Banks about to fall apart at financial crisis highs?
by Kimble Charting Banks started showing cracks back in 2007 and before long they started breaking support and fell hard. The current bank trend remains UP at this time. The trend finds itself back at 2007 highs, where bulls would NOT want to see selling pressure start taking place! Below looks at the Banks Index (BKX) over the past 15 … Read more
DOW Takes a Dive while Feds Probe Apple Over Intentionally Slowing Down Older iPhones
by Chris Black Dow took a dive on Tuesday, plunging 400 points, thus marking its biggest point drop since 2016, when it fell 610 points in June. Due to investors’ fears of higher than expected inflation, the 10 year Treasury yield traded near levels not since since 2014. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell 1.2%, … Read more
USTreasury Bonds: Fuse to Light the Bonfire
by Jim Willie CB Many are the metaphors used to describe the agent that initiates a major crisis. Light the fuse, or pull the trigger, pull the rug out from under the room, or pull on the string for unraveling the sweater, these are commonly heard. What comes soon is the Bonfire of the Vanities, … Read more
Evidence compromised in Mueller probe & Democrat diversion tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kp35tb_vuE FOX NEWS January 30th 2018 America First Action spokesperson Katrina Pierson on the House Intelligence Committee voting to release the controversial four-page memo allegedly detailing surveillance abuses and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s decision to step down.
CPU maker Intel told CHINA about there CPU bugs before telling US govt!
Intel warned Chinese firms about its infamous Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities before informing the US government, it has emerged. Select big customers – including Lenovo and Alibaba – learned of the design blunders some time before Uncle Sam and smaller cloud computing suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter and … Read more
McCabe Didn't Just Leave His Post, He Was 'REMOVED'! It's Happening!
https://youtu.be/Xzw7098V78I McCabe was removed by the guy who was going to quit if Trump fired McCabe. Classic.
One-Percenter Pelosi Bathing in Her "Crumbs"
If they are “crumbs” then she should be fighting to get us something more substantial. But that’s not what she did, she voted against even letting us have these “crumbs”. Nancy Pelosi can f*ck off. I used to work in banking. You would be amazed at the number of people who could drastically improve their … Read more
US Treasury 10Y Yield Highest Since 2014 (30Y Mortgage Rates Near Highs Since 2014) As Home Price Growth Hits 6.41% YoY (Seattle Fastest, DC Slowest)
by Anthony B Sanders US Real GDP seems to be booming (see yesterday’s Atlanta Fed GDPNow Report for 4.2% growth) while The Fed continues to raise their target rate and unwinding its $4.4 trillion balance sheet. The result? The US Treasury 10-year yield has risen to its highest level since 2014 (red line). And Bankrate’s … Read more
Spending and savings, Apartment market tightness, Vehicle sales
by WARREN MOSLER Seems to me this divergence has been stretched to the limit: And this chart from Daniele Della Bona shows how dipping into savings via borrowing adds to interest expense that further reduces savings when other personal income is lagging: And this shows the gap: And from a different angle: And this was also … Read more
For Anyone Still Wondering If Gold Prices Are Rigged…
by: Clint Siegner, Money Metals The Commodity Futures Trading Commission levied fines against three European Banks on Friday for “spoofing” the futures markets, including COMEX gold. Six traders were arrested yesterday. “Spoofing” involves placing buy or sell orders in order to move markets in a desired direction then canceling the orders before they get executed. … Read more
$2 Trillion of Short Vol Trades: Why The Coming Crash Will Be Like 1987…But Worse
As Cole explains: This is all great as long as volatility is low or dropping, as long as markets are stable.But, in the event that we have a reversal in this, there’s two trillion dollars of equity exposure that self-reflexive-driving lower vol can reverse in a quite violent way. And this is just equity vol, … Read more
7-Eleven Clerk Refuses Service To Soldier
Okay y’all I realize that this is older news but I just became aware of it and wanted to share. I rarely go use 7-eleven but as of now I’ll be avoiding it all together. 7-Eleven Clerk Refuses Service To Soldier “She said, ‘You’re in the military?’ I said, ‘Yes,’” Brown told KIRO. “She said, … Read more
GE just signaled the next crisis and nobody’s paying attention
by Simon Black Earlier this month, General Electric took a $6.2 billion charge to its insurance unit for the fourth quarter. And the company said it will set aside another $15 billion over seven years to bolster reserves at GE Capital. The charge had to do with long-term care policies (to pay for nursing homes and … Read more
The State of Our Union: A House Divided, Enslaved & Mired in the Mistakes of the Past
by John W. Whitehead History has a funny way of circling back on itself. The facts, figures, faces and technology may change from era to era, but the dangers remain the same. This year is no different, whatever the politicians and talking heads may say to the contrary. Brush up on your history, and you’ll find … Read more
California Is Scroomed
by Chris What happens when the public officials get a hold of the public purse and begin to grant themselves pay raises? The usual of course. It’s just gone so terribly far off the rails for CA that it’s impossible to see anything other than a crack-up at some not-too-distant point. For example, visiting the … Read more
2018 Election platforms – Haters gonna hate
Via Branco Vote Democrat! For Trannies, Illegals and to MAKE TAXES HIGHER AGAIN!
‘SMEAR FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER’ Corruption from Democrats is Coming Back to Destroy Them
The effort to destroy President Trump and others on his campaign is backfiring. Those who protected Hillary then tried to cover it up are now literally shaking in their boots. The “FISA abuse” memo will be released showing the Democrats and intel agencies were in cahoots. Tucker Carlson just called them out in a fantastic … Read more
TAPPER Appears Physically Ill As Rep Matt Gaetz Explains House Intel Decision To #RELEASETHEMEMO
The Last Refuge remarked that you can generally tell when the house of cards begins collapsing by how deep CNN’s Jake Tapper is forced to reaches into his bag of disingenuous tricks. The best line of the entire video was by Rep. Gaetz: And you know what Jake? When you read the memo, it’s going … Read more
All the lies they told about Brexit, slowly being unravelled.
Brexit & the economy: The successes the mainstream media aren’t crowing about A picture of Brexit doom and gloom has been painted – an artwork constructed by the ‘remoaners’ whose campaign of fear angered leave campaigners during the referendum on whether Britain stays or leaves the EU. ‘Project fear’ (the picture of economic doom and … Read more