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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A stock market that is so uniquely dependent on corporations buying back their own shares in record amounts is in a very fragile position because share … Read more
BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT STUPID? Here’s Why I Didn’t Fall For The Russia-Trump Conspiracy: Media outlets regurgitated leaks from politicized intelligence officials. They should have been far more skeptical. The whole thing was … Read more
via Zerohedge: When it comes to estimating China’s total outstanding debt, there has long been confusion about the real number with most putting the debt/GDP at around 250%, while the … Read more
Portfolio Wealth Global, Released on 2/9/19
by Jesse “In particular, over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which … Read more
by WhenLuggageAttacks Bloomberg article tl;dr – The December retail-sales report won’t be released as scheduled Wednesday while the Commerce Department remains closed. Failure to reopen soon also would delay last … Read more
by Dave Right now, to my mind, there are a lot of upside risks – news events that could cause a large rise in prices. The largest of these is … Read more
The stakes are enormous. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. With just 80 days remaining until Brexit Day, March 29, nerves are fraying on both sides of … Read more
The Ever-Shifting Definition of “Assault Weapons:” The phrase has been used to promote bans on almost every type of gun. The very heterogeneous group of so-called “assault weapons” has only … Read more
via legalinsurrection: The release of her DNA test results right before the midterms is almost uniformly seen as a public relations disaster, from which she still is trying to recover. Rather than … Read more
Joseph Curl for the Daily Wire reports, Around Christmastime, everyone’s rushing here and there, agitated, sometimes even a bit angry, as they juggle a hundred things ahead of the holiday. … Read more
by mikeleoncraft The look on Mark Meadows face says it all. He seems a little worried and red eyed over the realization that there has been a closely held, well hidden … Read more
Joseph Curl for the Daily Wire reports, Sen. Elizabeth Warren just can’t catch a break. Now, even her hometown newspaper is suggesting that maybe she should just forget about a … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It gets serious. Margin calls? No one knows what the total leverage in the stock market is. But we know it’s huge and has surged in … Read more
Financial Survival Network, Released on 11/19/18 John and I have been talking for years about finally getting to the dreaded Minsky Moment, that time when an overly debt laden economy … Read more
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, How awful! An angry, leftist mob interrupted a moment of silence for the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting and screamed at GOP Senate … Read more