Macro Voices, Released on 4/25/19 Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Dr.Hunt to MacroVoices. Erik and Dr.Hunt discuss overall outlook on the US and the global economy, synchronized global downturn and risks of a recession, how debt induced weakness is undermining growth rate, …
by Michael Ballanger of Streetwise Reports “‘Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Sir Winston Churchill Throughout history, society has always canonized certain political, military, and religious icons for reasons seemingly obvious, but after drilling down …
via yuantalks: The strong rally in China’s equity market has attracted retail investors to buy stocks. So far this year, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has surged more than 30 per cent. In March, 2.99 million new investors opened accounts to …
by Shaun Richards We find ourselves in yet another version of banking Monday and let me immediately note an issue highlighted by moves at the UK’s main zombie bank which is Royal Bank of Scotland or RBS. From the BBC. …
by Charles Hugh-Smith A feature of the economic crisis that enfolded in Greece was the fantasy that economic growth would quickly recover. It seems hard to believe now that anyone could have expected the economy to grow at 2% ot …
via RecessionAlert: We have updated the RecessionALERT Valuation Index (RAVI) forecast models for the SP500 using fourth quarter 2018 data. Stock market valuations continue to pose a “clear and present danger” to positive economic and SP500 returns outcomes and have worsened …
by Troy The S&P remains around its 2800 resistance area. Meanwhile, a look at some individual sectors illustrates something interesting about the stock market’s rally. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium …
by Michael Snyder The long-term trends that are gutting the U.S. economy continue to get even worse. As you will see below, our goods trade deficit with the rest of the world hit a brand new record high in 2018, and …
by Chris Here’s an update an hour later. The “”markets”” remain in full lock-up mode. There have been a lot of ridiculous days of obviously stage-managed US equity “”markets”” but today is shaping up to be one of the more …
BUT THE NARRATIVE! Scientists: CO2 the ‘miracle molecule’ key to feeding, saving the world. If you like to eat, then you should be cheering global warming. That’s the claim in a new scientific report that counters global warming fanatics like former …
https://youtu.be/2HnrJBG0Hv0 This weekend will mark the three months of the historic movement of Yellow Vests started on November 17, 2018. Protests are planned throughout the country, as every Saturday. More protests are planned for tomorrow Sunday. Live feed from the …
by David Haggith We now know that the Retail Apocalypse took another trip downhill during the all-important holiday season. December reports show retail sales declined more in one month than they have since … the Great Recession. Notice what a common …
Americans continue their march to low-tax states The United States Census Bureau released its annual state-by-state population estimates for 2018 in late December. It highlights migration trends across the states and sketches a picture of looming political changes that will take …
via carnegieendowment: MICHAEL PETTIS Debt is rising more quickly in the United States than most people would prefer. This is happening in part because the U.S. current account deficit and the country’s high level of income inequality distort the structure and …
by Nomi Prins of Daily Reckoning A crucial theme from last year is continuing into this year — stock buybacks. Last year was a banner year for companies buying back their own shares. A month into 2019, it appears that Wall Street is …
by Hawkeyeflame https://youtu.be/zafCdE9f1rE part two. https://youtu.be/dk79SvPH_6Y Link: https://youtu.be/QzJIlatQ8Wg Double or quits: Will Macron risk referendum? ‘Yellow Vest’ Protester Gets Hand Blown off by Grenade…
By Irina Slav Venezuela will continue trading with the United States despite the fact Washington broke off diplomatic relations following president Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration for a second term in office, which the U.S. and a host of other countries decried …
by Shaun Richards The weekend just past has been full of banking news which has not been good. That is quite an anti achievement when we note that a decade or so ago when the banking crisis hit we were …
by Troy The stock market continues to hold at its 50% retracement. This has been one of the fiercest non-stop recoveries after a 20% selloff. Will the stock market continue its V-shaped recovery? Or is a retracement imminent? We think …
by cambeiu via NBCNEWS: Although shoppers kept credit card machines busy this holiday season, growing evidence indicates that Americans are starting to feel uneasy about the pile of debt to which we continue to add. A new survey from CreditCards.com finds that more …
After 9 weeks of protesting the Yellow Vest Movement shows no sign of slowing. There is still minimal coverage by the mainstream media even after protests have started to spread to every major city in France, across Europe and to the UK. …
By Nick Cunningham For much of 2018, investors probably thought they had a strong bet in the energy complex. But that bet badly turned sour in the final 60 days of the year. The spot energy index in the S&P …
via yahoo: Google has had a lawsuit in Illinois over its facial-recognition software thrown out, with a judge dismissing the case on the grounds that the plaintiff in the case did not suffer “concrete injuries,” Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The ruling puts to …
LIVE:YellowVestProtests continue in Paris for seven weeks in a row BAC men beat up a Yellow Vest protester on the ground, Toulouse. Avignon nord super marché 29/12/2018 tensions at the super market Riot Control: French govt to buy more non-lethal weapons despite …
By John W. Whitehead “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”—Ludwig von Mises The government has shut down again. At least, parts of the government have temporarily shut down over President …
by axolotl_peyotl During the Iraq War, the USA may not have been looking for *modern* weapons of mass destruction, but *ancient* ones, or information about them. Is a similar network at work in Syria to explore and “recover” artifacts? An …
There’s no chance that the markets can sustain more of these losses. It’s simply not able to deal with this level of punishment. Stocks have been highly erratic in 2018, which has clearly been demonstrated in October and November. Stock …
by Thinker American soldiers who should be protecting the fields that feed that people, and not those that supply the world with dope!!! Only war in Afghanistan, is the one to keep the drugs (poppy fields) flowing and the profits …
by Brandon Smith At the beginning of 2018 I wrote extensively on what was likely to happen under the administration of Jerome Powell, the new Federal Reserve Chairman. In my article ‘New Fed Chairman Will Trigger A Historic Stock Market Crash …
In this edition of “Inside Judicial Watch,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton gives an update on some of the key cases and investigations Judicial Watch is involved with, including the Clinton email scandal, the Mueller probe into alleged Trump/Russia collusion …