Global Stocks, Futures Slide On US Protectionism Worries Following Trump...
European, Asian stocks and S&P futures all drop after traders were left with a sour taste from the potential fallout of Donald Trump’s order halting some immigration and ahead of central bank...
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Trump aides call travel ban success despite broad criticism (Reuters)Trump’s Immigration Ban Promises Constitutional Showdown (BBG)Trump Team Kept Plan for Travel Ban Quiet (WSJ)Trump Era May Mean...
View ArticleDonald Trump - What About Apple?
By EconMatters We discuss the elephant in the room for Donald Trump, Apple is the most profitable company in the world, has 250 Billion Dollars in Tax Shelters, and if anybody can afford to bring...
View ArticleKeystone XL Needs Much Higher Oil Prices To Be Viable
Submitted by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com,The Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) is a bet on much higher oil prices several years from now. It will take at least $85 oil prices to develop the new oil sand...
View ArticleDebt-pocalypse Beckons As US Consumer Bankruptcies Do Something They Haven't...
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,When debt grows much faster than GDP for an extended period of time, it is inevitable that a good portion of that debt will start to go bad at...
View ArticleTHE BLOOD BATH CONTINUES IN THE U.S. MAJOR OIL INDUSTRY
By the SRSrocco Report,The carnage continues in the U.S. major oil industry as they sink further and further in the RED. The top three U.S. oil companies, whose profits were once the envy of the...
View ArticleThe Great Unraveling
Submitted by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,In 1929, Ford sold 1,507,132 cars. Chevrolet sold 1,328,605. Then came the stock market crash. Sales dropped dramatically each year until 1932, when...
View ArticlePassing On The Permian: Has The Bubble Grown Too Big?
Submitted by Nick Cunningham via OilPrice.com,Has the Permian Basin become too hot? More companies and enormous sums of capital continue to flood into West Texas to take advantage of the most prolific...
View ArticleDr. Steve Pieczenik Says General Flynn Was Purposely Removed, the Left are...
Dr. Steve Pieczenik is the real deal -- old school intelligence officer who claims to be part of a group of retired and active intelligence officers who leaked the Podesta emails to Wikileaks in order...
View ArticleTrump Withdraws Appeal Of Travel Ban Suspension, To Unveil New Immigration...
During Trump's press conference, the president announced, among numerous other things, that he will issue a new executive action on immigration "next week sometime" which will be "tailored to the...
View ArticleWhy Sub $50 Oil Is More Likely Than $70 Oil
Submitted by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com,It is more likely that oil prices will fall below $50 per barrel than that they will continue to rise toward $70. Prices have increased beyond supply and...
View ArticleThese Are Times Of General Corruption
Submitted by Jesse via Jesse's Cafe Americain blog,"And I'll leave you with one set of numbers that I found today, which is just an absolute for this whole thing. In 2015, Wall Street Bonuses, not...
View ArticleThe NY Times Asks "How Can We Get Rid Of Trump?"
The always 'fair and balanced' New York Times' Nicholas Kristof(author of such 'real news' as "Donald Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month?", "What Did Trump Know, and When Did He Know It?" and "Donald...
View ArticleRetired Green Beret Exposes How Secretive Non-Profit Organizations Erode The...
Submitted by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Special Forces) via SHTFPlan.com,One of the biggest problems facing this nation is the amount of money that has...
View ArticleTrump Meets With Top CEOs To Brainstorm "Jump-Starting" US Economy, Creating...
Today at 10:30am, president Trump will summon some of America’s most prominent corporate executives to the White House Thursday, in a roundtable brainstorming session whose purpose is to come up with...
View ArticleWhen Was America's Peak Wealth?
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,A few days ago, I wrote an essay entitled “Not Nearly Enough Growth To Keep Growing”, in which I posited, among many other things, that...
View ArticleGM Pickup Incentives Surge Over 80% As Auto Bubble Continues To Show Signs Of...
For months we've argued that record auto sales have been propped up by low interest rates, a perpetual loosening of auto lending standards with terms being stretched to the max and a wave of leases,...
View ArticlePresident Trump's Address To Congress: Key Highlights And Full Text
While the full Trump speech transcript is below, for those curious only in the key economic/trade excerpt, it is laid out below:My economic team is developing historic tax reform that will reduce the...
View ArticleFebruary Auto Sales Mixed As Incentive Spending And Inventory Days Both Surge
Auto sales posted a slight headline miss for February 2017 with an actual SAAR of 17.5mm vs. expectations of 17.7mm, despite a huge surge in incentive spending YoY. Individual company results were...
View ArticleFrontrunning: March 2
Data-Dependent Yellen Running Out of Reasons to Hold Rates Still (BBG)Dollar rises, global stocks hold highs on March Fed rate hike bets (Reuters)Pelosi calls on Sessions to quit after Post discloses...
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