by SpontaneousDisorder Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-28/u-s-consumer-confidence-rises-to-highest-in-almost-18-years Consumer confidence tends to top with everything else, because the rise and fall of the markets/economy is based on confidence. Its extremely high right now. ZH has a longer term chart https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/consumer-confidence-explodes-18-year-high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qWr2kTR6F4g 10/24/2008 – CNBC Stock Market Opening Bell (Stock Futures Hit Limit Down). https://twitter.com/a2bmedia2012/status/1033273041147584512
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong, I don’t know if you’ve heard the news but here down under in Australia, the Liberal party has just replaced the current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to Scott Morrison. This is the 6th leadership …
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by eschub Net Worth Image Have to pay taxes on some retirement accounts and some unrealized gains still. College I worked and paid my way through most of college. I graduated in May of 2013 with roughly $40k in student loans and …
New Australian bill introduces some of the toughest legislation anywhere in the world for refusing to hand over personal data, while other Western countries are scrambling for their own solutions. Existing legislation already allows for imprisonment for up to two years …
via thefreethoughtproject: Today marks the 65th anniversary that the west carried out a coup in Iran that destabilized the county by overthrowing the country’s democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, and installed a CIA groomed dictator. What was once considered a conspiracy theory …
by Bill Bonner POITOU, FRANCE – Whoa! What’s this? The Dow popped up nearly 400 points yesterday. It is now just 4% off its all-time high of 26,616, reached on January 26 of this year. And you know what that means. …
via Zerohedge: Led by a collapse in Americans’ views of the current situation, University of Michigan’s Sentiment Survey dropped to 11-month lows, dramatically missing expectations for a rise. Sentiment index decreased to 95.3 (est. 98) from prior month’s 97.9; lowest since …
Study shows global forest loss over past 35 years has been more than offset by new forest growth: A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has …
Nvidia stock fell by 6 percent on Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and lower-than-expected revenue guidance. Here are the major numbers: Earnings: $1.76 per share, excluding certain items, vs. $1.66 per share as expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. …
History won't be kind to the bubble deniers this third time in 18 years… pic.twitter.com/4S9K7Ipla9 — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) August 16, 2018 Yep – nothing to see here. Just another two y axes chart crime. pic.twitter.com/iC4AMHCqDB — Chris Carolan $=1/∞ (@spiralcal) …
Tencent reports second-quarter earnings Wednesday. Analysts expect a slowdown in revenue growth. The online gaming business is a concern after Chinese regulators have clamped down on the industry and even ordered Tencent to stop selling a popular game called “Monster …
by: Clint Siegner, Money Metals News In the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis, the private Federal Reserve bank cartel was front and center as a target for public outrage. Former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul’s “End the Fed” message suddenly …
Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the State Assembly who rose to become one of New York’s most powerful politicians, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday for his conviction on federal corruption charges. Mr. Silver, a Democrat …
Via ZeroHedge And just like that, a million hopeful voices cried out in horror… Real average hourly earnings shrank by the most since 2012 in July… For years hope has been soaring that household income will rise any minute now… and …
OKAY, I LINKED THIS CAITLIN FLANAGAN PIECE ON JORDAN PETERSON YESTERDAY, but this bit’s worth breaking out on its own: There are many legitimate reasons to disagree with him on a number of subjects, and many people of good will do. But …
via nymag: If you were standing in the smoldering ashes of 9/11 trying to peer into the future, you might have been overjoyed to discover this happy snapshot of 2018: There has been no subsequent major terrorist attack on America from …
We always should have know that war was a big con. The Lusitania was sunk on May 7, 1915. The U.S. declared war on April 6, 1917. So some 23 months after the event the U.S. gov’t decided it was …
via thefreethoughtproject: If you are to believe the official story, one of America’s deadliest wars in history, Vietnam, was started after the United States had been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea. However, over the …
Amazon now pays even LESS tax while struggling High Street firms pay up to 20 times more Amazon has declared its lowest UK corporation tax bill in five years as the web giant was accused of killing the high street. …
via confoundedinterest: (Bloomberg) — Short-end U.S. rates have been buoyed by a tightening of Federal Reserve policy and an increase in issuance, and the U.S. Treasury on Monday sold $51 billion of three-month bills at 2 percent, the highest rate for an auction of …
via MarketWatch: After spending his days teaching AP American history and economics at the public Live Oak High School in San Jose, Calif., Matt Barry drives for Uber. Barry’s wife, Nicole, teaches as well — they each earn $69,000, a …
via axios: In a special preview for Axios readers, here’s a new analysis by David Wasserman of Cook Political Report, unpacking the GOP’s daunting math: “With 102 days to go, Democrats remain substantial favorites for House control. A big reason: Republicans are defending 42 …
Thoughts? What’s your short-medium term strategy in this long-term context? https://www.gurufocus.com/stock-market-valuations.php As of 2018-07-25 (updates daily): The Stock Market is Significantly Overvalued. Based on historical ratio of total market cap over GDP (currently at 146.7%), it is likely to return -2.4% a year from this …
COPPER: down -17.5% in 2018, the Chinese have not been able to centrally plan this market price higher = Bearish TREND @Hedgeye #reiterated China Not Messing Around: Serious QE Means Serious Currency Devaluation “They. Drew. First. Blood.” So said John …
From Jeff Clark, Editor, Jeff Clark’s Market Minute: The relationship between gold and the S&P 500 is more lopsided now than at any time over the past decade. Take a look at this ratio chart, which shows the price of the …
Lofgren tells Moyers [26 min] Historical context to everything is important. Bill Moyers is a man most people consider credible in the mainstream. Worth investigating. Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about …
Ocasio-Cortez Credits Prosperity Under Capitalism to ‘Course of Human Evolution.’ She granted that capitalism was temporarily the “most efficient and best” system, but that it must change “as we evolve.” “We’re starting to see that the people who create value …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMGBe2c4cQs Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, A top Russian cyber-crimes agent was arrested on treason charges in December 2016 and now faces 20 years in prison. The story is making the rounds again the night before the Trump-Putin …