Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Nine years of scorched-earth monetary policies come home to roost. There are always cycles. The current cycle started at the bottom of the Great Recession and will last “until central banks put on the brakes,” said Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, in an interview with Bloomberg. “We’re in a perfect situation, inflation … Read more
Emerging markets are up 53%. That is huge and will severely impact long term returns as the higher is the price you pay for a stock the higher is the risk, such is the stock market. I discuss the MSCI emerging market etc, Tencent, how the ETF is created, specific emerging countries and how to … Read more
by Spencer P Morrison, NEE Exploring the Impact of Illegal Immigration on America’s School Chris Cuomo’s Law states: As a political debate grows longer, the probability that a liberal will argue “think of the children” approaches 1. Cuomo’s Law is a little like Godwin’s Law, except debates involving Hitler are invariably more entertaining. But the principle is the same: … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Less than expected and last month’s number revised a bit lower, so still no contribution to growth for the year: Highlights Lack of supply pulled down existing home sales in December and may very well pull down sales in January as well. Existing home sales fell 3.6 percent in December to an annualized … Read more
.@secupp: Isn't it time to do something in Syria in a full-throated way? https://t.co/wFF8hgefYH — SE Cupp Unfiltered (@UnfilteredSE) January 19, 2018 Smith’s epic diatribe met with no resistance. He said: “Regime change has been an absolute nightmare everywhere that we’ve had it. And the idea that we’re going to go into a civil war and … Read more
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper Imagine getting a phone call like this from your high school aged child. “Mom, there’s been a shooting. I’m running.” Those were the chilling words heard by a mom in Kentucky yesterday when her son was fleeing from a classmate who killed 2 students and injured 17 more. The … Read more
by northmantrader Poor dollar. Keeps getting beaten to a pulp. And no one seems more excited than Treasury Secretary Mnuchin who declared a weak dollar to be “good for the US”. Of course central bankers have been using the currency destruction method for years, but now the baton has apparently been passed to the US Treasury. Those European … Read more
From Birch Gold Group Real estate is the number one form of wealth for most people. However, as the last housing bubble and ensuing recession have shown, real estate is not always a safe investment. In 2006, housing prices peaked before falling to new lows in 2011 in the aftermath of the recession. But since then, … Read more
by stockboardasset In a new mind-numbing report from Reuters, Mexico’s drug cartels are increasingly diversifying beyond narcotics and have recently entered into the petroleum business. Cartels have jumped into the fuel theft game stealing billions of dollars worth of oil from pipelines controlled by the state oil company Pemex, which at current rates could paralyze the country’s top … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qhytohRf7M BREAKING: Multiple Officers Shot!! http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… http://breaking911.com/breaking-2-mic…
by Dr. Eowyn On January 18, 2018, members of the House of Representatives were given a four-page memo, described by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)and journalist Sara Carter as so “shocking” and “explosive”, it could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the end of Robert Mueller’s special counsel … Read more
Did someone pull the corporate swamp plug? If so, thank you. AC
From CNBC: General Electric says SEC investigating insurance charge from CNBC. The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened up an investigation of General Electric’s accounting practices in the wake of the conglomerate’s review of its insurance business. On Jan. 16, GE revealed it had conducted a review of its GE Capital insurance portfolio and decided to take a … Read more
Image from pixabay From CNBC: Today’s global economy has created the best backdrop in “decades” for owning commodities, says Jeffrey Currie, global head of commodities for Goldman Sachs. In Currie’s view, the market’s love affair with technology equities, especially the FANG stocks, is unjustly drawing capital away from commodities. “I think it has a lot to … Read more
From Michael Goodwin at NY Post: During the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks it declared “too big to fail.” Fearing their bankruptcy might trigger economic Armageddon, the feds propped them up with taxpayer cash. Something similar is happening now at the FBI, with the Washington wagons circling the agency to protect it from … Read more
I don’t believe for one minute the texts are missing. Big lawsuit from the Judicial Watch juggernaut: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-text-messages-fbis-strzok-page/ “I don’t believe for one minute that the Strzok-Page texts are really missing,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The IRS told us that Lois Lerner’s emails were ‘missing,’ and we forced them to admit they existed and … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytYWeEmIwBg “That’s Why Trump Won Not Because Of Some Made Up Hoax!” Sarah Sanders Destroys New York Times Reporter Sarah Huckabee Sanders (1/24/2018) White House Press Briefing Sarah Sanders Lets this reporter know why Trump won and it wasn’t the Russians this is politics news today and top stories today on president trump. president trump … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDaxDnh3I9c Alex Jones breaks down how the United States is already in a state of civil emergency, triggered by the Anti-Trump deep state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvQ3SeFbNk Major Hypocrisy Exposed At Davos Forum On “Global Warming”! http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0…