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 …
Russian intervention in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea resulted in swift economic sanctions from leaders across Europe, the United States and beyond. These punishing sanctions were designed to hurt the Russian economy. However, they have had mixed results. Instead of bringing the Russian Bear to its knees, the sanctions have resulted …
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 …
by Michael Snyder Is the United States heading for another absolutely devastating housing crash? It has been 10 years since the last one, and so many of the exact same signs that immediately preceded the last one are starting to appear …
via Elena Popina and Lu Wang Rarely does a day go by in the U.S. stock market without someone decrying its addiction to gains in the FANG bloc of tech megacaps. Now, in the middle of earnings season, their support has gone missing, and the result …
by Geoffrey Grider Facebook has over 2 billion profiles, but many of them are nothing more than third-world hackers and government snoopers who want to be fake friends with you Meet Mary Lambert, she lives in North Carolina. Mary just sent …
h/t @StockBoardAsset Mind The Gap (it’s a big one)… Search Phrase “How to Prepare for a Recession” Surges to 10YR High there needs to be an intervention to keep the short cover alive — if that is CB comments, WH comments, …
planning to shift all Argentine debt to US dollar-denominations Roit-erz: “Argentina next week will issue dollar-denominated, 210- and 378-day Treasury notes and dual-currency bonds, the Finance Ministry said on Friday, without confirming the amount the sale seeks to raise. The …
via Economica: No more worrying about fiscal responsibility. No more handwringing about how we can ever possibly balance the budget. No more pandering to constituents about how we need to “cut the fat” or “reduce government waste.” No more. Today’s …
Reading Musk’s statement, I found a few interesting tidbits beyond the obvious. Maybe I’m going a little bit tinfoil hat here, but reading between the lines, it almost looks like he’s setting some expectations for some bad stuff down the …
From Birch Gold Group When an illusionist is performing a card trick and makes “your” card appear in your pocket, they’ve likely used a sleight of hand maneuver to pull it off. When big companies prop up the market with hype …
https://twitter.com/clivemaund/status/996904044307329025?s=11 This chart, which is of a long T-bond proxy. It looks like it is on the point of breaking down from a giant head-&-shoulders top. If it does interest rates will soar…. Too many canaries to ignoreh/t @Nordea pic.twitter.com/4OD1RRPgxW …
via Twitter: At least give CNN some credit for honesty, making clear that Trump was talking about MS-13 while so many others pretend that he was talking about all immigrants. Weird how Trump’s “Fake New” mantra gets so much traction. h/t GR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmT3G7pMclY “We’re just seeing history repeat itself,” Mannarino says. “The markets run in cycles.” “The last time we were in this same spot was 2008 just at the top of that bubble. The time prior to that was at the …
USGS is saying the lava level in the volcano is dropping FAST and will meet with the ground water causing major steam explosions. From what they are saying, the magma will flash boil the groundwater and the increasing gas pressure …
The current financial environment reminds Sprott’s John Embry of right before the 2008 and Dot-Com crises. This time, since the system is distorted even more with higher debt, the collapse will be “chaotic.” The U.S. Dollar has rallied for the …
Facebook’s general counsel Colin Stretchmay have not been completely truthful while under oath when taking questions in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 31, 2017. Stretch was being grilled by Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) about the extent of Facebook’s ability to profile …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Do you think stem cell research will be the next advance in medicine? KW ANSWER: It is a shame that much is misunderstood and has been driven offshore. So many people think Stem Cells are taken from dead babies. They …
by M. K. Matthews, The Organic Prepper The stock market has a short memory as Syria fatigue sets in and the U.S. markets rally on Monday morning. But is the volatility truly over? Traders are breathing a sigh of relief that …
Mueller is the one who convinced Congress that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction” thus creating the Iraq war. Lefties do not like that fact. h/t kingpepesadfrog
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, Organic demand or population growth alone (absent surging debt) among the consumer base that consumes in excess of 90% of global oil, is collapsing. I have detailed this previously; The Most Important Economic Charts…Aren’t Economic Charts , Trade Wars Just Beginning…The War Is …