They Know It’s Coming, Swamp Fighting Back, The Call Is Getting Louder, Tick Tock

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Governor Jerry Brown agrees with Trump on how the forest fires could have been prevented. Gowdy goes after Comey about public testimony, Nunes calls for declas of more emails. The deep state is fighting back saying Ivanka used private email comparing it to Clinton. Schumer, Blumenthal pushing to get Whitaker out. Judge rules to block … Read more

Plan Working Perfectly, Look What The Establishment Just Did To Try To Save The Fed

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Mall retailers are being hammered, after this holiday season many retailers might not be in business. Retail sales is not that hot, online sales are continuing to increase but have not reached the one to one ratio with brick and mortar sales. Housing activity decreases as rates increase. The establishment are producting polls that are … Read more

Has Stock Market Risk Been Wrung Out Yet?

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by Dana Lyons 3 of our favorite indicators of risk continue to signal “risk off”. In analyzing risk in the market, we predominantly rely on quantitative models that we’ve developed over the years. However, there are other indicators that we’ve found helpful in instructing us as to the “risk-on” vs. “risk-off” situation in the market. These … Read more

Market Precision: Your Daily Re-Cap

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by Chris Well, I am just awed at the precision on display here. Imagine you wanted to paint a double bottom, or at least convince other market participants that a double bottom had occurred.  What would you do? Well, I would defend the prior low with everything I had, drive the buying back over that … Read more

As Brexit Looms, EU’s Fragile Growth Threatens to Stall Out

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via valuewalk: One can’t help but walk away from Europe worried and concerned. The Continent is long on bickering and skepticism and short on unity and solidarity – all of which is threatening the EU’s fragile cyclical economic expansion and the global earnings of U.S. multinationals. As Europe’s woes accumulate and reach a tipping point, the aftershocks will … Read more

Brutal and Pragmatic Honesty – President Trump Releases Statement on Kashoggi and Saudi Arabia…

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by sundance President Trump, not necessarily the White House – but rather, President Trump, releases an absolutely pitch-perfect statement that encapsulates the myriad of interests that have sought to exploit, manipulate, leverage and utilize the murder of Jamal Kashoggi. This entirely accurate and brutally honest statement by President Trump will drive the left-wing media, specifically WaPo, NYT and CNN, absolutely … Read more

Mises Institute: “Money-Supply Growth Falls to 8-Month Low as Mortgage Rates Rise”

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via mises.org: Money supply growth slowed in October, falling to the lowest rate recorded since February of this year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016, and has fluctuated very little since March. In October, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 3.7percent. That was down from September’s … Read more

Is the world experiencing the kiss of death? When commodities AND stock markets are doing the same thing like this we have a MAJOR CREDIT PROBLEM GOING ON…liquidity will get much worse

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Is the world experiencing the kiss of death? pic.twitter.com/pZaxea64Cc — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 20, 2018 When commodities AND stock markets are doing the same thing like this we have a MAJOR CREDIT PROBLEM GOING ON…liquidity will get much worse imo pic.twitter.com/OwZv4yyCyb — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) November 20, 2018 Uh Oh – borrowing at the top of … Read more

Chris Gaffney: Main Macro Risk Is Global Growth Slowdown; McCullough: Sell The Rallies

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Chris Gaffney, president of World Markets at TIAA Bank joins Remy Blaire at the NASDAQ MarketSite to weigh in on global growth expectations heading into year-end. Gaffney offers his take on the trajectory for the Federal Reserve and considers the outlook for commodities and the currency markets. “Macro Tourists” are clinging to the investing fairytale … Read more

Democrats and Republicans are both starting to get sick of social media – study

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There are few things these days which unite liberals and conservatives, but according to a new survey, a growing dislike and distrust of social media companies is one of them. Across the political spectrum, dissatisfaction with sites like Facebook and Twitter is growing – and growing quickly. An Axios survey conducted in November found that … Read more

LIES ARE ALL THEY’VE GOT: Activists, Democrats, and the Media Keep Smearing Betsy DeVos Over New Title IX Rules.

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via reason: With an eye toward restoring a measure of fairness to adjudicating campus sexual misconduct, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced new standards for such procedures on Friday. Some in the media seemed determine to misrepresent these changes, and are uncritically parroting claims from victims’ advocacy groups who think any attempt to reform Title IX—the federal … Read more