Tariffs, Congress
by WARREN MOSLER Imports are real benefits, exports real costs. Seems everyone of consequence has it backwards? A collapse in global trade can make 2008 look tame:
Rand Paul Claims The Deep State Is Trying To Run Congress
Via The Daily Caller Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the deep state is exerting power over Congress and keeping information from him regarding the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Paul was discussing the highly anticipated Senate testimony of CIA Director Gina Haspel on “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday and said he and other lawmakers are being kept … Read more
Digital-media bubble bursting? Cash turns King
With the tragic demise of local newspapers, places like Mic have become the entry point into the craft for a lot of young journalists. What’s more, their newsrooms have been admirably diverse, a diversity that their journalism has admirably reflected. As they go under, such entry points disappear. And the journalists who have been through … Read more
Here are the number of days per year (since electronic trading began in 1983) where $SPX was down at least -3% in a day.
via @OddStats: Red years had as many or more than we have had in 2018 so far (does not include today).
Credit Problem Developing in US… Gundlach: Yield Curve Inversion Means Economy Is About to Weaken
CDXIG5Y led this $VIX explosion – please be careful there is a credit problem developing in US pic.twitter.com/PfrPIUs7EO — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 4, 2018 JPMORGAN'S DIMON SAYS SHARE BUYBACKS SHOULD NOT BE DONE WHEN STOCK IS EXPENSIVE now he tells us — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 4, 2018 BofA's favorite chart implies VIX 40 pic.twitter.com/kerIqE0kuQ — … Read more
Opinion: Elliott Wave theory suggests an unsettling event will occur in the stock market
via marketwatch: We’re due for a prolonged bear market I often read articles, along with the comments, to gauge the stock market’s sentiment from an anecdotal perspective. I recently noticed a quote by investor Sir John Templeton: “For 100 years optimists have carried the day in U.S. stocks. Even in the dark ’70s, many professional money … Read more
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Economic Meltdown
Mike Maloney covers all the trouble brewing in the global economy in this 11-minute video – including data he promised to show you last week.
Market Falls Hard…
by Chris Well, there’s a dozen reasons for why the markets are falling hard right now, so it’s hard to really pinpoint any one of them as being the most important. Flat yield curve, housing in rapid decline, trade “decisions” with China that turned out to be anything but and very prematurely announced. Add it … Read more
Jimmy Dore: Politico Caught Running CIA Propaganda About Assange
Just when we thought the bogus Assange smear couldn’t get worse, Politico asks the world to hold their beer. It appears that a certain segment of American society hate Donald Trump more than they love their own country. They would rather see America burn down to the ground (metaphorically speaking), than accept the fact they … Read more
Hillary Clinton Goes All the Way to Toronto to Bash Trump in Almost Empty Arena
by Thinker Bill and Hillary Clinton are on their book tour, just like Michelle Obama, and some people are getting a steal of a deal on tickets while others aren’t. One thing for sure that the authors are feeling is a lack of buyers or listeners. As more and more people in the world go … Read more
The Stock Market Is Suddenly Taking A Nose Dive – Here’s Why
from Zero Hedge Earlier this morning, Nomura’s Charlie McElligott noted something which in retrospect was quite prophetic: the cross-asset strategist highlighted that his Risk Parity model showed that the market’s most important strategy is in “de-risking” mode as the economic cycle turns sharply: In a positioning confirmation / “nod” then to this growth- and inflation- slowdown scenario, it … Read more
Get Woke, Go Broke? DICK’S Sporting Goods Warns Investors That Decision To Get Rid Of Guns Cost Company Dearly
Dick’s Sporting Goods is warning investors that its decision to remove certain “assault-style” weapons from its Field & Stream stores cost it dearly and may limit its future gains. The sporting goods retailer was forced to confront angry shareholders late last week after its stocks tanked more than 4.5% and financial conglomerate J.P. Morgan Chase … Read more
Imagine a French Hillary Clinton…
By Bill Bonner BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The historic powwow at the G20 in Buenos Aires last weekend could turn out to produce some positive results. At least the Chinese and the Americans are thrashing around. Maybe they’ll knock down a trade barrier or two by accident. But the good news this week is that nothing … Read more
Changes in The EU Demographic Trends and Their Effect on The Market
Despite the topic sounding highly complicated for those of us who are new to the whole stock trading game, once you get a handle on the basics of how the stock rates flow, you will understand the relationship between demographics and the stock market. As you probably know, the European Union’s stock exchange, also known … Read more
Globalism REJECTED: Trump Makes a Bold Stand and Chaos Erupts In France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgMybPpSLQ For More Information See: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo… https://www.dw.com/en/france-suspends… https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/87… https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status… https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/sta… https://twitter.com/RichardHaass/stat… https://www.theglobalist.com/macron-y… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-1… https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetin… https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi… https://www.infowars.com/watch-live-p…
Hong Kong Housing CRISIS! – MASSIVE Correction On The Horizon!
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the massive bubble ready to burst at any moment in Hong Kong as the city continues to face declines. Following HSBC’s announcement in October that they planned to raise their prime lending rate, Hong Kong faced its first decline in 29 months. Hong Kong … Read more
OCASIO-CORTEZ GREEN NEW DEAL WOULD BAN ALL GASOLINE AND COAL ELECTRICITY NATIONWIDE IN 10 YEARS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4VYYRp0Kc More reason to vote them people out and keep out!! AC
The entire world is panicking, volatility jump, rate cuts in 2020?
the entire world is panicking pic.twitter.com/jYx6TJJkpG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 4, 2018 https://twitter.com/xiscan1/status/1070017959119282176 The Treasury Department's cash In recent days – around 340 billion USD, by the end of the year should stand at 441 billion USDThis means that 70 billion dollars will be taken out of the market in the coming month from the … Read more
Showdown Looms on Federal Spending, Border Wall
by moneymetals U.S. government agencies could run out of operating funds starting on midnight this Friday, December 7th. At issue: President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. He wants Congress to commit $5 billion for construction of a wall along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border. The migrant caravan that recently attempted to crash the border near Tijuana … Read more