by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors One of the most reliable indicators of an economic slowdown just flashed a warning sign this week. On Monday, the yield curve between the five-year Treasury yield and three-year Treasury yield inverted, or …
2018 is the first year since Dot Com bust where "BTFD" has failed pic.twitter.com/vaGKmrdI9a — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 4, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1069990045925470208 pic.twitter.com/k5F1aTaqTV — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 4, 2018 Yesterday's U.S. yield-curve inversions do not appear to be a fluke, as …
BY SRSROCCO The rapidly falling oil prices have finally claimed the first victim, but it won’t be the last. The Alberta government announced late yesterday for a substantial cut in tar sands oil production to stem the hemorrhaging low oil …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/the-flattening-yield-curve-just-produced-its-first-inversion Some analysts attributed the short-end underperformance to demand for riskier assets as global trade tensions eased following this weekend’s tariff truce between U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping. Others pinned it to modestly higher expectations for Fed …
Mind experiment; as you have seen French very upset about rising fuel prices when there is still available supply what do you think will happen when food triples in price and there is limited supply. Climatologists coming out stating Water …
via newstatesman: After a long period of economic expansion, a slowdown has begun. But in an era of high debt and low interest rates, states have little ammunition to deploy. recession always comes in the end, but the matter of foretelling when …
Do you think we will see DEFLATION or INFLATION first? The next financial crisis will be much worse than 2008. It’s simple to understand why. We have decided not to fix the issues which were exposed in 2008 and instead …
by Geoffrey Grider Delta says the Atlanta airport’s Terminal F has become the ‘first biometric terminal’ in the United States where passengers can use facial recognition technology “from curb to gate.” Back in the 1970’s, when I was but …
By Lance Gaitan Early this week, the market shook off Thanksgiving blues and started with a bang! Stocks bounced sharply, and Treasury yields moved up in tandem. Last week’s start was a different story. Stocks fell sharply. Treasury bonds were mostly …
How the First World War sowed the seeds of identity politics. As we mark the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, it is clear that the moral wounds it inflicted on Western culture have not healed. …
by John Rubino Precious metals investors don’t have much to console them these days. Just about the only bright spot is the nice, though ephemeral, pop in the gold/silver price that seems to happen every January. Sometimes it persists for …
by Thinker Dominic Alexander debunks the myths used by politicians and historians to rebrand ‘the war to end all wars’ in the centenary of Armistice Day. This Remembrance Day will doubtless see strenuous efforts by some to justify the fruitless …
by Ron Paul The Pentagon has finally completed its first ever audit and the results are as many of us expected. After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long …
via calculatedriskblog: From the NY Fed: Total Household Debt Rises for 17th Straight Quarter The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today issued its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, which shows that total household debt increased …
by DCHAWAII Whenever I google anything controversial and Snopes is the first thing I see, I feel like that gives credibility to the conspiracy they are trying to disprove. Jenny Moore, aka Task Force on YouTube, was a journalist who …
https://youtu.be/hOhCwTu8qIA New York Today: More Snow Commute Chaos on Buses and Trains https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/nyregion/newyorktoday/port-authority-nj-transit-snow-commute-nyc.html https://abc7ny.com/weather/accuweather-alert-snowfall-totals-as-the-noreaster-moves-out/4670699/ Cars Stuck on Snow Covered Streets in New York City Amid Storm Chaos https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/nyregion/newyorktoday/port-authority-nj-transit-snow-commute-nyc.html Mariah Carey blasts out ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ during …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. state spending topped $2 trillion for the first time in fiscal 2018, with Medicaid expenditures rising the most along with a significant increase in transportation spending, according to a report released on Thursday. Total expenditures …
NINA BOOKOUT: Ted Olson Is Wrong, It’s About Acosta’s Behavior NOT The First Amendment. The press functions as a guild. It’s not defending the First Amendment — and it’s happy to flush your First Amendment rights — it’s defending guild privileges. …
https://youtu.be/PlDv8DUoosM I’m not seeing the women and children? https://youtu.be/p-J8OknGUqs Stop all immigration ! Put our young to work and put money into them, to help them have an extra two kids! Bring most our troops home and put them …
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By Bob Shanahan Many Democrats want to start impeachment proceedings on President Trump as soon as January 2019 now that they’ve won the House. Other Democrats want to focus their subpoena power on investigations regarding the president’s taxes, hush …
https://twitter.com/pierpont_morgan/status/1062063617451966465 Spreads blowing out on GE debt (these are the 2035 notes now at 265bps) pic.twitter.com/zyNa06TZcK — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) November 12, 2018 The share buyback chickens are finally coming home to roost. In 2016 alone GE borrowed money to …
Weird. The Palm Beach elections supervisor threatened to arrest reporters and it’s not a bigger story. #PalmBeachCounty elections supervisor bans media cameras from public ballot counting & threatens them with arrest. How much more will it take to convince skeptics …
VBS Mutual Bank—lauded as the first bank in South Africa to be totally owned and managed by Africans—has collapsed after its owners stole all the cash and bribed government and local government officials into depositing money in the operation, an …
IN a world first, a Chinese state news agency has created a virtual newsreader that works 24/7 and says whatever it is told to. The AI’s looks are closely modelled on a real news anchor, and its lips are matched …
After 239 companies have reported, the revenues beat rate is at 47%. If current results hold, this could be the first quarter since Q4 2016 in which the revenues beat rate is below 50%. pic.twitter.com/yimtX9EQKg — Jim Bianco (@biancoresearch) November …
Total retail sales in the U.S will hit $1.002 trillion during the Christmas holiday period, marking the “strongest growth since 2011,” according to eMarketer. In-store sales are forecast to rise 4.4 percent year-on-year, while e-commerce sales are predicted to grow …
by Dr. Eowyn Yesterday evening, a Defense Department official told Fox News that: The first 100 active-duty troops of Operation Faithful Patriot had arrived at the U.S.-Mexican border at a port of entry in McAllen, Texas to provide support for Border Patrol agents. …
