Witchcraft and other pagan religious practices increased in the U.S. over the past few decades, with millennials turning to astrology and tarot cards as they turn away from Christianity and other traditionally dominant Abrahamic religions. The number of witches and …
The Latest: Authorities report 7 more fatalities in wildfire MAGALIA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local): 6:40 p.m. Authorities have reported seven more fatalities from a blaze in Northern California, bringing the total number …
by GoldCore In our latest video update, we consider the performance of markets in a volatile October. Stock markets globally fell sharply while gold acted as a hedge in all currencies, rising 1.7% in dollars, 4.4% in euro terms and …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07d4125GnTY The storm was making its way toward the Atlantic Ocean Friday as a post-tropical cyclone with winds gusting at 65 mph. The death toll from Hurricane Michael’s devastating march up the east coast rose to 11 on Friday, as …
A pipeline explosion in British Columbia on Tuesday has cut off the flow of Canadian natural gas into Washington, raising the risk of power outages around the state. Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Avista Corp. and Cascade Natural Gas said Wednesday …
via nytimes: The run-up in borrowing costs is a one-two punch brought on by the need to finance a fast-growing budget deficit, worsened by tax cuts and steadily rising interest rates that will make the debt more expensive. With less money …
by mark000 That is so optimistic I can only laugh. The rate the 2y yield is increasing we could see an inverted yield curve in as little as 3 months. Seems like the tightening cycle is in the very late …
With John Casey’s Relational Cycle on its 207 repeating pattern, the Earth is beginning to experience cooling that is now beginning to affect crop yields. In order not to spook a global population creative excuses are being pushed in the …
by SpontaneousDisorder Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-28/u-s-consumer-confidence-rises-to-highest-in-almost-18-years Consumer confidence tends to top with everything else, because the rise and fall of the markets/economy is based on confidence. Its extremely high right now. ZH has a longer term chart https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/consumer-confidence-explodes-18-year-high
The surprisingly high figure is buried in the middle of the SF Chronicle’s story on Mayor London Breed’s morning walks along downtown streets with her staff, unannounced beforehand to her police force and department heads so she can view firsthand what common citizens …
by DCG Maybe the good mayor should focus on his city’s crime instead of illegal aliens at the border and the SCOTUS nomination. From NY Post: Warring gangs have driven New York’s murder rate to an 8 percent spike through the first half of the …
DRUDGE: “VENEZUELA HELL: Inflation rises to 43,378%!” – VP Mike Pence Addresses the Crisis VENEZUELA HELL: Inflation rises to 43,378%! https://t.co/9vEi1pRLXM — NEWS MAKER (@NEWS_MAKER) June 28, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence Verified account @VP Venezuela was once a beacon …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Been reading misleading headlines about low inflation again? That is was “softer than expected” or whatever? So here are the numbers: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics released this morning, …
by Shaun Richards This morning has brought news from the land of the rising sun or Nihon. Actually it is news that much of the media has been churning out over the Abenomics era when they have tried to report …
via Carla Mozee and Anneken Tappe The U.S. dollar broadly advanced Wednesday, resuming its recent uptrend inspired by higher Treasury yields, as the 10-year yield stayed above 3%. What are currencies doing? The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +0.39% which gauges the buck …
100% of the time, it ends badly. The Fed existed in 2008. The Fed existed in 2000. The Fed existed in every previous crash I discussed in this video. Yet, it still happened. Why? Did they not have control? Or …
by John Ward Buenos dias, muchachos…..We have already looked at how “hemmed in” the US Fed is on the question of rates. We have also seen the insane cynicism of quoted corporations using Zirp to get cheap loans, and then repackage …
Doctors accuse pharmaceutical company of ‘price gouging’ and say patients cannot afford treatment The cost of a vital cancer drug has gone up 15-fold in four years after its new owner hiked prices on nine separate occasions. Lomustine has been used …
by John Ward CARNAGE OVERNIGHT IN ASIA Just before yesterday’s global stock slide, there was a trailer pointing out the fundamental problem with increasingly jobless/lowage neoliberal “economics”. I’m not sure many observers spotted it, but see what you think. At some …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I use to listen to the Goldbug analysts but they never change. Now the pitch is you have to protect your wealth from stock and bond market crash. They say that with the current equity bull …
by Anthony B Sanders The Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Cost Compensation Civilian Workers YoY rose to 2.7% YoY. That is the highest reading of employment compensation since Q4 2008. Private-sector wages and salaries rose from a year earlier by 2.8 percent, …
by Anthony B Sanders The Federal Reserve of New York just released their weekly System Open Market Account Holdings report. The Federal Reserve Balance Sheet actually grew by $705 million (rather than shrink as Janet Yellen indicated a few months ago). …
Beyond Whole Foods having bare shelves, there are an enormous amount of other countries that are experiencing food price rises enough to make the news, Japan, India, Malaysia, Germany, Mauritius to name a few. The news assures us of highest …
by Anthony B Sanders December existing home sales, according to the National Association of Realtors, fell -3.6% from the previous month. This was worse than the expected -1.9% decline. But on a positive note, existing home sales ROSE 1.1% on …
America’s middle class had its highest-earning year ever in 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median household income in America was $59,039 last year, surpassing the previous record of $58,655 set in 1999, the Census Bureau said. The figure is adjusted for inflation and …
The US and China’s manufacturing activity seem to be synchronized – and both are slowing…#recession2017? #igwt2017 pic.twitter.com/3eUtruyVRp — Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) May 4, 2017 Global recession risk rises as the US and China tighten into the storm Equity investors across …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Wall Street hocus-pocus has done an awesome job. The Dow-20,000 hats have come out of the drawer after an agonizingly long wait that had commenced in early December with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tantalizingly close …