My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Jumps 18%, “Patient” Gets Slashed, “Moderated” Disappears

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What’s the Fed Trying to Say? My fancy-schmancy Fed Hawk-o-Meter jumped 18% from 22 to 26, after having been on a downtrend for four Fed meetings in a row. Something’s up. The Fed Hawk-o-Meter checks the minutes of the FOMC meetings for signs that the Fed sees the economy as strong … Read more

Chaos in Mexico BREAKING footage

This influx of illegal migrants is opening us to invasion AKA globalization as a part of the leftist and globalist agenda. There is NO will on the left to stop it. HC had promised, if elected, to dissolve our borders within 6 months. This agenda was taken up by the Democratic Party and now, with … Read more

Hundreds Of Millions Of Pigs Feared Dead From Swine Fever – Price Of Pork Has Risen 38 Percent In The Last 4 Weeks

by Michael Snyder A plague of epic proportions is ripping through the global pig population, and CNBC is warning that this unprecedented outbreak of African swine fever “could lead to significant shortages” of pork in the global marketplace.  As you will see below, the price of pork has already risen 38 percent over the last 4 weeks, and … Read more

No signs of problems?

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1116026290992222211 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1115855649697665030 🇺🇸🍗🍔🍷🍻Awesome Chart>Food & Drinking Places in US and Recessions.@ThePitBoss16 @TradersCom @Lizardjb3 @OccupyWisdom @hks55 @SpeculaThor @mgftzgd @LordPolemos @EconGlobal @Analyst_G @CoryLVenable @Simple_Trends @PMack1224 @ezkappdo @mcm_ct @scar_david @KohoutPavel @tey_west pic.twitter.com/HsvoiMsrFe — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) April 9, 2019 The classic post-mania bull trap formation #btc pic.twitter.com/VPCfw7NmJt — SolidusMax (@SolidusMax) April 10, 2019

Be afraid, be very afraid

Be afraid, be very afraid https://t.co/2GmmWPXAVq — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) April 10, 2019 Last year, the gap between accounting earnings and announced earnings was $200 billion, or about 17%. That's the largest gap since 2010. https://t.co/phIlF5XTo9 — Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) April 10, 2019 People are worried about stock-market liquidity. Denver investor preps options strategy for … Read more

China Shows Signs of Saturation as Car Sales Maintain Protracted Plunge… Porsche Sales Are Down 20% in China, its Largest Market.

#China Shows Signs of Saturation as Car Sales Maintain Protracted Plunge – China auto sales fall for the 10th straight month pic.twitter.com/8etNVmT972 — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) April 9, 2019 Porsche delivers 55,700 vehicles in the first quarter The Cayenne recorded growth of 35 percent and was delivered 18,310 times. The new model has … Read more

Explainer: how banks fed Aramco bond frenzy: Record orders of $100bn for debut oil bond shine a light on Wall Street tactics

by NineteenEighty9 https://www.ft.com/content/6c4d38c0-5ada-11e9-939a-341f5ada9d40 Saudi Aramco’s debut international bond sale drew $100bn of investor orders for the initial $10bn available to buy, smashing records for an emerging-market bond sale. How does that imbalance between orders and allocations happen, and what does it mean? How does a company issue a bond? In this case, JPMorgan and Morgan … Read more

$BA Boeing gets hit with a lawsuit from investors, alleging that boeing “effectively put profitability and growth ahead of airplane safety and honesty”

“Boeing shareholders sue over 737 MAX crashes, disclosures” – http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airline-boeing-lawsuit/boeing-shareholders-sue-over-737-max-crashes-disclosures-idUSKCN1RL31D The lawsuit alleges that material information about the safety of 737 max planes was known by Boeing and not disclosed to investors. Is this just another nail in this specific safety coffin? Or is this what it looks like after the coffin is done being covered … Read more

Leading Cannabis Companies to Embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Significantly Boost Global Sales

According to a new report by CBM Capital, the Cannabis industry is set to embrace the contribution Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making on the global economy. By 2030, AI is set to contribute up to %15.7 trillion to the global economy according to PWC. Now, some of the global leaders in the Cannabis industry are … Read more

Pinterest sets IPO terms below last private valuation

https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html This company is going to get bulldozed by Instagram. Reminder that within the same days Pinterest officially filed to go public, Instagram conveniently leaked this upcoming feature: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/22/instagram-make-collection-public/ Bazinga.     h/t panoramicsummer

Insulin Appears To Be Unaffordable

by Chris   Tons of stories out there like these: Americans are dying because they can’t afford insulin Living with Type 1 Diabetes When You Can’t Afford Insulin Insulin is too expensive for many of my patients. It doesn’t have to be … https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/insulin…/c5091c42-56cf-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f… Jun 22, 2017 – Some doctors are uncomfortable discussing costs with patients; … Read more

Diabetes Risk Factors

by LesPhelps I find the World Health Organizatios pipublications less biased than the CDC, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association or AMA publications.  Perhaps they get less funding from US agriculture, food manufacturing and drug industries. Here’s a portion of their US diabetes chart, including the percent of people overweight and obese:  

Candace Owens: Biggest Scandal is Democrats Keeping Minorities ‘Perpetual Victims’

We used to be a country where boys put away childish things and became men. Now a large segment never grows up, depends no daddy government handing out “free” shit, and “men” is a hate word. This is 6 minutes everyone here should watch: Congressional Democrats release “heavily edited” video of Candace Owens   h/t SuperCharged2000

Infrastructure or Pensions – States are Only Choosing One

From Birch Gold Group There are currently two crises in the U.S. in need of attention: infrastructures and public pensions. Unfortunately, this twin crisis appears to have developed into an “either-or” crisis. According to a recent article at Barron’s, States will have to choose one or the other (emphasis ours): There is an infrastructure crisis in America. The U.S. earned … Read more

John Bolton Took Money From Banks Tied To Cartels, Terrorists, Iran

by Disobedient Media On June 12, 2018 The Washington Post ran an overlooked story where they disclosed that National Security Advisor John Bolton had accepted money from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Deutsche Bank and HSBC to return for his participation in speeches and panel discussions. These three entities have been linked to various kinds of corruption including sanctions … Read more