by Dr. Eowyn In a bill-signing event in New York last August 15, New York’s Demonrat governor Andrew Cuomo, a rumored 2020 presidential candidate, said: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” Some millennials agree. …
by Thinker Dominic Alexander debunks the myths used by politicians and historians to rebrand ‘the war to end all wars’ in the centenary of Armistice Day. This Remembrance Day will doubtless see strenuous efforts by some to justify the fruitless …
Is the world experiencing the kiss of death? pic.twitter.com/pZaxea64Cc — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 20, 2018 When commodities AND stock markets are doing the same thing like this we have a MAJOR CREDIT PROBLEM GOING ON…liquidity will get much worse imo …
via eyeball1234: I tried to incorporate as much feedback as I could from my last post. This viz shows the home price for 200 cities around the globe, organized according to an “affordability index” that reflects the ratio of price …
by howmuch If you added up all the money of every billionaire in the world, you’d have about $8.9 trillion in wealth as of 2017. That represents the greatest total growth in wealth among billionaires ever. That’s according to a new …
by Geoffrey Grider OPEC has lost what control of the oil market it ever had. The actions (or tweets) of three men — Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman — will determine the course …
The entire world is burning, and America is holding on by a thread pic.twitter.com/8XARuLvD9X — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 17, 2018 In case you missed it: #Greece's banks index has dropped another 12.3% this week, hit lowest level since 2016. pic.twitter.com/OJQlQRkeyM …
America hits a massive wall of debt in 2019 with interest rates soaring — what could go wrong? pic.twitter.com/6V3mvkDZc6 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 16, 2018 Global market asset performance pic.twitter.com/9Tmc0uo6pN — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 16, 2018 IMF Issues Stark Warning …
via visualcapitalist: View the high resolution version of today’s graphic by clicking here. Water is the world’s most vital resource. Beyond its basic functions of sustaining life, it’s also a precious commodity – one that billions of people in the world have …
via jugglingdynamite: As the US dollar Index (DXY) strengthens to a new 52-week high above 97, commodities are tanking along with global growth prospects into 2019, and North American government bonds are rising. Oil is down for a record 12th straight …
by howmuch What is financial literacy? The S&P’s Global Financial Literacy Survey defines it as the ability to understand essential financial concepts in making informed decisions about saving, investing and borrowing. The survey asked respondents a series of financial literacy questions. Here’s …
via Yahoo: Fund managers haven’t been this bearish about the global economy’s outlook since November 2008, according to the latest Bank of America Lynch survey of global fund managers, an important measure of investor sentiment. According to the survey, 44% …
by Geoffrey Grider In her speech, which was about the future of the EU, Merkel said: ‘What is really important, if we look at the developments of the past year, is that we have to work on a vision of …
Happy Veterans Day to all veterans, we salute you. Lindsey Graham stands behind Whitaker and Trump. The French Foreign minister says they never received recording of Khashogi from Erdogan. Trump shakes hands with Putin in Paris. Q drops bread, explains …
Via The Babylon Bee PARIS—In comments delivered on the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I, President Trump downplayed the Great War, calling it “actually very small” and promising that the world war he starts will be “much …
By MC01, a frequent commenter on WOLF STREET: In 1967, Icelandic airline Loftleiðir started offering cheap tickets on Transatlantic flights. Loftleiðir used a lot of what today would be called “funny business practices” to offer such low fares, such as flying …
by Troy Financial media’s favorite headline is “here’s why you should be worried”. Blind “worrying” and “concern” is good for their business because it drives pageviews and ad $$$. Certain markets around the world remain in a downtrend right now, …
via UKHouseOfCommons: Tools: Excel and Inkscape Source: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI, SIPRI Year Book, ICAN, Nuclear Weapons Timeline, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, United States nuclear forces 2018, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Russian nuclear forces 2018.
by Thinker Why did Donald Trump, a businessman run for the presidency of the United States??? Did the words of many who now can be called your hero, with “TRUTH” in their words, inspire Donald Trump to want to change …
via JEFFREY KLEINTOP: Key Points Recent stock market behavior and our belief in heightened risk of a peak in the global economic cycle in the next 6-18 months, makes it a good time to consider what has happened to stocks in …
What you’re about to see may worry you, but worry not. The more you know, the more you will be able to stand above the current order and protect yourself and your family. Globalism is affecting us in every realm …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Hedge fund managers sit at the top of the financial world’s food chain. They’re generally seen as the smartest money managers, and their companies have the most flexibility to pursue new opportunities. The result is supposed …
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. At first glance, the business world may seem quite static. The biggest companies today – ones like Apple, Walmart, or Exxon Mobil – will likely also be some …
The stock market often seems to defy logic. Consider that good news is often followed by plummeting prices, and bad news is often followed by rising prices. Here’s how to make sense of it all … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-CaaLGuOlA
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anima…mals-news/ Off the coast of Monterey, California, and some two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists piloting a remotely-operated submersible saw something no one has ever seen before. Octopuses. Hundreds of them. Huddled on a rocky outcrop …
by Michael Snyder The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen. The truth is that we are literally running out of …
by howmuch A new report from the World Bank just landed, finding that a record low of 10% of humanity now live in extreme poverty, down from 11% in 2013. But poverty rates aren’t anywhere close to equal between continents or even …
Well over half the world’s population of vertebrates, from fish to birds to mammals, have been wiped out in the past four decades, says a new report from the World Wildlife Fund. Between 1970 and 2014, there was 60 per …
