by olesentv There’s a housing crisis in the United States. Even though it’s been almost 10 years since the housing meltdown that happened in 2008,, there is still massive distortion in the market as a consequence of that crisis. Economics at its core is about causes and effects. Millions of people lost their homes and now … Read more
Whether to invest or save is one of the most common dilemmas in personal finance management. Practice shows that the best option would be to organize your finances in a way that would let you do both simultaneously, although this is not always possible, unfortunately. What is the principal difference between saving and investing and … Read more
by Mark Angelides There will be a lot of speculation and recrimination around the results of yesterday’s elections. The DNC will (and already are) claiming it as a rejection of President Trump, whilst the GOP is remaining somewhat silence. But what is the real deal here? Who truly won and lost, and what are the … Read more
by Mark Angelides Although Angela Merkel was returned for her fourth term as German Chancellor, the gains made by the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) seem to have created an issue with her ability to form a majority coalition. Groups within the Bundestag who traditionally make up the “Jamaica Coalition” (based on party colors) are … Read more
SPX/VIX Ratio Is Telling A Shocking Truth About Extremes pic.twitter.com/ZHHKcVkNN8 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 7, 2017 Scariest Chart Of The Day h/t WolfStreet pic.twitter.com/GM0UAlK2s6 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 7, 2017 The Last Time 2s10s Curve Death Cross Occurred It Was 2007 pic.twitter.com/BuCZAbNrmm — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 7, 2017 A Growing Number Of Realtors May Signal … Read more
Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Dear President Trump, Over the last couple of years I’ve been all over TV… from Fox News to CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg. I’ve been telling our fellow Americans that the financial global elite was planning to issue their own globalist currency called special drawing rights, or SDRs. And that those … Read more
by Michael Snyder Everybody agrees that healthcare costs are way too high. Back in 1960, healthcare spending accounted for approximately 5 percent of GDP, and by 2020 it is being projected that healthcare spending will account for 20 percent of GDP. And when you break those numbers down into actual dollars, they become even more staggering. Back in 1960, an … Read more
by Chris Black To begin with, there is a warrior’s attitude, and I won’t explain it, you’ll have to understand it for yourself, which says: “No one is coming, it’s up to us.” With this preamble in mind, following the Texas church massacre where a psycho-killer murdered 27 people in a shooting rampage just a … Read more
Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, This is something I’ve been pondering for some time. I think the next crisis will reveal how little liquidity there is in the credit markets, especially in the high-yield, lower-rated space. Dodd–Frank has greatly limited the ability of banks to provide market-making opportunities and credit markets, a function that has … Read more
By Michael Snyder The left is using the tragedy in Sutherland Springs to demonize the NRA. Personally, I am so sick and tired of these relentless attacks, and I am proud to stand with the NRA, the Gun Owners Of America and every other organization that is working hard to defend our 2nd Amendment rights. As … Read more
Do you think that this market is solvent? Perhaps it’s weak but maybe still solvent? Or is this thing totally a zombie being kept alive by central banks and stimulus in one way or another? The stock market keeps breaking records. Every day it seems the stocks just keeping going higher and higher. This has … Read more
by Ruby Henley Since Donna Brazile has come out of ruins of the DNC, she has written a book called HACKS. In that book, I found an interesting comment. Her friend, the “spook” told her after Seth Rich was murdered she “needed protection for herself, including cameras, alarms, and backup power at her house.” One … Read more
ELECTION 2017: Parties Watch for Wider Signals… Developing… What to Watch as Virginia and New Jersey Votes Are Tallied Both parties will be looking for signals about the landscape heading into next year’s midterms Tuesday’s gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey are the first big, statewide elections since Donald Trump won the presidency. Both parties … Read more
North American yield curves are narrowing further today, now with less than .5% between the 10- and 2-year Treasury yield in Canada, and less than .70% in the US. Both are now at the narrowest spread since the last market cycle peak in 2007. Here is my partner Cory Venable’s update chart showing the US … Read more
by Anthony B Sanders The SPX volatility index VIX is near an all-time low as The Federal Reserve attempts to raise their target rate and unwind their $4.46 trillion balance sheet. The question remains as to how further rate increases and balance sheet unwinding will impact equity volatility. (Bloomberg) Exchange-trade products betting that volatility will sink … Read more
by Robert Carbery In mid-October, Upwork, a global freelancing platform where businesses and individual freelance workers connect and collaborate online, released the results of a new study on the gig economy, in conjunction with Freelancers Union, titled “Freelancing in America: 2017” — the most comprehensive measure of the U.S. independent workforce. This is the … Read more
by David Haggith The Trump Rally pushed ahead relentlessly through a summer full of high omens and great disasters, all which it swatted off like flies. Even so, all was not perfect in the market as nerves began to jitter midsummer beneath the surface even among the most longtime bulls. Wall Street’s fear gauge (the CBOE Volatility Index) … Read more
The thing that bugs me is how dishonest it is. I was listening to the radio and they were talking about this, making it sound like he’s an idiot bla bla bla, so I was thinking, okay sure, he fucked this up but it’s probably not a huge deal… but then I got to my … Read more
by Mark Angelides The Revolutionary Communist Party is openly admitting that it is behind the major anti-Trump movements happening across the USA. This has been suspected by many of us, but in reality, they are being completely open about it. Why is it that the media refuse to cover this? And how is it that … Read more
by Mark Angelides You will hear about the Trump associates, you will hear about the famous, but you won’t hear much about two of the largest beneficiaries from Russian State linked investment in the Paradise Papers. Could this be because between the two of them they control the entire market of social media? When the … Read more