by Lance Roberts Martin Tarlie of GMO just recently wrote a great piece on the issue of the current U.S. Stock Market Bubble asking the question of whether or not it has finally burst. To wit: “A new model explains this dichotomy between price action and fundamentals by suggesting that a bubble in the U.S. stock market started … Read more
by Jeremiah Johnson Stretching in an instinctive movement and one we see in not only our physical behaviors but in the observation of animals. Looking more closely at our domesticated pets, we see this as a biological response that is ingrained in animals. As a result, they are more agile predators, with better balance and better … Read more
by Michael Snyder The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week. Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is being projected that some spots will actually get hit by wind chill temperatures of up to … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Rising income inequality may be a reflection of the changing nature of work. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story The Rich Boy included this famous line: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” According to a recent paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),Capitalists in the … Read more
by howmuch Selling weapons to other countries is big business. It’s so lucrative that President Trumpfamously refused to cancel an American arms deal with Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. So just how big is the international market? The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the World Bank keep detailed figures on … Read more
by sundance Devin Nunes dropped a bombshell yesterday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo [Video Here]. Many people are overlooking the implications of his speculation; and, more importantly how Nunes statement answers just about every contradictory question people have carried. Including: Why Rosenstein introduced Mueller to President Trump the day before he was appointed as Special … Read more
by Michael Snyder If it would add a decade to your life, would you allow the blood of young people to be injected into your veins? I understand that this may sound very strange to you, but the truth is that interest in this sort of “anti-aging therapy” has surged among the elite in recent … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOMf4zM7fE Reporter Asks Sarah Sanders About Trump Pardoning Roger Stone Today During white house press briefing, sarah sanders press briefing happened, it was on government shutdown and trump shutdown this is current events and latest news and breaking news in business from the white house briefing this is also news in politics and political news … Read more
by John Ward Two days ago I promised to flesh out my experiences of trying to extract money from various UK financial institutions, while dealing with more examples of the Macronisation of France. The point is to try and motivate people to keep what little money they’ve got left away from the clutches of the public … Read more
Interesting. An electronic upside down wedding cake look. IBM is in a race with its fellow tech giants to build a practical quantum computer, and its made a big leap forward with its 50 qubits quantum computer. We were on the ground in Las Vegas for CES 2018 to check it out, and ask the … Read more
https://twitter.com/LVNancy/status/1089889690314956801 Going to work in @AOC ‘s America pic.twitter.com/dAYPxPu7sG — Tim… (@LaughingGravy76) January 28, 2019 h/t PaintMeRedPatriot
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited President Donald Trump to give the State of the Union address on Feb. 5, following a clash during the partial government shutdown that delayed the speech. In a letter to Trump, the California Democrat said she and the president agreed to the date after they spoke on Monday. The … Read more
by Simon Black Mexico is in the midst of a crisis again. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the border wall that caused the US government to be hopelessly deadlocked for more than a month. Or the economy. Or murders and violence. Or drug trafficking. Or bird flu. Nope. Mexico is battling an … Read more
BY JARED DILLIAN Let’s say you are trying to get out of debt. What debt should you pay off first? A university professor like myself might say: “You pay off the debt with the highest interest rate.” But there are other concerns—it’s not an equation that you can solve for x. Let’s talk about some of those concerns. … Read more
by Jesse “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. The things that we love tell us what we are.” Thomas Aquinas “When a man takes an oath, Meg, he is holding his own self in his own hands. Like Water. And, if he opens his fingers then — he needn’t hope to find himself again.” … Read more
by TFittonJW Judicial Watch shaking things up in California: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Time-s-up-for-voters-who-don-t-vote-Miss-two-13565476.php Californians across the state could find that they are no longer registered voters now that a suit by a pair of conservative groups has been settled by Los Angeles County and Secretary of State Alex Padilla. The settlement, which requires counties to purge inactive voters from their registration … Read more
Exclusive: D.C. Exchange Website Misled Customers About Individual Mandate. Last year, in response to Congress repealing the Obamacare individual mandate penalty beginning this January, the D.C. Council established its own requirement for District residents to maintain health coverage. If D.C. leaders wished to replicate Obamacare on the local level, they have succeeded beyond their wildest … Read more
THIS IMO is SUPER BULLISH for VOL because what it shows is that the real vol that market was considering was MUCH higher than actual VOL and that therefore risk is much higher than people are thinking as well (meaning risk assets) https://t.co/GhEZfpZmfp — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) January 28, 2019 Update on our textbook RUT index … Read more
via @joefriday_714: This week is BIG and could set the tone for the Mkts going forward for the next month or so. There’s the Co. earnings below; various Econ. Data; FOMC; China trade talks, & $40B QT. A perfect cocktail for potentially setting off a significant move in one direction or the other. elp 1 biggie … Read more