Blackouts threaten death blow to Venezuela’s industrial survivors. The government said on April 4 that the power rationing plan meant Valencia would spend at most three hours a day without electricity. But a dozen executives and workers there said outages …
via Zerohedge: After an abysmal, for David Einhorn, 2018, “2019 has started off on a good note” for the Greenlight Capital founder. In his just released letter to investors, Einhorn writes that his hedge fund returned 11.0% for the quarter, …
by Michael Snyder As a society we appear to be really dropping the ball, because the numbers indicate that American boys are deeply struggling in just about every area. Many professionals are pointing to a “crisis of fatherhood” as one …
via @TaviCosta: Liquidity is not the driver of this everything rally. Hope is. Not even massive global QE can prevent asset bubbles from bursting. See 2007-8 scenario below. Crescat new video coming out soon. 2-year yield falling after re-testing multi-decade resistance …
There’s no shortage of risk taking, that’s for sure. Wall Street is putting its pedal to the metal. This is a huge mistake obviously but you don’t get rewarded by being risk adverse. You get rewarded by extending everything to …
by Shaun Richards This morning has brought us up to date with news from what the Men at Work described as. Living in a land down under Where women glow and men plunder Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the …
#PMI this chart is confirming the falling PMIs around the world.. 📉 pic.twitter.com/iLUsYF8ymU — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) April 1, 2019 Fresh figures Monday showed that an industrial downturn has gripped factories in the eurozone’s biggest countries, including Germany, the region’s economic …
Australia real estate continues to slowly decline. In Sydney, the average decline is 13% from its peak. Some neighbourhoods are even worse. Construction companies are feeling the burn. Foreign investment has slowed to some degree which is having an impact …
by notayesmanseconomics One of the reasons that inflation measurement matters was highlighted yesterday mostly unwittingly I think, If we look at the subject of real wages in the UK we were told this. Including bonuses, average weekly earnings for employees in …
via trueeconomics: As raging buybacks of shares and M&As have dropped the free float available in the markets over the recent years, Earnings per Share (EPS) continued to tank. Yet, S&P 500 valuations kept climbing: Source: Factset As noted by the …
by John Rubino Chris Martenson: “Ben Bernanke is the father of both Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” … Bethany McLean on the fraud that is fracking … Michael Pento: Falling interest rates are “rocket fuel for gold” … Harry Dent …
Money manager Michael Pento gives his simple economic road map. Pento says, “We’re going to have one final whoosh down in stock prices and in the economy. That’s going to bring Jerome Powell (Fed Head) back to 0% interest rates …
🇺🇸Possibly worrying wholesale numbers. Falling sales and rising inventories. Often a precursor to slower GDP growth. pic.twitter.com/HoGyJReLEU — Mikael Sarwe (@MikaelSarwe) February 25, 2019 BUFFET: ECONOMY SEEMS FINE RIGHT NOW pic.twitter.com/FW9gskjHCE — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 25, 2019 This trade deal …
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 …
Why Does the MSM Keep Falling for Obvious Hoaxes? Another clueless reporter is *shocked* that the Jussie Smollett story turned out to be a hoax: From @AP: Celebrities 'rallied behind Smollett' when he alleged MAGA attack. Now, with growing evidence …
via RT: France’s government spokesman has said the recall of its ambassador to Italy is temporary but sends an important signal toward its historical ally not to meddle in internal French affairs. Benjamin Griveaux said on Friday that the recall …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Unexpectedly,” German industrial production fell 3.9% in December 2018 compared to December 2017, after having fallen by a revised 4.0% in November, according to German statistics agency Destatis Thursday morning. These two drops were steepest year-over-year drops since …
by Shaun Richards This week has seen a development I have long-expected and forecast. That is that the establishment will respond to the next economic slow down with negative interest-rates. The rationale for that is in one sense simple as …
by Troy As the stock market rallies higher and is on the verge of breaking out above its 200 day moving average, the outlook for Q1 2019 corporate earnings growth is falling. Is this bad news for the stock market? …
by Kurt Schlichter Resolved: Millennials are the worst of all possible generations, and I say that as a baby-boomer (by a week). Unconvinced? Then check out one or both recent documentaries on Hulu and Netflix about their generation’s Woodstock, the infamous Fyre …
Do you think that there will be a new upswing in real estate in the spring? Or is the slowdown here to stay for now? Real estate is having a hard time, not just in the US, but globally. It …
by Jesse “The human mind, except when guided by extraordinary genius, cannot surmount the established conclusions amid which it has been reared.” Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their …
Alarm bells on falling global liquidity https://t.co/WQGdOZmYbl pic.twitter.com/JA1sryldDW — Trevor Noren (@trevornoren) January 16, 2019 Liquidity Worsening. Economies Set To SlowLatest data show major Central Banks’ balance sheet contracts at 6.4% 3m US$ terms. #Fed QE reversal outpacing all major …
via sciencealert: A defining trend in human intelligence tests that saw people steadily obtaining higher IQ scores through the 20th century has abruptly ended, a new study shows. The Flynn effect – named after the work of Kiwi intelligence researcher James Flynn – observed rapid …
This was a different sort of video. Seemingly all over the place. But the truth is that the dangers are all around us. We are living in a world where people are relying on pensions, 401k, retirement accounts and that …
by NaturalHedgehog Each day I go through the top rising and falling stocks today, and look for (a) what the company actually does, and (b) why the stock is moving so much. Hopefully this saves you some digging! Below …
by Dr. Eowyn The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union (EU) and the only body that can propose EU laws. The President of the European Commission is chosen not by the European people, but by the European Parliament. …
by NaturalHedgehog 18% | [Fidelity Southern Corporation (LION)](https://bravos.co/LION) | Merging with Ameris Bancorp (Bank holding company) 13% | [Coeur Mining, Inc. (CDE)](https://bravos.co/CDE) | Mining stocks are rising on relief that the U.S./China trade war is not escalating (Mining) 11% …
by NaturalHedgehog Each day I go through the top rising and falling stocks today, and look for (a) what the company actually does, and (b) why the stock is moving so much. Hopefully this saves you some digging! Below are …
by NaturalHedgehog Each day I go through the top rising and falling stocks today, and look for (a) what the company actually does, and (b) why the stock is moving so much. Hopefully this saves you some digging! Below …