Trade Wars, Rate Hikes, and a Whole Lot of Maybes

By Lance Gaitan Last week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dropped a couple of surprises on Fed watchers. What didn’t come as a shock was the quarter-point hike to the overnight federal funds rate. Markets were fully prepared for that move. But they were caught unawares when the Fed highlighted the potential for an additionalhike this year. That would bring the total … Read more

Chris Vermeulen Issues A Warning To ALL INVESTORS About Global Market Shifts

by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders Well over a month ago we warned our followers of a “capital market shift” that was taking place in the global markets.  Nearly 3 months before that time, we warned that China’s economy was about to enter a sustained economic downtrend cycle that could be dangerous to the global markets.  Today, … Read more

FBI, DOJ Are No Longer Qualified to Investigate Themselves: Chris Farrell

by Thinker Where are the grand juries and indictments? Judicial Watch Director of Investigations Chris Farrell discusses how Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified on Capitol Hill over the IG report. WHERE IS JUSTICE? CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY WAY OF LIES! Horowitz: Inappropriate texts cast … Read more

A Ridiculously Good Market Timing Tool Based On Past 20 Year History Is Predicting A Drawdown Of Over 30% From The Hang Seng Index

by cbus20122 Please be skeptical, as I do the same. I’m not even fully on board with a lot of technical analysis, especially bad technical analysis. I like fundamentals more than anything else, but enjoy the idea of backing up fundamentals with some technical analysis at times. I also believe that technical analysis often is reflective … Read more

The Q Ratio And Market Valuation

via Jill Mislinski The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the total price of the market divided by the replacement cost of all its companies. Fortunately, the government … Read more

The Left go berserk over media-manufactured ‘separation of families’ crisis: Actors threaten Barron Trump; Antifa spreads names of ICE agents

by Dr. Eowyn In the latest manufactured crisis by the Left, we are inundated by the media with denunciations of President Trump’s evil “policy of separation of families”. The Catholic Church’s clergy also jumped into the fray, ignoring the Left’s sacrosanct “separation of church and state” dictum. As an example, the morbidly obese Bishop Patrick McGrath … Read more

The Truth About Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy

by Chris Black The corporate left wing mainstream media together with their Democrat masters are currently working on force-feeding the American people with one of the biggest lies in history. Here are a couple of examples to see the sad state of affairs of our mainstream media courtesy of Matt Drudge: SEE MADDOW CRY HORRIFYING … Read more

Matter of Time When the Contagion Spreads

Worth noting that a similar, albeit smaller, divergence was evident in early 2016, and it got resolved away. Now we get to see whether this one can. Even though ECB QE still continues, the repatriation of US corp. money in 2018 seems to be sucking liquidity out of overseas banks. https://twitter.com/McClellanOsc/status/1009231850903035905 https://twitter.com/MehulD108/status/1009044471965679616   The Message … Read more

The touchable class of the FBI, DOJ and State department government officials that cannot be prosecuted. You’re watching political theatre with no one being held accountable. Sessions and Mueller are the swamp protection team.

by themeanbeaver *James Comey *Huma Abedin *Hillary Clinton *Eric Holder *Andrew McCabe *Anthony Weiner *Loretta Lynch Many whistleblowers and good people have gone to jail for mishandling classified information but all these people at the FBI and the State Department were engaged deliberate destruction or gross misuse of classified information. FBI doing everything to protect … Read more

3 Key Economic Indicators May Be Flashing Caution Here

via Chris Kimble In today’s 3-pack, we look at the commodities index, crude oil, and treasury yields. A major message to the markets could be underway. Looking at the charts below, you will notice that all three assets/indicators touched up near their “Long-Term” Fibonacci retracement levels at the same time and could be creating reversal patterns. Could these … Read more

JW 60 Seconds: NEW Lawsuit to Expose DOJ FISA Warrant Abuses

Read more here: http://jwatch.us/Rpkh44 Judicial Watch announced that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all records of communications between both the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the … Read more

Washington, D.C., is the most psychopathic of all U.S.

by Dr. Eowyn Psychopaths are dangerous people because they are human predators. Some are violent criminals and serial killers. Many others are not, but are upstanding pillars of the community, found in reputable professions, especially CEOs, politicians, lawyers, journalists, and most alarmingly, clergy. (More on these occupations later in this post.) The hallmark attributes of … Read more