By Lance Gaitan Remember back when the housing bubble burst? It happened well before the financial crisis in 2008. In fact, the air started leaking out in 2005. And it really took a blow in 2006. Back then, I tried to sell …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Photo: bagogames/flickr | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC by 2.0) A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you to an exciting new company called GoldSpot Discoveries,conceived and headed by mining visionary Denis Laviolette. GoldSpot is the …
From Birch Gold Group Trade wars are like a cutthroat game of chess. With each move, trade tensions build even further. But the “winner” is usually no one. The U.S.-China trade war started reaching the boiling point last year, with “tit for …
Jussie Smollett may be a liar, but he certainly is a huge distraction for the real stories that should be getting coverage. The only reason why the Left is trashing Smollett now is he screwed up the false narrative of …
by Shaun Richards We have an opportunity to take a look in detail at the US economy which stands out at the moment at a time of slowing economies elsewhere. Partly of course that is due to the shut down …
By Lance Gaitan It’s probably a good thing the government partially shut down in December. It delayed the exposure of some dreary economic updates in the face of a falling stock market. Retail sales figures for the important holiday month …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Something has to give. Starting to be a fascinating phenomenon: Rates charged by trucking companies and other transportation providers continue to surge on a year-over-year basis even as the volume of shipments has dropped below where …
by cbus20122 The cumulative volume of indebtedness and fixed cost obligations (rent payment is not included here despite the fact that it acts as a similar impingement onto consumer spending) will cause the economy to slow as has already started to …
by David Haggith Bears, like myself, picked the meat off market bulls throughout 2018. We scoffed at the start of the year when bulls concocted a narrative that said bears would starve because 2018 was going to be the year of …
via gnseconomics: The global slowdown has been much discussed lately. A slowdown in Europe and China was considered to be the main reason for the December stock market rout combined with the balance sheet normalization (QT) program of the Federal Reserve. …
Same data I always show but spun in a different way. Do you prefer the information to be sugar coated? Or when the truth hurts, do you want to hear it? Now that the Fed has decided to ensure that …
“A building binge leaves cities with 65 million empty apartments” TOKYO/HONG KONG — For many single men in China, buying an apartment is a prerequisite for marriage. Yan Zhong, a 34-year-old resident of the northern city of Jinan, has hopes …
There’s a widespread belief that the Fed holds the levers which guide the economy and maneuvers markets. But the evidence shows that this is simply not the case. These two charts speak for themselves … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BGyJONR0aM
Two thirds of the American people declare bankruptcy because of medical bills. Obama’s ACA was suppose to fix this, it did not.US retail is collapsing, it is a race against time, the [CB] economy is deteriorating at an accelerated rate, …
Via #Bloomberg, additional worrisome news on #Europe's #economy: "Industrial production … is falling at the fastest pace since the financial crisis, and deteriorating demand is evident as the region finds itself squeezed between international and domestic drags." #markets pic.twitter.com/lwQYDkpxtP — …
by surefire_inceligence Amazon created this competition for their upcoming HQ2 location, ultimately picking New York City, and just outside of Washington D.C. So if they knew they were going to pick these already wealthy and developed cities, why dangle …
from Financial Survival Network John Rubino returns… Much like the soldier during the Vietnam War who notably quipped – We had to kill the village to save it, Paul Krugman probably believes that we need to kill the economy before it can …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I get a kick out of these billionaires and centimillionaires, like Kyle Bass yesterday, who appear on financial television to look the viewer in the eye and tell them that economy is booming. Kyle Bass doesn’t expect a …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1095279587406299136 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1095123331089645569 commodities fade, when macro backdrop is deteriorating, it is kind of hard to hold a cheerful narrative pic.twitter.com/a388Rrdmaa — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 12, 2019 Investors with $515 billion surveyed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch aren’t convinced by …
by Thinker Information about the how our economy has been redefined since the 2008 financial crisis. Two major shifts stand our 1 the rise of localized economic prosperity sections where economies have remained relatively strong. Rents are up wages are …
by JanssenReportHost Bread & games are presented to us in the incredibly awkward presidential elections right now. But does it really matter who becomes president? Isn’t it the big business interests that run the show anyway (see clip of George …
Businesses are vital to the economy because they provide both goods and services as well as employment. Due to tough economic times prevailing across the world, many people have found themselves jobless. Trying to find a new job hasn’t been …
President Trump earned an A+ in his State of the Union (SOTU) address in Congress this week. He laid out his vision for America, and according to the mainstream media polling, he received as high as 76% positive ratings. This …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Standard Chartered has forecast that Russia will overtake Germany as the world’s fifth largest economy, possibly as early as next year in 2020. Would you care to comment if that is possible? GP ANSWER: It is clear …
Just look around, the madness is all around. On different scales. In different regions. No matter where you turn, there’s a terrible economic drought right now, induced by central bank intervention with no end in sight. With debt at maximum …
By Harry Dent Thanks to those who answered my question on Monday about the tax cuts. I’ll share some of those answers below, but first I’ve got to get something off my chest. When showing people my Spending Wave chart, …
by Troy Not much has changed with the S&P 500 hovering around its 50% retracement. We will have a flood of macro data over the next few weeks to digest now that the government shutdown is over. This is very …
by howmuch Creative destruction is constantly at work in the U.S. economy. If one company invents a new technology and offers the same product for a cheaper price, it’s going to gain market share. On the other hand, if …
by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.ch Until recently, Germany has been the seemingly unbreakable workhorse that has pulled the European economy back from the brink and kept it ticking along through a myriad of internal and external pressures, as well as political crises, over …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But for the markets: “No Data is Good Data” “NOTICE: Due to a lapse in federal funding this website is not being updated,” it says in big lettering against a bright red background at the top …