by Lance Roberts In a widely expected outcome, the Federal Reserve announced no change to the Fed funds rate but did leave open the possibility of a rate hike next year. Also, they committed to stopping “Quantitative Tightening (or Q.T.)” by the …
by Jesse Colombo The bull market of the past decade since the Great Recession has been an unusual one: despite all of the economic damage that occurred during the global financial crisis and rising risks (including global debt rising by $75 …
via dailyreckoning: We’ve written numerous times about the likelihood of a Chinese credit crisis, and the risks of contagion from such a crisis in China and the global economy. Despite long-standing concerns, this issue simply won’t go away. China has …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1104205232920248320 4. Just when you thought S&P500 Operating Profit Margins had reached a permanently higher plateau… h/t @charliebilello $SPX $SPY pic.twitter.com/JroGcdGhk4 — Callum Thomas (@Callum_Thomas) March 9, 2019 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1104024742015713281 NFP is a miss I think.. 😜 pic.twitter.com/zrKs3N7R5t — JoeFriday714 (@joefriday_714) …
by Frank Shostak via Mises Wire In a free, unhampered market, we could envisage that the economy would be subject to various shocks but it is difficult to envisage a phenomenon of recurrent boom-bust cycles. According to Rothbard, Before the Industrial Revolution in …
by Justice_V_Mercy Not that California’s bullet train is a super important subject for anyone who lives outside of the state but shit like this is exactly why a lot of people are skeptical of government initiatives that require a tax increase. …
via hotair: Well, it’s not exactly a “tax” per se, but more like a series of fees being paid between content providers and aggregators. The EU has been working on a new copyright law since last summer which is now in …
by howmuch President Trump loves to talk about cutting U.S. foreign aid, even if he doesn’t always follow through. What’s most often missed in media coverage about this debate is where American dollars are going, and the issues U.S. expenditures are meant to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82SCKKQsBYI They will take your guns away period. You can’t have a armed population in a communist government. AC
The Clinton’s JUST might have brought down the ENTIRE DemoRAT party with the Clinton foundation and all of the GREEDY DemoRATS that were taking the money from this Illegal foundation for Their own use. It is ALL documented, and any …
by DennisC Who needs “foreign” agents when .gov employees are seemingly just as effective. Must need more projects at this agency (or less .gov employees). Now, there’s a radical idea, IMO. https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2018/10/porn-watching-employee-infe… An Interior Department watchdog recommended the U.S. Geological Survey …
via economicprism: There’s great elation flowing from the various economic bureaus down through President Trump. They bring a message of good news. If you haven’t heard, here in the USA, we live, work, and play in the dazzle and delight of …
In your opinion, do you think it’s possible for the Fed to increase interest rates without causing a disruption to the U.S. stock market? When we look at interest rates, it’s not just a number. If affects everything in …
from Financial Survival Network Gordon T. Long joined us today. His theory as to why the stock market keeps going up is two fold. On the one hand, stock buybacks continue to proliferate and on the other, the number of publicly traded …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I remember vividly the scene in The Big Short when a housing broker was driving the “Steve Eisman” group around California’s “Inland Empire.” Home prices were dropping and the vista was littered with “for sale” signs. …
California’s largest fire ever keeps growing as winds fan flames The largest fire in California history continued to grow Thursday while firefighters worked to protect threatened communities. Crews are on especially high alert this week after a firefighter who traveled …
Liz Crokin interviewed by Sean on SGTreport Investigative journalist Liz Crokin joins me to discuss the latest breaking news including the accusation that Bill Clinton raped a young boy who is now 26-years old, and the investigator who broke the story is now dead. …
Thing is, Roseanne was only making fun of a single person but was called a racist, NYT editor is blatantly racist and she is hired. AC
h/t @dlacalle_IA Everyone keeps blaming the inexistent trade wars for widespread market corrections instead of the obvious: Monetary stimulus saturation, excessive valuations and Fed balance sheet reduction. $14bn this month Number of countries suffering a drastic reversal in fund flows rises …
In the past 48 hours China has: – Cut its 7-day Treasury rate by 103bps – Launched quasi QE – told banks to flood the system with liquidity – Sent the Yuan tumbling – Warned more easing is coming …
by David Haggith For a year and a half I’ve been writing about the retail apocalypse that is going to add to US financial woes. This is not a problem created by economic collapse but a problem that I have said …
EU bans memes Pewdiepie makes EU banning memes a meme Will EU ban EU then? AC
by Tom Lewis via Gold Telegraph The United States of America is beginning to lose its reserve currency dominance. Countries around the world are working to find ways to circumvent the US dollar when it comes to trade and settlement. In …
by Chris Black As Facebook continues its descent into irrelevancy, at least among the younger generation, Zuckerberg’s latest move is to make editorial decisions about what news content the public should be able to “consume” via his social media platform …
No one from the FAA will go public on this. They are being sued for this. Thank you Tucker Carlson. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Jun. 04, 2018 – 6:02 – ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ exclusive: The FAA seems to …
CNN is “stunned” by Trump’s claim of unprecedented rape in Mexico. “Maybe he’s watching Alex Jones!” (as if that’s an insult over the mindless drivel they air every night. Alex Jones is Walter Cronkite compared to CNN.) Now wait until …
US trade deficit rises to near 9½-year high The Commerce Department said the trade gap rose 1.6 percent to $57.6 billion. That was the highest level since October 2008. Part of the rise in the trade deficit in February reflected …
Nobody wants to talk about it because they know how dangerous this is. Debt. It follows you wherever you go. If your city, state, province, or country is in debt, it’s still on your back. You can’t escape it. And …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It’ll take many more sell-offs and the collapse of many more iffy stocks before this hyper-enthusiasm, after nine years of central bank nurturing, is finally wrung out of the market. Shares of “blockchain” company LongFin (LFIN) …
The world keeps using more antibiotics and it’s making us sick Patients with a fever or congested lungs increasingly are being discouraged from taking antibiotics in the United States, and that’s a good thing. Those symptoms often are caused by …