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

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

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)

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

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

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…

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

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

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

The Lie We Live & Mark Zuckerberg Lie Exposed!

by Thinker Dem lawmaker: ‘Looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress’ A Democratic congressman hammered Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, following a report that the company is sharing large amounts of its users’ data with other companies. “Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress about whether users have ‘complete control’ over who sees our data … Read more

Warning Capital Outflows from Europe Are the Greatest in the World Economy

by Martin Armstrong   Our models based upon reliable source flow data is currently showing that the Eurozone is the NUMBER ONE place in the world with the greatest amount of capital fleeing than any other region in worldwide. This is indicating that the CONFIDENCEin the Euro Project appears to be collapsing among the most conservative elements within … Read more