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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Bank stocks crushed by negative interest rates, broader market goes nowhere in 4 years and is down 44% since 1989 despite BOJ’s equity purchases. Despite the … Read more
Authored by Vandana Shiva via ConsortiumNews.com, We need to decolonize our food cultures and our minds of food imperialism… Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” put together … Read more
Do you think that countries manipulate their currencies to their advantage intentionally? China has been holding onto vast quantities of U.S. debt for years. This is partly to offshore their … Read more
by Shaun Richards Over the past year there has been something of a sea change for the economy of Germany. After a period of what in these times was strong … Read more
After a Chinese company was found manufacturing circuit boards for the F-35 jet, the UK Ministry of Defense insisted there is nothing to worry about, rendering the fuss over omnipresent … Read more
Equity vol followed the 3-year lead of the US yield curve almost perfectly for the last two decades. This indicates further pain ahead for stocks. Kuddos to @OUPEconomics @MacrobondF & … Read more
world stocks at critical support – if level breaks, further downside coming pic.twitter.com/M2wq1jm9vk — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) May 31, 2019 the global slowdown is real – america is not an … Read more
Keep an eye on 2820…any sustained move below and we likely see further CTA reduction of long positions >>CTA position on S&P500 futures [Nomura estimates] pic.twitter.com/ytZtl8Y7mN — 𝕮𝖍𝖎 🛢️ (@chigrl) … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Vancouver prices drop. Toronto down 3.7% from peak, flat for 10 months. Winnipeg plunges most since at least 1990. Quebec City flat for 6 years. In … Read more
by NineteenEighty9 The U.S. Trade Representative’s office Monday released a list of about $300 billion worth of Chinese goods including children’s clothing, toys, mobile phones and laptops that Trump has … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Straggler behind the Fed and the ECB gets the drift. Total assets on the balance sheet of the Bank of Japan at the end of April ticked up … Read more
By Irina Slav Already rocked by excessive volatility, the oil market could become even more volatile in the coming months, according to the chief strategist of JTD Energy Services, with geopolitical … Read more
via Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network’s audience that the US president has “been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on … Read more
by TFittonJW Details: www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-more-classified-emails-in-hillary-clintons-unsecure-email-system/ (Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch today announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to delete or … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Is the euro dead yet? And how is the Chinese Renminbi doing? Total global foreign exchange reserves, in all currencies, rose to $11.4 trillion in the … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter San Francisco Bay Area House prices -4.3%, condos -5.7% since July, Seattle house prices -5.9%, most since Housing Bust 1; Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Portland, New York … Read more