Collapse Fiction: Insights Into The Bottleneck

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by SP Fire From the Sky by NC Reed American Apocalypse:  The Collapse Begins by Nova (a slow moving collapse) L.A. Dark:  Jeremy’s Run by G.F. Gustav Walking in the Rain by William Allen Tribulation: A Novel of the Near Future by Thomas Lewis Dark Titan Journey by Thomas Watson Patriots and Survivors by John Wesley Rawles One Second After and sequels by  William Forstchen Stars … Read more

Ten reasons why governments fail

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via mises.org: When politicians and bureaucrats fail to deliver what they promise — which happens a lot — we’re often told that the problem can be solved if only we get the right people to run the government instead. We’re told that the old crop of government agents were trying hard enough. Or that they didn’t have the … Read more

Don’t go into debt and or rack up huge credit card bills in order to buy your friends and family gifts for the holidays. It’s not worth the anxiety, setback and stress going into the new year. Send a card, write a letter or make a phone call. As always it’s the thought, not the gift that counts.

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Kids don’t need much. Lots of great memories can be had without digging into debt.   3 in 10 Americans Are Still Paying for Last Year’s Holiday Expenditures But that won’t stop them from tacking on still more debt. “Holiday shoppers are expected to spend generously this year, with the National Retail Federation estimating the … Read more

438 Stocks on the NYSE Have Already Plunged 40%-94% from 52-Week Highs

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Bloodletting beneath the surface. Big names too. Here they are. It’s barely a correction, technically speaking, with the S&P 500 down 9.9% from its all-time closing high, the Dow down 9.2%, the Nasdaq down 14%, and the Russell 2000 small-caps index down 15%. But beneath the surface, there has been some … Read more

WORST STOCK MARKET START TO THANKSGIVING WEEK IN 45 YEARS?

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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065340939378614272 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065342202526732298 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065411704023072768 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065439246864003072 Here is the history of Black Friday pic.twitter.com/p288F5IS7w — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 22, 2018 New Lows Coming While US cash markets are closed the futures continue to trade, with all of them red at the moment including, notably, oil. Also notably any corresponding bounce in US Treasury paper is missing in … Read more

Credit market, stock markets, carry trades, blow up just on this little move…..

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Credit market, stock markets, carry trades, blow up just on this little move….. pic.twitter.com/uslkej6c6e — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 22, 2018   When credit initially starts contracting it leads to more credit contracting NOT LESS until there is sufficient free credit or cash to offset Agree… problem is credit contraction implies liquidation & requires new available … Read more

The rise of populism across Europe, 1 in 4 votes cast in the most recent elections across 31 countries were for populist parties

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via tobefrankj: The full article is here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/nov/20/revealed-one-in-four-europeans-vote-populist ​ Graphics are made in d3 and animated with css. ​ To conduct the research, the Guardian enlisted the help of more than 30 political scientists to assess which European parties could be considered populist, under academic definitions of the word, at various points over the past 20 years. … Read more

Not bullish: A $9 trillion corporate debt bomb is ‘bubbling’ in the US economy; Oil companies lose $1 trillion as prices crash

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A $9 trillion corporate debt bomb is ‘bubbling’ in the US economy Companies are carrying a $9 trillion debt load, posing a potential threat should rates continue to rise and the economy weaken. Most Wall Street bond experts think the issue is contained for the next 12 to 18 months, though one says the market’s … Read more

Outflow: Money Flees Stocks and Bonds in October at Fastest Rate in 3 Years; Morgan Stanley: The Worst Is Yet To Come

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Investors Pulled $29 Billion in October, Most in Three Years From Funds Investors pulled more money out of stock and bond funds in October than in any month in more than three years. Mutual and exchange-traded funds had net redemptions of $29.1 billion last month, the biggest outflows since August 2015, according to a report … Read more

Reckless Buybacks at Market Highs Will Cripple the Largest US Public Companies Going Forward

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via marketwatch: A year ago, I wrote about the worrying increase in leverage among America’s blue chips caused by share repurchases (“Hollowed-out blue chips are the next subprime”). Today I want to return to the subject, because the travails of General Electric are a reliable signal of the trouble ahead for the large corporate sector of the … Read more

The Italian crisis continues to deepen

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by Shaun Richards Sometimes financial life comes at your quickly and at others it feels like it takes an age. The current Italian crisis has managed in typically Italian style to have covered nearly all bases as we note the main driver simply being lack of economic growth meaning on a per head basis economic … Read more

Here We Go, The Commie March Caravan and The Mexicans about to Throw Down

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Sh*t is getting real inside Tijuana. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/19/mexico-protests-grow-in-tijuana-against-migrant-caravan Here they come US. WTF! that guy looks Chinese. Their PLA Trojan Horse strategy. To infiltrate The US.     This video needs to be seen by everyone. It is a report from a Mexican journalist who is reporting the true intent of the invading “caravan” from the … Read more

Judicial Watch – ‘Outrageous’ that DOJ and State Dept. continue to protect Hillary Clinton

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In this edition of “Inside Judicial Watch,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton gives an update on some of the key cases and investigations Judicial Watch is involved with, including the Clinton email scandal, the Mueller probe into alleged Trump/Russia collusion during the 2016 election, and the midterm election recount in Florida.    

U.K. Media: British Intelligence Heads Worried President Trump Will Discover Their Involvement in “Spygate”….

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by sundance An article published originally in the U.K. Telegraph, and republished via Yahoo News outlines growing fear within the U.K. government and British intelligence officers surrounding President Trump discovering how far they were involved within “Spygate”. The facts are not uncommon to anyone who has done research into the events of 2015 and 2016; however, the interesting … Read more

This is how much money it takes to be better off than half of world population

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by Dr. Eowyn In a bill-signing event in New York last August 15, New York’s Demonrat governor Andrew Cuomo, a rumored 2020 presidential candidate, said: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” Some millennials agree. https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Millennials-Agree-With-Cuomo-That-America-Was-Never-T.mp4?_=1 On this Thanksgiving Day, let’s look at how Americans compare with the rest of … Read more