Do economic booms die of old age?

From Bloomberg: Ben Bernanke got a big laugh from economists in Atlanta on Jan. 4. A few minutes after Janet Yellen said, “I don’t think expansions just die of old age,” he replied, “I like to say they get murdered.” All right, not that funny. But the nerdy repartee between the past two Federal Reserve chairs … Read more

Gold forecast raised on recession fears

The bank cites “a sharp deterioration in risk sentiment following soft macroeconomic data in December and renewed concerns about the future direction of growth.” From CNBC: Goldman Sachs has found the safe haven gold more attractive after a volatile December. The bank on Thursday raised its gold forecasts to $1,325, $1,375 and $1,425 per troy ounce … Read more

Watching The Arctic Sea Ice Scam Unravel

Via The Deplorable Climate Science Blog The Arctic sea ice scam began to rapidly unravel last March, when all records for Arctic sea ice volume gain were blown away. Spreadsheet    Data So far this month, ice volume gain has also been a record high. And January 9 Arctic sea ice volume has been increasing for over … Read more

The US Government is funding research to make ‘humanized mice’ out of aborted baby parts

via CNSNews: The National Institutes of Health will not decide whether to continue its long-term multimillion-dollar contract with the University of California, San Francisco to make “humanized mice” with organs taken from aborted babies until after it has completed its ongoing audit of all HHS-funded fetal tissue acquisitions and a comprehensive review of HHS-funded fetal tissue … Read more

S&P bulls hope Trump rally doesn’t end here

by Kimble Charting Could Presidents Trump’s election rally be in trouble? We could find out very soon, says Joe Friday This chart looks at the S&P 500 and the VIX index over the past few years. We applied Fibonacci to the price when President Trump was elected and the 2018 highs. The decline from the September … Read more

The EVERYTHING Bubble Explained! – Why You Should Prepare (with Daniel Ameduri)

Josh Sigurdson talks with Daniel Ameduri of Future Money Trends about the coming everything bubble as we see a massive pension shortfall, banks falling, housing bubbles, derivatives bubbles, student loan bubbles, currency swapping, etc. Daniel notes that he doesn’t think people will be uniformly switching from the US dollar any time soon, but that eventually … Read more

WATCH: Leftist CNN Activist Jim Acosta Get ABSOLUTELY WRECKED by Kellyanne Conway

Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, THIS HAD TO HURT– Liberal media jackass Jim Acosta blurted out insults at Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday in a presser before President Trump’s address to the nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRxerwE0xB4 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…   CNN’s Jim Acosta: “Kellyanne, can you promise the president will tell the truth tonight?” Kellyanne Conway: “Yes, Jim. … Read more

A hostile action on Syria is highly expected / 4 AIF fighter jets over South Lebanon / Update : IAF fighter jets AGAIN above Beirut right now!

A hostile action on #Syria is highly expected. https://twitter.com/SyrainMC/status/1083764308562100225 More than 4 IAF fighter jets over SouthLebanon according to Intel https://twitter.com/Intel_sky/status/1083748417694769152 stand by … w-end   in the meantime… just in  Various Gaza factions including the Popular Resistance Committees call for revenge for the death of 43 year old Amal Tramis, the third woman to be … Read more

Congress is preparing bipartisan challenge to Trump national emergency

From Quartz: Donald Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency at the US border with Mexico is being taken so seriously inside Congress that a powerful committee is preparing a bipartisan challenge to the move. The Democrat-led House Armed Services Committee, which oversees funding and operations of the Defense Department, has been united across party lines … Read more

Jan 9, 2019: Scientists discover a process that stabilizes fusion plasma

Scientists seeking to bring the fusion reaction that powers the sun and stars to Earth must keep the superhot plasma free from disruptions. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a process that can help to control the disruptions thought to be most dangerous. Replicating fusion, … Read more

Another 2020 contender: Bill de Blasio says “There’s plenty of money in NYC, it’s just in the wrong hands”

by DCG The mantra of every elite socialist and ill-informed, government-educated proggie. From NY Post: Burnishing his progressive credentials, Mayor Bill de Blasio portrayed himself as a protector of the working class on Thursday — while proposing a redistribution of wealth — in his sixth State of the City address. “Brothers and sisters, there’s plenty of money in … Read more

Man bills the US government for his Corvette. This is how they responded…

by Simon Black Last week I decided to use my tax savings to pay the rent for US government workers affected by the shut down. Emails keep coming in from furloughed federal employees having a tough time. And money keeps going out. As I’ve been highlighting over the past week, the government shutdown affects many more people than the … Read more

TraderStef: It’s Not Over, Folks! A Bear Market Technical Analysis

by TraderStef via CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) The Federal Reserve may have driven itself into a dead end of a one-and-done interest rate hike in Dec. 2018, and they are holding their noses (see Porky Pig) over the stench of a 20% correction in the stock market. U.S. economic data metrics are deteriorating across the board … Read more

Risk indicators are on the rise, but it may be time to take some risk off…

Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr, The following is a complementary look at some of the evidence behind our recommendation to TLS members to trim some of their recently added long exposure. The so-called “risk-on” move in stocks continues, with the market building on gains made since we issued our “once a decade” short-term buying opportunity a … Read more

Germany Defense Minister Reveals That They Are Working With France To Create A United European Union Army

by Geoffrey Grider Germany’s defense minister Ursula von der Leyen has revealed a controversial European joint army is “already taking shape”- thanks to her French allies. The Bible is very clear, the last empire that will exist on this earth before Jesus arrives with His Church on horseback at the Second Coming, will be the Revived Roman Empire under the … Read more