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 …
The economy itself is slowing down. Markets remain supported by quantitative easing. Is complacency acceptable after what we saw throughout 2018 as well as in the Financial Crisis? All throughout 2017, there was a foolproof strategy. Buy anything and …
by Daniel LaCalle via Mises Wire The recent macroeconomic data of the leading economies point to a widespread slowdown. What is more concerning is not just a logical moderation in the path of growth, but the acceleration in the weakening of economies that …
by WARREN MOSLER Agent Orange, AKA Tariff Man, taking down the global economy: Intel Projects Slower Revenue Growth This Year (WSJ) Intel Corp. reported a 9% gain in revenue. Customers’ robust appetite for server chips boosted data-center businesses by 45% …
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/24/19 Jason talks about how the IMF just downgraded their global economic growth forecast again. This is now twice in the last 3 months. Also, Jason talks about how the Chinese economic data …
by NorthmanTrader Complacency is back and comes in the form of recession denial in the face of global slowing data. We didn’t see the slowdown coming but we are confident it will not produce a recession so the narrative goes. Not …
•Himalayan roads and valleys blocked, tourists rescued for third time in last five months •Early sea ice blockades northern Canadian ports supplies airlifted into communities •Alaska warms during grand solar minimums •Record snow India, Morocco and Canada 2018 •Mongolia record …
Via Marketwatch All at once, storm clouds are gathering over the world economy. The International Monetary Fund has cut its estimates for global growth in 2019, citing concerns about weakness in Europe. China just had its slowest GDP growth since 1990, and …
We are ‘worst prepared’ for a crisis in the post-war era, IIF CEO says from CNBC. via CNBC: Government debt hit $66 trillion through the end of 2018, or about 80 percent of global GDP, according to Fitch Ratings. An …
by Martin Armstrong There is an undertone lurking behind the rise of Donald Trump in the US, the Brexiteers in the UK, Marine Le Pen in France, political re-alignments in Denmark, and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Additionally, …
By Tsvetana Paraskova Oil prices plunged by more than 3 percent on Tuesday morning as rekindled fears of global economic growth slowdown put an abrupt pause to the oil price rally in recent days. At 11:20 EST on Tuesday, WTI Crude was …
by Martin Armstrong While the dollar haters are constantly calling for its demise, when we look at the stats, we see a very different picture. Since 2005, the euro’s share of bank loans has collapsed from 30% of the world …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Yesterday’s release by China’s National Bureau of Statistics that shows China 4Q GDP slowing to 6.4% in CY2018 vs 6.8% in CY2017 has rekindled worries about a deceleration in global growth US stocks index future are …
Korean exports appears to have collapsed in January – bad news for global EPS growth! 🇨🇳🇰🇷🌍 $KRW pic.twitter.com/q4ThQkQp3O — Martin Enlund ⚡️🦆🚁 (@enlundm) January 22, 2019 pic.twitter.com/48ZTamk4Vh — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 22, 2019 hold on to your pants pic.twitter.com/0Id8dIv7L4 — …
by Michael Snyder IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde made headlines all over the globe this week when she declared that “the risk of a sharper decline in global growth has certainly increased”. As you will see below, signs of economic trouble …
by Michael Snyder If you add together all of the money owned by the poorest 3.8 billion people living on this planet, it would roughly equal the wealth controlled by the 26 wealthiest men in the world. Oxfam has just …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Auto sales plunged in China over the past four months. What was particularly disconcerting was the sharp deterioration at the end of the year in othermarkets, not just China. Each market has its own problems, but they’re …
https://twitter.com/Paul_Courtney/status/1086997594688184320 maybe this is not a "glitch" pic.twitter.com/3TzZuMT8NC — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 19, 2019 Planet Earth to Policymakers: Please Reflate pic.twitter.com/0XRdyIZCI0 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 20, 2019 China set to report slowest economic growth for 28 years https://t.co/65emP40s6W — Sunchartist …
Alarm bells on falling global liquidity https://t.co/WQGdOZmYbl pic.twitter.com/JA1sryldDW — Trevor Noren (@trevornoren) January 16, 2019 Liquidity Worsening. Economies Set To SlowLatest data show major Central Banks’ balance sheet contracts at 6.4% 3m US$ terms. #Fed QE reversal outpacing all major …
The ‘eye of the storm’: SocGen says it can’t warn about stock-market problem enough Small-caps have traditionally acted as a canary in the coal mine for the larger market, as they tend to be more sensitive to growth worries and …
Global non-financial corporate debt hit a record high of 92% in Q3 2018. pic.twitter.com/fDyv5HQ5D9 — IIF (@IIF) January 15, 2019 Flashing Red Indicator Warns of Rising Risk of Financial Crisis The demand for debt issued by the U.S. federal government …
by Michael Snyder The borrower is the servant of the lender, and one of the primary ways that the elite keep the rest of us subjugated is through the $244,000,000,000,000 mountain of global debt that has been accumulated. Every single day, …
via Bloomberg: Key Insights Total government debt exceeded $65 trillion in 2018, up from $37 trillion a decade ago, and rose faster in mature markets Non-financial corporate debt rose to over $72 trillion last year, now near an all-time high …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Isn’t Venus much hotter because its atmosphere is almost 100% CO2? GH ANSWER: No. The atmosphere of Venus is extremely dense. At the surface it is over 800 degrees, this is true. However, the pressure at the surface …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Welcome to the Big Club of Saturation & Decline. For the month of December, light new-vehicle sales in China plunged 13%, compared to a year ago, to 2.23 million vehicles, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers …
by Michael Snyder We continue to get more confirmation that the global economy is slowing down substantially. On Monday, it was China’s turn to surprise analysts, and the numbers that they just released are absolutely stunning. When Chinese imports and …
There is only so much gov't & fed can do to prop stocks, at some point, the market will figure out the global economy continues to implode. pic.twitter.com/uKrfk6pwhr — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 11, 2019 https://twitter.com/GreekFire23/status/1083843957539393536 The big declines in the …
According to renowned gold investor Jim Sinclair, the global debt reset that has been long predicted has begun. Lots of debt that will never be repaid will be written down around the world. Sinclair says gold and silver will be …
By Irina Slav Newly published data from the Energy Information Administration reveals that Asia, the Middle East, and Africa have been the biggest drivers of global energy consumption since the 1980s, the agency reports. Between 2010 and 2016 alone, energy consumption …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are generally lower today, while the news from US-China talks has seemed positive, the lack of specifics today has led some to take profit after the recent strong rally The FOMC minutes released …