wharton real estate professor Benjamin Keysand fellow researchers who have designed a … Read more
via advisorperspectives: This morning’s release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 147.0, down 1.5 from the previous week. Year-over-year the four-week moving average of the indicator is now at -0.70%, up from last week and its highest in 23 weeks. The WLI Growth indicator is now at 1.35, … Read more
Around 8:15 in the video: “I think the implication is that President Obama was fully aware that his Secretary of State was using an unclassified system to traffic classified information. And that would implicate him in any prosecution of Hillary Clinton. And I believe that is the ultimate reason and although there are many because … Read more
by Troy The S&P is up 14 of the past 18 weeks. The NASDAQ is up 16 of the past 18 weeks. There is a sense of FOMO in the air. Meanwhile, real GDP growth remains solid, which directly flies in the face of the “economy is terrible” narrative. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued two waivers, which will ensure expeditious construction of new bollard wall within the U.S. Border Patrol’s Yuma and El Paso sectors in Arizona and Texas. The projects covered by the waivers include up to approximately 53 miles of new bollard wall in place of dilapidated and outdated designs, … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, and the author of The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care. It always ends the same. Keep giving stuff away until there’s nothing else to give. Sally Pipes does an analysis of the latest crop of democrat presidential nominees and comes … Read more
President Trump Removes The U.S. From The UN Arms Trade Treaty 4/26/19 “The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty,” Trump said in a speech at the NRA convention in Indianapolis. “We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment,” Trump said to applause. Trump … Read more
We only had to watch the record heat in the Southern Hemisphere this winter in the North to know this was coming Oh how I wish for a Hobbit house According to SRP, more than 35,000 homes in the Mesa, Gilbert, and Tempe area lost power for about an hour Thursday. Extreme heat has previously been … Read more
From Birch Gold Group According to CNN, next week the U.S. and China will begin the first of at least two scheduled trade war talks in an effort to move closer to ending their trade disputes. The White House was quoted in the article, saying: … the talks next week would ‘cover trade issues including intellectual property, … Read more
by Hollywood Rob But it is certainly never a good bet to place your money in opposition to those with the greatest power.
by Dr. Eowyn Something interesting is happening in America. Fox News reports, March 30, 2019, that the latest data from the General Social Survey found that the number of American adults who said they have not had sex in the past year hit a record high in 2018 — 23% or nearly 1 in 4 adults. The phenomenon is especially notable among young men. … Read more
by Geoffrey Grider There’s a video going viral this week of a chimpanzee idly scrolling an Instagram feed on a smartphone. It flicks through the feed, selects a photo or video, takes it in, and then goes back to the feed. Yeah, this is cute and funny and all that, but should we really be laughing at it? … Read more
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning The focus of the anti-Trump forces has shifted. Trump was not removed from office as his opponents had hoped. And the long-awaited Mueller report on “collusion” by Trump with Russia has turned out to be an anticlimax showing no collusion. In fact, Trump is on track to complete a mainly successful first … Read more
Will Lehr interviewed on Reluctant Preppers “Safe as Money in the Bank?” Thanks to the carefully managed facade of solidity and stability, you are likely to believe that what you deposited into your bank account or safe deposit box belongs to you….but does it? What if you found out that the official rules have been steadily … Read more
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Eric Sprott interviewed by Craig Hemke on The Weekly Wrap-Up April 26, 2019 Each week brings more financial news, some of it contradictory, some of it confusing—and some of it too good to be true. Who can you trust? Eric Sprott joins us once more to break down all the gold and silver news on the week, including: A … Read more
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This was a low-quality GDP report. All one-offs – lower imports, higher inventories & Pentagon spending. Real final private sales a puny 1.3%. Removing more lipstick from this pig shows cyclically-adjusted GDP contracting at a 2% annual rate; deepest decline in nearly a decade . — David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) April 26, 2019 The GDP Report … Read more