by Robert Carbery Don’t look now my lefty friends, but President Trump’s approval ratings are on the rise after his successful trip through East Asia. According to a respected tracking poll, Trump is edging closer to that 50% mark, one that would certainly ensure a successful reelection in 2020, if accurate. The Rasmussen Reports … Read more
by Chris Black This just in: the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced it stopped fundraising for Alabama Candidate Moore. The Republicans dropped the ball and bailed on Judge Moore, who was accused just one month prior to a special election of sexual misconduct from 40 years ago by a number of women. On his part, … Read more
How long can the U.S. economy be propped up with ever expanding debt? Money manager Peter Schiff says, “How high can the debt go? I don’t know and you don’t know. . . .How many straws can you put on a camel’s back? You don’t know until you put that final straw that’s one too … Read more
Shiller on Stock Investors: ‘People Don’t Expect the Moon Anymore’ Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University, discusses investor sentiment, valuations and more with Eric Chemi. Robert Shiller on investor sentiment & the market: ‘People don’t expect the moon anymore’ from CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/11/13/robert-shiller-on-investor-sentiment-and-the-market.html The stock market’s tone is changing, with some indicators pointing to … Read more
by Mark Angelides Yesterday another mass shooting occurred; this time in California. The shooter killed four people and injured at least ten; he was shot and killed by police responding. It is unfortunate that an almost scripted response will begin on each side, neither useful, both distracting, and ultimately, both used to fuel hatred of … Read more
by Mark Angelides As part of the larger campaign to destroy the Make America Great Again support base, they have begun eating their own. The attacks on the Alabama candidate are just as large from the GOP as they are from the DNC. But who is the battle really against? Let’s for a moment take … Read more
By Michael Snyder Is Planned Parenthood finally going to be held accountable for their crimes against humanity? Pro-life activists all over the nation are absolutely thrilled by reports about a potential FBI investigation of Planned Parenthood. For the past several years, undercover video after undercover video has exposed what is going on deep inside Planned … Read more
By Michael Snyder Did you know that Venezuela just went into default? This should be an absolutely enormous story, but the mainstream media is being very quiet about it. Wall Street and other major financial centers around the globe could potentially be facing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and the ripple effects could be felt … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But there is no Financial Crisis. These are the boom times. Given Americans’ ceaseless urge to borrow and spend, household debt in the third quarter surged by $610 billion, or 5%, from the third quarter last year, to a new record of $13 trillion, according to the New York Fed. If … Read more
There’s something weird going on that’s worrying the markets Stocks close lower as GE drops to lowest level since 2011 from CNBC. Markets are showing signs of nervousness, which analysts say is not necessarily the dire warning some fear. There is concern that the bond market is sending warnings about the economy, as high yield … Read more
By Michael Snyder Is the San Andreas Fault starting to wake up? On Monday, a “swarm” of 10 significant earthquakes struck Monterey County, California. The largest was a magnitude 4.6 earthquake that could be felt all the way over in San Francisco. Of course this comes at a time when other portions of “the Ring … Read more
$15 Million in Taxpayer Money Has Been Paid Out to Settle Congressional Sexual Harassment Suits “We do know there is about $15 million that has been paid out by the House on behalf of harassers in the last 10 to 15 years,” Speier revealed, on Tuesday. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) informed NBC’s Chuck Todd on … Read more
by Robert Carbery Over the weekend, the failing New York Times ran an opinion piece, titled, Can My Children Be Friends With White People? These are the times we are living in today. When everything is political and no one can get over the fact that Donald Trump is president, liberals are falling over themselves … Read more
Bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency has garnered attention from every nook and corner of the world, after its price surged up to $7500 this November (2017). Bitcoin has been in news ever since, the discussion about cryptocurrency and digital cash flew in the market and people started investing in it like crazy. Speculations had it, that Bitcoin was … Read more
by Robert Carbery Attorney General Jeff Sessions is looking into possibly appointing a special counsel to investigate an actual crime. Responding to a flurry of Republican concerns around the Clinton Foundation and the sale of a vast amount of American uranium to Russia, according to a letter The Washington Post unearthed, Sessions appears to be … Read more
As the world moves increasingly online, ICOs (initial coin offerings) are becoming an increasingly appealing investment option for forward-thinkers. SwissBorg is offering a new option for crypto investors, and presenting individuals, financial services experts, and other DAOs (decentralised autonomous organisations) an innovative wealth management solution. What Is SwissBorg? In a nutshell, SwissBorg describes itself as … Read more
by Mark Angelides Across the globe, any events or elections that are made by the people exercising their democratic rights and free will are being questioned (in terms of legitimacy) with the allegation that they were cheated and lied to by “Russian Bots” and “Russian employed posters.” But there is a major point that everyone … Read more
by SpontaneousDisorder US stocks are well over double the valuations normally achieved at market bottoms (as previously shown by Hussman with measures most correlated with subsequent returns). Sentiment has also been hitting historic extremes recently – another reason to expect a top. Here is one I posted about amongst others: Investors Intelligence reports 62.3% bulls, 15.1% bears, so … Read more
By Michael Snyder Is the retail apocalypse in the United States about to go to a whole new level? That is a frightening thing to consider, because the truth is that things are already quite bad. We have already shattered the all-time record for store closings in a single year and we still have the rest of … Read more
By Michael Snyder Mt. Popocatepetl is one of the most important volcanoes on the entire planet, and yet most Americans are not familiar with it. In ancient Aztec, Popocatepetl means “smoking mountain”, but to the locals the 5,426-meter-high volcano is simply known as “Don Goyo”. A catastrophic eruption of “Don Goyo” would be a nightmare … Read more