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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter FANGMAN down 10.4% for the week, down $1.12 trillion from peak. Apple plunges. This week was ugly for stocks in its own right, but it was particularly ugly because there was a major – and briefly very successful – effort by the Wall Street Journal to manipulate share prices higher. Tuesday … Read more

Talk Digital Network, Released on 12/6/18 Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling Dynamite: An insider’s wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts,” as well as a popular daily financial blog: http://www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn FWD.us calls itself “a bipartisan” political organization, founded by technology and business “leaders,” which believes that America’s “broken immigration and criminal justice systems have locked too many people out from the American dream”. According to Wikipedia: FWD.us is a 501(c)(4) lobbying group . . . that aims to lobby and advocate for its … Read more

by Michael Snyder  Fear is spreading like wildfire on Wall Street, and on Friday we witnessed yet another wave of panic selling.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 559 points, closing at 24,389.  Previously I had warned that once we solidly broke through 25,000 that it could trigger an avalanche of panic selling, and that … Read more

via Charles Hugh Smith  The value of declaring the entire nation in or out of recession is limited. Recessions are typically only visible to statisticians long after the fact, but they are often visible in real time on the ground: business volume drops, people stop buying houses and vehicles, restaurants that were jammed are suddenly sepulchral and … Read more

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Paul Almasy Paris 1950  The concept of the EU might have worked, but still only might have, if a neverending economic boom could have been manufactured to guide it on its way. But there was never going to be such a boom. Or perhaps if the spoils that were available in boom times … Read more

via northmantrader: NFP missed this morning and futures initially seemed positive on the news. Why? Because it gives excuses for the Fed to slow down their 2019 rate hike schedule. Still running negative real rates 10 years following the financial crisis we’ve seemingly gone from Janet Yellen seeing risk of the economy overheating to “Federal Reserve officialsconsidering whether … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Employment growth had been decelerating with the collapse in oil capex in Dec. 2014, but had started to accelerate with the initial impact of the year-end tax cuts, which now look to be fading: Highlights Sustainable non-inflationary strength is the indication from the November employment report as payroll growth proved favorable and … Read more

by Thinker Why did the news fake stories and people in positions of power and trust call for the impeachment of Donald Trump??? Obama; “The only people who don’t want to disclose the “TRUTH,” are people with something to hide.” Barack Obama, the father without one photo holding his newborn daughters, nor any of Michelle, … Read more

From Birch Gold Group Looks like the yield curve the Fed swept under the rug back in June continues to prove itself a reliable potential signal for market correction. On Tuesday the Dow Jones continued to trend downward since October 3rd, dropping 800 points. As this is being written, it had dropped another 499 points to 24,467. You can see … Read more

by Thinker The “TRUTH” hurts sometimes, but its the only way to get a clean start to get what has been wrong right. The men and women of honor and who consider themselves 100% American are stepping up to tell the “TRUTH” and thanks to the POTUS, Americans are getting transparency. Trey Gowdy has spent … Read more

by Lance Roberts So, have you heard the one about the “flattening yield curve?” It almost sounds like the start of a bad joke because there have been so many discussions during this past year on it. However, it has been largely dismissed under the “this time is different” scenario as trailing economic data has remained strong and … Read more

Born out of the Cold War, Five Eyes is a multinational spy network comprised of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the United States. The member states of Five Eyes gather intelligence about foreign countries, sharing it freely between themselves.      

by WARREN MOSLER A falling stock market will get the Fed’s attention and trigger real economic weakness and aggressive rate cuts. But those rate cuts remove interest income from the macro economy, which doesn’t recover until after net deficit spending (public or private) gets high enough to support aggregate demand growth. And the last recession … Read more

by Simon Black We have been talking about the pension crisis for years now. It’s without a doubt one of the biggest, financial disasters. These pools of capital, responsible for paying out retirement benefits, are terribly underfunded. So anyone depending on a pension in their retirement years should seriously consider a Plan B – and sooner … Read more

by DCG The gun grabbers in Washington State never quit. Voters in progressive Washington State approved (59.35% voted in favor) I-1639 last month which includes the following new gun control restrictions: Raising the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 Adding background checks Increasing waiting periods Enacting storage requirements Read the details about the voter-approved initiative here. … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn A new study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that, in spite of “barriers designed to prevent welfare use” by non-citizens, as many as 63% of non-U.S. citizen households in America have received some form of government welfare “often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children.” In contrast, only 35% of U.S. citizen households accessed welfare. … Read more