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by RedditIsOwendByTheWS Apple Microsoft Amazon NVIDIA Tesla Alphabet Meta Alphabet Class C Berkshire Hathaway UnitedHealth Group https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1692965376055705764 https://twitter.com/SuburbanDrone/status/1692889241913643108 https://twitter.com/crossbordercap/status/1692974516236919043 https://twitter.com/WinfieldSmart/status/1691128548512485376
ECB President Christine Lagarde CBDC Will Be Used For Control 🚨🚨🚨Cash transactions above 1,000 Euros already banned. Jail or fines if you are caught. With CBDC Euro, there will be controls. Maybe transactions 300-400 Euros won't be controlled. Anything above will be. 🔊 pic.twitter.com/MeAucmoK9H — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 18, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1689287773591629825
China’s Housing Slump Far Worse Than Reported; Half Of State-Owned Builders Warn Of “Widespread” Losses Earlier today, Goldman’s head of hedge fund sales Tony Pasquariello observed that “to this point in the sequence, I’d argue the slowdown in China had been a net positive for US equities — with specific regard to the disinflationary impulse and the flow …
Never sacrifice the constitution in the name of Safety! It leads to totalitarianism! Resist! — Ryan Cunningham (@patriotryanc) August 18, 2023 The WHO, CDC, Biden Admin are fear mongering a new COVID variant BA.2.86 after highly mutated strain reported in Michigan. Sources in DHS and Emergency Management (my field) are already preparing for lockdowns and …
..CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING LIKELY OVER BAJA CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK… …AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTERS FIND THAT HILARY IS STILL A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE… https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?epac Hurricane #Hilary Advisory 12: Catastrophic and Life-Threatening Flooding Likely Over Baja California and the Southwestern U. S. Through Monday. https://t.co/Oy8uoeRKme — NHC Pacific (@NHC_Pacific) …
by Qplus17 If this doesn’t convince the masses of inflation, nothing on Gods green earth will.
by DesmondMilesDant The $1 trillion of high yield debt that’s piled up in the last 5 years is about to have a ‘day of reckoning,’ Bank of America says There’s around $1 trillion of private debt that’s headed for potential trouble, Bank of America warned. Most of that debt has been created by below-investment …
From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group In what is now a ten-year-old interview, Jim Rickards shocked his audience. Sadly, his controversial views then might be considered good news today… After being pressed about his somewhat extreme economic predictions, he added some context: The international monetary system has actually collapsed three times in the past 100 years. It collapsed …
12Z GFS has a surface low forming near Panama in 120 hrs It is generally accepted that if anything shows under 144 hrs, its likely to be real. At this point, has it traveling north over Cuba and slamming the Florida Gulf coast. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs®ion=watl&pkg=mslp_pcpn&runtime=2023081812&fh=6 I am sure track and intensity will vary on future runs …
by stayyfr0styy I’ve been ignorant and regarded for too long about money. Dad always told me that the stock market averages 7-8% return, and if inflation is only 2-4%, then you are making 4-5% of real value over time. Well he was wrong, and the government and state run media have been working together to …
The New York Times – “ We Need Black- Majority States” They called Tucker a racist conspiracy theorist for talking about this pic.twitter.com/qYTcfW0GGR — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 18, 2023 That is both funny & tragic in its accuracy. The “New York” Times is a declining, once-powerful, but fundamentally doomed to be regional & increasingly …
by Michael The more that I dig into this story, the more it smells. A few days ago, I wrote an article about some of the unanswered questions that many of us had about the fires in Hawaii. We are now getting answers to some of those questions, and what we are finding out is deeply disturbing. …
BULLETIN Hurricane Hilary Intermediate Advisory Number 6A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL EP092023 600 PM MDT Thu Aug 17 2023 …HILARY BECOMES A MAJOR HURRICANE… Hurricane Hilary Discussion Number 6 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL EP092023 300 PM MDT Thu Aug 17 2023 https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDEP4%20shtml/172056.shtml Hilary has an impressive appearance on satellite imagery. The …
It is clear that home affordability is deteriorating rapidly, and this trend is likely to continue in the near future. This could lead to another housing market crash, as people are unable to keep up with their mortgage payments. h/t bawalibaba
https://t.co/D5KGWmAADo — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) August 18, 2023 Evergrande, one of China’s real estate giants, just filed Chapter 15 bankruptcy. Meanwhile, China’s HY real estate index is down a massive 82% in just over 2 years. This puts the index back down to 2008-levels. All while China just “unexpectedly” cut interest rates. Is China… …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ot7ZwWFCIc Restaurant prices are still rising all across the United States, and even your regular coffee order at Starbucks is going to get more expensive in the coming weeks. According to a new report, this is the fifth time Starbucks is raising menu prices in two years. The coffee house chain is also implementing “additional …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Borrowing from the Bank Term Funding Program hit a NEW all time high–the 11th consecutive week above $100 billion! What we are monitoring: Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) Discount Window/Primary Credit “Other Credit Extensions” I hope to shed light on the recent uptick in borrowing due to an attempt to offset the initial …
The market is on the brink of a weekly bearish MACD cross Signaling a downward shift in momentum This week's close will be crucial pic.twitter.com/XH14SmzsSU — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) August 17, 2023 MARKETS ABSOLUTELY POLEAXED INTO THE CLOSE; CORRECTION TERRITORY FOR EQUITIES LOOMS * — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) August 17, 2023 The S&P 500 just broke …
You KNEW this was going to happen…. Despite all of the frantic propaganda saying otherwise. The closer we get to the start of the U.S. Presidential Campaign Season, the desperation to freeze the conflict is growing, and nothing to show for it on the battlefield. The Democrats have to freeze this conflict before that taxpayers …
BREAKING: Republican Georgia state Senator Colton Moore moves to impeach Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis for her actions against Trump. Finally, a Republican with a backbone. “I’m not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors weaponize their elected offices to politically target their opponents,” Moore said. “As a Georgia State Senator, I …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.fitchratings.com/research/banks/further-cut-to-us-bank-oper-environment-score-would-require-structural-change-17-08-2023 Fitch Ratings-New York-17 August 2023: Fitch Ratings lowered the operating environment (OE) score for U.S. banks in June to ‘aa-‘ from ‘aa’ mainly due to structural uncertainty around the path and rate of monetary tightening and gaps in in the regulatory framework. The lowering of the OE score did not negatively affect the ratings …
by Frequent_Quail_2202 Bank of California announced that it was going to buy PacWest for an all share deal. Warburg Pincus & partners graciously offered to inject $400M at $12.30 into $BANC. Since the announcement, after the initial surge, the stock has ground lower and is currently just above this $12.30 price level. If the stock …
by DesmondMilesDant Goldman Sachs Blames Zero-Day Options for Fueling S&P 500 Selloff Options speculation was the reason the market got run up in the first place, not sure why they are surprised when it also drives it down. FINRA ‘discipline’ Alert! Between July 2018 & September 2021, Goldman Sachs failed to report, or inaccurately reported, …
Contin Jobless Claims in the US rose to 1,716mil in the week ending August 5, 2023, up from 1,684mil in the previous week. pic.twitter.com/hHx7po1nYG — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 17, 2023 BTIG warns S&P 500 may drop to 4200 over coming weeks By Investing.com Michael Burry: Investor who accurately predicted housing collapse bets $2.5 billion …
Russia just accused the ruling families of the DNC and Big Pharma of creating covid in Ukraine, and using it to take over the world. “Thus, as in 2019, the US has begun preparing for a new pandemic by searching for virus mutations. We do not rule out that the United States will use of …
by Hephaestus4 Money printing is inevitable. Superinflation then hyperinflation scenarios become very real each day! India just ditched the dollar and used its own currency to buy a million barrels of oil from the UAE GLOBAL ALARM! US Debt Surge Sparks Dollar Concerns! Will China Dump $700B in Bonds? https://youtu.be/ICD9scaGVP8
This week, mortgage rates in the US hit their highest since 2001. We are well above the 2008 highs and rising. After the Fed minutes were released today, rate expectations increased. Bumpy road for homebuyers. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) August 16, 2023 Mortgage rates …
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 United States lost $5.9 trillion in wealth last year, more than any other country in the world. — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) August 16, 2023 NEW – Russia got richer last year, while the West shed trillions of dollars of wealth, according to UBS. pic.twitter.com/3E790JmosT — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 16, 2023 https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1691853636043768185 …
by marketsimulator Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/ycfaq.html#/overview The yield curve as a leading indicator uses the 10y-3mo value to predict the probability of recession. July report came out last week and May ’24 is higher than any time in the last 40 years at 70.85%. Estimates currently go through July ’24. This is not the fed’s official prediction but …
by confoundedinterest17 Well, its now August 2023 and US Industrial Production for July increased … to 2007 levels. This comes after the massive spending out of Washington DC and massive Federal Rerserve stimulus. Is that all there is?? US Industrial Production is DOWN -0.23% YoY while up slightly in MoM terms. As I said a …