via businesstimes: THE Japanese economy contracted the most in over four years in the third quarter as companies slashed spending, threatening to chill the investment outlook in 2019 as the export-reliant nation grapples with slowing global growth and trade frictions. The …
by pikindaguy Put together a google sheet here with weekly data from the past 10 years: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H_mm_G5edQio-iCLAbnbg_ApgMarh–jTarHgxeoHTI/edit#gid=0 I’m not much for data visualization so let me know if anything needs clarity here.
by Martin Armstrong Denmark plans to house the country’s most unwelcome foreign refugee who has caused problems in a most unwelcoming place they could find – Lindholm Island. It is a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables, and crematory …
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. When it comes to supporting new businesses, not all jurisdictions are created equal. Whether it’s the basics, like hooking up electricity and registering the business, or more complex …
by Martin Armstrong What is really amazing is how governments just fail to comprehend that revolution is instigated by corruption and taxes. Nevertheless, they just can’t help themselves. They have to keep taking cookies from the jar until it is …
Market statisticians are falling over each other in 2018 to describe the pain being felt across asset classes. One venerable shop frames it this way: Things haven’t been this bad since Richard Nixon’s presidency. Ned Davis Research puts markets into …
by Michael Snyder It looks like the turmoil for the financial markets is going to continue to get worse, and the mainstream media is really starting to freak out. Just a few months ago, they were continuously using the word “booming” …
Michael Barone: Who’s to blame? Weak leaders, weak institutions, weak voters? In the wake of the midterm elections, conservative analyst Yuval Levin saw no winners. “It is the weakness of all sides, and the strength of none, that shapes this …
via Tasos Vossos Credit markets are set for the worst year since the global financial crisis as investors abandon hope of a late-2018 rally. High-yield and investment-grade notes are headed for losses in both euros and dollars, the first time all …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065340939378614272 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065342202526732298 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065411704023072768 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1065439246864003072 Here is the history of Black Friday pic.twitter.com/p288F5IS7w — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 22, 2018 New Lows Coming While US cash markets are closed the futures continue to trade, with all of them red at the moment …
Cases in which a majority of the Court fell down on the job. From Reason: James Madison once said that the job of the U.S. Supreme Court was to act as “an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the …
via Joe Guzzardi: For California natives like me, the wildfires are a real gut punch. As of this writing, the wildfires are the deadliest in the state’s history with 63 fatalities, and more than 600 people are unaccounted for. More than 10,000 buildings are …
by Daniel J. Mitchell via Mises Wire The most disturbing outcome of the recent mid-term election isn’t that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be a Member of Congress. I actually look forward to that because of the humor value. Instead, with the Democrats now controlling the House of …
From John Stossel at Reason: Sen. Bernie Sanders recently came up with a new business to attack: Amazon. Sanders said Amazon didn’t pay its workers enough and because of that, many qualified for government assistance. At first, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos defended …
via confoundedinterest: Last decade, there was a residential mortgage credit bubble that burst. While there doesn’t appear to be a residential mortgage credit bubble (well, just a little), there is most definitely a corporate debt credit bubble that appears to be …
via @kerisalison Semiconductor stocks are getting wrecked. The chipmakers have taken on water in November, falling nearly 2 percent and compounding losses suffered since the beginning of fall. Stocks like Qualcomm, Skyworks, Nvidia, Micron and AMD are all sharply lower in the past week. The worst could still …
via stocknews: Goldman Sachs Group,Inc (NYSE:GS) Goldman Sachs fell 7 percent after news of its involvement with a shady Malaysian investment fund. It was the company’s biggest drop since losing eight percent in November 2011. CNBC provides details: Goldman has attracted scrutiny …
Those people in Australia and New Zealand, let me know what you’re seeing with real estate right now in 2018. Real estate in Australia has once again fallen further down. This is a definitely trend that has not let up. …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the crashing San Diego housing market as the bubble has been propped up to such an incredible pressure that we’re finally starting to see the resistance in the beautiful …
Tech stocks plunged in October, suffering worst month since 2008 recession… The Nasdaq dropped 9.2 percent in October, its worst month since November 2008. Amazon led the index’s slide, plunging 20 percent, while Alphabet fell 9.7 percent. Tech stocks saw …
President Obama has topped predecessor George W. Bush in another poll, but not one he would like. In a new Quinnipiac University Poll, 33% named Obama the worst president since World War II, and 28% put Bush at the bottom of …
by Martin Armstrong Politicians have totally and completely misunderstood the trends within the global economy and as a result, they are actually creating one of the worst economic debacles in history. I have explained several times that the bulk of …
by Michael Snyder This was an October that many of us will never forget. The month of October is typically the most volatile month of the year for stocks, and that was definitely the case in 2018. It was the worst …
via BBG Investment-grade bonds are set for the worst month since February’s rout. U.S. high-grade debt is headed for a decline of 1.2 percent this month and the worst October in a decade, according to the Bloomberg Barclays Indexes. The …
by KillingTime56 The 10% correction, that has taken place in October 2018, is the forth largest stock market monthly drop since the year 2000. Here are the other monthly drops since 2000 that were over 10%: September 2002– 10.10% loss …
Pretty dark. I assumed it would be propaganda from the elites about how money makes you miserable, but it seems legit. I’m not sure those problems would affect me though because I don’t have any close relations. I think I …
~garbage is garbage, and the 7+ billion of we humans generate a lot of it. Plastic trash. Plastic retail container trash that nobody wants anyway but the international manufacturing corporations foist on us because of cheap convenience. My favorite thing …
by itsmyst For those of you who haven’t read Howard’s latest memo, here’s the link. https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/howard-marks-memos I wanted to ask a question or possibly spark a discussion pertaining to market crashes. I would also like to state that I am NOT …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ51P4St7EY Enraged at the news of an impending Trump/Kanye West summit at the White House, an angry lynch mob stormed the CNN studio in New York and took over live on air, proceeding to spew racist rhetoric and hate speech …
via globalnews.ca: China’s economic growth cooled to its weakest quarterly pace since the global financial crisis, with regulators moving quickly to calm nervous investors as a years-long campaign to tackle debt risks and the trade war with the United States began to …