So, all that hype about christmas sales was, well, HYPE?! More signs of global slowdown

Peter Schiff: This Is The Beginning Of A Much Bigger Crisis (Video)

Seeking Alpha–6 hours ago
It’s actually a bubble. … Thanks to the Federal Reserve, they inflated an even bigger bubble, on …. So, it took a gigantic debt bubble and made it much bigger.

Fitch warns of possible downgrade to US AAA credit rating if shutdown …

MarketWatch–3 hours ago

If people take the time to look at that you can see debt levels moving higher, you … Fitch had said in a recent report that its sovereign credit view of the world’s .

Riches to rags: Swiss Central Bank swings to loss

MarketWatch–1 hour ago
ZURICH–One year after posting a record 54 billion franc ($55 billion) profit, the Swiss National Bank swung to a 15 billion franc loss in 2018, as a double …

Federal Deficit Climbs Again, Putting It on Track for $1 Trillion This Year

New York Times–15 hours ago
The monthly numbers from the Congressional Budget Office also show an increase in spending on federal debt as rising interest rates drive up the cost of the …

Bond-Market Warning Seen in Weakest Treasuries Demand Since 2008

Bloomberg–4 hours ago
Debt supply jumped in 2018 largely because of the Trump administration’s tax cuts. Forecasts show the deficit could soon swell past a trillion dollars and stay …

Even Bond Traders Don’t Believe This Rally

Bloomberg–16 hours ago
… market funds surged by $155.5 billion in the fourth quarter to $3.04 trillion. … The number of consumers seeking debtrelief jumped 5.1 percent to 11,320 in …

World Bank flags rising debt and other economic dangers

ABS-CBN News–17 hours ago
Total debt has risen worldwide to a record $184 trillion in 2017, according to the International Monetary Fund. And the World Bank said low-income countries …

China to Propose Wider 2019 Fiscal Deficit Amid Slowdown

Yahoo Finance–7 hours ago
… the extraordinarily expansionary policy in the last downcycle, a deteriorating fiscal position, and elevated contingent liabilities, including future pension costs,” …

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