Yield Shock! Mortgage Rates Cross 5%

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The average contract rate on the 30-year fixed will likely end the day as high as 4.875 percent for the highest creditworthy borrowers and 5 percent for the average borrower. Tuesday’s move follows positive economic data in retail sales, suggesting that newly imposed tariffs would not hit sales as hard as expected. The surge in rates … Read more

Tesla Car Factory Imposes Brutal U.S. Workplace Regime for Greed, Power, Profits?

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by Thinker Workers at California-based electric carmaker Tesla are facing an increasingly brutal management regime as the company seeks to ramp up production in preparation for its full-scale entry into the car market. The company is working out production issues with its new lower-priced Model 3, with a production target of 500,000 vehicles in 2018 … Read more

A Bad Sign for Stocks and Real Estate

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By Harry Dent We’ve been waiting years for our fixed income trade of a decade… Our target’s at the top of the long-term Treasury Bond Channel near 3% on current 10-year yields. And recently, we advised our Boom & Bustsubscribers to buy long-term Treasurys at around 2.99% on the 10-year. Now we’re thinking it could get … Read more

Facebook Audit: Thousands Of Apps Investigated, 200 Suspended For Mishandling Users’ Data

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By TIMP Staff (DCNF) Facebook has suspended roughly 200 apps suspected of misusing data they have gathered on the social media site, a vice president at the company said on Monday. The company has investigated “thousands of apps” and “around 200 have been suspended,” Ime Archibong, vice president of Product Partnerships at Facebook, wrote in a blog … Read more

The Greatest Financial Mismatches In History

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by Richard Rosso The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct … Read more

Warren Buffett Thinks Bonds Are A ‘Terrible Investment’ But, According To His Own Methods, Stocks Look Even Worse

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by jessefelder A couple of weeks ago Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting known to many as the “Woodstock for Capitalists.” I have never attended (I don’t like crowds) but I’m always curious to know what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have to say at the event. The two tweets below struck me as … Read more

But Who the Heck Bought the $1.2 trillion in New US Debt Over the Past 12 Months?

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Japan systematically dumps US Treasuries while China hangs on. China increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds, notes, and bills by $11 billion in March to $1.19 trillion, the highest since October last year, according to the Treasury Department’s TIC data released Tuesday afternoon. Thus China is the number one holder … Read more

Does WeWork at All?

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The CEO is selling that $20 billion valuation to a lot of smart, rich guys. But WeWork’s entities are known as SPE’s (“Screwing Probably Expected”), and its landlords will be the first to go down. By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis Partners, for The Registry: Wall Street’s biggest houses hawked $702 million in junk bonds for WeWork. … Read more

BREAKING: TRUMP ENDING MUELLER PROBE AFTER ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0-ZFcY9FQ Trump team ready to ‘pressure’ Mueller at probe’s one-year mark Giuliani bristled at the idea that the Mueller probe could last beyond the 2018 midterms, let alone go on for several years more. “I think that’d be absurd,” he told POLITICO. “If we’re talking about the public having some degree of toleration for it … Read more

One year into options trading: lessons learned

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by whitethunder9 I started trading options with actual money May of 2017. I keep notes as I trade so I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way, going from noob to an intermediate level. Interested in your thoughts and criticisms. I should note that I am almost exclusively a premium … Read more

It’s All Under Control

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https://twitter.com/davidbcollum/status/996174507969843200?s=11 Notes From Underground: The Mother of All Debt Crises Everything in global financial crisis emanates from too much debt being unable to be serviced. The current situation in Argentina is that the state and private sector borrowers won’t be able to pay the INTEREST on its dollar-based loans as the PESO weakens. It takes more domestic currency to … Read more

China’s Debt Problem & The Media Narrative

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by contezpablinos I have been following the situation in China passively, catching up on a few articles and reading a few fund letters like Kyle Bass And its been posted here a few times too… The overall narrative on Chinese debt is that the government is implementing tough sanctions and really curbing in the debt… … Read more

A former Tesla bull just dramatically slashed his price target on the stock

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From Bloomberg: The cloud over Tesla continues to darken. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, a one-time ardent bull, continues to wave the caution flag, slashing his price target due to troubles in the electric-car maker’s production process for the Model 3 sedan. “The challenges in ramping up Model 3 production reflect fundamental issues of vehicle design, … Read more

Muellers Team Concluded they CANNOT Indict TRUMP!

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#BREAKING: Special counsel Mueller’s team has informed President Trump’s attorneys that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting President, according to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani – CNN https://twitter.com/AlBoeNEWS/status/996866310494539776 (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has informed President Donald Trump’s attorneys that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting president, according to the … Read more

CNN ratings drop ANOTHER 30%

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via breitbart: With week two of May 2018 now in the books, we find that CNN’s ratings have collapsed even more than last week, close to -30 percent in total viewers and an astonishing -35 percent in demo viewers. Before we get to the numbers, I should add that CNN is an outlier; meaning its stunning ratings collapse … Read more