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so the wave of guide downs starting? pic.twitter.com/nDlob8FDel — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 15, 2019 https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1117831277896450048 ‘Growth Stocks Haven’t Been This Expensive Since the Dot-Com Peak’ Global value stocks near cheapest since 2000 versus growth Bernstein, SocGen quants see tactical case for value rebound For students of market history, the third month of the 21st century … Read more

by confoundedinterest17 As I wrote at the beginning of The Fed’s quantitative easing (QE)  ventures back in 2008, The Fed will never be able to “normalize” monetary policy. As we have seen, The Fed has all but quit rate hikes and has annoucned end an to QT (quanitative tightening) in the Fall. In celebration of the … Read more

by Adam Taggart EHSToday “A bully is always a coward.” ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton The current market rally is like a playground bully; shoving to the ground anyone in its path. But like all bullies, the braggadocio belies an underlying cowardice. Those in charge of the status quo must be absolutely terrified to resort to … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNlHXYzvrmc When President Donald Trump declassifies all the FISA-related documents—as he has vowed to do—we’ll see a most sordid story of how top FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) officials launched a politically motivated “counter-intelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign, using confidential informants who were sent to entrap innocent people.    

by AC Here is what they say about transcripts and audio. https://i.imgur.com/xCbQ0x9 Beginning with the 1994 meetings, the FOMC Secretariat has produced the transcripts shortly after each meeting from an audio recording of the proceedings, lightly editing the speakers’ original words, where necessary, to facilitate the reader’s understanding. Meeting participants are given an opportunity within the … Read more

Talk Digital Network, Released on 4/13/19 Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling Dynamite: An insider’s wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts,” as well as a popular daily financial blog: http://www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney … Read more

by Lance Roberts Last week, the Federal Reserve released their March FOMC meeting minutes. Following the release, the markets surged higher as the initial reading by the markets was “the Fed is done hiking rates.” As the Wall Street Journal reported in Fed Minutes: Officials See Little Need to Change Rates This Year. ‘Minutes of the March meeting … Read more

by John Ward Theresa May is always happy to be photographed with our armed forces. But throughout 2018, she signed five separate EU military union directives that reliquished British control over them…..and kept Parliament in the dark about her neocon treachery. Secrecy has always been her preference. Her unconstitutional power-grab continues to march on, largely undetected … Read more

“He.” “She.” “They.” Have you ever given a moment’s thought to your everyday use of these pronouns? It has probably never occurred to you that those words could be misused. Or that doing so could cost you your business or your job – or even your freedom. Journalist Abigail Shrier explains how this happened and … Read more

The Anarchast, Released on 4/13/19 Topics include: the true cost of quantitative easing, the federal reserve, is the world ready for freedom, lessons from history, who benefits from currency creation, wealth inequality following 2008, asset inflation favors the rich, on the brink of recession, unsustainable interest rates, QE4 and hyperinflation, student loan debt, crypto vs … Read more

Another epic Tweet from Woods- pic.twitter.com/9QOx2aMup3 — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 13, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XN3NJE38KI     h/t Voluntaryist

By David Stockman Investors are trying to understand what yield curves are telling us,” said the CIO. “They listen to every word from the Fed, trying to figure out what they’re up to, whether they’ll succumb to the pressure to ease rates,” he said. “And strategists serve up all sorts of charts comparing what is … Read more

Our world today may be a high-tech wonderland, but we, the users, own nothing in it, with our personal data being the new oil for Big Tech. How do we break its grip on our digital lives? We asked Richard Stallman, the founder and leader of the Free Software Movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c3sv30w158 BuzzFeed: We Have ‘Absolutely … Read more

via independent.org: Writing at City Journal, Steven Malanga hones in on 10 state governments that have chronic overspending problems. Since 2003, ten states, like impulse buyers wandering through a mall on Black Friday, have repeatedly run deficits, spending more than they generate in taxes, fees, and federal grants, and “pushing off to future taxpayers some past costs for … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The evidence of political pressure on Ecuador is surfacing. The IMF Executive Board Approved US$4.2 Billion  (435% of quota and SDR 3.035 billion) Extended Fund Facility for Ecuador. The Executive Board agreed to this arrangement with strings attached. The Board’s decision enables the immediate disbursement of US$652 million (equivalent to SDR 469,7 million, or … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Kenn Star admitted FBI agents investigating the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster learned that Hillary’s humiliation of Foster in front of staff pushed him over the edge and triggered his suicide. The killing of Vince Foster was clearly a cover-up for the body was moved to the park. Only … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The Treasury and Finance Ministry of Turkey announced that the country’s net external debt stock totaled $286.2 billion going into the end of the 3rd quarter of 2018. The country’s net external debt stock to its gross domestic product (GDP) ratio was 34.4% at the end of the third quarter of 2018. However, … Read more