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by Martin Armstrong I am writing from Frankfurt here for meetings ahead of the chaos awaiting the May elections. In Frankfurt, while the economy is clearly slowing, the financial capital is booming. New skyscrapers are rising to join those of Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, Helaba and others on Frankfurt’s skyline. This is another sign that there … Read more
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, You have to help us out here. California tried to tax text messages. The feds stopped that. Now, LA county wants to tax Uber and lyft. They’re already taxing us, I think, for mosquito control. The mosquito control only hands out info too. It does no real work. This is crazy. Everywhere … Read more
by Martin Armstrong We have a very interesting crisis building in addition to the political chaos we see coming in 2020. By the time we reach 2021, we will have over $2 trillion in investment grade corporate debt maturing. This is going to present some very interesting problems. Up to now, we have advised our … Read more
by Troy The S&P 500 is still hovering at its 2800 resistance. Meanwhile, the NASDAQ is up 10 weeks in a row while the S&P is up 9 of the past 10 weeks. The bears are looking to short here, but they do not have momentum on their side. The economy’s fundamentals determine the stock market’s … Read more
Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Addressing the nation, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned her fellow Americans that she has an extensive list of failed socialist policies she’ll implement one at a time. She waved the list around menacingly, frightening the nation in a video posted to her various social media accounts. The list reportedly contained hundreds … Read more
by Lance Roberts Bull Run Reaches Exhaustion Sector & Market Analysis 401k Plan Manager On Tuesday, we discussed a very important point with respect to the bull run so far. “Despite the underlying economic and fundamental data, the markets have surged back to extremely overbought, extended, and deviated levels. The chart table below is published weekly … Read more
by William Stickevers Bitcoin Forecast 2019 PDF Now Available The Bitcoin Forecast 2019 is comprised of a Blackbox graph and AstroSignature for Bitcoin. The Blackbox is like a Dow Jones Industrial Average using a horoscope of a person, event, or asset. The Blackbox Forecasting Module works with any of the six bell curve formats to … Read more
by TFittonJW High energy Judicial Watch Update: And defending the rule of law at CPAC:
But (well-connected?) investors started smelling a rat 10 months before the first disclosure. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Shares of the UK’s fastest growing high street lender, Metro Bank, are in free fall. They tumbled 16% on Tuesday, 25% on Wednesday and 6.86% on Thursday, to come to rest at a … Read more
via theintercept: REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ is prepared for the possibility that Democrats in New York could redraw her district after the 2020 election, she told The Intercept in an interview. Following the 2020 census, every state will draw new district boundaries to reflect changes in the population, the political implications of which will stretch for at least … Read more
RT, Released on 3/1/19 Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street … Read more
by Jim Grant Last Monday, the Federal Reserve embarked on a yearlong listening tour to discover the concerns of the American people. The whole shebang of modern monetary methods—manipulated interest rates, levitated asset values, the supposed necessity of a 2% inflation rate—is on the table for constructive criticism. But you know how it is with constructive … Read more
via northmantrader: Is Boeing the most dangerous stock out there? Is it a major threat to the current market rally, specifically the $DJIA? No I’m not talking about Boeing’s fundamentals. The company looks to be doing great. I’m talking about the charts and the technicals. The charts of a major industrial company and $DJIA component increasingly … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How its own online sales, now one-third of its total sales, eat its brick & mortar. But it’s a matter of survival. The largest brick-and-mortar retailers in the US don’t disclose what portion of their revenues derive from e-commerce and from their brick-and-mortar stores. They don’t because it would show just … Read more
by Shaun Richards We have an opportunity today to look at the Euro area from two different but linked perspectives. The first continues from yesterday’s money supply analysis which tells us that the weaker economic phase looks set to continue overall. The next is that whilst I have pointed out in the past that in … Read more
There’s a big difference in between the STOCK MARKET and the ECONOMY. People need to get that straight. Do you see the divergence? (Particularly in recent decades) Stock markets have risen but the economy continues to weaken. Globally we have seen stocks rise everywhere in a straight line upward since the end of 2018. Throughout … Read more
Market Keeps Rallying on Regurgitated News – The Dow Jones started off the final day of the week with a pretty strong rally; we were up a little better than 200 points earlier in the day. Then we got some weaker than expected economic data which I will get to a bit later, and the … Read more
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LckbOEjkum8 March 1, 2019– Mary Greeley News – A Texas woman vacationing in Iceland had quite the misadventure when she sat on a small throne-shaped iceberg for a photo and promptly got swept out to sea! The bizarre incident reportedly occurred earlier this week when Judith Streng and her son Rod were visiting a popular … Read more