Bloomberg, Released on 1/7/19 Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. …
by ShowMeTheTyrant Is Trump is trying to expose Congress as being fully compromised and actively working against the American people to destroy the country? Or is Trump a fascist dictator? Let’s have a conversation. Congress has had single digit approval ratings …
by Shaun Richards Let me welcome you all to 2019 as we advance on another new year. I hope that it will be a good one for all of you. As I look at financial markets there has been a …
by SpontaneousDisorder The government borrows from the market for different lengths of time. ie from 1 month to 30 years. The interest rates (yield) vary according to what the market demands at any moment. This is the yield curve. An …
by WARREN MOSLER So for every agent that spent less than its income, another must have spent more than its income, or the output would not have been sold. It’s an ex poste identity for any currency. That means that …
via advisorperspectives: Market Cap to GDP is a long-term valuation indicator that has become popular in recent years, thanks to Warren Buffett. Back in 2001, he remarked in a Fortune Magazine interview that “it is probably the best single measure of where valuations …
by Shaun Richards One of the features of the credit crunch era has been the falls in first world interest-rates and bond yields. The first phase saw the slashing of official short-term interest-rates and once that was seen to be …
via jugglingdynamite: As the US dollar Index (DXY) strengthens to a new 52-week high above 97, commodities are tanking along with global growth prospects into 2019, and North American government bonds are rising. Oil is down for a record 12th straight …
via wikipedia: Ongoing armed conflicts in 2018; updated November 2018. Major wars, 10,000 or more deaths in current or past year Wars, 1,000–9,999 deaths in current or past year Minor conflicts, 100–999 deaths in current or past year Skirmishes and clashes, …
Eric Sprott interviewed by Craig Hemke on The Weekly Wrap-Up Nov 2, 2018 In five days, the Indian festival of lights known as Diwali will kick off the Hindu New Year. And during this celebration, guess which investment is considered lucky? That’s right: gold. …
IN THE NEW PRUDES, author/illustrator Christopher R. Taylor writes: The people who told us “love the one you’re with” and “if her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel” are now …
via John P. Hussman, Ph.D.: Chuck Prince famously said we have to dance until the music stops. Actually the music had stopped already when he said that. – George Soros In recent days, the combination of extreme valuations and unfavorable market …
by raddingy AWS is tailored for companies to move off of existing “legacy” datacenter operations into the cloud. They also have companies by the balls and, honestly, ethically I dislike them (though I haven’t really used anything else besides AWS). Developing …
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by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkhnNycUwAAPNIh.jpg:large Don’t look now, but on August 22, 2018, this current bull market will top the 1990s bull market as the longest ever. However, be aware that the 1990s bull market saw the S&P 500 …
by Michael Snyder America’s long-term “balance sheet numbers” just continue to get progressively worse. Unfortunately, since the stock market has been soaring and the GDP numbers look okay, most Americans assume that the U.S. economy is doing just fine. But …
In late 2017, cognitive scientists Stanislas Dehaene, Hakwan Lau and Sid Kouider theorized in a published review that consciousness is “resolutely computational” and subsequently possible in machines. The three neuroscientists are from the Collège de France, University of California and …
by stockboardasset Last week, we struck gold with a monster FB July 27 172.50 Put at .02 to 2.19. I want to thank idiot analysts for writing idiot buy recommendations on an idiot company called idiot $FB that has enabled my fund to …
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU. As Conquest’s second law of politics states, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” AC
by Lynette Zang of ITM Trading Question 1. Daniel S: what becomes the value of your holdings in precious metals if currency becomes entirely digital, no more banknotes – and therefore totally out of one’s control? Question 2. Matthew B: In a SHTF …
via John P. Hussman: I’ve often described what I call the Iron Law of Valuation: the higher the price investors pay for a given set of expected future cash flows, the lower the long-term investment returns they should expect. As a …
by John Coumarianos All assets are worth the present value of their future cash flows. Even if you haven’t been to business school and heard this financial theory, you probably have some intuitive sense that if you buy a piece …
via milleronthemoney: Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! – Walter Scott When I taught in night school my professor insisted I attend a full-day conference on “Effective Teaching Methods”. The speaker list was full …
by Attacitus South Africa Sierra Leone (where 3,000 people died of Ebola) Mexico (where there is an active insurgency) Kenya Egypt (where there is an active insurgency) Zimbabwe Ukraine (a literal warzone) Denmark France Spain Saudi Arabia Countries currently rated …
Why U.S. Household Wealth Is In A Bubble – Part 1 Since the financial crisis in early-2009, household wealth has surged by nearly $46 trillion or 83 percent to a record $100.8 trillion. As the chart below shows, the powerful increase in …
both sides believe that there is propaganda being used on the American people. This video details one viewpoint of that. What is the opposite? Is it justified? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5s-0ODfJo h/t blaaaahhhhh
No traditional recession indicators raising their hands, but valuations are https://twitter.com/RecessionAlert2/status/1009848956208271362 With the caveat that a clear improvement in our measures of market internals would shift us to a neutral/constructive near-term outlook, the recent low-volume squeeze has returned the most …
via thefreethoughtproject: Posting memes, remixes, and other similar content could soon be banned from the web in the European Union, according to critics who are speaking out against a recently proposed copyright law. The law, known as the “Copyright Directive,” will …
Cover image via @goteamkirk on Twitter By Bob Shanahan “There aren’t people, these are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a rate that’s never happened before,” Donald Trump said in response to a question …
Cover image via @CitizensMandate on Twitter By Bob Shanahan “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems,” Donald Trump began in his speech announcing his campaign for president almost three years ago now. “When Mexico sends …