Computer models to investors: Short everything (WSJ)

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Trend-following algorithms turn bearish at swiftest pace since 2008 as machines steer more trades. From the Wall Street Journal: Investors have started to shake off last year’s steep losses, helping markets regain some ground in 2019. But the robots are still almost uniformly bearish. Trend-following investment strategies—a computer-based way of trading that has become a major … Read more

Bumpy Road Ahead – Prepare for Shocks

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by Jesse I get the definite sense from the tape of the SP 500 futures trading that stocks are being slowly and carefully ‘walked higher’ from the recent lows. This could be effective as long as the markets remain relatively quiet and no exogenous macro events intrude. So from the bearish standpoint, now is a … Read more

World Bank Downgrades Global Growth Expectations Again

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via CNN: Washington (CNN Business)The World Bank has been warning of a worldwide economic slowdown for a while now, but its projections just took a turn for the worse. In a 200-page report issued Tuesday, the international financial institution laid out evidence that emerging markets have been stagnating, as trade has contracted and financing conditions … Read more

Poverty getting much worse in America since 2008 – Consumer debt has risen almost 50 percent. The % of families with more debt than savings is higher now than at any time since 1962.

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The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America Poverty—and the stress of being poor—is killing people every single day A White House report recently proclaimed that the “War on Poverty is largely over and a success.” United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said it was “ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.” Well-positioned Americans must … Read more

CDX NA IG could be starting to bottom – this is bad for the stock market

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CDX NA IG could be starting to bottom – this is bad for the stock market pic.twitter.com/H2EwZbr1I2 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 9, 2019 CDX NA IG (inv.) versus $SPX pic.twitter.com/Qo92OOgLIY — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 9, 2019 CFOs around the world are freaking out, while Trump continues to call the economy strong. pic.twitter.com/GKEvofwL8a — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) … Read more

The 10 Orders That Oathkeepers Will Not Obey

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by SP DECLARATION OF ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY 1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people. 2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects – such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons. 3. We … Read more

Trump – Republicans Are United On Shutdown Over The Wall… Democrats Don’t Want to Be in This Battle… ‘If Chuck & Nancy Don’t Agree On The Wall I May Declare A National Emergency

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxY4YN52bA “Republicans Are United On Shutdown Over The Wall” Trump SLAMS Reporter Tells Her She’s Fake News trump today met with reporters after meeting with republicans and discussed chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and said that he would wait to see if he can make a deal to re open government or just declare a … Read more

S&P 500 Testing Historical Kiss Of Resistance

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by Kimble Charting In February of 2018, the S&P created a low, which was tested again as support a couple of months later. These two lows became the lows of a new trading range that was forming, with support at (1). Weakness in December saw support line (1) break, which was a negative for the broad market. The … Read more

800,000 Unpaid Federal Workers Owe $400M in Mortgage and Rent This Month; 78% of US Workers Live Paycheck to Paycheck

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Shutdown Crisis: Unpaid Government Workers Owe $400M in Mortgage and Rent This Month For many federal workers, keeping a roof over their heads got a lot harder in January thanks to the partial government shutdown that is approaching its third week. Altogether, unpaid federal workers — including roughly 380,000 furloughed employees and 420,000 people working … Read more

Yellow Vests Suggest Bank Run

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by SP It does indeed look like a large enough percentage of the citizenry of Europe has come to understand that they as citizens are being harvested by the oligarchy.  They already understand that much of their governance comes from outside their nations from people they did not elect, through a process that they cannot influence … Read more

Rules For Deep State Overlords

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by SP A friend sent me a video by Matt Bracken titled Rules for Deep State Overlords. I believe this video is very well done and I would like to recommend it.  Though I must confess that two of my favorite people are “socialists,”  Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.   I’m drawn to their open and kind … Read more

Sweden pays citizens to scour Facebook to report people critical of its migrant calamity.

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by AnonDidNothingWrong   This one guy has racked up nearly 150 reports resulting in fines and convictions – mostly against pensioners. Online thought police. The web host Tomas Åberg receives tax funds for mass reporting to pensioners and others who write critically on Facebook. Now he states that he has received almost 150 judgments against … Read more

World Bank Cuts Oil Price Forecast To $67 In 2019-2020

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By Tsvetana Paraskova The World Bank expects oil prices to average $67 a barrel this year and next, down $2 compared to projections from June last year, the bank said in its Global Economic Prospects report, in which it also revised down its global growth projections amid “darkening skies” for the global economy. Oil prices were … Read more