A national housing crisis is brewing. What actions can policymakers taketo head it off? Housing is sputtering. Home sales, home-building and homeownership have gone flat, and the rise in home prices threatens to stall out. Things aren’t likely to get better soon, particularly for lower- and middle-income households struggling to make the rent and become … Read more
by howmuch One of the most underappreciated problems facing the global economy right now is the ever-increasing rise of national debt, and the potential for investors to lose faith in a country’s ability to ever repay its obligations. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the total value of the goods and services produced within a country … Read more
via MarketWatch: Nancy Davis, the chief investment officer and founder of advisory firm Quadratic Capital, garnered attention back in October 2017 when she predicted that a preternatural period of placidity in the stock market was about to come to an ugly end. Four months later, it did, in spectacular fashion. Then, amid renewed ebullience over technology and internet-related … Read more
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Professor Alan Dershowitz joined FOX and Friends on New Year’s Day morning. During the discussion Professor Dershowitz was asked about the Deep State and Democrat Party’s intentions to impeach President Trump in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTvRdWUTO8 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019… Dershowitz is the author of “The Case Against impeaching Trump.” Alan Dershowitz: Well … Read more
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew that the US was sending arms from Libya to Syria back in 2011, a year before the Benghazi consulate attacks. Hillary Clinton denied she knew about the weapons shipments during public testimony (under oath) in early 2013 after the deadly Benghazi terrorist … Read more
Now that 2018 is gone and 2019 has begun, we can continue with the unprecedented times. Odd occurrences are happening every day. Banks are failing. Stocks have fallen. The public is simply unaware. 2008 is too far away to remember for most people and so they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. Sadly, … Read more
via business-standard: A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook. Earlier that day, a local woman wrote a Facebook post saying she was walking home and intended to kill herself when she got there, according to a police report on the case. Facebook called to warn … Read more
via Kurt Schlichter: There’s no hack cliché like the New Year’s prediction column cliché, so with that in mind, here’s my Top 10 Predictions for 2019 column, and my general prediction is that 2019 will be even crazier than 2018! 10. Out of Afghanistan Too: Yeah, our 17-year war will largely end as we bring … Read more
They completely avoid answering the question! It happened last weekend with Judge Jeanine and happened again tonight. 44 minutes into the video and the odd thing is they always let them get away with avoiding the question. h/t Jake
by Shaun Richards Yesterday we took a look at the low-level of bond yields for this stage in the cycle and the US Treasury Note yield has fallen further since to 2.63%. Also I note that the 0.17% ten-year German bond yield is being described as being in interest-rate cut territory for Mario Draghi and … Read more
by Martin Armstrong While the BitCoin people have hated me for not agreeing with them that a private currency could displace the currencies of all nations and BitCoin would be the new “reserve currency” killing the dollar, to me they are in serious need of help. They have ZERO comprehension of governmental power and ZERO understanding of what is going on … Read more
Sears is closing 80 more stores in March. Manufacturing has declined. Trump tweeted that the gas prices are low, Trump is using all the tricks the DS and the CB have used in the past. He lowered the gas prices to keep the economy moving along while he prepares for the transition. The central bankers … Read more
via Reuters: The Japanese yen soared in early Asian trading on Thursday as the break of key technical levels triggered massive stop-loss sales of the U.S. and Australian dollars in very thin markets. The dollar collapsed to as low as 105.25 yen on Reuters dealing JPY=D3, a drop of 3.2 percent from the opening 108.76 and … Read more
A RARE triple-vortex polar blast is threatening to thrust the UK into a snowy January as a plume of sub-zero air across Britain will lock the nation into Arctic misery until spring, forecasters have warned. Near unprecedented changes in the atmosphere above the North Pole will collude to create a perfect storm of brutal weather … Read more
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital In December, Jerome Powell confirmed that he is going to implement a financial reset. That reset will crash stocks. We know this because the Fed didn’t even HINT at tapering its Quantitative Tightening program at this latest Fed FOMC despite stocks staging the worst December since the Great Depression. This … Read more
So a recession is looming? The natural chain of events is already in motion AC
by Troy With the start of a new year, some of these market studies are going to look at the stock market in 2018 and see what that implies for 2019. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For … Read more
by Michael Snyder Well, that sure didn’t take long. Many had been hoping that 2019 would be a calmer year for Wall Street, but so far that has not materialized. In fact, a surprise announcement by Apple has just sparked another wave of panic selling on Wall Street. In a letter to shareholders, Apple … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith This is the predictable path because it’s the only one that’s politically expedient and doesn’t cause much financial pain until it’s too late to stave off collapse. While many fear a war between the nuclear powers or the breakdown of civil order, I tend to think the Crisis of 2023-26 is more likely … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “We did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration.” Oh dude, starting the year out on the right foot. On Wednesday after the market closed, Apple released a letter to shareholders in which it said that revenues are going to be a lot worse in the quarter ended December 29 … Read more