Jim Rickards: The Central Banks Are Constrained In Their Ability To Deal With A New Crisis

by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning To understand the risk of contagion, you can think of the marlin in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. The marlin started out as a prize catch lashed to the side of the fisherman Santiago’s boat. But, once there was blood in the water, every shark within miles descended on the marlin and … Read more

Chairman Nunes to Investigate Ex-CIA Director John Brennan For His Role in Promoting Hillary’s Phony Dossier ‘Brennan May Have Perjured Himself’

According to investigative reporter, Paul Sperry, Chairman Nunes is also investigating whether Brennan perjured himself in a public testimony about the dossier. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/chairman-nunes-investigate-ex-cia-director-john-brennan-role-promoting-hillarys-phony-dossier-brennan-may-perjured/ The aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Nunes will focus on Brennan as well as President Obama’s first CIA director, Leon Panetta, along with the former president’s intelligence czar, … Read more

1999-2000 Party Patterns

via ANG Traders Summary Fractals are similar patterns that repeat at different time scales. The tech rally of 1999-2000 and the present bull market have common fractal patterns. The present correction continues to fit with the pattern of 2000. Fractals are patterned shapes that exist at different temporal scales. They are ubiquitous in nature, such as … Read more

Trump’s Cataclysmic Destruction Of “Deep State”

Explains the QAnon posts in careful details…. This is a long thread but sooo well worth it. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/961029128752267264.html   The Top 100 Most Damaging WikiLeaks Eye Opening!! Jail time!! Well organized and clear presentation. http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/   https://youtu.be/3a46CvAxRsA IT’S HAPPENING!!! Comey And Other FBI Officials To Be Charged Criminally https://youtu.be/caZhy-EsPlY Bill Still, Jason Chaffetz & Trey … Read more

GOP Lawmakers Release BLISTERING VIDEO=> DNC and Deep State Hacks LIED TO FISA COURT to Spy on Trump Campaign! #LockThemUp

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy posted this video on Thursday. This needs to go viral. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/gop-lawmakers-release-blistering-video-dncs-deep-state-hacks-lied-fisa-court-spy-trump-campaign-lockthemup/ House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy statement on the declassification of a memo prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence majority: “It is Congress’s constitutional duty and responsibility to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. The American people deserve … Read more

PENTAGON SENDING HEAVILY ARMED MARINE UNITS TO EAST ASIA TO COUNTER CHINA THREAT

by stockboardasset According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon is considering plans to transfer heavily armed, versatile Marine Corps Expeditionary Units (MEU) to East-Asia, citing the rapidly expanding Chinese influence in the region. After 16-years of military embarrassments in the Middle East, the Pentagon has finally regained consciousness, realizing its misfortunes in … Read more

Global Cooling To Persist For 50 More Years

via Adapt 2030 New article out from the Weather Channel states that our Earth will undergo a 50 year cool cycle caused by our Sun, and shockingly IPCC scientists are just now understanding the effects of decreased UV on our climate system. BY the way CO2 is plant food and CO2 trails temperature, not leads it. … Read more

Rising Debt + Rising Rates

by northmantrader Have they all lost their collective minds? Look I get that some people are leaning Democrat versus Republican and vice versa and that’s fine, but what exactly are voters getting? If, on the one hand, you think Democrats tax and spend too much you get Republicans on the other hand who cut taxes with … Read more

The Supreme Court Could Destroy the Economy in One Decision

by Martin Armstrong In a 1992 case, the Supreme Court refused to require that mail-order retailers collect sales taxes from buyers in other states. For a quarter-century, that has given the online retailers a competitive advantage over brick-and-mortar stores. The States are broke and they are pushing to compel everyone online to collect sales taxes for … Read more

What Just Changed?

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

Driverless Cars: They Record Everything

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

Equities Vs GDP

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.

Commodities At Historic Undervaluation Vs Stocks

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

The Fed’s Impossible Choice, In Three Charts

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

The Grassley/Graham Memo Is Shocking – Supports The Nunes Memo – Steele To Be Investigated.

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

Las Vegas Massacre – “Supernatural” – Paddock Said His Brain Was Hacked – More Strangeness And More Facts.

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