Liquidity Points to Continued Weakness; Banks Globally Are Screaming Systemic Risk

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https://twitter.com/MehulD108/status/1073202307423236096 [RTRS] – U.S.-BASED LOAN PARTICIPATION FUNDS POST $2.5 BLN WITHDRAWALS OVER WEEKLY PERIOD; LARGEST WITHDRAWALS ON RECORDS DATING TO 2003 -LIPPER — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 13, 2018 [RTRS] – U.S.-BASED CORPORATE INVESTMENT-GRADE BOND FUNDS POST $3.7 BLN WITHDRAWALS OVER WEEKLY PERIOD; LARGEST OUTFLOWS SINCE DECEMBER 2015 -LIPPER — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 13, 2018 [RTRS] … Read more

David Rosenberg: In one of the most ridiculous comments I have heard all year long, a CNBC guest this morning actually told viewers that households are under invested in equities

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via @EconguyRosie: In one of the most ridiculous comments I have heard all year long, a CNBC guest this morning actually told viewers that households are under invested in equities. It seems to me that the data would suggest the opposite and the wonderful thing about charts is that they don’t lie.   2008:    

Visualizing How Much Countries Spend on R&D

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via visualcapitalist: Innovation can be a major competitive advantage for any developed economy. However, achieving a sustainable rate of innovation isn’t necessarily a straightforward exercise. The reality is that innovation is a complex and difficult outcome to measure, and there are many different variables that factor into it at a national level. Research and development (R&D) … Read more

US Consumer Optimism Plunges 8 Points, Largest Quarterly Drop in 12 Years

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Consumers plan big holiday spending despite drop in economic optimism from CNBC. via CNBC: The percentage of Americans viewing the economy as excellent or good dropped 8 points to 50 percent, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic survey. Those believing the economy will improve dropped 5 points to 31 percent, bringing it back down … Read more

CFO Global Business Outlook Survey: 82% of US CFOs See Recession by 2020

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via CNN: New York (CNN Business)America’s finance chiefs fear the economic expansion is nearly over. Almost half (48.6%) of US chief financial officers believe the United States will be in recession by the end of next year, according to the Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey released on Wednesday. And 82% of CFOs surveyed by Duke believe … Read more

Daily Reckoning: Trump Policies Speeding Us Toward Debt Super-Cycle Crash

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via dailyreckoning: The buck stops here, said Truman. But Trump says it stops with the next fellow in line. Let it be the next president’s toothache. Last year administration bean counters unfurled a worrisome chart before the president… It revealed an approaching “hockey stick”-pattern spike in the national debt — but only after a possible second … Read more

In A Bold Asset Grab, Robinhood Offers 3% Interest On Checking And Savings Accounts

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More financial technology startups are wading into a crowded, stodgy business: checking accounts. Last spring, personal finance app Acorns and lending startup SoFi announced new debit cards. “Neobank” Chime has been offering free online checking accounts since 2014, and it has 2.3 million users today. Now Robinhood is crashing the party, offering 3% interest on … Read more

Dell is set to go back to being a publicly traded company at ~$120/share on December 28

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The company values itself at $24 billion. Dell is projecting $87.5 billion revenue this fiscal year (up 9% from previous year). The company has $50 billion in debt. Dell was recently taken private in a $24.4 billion buyout in 2013. https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/dell-is-going-public-again-5-things-you-need-to-know/6 https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/dell-votes-to-buy-back-vmware-tracking-stock-and-will-likely-go-public/

“Insanity” or Just “A Bad Idea”: Wall St.’s Vulture Capitalism Pension Pitch

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via Bloomberg: City bets investment profits from bonds will fund health care Tactic has been used widely for pensions, with mixed results It’s a “considerable risk,” a “bad idea,” or, as one expert put it, “insanity.” And it may be the next big pitch Wall Street bond underwriters make to states and cities desperate to … Read more

Clinton Foundation is NOT eligible for 501(c)(3) status because they acted as agents for foreign nations!

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These guys are dropping BOMBS on the Clinton Foundation! EXPLOSIVE: The Whistleblowers on Clinton Foundation ( highly credible non-partisan investigators, who conducted the investigation with their own funds reveal the #ClintonFoundation operated as an agent of foreign governments and should have registered under FARA … more to come — Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) December 13, … Read more

She’s Coming To Testify! Will She Lie As Much As Comey?

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Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, Obama’s corrupt former Attorney General Loretta Lynch will appear in a closed-door interview on Capitol Hill as part of joint investigation with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the handling of the Clinton email investigation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Ld2o9LGmw Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…    

Swing Kids – The Gathering Storm

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by Jesse “The NSDAP was nationalistic, respectful of the armed forces, socially conservative, disdainful of laziness, hostile to eccentric or incomprehensive ideas that came from cities, disapproving of homosexuals and other unconventional human types, and avid to achieve ‘greatness’ for Germany.” Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling “Hitler’s oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes … Read more

Markets Pointing Toward Recession & Major Corrections – Latest Headlines

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpvxEbk9dkQ Forbes, Is the next recession on its way? https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2018/08/03/is-the-next-recession-on-its-way/#ff6951148376 Pound Sinks after no confidence report Sterling fell against the dollar to a new 20-month low on Tuesday. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46531893 Opinion: Here’s more evidence that stocks are now facing a bear market The stock market’s late-September peak looks disturbingly like the beginning of a bear market. … Read more

Judicial Watch set to investigate claims of ballot harvesting Judicial Watch set to investigate claims of ballot harvesting

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What a shame. Our tax dollars fund the DOJ and yet it’s JW, working with private funding, to investigate what the DOJ should be investigating. Edit: That’s not to say that I’m sorry to see it happen though. JW is out in front on all of these things and the only organization I’ll donate to. … Read more