by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver Mainstream news site Bloomberg points out today that due to silver’s YTD decline being twice as big as gold’s, the gold-silver ratio (GSR) has spiked to a level not seen in almost …
Baltic Dry Index <.BADI> rolling over since summer — turning point is here and it could allude to a global slowdown. Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/xdDM2ojRv2 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 1, 2018 well, at least Bullard sees the 2s10s inverting sometime this …
by bannercoin Apple is a roll as of late. After hitting $1 trillion in market cap in early August, here we are in late August and it’s nearly already added another $100 billion. In the last 30 days, Apple has …
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 …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The uncomfortable reality is all Bull Markets, no matter how lengthy or robust, all expire. As you have undoubtedly heard, the current Bull Market in U.S. stocks (S&P 500) is the longest in recent history–though some historians …
A TSA agent convicted of stealing more than $800,000 worth of goods from travelers said this type of theft is “commonplace” among airport security. Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers since 2003. Pythias Brown, a …
CEO wrote post about buyout plans in his car on way to airport Strained Musk tells of sleep medication use, personal toll https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-17/musk-s-bombshell-tesla-tweet-wasn-t-reviewed-by-anyone-nyt-says
Cash Wildfire Spreads Among Young Tech Companies It’s time to get real about the financial fragility of young technology companies. Far too many are living beyond their means, flirting with disaster and putting their investors at risk. Bloomberg Opinion examined …
by GoldCore – London house prices fall at the fastest annual rate since height of the financial crisis – London house prices fall in 5th month in row, worst falls since 2009 – London rents dropped at the fastest rate in eight …
via The Bear Trap Report *LIRA DROPS TO NEW RECORD AS TRUMP STEPS UP TARIFFS ON TURKEY *TRUMP AUTHORIZES DOUBLING OF TARIFFS ON TURKEY STEEL, ALUMINUM *USD/ZAR SURGES 2.1% TO 14.3829, HIGHEST SINCE NOVEMBER 2017 *Indonesian rupiah, the currency at …
A decade now after the 2008 financial crisis, the cultural and psychological imprint that it left looks almost as deep as the one that followed the Great Depression. Its legacy includes a new radical politics on both the left and …
via @stephlandsman The bulls may be treading water. According to Ned Davis Research’s Ed Clissold, there’s a high probability a record year-end rally will give way to a painful 2019. “You could be looking at the first 20 percent-plus decline in …
by JefemanG I always keep about $10k in an emergency fund just in case. It has seriously come in handy this past month alone. I was living with family when recently there was a tragic mishap that left us homeless. …
middle class gets limited to no real wage increase, meanwhile, Wall Streets gets record buybacks! pic.twitter.com/Auck3xC7Fq — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 7, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1026958307238572033 via marketwatch: The gap between the rich and the poor in America has ballooned over the last several …
CHICAGO (WLS) — A violent weekend in Chicago left 10 people dead and dozens more wounded, police said. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson plans to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. Monday. However, CPD says it has seen a …
via 13D Research: In an article on America’s declining birthrate (WILTW July 19, 2018), we cited an unnerving finding from a recent Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study: “the average net worth of a family headed by someone born in the 1980s — the …
by visualcapitalist The market has been buzzing about Apple’s $1 trillion market valuation. It’s an incredible amount of wealth creation in any context – but getting to 12 zeros is especially impressive when you consider that Apple was just 90 days from declaring …
Thank you everyone who has supported me, stood by me and believed in me. Today I came home to my children for the first time in two and a half months and I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank …
The second-half borrowing estimate of US$769 billion is the highest since US$1.1 trillion in July-December 2008 via scmp The Treasury Department predicted the US government’s borrowing needs in the second half of this year will jump to the most since …
by Thinker HISTORY OF OUR OWN WORDS AND ACTIONS WILL BE THE JUDGE OF OUR CONTENT OF CHARACTER – IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOURS, YOU HAVE THE CHOICE TO CHANGE From the fall of the twin towers, to the airport, …
Meant to share this earlier in the month…
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Suddenly it gets ugly – but these are still the good times. It’s confession time among the Detroit automakers: GM, Fiat Chrysler, and Ford all got ugly, in unison, in one day, something we haven’t seen …
From the Free Thought Project: As politicians and anti-gun rights activists continuously chant, “we don’t want to take your guns,” behind the scenes — in only the last five months — politicians have been working overtime to limit your right to …
David Rosenberg: Strip out the 17% ($4 tln of market cap!) of the market that is Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet, and the market has barely budged this year. This is the most concentrated market since the dotcoms; …
If you are watching this video, you have found my backup channel. My main You Tube channel was terminated today without cause or explanation. And along with it more than 1,000 videos and interviews were deleted from the pages of …
except obama, trump, clinton, and bush of course. Also interesting Clinton, Bush and Trump all born in 46. Interestingly the Queen is 92, her husband is 97. David Rockefeller was 101. Kissinger is 95. I wonder how they live so …
by sundance Begin, with the end in mind…. More than two years ago CTH began discussing the ramifications to a new emphasis on the economy outlined as a possibility of candidate Donald Trump’s economic policy outlook. Within the overall discussion we walked through the anticipated changes possible if A.) …
by Michael Snyder The rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer for so long in America that it seems like it has always been this way. But it hasn’t. In fact, between the late 1920s …
by mdcd4u2c I kept seeing Facebook pop on lists of top insider sales week after week and got curious so I did some digging and I’m sharing here. This is just all of Zuckerberg’s insider transactions (they were all sales) …