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“Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event” Fractures The Polar Vortex In Two
“Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event” Fractures The Polar Vortex In Two “This split of the polar vortex will shift the upper atmospheric pattern such that the coldest airmass is located in western North America as well as over parts of Europe. This will allow for a ridge of high pressure to amplify in the eastern US, […]
This Year’s Stock Buybacks Are Already Bigger Than All Of 2009’s
This Year’s Stock Buybacks Are Already Bigger Than All Of 2009’s While there is still some fringe debate what companies will do with the hundreds of billions in offshore funds repatriated to the US as part of the recently passed Trump tax reform, the discussion is largely over, especially after last week’s Cisco results. The […]
Is New Zealand A Doomsday Preppers’ Paradise?
Is New Zealand A Doomsday Preppers’ Paradise? Earlier today, we reported that Peter Thiel, the Bay Area’s most prominent conservative and one of President Trump’s most outspoken supporters from the LGBT community, announced that he was relocating to Los Angeles – and taking his investment firm with him – because of the famously intolerant culture […]
How WaPo, BuzzFeed, And Soros-Backed Group Pushed The Phrase “Fake News” Until It Backfired
How WaPo, BuzzFeed, And Soros-Backed Group Pushed The Phrase “Fake News” Until It Backfired In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday’s tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, several major news outlets published a report that the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was a member of a white supremacist organization. In fact, the MSM was hoodwinked by 4chan users into publishing fake […]
Brazilian Army Ordered To “Restore Order” In Rio De Janeiro
Brazilian Army Ordered To “Restore Order” In Rio De Janeiro With public spending on police and social services collapsing amid Brazil’s worsening economic crisis, violent crime has crept back up in Rio de Janeiro, a city widely recognized for its favelas – urban hillside slums teeming with violence, drugs and prostitution, according to Bloomberg. And […]
Hackers Used SWIFT To Steal $6 Million From Russian Bank
Hackers Used SWIFT To Steal $6 Million From Russian Bank In the latest revelation about the Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication’s vulnerability to hackers – who’ve stolen tens of millions of dollars from banks and central banks mostly by stealing the special private keys used to sign off on transactions – Russian authorities revealed that […]
Global Trade Wars Begin: Ross Recommends Major Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Focusing On China, Russia
Global Trade Wars Begin: Ross Recommends Major Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Focusing On China, Russia Update 3: As previewed earlier, at noon on Friday the commerce department released reports on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s investigations into the impact on our national security from imports of steel mill products and from imports of wrought and […]
Canadian Existing Home Sales Crash In January
Canadian Existing Home Sales Crash In January After five straight months of acceleration, January saw Canadian existing home sales crash 14.5% – the biggest drop on record… Home prices rose 2,3% over the past 12 months, but it appears a sudden close-eye on Chinese buyers has hit the market hard as Toronto home sales crashed […]
Fed Warns Inflation Has Arrived: Philadelphia, New York Fed Prices Paid Soar
Fed Warns Inflation Has Arrived: Philadelphia, New York Fed Prices Paid Soar Just in case the economic data appeared to be coming in as too hot in recent days, today’s two key regional Fed manufacturing indicators sent conflicting signals, with the New York Fed survey sliding from 17.70 to 13.1, and missing expectations of 17.50, […]
Albert Edwards: “We Just Had A Small Taste Of The Coming Financial Collapse”
Albert Edwards: “We Just Had A Small Taste Of The Coming Financial Collapse” What is the outcome when three market skeptics sit down for dinner to discuss the future of the global economy? Whatever it is, it’s hardly optimistic. In his latest note released moments after the big CPI upside surprise and titled, what else, […]
Russian Deputy PM: Our Banks Are Ready To Turn Off SWIFT
Russian Deputy PM: Our Banks Are Ready To Turn Off SWIFT Russian financial institutions are prepared to survive without access to SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) – the global dollar-based interbank payments network – should the US and European Union follow through with threats to cut it off, according to Deputy Prime […]
$1.2 Trillion Asset Manager: Forget Volatility, The Real Financial Timebomb Is Public Pensions
$1.2 Trillion Asset Manager: Forget Volatility, The Real Financial Timebomb Is Public Pensions As we have reported over and over and over (and over, and over), public pensions are in deep, deep trouble. In addition critical funding shortfalls (U.S. public pensions had just 71.8% of assets required to meet obligations as of June 2016), many of the country’s largest […]
Household Debt Rises By $572 Billion, Ends 2017 At All Time High
Household Debt Rises By $572 Billion, Ends 2017 At All Time High After we first reported last week that US credit card, student and auto debt all hit record highs in December of 2017… … it should not come as a surprise that according to the just released latest quarterly household debt and credit report […]
Plunge in Interbank Lending: The Straw that Broke the Fed’s Back
Plunge in Interbank Lending: The Straw that Broke the Fed’s Back Interbank lending took a historic dive. Readers ask “What’s happening?” Let’s investigate. Interbank Lending Long Term The plunge in interbank lending is both sudden and dramatic. What’s going on? Fed Tightening Two Ways The short answer is a straw broke the Fed’s back. A […]
Whistleblower Exposes “Rampant Manipulation Of VIX”
Whistleblower Exposes “Rampant Manipulation Of VIX” We first exposed the “conspiracy fact” that VIX manipulation runs the entire market back in 2015 as the ubiquitous VIX-crushing algo-runs coincided with a non-stop shorting of VIX futures by a seemingly bottomless-pocketed player in the market… which happened to coincide with the arrival of Simon Potter as the […]
