Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How big is margin debt really, and how much of a threat is it to the stock market and to “financial stability,” as central banks like to call their concerns about crashes? Turns out, no one really knows. What we do know: Margin debt, as reported monthly by the New York … Read more
by Phoenix Capital Research France holds the first round of its Presidential election this weekend. The big worry for the markets is the fact that anti-Euro candidate Marin Le Pen could potentially win. Now, the polls show Le Pen as having NO chance of becoming Prime Minister. Of course, the polls also showed that … Read more
by Umar Farooq Oil prices tumbled on Friday, on track for the biggest weekly drop in a month on renewed concerns that increasing U.S. production and high inventories will thwart OPEC’s attempts to reduce the global crude glut. U.S. crude futures fell below $50 a barrel for the first time in two weeks, with … Read more
by Pamela Williams This is a breaking news story, and it will be written in a rough form as I get the news. First of all, we have the AP saying: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic … Read more
by Simon Black A few days ago Charles Schwab, the investment brokerage firm, announced that the number of new brokerage accounts soared 44% during the first quarter of 2017. More specifically, Schwab stated that individual investors are opening up stock trading accounts at the fastest pace the company has seen in 17 years. 17 years. Anyone … Read more
by Mark Angelides The Criminal Super Gang, MS-13, has a 30 year history in the US and yet Donald Trump appears to be the first President to attempt a serious take-down. Under Barrack Obama, several “fiscal targeting operations” were attempted to reduce their money supply, and massive operations put in place against “some” of … Read more
by Mark Angelides ISIS has just released a pamphlet (above), that shows exactly how much they are selling captive Christian and Yazidi females for. It is a sliding scale based on the woman’s age, and the younger the girl, the more expensive she is. These women and girls are being sold into sex slavery and … Read more
The following is a list of prominent persons who are known to have attended one or more conferences organized by the Bilderberg Group. The list is currently organized by category. It is not a complete list and it includes both living and deceased people. Where known, the year(s) they attended are denoted in brackets. United … Read more
by Disobedient Media In 2013, it was first reported that the Clinton State Department had called off eight separate internal investigations into alleged misconduct by the diplomatic corps. When whistleblowers attempted to highlight the wave of coverups, they were subjected to a harassment campaign by the State Department. The law firm representing the former State Department … Read more
By: David McDonald China ‘s balance of trade with the rest of the world was such that something like two-thirds of all the world’s silver coin had, by 1776, flowed into China. China also had more printed books at that time than the rest of the world combined. It was an enormous empire, with land … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “People need to ask themselves very carefully, ‘Why am I buying this house?”’: Stephen Poloz, Bank of Canada. The government of the Province of Ontario announced a laundry list of measures to prick the crazy house price bubble in Toronto and surrounding areas. This includes a 15% transfer tax imposed on … Read more
by Michael Snyder Did you know that approximately 40 percent of all American workers have absolutely nothing saved for retirement? And did you know that pension funds in the United States are currently underfunded by about six trillion dollars? Social Security is supposed to be the underlying safety net for our entire retirement system, … Read more
By Michael Snyder Did you know that the percentage of 18 to 34-year-old Americans that are married and living with a spouse has dropped by more than half since 1975? Back then, 57 percent of everyone in that age group “lived with a spouse”, but today that number has dropped to just 27 percent. These … Read more
by Umar Farooq The official poverty measure was developed in U.S. in the 1960s in conjunction with President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Each September the U.S. Census Bureau releases an update of the national poverty rate for the prior year. The official poverty rate is 13.5 percent, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 … Read more
CNBC reports: The Trump administration is close to bringing forward “major tax reform,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday, days after he tempered expectations for how quickly it will pass. Mnuchin, who this week backed off of his earlier goal of passing tax reform by August, said the White House will unveil a plan “very … Read more
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SHOOTER KILLED, ‘SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE’ INVESTIGATED… Police officer killed in Champs Elysees shooting One suspect shot dead At least one other suspect thought to be on the loose Central Paris in lockdown France under state of emergency At least two attackers in Paris shooting Police state there were at least two people involved in the shooting, … Read more
By Gabrielle Seunagal On Wednesday, former NYPD sergeant, Alberto Randazzo, was sentenced to nearly three decades in prison for sexual exploitation and child pornography. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender; upon his release from jail, he is mandated to be supervised for up to eight years. This news came as … Read more
by GoldCore David McWilliams has written an interesting article in which he puts forward the case that Trump is likely to turn on the “enemy within,” the Federal Reserve and bully them into “printing money.” He points out that this was seen in 1971 when Nixon bullied the Fed into printing and debasing the dollar. McWilliams says … Read more
500 MILLION..FOR HIS VOTE! WHILE THEY EXTRACT 52 BILLION FROM CALIFORNIA’S TAXPAYERS. In return he won a promise of $400 million for a railroad extension into his Central Valley district in California’s agricultural heartland and a $100 million parkway project for the University of California, Merced. Another $427 million will go to the overlapping districts … Read more
Theoretical warnings about risks inherent in China’s shadow banking system became all too for 150 customers of China’s largest private bank, when Minsheng Banking Corp found itself involved in a 3 billion yuan (US$436 million) fraud case, after it emerged that a branch chief of the lender in Beijing allegedly issued false bank acceptance bills … Read more
by Mark Angelides According to a respected medical Doctor, understanding transgender issues is as important as knowing how to resuscitate a cardiac patient. And also that doctors in training should be spending as much time learning how to conduct prostate exams on transgendered women and pap smears on transgendered men as they do on “cis-gendered … Read more
by Michael Snyder A little more than 30 years ago, God showed Henry Gruver that someday Russian submarines lurking very close to our coastlines would launch an absolutely devastating nuclear first strike on the United States. If you are not familiar with Henry Gruver, he is truly a remarkable man of God, and I do … Read more
Via Visual Capitalist When future historians look back at the beginning of the 21st century, they’ll note that we grappled with many big issues. They’ll write about the battle between nationalism and globalism, soaring global debt, a dysfunctional healthcare system, societal concerns around automation and AI, and pushback on immigration. They will also note the … Read more
by Robert Carbery As we turn the page on yet another inspiring tax day, let’s look into who is really bearing the burden of the individual taxes in the United States. In 2014’s tax year, the federal government took in a then-record $1.377 trillion in income taxes from individuals, according to a report published … Read more