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The "synchronized growth" mirage is fading. The bond market -like most markets- is a game of relatives. As investors become aware of liquidity and solvency risks in "high yield" and emerging markets, funds flow into US treasuries and dollar assets despite their own challenges pic.twitter.com/KXJwLqyyJS — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) August 13, 2018 What do you … Read more

via @OccupyWisdom : The #CPI #inflation number (obviously it’s much higher) is 2.90% And…the 10 year #treasury is at 2.87% So…after loaning #money for ten years, you end up with a negative rate of return. Then you have to pay #taxes on top. The risk free rate is a guaranteed loss After #taxcuts and rising #interestrates the … Read more

https://twitter.com/KyleKovacovsky/status/1029084819639087105 H O L Y S H I T–> "The emerging market foreign exchange basket just witnessed its largest 4D drawdown since Lehman. That’s -5.3% being a 5.2% standard deviation move over a ten year period," h/t @Convertbond #Lira $USD $TRYUSD pic.twitter.com/eWG94Ne7nd — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 13, 2018 The US equity market response takes me … Read more

by MadUnit So the big sugar companies stopped FL’s natural watershed and now creating huge algae blooms in FL killing almost all the the waterlife. I would not have know about it if I didn’t have family in FL. If you search specifically you can find it info on it but out here in CA … Read more

80 fires in different cities, planned attack by people dresses in black. They are using homemade bombs. Nobody knows why they are doing it.   Swedish Police has now issued a statement on the riots tonight, here’s the highlights. – Unrest in 8 different areas – Some 90 cars have been destroyed / damaged – … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Trump really needs to clean house when it comes to the judicial system. It is just totally out of control and they have long held themselves above the law. The majority of judges outright deny human rights in America, civil rights, and ignore the Constitution when it suits them. Trump needs to … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Once again, tens of thousands of Romanians have taken to the streets demanding the end of corruption in government. At least 450 people were injured in clashes with the police who are still defending the government against the people. We are looking at a worldwide epidemic of corruption in government that has known no … Read more

by Shaun Richards Over the past few days we have seen the expected height of summer lull punctured by events in Turkey. This morning there has been a signal that this has become a wider crisis as our measure of this the Japanese Yen has rallied to 110.2 versus the US Dollar. It has pushed … Read more

The more I watch Obama and all his cronies the more I respect Jimmy Carter. At least Carter seems like he gives a damn about the average American.   BBT

The fact the Cryptos are taking a hit here tells me that trouble may be building in Stocks. I would expect Cryptos, Gold, and Silver to stage a rebound relatively soon especially if stocks fall. Keep an eye out.   Expect a near total media blackout with regard to the Currency/Economic crash in Turkey. I … Read more

by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen emerging market currencies crash like this in over a decade, and analysts are warning that if this continues we could witness a devastating global debt crisis.  Over the past decade, there has been an insatiable appetite for cheap loans in emerging market economies, and a very substantial percentage of … Read more

by Michael Snyder If you could live forever, would you do it? Throughout history, money has allowed the elite to buy just about anything they want – except an escape from death. Many super-rich individuals are deeply haunted by the knowledge that they have spent their lives working incredibly hard to accumulate vast amounts of … Read more

via The Bear Trap Report *LIRA DROPS TO NEW RECORD AS TRUMP STEPS UP TARIFFS ON TURKEY *TRUMP AUTHORIZES DOUBLING OF TARIFFS ON TURKEY STEEL, ALUMINUM *USD/ZAR SURGES 2.1% TO 14.3829, HIGHEST SINCE NOVEMBER 2017 *Indonesian rupiah, the currency at its weakest level since October 2015 *India rupee, implied Currency Volatility Surges 10% *India rupee … Read more

by stockboardasset Ford Motor Credit Company LLC (“Ford Credit”) filed additional court documents with the Northern District of Texas last week, claiming Reagor-Dykes Motors, LP and other related Debtors entities ran “the largest floor-plan-financing frauds in the history of the United States.” Ford Credit is asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to appoint a trustee to manage the … Read more

by Jesse Colombo Though Turkey’s financial markets have been struggling since the start of this year, the country’s currency and government bonds have been in an all-out freefall in the past week. A political clash with the United States caused the lira to lose approximately one-third of its value against the U.S. dollar in the last week … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Robert Cheney, CEO and Director of our new sponsor C21 Investments, is bullish on the Cannabis industry’s growth. It’s no secret that the industry is expanding rapidly and Rob is expecting it to grow from $11 billion per year now to $23 billion in 3 short years. The company is ideally positioned to … Read more

from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back… There’s a number currencies that are currently dissolving. Argentina, Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan and Russia. The Yuan has been plunging and the dollar has been rising. It’s hard to understand the irrationality of it all. But this is what it looks like when the system starts melting down or up. … Read more