Pension Promises From Wal St Managers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbtTqdVwjVc In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how deindustrialization and financialization have destroyed the economic viability of communities across America. The latest study from YahooFinance finds that state pension fund managers have blown over $600 billion of taxpayer funds on overpriced, underperforming hedge fund managers in the past decade alone. … Read more

Get Ready for a Big, Fat, Juicy, Debt-Driven Q2 GDP Growth Number

by Lance Roberts Tomorrow, the US Department of Commerce will report its advance estimate of 2Q GDP which will be the long-awaited evidence that “Trumponomics” is working. The current estimates for the initial print run the gamut from 3.9% to over 5% annualized growth. Regardless of the actual number, the White House spokesman will be quick to take … Read more

Mish: When Everyone Is Shorting Gold

by SP Mish posts and ZH picks up his assessment and adds a few charts. From the WSJ: Investors are placing a record number of bets that a protracted slump in gold prices will continue as the metal is punished by a strengthening U.S. dollar and rising interest rates. Hedge Funds are holding overwhelming short positions in … Read more

GM, Fiat Chrysler, and Ford all got ugly in unison, in one day, something we haven’t seen since the Financial Crisis.

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Suddenly it gets ugly – but these are still the good times. It’s confession time among the Detroit automakers: GM, Fiat Chrysler, and Ford all got ugly, in unison, in one day, something we haven’t seen since the Financial Crisis. Back at the end of May, GM shares (GM) were trading … Read more

ICE more than tripled work place investigations in 2018; made more than 5 times immigration arrests compared to 2017

by DCG Good. It’s what the American people want. From Daily Mail: The U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement agency more than tripled the number of work site investigations it conducted so far in 2018, according to new federal data. Since October 1, 2017 – the beginning of fiscal year 2018 – ICE has opened investigations into 6,093 workplaces, compared to 1,716 in all … Read more

Passive investors! 142 different #ETFs have #Facebook $FB within their top 15 holdings…. FANG stocks are becoming increasing risky to own for the long-term

#Facebook just lost the equivalent of: The entire #Bitcoin market cap 🥇 Almost the entire NYS 2018 budget (168B) 🗽 More than the entire market cap of #Nike (126B)👟 More than the entire #GDP of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 (129B) h/t @OccupyWisdom I think there is strong evidence both in present times, and in the past (nifty … Read more

Mueller & Holder Shut Down FBI Investigation of Stolen U.S. Stealth Defense – Comey?

by Thinker Mueller & Holder Shut Down FBI Investigation of Stolen U.S. Stealth Defense Technology Implicating Lockheed Martin, While Comey Was Lockheed’s Top Lawyer. For nearly four years the FBI investigated the international theft of STEALTH defense technology from a small Florida marine company that invented an ingenious way to help protect Navy ships and … Read more

Citi: The Case For $45 Oil

Authored by Irina Slav via Oilprice.com, Oil could be back to US$45 a barrel within 12 months, Citigroup’s commodities chief Ed Morse said in an interview with the Financial Post, noting that the bullish case for crude is based on a faulty analysis. The top oil forecaster who warned about the 2014 price collapse and also accurately … Read more

Cities Left With The Hidden Cost Of Their BS!

Doing their best to make the US look like the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela… “Sanctuary City” Despots Attack America…ICE Strikes Back…! Mongrel-Theist Despots release hordes of Criminals onto American Streets… 78 Percent with prior criminal convictions… ICE Strikes Back with RAIDS… These Despots unleash horrific Border Jumping Criminals onto American Society… “Of those arrested, 16 … Read more

The 1937 Analog

(concept via @RayDalio chart via @jessefelder) 1. #Debt Limits Reached at Bubble Top, Causing the #Economy and Markets to Peak (1929 & 2007) 2. #InterestRates go to zero amid #Depression (1932 & 2008) 3. #Money Printing Starts, Kicking off a Beautiful Deleveraging (1933 & 2009) 4. The #StockMarket and “Risky Assets” Rally (1933-1936 & 2009-2017) … Read more