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by howmuch Why is there so much wealth inequality? Economists have been trying to answer that question for decades, and one interesting way to think about the problem has to do with geography. Our new visualization highlights the yawning gap between the top 1% of earners and the bottom 99% for every state in the … Read more
Rich Dad Radio Show, Released on 9/26/18 Wall Street supposedly cleaned up its act after the Great Recession. How then could the biggest banking fraud ever unfold in the years after 2008? Tom Wright, author of “Billion Dollar Whale,” joins Robert & Kim to discuss a bank fraud that resembles a Hollywood thriller, except it’s … Read more
by Brandon Smith Much like the laws of physics, there are certain laws of economics that remain constant no matter how much manipulation exists in the markets. Expansion inevitably leads to contraction, and that which goes up must eventually come down. Central banks understand this reality very well; they have spent over a century trying to … Read more
BY PATRICK WATSON The US economy is at “full employment,” says the official 3.9% unemployment rate. The problem is that fully employed people haven’t seen enough wage growth. It’s a puzzle. Wages used to rise faster when unemployment was this low. That’s why there was much celebration when the August jobs report showed a 2.8% annual increase … Read more
via knowledge.wharton: One of the great ironies of the 2008 financial crisis is that it was sparked by a product created from a historically safe investment asset: residential mortgages. In the past quarter century, delinquency rates of single-family home mortgages hovered below 3% for the most part except for the time around the Great Recession, according to the … Read more
Chinese non-financial corporate debt is rising again as a percentage of gross domestic product following a year and a half of deleveraging from its mid-2016 record, according to new data from the Bank for International Settlements. The ratio jumped to 164.1 percent in the first quarter of 2018 from 160.3 percent in the final three … Read more
Amazon said it’s funding homebuilding start-up Plant Prefab, marking its first investment in the space. Plant Prefab builds prefabricated, custom single- and multifamily homes. The investment follows Amazon’s launch of more than a dozen new smart home devices powered by Alexa. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/amazon-makes-its-first-investment-into-a-homebuilder.html h/t NineteenEighty9
via palisade-research: Many of you know that I haven’t been exactly bullish on the U.S. housing market – especially the construction stocks. That’s why in early March I wrote about and recommended betting against the home builders (you can read that here and see how we structured it). I specifically made bets against KB Homes (Ticker: KBH) because they target first-time home buyers. And … Read more
Corporate Buybacks + record insider sales, it just doesn't get more evident about management motives https://t.co/cTJKYbONtv — Sunchartist (@sunchartist) September 26, 2018 the boost that US repatriation provided to the US equity and bond markets via share buybacks and corporate bond redemptions are likely to slow considerably in the second half of the year vs. … Read more
The U.S. cold war against China has been around longer than the general public realizes. It actually started in the closing years of the Obama administration, when Chuck Hagel was pushed out as Secretary of Defense and Admiral Harry Harris, a diehard China hawk, took the reins at PACOM in 2014. Now Cold War 2.0 … Read more
by Deplorable Patriot INTO THE RABBIT HOLE WE GO We now know that George Soros and the Open Society Foundation has been linked with Reddit employees in a mission to suppress Trump support groups on Reddit. Current director of policy at Reddit, Jessica Ashooh. Jessica Ashooh is believed by some … Read more
by Michael Lebowitz If all goes well for nine more months, the post-financial crisis economic expansion will become the longest economic expansion in recent U.S. history. The U.S. stock markets are also on a tear, having just become the longest bull market since World War II. Regardless of your views about these trends continuing, the … Read more
by Hazzman Bloody hell they are certainly making their move. The Atlantic Council, chaired by Henry Kissinger, is also responsible for Facebooks recent Anti-“fake news” policy. They used the Trump election as a Trojan horse to gain support for NATO think tanks to gain control over popular internet platform policy. Grand. ” Threats to … Read more
Video about Credit system and how it already affects Chinese residents. The talk is about pro-governement, Chinese citizens in journalism being blacklisted already and muslims from XinJiang province being discriminated by the system and stuck in their region as a way of control by Governement. A real beginning of pure dictatorship. Follow or get banned. … Read more
by zenmasterzen3 Now suddenly the magazines are putting fat people on the cover and running stories on how “people have given up losing weight”. Coincidence? The MSM are bullsh*t us with whatever crap the Government or those with money want us to believe. More Americans are overweight or obese, but many have given up on … Read more
by CybergothiChe The idea of charity shops (thrift stores or op shops, if you will) is that people will buy donated second hand products and the money is sent to the needy poor. But here’s the rub, by and large the wealthy don’t shop at op shops, the poor do. I know, I’m poor and … Read more
by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson I simply don’t trust the fundamentals of the global economy right now. The system is built on quicksand. Debt is growing globally and governments are running huge deficits while interest rates are still incredibly low. Looking at almost any metric, stock markets have been more expensive once in the last 100 years — … Read more
more lies from MSM. Magically, Avenatti was in two locations at once, giving two separate “live” interiews on both CNN and MSNBC. CNN has a history of this sort of behavior, as Mark Dice points out a few examples in this video. How can he be “live” at both CNN and MSNBC simultaneously? He can’t. … Read more
Marine Le Pen will be forced to undergo psychological evaluation for opposing the invasion. – Red Ice TV https://youtu.be/KNLblh6F9JQ Why doesnt anyone but Trump have the balls to fight back? AC
