Increasing the minimum wages does not help the people, it might look like it does in the short run but in the long run they are exactly back to where they started or out of work. The real problem lays …
by Charles Hugh-Smith A feature of the economic crisis that enfolded in Greece was the fantasy that economic growth would quickly recover. It seems hard to believe now that anyone could have expected the economy to grow at 2% ot …
by Shaun Richards Today brings the economy of the Euro area into focus and to my mind yesterday brought us something to consider so let me hand you over to Statistics Netherlands. In January 2019, prices of owner-occupied dwellings (excluding …
By David Stockman Ooops! Q4 GDP Growth Outlook Slumps To 1.4% New orders for key U.S.-made capital goods unexpectedly fell in December amid declining demand for machinery and primary metals, pointing to a sustained slowdown in business spending on equipment …
After a red-hot 2018, cannabis stocks are on fire again to start the year. Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth (CGC), for example, is up nearly 60% through February, as shares of its competitor Aurora Cannabis (ACB) have posted gains of …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1092829883330383873 https://twitter.com/RealDavidJensen/status/1092855301055770624 $10 trillion in corporate debt will be refinanced within 2 years. And looks like nothing's changed since Dec 26. I don't understand the joy some brainless trolls are having. I made 310 handles in Dec. You took 50 …
by Shaun Richards This feels like one of those days where there has been an epoch shift or to be more specific the morning after the night before. It is not as if we have been caught by surprise, as …
Hat tip P2 Via Wired https://media.wired.com/clips/5c0ff6da33b7db2d65e1258b/master/pass/lede.mp4 A friend of mine, who runs a large television production company in the car-mad city of Los Angeles, recently noticed that his intern, an aspiring filmmaker from the People’s Republic of China, was walking to …
Karita Baldwin for the Conservative Tribune reports, A mother whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant pleaded with Democrats to stop playing “Russian roulette with our lives.” Sabine Durden told “Fox & Friends” on Saturday that she applauds President …
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Corrupt Democrats ran a Facebook smear campaign against Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race in 2017 and Facebook allowed it. Democrat activists took what Russia did on a minute scale in …
Eric Sprott interviewed by Craig Hemke on The Weekly Wrap-Up It’s the final Wrap-Up of the year, and even as we weathered a “brutal, quick bear market”, precious metals appear to be on the way to their sixth consecutive December rally. Will it continue …
via NPR.org: This week in the Russia investigations: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three yearsin prison … Maria Butina pleaded guilty … but the finish line looks no closer The shifting sands Political and legal danger for President Trump may be sharpening by …
America hits a massive wall of debt in 2019 with interest rates soaring — what could go wrong? pic.twitter.com/6V3mvkDZc6 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 16, 2018 Global market asset performance pic.twitter.com/9Tmc0uo6pN — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 16, 2018 IMF Issues Stark Warning …
Policy-makers are urgently trying to stem China’s economic slowdown amid an escalating trade war, record corporate defaults and a plunging stock market. China Banks Fall on Concern Loan Targets Are a Step Too Far China’s biggest banks dragged down the …
IF-IF-IF-IF-IF-IF-IF :: Body Language Expert: Barrack Obama Midterm Campaigning – Slouching, chin down, eyes wide open – Obama and the Dems are DEFEATED and he knows it. Obama looks weak and fragile campaigning for the 2018 midterms. At the 4:35 …
World War 3: China’s President Xi Jinjing orders military to ‘prepare for WAR’ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1038128/china-latest-world-war-3-south-china-sea-xi-jinping RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT: YES, RUSSIA IS PREPARING FOR WAR Expert Suggests Kremlin Should Target Yellowstone Supervolcano To Take Out The U.S. https://www.trunews.com/stream/russian-diplomat-yes-russia-is-preparing-for-war Russia “Ready To Shoot Down” …
Dem sub literally telling them not to engage the story. Rasmussen 51% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the U.S. government should stop all the Hondurans headed this way vs 38% say they shouldnt Voters agree with President Trump’s efforts to …
by Shaun Richards As ever there is plenty of news about the UK housing market around but let us start with a consequence of government action which led to this reported by the BBC at the end of last week. …
Overview of markets, looks interesting pic.twitter.com/IGntzKVWoO — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) October 15, 2018 pic.twitter.com/WkSH5jPdeo — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) October 15, 2018 “In the last three economic downturns, between 7 and 15 percent of the investment-grade bond universe was downgraded to high …
by QuartzPuffyStar A recent post about a Veteran journalist fired after criticizing 5G and questioning it’s safety cached my attention, and it seemed quite weird that the mentioned article was removed so fast and the journalist was dismissed because of it…. it …
Tax cut sugar high goes away soon…. pic.twitter.com/xkJfikkaJr — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) September 27, 2018 Over the past 4 weeks a total of 20 Hindenburg Omens have been triggered on the NYSE and Nasdaq, the most in over 40 years: https://t.co/rmFtDVZPs4 …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Emerging markets continue to decouple from the U.S. market, making them look attractive as a value play—particularly distressed Chinese equities. Below I’ll share with you two big reasons why I think China is …
via Kara Chin, Jacqui Frank and Ali Newhard Hedge fund legend Ray Dalio says the economy looks like it did in the late 1930s in many ways: interest rates hit zero in the early stage of each crisis, asset prices are …
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, better known as CALPERS, has offered the job of chief investment officer to Ben Meng, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Meng is an official of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, its foreign …
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan In a new research piece, Goldman Sachs has noted that the “fiscal outlook for both Italy and the United States looks poised to go from bad to worse.” However, the market doesn’t appear to be responding to that prediction. Why …
via yahoo: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Men wait outside the metal-grill door of a soup kitchen in a slum, hoping to get a small serving of beef and mashed potatoes. At a barter market on the capital’s outskirts, a woman …
via Bloomberg: In Hong Kong, a city of property superlatives, add this one: World capital of flipping office floors. Logistics heir Johnny Cheung Shun-yee made roughly HK$900 million ($115 million) in about nine months by buying and selling two floors …
Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell on DOJ official Bruce Ohr’s testimony and how President Trump’s legal team is crafting a “counter-report” that will attempt to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How does it compare to German, Japanese, and Chinese yield curves? On Friday, the US Treasury 2-year yield rose to 2.63% and the 10-year yield remained at 2.82%. This squeezed the spread between them to just …
The June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between high-ranking members of the Republican presidential campaign staff and a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties remains the cornerstone of claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election. A growing body …