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

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

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

NYT: “We can replace them”. Trump: Birthright citizenship canceled!

By Chris Black President Trump gave a lengthy interview to Axios, during which he announced his plan to basically annihilate the whole anchor-baby thing, i.e. to issue an executive order aimed at repealing birthright citizenship. This is a very interesting concept, don’t you think? Here’s the Donald: This is a yuuge October surprise if you … Read more

Trading The Big Call

by northmantrader What if you had access to the perfect big market call? The one that says where the market is going in the future, not for a small move, but a big move? You’d position for it of course and you’d wait until the price target is met and laugh yourself silly all the way … Read more

Ready to get off Facebook? Here are 5 alternatives

From Reason: Facebook can’t seem to do anything right. The social media giant has been the subject of countless negative headlines since the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of “fake news.” With November’s midterms rapidly approaching, Facebook has taken steps to course-correct. Earlier this month, for instance, Facebook deleted 559 pages and 251 accounts that … Read more

Top Rising/Falling Stocks Today (and Why)

by NaturalHedgehog Quick roundup of the top rising and falling stocks today (30 October 2018), as of mid-morning. This list is limited to companies with market cap >$100 million, and also excludes VIX, short ETFs, etc, as these just reflect the market, rather than individual companies. Today Company Driving the stock +88% Electro Scientific (ESIO) … Read more

Housing prices, Consumer confidence, Investment

by WARREN MOSLER More housing weakness: Highlights Growth in home prices, as it is for home sales, is almost at a standstill, at least on a monthly basis for Case-Shiller’s 20-city adjusted index which inched only 0.1 percent higher in August. Year-on-year, the unadjusted index is still growing at healthy rate of 5.5 percent which, … Read more

AAPL Still Following Its Quarterly Pattern

by Tom McClellan We are in a time when “normal” relationships are not working, and when any slight hint of misperformance is getting punished.  So it is fascinating to see that AAPL’s normal quarterly price behavior pattern is still “working”, something I discussed here back in August. AAPL’s share price has a pretty regular pattern which plays itself … Read more

Liberals Laugh And Applaud As Hillary Clinton Says ‘All Blacks Look Alike’ In Racist Joke During Recode Interview

by Geoffrey Grider Hillary Clinton joked in a Recode interview with Kara Swisher about how black men like Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and former Attorney General Eric Holder ‘all look alike.’ During an interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher on Friday, Hillary Clinton made a joke that sent her audience into side-splitting laughter and applause. Interviewer Swisher upon hearing the … Read more

The Truth About the Migrant Caravan Leaked—What They’ve Been Purposefully Hiding Has Surfaced

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Getting Serious About Silencing Dissent

by SP Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media  “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media. By Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague (Grey Zone Project) This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds … Read more