Alan Greenspan on Gold and Central Banks Last month Dr Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, spoke at our inaugural investment summit on gold and central banks #globalinvest18 pic.twitter.com/Ixfth3dhlt — World Gold Council (@GOLDCOUNCIL) May 14, 2018 US should watch its debt pile before ‘things get out … Read more
By Bob Shanahan In March, Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year old Stephon Clark who was holding nothing other than a cell phone. The cops thought he had a gun and he was running through the neighborhood smashing car windows and breaking sliding glass doors and he was high on a number of drugs. … Read more
by visualcapitalist In your everyday life, a minute might not seem like much. But when it comes to the vast scale of the internet, a minute of time goes much further than you ever could have imagined. That’s because the internet has a degree of scale that our linear human brains are unaccustomed to operating on. … Read more
Guest post by thinkofanamefast Market profit margin ratios are around 10% vs perhaps 7% historically. Combined with PEs being high (although Birnyi associates has 17 for 1 year forward (not bad but a lot due to tax cuts, repatriation, and oil comeback). Trailing 12 mos p/e is 24…way high. CAPE way high also but still … Read more
by TicklesMcFancy So I make 13.50. I pull about 2400 pre tax and take home about 1600 after taxes, health benefits, and a healthy 401k deposit, which I highly recommend. Start that shit early and play the market. I have a car that I leased with $500 down, a cosigner, at a rate of $210 a … Read more
by Tweetystraw Four years ago, one of my siblings alerted me that my Dad’s satellite TV bill had crept up to about $160/month. A single premium channel (to get his Westerns,) but otherwise, not Hong specials He lives in a rural area without a cable alternative, so we looked at new-customer incentives from the other … Read more
Financial Engineering Run Amuck #Stocks – #Economy | If the yield curve flattens, or even inverts, expect to see additional selling pressure on the financial sector. The banks, regional banks especially, will be laggards of the sector. @TradingNation #FED $DJIA $SPX $DXY pic.twitter.com/DbqInpdFJb — Marc-André Fongern (@Fongern_FX) May 14, 2018 Landmark bond sales hit by … Read more
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by John Vibes, Activist Post: A police department that relies on facial recognition software has admitted that it has a false positive rate of over 90 percent. What this means is that nearly every person who is marked as a suspect by this system is actually an innocent person who will be interrogated by police, or … Read more
On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of “Makers and Takers” says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs – … Read more
https://twitter.com/dlacalle_IA/status/995327261854371840 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/995110637700304896 Businesses increasingly indicate that they plan to raise prices going forward. https://t.co/veABmFDYUE via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/8ymxcTBuS1 — Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) May 10, 2018
The Ink Is Almost Dry on Italy’s 15% Flat Tax Rate Five Star, League parties near completion of government plan Leaders to meet president Mattarella on Monday afternoon Italian Populists Ask for More Time to Plot Their Spending Spree Five Star’s Di Maio says negotiations require a few more … Read more
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Starting July 1, ferrets, goats and hedgehogs can no longer fly American Airlines, even if they’re support animals. They’re just three of a somewhat lengthy list of barred animals the airline has put out in response to an increase in customers transporting a service or support animal onboard their aircraft — more than 40 percent … Read more
via RT: Washington’s renewed sanctions on Tehran supports China’s newly established oil futures, analysts say. The sanctions can make the yuan a more preferable currency than the dollar on the oil market. Since their launch in May, the interest in the renminbi-backed oil contracts has steadily surged. Traded daily volumes hit a record 250,000 lots … Read more
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday after the cabin started losing pressure. The plane is now undergoing a maintenance review. Flight 861 was headed from Denver to Dallas Saturday night, and there were more than 100 passengers on board. Passenger Glen Eichelberger said at around 9 p.m., … Read more
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – The tunnel to the Air Force station inside Cheyenne Mountain is iconic. For 60 years, North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs has been protecting North America primarily from that location. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/05/11/tour-military-operation-cheyenne-mountain-norad/
by John Rubino Remember when Iraqis were first able to vote in national elections back in the 2000s, and huge numbers braved terrorist threats to go to the polls and celebrated afterwards? Their enthusiasm contrasted sharply with US elections where turnout was low and the voters that did show up tended towards ambivalence. But fast … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5yIk-MP4CU Why Does IDF Want To Start WW3? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-14/idf-kills-16-injures-600-gaza-us-celebrates-opening-jerusalem-embassy
by Kimble Charting CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Year to date, Micro (IWC) and Small Caps (IWM) are acting stronger than large caps. The strength in IWC and IWM have both of them testing all-time highs this week, which could be the top of bullish ascending triangles at each (1). Two-thirds of the time the ascending triangle pattern leads to … Read more