by SnooObjections2665 The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by the fusion of the digital, biological, and physical worlds, as well as the growing utilisation of new technologies. It is the trend towards automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies and …
by WARREN MOSLER Still looks to be weakening: Looking weak: Tariff wars taking their toll:
by Jesse Colombo Commercial and industrial (C&I) loan activity is watched closely by economists to gauge the strength of the economy and estimate where we are in the business cycle. C&I loans are used to finance capital expenditures or increase …
by WARREN MOSLER Getting even more serious- year over year down 6%: Highlights The purchase index fell for a fourth straight week and down steeply, at a 6.0 percent rate which is not only the weekly change but also the …
Currently, the U.S. government is operating in the negative on every front: it’s spending far more than what it makes and it is borrowing heavily to keep the government operating and keep funding its endless wars abroad. This is how …
by StockCassandra https://twitter.com/GeorgeDagnino/status/1085086874824253440
by NorthmanTrader If I keep this up I’ll soon be accused of being a permabull 🙂 Oh I’m kidding. Yes I’m macro bearish but trade direction practical and data and technicals matter. Hence a quick follow up to the Bear Trap case, specifically 2 key …
by AlexPitti The October industrial production report was positive as industrial production growth was 4.1% year over year and manufacturing growth was 2.7% year over year. Both hit a 10 year high. About 70% of industrial production growth was due to oil …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Fueled by cheap money and by dashed hopes of high oil prices. Industrial production in October rose 4.1% from a year ago, the Fed Board of Governors reported this morning. This was in the upper portion …
By Bob Shanahan Photo courtesy of Antiwar.com While the country is obsessing over the midterm elections on Tuesday, the military industrial complex rife with neoconservative nation builders has completed its hijacking of President Trump’s foreign policy. Instead of navigating a …
by Jon Rappoport From time to time, I reprint my interview with Dr. Barbara Starfield. Each time I try to write a new introduction. In this case, I’ll highlight the arbitrary nature of scare-propaganda. And by arbitrary, I mean “has a …
The long-standing prohibition of industrial hemp in the US is one of the many examples that can be cited in support of the claim that the US is a pathetic shell of what its founders intended. Indeed, hemp had been a staple …
Industrial Metals & CRB Index slammed
As Trump heads to NATO meeting, then to Putin meeting in Helsinki, here’s incontestable proof that NATO is a useless anachronism. And, is the latest “nerve gas” attack in the UK a false flag to undermine the Trump-Putin meeting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4utM6ljw0
by John Whitehead “There are no nations. There are no peoples … There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of …
Copper Gets It! Collapses with flattening 2s10s Growth slowing, shifting economy opps we have seen this before…
by WARREN MOSLER A weaker than expected print due to auto sales which have been volatile, but charts show it’s still chugging along at a modest pace: Highlights A big drop in autos skewed industrial production lower in May, slipping 0.1 …
by Ian Shilling A number of people have commented about the industrial scale editing of Wikipedia by a mysterious person calling themselves Philip Cross, but which is certainly not their real name.Philip Cross has devoted considerable amounts of energy, every …
by visualcapitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Industrial robots have come a long way since George Devol invented “Unimate” in 1961. After pitching his idea to Joseph Engelberger at a cocktail party, the two soon …
by WARREN MOSLER Pretty much as expected. These numbers are not adjusted for inflation, which is running around 2%: Highlights Consumer spending was weak in the first quarter and the first look at the second quarter is no better than …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLAnYr4KA6M https://amara.org/en/videos/3lyoszZXAkeP/info/the-information-industrial-complex/
by Grover I just watched this 60 minutes segment https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-problem-with-prescription-drug-prices/ that started with a problem in Rockford, Illinois. Rockford self insures medical expenses for their 1,000 employees and dependents. Because of drug prices (astronomical) increase on one drug in particular (Acthar,) it caused …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is the brick & mortar part of e-commerce. Commercial real estate prices peaked in August 2017 at 27% above the crazy peak of the prior bubble, according to the Green Street Commercial Property Price Index …
by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here. Chris Steele at ITR Economics recently gave an update on their commodity and economic outlook with FS Insider. They expect a slowdown around the 2019 timeframe …
by WARREN MOSLER Still looking very weak: From WardsAuto: U.S. Light-Vehicle Forecast: Sales Down Slightly; Inventory Declines to Match Demand A Wards Intelligence forecast calls for U.S. automakers to deliver 1.60 million light vehicles in March. … The report puts the seasonally …
The disturbing aspect is that they get away with it despite which party is in “control”. These disastrous policies have continued unabated during the Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump presidencies. The most disturbing part of all is that the …
By Michael Snyder Many had been hoping that the financial shaking on Wall Street that we witnessed in February would subside in March, but so far that is definitely not the case. On Thursday, the Dow fell another 420 points …
