by Charles Hugh-Smith The illusion that risk can be limited delivered three asset bubbles in less than 20 years. Has anything actually changed in the past two weeks? The conventional bullish answer is no, nothing’s changed; the global economy is growing virtually everywhere, inflation is near-zero, credit is abundant, commodities will remain cheap for the foreseeable … Read more
by Dave One fun aspect of driverless cars is that they must have sensors that can pretty much see everything around them. A secondary aspect of that is that, to figure out what went wrong (in the event something bad happens), they must also record everything they see. What’s more, our friends in law enforcement … Read more
by David Haggith Talk about the market busting a move … and a lot of people! In less than half a month, the Trump Rally lost a third of the height it had developed over a period of sixteen months — the worst two-week drop since February 2009. (The market’s moves are so extreme by … Read more
by Dave Here’s a long term valuation chart – total market cap of all US equities divided by GDP. It suggests that, from a valuation standpoint, we haven’t exceeded 2000 quite yet. That’s because GDP has doubled from 2000 to today. But you probably can’t call this market cheap either.
by Adam Commodities are at their lowest relative valuation compared to stocks than at any other time in the past half-century. For many reasons, that imbalance can’t last. And it will likely be correct by both equities falling AND commodity prices rising. I do worry that, in the near term, a market melt-down may send … Read more
by John Rubino Critics of “New Age” monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is accelerating Normally, towards the end of a cycle companies have trouble … Read more
by Ruby Henley The Grassley and Graham Memo has just been released, but the Democrats do not want the public to know. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have been working tirelessly to uncover the truth concerning the Trump dossier/FISA Warrant debacle. The Mainstream News Media does not seem to be reporting on it. You will … Read more
by Ruby Henley There is more strangeness coming out of Las Vegas with each new day. Stephen Paddock told a prostitute he feared he was an “experiment.” He, also, told her he was born with “bad blood.” She went on to say he performed bizarre sexual acts on her, and now she is missing. She … Read more
Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu NEW YORK (AP) — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the doctor last week was … Read more
Senator Paul: If you were against president Obama’s deficits, and now you’re for the Republican deficits, isn’t that the very definition of hypocrisy? https://youtu.be/RgI7eJX5dQE Folks, Congress has spent us into oblivion over the last 9 years. It now appears that there’s just no coming back from it. Out-of-control spending is going to sink the country. … Read more
by Egon von Greyerz Virtually no investor studies history and the few who do always think it is different today. The most important lesson is that people never learn. If they did, they wouldn’t be invested in a stock market that on any criteria is now at a bubble extreme. And they wouldn’t be invested in a … Read more
There has been incremental but immaterial improvement since this interview. The Deep State constitutional crisis continues…. JW President Tom Fitton discusses the challenges and obstacles Judicial Watch faces in its many battles against the Deep State, including getting to the truth about the targeting and spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. This … Read more
by Elizabeth Vos, Disobedient Media As new charges are brought against South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye, the Chairman of Samsung has been named a suspect in a multi-million-dollar tax-evasion case. The latest developments represent the continuation of previous scandals that ultimately saw Park ousted from the South Korean Presidency and the heir of Samsung jailed for over a … Read more
What you need to know is that this story is much bigger than just President Trump. If the Nunes memo holds up as true, what does that mean for those who have been charged or arrested under the other 38,000 plus FISA warrants? The President shouldn’t be above anyone else and if transparency is deserved … Read more
Previous admin was scandal free, nothing to see here.
via Forex Live Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn will invest USD 18 million in a cryptocurrency merchant bank private placement of Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. This is a Canadian shell company that will own the crypto bank being set up by a former Goldman Sachs partner, Mike Novogratz Bradmer announced last month that it planned to raise $200 … Read more
Strzok and Page were running a Counterintelligence Operation on Pence, sending their own handpicked spies, and trying to develop moles on his staff Let’s keep in mind that these texts were exchanged on the VERY SAME DAY that Admiral Mike Rogers went to Trump Tower to brief President-Elect DJT on the spying thing. Adds to … Read more
The Clinton email probe was codenamed “Midyear Exam.” https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-documents-show-fbi-deputy-director-mccabe-not-recuse-clinton-email-scandal-investigation-week-presidential-election/ On January 31, 2018, Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote a letter to Rod Rosenstein requesting additional information relating to the Hillary Clinton investigation (MYE). Included within that letter was a list of names which appear to be the … Read more
In this episode of Money & Fear, we’ll review some monetary and political history involving Wall Street and Beijing in order to weigh the mentioned factors. Details not shared, let alone analyzed, by mainstream corporate business press supposedly reporting on US-China trade, tariffs and/or currency wars, even. If you’re not a Newsbud member yet, please … Read more
Liberal logic breaks things down by smaller units then compares it to a larger #. They’ll say something like “it’s not even 1 per hour in a country of 320,000,000.” And then they’ll compare it to an unrelated statistic like “that’s nothing, 10x more people commit suicide per year (44,000 per year).” h/t cognitions