by visualcapitalist View the high resolution version of today’s graphic by clicking here. The average person is awake for 15.5 hours per day, but once you subtract hours committed to work, eating, chores, personal care, and errands, there’s only so little much free time leftover. That’s why the amount of time spent commuting, either in a car … Read more
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, 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
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
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
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
It’s funny, since colleges normally produce liberals h/t Nanteen666
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzm3wlmHLEw Christie: If Trump uses ‘hyperbolic’ style with Mueller it could send him to jail http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefin… Jeff Sessions won’t appoint second special council https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69Eg…
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
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
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
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
by Martin Armstrong I recently did an interview and was asked about the Federal Reserve. There is so much absolute nonsense sophistry that circulates where people think that ending the central bank will somehow cure everything. I really just laid it out plain and simple. The Fed’s balance sheet is a tiny fraction of the … Read more
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
It’s actually sad that the people have allowed conglomerates to control this much of media and the world. They have taken advantage of the fact that not enough people know or don’t care about the mediaopoly. Every time someone has a new idea or something to bring to the table, the congloms offer them a … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw-jD5-GNSU No Wall But We Do Get An Angry Mob Of Illegals Marching To & Possibly Through Our Southern Border… #NotSoMAGA But If This Is Winning Then Yes I Am Tired Already!
Investing in stocks can be tricky. Except if you invested into tech stocks in our current bull market. You didn’t need to study the business. You didn’t need to address whether the valuations were appropriate. All you needed to do was buy as many share as you could afford. That’s all it takes to succeed … Read more
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
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
by TFittonJW Here’s this week Juducial Watch update!