(Bloomberg) — It’s been two decades since Wall Street analysts were this upbeat. About 56% of all recommendations on S&P 500 firms are listed as buys, the most since 2002. It’s one more data point that shows the extent of …
by visualcapitalist How Many Americans Own Stocks? 2020 was an exceptionally volatile year for the stock market. But how many Americans were directly impacted by last year’s market highs and lows? In other words, how many Americans own stocks as a …
by Michael Snyder Over the last 30 years, there has been a mass exodus out of organized religion in the United States. Each year the needle has only moved a little bit, but over the long-term what we have witnessed …
via kqed.org: Last year, while state lawmakers were considering a landmark bill to open up previously confidential police misconduct records to the public, the city of Fremont quietly destroyed a large archive of papers, cassettes and computer files documenting over four …
via advisorperspectives: The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released this morning puts the year-over-year inflation rate at 1.52%. It is substantially below the 3.76% average since the end of the Second World War and above its 10-year moving average, …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know brings you the most recent updates on gold and silver. Stories include: Central banks are buying gold in record numbers, silver to reclaim its “precious” status, and how China’s Lunar New Year will …
by freetvs MIRROR full segment from CBS News CBS is trying to downplay the effectiveness of a wall. They don’t seem to understand that a wall is a deterrent (just like a door on your house) and one layer of …
by Thinker Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2/10) Movie CLIP – Shredded (2005) Knowing both sides of the story is everything, and sometimes it take time to hear the other side… How many have fled to save their …
by zenmasterzen3 Barrie Trower has been warning of the health implications of WIFI/mobile phone radiation for a DECADE. This is using evidence that was known in the 1960s, when he was a British navy spook. The spooks have allowed …
‘ Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company’s powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and …
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” …
The most corrupt politicians in control of the House and it’s committees, smh. This is going to be a huge circus the next 2 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKDXXVIp0I AC
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033220222499598336 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033224552594198528 Swap curve just inverted. Not bullish. pic.twitter.com/1ZmIeeJLzL — Kevin C. Smith, CFA (@crescatkevin) August 24, 2018 $spx pic.twitter.com/4iaXpku32P — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) August 24, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033194499399409669
The housing crash hurt the poor and middle class more than the rich, who rode the bull stock market. From Bloomberg: The financial crisis and the Great Recession were absolutely devastating for the wealth of middle- and lower-income Americans. A report from the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV3Ogjdn7Vk As long as that supply continues, so will the eruptions. Waite said there could be periods of lower activity for years or even decades, but the eruption will resume and continue until the Pacific tectonic plate moves Hawaii island …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Markets wail and gnash their teeth as “normalization” of Italian yields sets in. On Tuesday, Italian bonds had their worst day in Eurozone existence, even worse than any day during the worst periods of the 2011 …
by Martin Armstrong The EU migration chief, Dimitris Avramopoulos, has demonstrated that politicians are just so out of touch with reality they are securing their own demise. Avramopoulos has made a speech that Europe is set to absorb massive waves of migration “for the decades …
Here’s what’s new this week: A Sacramento County Superior Court Judge declined to drop felony charges against a leader of the so-called “Antifa.” The individual—47-year-old Yvette Felarca–was involved in a riot between approximately 300 Antifa types and 30 Alt-Right types in Sacramento in 2016. …
Jordan Sather interviewed on the X22 Report Spotlight The good news, as Jordan puts it, is that President Trump is a Patriot and a good guy in the fight. Trump reluctantly accepted the presidency because he couldn’t stand to see America …
Image from pixabay From CNBC: Today’s global economy has created the best backdrop in “decades” for owning commodities, says Jeffrey Currie, global head of commodities for Goldman Sachs. In Currie’s view, the market’s love affair with technology equities, especially the FANG …
More snow = global warming. Also, less snow = global warming. SAVANNAH, Ga. — A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina …
Chemical Used In Plastic Bottles And Containers Potentially Hazardous To Health BRUSSELS – European experts have announced that a chemical used in a wide range of plastics that come into contact with food, drinks, toys and cosmetics is “a substance …
by Chris Hamilton Economists spend inordinate time gauging the business cycle that they believe drives the US economy. However, running in the background (and nearly entirely forgotten) is the population cycle. The positive population cycle is such a long running macro trend …
by Mark Angelides Fascism, Communism, Marxism and Socialism are far closer bedfellows than practitioners would have you believe. Their pervasive influence has been felt in the U.S from nursery schools all the way to the White house. The historical ties …