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View post on imgur.com The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, which Moscow said would put it on par with the United States. Wednesday’s test used chemicals and radioisotopes to “validate new predictive explosion models” that can help detect atomic …
Global economic activity, expressed as trade (imports + exports) and industrial production combined, is clearly in #recession. It is hard to fathom how the U.S can dodge the bullet. pic.twitter.com/gBVO44Mm28 — RecessionALERT (@RecessionAlert) October 17, 2023 Asian stocks declined amid headwinds from lingering geopolitical risks and higher yields… pic.twitter.com/gF4KmlJ0oU — Newsquawk (@Newsquawk) October 19, 2023 …
by Martin Armstrong As we head into 2032, the United States has shown the world that you can rig elections using criminal law. I reported how Argentina was bringing criminal charges against the opposition simply for saying, do not save pesos because the currency is collapsing. Thus, the government has turned that comment into a crime. In …
Chinese property stocks are on track for a 14-year low, as stress in the sector continues to rise amid slumping home sales and deepening debt woes for major developers, per Bloomberg. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 18, 2023 Fears that Country Garden will defaultAre growing by the day pic.twitter.com/Shl9wCMNca — Longview Economics (@Lvieweconomics) October 18, 2023 …
by Chris Black https://www.forexlive.com/news/why-the-signals-from-the-bond-market-are-truly-terrifying-20231012/ [The sum of all bond market fears is that the combination of deficits, QE, ultra-low rates and a general market mania (think NFTs, crypto and meme stocks) built a house of cards in the global economy that’s just starting to crash down. Yes, silly season has been over for awhile but …
by mark000 In August 2008 what was about to happen? A GFC and the plunge stage of the Great Recession. And 99% of people were blissfully unaware even as the other 1% could see it inevitable arrival, just waiting for when. It is the same situation right now, October 2023. 🔴 IMF'S MANAGING DIRECTOR GEORGIEVA: …
Historians will look back in astonishment that this wasn’t front page news. — Wolf 🐺 (@WorldByWolf) October 12, 2023 After a brief break in the last few days, we are back to the new normal: Stocks and bonds being positively correlated, particularly during down days. One thing seems evident: We are no longer in the …
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy did a deal with Biden to suspend the debt ceiling entirely until 2025. So there is no debt limit now. That is one of the reasons he was removed as Speaker. Conservatives felt that was crazy to allow Biden to borrow unlimited amounts of money for 18… — Wall Street Mav …
🚨 This is How Global Collateral Markets are Starting to Freeze Right Now.🚨 https://t.co/KslI7M4UA3 pic.twitter.com/5ZnpfCvhuJ — Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_EDU) October 12, 2023 Huge divergence. Looking like a US Treasury or bond bear market similar to 1940s or 1970s like @LynAldenContact @LukeGromen & Tavi have been predicting for awhile. 10 year US Treasury is the …
The leader of Hamas just called for a Global Day of Jihad this Friday. Do not leave your homes that day unless there is an emergency. Avoid public transit. Avoid airplanes. Avoid public events. — Joey Mannarino 🇺🇸 (@JoeyMannarino) October 11, 2023 https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1712074883880919325
Global central banks have been buying record amounts of gold as they seek to diversify reserves away from the dollar. “We expect central banks to continue their role as net purchasers of gold,” according to the head of gold strategy at State Street. The trend appears to be part of the broader de-dollarization drive, led …
by Quant2011 India and Poland. Yes, China, Russia, Turkey and Uzbekistan added a lot of gold too- but they got this gold from their own mines. They were not forced to buy that gold from other nations. This little aspect is totally ignored by all PM experts. All the above listed central banks bought only …
by Ainslie_Bullion In Aussie dollars, gold jumped nearly $50 on market open this morning off the back of the escalating war in Gaza. The USD also jumped but didn’t hold gold back as the go-to safe haven. This however isn’t the only break of traditional correlations as gold increasingly stamps its authority as the one …
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This fund manager is holding 60% cash — and expecting a stock-market crash Ruffer’s main claim to fame is to have successfully sidestepped the 2000-2003 and 2007-2009 market collapses Yikes. There’s bearish, there’s really bearish, and then there’s Ruffer & Co. I don’t want to spook everyone managing their own retirement portfolio. But the London-based …
Global economy’s glide to ‘soft landing’ gets bumpy as bond yields jump WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Rocketing U.S. government bond yields that have led to a global jump in borrowing costs are raising new risks for economic policymakers hoping to lower inflation without triggering a major crisis. The world’s finance officials, who will gather …
(Bloomberg) — Global funds further trimmed their Chinese stock holdings in September, extending a relentless selloff and lowering their average position in the country to the lowest level since 2020, Morgan Stanley said. Net monthly outflows from active long-only managers in China and Hong Kong equities totaled $3.2 billion during the month largely due to …
Was Douglas Durst's strange post on his US Debt Clock website a warning of what is to come? The post appeared the night before markets began panicking about Japan on October 2nd, 2023. pic.twitter.com/D4PMG0IdMc — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 5, 2023 The stock market fear and greed index is in extreme fear: pic.twitter.com/phA81ALBhu — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) …
Section on how the global banking crisis will unfold once the derivatives market blows up, bringing in the new era of The Great Reset & CBDC 👇 https://t.co/Xsb9xXFLQH pic.twitter.com/2a9lnpmoDq — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) October 4, 2023 Nigel Farage comments on the recent call by unelected head of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, for world …
Despite the September ECB hike and warnings by President Lagarde that inflation is still much too high, the market has increasingly turned its focus to the economy, succumbing to the idea that the European economy may already have entered a recession. Nowhere better is that view being reflected in the euro, which has given up …
Yoshitaka Shindo, who assumed the cabinet post earlier this month, said that because China accounts for nearly a fifth of Japan’s exports, the Chinese economic troubles could cause Japan’s economy to move a notch downward. Potentially, “the impact is really big” given China’s central role in the global economy, Shindo said in a group interview …
via cryptopolitan: The World Trade Monitor, an analytical tool from the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, adds to this gloomy narrative with its June data showing a 2.4% contraction. The implication is evident: the world is slowing down. Post-pandemic, economies had briefly rallied, driven by a surging demand for global goods exports. But alas, …
Sounds right until it isn't! Problem is that the faster bonds sell off the greater collateral hit and impairment to Global #liquidity https://t.co/6GW0EYopoj — CrossBorder Capital/ GLIndexes (@crossbordercap) September 26, 2023 #recession … #StockMarket Bubble edition#Leverage 📉 #MarginCall 📈 https://t.co/nig1oqQvQ8 pic.twitter.com/FmkeTm30lS — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) September 26, 2023 #recession … Global $USD #Liquidity Squeeze edition$DXY …
https://web.archive.org/web/20230925112719/https://www.reuters.com/technology/sec-collects-wall-streets-private-messages-whatsapp-probe-escalates-sources-2023-09-25/ NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. securities regulator has collected thousands of staff messages from more than a dozen major investment companies, escalating its probe into Wall Street’s use of private messaging apps, said four people with direct knowledge of the matter. Previously, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had asked the …
BREAKING : G7 Chair Japan refuses support to Canada Japan has not yet agreed to a suggestion to raise the issue of killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil at the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Read more at: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com//news/india/g7-chair-japan-refuses-support-to-canada/articleshow/103874390.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst …
A vast majority of global central banks are exploring the scope of issuing their own digital currencies – and it’s a trend that could eventually aid the international campaign to shift away from the dollar, according to a research paper published by International Monetary Fund staff. Up to 93% of monetary authorities around the world …
by Michael Hundreds of millions of people are desperately hungry all over the world, and by the time you are done reading this article more children will starve to death. Earlier this year, CNN actually admitted that we are in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”, but because the mainstream media rarely features …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4loSOL6JuY Yes let’s sugar Coat Another Clinton Campaign …. next month she’ll be on the ballot Of course they are intertwining it with Climate Change .. AC
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a report on the devastating impact of high blood pressure, also known as silent killer. The first-ever report on this topic shows nearly four out of five people with hypertension are not adequately treated across the world. It also said that a staggering 76 million deaths could be …
by Pristine_Humor5895 Considering the scale, I don’t see how this wouldn’t impact the global economy. Are we looking at a GFC 2.0? Huge realtor files for bankruptcy with $335billion in unpaid bills after defaulting on debts BANKRUPTCY has been declared by a huge property developer run out of Eastern Asia. The Evergrande filed for …