Scary $DJIA Charts

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by northmantrader Before you think I’m scare mongering I’m not. I may be retired as a bear but I can still read charts. And for weeks I’ve been harping about technical disconnects, record overbought readings and the need to reconnect technically. We finally saw some of this this week and in process we can see that markets have … Read more

Barcelona Grapples with its Housing Crisis

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Local tenants vs. global capital in search of assets. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Spain has become a difficult country for many tenants. In the most populous provinces rents are rising ten times faster than salaries. In its two biggest cities, Madrid and Barcelona, they’re rising 30 times faster. In 2017 alone 36,138 … Read more

Andrew Napolitano Exposes FISA Court Charade

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Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, There is plenty of reason to think that regular United States courts too readily allow surveilling people and searching their homes and property. But, in the US court authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), there is not even a pretense … Read more

Judicial Watch Uncovers ANOTHER Russia Dossier — This One Compiled by Obama State Department to Undermine President Trump.

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by TFittonJW Obama/Kerry State was “vacuuming up intelligence” on Russia to share with Hill allies to get Trump. Judicial Watch doing the heavy lifting on the Russia scandal (I estimate we have over 25 lawsuits) — and we get results for the American people. Great piece by our friends at OAN: Our recent vid on … Read more

Market Crash Alert

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by Chris The US equity markets are declining hard right now…if we can call -2% to -2.5%  “hard.” But there’s a distinct crash possibility lurking here.  With the computers MIA, there’s practically no volume there to catch this thing… Meanwhile VIX is spiking: Crashes happen when all the bids get pulled. The problem with today’s … Read more

Fitton on Fox News: "This president is being criminally investigated about his communications with the FBI director about a criminal investigation. Why isn't there similar inquiries into what President Obama was doing?"

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by TFittonJW (I appeared with the great Joe DiGenova last night!) Here’s the clip: .@TomFitton: "This president is being criminally investigated about his communications with the @FBI director about a criminal investigation. Why isn't there similar inquiries into what President #Obama was doing?" #Hannity pic.twitter.com/Vr4S7634Xt — Fox News (@FoxNews) February 8, 2018 Here’s the full … Read more

Next round of deleveraging started in $SPX? A massive call for liquidity is opening scary liquidity gaps everywhere. This won't end well.

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it is hard to see upside in $SPX when $VIX 25 & UST10Y 2.883. When does the next deleveraging start?   STOCKS SHAKE AGAIN Dow falls 350 points as higher rates keep Wall Street on edge The Dow Jones industrial average traded 350 points lower after opening just above the flatline. The benchmark 10-year U.S. … Read more

Massive radiation leak at Fukushima plant — Extremely high levels being detected outside reactor — Officials can’t explain why

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“Officials can’t explain why” I wonder if that’s because it’s illegal to say too much about it in Japan. … Fukushima nuclear disaster: Lethal levels of radiation detected in leak… Expert warns of ‘global’ consequences unless the plant is treated properly… [Tepco] found eight sieverts per hour of radiation, while 42 [sieverts] were also detected … Read more

President Trump CONFIRMS Mexico WILL pay for the Kate's Wall through 'indirect' payments such as taxing the money illegals send to Mexico

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President Trump said repeatedly in the campaign that Mexico will pay for a border wall His latest immigration proposal demands Congress pay $25 billion for it   A former advisor says he will ‘find a way’ to make Mexico pay indirectly One option is to tax remittances that immigrants send to family members in Mexico Fee … Read more

There Are 30 Million Illegals. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise.

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by Tallest Skil Most Americans underestimate how much illegal aliens cost us each year. Looking at the Heritage Foundation study, you will find that the average illegal household pays about $10,334 annually in taxes. The disparity lies in the fact that the average illegal household receives around $24,721 in government benefits (this includes direct benefits, means-tested … Read more

Liberal/Left Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Blows Away CNN Liars

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by Paul Craig Roberts Liberal/Left Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Blows Away CNN Liars Dershowitz pointed out to CNN presstitutes that Trump has not obstructed justice. This caught the scheming presstitutes by surprise as they expected leftwing Dershowitz to excoriate Trump. Unable to stand the shredding Dershowitz was giving them, the presstitutes cut him off the … Read more

Democrats love illegals, but not Americans

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Democrats managed to turn my elderly catholic lifelong democrat mother into a republican. AFAIK her first vote was for JFK. Thanks, Nancy. A Tale of Two Nancys Senator Pelosi just THANKED illegal aliens for breaking federal law and coming to the country illegally with their children in tow.   h/t PR

All Three Networks Ignore New FBI Texts, Senate Report Showing Obama Involvement in Clinton Email Probe

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ABC, NBC and CBS all ignored a bombshell reportreleased overnight by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which revealed more critical evidence concerning how the FBI handled the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe. The Committee also released more damning text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page which showed an intention … Read more

Money and Control: Why the FDA is Cracking Down on Natural Medicine Supplies

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by Jeremiah Johnson  If you are an avid believer in alternative medicine, you need to be aware of a growing concern. In January, the FDA had a press conference stressing the importance of ‘protecting public health,” and is moving to pass a policy to reduce the “increase in safety concerns, including serious adverse events” resulting from homeopathic products”, … Read more

Kill The Quants, Before They Kill Our Markets

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by Doug Kass  * Friday was likely the day the short volatility trade died * A massive regulatory overhaul is needed to counter the destabilizing influence of strategies and exchange traded products that have overwhelmed our markets For years I have warned about the explosion in popularity (and listings) of ETFs (which now outnumber the … Read more