September 15, 2024 | Migrants & Historical Plagues

  COMMENT: I am an RN, and I travel around the country. All over the US, we started to see upticks in diseases the US hadn’t seen in decades when Obama brought the Somalians introducing polio, but that never made the news. Then, in the Western US, we have seen TB, AIDS, whooping cough, and […]

September 14, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes for September 14, 2024

The S&P had its best week of the year this week; last week, it had its worst week in 18 months. Do you want to bet on next week? The S&P fell ~4% last week and bounced back ~4% this week. The S&P ended last week right on its lows. It rallied back on Monday […]

September 14, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Silver, Oil, USD and Canadian Dollar.  Special Offer! 25% Off New Annual Subscriptions.
• Gerald Celente:  (11:26) Who Will Win the Election? Gold, USD, World Leaders.
• Sean Brodrick:  (36:40) Uranium, Gold, Silver, High Tech.

September 14, 2024 | IEA: Global Oil Demand “Slowing Sharply”

Global oil demand growth is “slowing sharply” as China’s economy cools, pushing prices to a three-year low, the International Energy Agency said. World consumption increased by 800,000 barrels a day in the first half of the year, barely a third of the expansion in the same period of 2023, the adviser to major economies said […]

September 14, 2024 | Tech Talk for Saturday September 14th 2024

The Bottom Line Focus this week is on the FOMC’s economic statement released on Wednesday at 2:00 PM EDT. Consensus calls for a 0.25% reduction in the Fed Fund Rate to 5.25%. Consensus for Earnings and Revenues for S&P 500 companies Source: www.factset.com A word of caution! Consensus for third quarter results calls for significantly […]

September 13, 2024 | China Property Meltdown

China continues to experience a significant collapse in its property sector, which is weighing heavily on Chinese families. Numerous attempts at stimulating the sector have failed. When will China’s property sector start to recover? There is a view suggesting that Beijing has lost control of the property market, which could be very damaging to the […]

September 13, 2024 | Chinese Bust Cycle is Contagious

From 2019 to 2022, rounds of “free” money courtesy of central banks and governments fuelled gullibility and blind risk-taking in many countries. The effects were particularly short-lived in China, the world’s second-largest economy, where consumer confidence has been moribund over the past three years (below since 2016).   Hampered by relatively low household incomes and […]

September 13, 2024 | Gold, Gold, Gold

Will BRICS Squash the US Dollar?

September 12, 2024 | Biden’s Attempt to Restrain the Supreme Court Warns the End is Near

This partisan part-time political hack we call President Biden has had the blatant gall to call for term limits on Justices of the Supreme Court only because the Democrats want the Court to rule as they see fit – not according to the Constitution. In HARRIS v. McRAE, 448 U.S. 297 (1980), a pregnant woman […]

September 12, 2024 | Lacy Hunt Economic Update

Ted Oakley interviews Dr. Lacy Hunt regarding the U.S. economy, world economy, Federal Reserve, and interest rates. Here is a direct video link. Meanwhile, the effective corporate tax rate for large S&P 500 companies is at a multi-decade low of less than 20 percent (shown below since 1985).  Sustainable?  

September 12, 2024 | If Jim Willie was President

Debate, White Hats, Leaving Urban Areas

September 12, 2024 | “Prepare to Stand” Tour: What You Should Know

• Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson:  Canadian Rights on the Brink of Extinction? Prepare To Stand Tour Tickets

September 12, 2024 | How Trudeau’s Contradictory Energy Policies are Hurting You

Why does the Government hate Small Businesses?

September 12, 2024 | Did We Just Have a “Weird Wally Wednesday”?

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September 11, 2024 | WTI Crude Oil BUY Signal Triggered. We Sent Out New Energy Stock BUY Ideas Yesterday

Today is remembrance day for 9/11, a clear day of infamy in US history. US political leaders (Democratic and Republican) will attend memorials at the three sites that were attacked. Good news there for bipartisan action on behalf of the nation. Last night’s mudslinging Presidential debate was not a heartwarming showing for either candidate, but […]

September 11, 2024 | Small Businesses Warn of Weak Outlook

The outlook for small business earnings has been contracting since 2019, retreating below the pandemic bottom in August, with no turnaround yet. The glaring outperformance of S&P 500 operating earnings (in light blue below) above small business earnings since 2023 (dark blue below since 1986) looks unsustainable even as a bullish consensus forecast continued divergence […]

September 11, 2024 | Kamala’s Phycological Warfare & Eating Cats & Dogs

    COMMENT #3: Thank you for your interesting feedback on the debate; I was also very surprised at how well Kamala performed. She appeared calm and collected. Trump, on the contrary, did not come across as a resolute winner. I do not understand why he had to mention things such as immigrants feeding on […]

September 11, 2024 | The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech

Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly those risky banks with trillions of dollars in derivatives on their books. “Move your money” was the obvious response, but what could local governments do? Their bank accounts were too large for […]

September 11, 2024 | Chart Alert: Double Top Resistance Signals Potential for Sharp Decline

This is an important chart! The S&P chart reveals two critical outside reversal weeks down from the 5,700 level—the first ending July 19th and the second just last week, on September 6th. These consecutive reversals in such a short time frame have created a powerful double top resistance. After the July 19th reversal, we saw a retracement […]

September 10, 2024 | Matt Taibbi: Why Censorship Is Suddenly Fashionable

Matt Taibbi, superstar reporter who recently turned on his MSM former bosses, just published a cogent explanation for why it’s now trendy to favor the arrest of free-speech social media execs like Elon Musk and Telegram’s Pavel Durov. If you’d prefer to listen rather than read, scroll down to the audio version. Liberalism Removes its Mask Upper-class America […]

September 10, 2024 | Health & Fitness: All the Things That I Have Done

  I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives – and that includes how healthy you are, how fit you are, and how you age. Everything thing you do – every thought you think – is within your control.  So take control guys. Yup, I am living proof that if […]

September 9, 2024 | Stagflation Begins

Nine of the 12 Federal Reserve districts reported a decline in economic activity in August, up five districts from the July Beige Book report. Our system has warned that we are entering a period of stagflation, where inflation remains high but GDP declines. Now, the Fed is reporting that two-thirds of the US economy is […]

September 9, 2024 | From the Archives: Martin Armstrong (Correctly) Predicts Chaos

Originally published on August 9, 2023, this post featured some extreme predictions from forecaster Martin Armstrong — many of which seem to be coming true. So, as we blunder into WW III while running one of the most bizarre and least trustworthy elections in American history, revisiting some of Armstrong’s thoughts seems appropriate. People We […]

September 9, 2024 | Jobs, Not Rates

Happy Monday Morning! The Bank of Canada slashed rates again, the third time in this rate cutting cycle, and more cuts are coming. Markets are pricing in another 50bps of rate cuts by year end. Will this be enough to resuscitate the housing market back to life? The Real Estate industry certainly wants to belive […]