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Post by avordvet on Oct 13, 2016 4:10:14 GMT -5
RED ALERT — Get ready for a 'severe fall' in the stock market, HSBC saysBob Bryan, 13 Oct 2016 HSBC's technical-analysis team has thrown up the ultimate warning signal. In a note to clients released Wednesday, Murray Gunn, the head of technical analysis for HSBC, said he had become on "RED ALERT" for an imminent sell-off in stocks given the price action over the past few weeks. Gunn uses a type of technical analysis called the Elliott Wave Principle, which tracks alternating patterns in the stock market to discern investors' behavior and possible next moves... www.businessinsider.com/hsbc-red-alert-get-ready-for-a-severe-fall-in-the-stock-market-2016-10
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Post by avordvet on Oct 16, 2016 4:08:45 GMT -5
Drowning In Debt: 35% Of Americans Have Debt That Is At Least 180 Days Past Dueby Tyler Durden, Oct 15, 2016 5:55 PM, Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, More than a third of all Americans can’t pay their debts. I don’t know about you, but to me that is a shocking figure. As you will see below, 35 percent of the people living in this country have debt in collections. When a debt is in collections, it is at least 180 days past due. And this is happening during the “economic recovery” that the mainstream media keeps touting, although the truth is that Barack Obama is going to be the only president in United States history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent. But at least things are fairly stable for the moment, and if this many Americans are having trouble paying their bills right now, what are things going to look like when the economy becomes extremely unstable once again. The 35 percent figure is a nugget that I discovered in a CNN article about Detroit that I was reading earlier today… www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-15/drowning-debt-35-americans-have-debt-least-180-days-past-due
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Post by avordvet on Oct 17, 2016 4:16:52 GMT -5
Is Obama Juicing Government Spending To Get Hillary Elected?by Tyler Durden, Oct 16, 2016 4:55 PM, Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, During the last year of his reign of error, our beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner, Obama ran out of government accounting gimmicks to falsely proclaim Federal deficits have been falling. His legacy of debt accumulation will go down in history as the last dying gasps of a crumbling empire built upon Keynesian delusions, political corruption, and a Deep State establishment hellbent upon retaining power at the cost of global war and financial collapse. The entirely fabricated government propaganda data point known as the Federal deficit skyrocketed by 34% in fiscal 2016 (Federal year is Oct. 1 to Sept. 30). The reported deficit in FY15 was a mere $438 billion. Obama and his brain dead minions had boasted about such a small deficit. The country has been in existence for 227 years and Obama had the balls to boast about “achieving” the 8th highest deficit in our history. Just for some context, the savior also led the country to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th highest deficits in the country’s history. Bumbling Bush achieved the 7th highest in the glorious year of 2008. The $149 billion surge in the reported deficit to $587 billion is a national disgrace and happened during a year in which we supposedly aren’t waging any real wars. Even with artificially suppressed interest rates, interest on the national debt went up by $30 billion. The Obamacare abortion has caused healthcare spending to soar, blowing a hole in the Federal budget. Remember Obama bloviating about Obamacare not adding one dime to the national debt? He was right. It’s adding trillions of dimes to the national debt. But, at least every family in America has gotten that promised $2,500 savings in their annual premiums. Right? Another reason for the surge in the reported deficit is the little accounting trick the Obama administration has been playing for years. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are insolvent zombie Federal Agencies. With the suspension of mark to market accounting in March 2009, Wall Street banks and these bloated pig agencies were free to fraudulently value the mortgages on their balance sheets. Poof!!! Wall Street bank profits miraculously recovered. Fannie and Freddie began reporting tens of billions in fake profits. They then pretended to pay these fake accounting profits to the Treasury, thereby “reducing” the reported deficits. Last year Fannie and Freddie ran out of fake profits and are now losing money again. And the establishment wonders why the peasants are revolting... www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-16/obama-juicing-government-spending-get-hillary-elected
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Post by avordvet on Oct 25, 2016 16:05:33 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Nov 5, 2016 6:09:18 GMT -5
Once obama and his minions hands come off the levers, you're gonna start to see the real economy show its face... Near-Record 94.6 Million Americans Aren't in WorkforceBy Newsmax Wires, Friday, 04 Nov 2016 11:21 AM Behind the cheerful spin the Labor Department and government talking heads put on the official monthly jobs data is a sobering reality: a more-realistic unemployment rate is probably closer to 10 percent and a wide swatch of the American public remains out of work. Friday's report sketched a picture of a resilient job market that likely keeps the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates when it meets next month. Yet the economy remains pocketed by weaknesses that have left many feeling left behind on the eve of Election Day. Job gains have been steady, but pay raises have only recently become widespread. And millions of Americans are working part time but would prefer full-time work. In October, the unemployment rate dipped to 4.9 percent from 5 percent. Economists look past the official unemployment rate — that 4.9 percent figure, also known as the "U-3" rate — to other metrics that give their own nuanced view of jobs in the country, CNBC explained. The alternative gauge of joblessness, the U-6 rate, that counts not only the officially unemployed but also the part-timers who'd prefer full-time work and people who have stopped looking for jobs, fell to 9.5 percent. That's the lowest point since 2008. Still, it is higher than is typical in a healthy economy. www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/employment-labor-jobs-workers/2016/11/04/id/757061/
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Post by avordvet on Dec 11, 2016 5:58:51 GMT -5
Are We Being Set Up For A Crash? Stocks Hit A Level Only Seen During The Bubbles Of 1929, 2000 And 2007By Michael Snyder, on December 8th, 2016 stock-market-overvalued-public-domainWill the financial bubble that has been rapidly growing ever since Donald Trump won the election suddenly be popped once he takes office? Could it be possible that we are being set up for a horrible financial crash that he will ultimately be blamed for? Yesterday, I shared my thoughts on the incredible euphoria that we have seen since Donald Trump’s surprise victory on November 8th. The U.S. dollar has been surging, companies are announcing that they are bringing jobs back to the U.S., and we are witnessing perhaps the greatest post-election stock market rally in Wall Street history. In fact, the Dow, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 all set new all-time record highs again on Thursday. What we are seeing is absolutely unprecedented, and many believe that the good times will continue to roll as we head into 2017. What has been most surprising to me is how well the stocks of the big Wall Street banks have been doing. It is no secret that those banks poured a tremendous amount of money into Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Donald Trump had some tough things to say about them leading up to election day. So you wouldn’t think that it would be particularly good news for those banks that Trump won the election. However, we seem to be living in “Bizarro World” at the moment, and in so many ways things are happening exactly the opposite of what we would expect. Since Trump’s victory, all of the big banking stocks have been skyrocketing… theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/are-we-being-set-up-for-a-crash-stocks-hit-a-level-only-seen-during-the-bubbles-of-1929-2000-and-2007
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Post by avordvet on Dec 20, 2016 6:43:40 GMT -5
Opinion: The economic data will doom the Trump stock-market rallyBy Tim Mullaney, Published: Dec 19, 2016 12:06 p.m. ET Economic growth has slowed since the election. What will happen to housing under President Trump? Funny thing about the rally in U.S. stocks since the Nov. 8 election that has the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.20% approaching 20,000: The underpinning of optimism about a pickup in the U.S. economy it has been based on is slipping away. Heh, heh, heh. www.marketwatch.com/story/the-economic-data-will-doom-the-trump-stock-market-rally-2016-12-19
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Post by avordvet on Dec 21, 2016 5:34:25 GMT -5
Brandon Smith Warns The System Is Crashing: "Prepare For Bank Confiscations, Shortages, Insurgency"by Tyler Durden, Dec 20, 2016 10:55 PM, Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, If things get bad enough, there could be an actual civil war again in America – in fact, it may become unavoidable. People are at extremes right now, and the divisions between the left and right are, in many respects, deeper than they have ever been. Those who are addicted to government assistance are in for a rude awakening, and those who work for a living face the very real possibility of seeing the American Dream crushed once and for all, in an era from which there will be no turning back. But the pages of history have not been written, and if they have, they still stand to be edited by real world events. If people get their heads wrapped around what is really happening, perhaps the true villains can be addressed, and power can be kept out of the hands in whom it is most dangerous. Perhaps, there is a chance that liberty could one day be restored, but first, people must prepare to endure a long, hard fight. www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-20/brandon-smith-warns-system-crashing-prepare-bank-confiscations-shortages-insurgency
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Post by avordvet on Dec 23, 2016 8:25:36 GMT -5
Federal Reserve Initiates End Game As Trump Heads To White Houseby Tyler Durden, Dec 22, 2016 10:15 PM, Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, For years, alternative economic analysts have been warning that the “miraculous” rise in U.S. stock markets has been the symptom of wider central bank intervention and that this will result in dire future consequences. We have heard endless lies and rationalizations as to why this could not be so, and why the U.S. “recovery” is real. At the beginning of 2016, the former head of the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve crushed all the skeptics and vindicated our position in an interview with CNBC where he stated: “What the Fed did — and I was part of that group — is we front-loaded a tremendous market rally, starting in 2009.It’s sort of what I call the “reverse Whimpy factor” — give me two hamburgers today for one tomorrow. I’m not surprised that almost every index you can look at … was down significantly.” [Referring to the results in the stock market after the Fed raised rates in December.]Fisher continued his warning (though his predictions in my view are wildly conservative or deliberately muted): “…I was warning my colleagues, “Don’t go wobbly if we have a 10-20 percent correction at some point. … Everybody you talk to … has been warning that these markets are heavily priced.”Here is the issue — stocks are a mostly meaningless factor when considering the economic health of a nation. Equities are a casino based on nothing but the luck of the draw when it comes to news headlines, central banker statements and algorithmic computers. Today, as Fischer openly admitted, stocks are a purely manipulated indicator representing nothing but the amount of stimulus central banks are willing to pour into them through various channels. Even with the incredible monetary support pooled together by international financiers, returns on equities investments continue to remain mostly flat. It would seem that the propping up of indexes like the Dow has been only for the sake of keeping up appearances. For many people, revenue is barely being generated. www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-22/federal-reserve-initiates-end-game-trump-heads-white-house
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 23, 2016 9:03:21 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345Why US liberals are now buying guns tooGun ownership has traditionally been associated with the right wing in America but the election of Donald Trump has prompted some left-wingers to join gun clubs - and even start preparing for the collapse of society. "I really didn't expect to be thinking about purchasing a gun. It was something that my father did and I rolled my eyes at him." Clara, a 28-year-old nursing student, grew up in the Mid-West, where "the folks that had guns were seen as hicks" or were just "culturally different", she says. But since the election of Donald Trump in November she has started going to a gun range for the first time and is shopping around for a semi-automatic pistol. "It's been seeing the way that Trump's election has mobilised a lot of the far right and given them hope," she says, citing a rise in reports of hate crimes and neo-Nazi activity.
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Post by avordvet on Jan 18, 2017 6:29:04 GMT -5
From the 'no shit sherlock' files:
You sure as hell didn't hear these jackwads sounding the alarm all through the usurpers admin... the office should be disbanded.
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Post by avordvet on Jan 24, 2017 5:29:19 GMT -5
Foreigners Are Dumping U.S. Debt At A Record Pace And Our $20 Trillion National Debt Is Poised To Become A Major CrisisBy Michael Snyder, on January 22nd, 2017 While most of the country has been focused on the inauguration of Donald Trump, a very real crisis has been brewing behind the scenes. Foreigners are dumping U.S. debt at a faster rate than we have ever seen before, and U.S. Treasury yields have been rising. This is potentially a massive problem, because our entire debt-fueled standard of living is dependent on foreigners lending us gigantic mountains of money at ultra-low interest rates. If the average rate of interest on U.S. government debt just got back to 5 percent, which would still be below the long-term average, we would be paying out about a trillion dollars a year just in interest on the national debt. If foreigners keep dumping our debt and if Treasury yields keep climbing, a major financial implosion of historic proportions is absolutely guaranteed within the next four years. One of the most significant aspects of the “Obama legacy” is the appalling mountain of debt that he has left behind. As I write this article, the U.S. national debt is sitting at 19.944 trillion dollars. During Obama’s eight years, a staggering 9.3 trillion dollars was added to the national debt. When you break that number down, it comes to more than a hundred million dollars every single hour of every single day while Obama was living in the White House. In just two terms, Obama added almost as much to the national debt as all of the other presidents before him combined. What Obama and the members of Congress that cooperated with him have done to future generations of Americans is beyond criminal. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/foreigners-are-dumping-u-s-debt-at-a-record-pace-and-our-20-trillion-national-debt-is-poised-to-become-a-major-crisis
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Post by avordvet on Jan 28, 2017 5:32:15 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Feb 3, 2017 5:24:59 GMT -5
Irreversible Damage - The U.S. Economy Cannot Be Repairedby Tyler Durden, Feb 3, 2017 12:00 AM, Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, As I outlined in my article 'The False Economic Narrative Will Die In 2017', the mainstream media has been carefully crafting the propaganda meme that the Trump administration is inheriting a global economy in “ascension,” when in fact, the opposite is true. Trump enters office at a time of longstanding decline and will likely witness severe and accelerated decline over the course of the next year. The signs are already present, and this fits exactly with the basis for my prediction of the Trump election win - conservative movements are indeed being set up as scapegoats for a global economic crisis that international financiers actually created. Plus, it doesn’t help that Trump keeps boasting about the farcical Dow hitting record highs after his entry into the White House. Talk about the perfect setup… With the speed at which Trump is issuing executive orders, my concern is that people’s heads will be spinning so fast they will start to assume an appearance of economic progress. Here is the issue — some problems simply cannot be fixed, at least not in a top down fashion. Some disasters cannot be prevented. Sometimes, a crisis has to run its course before a nation or society or economy can return to stability. This is invariably true of the underlying crisis within the U.S. economy. It is imperative that liberty activists and conservatives avoid false hope in fiscal recovery and remain vigilant and prepared for a breakdown within the system. Despite the sudden political sea change with Trump and the Republican party in majority control of the D.C. apparatus, there is nothing that can be done through government to ease fiscal tensions at this time. Here are some of the primary reasons why: www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-02/irreversible-damage-us-economy-cannot-be-repaired
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Post by avordvet on Feb 11, 2017 7:10:42 GMT -5
Recession 2017? Things Are Happening That Usually Never Happen Unless A New Recession Is BeginningBy Michael Snyder, on February 8th, 2017 Is the U.S. economy about to get slammed by a major recession? According to Gallup, U.S. economic confidence has soared to the highest level ever recorded, but meanwhile a whole host of key economic indicators are absolutely screaming that a new recession is beginning. And if the U.S. economy does officially enter recession territory in 2017, it certainly won’t be a shock, because the truth is that we are well overdue for one. Donald Trump has inherited quite an economic mess from Barack Obama, and it was probably inevitable that we were headed for a significant economic downturn no matter who won the election. One of the key indicators to watch is average weekly hours. When the economy shifts into recession mode, employers tend to start cutting back hours, and that is happening right now. In fact, as Graham Summers has pointed out, we just witnessed the largest percentage decline in average weekly hours since the recession of 2008… theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/recession-2017-things-are-happening-that-usually-never-happen-unless-a-new-recession-is-beginning
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Post by avordvet on Apr 13, 2017 5:07:41 GMT -5
As I have said many times in the past; once obama's hands come off the economic controls, the spiral starts in earnest... the economy has been flatlined since 2008. Tech Stocks Experience Their Longest Losing Streak In 5 Years As Panic Begins To Grip The MarketBy Michael Snyder, on April 12th, 2017 S&P 500 tech stocks have now fallen for 9 days in a row. The last time tech stocks declined for so many days in a row was in 2012, and that was the only other time in history when we have seen such a long losing streak. As I have stated before, the post-election “Trump rally” is officially done, and the market is starting to roll over as investors begin to realize that all of the buying momentum has completely evaporated. Tech stocks tend to be particularly volatile, and so the fact that they are starting to lead the way down should definitely be alarming to many in the investing community. Of course it isn’t just tech stocks that are falling. The Dow was down another 59 points on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 has closed beneath its 50 day moving average for the very first time since the election. For those that have been waiting for a key technical signal before getting out of the market, there is one for you. The price of gold was up again, and that is definitely not surprising in this geopolitical environment. The closer we get to war the higher gold and silver prices will go, and if we actually get into a major conflict we will see them blast into the stratosphere. Another key indicator that I am watching very closely is the VIX. On Wednesday it shot up above 16 for the very first time since the day after Trump’s election victory, and many believe that it could soon go much higher. The following is an excerpt from a CNBC report… theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/tech-stocks-experience-their-longest-losing-streak-in-5-years-as-panic-begins-to-grip-the-market
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Post by avordvet on Apr 20, 2017 13:49:23 GMT -5
Retail Stores Devastated, Suffer Massive Job LossesBy F McGuire, Tuesday, 18 Apr 2017 08:44 AM American retailers are closing thousands of stores and going bankrupt at a rate not seen since the recession, with thousands of workers losing their jobs in a “slow-rolling crisis” that is reportedly devastating the U.S. economy. "This is creating a slow-rolling crisis," Business Insider cited Mark Cohen, the director of retail studies at Columbia Business School, as saying. "The people that work in retail stores will lose their jobs, then spend less money in retail stores because they are no longer employed. That creates a cascade of economic challenges." www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Retail-Stores-Devastated-Massive/2017/04/18/id/784933/
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Post by avordvet on Apr 25, 2017 5:10:10 GMT -5
Retailers Going Bankrupt at Record Pace: 'Bubble Has Now Burst'Newsmax, Monday, 24 Apr 2017 03:43 PM Retailers are filing for bankruptcy at a record rate as they try to cope with the rapid acceleration of online shopping. In a little over three months, 14 chains have announced they will seek court protection, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence, almost surpassing all of 2016. Few retail segments have proven immune as discount shoe-sellers, outdoor goods shops, and consumer electronics retailers have all found themselves headed for reorganization. Meanwhile, America’s retailers are closing stores faster than ever as they try to eliminate a glut of space and shift more business to the web. S&P blamed retailer financial struggles on their inability to adapt to rising pressure from e-commerce. www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/retailers-bankrupt-record-pace/2017/04/24/id/786104/
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Post by avordvet on May 5, 2017 5:16:10 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on May 23, 2017 5:16:40 GMT -5
Over The Last 10 Years The U.S. Economy Has Grown At EXACTLY The Same Rate As It Did During The 1930s
By Michael Snyder, May 22nd, 2017 Even though I write about our ongoing long-term economic collapse every day, I didn’t realize that things were this bad. In this article, I am going to show you that the average rate of growth for the U.S. economy over the past 10 years is exactly equal to the average rate that the U.S. economy grew during the 1930s. Perhaps this fact shouldn’t be that surprising, because we already knew that Barack Obama was the only president in the entire history of the United States not to have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent. Of course the mainstream media continues to push the perception that the U.S. economy is in “recovery mode”, but the truth is that this current era has far more in common with the Great Depression than it does with times of great economic prosperity. Earlier today I came across an article about President Trump’s new budget from Fox News, and in this article the author makes a startling claim… theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/over-the-last-10-years-the-u-s-economy-has-grown-at-exactly-the-same-rate-as-it-did-during-the-1930s
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Post by avordvet on May 31, 2017 4:41:58 GMT -5
The tsunami warnings continue to blare... Paul Singer Warns "All Hell Will Break Loose"
by Tyler Durden, May 30, 2017 1:30 PM It took Paul Singer's Elliott Management less than 24 hours to raise $5 billion earlier this month, however it is safe to say he won't be using any of that cash to buy stocks at current prices, or even BTFD. Instead, as he writes in his Q1 letter to investors, the legendary hedge fund manager thinks "that it is a good time to build a significant amount of dry powder," The reason for that is if, or rather when, Trump's pro-growth agenda fails to be implemented, "all hell will break loose" and that a recession looms as the artificial crutches propping up risk assets are pulled out: Given groupthink and the determination of policy makers to do ‘whatever it takes’ to prevent the next market ‘crash,’ we think that the low-volatility levitation magic act of stocks and bonds will exist until the disenchanting moment when it does not. And then all hell will break loose (don’t ask us what hell looks like...), a lamentable scenario that will nevertheless present opportunities that are likely to be both extraordinary and ephemeral. The only way to take advantage of those opportunities is to have ready access to capital.www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-30/paul-singer-warns-all-hell-will-break-loose
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Post by avordvet on Jun 1, 2017 4:24:26 GMT -5
Mauldin Warns The Next Recession May Be A Complete Reset Of All Asset Valuationsby Tyler Durden, May 31, 2017 7:39 PM, Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, Sometime this year, world public and private plus unfunded pensions will surpass $300 trillion. That is not even counting the $100 trillion in US government unfunded liabilities. Oops. These obligations cannot be paid. A time is coming when the market and voters will realize this. Will voters decide to tax “the rich” more? Will they increase their VAT rates and further slow growth? Will they reduce benefits? No matter what they decide, hard choices will bring political turmoil. And that, of course, will mean market turmoil. The Great Reset Will Cause a Horrible Global Recession We are coming to a period I call “the Great Reset.” As it hits, we will have to deal, one way or another, with the largest twin bubbles in the history of the world. One of those bubbles is global debt, especially government debt. The other is the even larger bubble of government promises. The other is the even larger bubble of government promises. www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-31/mauldin-warns-next-recession-may-be-complete-reset-all-asset-valuations
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Post by avordvet on Jun 4, 2017 5:21:59 GMT -5
CNBC's Ron Insana: Jobs Report Could Be Start of 'Worrying Trend'By F McGuire, Friday, 02 Jun 2017 01:57 PM Let’s hope this isn’t the beginning of the end. CNBC and MSNBC contributor Ron Insana worries that Friday's disappointing jobs report, coupled with recent weak housing and auto sales, could be the start of a pronounced economic slowdown. Best-case scenario, the author of four books on Wall Street explains, is that it could just all be a set of statistical quirks that occur in May. www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Ron-Insana-Jobs-Report-Worrying/2017/06/02/id/793828/
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Post by avordvet on Jun 5, 2017 5:45:09 GMT -5
The Death Of American Manufacturing In 1 Simple Chartby Tyler Durden, Jun 4, 2017 6:20 PM Manufacturing's share of all U.S. employment fell to an all-time record low of 8.48% in May. While blame has been laid at the foot of globalization and technology, in fact it has been an almost non-stop decline since the end of World War 2. So how do we 'make America great again'? The answer seems simple to some in Washington - World War 3? www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-04/death-american-manufacturing-1-simple-chart
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Post by avordvet on Jun 15, 2017 4:50:24 GMT -5
Are Massive Central Bank Purchases A Last Ditch Attempt To Save The Economy & Cap Gold Price?by Tyler Durden, Jun 13, 2017 8:40 PM, Authored by Steve St.Angelo via SRSroccoReport.com, The Central banks bought a staggering $1.5 trillion in assets in the first five months of the year to keep the economy from imploding while at the same time, capping the gold price. Yes, it’s true…. $300 billion a month of Central bank asset purchases pushes up STOCK, BOND and REAL ESTATE values while it depresses or caps the gold (or silver) price. The amount of Central bank asset purchases are now reaching insane levels. And they have to. It is the same thing as being a drug addict. Once, someone starts down the road of drug addiction, it takes more and more of the drug to reach the same effect. Thus, when Central banks started purchasing assets to prop up the market, they have to continue, and they have to continue buying even more. In a previous article, I published this chart showing Central bank asset purchases up until the first four months of 2017: This chart came from a Zerohedge article that showed the Central banks purchased $1 trillion in assets in just the first four months of 2017, and the total of their balance sheets reached $14.6 trillion. In just five years, Central banks purchased $7 trillion in assets. However, in the first four months of 2017, they ramped it up to $1 trillion. Which means, the Central Bank asset purchases could reach $3.6 trillion annualized in 2017, surpassing half of all official purchases in the past five years. That’s a lot of PROPPING UP folks…. and it also has totally depressed and capped the gold price. But, not for long. www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-13/are-massive-central-bank-purchases-last-ditch-attempt-save-economy-cap-gold-price
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Post by avordvet on Jun 28, 2017 4:42:57 GMT -5
All is well citizens, you may put down the tar & pitchforks and return to your homes knowing the government and FED have mitigated the crisis... Uh oh, looks like someone is a non-believer...
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Post by avordvet on Jun 29, 2017 5:14:55 GMT -5
Central Banks Buying Stocks Have Rigged US Stock Market Beyond RecoveryPublished: Monday, 26 June 2017, By David Haggith The Federal Reserve already confessed it rigged the stock market last January in hopes of creating a “wealth effect” throughout the US economy. Its plan, confessed by ex-Fed governor Richard Fisher was to front-run the stock market with its forward messaging about bond purchases though which it created massive liquidity that would be invested in stocks. It worked like this: By promising overnight profits on bonds to its member banks, the Fed knew they would soak up tons of bonds. From there, the Fed hoped the member banks would take the money they made off of buying US bonds and selling them immediately to the Fed for a profit and invest that money in stocks, which they did. (Whether the Fed was just hoping or was secretly directing its member banks to do so could be speculated about endlessly; but they expressed it as “hoping to create a wealth effect.”) Until now I have been speculating about central banks buying stocks, claiming that was all that was supporting the stock market; but I was also just speculating for years that the Federal Reserve was intentionally front-running the stock market throughout its “recovery.” Now those interventions in the stock market, which fueled the Fed’s recovery throughout the market’s long climb, are a well-known fact, admitted to by the Federal Reserve. My speculation that the long bull market was driven almost entirely by banks was much doubted years ago when I and other writers gathered at Zero Hedge, were claiming that was exactly what the Fed was doing. I couldn’t prove it back then, but everything clearly pointed in that direction, even as many experts denied it. news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1498486440.php
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Post by avordvet on Jul 31, 2017 4:31:41 GMT -5
The Elites Are Jumping Ship As The Financial Collapse Draws Nearby Tyler Durden, Jul 28, 2017 10:40 PM, Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, It’s easy to think of the political and financial elites who run our world as lofty and all powerful. They command dangerous governments that can wield devastating weapons, central banks that treat our economy like a rigged casino, media conglomerates that pacify the minds of the public, and unbelievably wealthy corporations that have concentrated wealth to an unprecedented degree. However, they’re certainly not invincible, and the systems of control that they’ve created are rapidly diminishing. Most notably, they seem all to aware of the fact that the global economy is headed for a crash. On the rare occasion where you can catch one of the elites in a moment of candor, they’ll tell you that the party is almost over. www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-28/elites-are-jumping-ship-financial-collapse-draws-near
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Post by avordvet on Aug 24, 2017 5:14:43 GMT -5
5 Charts To Remove The Bubble 'Blinders'by Tyler Durden, Aug 16, 2017 1:15 PM, Authored by Craig Wilson via The Daily Reckoning, The financial crisis of 2007/2008 was an epic failure of so many to simply recognize the signs all around them. That tragedy will pale in comparison to the bubble that continues to build in the current market. By operating without blinders those involved in the market can stay above the noise. www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-16/5-charts-remove-bubble-blinders
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Post by avordvet on Nov 15, 2017 5:20:12 GMT -5
There's something weird going on that's worrying the markets Markets are showing signs of nervousness, which analysts say is not necessarily the dire warning some fear. There is concern that the bond market is sending warnings about the economy, as high yield debt sells off and the Treasury yield curve flattens. The yields of longer duration bonds are getting closer to the yields of shorter duration bonds, and some see that as a forewarning about a slower economy.Patti Domm, 14 Nov 2017 There's an odd chill in the air on Wall Street, but many analysts are shrugging it off as a temporary cooling of a market that still has room to run. Continuing a choppy trend of the last several sessions, stocks Tuesday seesawed and closed lower. The dollar weakened, as commodities like copper and oil sold off. The high yield debt market was under pressure, as buyers moved into safety at the long end of the Treasury curve. "We're just taking a little bit of a break," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities. The stock market hiccupped in morning trading, with the Dow dipping nearly 170 points, but it later closed down just 30 at 23,409, its third loss in four sessions. Traders blamed the mid-morning move in bonds and stocks on concerns that tax reform may not make its way through Congress successfully. The House votes on its version Thursday, and the Senate is still ironing out its version. www.cnbc.com/2017/11/14/theres-something-weird-going-on-thats-worrying-the-markets.html
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