first day of stock U.S. Stock trading of 2019 “Earnings season is coming, the buyback window is closing. I look for much more volatility going forward.” Danielle DiMartino Booth

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Re: first day of stock U.S. Stock trading of 2019 "Earnings season is coming, the buyback window is closing. I look for much more volatility going forward." Danielle DiMartino Booth on Fox Business — https://t.co/AxJIFgnvhx — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) January 4, 2019 It looks as if the rally in the S&P 500 could only continue … Read more

Either the data is about to rock back to growth or the stock market is about to have a pretty bad wake up call.

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https://twitter.com/LordPolemos/status/1081278777001369600 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1081594614442799104 if you are a bull – this is probably the hardest chart to look at pic.twitter.com/cPxPBe1C0I — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 5, 2019 Once $VIX & CDX NA IG find meaningful unfair lows – that should mark the top of the bear market rally in the stock maket pic.twitter.com/mCHVUDUKSu — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 5, … Read more

Vancouver Condo Sales In December Drop To 10 Year Low

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Authored by Steve Stretsky via VanCityCondoGuide.com, The correction in the Vancouver condo market is now fully underway after prices peaked at the beginning of 2018.  This should really not come as a surprise given how weak the detached housing market has been for nearly 2 years, and considering the tightness in the mortgage lending space. … Read more

China’s Unveils Devastating New Super Bomb As Beijing’s Answer To America’s ‘Mother Of All Bombs’

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by Geoffrey Grider China has developed and tested a new aerial bomb, dubbed the country’s answer to the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ built by the United States. Military experts said the Chinese bomb could eliminate fortified ground targets The Chinese military is growing at an astonishing rate of speed, and that, matched with the increased military buildup … Read more

Government Closure & Lack of Advice to Trump

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by Martin Armstrong   President Donald Trump on Friday said he has considered using emergency powers to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The press has been saying that he could declare a national emergency to redirect money from the Defense Department or other sources to fund the wall. However, Obama used funding that was granted by … Read more

“She Dishonored Her Family And Herself” Trump RIPS INTO Rashida Tlaib For Saying “Were Going To Impeach This Motherf***ker”

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today president trump press conference lasted an hour or so and he talked about trump government shutdown and his meetings with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer he also talked about trump border wall and trump wall and the wall we need on our southern border and what he would be willing to do to get … Read more

Following Pelosi, Schumer, Hoyer and Durbin Refusal to Attend DHS Briefing, President Trump Provides Border Security Briefing to Congress…

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by sundance Earlier this week DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was planning to deliver a border security briefing to leaders of congress.  After announcing they did not want to gain national security information that was adverse to their political interests, Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority House Democrat Leader Steny Hoyer, Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and … Read more

America and the Loss of Rule of Law

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by axolotl_peyotl This is a very thought-provoking article that hits at the heart of the corruption in American politics today, a corruption that is explicitly bipartisan. The only way America can be saved, not just through newfound isolationism or trade wars, is through restoration of traditional checks and balances that long ago melted away as the … Read more

“WE WILL NOT COMPLY”

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‘Gun-toting hippies’ greet Boulder ‘assault weapons’ ban with mass noncompliance. Boulder’s newly enacted “assault weapons” ban is meeting with stiff resistance from its “gun-toting hippies,” staunch liberals who also happen to be devoted firearms owners. Only 342 “assault weapons,” or semiautomatic rifles, were certified by Boulder police before the Dec. 31 deadline, meaning there could … Read more

Illegal Chinese Fishing in South American Waters Angers Nations

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via rfa.org: Chinese fishermen are damaging the livelihoods of South Americans through large-scale illegal fishing. The fishermen have been visible in the Pacific Ocean for several years, and there’s nothing illegal about their fishing in international waters. But according to Evan Ellis, an American expert on such matters, many of the fishermen have now begun … Read more

List of logical fallacies

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Logic is the foundation of a coherent worldview. Inability to spot logical fallacies allows you to be subjected to propaganda and disinformation. Learn to spot them.   h/t TheCIASellsDrugs

French yellow jackets seem to be milling around in the streets of Paris again, for the 8th weekend in a row. livestream

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Protesting on the weekends, the French people have been voicing their oppostion. The protests started in December. https://youtu.be/3dZcE9Nst7c Here’s another livestream that’s running right now. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0WFOJAFulA Feel free to add any other livestreams you find.   h/t xleb1  

Trump sends U.S. military to Ebola infested Congo to counter possible violence after election unrest. This is how it spreads.

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In a letter to congressional leaders, Trump said the first of about 80 military personnel arrived in Gabon on Wednesday in case they are needed to protect U.S. citizens and diplomatic facilities in Congo’s capital Kinshasa. He said they “will remain in the region until the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo … Read more

Carmageddon for GM, Ford & Toyota: 3rd Down-Year in a Row. Industry Sales Below 2015. Hyundai-Kia Drop 11% in 2 Years. BMW & Mercedes-Benz Fizzle

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But average transaction prices rise to record highs. In terms of new-vehicle sales in the US, 2018 was the third relentless down-year in a row for three of the four biggest automakers, GM, Ford, and Toyota. For them peak sales occurred in 2015. GM delivered 2,954,037 vehicles in 2018, down 1.6% … Read more

The QE unwind has started to rattle some nerves.

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter For the past two months, the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Fed’s QE unwind has been deafening. The Fed started the QE unwind in October 2017. As I covered it on a monthly basis, my ruminations on how it would unwind part of the asset-price inflation and Bernanke’s … Read more