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By John Mauldin Central bankers have a well-worn playbook for handling recessions. Cut interest rates, increase liquidity, and otherwise shove capital into the private sector. This helps businesses hire more workers and raise wages. Then gradually remove all the stimulus as growth recovers. This playbook truly fell apart in 2008. The system had so much debt … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Hi Martin, What are your thoughts on preferred shares? Especially the ones with good quality DBRS ratings. Will the survive the downturn or will they fail? Thx FS ANSWER: Ordinary and preference shares are a claim on corporate earnings and assets. Dividends for ordinary shares may be irregular and indefinite, whereas preference shareholders … Read more
by Martin Armstrong We should not expect Trump to get any of his agenda items through Congress. Trump’s promises to replace the Affordable Care Act, invest in infrastructure, and cut middle class taxes have been essentially shelved. The Democrats refuse to cooperate on anything in hopes of using that against him in 2020. What this … Read more
Prices are expected to rise due to increased demand facing European suppliers Comes after deadly viral disease began affecting hogs on farms in East Asia There was an 18% increase in the price of bacon from February to April this year An outbreak of African swine fever in China could send the price of pork and bacon soaring … Read more
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital The Fed has now created the single most dangerous stock market environment possible… That’s when the economy is slowing… and stocks are RALLYING based on hopes that the Fed will soon introduce more monetary easing. This is precisely what happened in 2008. And it’s when CRASHES happen. And that’s when … Read more
DOCUMENTS DETAILING GOOGLE’S ‘NEWS BLACKLIST’ SHOW MANUAL MANIPULATION OF SPECIAL SEARCH RESULTS Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate. Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by … Read more
via heraldmailmedia: BEIJING — China’s ambitious plan to assign lifelong scores to citizens based on their behavior has stoked international concern, even as the project remains nascent and numerous hurdles must be overcome before the experiment can be implemented nationwide. In fact, the so-called social credit system is merely an extension of the myriad ways the … Read more
via afp: Is the dream of one global internet still alive? Increasingly, moves by governments to filter and restrict content are threatening to fragment the system created with the promise of connecting the world with a largely unified body of content. China for years has walled off some western services, and the fragmentation may be accelerating … Read more
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discusses the efforts made by some on the far-left to undermine President Trump. Courtesy of “Lou Dobbs Tonight”
by John Ward We should all be grateful to the Establishment for their antics over the last two weeks, for they have made one thing crystal clear: they all want a superstate solution to their problems, and care not a fig whether this addresses our problems or not. Every tribal voter in the land must surely now recognise the blindingly … Read more
Also General Douglas MacGregor demands Trump declare martial law on US Border watch the interview, it all makes sense now. Trump stopped their plans to bomb every country in the Middle east. That is why they are attacking him! Anybody that votes for a democrat is a moron. Max Boot claims that we … Read more
by northmantrader At the beginning of March I issued a warning about $BA when the stock was trading at $441. The stock has dropped over $70 since. Of course I could not have known the company would experience a disaster with the plane crash and the subsequent software issues and fleet groundings and now canceling of orders. My … Read more
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors On Wednesday of next week, the world’s largest presidential election will be held. Voters in Indonesia will go to the polls to decide whether to give incumbent president Joko Widodo another five years, or elect former general Prabowo Subianto. I think of Indonesia’s presidential election as the “world’s … Read more
by AC Facts. 1. The mainstream media have proven their “snooze” news is all in favor of their corporate agendas. 2. Twitter, Facebook, Google/Youtube owners were threatened to cooperate with censorship demanded by dummycrats or they would be next to fall. 3. The police locked up a kid in New Zealand for simply relaying … Read more
An Uber driver in California was arrested after he dropped a customer off at the airport before swinging back to try to rob the customer’s home. According to the San Mateo Police Department, Uber driver Jackie Gordon Wilson had dropped off his client before returning to the customer’s home about an hour later in an … Read more
Clothing retailers, consumer electronics companies and home furnishing businesses will need to close more stores across the U.S. as e-commerce sales proliferate, according to UBS. In a note to clients this week, the investment firm said “store rationalization needs to accelerate meaningfully as online penetration continues to rise.” Assuming online sales’ share of total retail … Read more
Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—While President Trump had initially indicated he would not be filling out a March Madness bracket this year, the president changed his mind and released one late last night. Amazingly, the bracket was perfect. Trump unveiled the world’s first flawless bracket at a White House press conference, proudly declaring how … Read more
By Nick Cunningham Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector. The most recent factor is the sudden eruption of the long simmering feud in Libya between rival factions. The attack on Tripoli by the Libyan National Army (LNA), … Read more