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/…
According to lawyers of the Bundestag, the missile attack by the US-UK-France coalition, supported by the German Government, violates international law. The grounds that the strike was a retaliatory measure following an alleged chemical attack were dismissed as “not convincing.” The law experts of the German Parliament denounced the legal grounds for the US-led missile … Read more
by visualcapitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Yes, we all know that Google is dominant in the realm of search. But at the same time, the internet is also a huge place – and building a decent searching algorithm can’t be that hard, right? This week’s chart is a bit mind-boggling, … Read more
From Birch Gold Group When the possibility of war is at the center of the geopolitical conversation, the ripple effects on the economy build until tensions relax (or we go to war). Today, due to renewed tensions in Syria, one of those ripple effects is putting pressure on the U.S. Dollar. Let’s start by putting the weakening dollar … Read more
by northmantrader In early March I mused about a market paradox, one where tech would make new highs on a negative divergence while the $DJIA would not make a new high. This event did indeed transpire and it still may have significant implications as it is so very reminiscent of the action we saw in the year 2000. … Read more
by DCG Liberal logic: Voting allows one to “re-connect” with their community. From Fox News: In an executive order signed Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted some 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote. The move by the second-term Democrat came after state Republicans blocked a bill in the state Senate. “I’m unwilling to take no … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3wcl30PoBs They’re all in bed together, been like this forever! The sooner people see their government is broken the better! DS
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by Simon Black http://traffic.libsyn.com/sovman/092__Why_on_earth_are_you_still_letting_big_banks_screw_you_.mp3 Wells Fargo stole the headlines yet again today for defrauding its clients. The bank was fined $1 billion today for selling over 500,000 clients auto insurance they didn’t need (which in some cases caused the owners to default on their car loans and get their cars repossessed) and for charging erroneous fees … Read more
by stockboardasset On Thursday, Young Invincibles released a troubling update to their report, “The Financial Health of Young America: Measuring Generational Declines Between Baby Boomers & Millennials.” This report includes a cross-generational study of the financial well-being of Millennials today versus Baby Boomers when they were in their adolescence. The update covers the economic challenges facing millennials age 25 to 34 … Read more
by DCG From Daily Mail: The Department of Homeland Security says that so-called sanctuary states shielded dozens of alleged MS-13 gang members from deportation during an eight-month period between 2016 and 2017. The findings were provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – the federal agency responsible for deporting undocumented migrants illegal aliens. According … Read more
by TankHappy The federal reserve is increasing rates to the recommendation of an economic thoery called Taylor’s Rule. While this rule isn’t always perfectly followed it does show whether to increase or decrease rates. It is a theory that observes output gaps and inflationary gaps in attempt to hit targets. Let me show you how … Read more