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by John W. Whitehead “For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security … Read more
My most requested table is finally here. Here is every prior Bear Market in $SPX history (-20% drop from a unique All Time High) with dates/notes on the initial bounce … Read more
via Bloomberg: Convinced the stock rout is over? It has occasionally felt like it, on days like Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared almost 750 points. Isolated examples … Read more
via Danielle Park “We are in a bear market, and a bear market is not just going to end in a couple of months considering the ten years of a bull … Read more
by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in US history, odds are a young … Read more
by David Haggith So, the bull market bounced back, right? Not so fast. When one appreciated reader suggested there would be a huge plunge the day after Christmas, given how badly … Read more
by John Ward Along a narrow lane one Spring Sunday, two blokes who’ve been staying overnight at a house party are taking a walk, and breathing in the quiet solitude, leafy … Read more
by TheAngryHippii Misleading information is the bane of all who are undergoing the process of self-actualization. Or as some refer to it, awakening. The problem therein lies the fact that … Read more
By Rodney Johnson The markets peaked in early October, and since then something remarkable has happened. Investors have lost their drive to buy-the-dips! Instead, we’ve transitioned to sell-the-pops, and that’s not a … Read more
by Thinker Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low. According to a 2017 Survey on Trust, Media and Democracy1 by the Knight Foundation, 43 percent of Americans … Read more
by Martin Armstrong We have to come to the reality that from 2019 onward, we are headed into a Pension Crisis that will be serious. Many are starting to yell … Read more
via bi As stocks continue to make record highs, the narrow leadership in major indexes is masking weakness lurking under the surface. Vincent Deluard, a macro strategist at INTL FCStone, … Read more
Bayer-owned agrochemical giant Monsanto, which has recently been ordered to pay a groundskeeper $289 million in damages over Roundup’s alleged cancer link, may be facing many more legal fights soon. … Read more
By Harry Dent In San Francisco, a household now needs an income of $188,000 to afford rent for the average two-bedroom house or apartment with 30% of the household income … Read more
by Brian Maher via Daily Reckoning The calendar has rolled to August… The “dog star” Sirius is prominent in the predawn sky. And the canine days of summer are upon us. … Read more
by Michael Snyder Seven times since the 1960s we have seen the yield curve invert, and in each of those seven instances an economic recession in the United States has followed. … Read more