by r3dt4rget Context I graduated college in the recession, and basically took the first real job opportunity I could find at the time. It’s a great job with good pay, but the issue is the distance from my home. It’s a 100 mile round trip 5 days a week. Sounds terrible, right? A few things … Read more
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/999333548623613953 The Massive Success Of The #ECB Quantitative Easing: ECB balance sheet vs Eurozone Economic Surprise Index#EscapeFromTheCentralBankTrap pic.twitter.com/PEuHTi03mi — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) May 24, 2018 Chart of the Day: From Central Bank Puts To BTFD Selfies In The Casino The following charts showcase some points of stress. pic.twitter.com/awaOiz3UqI — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 23, 2018 Emerging … Read more
by TFittonJW http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/tom-fitton-comey-clapper-breannan-the-rest-of-them-face-civil-and-criminal-liability-for-spying-on-trump-video/ The full interview:
by Thinker Headline for what the pedophiles need to stop the flow of information? Thousands of children go missing everyday, and those that should be protecting them aren’t. How do they get over the borders? Immigrants? Disasters? When will the world be what it was in the beginning? A garden of Eden and a peaceful … Read more
Doing God’s Hedging: Goldman Made $200 Million In One Day During Feb 5 “Volocaust” (Zerohedge) Quote: “The investment bank reaped a $200 million profit on Feb. 5, the day volatility exploded back to life in equity markets as the Dow registered its largest one-day point drop in history. The bank’s score can be attributed to long-vol … Read more
by Thinker When no one questioned the missing $2.3 Trillion by the Pentagon the day before 9/11, the swamp has filled up with bottom feeders that have bled the American people to death. How many wars have American men/women fought and died in for greed? How many lies were told for it to happen? How … Read more
by whatevawhatevvathroa Elon Musk to track reporters, media credibility… ‘Holier-than-thou hypocrisy’… Elon Musk has been shitting on Corporate Media today, says he’s going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter And its eerie exhortations to the banks to prepare for a downturn to avoid “undue disruption to the financial system.” The FDIC’s quarterly report on commercial banks and savings institutions was cited in the media mostly for the $56 billion in profits that FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions made in … Read more
by Michael Snyder The worst drought to hit the Southwest in decades continues to grow even worse, and many are already comparing this current crisis to the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s. Agricultural production is way down, major rivers are running dry, and horses are dropping dead from a lack of water. The epicenter … Read more
North Korea warns of nuclear showdown, calls Pence ‘political dummy’ (CNN)A North Korean official has lashed out at US Vice President Mike Pence and said Pyongyang is ready for a nuclear showdown if dialogue with the United States fails. Choe Son Hui, a vice-minister in the North Korean Foreign Ministry, said if the US continued … Read more
Turkey’s Currency Meltdown Investing in emerging markets is like watching the tides without the moon as a guide. Capital flows in and out in surges, and woe to the country that gets caught with bad policies when the tide suddenly goes out. Argentina has been getting that re-education of late, and now Turkey is watching … Read more
VOTER TO PELOSI: ISN’T IT TIME FOR MOST OF THESE POLITICIANS TO RETURN TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR? USH TRANSCRIPT: CUOMO: “I have something for you along these lines. You gave as you good segue there. I want to bring in Mary pat, retired, lives in Maryland. Mary pat, what is your question? A beautiful scarf … Read more
by Michael Snyder Taxation and regulation are weapons, and governments often use these weapons to target things that they do not like. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin threaten to shatter the existing paradigm of financial control that the elite have carefully crafted, and that is making government officials all over the planet very … Read more
Banks are preparing for the worst, Deutsche bank is now going to layoff 10,000 workers and this number might go even higher. Other banks will follow. New home sales decline as interest rates increase. The dollar has been losing value since the central bank has come into existence, this is how their system is designed. … Read more
From Birch Gold Group Gold is a finite resource. According to a recent study in Science Daily, most of the available gold was initially deposited in the Earth’s mantle (emphasis ours): The removal of gold to the core should leave the outer portion of Earth bereft of bling. However, precious metals are tens to thousands of times more … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics Someone or some entity – likely a hedge fund – bought 4500 September $35-strike puts on XHB on Thursday last week when XHB was trading just above $39. That’s a $225,000 speculative bet that the XHB drops more than 15% by mid-September. This morning Toll Brothers stock plunged over 7% this … Read more
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors The 10-year Treasury yield has been the topic of conversation lately among fixed-income investors. Earlier this month, the T-note closed above 3 percent for the first time since July 2011, prompting some market watchers to call time on the three-decade Treasury bull market. (Bond prices fall as yields … Read more
Rising borrowing costs are seen hitting both dollar and local debt. via Enda Curran and Lianting Tu Emerging-market companies and governments straining to deal with the rising cost of borrowing in dollars face increasing pressure as a record slew of bonds come due. Some $249 billion needs to be repaid or refinanced through next year, according … Read more
Via Branco BUSTED! Now you were only trying to help? OMG, hilarious. h/t steve
