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16.02.19 - 04:51
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Visualizing America′s Crime Rate Perception Gap (ZeroHedge)
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There's a persistent belief across America that crime is on the rise.
Since the late 1980s, Gallup has been polling people on their perception of crime in the United States, and, as Visual Capitalist's Nick Routley notes, the majority of responden...
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16.02.19 - 04:31
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Veni, Vidi, Tweeti - An Obituary For The Republic (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Tom Engelhardt via TomDispatch.com,
What dreamers they were! They imagined a kind of global power that would leave even Rome at its Augustan height in the shade. They imagined a world made for one, a planet that could be swallowed by a s...
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16.02.19 - 03:55
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The ′Disappearing Democrat′ Scandal - Part 1 (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Tim Donner via Liberty Nation,
This is the first of a two-part series on a massive scandal that has gone largely unreported, based on an interview on Liberty Nation Radio with Luke Rosiak, author of Obstruction of Justice: How the Deep S...
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16.02.19 - 03:13
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Why Schumer And Sanders Are Wrong On Buybacks (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Ben Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca via CFR.org,
In a widely discussed New York Times op-ed, Senators Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders excoriated share buybacks as "corporate self-indulgence, diverting profits away from investment and wo...
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16.02.19 - 02:07
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Mueller Recommends 19 - 24 Years In Prison For Manafort (ZeroHedge)
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort serve between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison for his conviction last August in a Virginia courtroom on eight financial crimes, including bank fraud and tax fr...
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16.02.19 - 01:33
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European Car Sales Fall For Fifth Month In A Row (ZeroHedge)
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In keeping with the global stagnation that has enveloped the auto industry, the latest EU/EFTA vehicle registration data paints an ominous picture to start 2019 in Europe, where passenger car registrations dropped 4.6% year over year and sales declin...
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16.02.19 - 00:37
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Nomi Prins: Get Used To "The Powell Put" (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Nomi Prins via The Daily Reckoning,
In the land of the Federal Reserve and its market-manipulating mechanisms, there's now an unofficial market term called the "Powell Put or the "Powell Pivot.
It is in direct reference to Fed chairm...
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15.02.19 - 22:21
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Foreign Investors Dump Record Amount Of Treasuries (ZeroHedge)
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Foreign Investors dumped over $77 billion in US treasuries in December - the most on record - even as yields fell amid the carnage of the Mnuchin Massacre...
Foreign investors also liquidated stocks and corporate bonds in December...
Interesting...
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15.02.19 - 21:27
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Bears Are Right (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com,
After 8 weeks of non-stop rallying, the bear mocking is back which is ironic. Why? Well, because bears are right. About what? Well, everything. Yes stock markets have been screaming higher in recent w...
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15.02.19 - 20:27
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Fed Tightening Is Over: Markets Now Expect Cuts In 2019 (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com,
People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out to be right. A couple of bad months and the "normalization...
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15.02.19 - 19:45
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Amazon Plays Ultimatum Game, Loses (ZeroHedge)
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Submitted by Nicholas Colas of DataTrek
Today we have a behavioral finance tale called "The Ultimatum Game. It is the most replicated study in the field, and shows quite conclusively that humans are hardwired to value fairness over money. An uncomf...
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15.02.19 - 18:51
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"Lower Your Costs, Or Die" Big Oil′s New Mantra (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via Oilprice.com,
Fracking and the booming short-cycle shale production in the Permian have revolutionized not only U.S. crude oil production.
The prolific shale basin in West Texas and New Mexico has also shown U.S. ...
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15.02.19 - 17:15
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If Socialism Is So Good, Why Are People Moving Away? (ZeroHedge)
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Authored by Dennis Miller via MillerOnTheMoney.com,
The mainstream media is citing reports, with widely varying percentages, that many young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism - and are supporting socialist candidates. The media provides exten...
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15.02.19 - 16:43
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Fed′s Balance Sheet To Shrink By Whopping $43.5BN Today (ZeroHedge)
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While stocks continue to surge on the back of the daily "China trade talk optimism on again/off again" narrative, it is worth remembering that as recently as December, the market was driven by something far more tangible - the ongoing shrinkage of th...
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15.02.19 - 16:25
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The Glitch Who Stole Christmas (ZeroHedge)
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Submitted by Michael Every of RaboBank,
What a difference a day makes. Twenty-four little hours. Yesterday we were kicking our heels. Now anyone who was still clinging to the belief that we are in market business as usual should be kicking themselve...
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15.02.19 - 15:49
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WTF! (ZeroHedge)
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Come on!!
Dismal data this morning from import,export prices to industrial production has sparked a comical buying panic - Dow futures are up 500 points off overnight lows...
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