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via scmp: Satellite imagery monitored the intensity of night lights in more than 3,300 cities and towns between 2013 and 2016 In 28 per cent of cases, the intensity of lights … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith At that point, the only way to enable debt-serfs to service their debts is too give them free money, i.e. Universal Basic Income (UBI). Scrape away the … Read more
his more than two-decade career as a capital-markets lawyer in Singapore, he’d helped more than 30 companies list on the country’s stock exchange, bringing to market everything from a grocery … Read more
by confoundedinterest As Bruce Springsteen famously mumbled, The Fed’s Balance Sheet is “Goin’ Down.” As of Feburary 6, 2016, The Federal Reserve of New York further shrank The Fed’s Balance Sheet by … Read more
by kelee877 Happy New Year and so begins 2019 and the first item that I encountered was Maxwell house instant coffee The now smaller jar here in Canada has gone … Read more
via yahoo: Fed Piles Up $66 Billion in Paper Losses as It Faces Trump Wrath (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve is piling up unrealized losses on its $4.1 trillion bond … Read more
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The growing ranks of stock market Eeyores now have another reason to stay glum: Next year’s profit picture is darkening fast. Corporate earnings forecasts are eroding … Read more
The global monetary base is now shrinking, the last time this happened was in 2006. Time to get liquid? pic.twitter.com/E1B9fFmAUJ — Steve Saretsky (@SteveSaretsky) November 27, 2018 Imho it's a … Read more
Reluctant Preppers, Released on 11/15/18 You may have heard that the near-record stock market internals have turned ghastly, where most companies are lagging, leaving only a few standard-bearers to prop … Read more
In your opinion, are SHRINKING central bank balance sheets an issue? There is always another bubble. When one pops, the next one starts. This is a constant factor because of … Read more
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-shrinking-hedge-fund/ If you look at US multiples (the S&P500) they are now actually around historical average. The rise has been driven by EPS growth. Other assets and global indices have … Read more
#China's peer-to-peer lending industry, the world’s largest, is shrinking, BBG reports. Savers have been rushing to pull money amid a govt crackdown that's seen some platforms halted & put under … Read more
From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Elon Musk is no stranger to making controversial and outlandish comments, and his tweet last week is no exception. As you probably know by now, the perennial … Read more
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 … Read more
Authored by Ronald-Peter Stöferle and Mark J. Valek via The Mises Institute, Before we discuss the economic situation of China, a few words about China’s strongman, Xi Jinping. The “new … Read more
via Christopher Hamilton From a growth perspective, it doesn’t matter if the world is 7.5 million or 7.5 billion persons… it only matters how many more there are from one year to the … Read more