@StockBoardAsset Debt Used To Maintain Standard Of Living h/t @LanceRoberts pic.twitter.com/yWPIWuPxSV — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 3, 2018 The One Chart that says something is terribly wrong in America pic.twitter.com/Pdpfts4Mcl — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 4, 2018
Larry Lindsay, 5/19/15: “Unfunded entitlemt liabilities take US Federal debt oblig’s closer to 300%, not 100%, which is > Greece’s debt.” A. Greenspan: “We’re not getting like Greece, we’re getting like Illinois.” Richard Fisher: “[Laughs] Which is worse – Illinois or Greece?” h/t @LukeGromen US Total Market Capitalization vs GDP h/t @NorthmanTrader
@zerohedge https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/948861734676303873 Stocks and indices are historically extremely disconnected from their annual 5EMAs and prices ALWAYS reconnect with them. What if you were long S&P500 futures only between midnight and 9am? Here's how cumulative gains during that time compares to the other periods $ES_F $SPY pic.twitter.com/nHxgAw7TDj — Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) January 3, 2018 Nothing … Read more
https://youtu.be/O4JK2e7jvrI Seen on Drudge today: ICE Chief: Criminal Charges for ‘Sanctuary’ Politicians… http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/01/02/ice-director-rips-california-governor-jerry-brown-sanctuary-state-law
April Ryan continues to be the voice of the left – ignorant, abusive, uninformed and loud.
Let’s start 2018 off right. Make it great! Set your goals today and achieve what you set out to do. You’re the only obstacle in between where you are and that goal. Hope you enjoy this video. It’s a different type than anything I normally do. I would like to talk about this information occasionally. … Read more
by justanta I wanted to discuss the powerful, ridiculous, and rampant economic absurdities and financial insanities we are now observing in the world as BAU draws to a close and the noose gets tighter. A quick note on sources: I have provided none. I believe all of this is true and easily verifiable with google. If … Read more
via Mauldin Economics Not so long ago, I explained why tax cuts won’t stimulate the economy as much as Republicans think. In short, most CEOs say they will use any tax savings for stock buybacks or dividends, not new hiring or expansion. But what if, instead of little or no growth, this tax bill sets off an outright … Read more
by John Ward The only way electorates can get what they want RIGHT NOW is for the political class to change what happened BACK THEN. This explains why legislators resort to plebiscites among the ignorant. Down this road sits dictatorship, patiently awaiting our arrival. Here’s a dilemma to fox even the most nimble mind. We live … Read more
by Jesse Gold and silver gave up a small amount of their recent rally today, being short term overbought. And conversely, the dollar bounced up off its own losing streak from a short term oversold condition. The putative reason was that the Fed minutes released at 2 PM revealed that ‘some’ would like to see … Read more
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Longtime Donald Trump advisor and confidante Roger Stone is warning once again about the deep state. This time, he said that the deep state’s “plan C” is to simply murder the president, since plans A and B won’t work out. With trust in the mainstream media at an all-time low, the … Read more
by Anthony B Sanders You know cryptocurries are hot when the restaurant chain Hooters develops a cryptocurrency rewards progam. {Bloomberg) Add Chanticleer Holdings Inc. to the list of companies racking up big stock-market gains by jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. Shares of Chanticleer, a Charlotte-based Hooters franchisee and owner of burger joints across the U.S., surged 41 … Read more
From E.B. Tucker, Editor, The Casey Report: George Remus was so rich, he once gave every guest at his dinner party a brand-new car. He hid a set of keys under their dinner plates. When his servants cleared the table, guests couldn’t believe their eyes. This was the early 1920s, when owning a car was a … Read more
By Michael Snyder After Bitcoin, can you name the second largest cryptocurrency? Until recently it was Ethereum, but now it is Ripple. At the start of last year, Ripple was trading for less than a penny, and even just a few months ago you could still get Ripple for about 20 cents. But now the … Read more
via Callum Thomas I spent a lot of time this past week looking back across 2017. I reviewed some of my best charts and market/macro calls of the year (along with some of my worst!). I also reviewed some my favorite charts. This article provides a look at some of the most important charts and indicators as … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FCLUeG4LAY Michael Wolff, a journalist and author, took quotes from an interview with Steve Bannon out of context to pump up the ratings on his new book “Fire and Fury”, a work of political fiction.
Link:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-executive-managing-director-och-ziff-capital-management-indicted-defrauding-client-and h/t Chris
by stockboardasset Amid a major humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen as a result of a Saudi-led military intervention, backed with airstrikes from the United States, which have increased threefold under President Trump. Western media has fallen silent on the Yemeni war leaving it to be a faceless and nameless conflict unlike the wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Most … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LnSLB4j3A4 With his first year in office drawing to a close, the US president has been talking up his economic record in typical Trump style. But one man who does not share Trump’s optimism is former congressman Ron Paul. He told RT the growth is not even for all people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkgnbISZ4cg Congressional investigators find irregularities in FBI’s handling of Clinton email case http://thehill.com/homenews/administr… Congressional investigators find irregularities in FBI’s handling of Clinton email case http://thehill.com/homenews/administr…
Indictments being unsealed soon?!?! Link:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-appoints-17-current-and-former-federal-prosecutors-interim-united CC
Link:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fourth-defendant-charged-ohio-trafficking-scheme-involving-immigrant-minors
by stockboardasset 2017 was the first visible year where public sentiment in the West began to shift against governments, media, and large tech companies like Facebook and Google. Decades of flawed economic policies have resulted in out of control wealth inequality, which has driven the public to populism and nationalism. But nowhere in the West has … Read more
Kellyanne Conway: Trump Critics Are “Bold” On Cable TV, But In Person Their “Knees Start Knocking” Special advisor to President Trump, Kellyanne Conway, mocks critics of the president who she says are very “bold” on social media, but terrified of his in person. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/01/03/kellyanne_conway_trump_critics_are_bold_on_social_media_but_in_person_their_knees_start_knocking.html
News Articles here: 1. CalPERS adopts new asset allocation increasing equity exposure to 50% http://www.pionline.com/article/20171… 2. Pension Dilemma: Expecting 7% Returns in a Negative Yield Setup https://www.themaven.net/mishtalk/eco… 3. Pension Funds’ Dilemma: What To Buy When Nothing Is Cheap? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pensio… 4. “Everything Is Overvalued”: Public Pensions Face Dangerous Dilemma In 2018 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0… 5. Full-career retirees comprise … Read more