by FS Welcome to the Gilded Age of digital disruption where wealth, influence, and power are radically shifting to new players upending traditional business, economic, and social paradigms. To hear the podcast related to this article, see The Meltup Before the Meltdown on our site here on on iTunes here. Giants Eating the Competition We’ve often discussed the disruption in … Read more
Can capitalism continue without consumption of goods and services? The rate at which money exchanges hands is collapsing https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V SPY/VIX Ratio pushing extremes pic.twitter.com/tdr7jrYPW5 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 31, 2017 rent ate up more disposable income than at any prior time in history. Which unfortunately means that while US housing has never been more unaffordable, … Read more
by GordonTLong I argued in 110 pages that US Economic growth is not as reported because the GDP formula is both archaic and misleading. I recently posted at MATASII.com on September 29, 2017 an article entitled “An Archaic GDP Formula Hides the Fact the USA is Already in a Depression!“, that gave an additional perspective on … Read more
by Robert Carbery Something has been going on this past month that has as usual been lost in the shuffle of other mainstream media prioritized news. Lost in the hysteria around the Vegas shooting (of which we still have many unanswered questions) and Harvey Weinstein and Mueller indicting Manafort and the wacky World Series is … Read more
by Michael Snyder Terror has just struck New York City once again. On Tuesday afternoon, a “Middle Eastern man” shouting “Allahu Akbar” used his truck as a weapon in Lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center. After careening on to a bike path and hitting numerous bikers and pedestrians at high speed, he was finally stopped after his … Read more
By Michael Snyder Are we about to see chaos in the streets in major cities all over America? Antifa and other radical leftist groups are promising that a series of protests will begin on November 4th that will never end until “the Trump/Pence regime” is “removed from power”. And as you will see below, Antifa … Read more
http://moslereconomics.com/2017/10/29/credit-check-34/ A Look at NYSE Margin Debt and the Market The NYSE has released new data for margin debt, now available through September. The latest debt level is up 1.6% month-over-month. The September data gives us an additional sense of recent investor behavior. At the suggestion of Mark Schofield, Managing Director at Strategic Value … Read more
by Geoffrey Grider IS THE MERE ACT OF WEARING MINSTREL STAGE MAKEUP FROM A HUNDRED YEARS AGO A RACIST ACT? My intern Haley and I were walking back to the car after lunch this afternoon here in America’s oldest city, when we heard vigorous shouting coming from the area of the Prohibition Kitchen restaurant. As we got closer, … Read more
Why is this not front page news in the west? So it must be looking good, as super-loose monetary policy seems to have peaked and central banks are “talking the talk” and “walking the walk” for normalisation and tighter policy ahead. The US Federal Reserve has been doing this for nearly two years now, the … Read more
Irrefutable proof Podesta Group lobbied on behalf of Uranium One. 2012: https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=2a6bc321-f7aa-413d-bd53-3b1f96b7f6e7&filingTypeID=62 2015: https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=e2f7e742-f91b-4244-a805-237a020f220f&filingTypeID=51 to keep data intact… 2012 archive 2015 archive Sources: Podesta Group, Mercury Are Companies ‘A’ and ‘B’ in Indictment WASHINGTON — Lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of Trump campaign chairman … Read more
By Michael Snyder Are you ready to pay 37 percent more for health insurance in 2018? Obamacare is imploding faster than most of us imagined, and these rate increases are absolutely killing hard working middle class families all across the country. I wrote about the steady erosion of the middle class yesterday, and health insurance is … Read more
WB Concerned Over Global Debt Overhang The World Bank has warned that unless countries across the globe address issues relating to borrowing, the world could be heading for another financial crisis. In its World Economic Outlook report for October 2017, it noted that discouraging further debt build-up through measures that encourage business investment and discourage … Read more
by Mark Angelides The governor of Ohio, John Kasich is rumored to be making plans for his thirds (and hopefully final) Presidential bid in 2020. Whilst he has publically stated when questioned that “That’s not where my head’s at right now,” this is hardly an outright rejection, and the fact that he has retained his … Read more
In your opinion, is Japan the model for the success of central bank monetary easing (QE)? Every country has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Fed and their actions. They set the precedent to print money to save the nation from collapse, and everyone joined the conga line in this wild party. There … Read more
by Thinker Peoples Politician Trey Gowdy is showing Americans that there are politician who care about truth, honor, justice, and the oaths that other politicians have fallen to to greed, and corruption that surround the life of so many in Washington D.C. Trillions of dollars are missing from the Pentagon and no one knows where … Read more
Bubble trouble? Infamous FANG stocks have gained almost 45% ytd, ~3times S&P 500 & ~4times S&P Equal Weight! https://t.co/icqjKyswS7 pic.twitter.com/dGHMunjJW1 — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) October 29, 2017 #housing #mortgages# unaffordability – US Homes Have Never Been More #Unaffordable @zerohedge https://t.co/sxUga08rvM pic.twitter.com/Js3AEFfe7G — TraderStef (@TraderStef) October 29, 2017 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/924239067528777728 h/t Uncletommy
by Michael Snyder A civil war for control of the future of the Republican Party is raging, and pro-Trump forces are winning. In recent weeks, we have seen Senator Jeff Flake and Senator Bob Corker both announce that they will not seek re-election when their terms are over. Meanwhile, a new generation of enthusiastic pro-Trump candidates … Read more
By Michael Snyder The federal government is now 20.4 trillion dollars in debt, and most Americans don’t seem to care that the economic prosperity that we are enjoying today could be completely destroyed by our exploding national debt. Over the past decade, the national debt has been growing at a rate of more than 100 million dollars … Read more
Honestly this is ridiculous. We’re heading back into the housing bubble all over again. I didn’t realize these people were goldfish and their memory was that terrible! Do you think this is dangerous? No money? No problem. The government is going to help you out. Just take on a massive amount of debt and carry … Read more
by Trivirus Long post and food for thought for those willing to read into the numbers instead of relying “experts” for counsel. , I will include some real investment tips for those who think long term and rightfully view the “consensus” mentality with scorn and contempt. My thesis: I take the pessimist’s view that, sometime in the near … Read more