Red Wave Rising! Early Requests and Returns Show a Huge Red Wave Coming! Republican Early Voting Even Greater than 2016! Early ballots show a huge increase in voting in favor of Republicans. It looks like our prediction is holding up! …
#Peakearnings + decelerating growth. If GOP loses the House, no Tax Cut 2.0 possible =may not be already -> see -5% budget cuts yesterday – does it also remove infrastructure, too? Rising interest rates, peak earnings and spiraling debt and …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are declining to start the week after rising tensions between the United States and Saudi Arabia escalated over the weekend US stocks index futures are dropping ahead of the open in NY with the Dow …
Moody’s: It “will exacerbate already material fiscal challenges on the horizon.” If unaddressed, “social tensions will continue to rise.” By Fred Dunkley, Safehaven.com: Credit-analysis firm Moody’s Investors Service is sounding the alarm bells over “rising inequality” as the gap widens between America’s rich and …
Via Marketwatch Health-care costs are quietly eating away at American wages. Employer-sponsored insurance premiums have jumped dramatically in the last 20 years, from almost $6,000 in 1999 to more than $18,000 in 2016, according to a report released Wednesday by the Economic …
by John Rubino Towards the end of economic expansions, interest rates usually start to rise as strong loan demand bumps up against central bank tightening. At first the effect on the broader economy is minimal, so consumers, companies and governments …
via wallstreetonparade: The 10-year U.S. Treasury note touched a 7-year high in yield early this morning at 3.25 percent before falling back to 3.22 percent in mid-morning trading. As rates have risen over the past year, we’ve witnessed a growing chorus of …
via John Stepek The ten-year US Treasury yield is arguably the most important interest rate in the world. Yesterday, it hit its highest level since 2011. This morning it’s still rising – heading above 3.2%. It’s not so long ago that …
by Fabius Maximus Summary: While the news media fills the air with flotsam and jetsam, powerful forces reshape America. Chief among them is rising income inequality. Like so much happening to us, it results from rational policies skillfully executed by our …
Wolf Richter with Jim Goddard on This Week in Money: Interest rates will continue to rise in the US and Canada. In both countries, potential buyers face affordability issues, which puts a damper on demand. But in Canada, variable-rate and adjustable-rate …
by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump correctly called the economy a “big, fat, ugly bubble.” The bubble is now much bigger, but President Trump has stamped his name on it. Interest rates are now rising. …
by Geoffrey Grider Wilmington Cut Off by Florence as Catastrophic Flooding Spreads Across North Carolina Having been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, Florence has mostly disappeared from the headlines. But torrential rain continues to fall, and widespread flooding …
by Adam Taggart Here’s a frightening series of stats I posted on the site three years ago (so you can bump the percentages up a bit): A new report by Bloomberg shows that the average Wall Street trader is 30 years …
by Michael Snyder Thanks to increasing demand and upcoming U.S. sanctions against Iran, oil prices have been rising and some analysts are forecasting that they will surge even higher in the months ahead. Unfortunately, that would be very bad news …
via Ann Saphir A narrowing gap between short-term and long-term borrowing costs could be signaling heightened risk of a U.S. recession, researchers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank said in a study published on Monday. The research relies on an …
DXY hits the 61.8% retracement —-> pic.twitter.com/1gqqmTMLCJ — Blake Morrow (@PipCzar) August 21, 2018 Speculative accounts continue to up their bets on a rising #USD@GoldmanSachs @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/AtygcLcP9U — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) August 20, 2018 Chart: Treasury short is increasingly …
Strong USD, rising rates, chopping stocks beginning to take their toll on US economic data. If this continues, it will force the Fed to show their cards – is this a normal rate hike cycle or will they "shoot the …
America’s rich are moving to the coasts as the poor go inland America’s wealthy households are increasingly moving to coastal cities on both sides of the country, but those with more modest incomes are either relocating to or being pushed …
by Martin Armstrong Some people have written in and asked why we have issued a report that shows how and when China will displace the USA and the West as the Financial Capital of the world. Let me explain some …
via @weizent Rainer Michael Preiss, executive director at Taurus Wealth Advisors, pointed to how the investing environment is changing: volatility is picking up, and interest rates are rising and monetary policy is tightening. In times of volatility, a more hands-on approach …
How is it that four sites all banned Jones in a 24 hour period despite radically different reasons? That seems an odd coincidence: https://tinyurl.com/ybggwrt8
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But there’s a bottom for everything. Uber drivers are on the hook for their own social security and Medicare taxes, plus the costs of the vehicle, vehicle maintenance, insurance, and fuel. Gasoline prices have surged since …
via pjmedia: Least surprising news story of the decade: Rattled by string of violent attacks, Toronto wonders if city is unraveling As residents grapple with the latest attack to hit the city in recent months, some are asking whether it was becoming …
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 …
From Bloomberg: For those fretting the end of days for tech stocks on the heels of Netflix Inc.’s recent plunge, Wall Street might have just the product for you. Meet FANG, in structured-note form. Holders of these securities — complex bonds tied …
by John Rubino Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a couple of charts that illustrate a relationship that’s not getting much media attention these days: The fact that tightening labor markets are forcing companies to raise wages, in the process squeezing their own …
via newrepublic: Rising wages horrify CNBC but delight everyone else. On Thursday, the business news network tweeted: America’s labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying. https://t.co/b1O21856sl — CNBC (@CNBC) July 5, 2018 …
CNN & CNBC Agree: Trump’s Popularity Still Rising Despite Recent Attacks CNBC: “Family separation policy fails to dent Trump’s rising popularity” View post on imgur.com President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which dominated the news cycle last week and …
Do you think the average person has overextended themselves? If so, what are they buying? The financial situation for most Americans isn’t looking pretty. With asset prices rising and wages remaining stagnant, we have encountered a big problem. There’s no …
The era of Angela Merkel may be coming to an end as longstanding disagreements on migration policies between her and her Bavarian allies threaten to come to a head and potentially unseat the German leader, who has been at the country’s helm …