Jim Grant & Adam Cohen discuss our loosey-goosey credit market

Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Podcast, Released on 5/14/18 Adam Cohen, founder of Covenant Review, joins Grant’s for an insightful overview of our loosey-goosey credit market. 1:20 “Read the footnotes,” then and now 8:41 Where is the danger for lenders? 13:54 Potential consequences of widespread cov-lite James “Jim” Grant is an American writer and publisher and … Read more

Key Levels To Watch In The U.S. Stock Market

by Jesse Colombo In my last U.S. stock market update in April, I showed that the major indices were still in a confirmed uptrend despite the volatility experienced in the first quarter of this year. Despite a large amount of seemingly bearish and threatening news – from tech scandals to geopolitics – the market’s rally has … Read more

Corporate Debt Could Drive The Next Financial Crisis

via ECONOMIST Interest rates are heading higher, and that is likely to put financial markets under strain. Investors and regulators would both dearly love to know where the next crisis will come from. What is the most likely culprit? Financial crises tend to involve one or more of these three ingredients: excessive borrowing, concentrated bets and … Read more

LAURA RATINGS BOOM ON FOX… DEMO TOPS MADDOW

Sean Hannity tonight ended his show with some ratings talk between him and Laura Ingraham. Hannity teased Laura Ingraham a bit over the Drudge Report featuring an article touting her ratings before talking about how well their network is doing overall. Ingraham, despite recent controversies surrounding her 10 p.m. show, had a big week in the ratings, managing to beat MSNBC’s … Read more

WATCH: Campus Reform Asks Students Who Don’t Think Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize Why Obama Won His In 2009

Students at UC Santa Cruz were quick to shoot down the idea of President Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula. But did they think President Obama deserved his award? And if so, could they name a reason why? Read the full article: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10892

Sign of the Times? $10+Billion in Debt, No Earnings, & Huge Staff Departures at Tesla

sign of the times? pic.twitter.com/mjb82BT0eV — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 14, 2018 $10+Billion in #Debt, No Earnings, & Huge Staff Departures at #Tesla: CEO #ElonMusk says company is 'flattening management structure' as Tesla's Cash Burning, #Taxpayer Subsidized Ponzi Scheme Begins to Implode. Tesla #Stock will collapse: it's value=ZERO! #AccountingFraud pic.twitter.com/WVWlEN3hiX — Planet Ponzi (@PlanetPonzi) May 14, … Read more

George Soros’ Open Society foundation ends operations in Hungary

Now if only more countries would follow their example. via RT: George Soros’ Open Society Foundations is ending its operations in Hungary, accusing Budapest of repressing civil society. PM Viktor Orban has repeatedly slammed the tycoon for meddling in the nation’s internal affairs. “Faced with an increasingly repressive political and legal environment in Hungary, the … Read more

HEATHER WILHELM: Tough times for the resistance?

Tough times for the resistance? At first glance, one might think that resistance membership might be at least somewhat exciting and purposeful, not depressing. After all, every few days, some fevered news agency announces some variation of the following: “This is it! We have the smoking gun that will crack the Trump presidency, and it … Read more

HMM: Whistleblower reported daycare fraud and possible link to terrorism to DHS management.

Whistleblower reported daycare fraud and possible link to terrorism to DHS management. Emails obtained by the Fox 9 Investigators show the Minnesota government agency was told millions of stolen tax dollars were going overseas and likely a portion of the money was being skimmed by terrorism organizations. Scott Stillman spent eight years managing the state’s … Read more

FITTON: Mueller operation on the ropes. Both unconstitutional and incompetent. And, after one year of flailing, STILL no evidence of Russia-Trump collusion!

by TFittonJW Judicial Watch keeps pushing. This quick analysis may be all you need to hear this week on the Mueller “get Trump” operation: And we’re keeping them honest: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/justice-department-reveals-may-provide-judicial-watch-previously-redacted-portions-rosenstein-scope-authority-mueller-memo/

Return Of The Bull? Or Bull Trap?

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In this past weekend’s newsletter, I updated our previous analysis for the breakout of the consolidation process which has been dragging on for the last couple of months. To wit: “From a bullish perspective there are several points to consider: The short-term ‘sell signal’ was quickly reversed with the breakout … Read more

A Million War Criminals

During a conference recently in Japan, former president Barack Obama said he wants his foundation to create a million young Obamas to carry on his legacy. He described it as a relay race in human progress. If you drink the Obama Kool-Aid, you probably believe Obama reversed a bankster engineered recession, created an unprecedented number … Read more