Taiwan is currently surrounded by China’s 71 fighter jets, 9 destroyers and an aircraft carrier. Joe Biden is the best thing that ever happened to Russia and China. Elections have consequences. Weak leadership has consequences. pic.twitter.com/Gi5MVF35WI — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) …
Guest post by Robert Hughes from the American Institute of Economic Research: Real gross domestic product rose at a 2.6 percent annualized rate in the third quarter versus a 0.6 percent rate of decline in the second quarter and …
by Chris Black The US is dealing with two threats: military superpower in Russia, and an economic superpower in China. India is sort of a wild card in that the country is a huge, nuclear-armed power that is basically aligned …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9e0WL0zGU Leah Barkoukis from Townhall reports, Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger said last week that “the buck stops with” President Biden when it comes to soaring gas prices. “There is a variety of contributing impacts, but certainly I think the buck …
by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In his commentary a few hours ago at Investment Research Dynamics in Denver, Dave Kranzler wrote it’s unlikely that anyone either bought or sold real gold at the smashed …
by Troy The economy’s fundamentals determine the stock market’s medium-long term outlook. Technicals determine the stock market’s short-medium term outlook. Here’s why: The stock market’s long term risk:reward is no longer bullish. The medium term direction (e.g. next 6-9 months) is mostly …
by Kimble Charting Is Doc Copper suggesting that economic weakness is around the corner? Possible Doc Copper has created a series of lower highs and lower lows over the past 9-years inside of falling channel (1). Last year Copper looks to have double topped …
For all the palpitations that the trade war between the U.S. and China will knock out their economies, it is Europe that increasingly looks like the biggest threat to global growth. Industrial production across the 19-nation euro area is falling …
by WARREN MOSLER Apple says China sales fell 27% last quarter (Nikkei) Apple’s net sales in greater China, including the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, fell 27% on the year to $13.17 billion for the three months ended Dec. 29 …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1078187419898470400 2018 Returns…Cash $BIL: +1.7%Bonds $AGG: -0.5%Gold $GLD: -3%High Yield $HYG: -4%Investment Grade $LQD: -4%US REITs $VNQ: -10%S&P 500 $SPY: -11%International REITs $VNQI: -11%Commodities $DBC: -12%MSCI World ex-US $ACWX: -17%Emerging Markets $EEM: -18%Oil $USO: -25% — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) December …
https://twitter.com/MehulD108/status/1073202307423236096 [RTRS] – U.S.-BASED LOAN PARTICIPATION FUNDS POST $2.5 BLN WITHDRAWALS OVER WEEKLY PERIOD; LARGEST WITHDRAWALS ON RECORDS DATING TO 2003 -LIPPER — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 13, 2018 [RTRS] – U.S.-BASED CORPORATE INVESTMENT-GRADE BOND FUNDS POST $3.7 BLN WITHDRAWALS OVER …
via @crossbordercap: Does The Flat US Yield Curve Really Matter?
by Tom McClellan Housing sector stocks have been among the worst performers in 2018, and analysts are pointing to lots of different reasons including the newly imposed U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber. But an easier explanation arises when we look …
Do you think that stocks will rise in the short term? Yesterday’s trading session saw a brutal downward force applied to the Dow Jones, losing over 800 points. In after hours trading it dropped even further. That spread into Asia …
by Chris For those wanting an interpretation, Cole is saying that people think they are buying a diverse set of portfolio assets but they are really not diversified at all in terms of volatility. 97% of the usual assets, including …
by Troy As you would recall, I said in late-September that the stock market’s volatility would probably spike in October. Volatility was extremely compressed, which set the stage for an expansion in vol. Yesterday, the stock market went down and volatility spiked …
by FS Stock markets around the globe have come under pressure in recent days with a collapse in the Turkish lira and vulnerabilities in the emerging market space. John Roque at Key Square Capital Management recently told Financial Sense Newshour …
by Tom McClellan After bottoming on April 3, the DJIA’s Price Oscillator has been making a bumpy up move. That is important because bumpiness or smoothness of a move carries important information. Our Price Oscillator is calculated using the same math …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7Xqw9qcOM Dems dont have a clue
The Trump administration is applying aggressive trade tariffs against friend and seeming foe alike in these days of heightened yet manufactured global economic “events, dear boy, events”, to quote former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. China’s getting the brunt of …
David Morgan of The Morgan Report interviewed by Silver Doctors Gold and silver are still in consolidation. However, the gold/silver ratio is coming down. And both metals continue to make higher lows. Morgan expects a move to the upside. Is silver in a …
By Harry Dent Right now, Millennials are the largest cohort of homebuyers in America. And even though they’re waiting longer to get married, start a family, and buy a home… and they’re more likely to skip buying a starter home …
