Beijing has long maintained control in part by tacitly promising that over time everyone will benefit from the country's new wealth. Rampant corruption and the garish displays of affluence by senior officials and their families strike at the heart of Beijing's promise that it is working to make life better for all. Ordinary Chinese, often through microblogs and other social media, have inc...Read More
Two-speed Britain as London soars away from the rest … In London, there are more cranes on the skyline than in the rest of the country put together. Evidence is growing that a recovery is under way, but there are now fears that only the south-east is benefiting, leaving the nation more divided. – The GuardianDominant Social Theme: This is an unpredictable element of the recovery.Free-M...Read More
Creative destruction: our economic crisis was wholly predictable: Keynes, Hobson, Marx – and the crisis of capitalism. Is it to the wrong ideas of economists or to the interests of the power-holders that we should turn to explain the "Great Contraction" of 2008-2009? John Maynard Keynes believed that the Great Depression of 1929-32 was caused by the wrong theory of how the economy...Read More
Reuters: 'An Increasingly Polarized Washington Is Devouring Its Own' … Unprecedented Justice Department searches of journalists' phone records. IRS targeting of conservative political groups. Spiraling sexual assault rates in the military. And the downplaying of the first killing of an American ambassador in 30 years. But Obama's failings are only part of the problem. An incr...Read More
Beijing has long maintained control in part by tacitly promising that over time everyone will benefit from the country's new wealth. Rampant corruption and the garish displays of affluence by senior officials and their families strike at the heart of Beijing's promise that it is working to make life better for all. Ordinary Chinese, often through microblogs and other social media, have inc...Read More
Two-speed Britain as London soars away from the rest … In London, there are more cranes on the skyline than in the rest of the country put together. Evidence is growing that a recovery is under way, but there are now fears that only the south-east is benefiting, leaving the nation more divided. – The GuardianDominant Social Theme: This is an unpredictable element of the recovery.Free-M...Read More
Jim talks about recent events, explains the stats and how this is all blown out of proportion. Jim then segues ways into the economy and how the central bank is now being loaded up with toxic assets to bring the Rothschild banking system down. Gold is ready to take off and sound money will be returning.Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD...Read More
J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton's International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park. He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton's Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX. In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis. He learned early on that o...Read More
Gary is a master at making the complex simple. In just 4 charts he shows exactly where the economy is now in relation to the 2008-09 economic crisis and where it's probably heading. And equally as important, he makes a compelling case for the only insurance policy available to mere mortals, gold.Gary S. Wagner has been a technical market analyst for 25 years. A frequent contributor to STOCKS & COM...Read More
Bob's website: tradegeniusacademy.comLior Gantz has been called a thrill-seeking entrepreneur by his team, and as such, he built and runs numerous successful businesses, and has traveled to over 30 countries in the past decade in pursuit of thrills and opportunities, gaining valuable knowledge and experience. With Wealth Research Group, Lior allows readers access into the world of the few who beat...Read More
Join Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough and Epsilon Theory CIO Ben Hunt for a pro-to-pro investing discussion about the current market environment.Ben Hunt's bio: https://www.epsilontheory.com/w-ben-hunt/Mr. Keith R. McCullough is the Founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management LLC. He covers the strategy sector at the firm. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. McCullough was a Partner, Portfolio Manager, and...Read More
"This shows there is a complete government cover-up of the Saudi involvement." "It demonstrates there was a hierarchy of command that's coming from the Saudi Embassy to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs [in Los Angeles] to the hijackers."Continue...Read More
Despite all the data that show far fewer people have died of this virus than the flu, it is the biggest event of their life because he has destroyed the world economy to create a New Green World Order.Continue...Read More
Real estate investor Marcel Arsenault has racked up Warren Buffett-scale profits over the past few credit cycles by loading up on "empty buildings" at the bottom, filling them with paying tenantsContinue...Read More
With all the hysteria surrounding the coronavirus, there has been a renewed discussion on biological warfare.How likely will some form of biological warfare happen in the near future? What could the scenario look like?Continue...Read More
CNBC's "Halftime Report" team is joined by David Tepper of Appaloosa Management to discuss his investment strategies amid the coronavirus pandemic.Read More
To understand the long-term consequences of the pandemic on Main Street and local tax revenues, we need to consider first and second order effects. The immediate consequences of lockdowns and changes in consumer Continue...Read More
Until the virus is under control, and until the reopening is viewed as a political issue - especially if continued state shutdowns help cripple the Trump economy ahead of the November election Continue...Read More
A list of Obama administration officials who participated in the 'unmasking' of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been released by Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley.Continue...Read More
SBTV's latest guest is Luke Gromen, founder of FFTT, LLC (Forest for the Trees). We discussed the massive debt hole the Federal Reserve will need to fill and why a bond auction where the Fed is the sole buyer is increasingly a likely scenario.Discussed in this interview:01:50 Life disrupted by the pandemic04:20 How bad is the damage to the real economy from shutdown?09:28 Limits to the Fed's money...Read More