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Article Records have been set in practically every metric for auto loans, as of late: Americans owe a record $1.1 trillion in loans; a record 20 percent of new car loans have 72 month terms; people are overall paying record amounts for a new car; and a record 6.3 million people are 90 days or … Read more

by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here. FS Insider recently interviewed Dinny McMahon to discuss his must-read book, China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle. Dinny’s 13 years living in China, working for the Wall Street Journal in … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1hSBYwAQdo Paul Bios for the Daily Wire reports, Celebrities and feminists shout like Chicken Littles the moment conservatives conjoin “defund” and “Planned Parenthood.” Abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood receives a staggering half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds per year. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/29577/…

You have worked so hard for your money and then you put it in the bank or give it to a financial advisor? Oh dear… Let The Money GPS unveil what you can do about that instead! Appreciate you all! Do you know someone who has been burned by a financial advisor/bank? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gfzFWvPBxw

by Ruby Henley The American people should be becoming very suspicious of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as he could be blamed for this ridiculous situation revolving around President.  President Trump has begged Sessions to step in and do his job numerous times. I would love to know who encouraged Trump to appoint him as Attorney … Read more

by LV Comey discusses his exoneration of Hillary Clinton The following translations of Comey’s statements are offered by a professional skeptic after hearing Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s answers to George Stephanopoulis’s questions that aired on ABC on April 15, 2018.  You can read the entire transcript of the interview here: abcnews.go.com/Site/transcript-james-comeys-interview-abc-news-chief-anchor/story?id=54488723 The skeptic’s satirical translations … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Compared to Chicago, which is traipsing that way. Wolf here: This is what happens to the economy of a city when some debts are lifted off its back. It can breathe again. But affected municipal bondholders, pension beneficiaries, and other stakeholders may not be so fond of this kind of treatment. … Read more

via J Butcofski & K Swartz We know there’s something going on in the Dow Jones Industrials… Since there will be a follow up post coming, we’ll call this part I.  What a rip it’s been since Six Hundred- Sixty Six on the S&P 500. Let’s look though, at the most widely followed US stock market Index; … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The two-year yield, now surging, is a leading indicator. The Financial Stress Index, released weekly by the St. Louis Fed, is designed to track financial conditions that companies face in the markets. It reached record lows in November – meaning that there was extraordinarily little “financial stress” in the markets after … Read more

via BBG Don’t worry about faster inflation. The Federal Reserve has a history over the past two decades of snuffing out consumer-price increases before they take hold. Instead, worry that even modest inflation could compel the Fed to undertake a late-cycle acceleration in the pace of tightening. Inflation is rebounding in line with the Fed’s … Read more

Jordan Sather interviewed on the X22 Report Spotlight The good news, as Jordan puts it, is that President Trump is a Patriot and a good guy in the fight. Trump reluctantly accepted the presidency because he couldn’t stand to see America burn, according to Jordan. Now with ‘Q’, even more information is coming out, in real … Read more

Interview with: Jim Rickards Jim Rickards Forecasts New Financial Crisis & Makes Prediction about Gold https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-180420-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up we’ll hear from Jim Rickards – monetary insider, economist and best-selling author. Jim examines what the next financial crisis will … Read more

by Tom McClellan There is a very strong seasonal pattern in the way that tax receipts come into the federal government.  The nice thing about that regularity is that it allows us to easily compare how the current year is doing versus past years. In this week’s chart, the black line represents the calendar year 2018 … Read more

By Harry Dent In March, I was the keynote speaker for the CoinAgenda Caribbean conference in my home town of San Juan, Puerto Rico. While there, Gregg Greenberg of SCN Corporate Connect sat me down for a brief interview. He started off by asking what a guy like me was doing at a conference like … Read more

via Chris Kimble  Earlier today, we shared a few concerns for tech investors, focusing on the Nasdaq Composite chart. Well, there’s another concern within Tech-land: Potential weakness in the bull market leading Semiconductors. In the chart below, you can see how strong the Semiconductors ETF(SMH) has been since the 2009 lows. For the better part of 9 … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrRpbxb1W6M Rebekah Baker for the Western Journal reports, Another California city is fighting back against the state’s sanctuary state law. On Tuesday, San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors voted to file a court briefing siding with the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary state status, KSWB reported. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/san-di…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij8GIZe37kU Emily Zanotti for the Daily Wire reports, United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley took her take-no-prisoners attitude to the White House late Tuesday, firing back after Trump Administration officials accused her of being “confused” about new sanctions against Russia. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/29592/…