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
Authored by Michael Howell via CrossBorder Capital, • Global Liquidity falling at its fastest rate since 2007/08 Crisis • Over-zealous Central Banks are largely to blame. Not a broken banking system like 2007/08 Crisis • Squeeze evidenced by flat yield curves and negative ‘real’ term premia • In the US, the impact of ‘reverse’ QE … Read more
Mitt Romney wrote a hit piece on Trump, this was done on purpose. Mueller is in trouble with the Russian company he accused of Russian collusion.Rudy Giuliani says Assange should not be arrested.Austria says they will not be part of the European Army that Macron and Merkel want. NK has completely changed, Kim Jong Un … Read more
Money has always been concentrated. Whether it’s geographic concentration or in terms of the societal aspect. Today we see a wealth gap which hasn’t been observed or a very long time. The middle class is disappearing and the majority of individuals are finding their way out of cash and into poverty. The trouble is that … Read more
In total, roughly 650,000 pigs have died in China since the virus was detected in August. This includes direct victims as well as culled animals. In the map above are all reported outbreaks in China since August. In blue provinces there is either no outbreak or considered free of ASF again. https://marygreeley.com/?p=79724 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nglqDSz9twU