Category Archives: Financial

CSCO Crashes 10% After-Hours, Laying Off 4000 Staff, Sees Weak Q4

It seems like it was just yesterday when CSCO announced it would fire 10,000 people. And then another 1,300. And thenanother 500. Fast forward to today when the “one-time, non-recurring” termination charges are back, as the “recovery”, now in its 5th year, … Continue reading

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US Treasury Finally Admits The Truth: It’s All POMO

Back in 2010, when few still dared to question that the entire move in the market is predicted by the Fed’s daily POMO (then still on QE2), we laid out, in a way so easy even a caveman could grasp it, how every tiny move in … Continue reading

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The Blow That Killed America 100 Years Ago

By Paul Rosenberg, FreemansPerspective.com “There is a lot of ruin in a nation,” wrote Adam Smith. His point was that it takes a long time for nations to fall, even when they’re dead on their feet. And he was certainly … Continue reading

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Hindenburg Omen Strikes Again – Biggest Cluster On Record

For the 5th time in the last 7 days, equity market internals have triggered an anxiety-implying Hindenburg Omen. Based on our data, this is the most concentrated cluster of new highs, new lows, advancing/declining based confusion on record. The last … Continue reading

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They Are Systematically Destroying Our Independence And Making Us All Serfs Of The State

The percentage of Americans that are economically independent has dropped to a stunningly low level.  In order to be economically independent, you have got to be able to take care of yourself without any assistance from anyone else.  Unless you … Continue reading

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Lee: Democrats Lack Will To Close Gov’t & Not Pay Soldiers Over Obamacare Defunding Fight

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), who is pushing to defund any further funding of Obamacare in the upcoming spending measure to keep the government running into the new fiscal year,  said Democrats lack the political will to shut the government down … Continue reading

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Gold Shorts Cover At Fastest Pace In 13 Years

Gold is up $8.00, $15.00, $26.40 today. The price of gold at a minimum should be the cost to mine the gold, transport it and refine it. Currently the price of gold is about the cost to mine the gold. … Continue reading

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Federal Reserve Warns Leveraged ETFs Could Trigger 1987-Style “Cascade” In Stocks

In a 43-page research report, the Federal Reserve has authored a rather concerning tome warning that the mechanical positive-feedback rebalancing of Leverage ETFs (LETFs) resembles the portfolio insurance strategies, which contributed to the stock market crash of October 19, 1987. The impact … Continue reading

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A Quadrillion Yen And Counting – The Japanese Debt Bomb Could Set Off Global Panic At Any Moment

How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen worth?  Well, a quadrillion yen is worth approximately 10.5 trillion dollars.  It is an amount of money that is larger than the “the economies of Germany, France and the U.K. combined“.  It is such an … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck Explodes! Total Chaos Coming! Lynchings in Street of America! Like You’ve NEVER Seen!

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During The Best Period Of Economic Growth In U.S. History There Was No Income Tax And No Federal Reserve

The American Free Market System At Work How would America ever survive without the central planners in the Obama administration and at the Federal Reserve?  What in the world would we do if there was no income tax and no … Continue reading

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Fourth Hindenburg In Five Days Closes Dow Near Worst Week Of The Year

For the 4th day this week new highs, new lows, advancers and decliners flashed an angst-prone market and triggered a Hindenburg Omen. A glimpse at Treasuries close-to-close from Friday and one might think it was a quiet week (though 30Y rallied 5bps the … Continue reading

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Marc Faber On Today’s 1987 Redux “Market May Drop 20% Or More”

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40 Years Of ‘The Unbearable Heaviness Of Being’ An American Taxpayer

When federal spending grows faster than American’s paychecks, the burden of government on taxpayers becomes greater. Over the past four decades, Americans’ earnings have risen only 24%; while spending by the government has risen 288%, which begs the question – … Continue reading

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The Rise Of The Bear: 18 Signs That Russia Is Rapidly Catching Up To The United States

The Russian Bear is stronger and more powerful than it has ever been before.  Sadly, most Americans don’t understand this.  They still think of Russia as an “ex-superpower” that was rendered almost irrelevant when the Cold War ended.  And yes, … Continue reading

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