Country portrait. Germany.

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via CUTE_DATA: Tools: Adobe Illustrator ​ Sources: The World Bank – http://www.worldbank.org The Central Intelligence Agency – http://www.cia.gov UN Comtrade, DESA/UNSD – https://comtrade.un.org Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – http://www.sipri.org Our World in Data – http://www.ourworldindata.org The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – http://www.oecd.org  

I Read The News So You Don’t Have To – Market News (Oct. 31, 2018)

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by ogordained Happy Birthday Bitcoin, born on October 31, 2018 in the midst of the financial meltdown, bitcoin turns 10 years old today. 🎈 UNITED STATES The Conference Board’s measure of consumer confidence hit its highest level in 18 years It also reveals that US households are confident in the stock market Housing inflation is well above wage growth Rental … Read more

The Warning Light Is On: Another One Of Those Eerie Resemblances To Previous Market Tops; Please Prepare For Global Slowdown

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The warning light is on. Please prepare for global slowdown pic.twitter.com/BUMfeAnOEa — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 30, 2018 Another one of those eerie resemblances to previous market tops. Global stocks to US Treasuries ratio has now broken down after reaching just 51bps of its record level at tech bubble peak. pic.twitter.com/TXMAfVxWra — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) … Read more

Dems ROCKED By 9 DEVASTATING Words Uttered By One Woman Seconds After She Took The Stage in DC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqGuDV3d8OM Alicia Powe for the Gateway Pundit reports, Singer Joy Villa joined Brandon Straka and thousands of former Democrats who celebrated breaking free of the party’s mind control at the #WalkAway march in Washington DC Saturday. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…

Total Planetary Collapse: The World’s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970

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by Michael Snyder The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen.  The truth is that we are literally running out of everything.  We will not have enough oil to meet our energy needs long before we … Read more

Why Is Social Media So Toxic?

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The desire to improve our social standing is natural. What’s unnatural is the toxicity of doing so through social media. It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social and economic disorders that have little to do with politics. In this context, social media isn’t … Read more

America’s Debt: A Recipe for Disaster

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by Bill Bonner YOUGHAL, IRELAND – Back in Ireland for a few days, we take up an agreeable routine. We read and write in the morning. In the afternoon, we lay stone, closing the open gable ends of our old barn. We’ve done stone masonry in France, Argentina, and now here. (There are no stones in … Read more

The Market Is Gunning For Its Early-2018 Lows

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by Jesse Colombo After last week’s powerful sell-off, the U.S. stock market opened much higher this morning, with the Dow up as much as 352 points. Mainstream investors and TV commentators were excited, as they usually are, that the sell-off may have created an excellent “dip-buying” opportunity. I wasn’t buying it one bit, however: Last … Read more

Why gold prices are rising

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From Livemint: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says that “fear” has made a comeback and gold is benefiting as stocks slide and investors fret more about the possibility that the US economy may tumble back into recession. Bullion’s recent advance “happened on the back of the market sell-off and spike in volatility,” analysts including Mikhail Sprogis and … Read more

Why’s France so Worried about Italy’s Showdown with Brussels? The French Megabanks Are On The Hook

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By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. France was just served with a stark reminder of an inconvenient truth: €277 billion of Italian government debt — the equivalent of 14% of French GDP — is owed to French banks. Given that Italy’s government is currently locked in an existential blinking match with both … Read more

Declines Hit the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Seattle prices fall sharply. New York condo prices nearly flat for the year. First feeble declines in San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, etc. Something is afoot. On the surface, it still looks strong. Single-family house prices in the US rose 5.8% in August compared to a year ago (not seasonally-adjusted), according to the … Read more