And so it begins….the Chinese have accepted Trump’s invitation for a trade war – retaliates with tariffs on $3 billion of US exports

China is implementing new tariffs on meat, fruit and other products from the U.S. as retaliation for American duties, heightening fears of a potential trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Beijing’s latest move, announced by its finance ministry in a statement dated April 1, is direct retaliation against taxes approved by President Donald … Read more

Bitcoin has bust, FANG stocks are FUBAR

#Bitcoin has bust, #FANG stocks are FUBAR, but #SNB stock keeps accelerating. Watch the real bubble in fin mkts. https://t.co/Dji9StIG7a pic.twitter.com/QVwJ9CDO9p — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) April 2, 2018 Tesla bonds keep falling. pic.twitter.com/sdcZaGDRWc — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) April 2, 2018 Apple bonds are also trading at a discount, despite the fact that the company was … Read more

The Debt Implosion 2018 – Yes, It’s Time To Worry…Now!

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/980602749283983360 With U.S debt-to-GDP ratio crossing 106% and ratio of interest payment expenditures to revenue increasing, sovereign rating risk parameters are worsening. Will be hard to held up this AA+ — Gregor Peter (@L0gg0l) April 2, 2018 https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/980755848564588551 “just 2-in-5 Americans said they’re able to spend less than they earn. Spending on U.S. general purpose … Read more

“1984” becomes real as China implements year 2020 requirement for 100% total facial recognition video surveillance in all cities and inside all personal homes across China.

China seems ramped up to pursue facial recognition technology everywhere in China. Is this going to be the same for the U.S. in the near future? Important look on a future with big brother. By 2020, China will have completed its nationwide facial recognition and surveillance network, achieving near-total surveillance of urban residents, including in … Read more

Israeli Stealth Fighters Fly Over Iran Amid Speculation Of Imminent War… FLASHBACK: Iran Is The Last Country On The List, So That The New World Order Can Begin

by Thinker One week after Israel demonstratively released a video of a 2007 airstrike on a suspected Syrian nuclear facility (after refusing to officially acknowledge the operation for more than a decade), the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported late on Thursday that 2 Israeli F-35 stealth fighters had entered Iranian airspace over the past month. Sources … Read more

David Rosenberg: These Five Indicators Signal That We’ve Hit A Cyclical Peak

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, The FAANG stocks have ruled the technology sector the last few years and have had a heavy influence on the entire stock market. Apple is the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization, with Amazon and Google not far behind. So anyone indexing US large-cap equities—which means almost anyone with investment capital—simply … Read more

More Lies From The Presstitute Media All In The Name Of Destroying The Second Amendment

by Paul Craig Roberts of PaulCraigRoberts.org More Lies from the Presstitutes Paul Craig Roberts The shameless liars that comprise the US media intentionally exaggerated the marchers against “gun violance” by four times the acutal number. Why? Why are the media presstitutes involved in advocacy of agendas and not in reporting factual news? Recent polls show that a majority … Read more

WARNING: MORE Massive Dog Food Recalls

by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper Recently, I wrote about a huge recall of dog food because it contained euthanasia drugs. Well, now there are even more recalls that affect numerous companies. Check to see if your pet’s food is on this list. If you haven’t started making your own homemade dog food yet, it’s time you … Read more

They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please

JOEL KOTKIN: Landless Americans Are The New Serf Class. The share of homeownership has dropped most rapidly among the key shapers of the American future—millennials, immigrants, minorities. Since 2000, the home ownership among those under 45 has plunged 20 percent. In places like Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Indianapolis, and elsewhere, households with less than the … Read more

The Average Worker Can’t Afford To Buy A Home In About 70% Of All American Counties

via SHTFplan Housing, as we’ve pointed out in the past, is perhaps the most reliable bellwether of widening economic inequality in the US. And in its latest quarterly report on housing affordability in the US, ATTOM discovered that median-priced homes aren’t affordable to average wage earners in an astounding 68% of US housing markets. In its report, the company … Read more

S&P500 Above 200sma Moving Average Index- Sym Contracting Triangle in final construction.. APEX Nearing – Signal Major Imbalance Nearing?

S&P500 Above 200sma Moving Average Index- Sym Contracting Triangle in final construction.. APEX Nearing – Signal Major Imbalance Nearing? pic.twitter.com/TTmlpBHWRp — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 1, 2018 Citi: "As the next recession unfolds there will be no ECB backstop because it will still be at 33% limit holdings" — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 1, 2018 "The consensus … Read more

Are We Heading Toward A Recession In 2018?

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/980650973117992962 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/980652485076496385 Crashing 1Q18 GDPNow Estimates pic.twitter.com/tvBd0Yc2b2 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 1, 2018 #BREAKING #TradeWar#China announced tariff on 128 #US products China to impose 25% tariff on pork and pork products and 15% tariff on 120 fruits and fruit products imported from US, taking effect from 2 Apr, according to a statement released Sunday night … Read more