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Notre Dame Cathedral: An Uneasy Yet Simplistic Metaphor For The Decline Of The West
by Jeff Deist of Mises Institute Yesterday’s terrible fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral reminds us how quickly centuries of accumulated “cultural capital” can be destroyed. Oak timbers dating from the 1200s in the roof and spire were lost forever; some priceless stained glass …
Home Prices’ Rapid Decline Warns of Recession Ahead
By Harry Dent I’m heading back to Australia for a six-city tour – Auckland, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane – from April 24 to May 3. Usually, I only go once a year. This latest will be my third …
The 5 month decline in 30 year interest rates was the largest since 2010.
via upfina: The MBA mortgage applications index in the week of March 29th was very strong mostly because of the growth in refinancing due to the drop in interest rates. The composite index increased 18.6% on top 8.9% growth in the prior …
Japan Restarts Nuclear Reactors, LNG Imports to Decline – How Should Day Traders React?
Last year, five nuclear reactors restarted their operations in Japan. They were part of a group of reactors that had been closed soon after the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Thus, the return of those reactors will change the proportions …
Are the Rise of Social Media and the Decline of Social Mobility Related?
by Charles Hugh-Smith Social media offers hope of achieving higher online social status without having to succeed financially in a winner-take-most economy. I’ve often addressed the decline of social mobility and the addictive nature of social media, and recently I’ve …
Looking to the Future, Public Sees an America in Decline on Many Fronts
Via Pew Research Majorities predict a weaker economy, a growing income divide, a degraded environment and a broken political system (Rachel Black/EyeEm/Getty Images) When Americans peer 30 years into the future, they see a country in decline economically, politically and …
US Residential Construction Spending Sees 6th Straight Month of Decline
by confoundedinterest Today is a double whammy for bad news for the US economy. First, The Census Bureau monthly construction spending report reveals that highway and street spending rose 11.7% in January. The biggest decline was communication spending. BUT, US residential construction …
U.S. Oil Production Is Headed For A Quick Decline
By Philip Verleger The most recent forecasts published by the US Energy Information Administration show US oil production increasing steadily. The February Short-Term Energy Outlook sees the output from US wells rising from 11.9 million barrels per day at the end of 2018 …
The Hidden Decline Of The Gold Mining Industry That No One Is Talking About
BY SRSROCCO There’s been a hidden decline in the global gold mining industry unrecognized by most investors. It’s an insidious and mysterious decay that has plagued the industry for many years. Unfortunately, investors can’t see what’s taking place in the …
Boeing Slides 13% For Biggest Intraday Decline Since 2001 As If Global Peace Broke Out
I read china halted the use of the 737 Max’s, 2 crashes on new planes seems like an issue. After the devastating Boeing 737 MAX-8 crash in Ethiopia this weekend, China has announced it will suspend the aircraft model in …
“Synchronized Global Decline” Bad for World, Good for Gold – Eric Sprott
Eric Sprott interviewed by Craig Hemke on The Weekly Wrap-Up March 8, 2019 The latest U.S. unemployment report is in (spoiler alert: it’s not good), the European Union moved to continue QE, and China made a surprising announcement. All this, and—finally!—a new CoT report. …
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Germany’s Policy Choices Are Hastening The Decline Of NATO.
via forbes: Not bearing the burden. At $4 trillion, Germany’s economy is a fifth the size of America’s. But Germany’s military budget isn’t a fifth of America’s military spending. It isn’t even a tenth. In recent years Berlin has spent 1.1% …
Q1 EPS and GDP now expected to decline, Restaurant sales lowest in 25 years
Q1 EPS now expected to decline by -2.7%. Was -0.8% two weeks ago and +3.0% on Dec. 31 pic.twitter.com/tFdnp0bOux — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 22, 2019 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1098791204299390978 still the "greatest economy ever"? pic.twitter.com/VQvqDQhk7G — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 22, 2019
Is Advance-Decline Signal Really “Infallible”?
by Dana Lyons Does the return to new highs in the NYSE Advance-Decline Line mean new highs in the S&P 500 are on the way as well? We have mentioned plenty of times in the past that we are strong proponents …
Japan iPhone sales decline by a little more than 10% while Samsung increased by over 10%.
by bartturner Apple overreached for sure. People followed Apple rapidly from $400 for a new phone over a few years to $800 a phone, aided by cell phone companies amortizing the costs into people’s plans over a long term. But …
China: Harbinger Of Global Economic Decline
by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.ch The latest numbers released by China’s statistics bureau fueled widespread concerns about the outlook of the global economy, as the Asian superpower reported its slowest growth rate since 1990. The figures showed a 6.6% growth for 2018, confirming …
There’s a steady decline in the number of people celebrating Valentine’s day, but the amount of spending has increased constantly.
via nrf: WASHINGTON – Americans are expected to spend a record amount on Valentine’s Day this year despite a years-long decrease in the percentage of people celebrating the holiday, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and …
Fund Manager — Weak Hands May Be Signaling a “Major Market Decline”
via Marketwatch: Investors, knocked around by the latest stretch of volatility VIX, +0.06% , are wiggling out of their risky margin positions in a big way. Margin debt, the most current figures show, fell $90 billion in the fourth quarter, marking the fastest pace …
China’s S-Curve of Expansion, Stagnation and Decline
by Charles Hugh-Smith All the policies that worked in the Boost Phase no longer work. Natural and human systems tend to go through stages of expansion, stagnation and decline that follow what’s known as the S-Curve. The dynamic isn’t difficult to …
Global Stocks are mixed this morning as US stocks decline with worries about a potential fallout from criminal charges against Huawei Technologies.
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks US prosecutors have formally filed criminal charges against Huawei Technologies, raising fears about the potential for a breakdown in talks between US and China trade officials Bloomberg suggests the rotation into defensive stocks which started …
Andrew Zatlin – Employment Decline on the Way
Financial Survival Network, Released on 1/25/19 Andrew Zatlin has turned bearish on the economy and employment. We’ve plateaued and that means it’s down from here. How we get there is the question. Obviously, central banks will be pumping in liquidity …
Felder Report: “Blaming ‘Algos’ For The Decline Is Really Just an ‘Inverted Stock Tip”
by jessefelder Last month, when stocks were tanking, there was a lot of talk about “algos” and how the computers were responsible for the waterfall decline. It’s true that, as recently reported by the Wall Street Journal, “Roughly 85% of all …
The IMF Issues A Worldwide Warning: “The Risk Of A Sharper Decline In Global Growth Has Certainly Increased”
by Michael Snyder IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde made headlines all over the globe this week when she declared that “the risk of a sharper decline in global growth has certainly increased”. As you will see below, signs of economic trouble …
The Decline and Fall of the European Union
by Charles Hugh-Smith This exhaustion of the neocolonial-neofeudal model was inevitable, and as a result, so too is the decline and fall of the European integration/exploitation project. That a single currency, the euro, would fracture rather than unite Europe was …
Can a 20% stock market decline go straight up without a pullback?
by Troy With the S&P rallying 4 days in a row, it is now at its 38.2-50% resistance zone and February 2018 lows resistance. Can the stock market go straight up (medium term rally) without a pullback or retest of …
China faces ‘unstoppable’ population decline, India may already be world’s most populous country
via RT: China’s population is set to peak at 1.44 billion in 2029 before beginning an “unstoppable” decline in 2030, according to a shocking new report. Data hints that India may already be the most populous country in the world. …
Apple is going to go into a huge decline here. Iphone in 2019 is like PC industry in 2009.
by panchilly Smart phones are about 10 years behind desktop computers in terms of performance. Remember the first iphone in 2007? It was ~300mhz which was the speed of a pentium2 top-of-the-line desktop computer in 1997. If you …
Philip Kennedy: Massive Stock Decline Ahead
Following the worst year for stocks in a decade, Philip Kennedy sees a massive stock market decline in the next 18 months. Kennedy thinks the stock market has hit a high and it’s down from here. When the crash occurs, …
Einhorn’s Greenlight Extends Decline to 34% in Worst Year
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-01/einhorn-s-greenlight-extends-drop-to-34-in-worst-year-on-record David Einhorn closed out 2018 with his biggest annual loss ever for the 22-year-old Greenlight Capital. The firm’s main hedge fund fell 9 percent in December, extending this year’s decline to 34 percent, according to an investor update viewed …