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Worlds hottest stock market creates large bearish reversal pattern CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE 33 days ago I was honored to do an interview with Phil Pearlman, executive editor of Stocktwits (listen here). A couple of the key points in the interview were… (1) Follow the price action of the worlds hottest stock market… (2) Investor sentiment did not appear to be at peak levels and the market had more room to the upside… Click to listen to [...] by Michael What is life going to look like as our precious water resources become increasingly strained and the western half of the United States becomes bone dry? Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in the western half of the country in 1000 years, and now things appear to be reverting to their normal historical patterns. But we have built teeming cities in the desert such as [...] Mac Slavo
On May 31, 2013 asteroid 1998-QE2 will be passing earth at a distance of approximately 3.6 million miles. The asteroid, believed to be a remnant of a comet, is about 1.7 miles, making it big enough to be a “global killer” should it ever strike earth. But because its trajectory puts it at about 15 times further away from the earth than the moon, astronomers say there’s [...] by Phoenix Capital Research
Japan’s bond market is officially losing control.
We have definitely taken out the multi-year trendline here, making a new high higher after a higher low. This is BAD news as it indicates that Japan’s bond market could be entering a cyclical downturn.
If this happens then the great global bond market rig of the last five years is coming to an end. Most analysts have been ignoring bonds because stocks [...] Boehner: ‘Inconceivable’ Obama Didn’t Know About IRS Targeting
“It’s pretty inconceivable to me that the President wouldn’t know,” Boehner said in an interview with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren that was aired Wednesday night. “I’m just putting myself in his shoes. I deal with my senior staff every day. And if the White House had known about this — which, now it appears they’ve known about it for about a year — [...]  BERNANKE ‘SPARKS MASSIVE SELLOFF’ http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/05/23/reuters-today-bernanke-sparks-massive-se?videoId=242971456&videoChannel=1 Perfect Storm Sparks Massive Nikkei Sell-Off A perfect storm of yen strength, a spike in Japanese government bond yields and new evidence of weakness in China’s economy were behind a major sell-off Thursday in Japan’s equity markets, said experts. The benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 7.3 percent in a session that saw it rise 2 percent in early trade only to reverse direction and fall sharply. The broaderTopix finished 6.8 percent lower. “Almost [...] This is going to be huge!!! Japan Bond Yields Spike – 10-Year Now at 1% Japanese government bond (JGB) yields soared to 1 percent on Thursday, their highest level in a year, prompting the Bank of Japan to hold true to its promise of taking action to stabilize an incredibly volatile bond market. Analysts expected the market volatility to last for a while, but added that buying by domestic pension funds and the [...] How ironic, arrests made on CONSTITUTION BLVD by Michael Is the coming financial collapse going to be inflationary or deflationary? Are we headed for rampant inflation or crippling deflation? This is a subject that is hotly debated by economists all over the country. Some insist that the wild money printing that the Federal Reserve is doing combined with out of control government spending will eventually result in hyperinflation. Others point to all of the deflationary factors in our economy [...] Markets Are On The Verge of Euphoria This is what it looks like. On its risk appetite index, Credit Suisse views the index value of 5 as “euphoria”. And we are headed there, as markets embrace risk.
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Global Risk Appetite At 2006 Levels – Nears ‘Euphoria’ Global risk appetite surged to 4.53 (5 being ‘euphoria’), its highest level since the euphoria event of 2006, and up from 1.76 one month ago according to Credit Suisse. Other risk [...] 1) Michael Moore 2) Brian Williams 3) Fox. Must be first time in history they have admitted that SUN activity causes EARTH activity. Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston
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Fed Pours Huge Sums Into Foreign Bank Coffers We noted even before the TARP bailout law was signed into law that bailout moneys could flow to foreign banks. We were right. A large percentage of the bailouts went to foreign banks (and see this). And so did ahuge portion of the money from quantitative easing. More here and here. Ron Paul noted in 2011 that essentially 100% of New York Federal Reserve Bank loans went to foreign banks. A former high-level Federal Reserve official said that the [...] by Phoenix Capital Research
Just what is the Fed so scared of? Today, the Fed’s favorite reporter, Jon Hilsenrath at the Wall Street Journal published an article completely refuting his own work from just two weeks ago. If you’ll recall, two weeks ago, Hilsenrath wrote that the Fed was planning to taper its QE purchases before the end of the year. Today, Hilsenrath wrote that when the Fed does taper its buying it won’t be “predictable.” [...] Jim Rickards, Senior Managing Director at Tangent Capital, says the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policy is so aggressive they are forcing other central banks to cut rates.
Jim Rogers: Yen’s ‘Collapse Very Dangerous’ The dollar hit a four-year high of 103.31 yen Friday, and legendary investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, doesn’t think that’s a good thing. “The [yen], which is one of the major currencies of the world, has collapsed [...] By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
The “Dr. Boom” scenario: America is about to “unleash a spending spree. Years of self-denial give way to pent-up demand,” predicts UBS economist Maury Harris in USA Today’s bold lead story. His clue? Consumer sentiment: “Harris estimates that in the next five years, catch-up consumption will boost annual consumer spending growth by a half point to above 3% from about 2%.” Reassuring? No, wishful thinking. Be [...] Just got this very reliable financial intel. Get ready to short Japanese equities and expect another real-estate bubble burst. Christine Hughes, President and Chief Investment Strategist, discusses details of Japan’s radical monetary policy. the key part of the video, for ease of viewing: The USDJPY has is trying to break the 103 barrier again after the BoJ meeting and Cabinet Secretary Suga commented the “BoJ should continue to steadily strive to reach inflation targets [...] RIDE THE STOCK MARKET GRAVY TRAIN ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK. New York Fed President William Dudley said Tuesday that it will take three to four months to know if the Federal Reserve will be in the position to decide on tapering its asset purchases adding that it is “too soon” to make that determination and depends on how the economic outlook evolves. https://www.mr-topstep.com/index.php/layout/market-updates/2942-fed-s-dudley-will-take-3-to-4-months-to-decide-on-tapering
S&P 500 Projections – Goldman Sachs goes uber [...] By Michael What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops? Themainstream media never talks about that. They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to. And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow keeps setting new all-time highs that everything must be okay. Sadly, that is not the case at all. [...] by Michael Weather patterns are becoming increasingly erratic and the ground under our feet is becoming extremely unstable. So precisely what in the world is going on here? Is this the beginning of a trend? Could it be possible that we are entering the worst period for natural disasters in U.S. history? The tornado that just hit the town of Moore, Oklahoma is already being called one of the most destructive tornadoes [...] Mac Slavo
It’s not a stretch to suggest that Americans are over medicated. In 2011 doctors across the nation wrote an astounding four billion medical prescriptions, amounting to an average of 13 prescriptions for every man, woman and child in the United States. In the next few weeks the American Psychiatric Associations is releasing their updated fifth version their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5); the so-called ‘bible’ of [...] Porter Stansberry: There is now a 100% chance of a market collapse …Historically, looking at the two commodities, the average multiple of gas to oil was about 10x. That is, a barrel of oil was, on average, 10 times more expensive than one thousand cubic feet of gas. By last April, that premium had reached an all-time high of 55 times. There was no way that kind of price relationship could have [...] The very first vertical take off and landing of the F-35. Took place May 10th 2013 at NAS Patuxent River MD. The F-35 is descended from the X-35, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. JSF development is being principally funded by the United States. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies. It is being designed and built by an aerospace industry team led by [...] New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg got into a verbal altercation with a leader of the city’s taxi cab lobby saying that he was going to ‘f***ing destroy’ the group when he leaves office this fall. Bloomberg has championed a new model of taxi cabs for the City, but that plan recently hit a legal pothole when a state judge sided with the taxi industry in going against his proposed changes. ‘Come [...] A terrified woman from Josephine County, Oregon, dialed 911 to report that her violent ex-boyfriend is trying to break into her home, but in response she was told that there are no officers on duty to help her. The cash-strapped sheriff’s department in the county had been forced to lay off 23 of its 29 deputies after losing millions in federal aid. The remaining six officers had their shifts slashed to [...] From Mercenary Trader: 1. Never, Ever, Ever, Under Any Circumstance, Add to a Losing Position: not ever, not never! Adding to losing positions is trading’s carcinogen; it is trading’s driving while intoxicated. It will lead to ruin. Count on it! 3. Mental Capital Trumps Real Capital: Capital comes in two types, [...] From Bruce Krasting: In February, when Ben Bernanke gave his report to Congress, he spoke of his concern about “excessive risk taking.” On May 10 he repeated his warning: … very low interest rates, if maintained for a considerable time, could impair financial stability. For example, portfolio managers dissatisfied with low returns may “reach for yield” by taking on more credit risk, duration risk, or leverage. From Economic Policy Journal: BuzzFeed has obtained the “Golden Pitchbook” used by top brokers at John Thomas Financial. In its pages: How cold-calling brokers pressure prospects to buy stocks from the troubled firm… John Thomas Financial Inc. is a brokerage house straight out of the movie Boiler Room, with brokers fueled by vending machines stocked with nothing but energy drinks and music from Rocky films blaring from speakers. Its founder, Anastasios “Tommy” [...] Russia to evacuate Arctic floating research laboratory as ice melts</strong><br><br>”Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16 crewmembers of a drifting Arctic research station, after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate. Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergey Donskoy on Thursday set a three-day deadline to draft a plan to evacuate the North Pole-40 floating research station. “The ice is disintegrating,” AFP quoted a ministry [...] Donna Anderson Calling for a complete halt to the government’s free cell phone program, Senator David Vitter (R-Il.) says the system is mired in waste and abuse, the biggest offenders are the companies providing the cellphones, and you, the taxpayer, are footing the phone bill.
The Lifeline program was introduced under President Ronald Reagan and was originally intended to be used to subsidize landline phone service for poor Americans. According to the [...] From RiskReversal: The overnight headlines are dominated by Japan’s equity markets’ massive reversal. Here is the 30-day chart of the Nikkei for a sense of the saying, “escalator up, elevator down”: I drew the red line to mark where the Nikkei closed, since it’s hard to tell because it fell so hard near the close. Amazingly, the Nikkei’s move higher has been so strong that it closed right at its 20-day moving [...] Dana Blanton Majorities of American voters say their family will be worse off under the Affordable Care Act, and think it would be better to go back to the pre-ObamaCare health care system. A Fox News poll released Wednesday finds that while 26 percent of voters say their health care situation will be better under the new law, twice as many — 53 percent — say it will be worse. [...] ALBANY, N.Y. — With all the corruption in Albany, one of your representatives is instead focusing efforts on something many of you like to do, bowl. http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/215495/37/Bowling-Shoe-Law-Being-Debated-in-State-Legislature Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. It was the second year in a row that population grew here, but the increase so far shows no signs of making up for the loss of 200,000 people over the previous decade. The growth here reflects a recession-driven trend of fewer people moving [...] An FBI incident review team from Washington, D.C., is in Orlando today, a day after a Russian man who knew Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot dead by an agent. Federal and Central Florida law enforcement agencies are still collecting and processing evidence from the shooting scene at a condominium complex on Peregrine Avenue, near Kirkman Road and Universal Orlando, where Ibragim Todashev was shot early Wednesday. Initially, FBI officials [...] I saw Euronews article about a “planetary dance” on May 24, between Jupiter, Mercury and Venus and it’s getting me very uneasy. There is to be a rare celestial choreography in the night sky from May 24 until the end of the month involving three of Earth’s neighbours in the Solar System. Mercury, Jupiter and Venus will all be aligned in the same field of vision, each seeming to spin and move around the [...] investors.com Scandal Watch: New evidence makes it clear that the Internal Revenue Service campaign against conservatives wasn’t the result of two “rogue” agents, but was directed from higher up. The question is, how high up? The claim that a couple of workers in the bowels of an IRS office in Cincinnati managed to block tax-exempt applications from conservative groups for more than two years, while subjecting them to outrageous, intrusive [...] Lagarde, 57, appears in front of special tribunal of judges in Paris
The head of the International Monetary Fund appeared in court today where she is expected to be formally charged in connection with a £270million fraud and embezzlement case. Christine Lagarde’s humiliation [...] A group of Russian paratrooper chaplains jumped from a transport plane with a large mobile cathedral that they set up in the field upon landing. The Senate resolved that the United States should support Israel if it is forced to take military action to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4383229,00.html The Obama administration has officially killed more American citizens by drones than the number of foreign terrorists waterboarded under the Bush administration. On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed previously classified information in a letter to a top senator stating that four American citizens have been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009. This is the first such acknowledgment by the Obama administration. In the letter, Holder did not specifically call them drone [...] I guess the fact that way more than 50% of Muslim immigrants to Sweden are fully dependent on government welfare for their food, clothing, and shelter still isn’t enough. They want more and think that destroying the city is the way to get attention. Oh, and they also don’t like being harassed by the police. http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/05/23/sweden-after-several-days-of-muslim-savages-rioting-assaulting-police-and-torching-hundreds-of-cars-now-they-want-pity-and-more-free-stuff/ Around 50 (Muslim) youths were involved in the riots in the suburb of Husby, police spokesman Lars Bystrom [...] Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health coverage. Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California’s new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers. UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest private insurer, Aetna Inc.and Cigna Corp. are sitting out the first year of Covered California, the state’s insurance [...] Texas outperformed every other state in the nation on jobs and growth over the past decade, according to the latest annual report on state economic performance released Thursday by the American Legislative Exchange Council. Michigan came in dead last. The rankings are based on state GDP growth, population shifts, and changes in non-farm payroll jobs between 2001 and 2011. The ALEC report also finds that Utah has the best economic outlook this year, and [...] WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines. Republicans said the measure was needed to ensure that the long-delayed pipeline, first proposed in 2008, is built. http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/house-passes-gop-bill-to-bypass-president-to-speed-approval-of-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline/ This is Congressman Alan Grayson questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on $550B of loans to foreigners (or ‘central liquidity swaps’ in Federal Reserve-ese’). Which financial institutions received this money? Bernanke’s answer: I don’t know. As the Fed was lending this money, the dollar increased by 30% in value. Grayson asks, was this a coincidence? Bernanke’s answer: yes. Tim Geithner Refuses To Answer Brad Sherman On Some Questions “Bernanke Threatens The Congress” We will [...] |
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