Scandinavia Receiving Capital Inflows As Well As Poland & Hungary

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by Martin Armstrong Just to Clarify, we are also picking up Capital Inflows from the EU moving into Scandinavia – Denmark, Sweeden & Norway. We also see money moving into Poland and Hungary which appears to be some diversification movement. What has become increasingly apparent is the mere fact that confidence among SERIOUS money is starting to realize … Read more

Ron Paul Sums Up The World In Six Vicious Circles

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Ron Paul shared the following post… Vicious circle number one… Here are five other vicious cycles: Invade a country —> Destroy the country —> “Well, we can’t leave now.” —> Repeat Government redistribution —> Poverty increases —> Government redistribution —> Poverty increases —> Repeat Government failure –> Increase their budget –> Government failure —> Increase their budget —> … Read more

Are We Sleep Walking Into The Next Financial Crisis?

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by Kevin Muir of The Macro Tourist Quick – the United States suddenly backtracks on half century of globalization and enters a trade war with almost all of its trading partners – do you buy or sell equities? And how about bonds? Don’t mistake this question as me going full tinfoil-hat – I know we are far from a trade … Read more

Liberal utopia: Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave

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by DCG The streets of the Bay Area: Literally a sh*t hole… This story largely speaks to the incredible cost of housing in the Bay Area and says that the big problems are “exclusively” the cost of housing. Don’t forget the other issues: Public defecation, urination & drug use in BART stations as well as urination and defecation on public streets. That … Read more

Democracy Is Fighting For Its Very Survival Against The Rise Of Western Authoritarianism

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by Paul Craig Roberts of PaulCraigRoberts.org Democracy Is Fighting to Survive the Rise of Western Authoritarianism The European peoples whose governments were paid to sell out the sovereignty of their nations to the EU are experiencing great difficulties in being permitted to govern themselves. As the result of Italians’ frustration with the self-serving elite who have ruled Italy … Read more

As We Reach All-Time Highs Remember This: Stocks LOVE Inflation (At First)

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by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains & Capital Let’s talk about inflation. Inflation enters the economy in stages. It’s not as though the Fed begins to print money and POOF! inflation appears. It takes time. The first stage occurs in the manufacturing/ production segment of the economy when you see producers suddenly paying more for the raw goods and … Read more

A Brief History of Our Two Political Parties: Republicans Defended Women and Freed the Slaves While Democrats Degraded Women and Perpetuate Racism to this Day

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Cover image courtesy of @HoselMr on Twitter   By Bob Shanahan   Republicans are the racist and sexist party, right? They keep women down and want take us back to the Jim Crow era, don’t they?   While these are commonly held beliefs by our nation’s professors, political pundits, journalists, celebrities, and essentially all liberals … Read more

Recession Signals: The Yield Curve vs. Unemployment Rate Troughs (St. Louis FED article)

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In early May 2018, The Wall Street Journal asked professional forecasters to predict when the next recession would begin. Nearly 6 in 10 answered that the next recession will begin sometime in 2020. […] Overall, both indicators tend to be reliable signals of a coming recession. But as with all recession signals, the wise economic … Read more

McDonald’s is making a big bet on self-service kiosks

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via marketwatch: ‘What we’re finding is when people dwell more, they select more,’ says CEO Steve Easterbrook McDonald’s Corp. is planning to expand the number of restaurants with self-service kiosks, adding them to 1,000 of its restaurants each quarter for the next two years, Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook said on Monday. The fast-food giant MCD, -0.06%  first started offering … Read more

World debt is at a record high of $243 trillion, or about 320% of GDP

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https://twitter.com/trevornoren/status/1003322582060421121 Is the world sitting on a debt time bomb? A new global debt database launched by the International Monetary Fund here in Washington last week shows combined public and private debt has ballooned to at least $US164 trillion ($218 trillion). Adding in a broader range of debt instruments, including financial sector debt, world debt … Read more

Investor Alert: We Are In The Latter Innings Of An Economic Cycle, America Quit Saving, QT Is Taking Place, Bank Lending Is Slowing…

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Incredible when you see all these indicators and it still keeps going up and up. https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1003796795770585089 America quit saving. Households are getting squeeze by higher gas prices, recently pushing the savings rate below 3% pic.twitter.com/i1pWna5uSb — The Long View (@HayekAndKeynes) June 4, 2018 h/t @Callum_Thomas pic.twitter.com/JOLdzJ3w29 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 4, 2018 "Bank lending is … Read more

The Pension Crisis Will Break Up the EU

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by Martin Armstrong The German public broadcast ARD is proposing structural changes. Due to the low interest rates, the ECB has placed the agency in hard times with its pensions. Karola Wille, the director, has called for structural reform to reduce costs. The proposal centers on technological change to increase efficiency in the performance of its … Read more

Oregon Freemasonic Police Brutality against HOMELESS Captured on Video by Local NBC Affilliate

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DETROIT, Ore. — A sheriff’s deputy can be seen repeatedly punching a local transient during an arrest Monday morning outside of a Marion County search-and-rescue command center for a missing father and son. The arrest was caught on video by KGW. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office addressed the incident in a written statement Monday afternoon, saying … Read more