More important than China exports, China imports. #greenshootshttps://t.co/Mr2LSUE8oM pic.twitter.com/fxgLS8vBXe— Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_AIP) April 15, 2019
— OCCUPY WISDOM (@OccupyWisdom) April 15, 2019
— OCCUPY WISDOM (@OccupyWisdom) April 15, 2019
Today is #TaxDay. We hope you got your filing done. Here's your Taxpayer Receipt. What do you think of where your money went? #FixtheDebt pic.twitter.com/ujpxb9Zunr— Fix the Debt (@FixtheDebt) April 15, 2019
global money supply - mostly thanks to China's record credit injection in the first quarter - is holding US equities up for now." pic.twitter.com/Ib5Km6e1hL— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007) https://t.co/mgfFyLaiMz via @YouTube— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
Fundamentals worse. Prices higher. pic.twitter.com/PADsKeTAEd— Paranoid Bull (@paranoidbull) April 15, 2019
there is no difference in the economic consequences to society between the Fed creating money out of thin air and a counterfeiter doing the same thing."— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
If the US utilizes deficit spending and monetary inflation— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
to stimulate economic growth
should inflation rise even faster in countries
who have to print even more money
to keep up with the manipulated value of the US dollar?
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
U.S. Public Sector Pension Situation Could Trigger Next Great Financial Crisis https://t.co/Dt8l5u7FnS pic.twitter.com/1SMrdwS22Q— David da Silva (@davidinvesting) April 14, 2019
History rhymes... pic.twitter.com/xP2uw7rpCU— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
CEO Confidence, but the buy backs and the Central Bank monetization continues on, so it probably doesn't matter pic.twitter.com/tqlZBk6q2I— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 15, 2019
Estimated annual sales of equity-indexed annuities if salesmen weren’t paid huge commissions: $0,000,000,000.— Jonathan Clements (@ClementsMoney) April 14, 2019
In essence, this is the president admitting that the Fed's only job is to push stocks higher, damn the deteriorating fundamentals that make leave valuations increasingly divorced from reality." https://t.co/V1hMjVTRUC— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 14, 2019
The [@federalreserve 's] "dual mandate" simply masks its true purpose: To levitate asset prices and ensure that wealthy Americans get richer, while averting an all-out pension fund crisis.— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 14, 2019
But companies repurchase stock under rule 10b-18, a safe harbor enacted by the SEC in 1982 to provide companies an affirmative defense against accusations of stock price manipulation." pic.twitter.com/TNoO5TLUzN— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 14, 2019
This. https://t.co/6v3JXG3p8N— John P. Hussman (@hussmanjp) April 13, 2019
When the economy died in 2008, suddenly a correlation between CB balance sheets and asset prices emerged— OCCUPY WISDOM (@OccupyWisdom) April 13, 2019
Via @mntklprsn62 pic.twitter.com/2PG8gC8YcE
If there’s about $77 billion in Vault Cash— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 13, 2019
and 100 million people wanted to withdraw $1,000 each
from more than $9 trillion in savings deposits in banks at the same time,
where would the $100,000,000,000 come from?@hussmanjp @RudyHavenstein @DavidBCollum pic.twitter.com/OAeV7Eal3e
— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) April 12, 2019
Ten years ago, Wall Street crashed the economy after greedy bankers committed massive fraud in order to pocket billions in bonuses.— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) April 10, 2019
Here's a comprehensive list of senior bankers imprisoned for that fraud since then:
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China consumer confidence now at its highest level in history!— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 10, 2019
It’s a contrarian indicator.
Confidence tends to be highest at market tops.
One thing is true:
Every time it reached a prior cyclical high it preceded a major crash. pic.twitter.com/VAh9EVIVZb
"Fed policy is influenced by Central Bank constituents; the fed gov, banks, and the wealthiest 1%— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 10, 2019
U.S. interest rates are manipulated by Fed policy
Stock markets are influenced by interest rates and currencies
Markets are manipulated by share buybacks facilitated by low rates
"The federal government, through advocacy of the Securities Exchange Commission’s (SEC) share buyback Rule 10b-18, endorses stock price manipulation policies— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 10, 2019
Congress can’t muster the political will to eliminate the carried interest tax break for private equity titans, but it can get together to prevent free tax preparation for others: https://t.co/3pEfW8EPnF— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 10, 2019
$NDX just printed its highest weekly upward MACD deviation ever"— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 10, 2019
Icarus believed he could fly toward the sun
His father warned him
Icarus ignored his father
The wax in his wings melted,
he tumbled out of the sky
and fell into the sea where he drowned." pic.twitter.com/mo0KxNy5bI
Japan machine tool orders -28.5% pic.twitter.com/z7CVVNgGOi— Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) April 10, 2019
How to make over $72 trillion in debt possible:— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) April 9, 2019
Cheap money and more cheap money.
That's $40 trillion in incremental debt in just 18 years btw.
MMT this. pic.twitter.com/FWNWe5F3S3
Why you should fill up on gas on Monday mornings (and never on Friday afternoons) https://t.co/znjZo0DZ9p via @usatoday— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 9, 2019
"The Hussman margin-adjusted P/E.— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 9, 2019
The most reliable measures of valuation – those best correlated with actual subsequent market returns – have again approached or exceeded their levels of 1929 and 2000. pic.twitter.com/hJlOVI10MB
10 years after "the great financial crisis" that really wasn't, as the world's central banks saved the system by 'printing' away inconvenient problems economy, the smaller bubbles of 2008-9 have become the biggest coordinated everything bubble in the history of the world.— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 9, 2019
"The recent bull market clocked in as the longest in history. Even if the September 20, 2018 peak in the S&P 500 was the final high, the preceding advance outlived the 1990-2000 bull market by nearly 8 weeks."— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 9, 2019
Buybacks and Central Bank funny money contrived markets pic.twitter.com/ADqIYqk5Vf
It's almost like something fundamentally changed around 1971. Hmmm. pic.twitter.com/G1OSrr42hF— Rudy Havenstein, Financial Justice Warrior (@RudyHavenstein) April 8, 2019
The equity ""markets"" are dead— Limerick King (@TheLimerickKing) April 8, 2019
It's mainly because of The Fed
Rigging our prices
With printing devices
A system collapse, straight ahead!
I know I've been saying this type of thing for about 8 years now, but this time I mean it! ððĪŠ
What Rick really meant to say was:— PeakProsperity.com (@chrismartenson) April 8, 2019
"I think the ECB should just wire money directly into our bank accounts, and those of every other money-god (rich wanker) out there, Let's stop with the pretense." https://t.co/AEY7SO3Pz8
SWISS NATIONAL BANK Position Statistics 12/31/2018; Total Mkt Value (in $ millions) 90,604 https://t.co/1vImum8vKw— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 8, 2019
The amount of advertising effort supporting HB 184 - an #NCGA bill to reduce State Treasurer @DaleFolwell influence over NC State Health Plan - is remarkable. https://t.co/Sy0xCQErLm— davemildenberg (@davemildenberg) March 19, 2019
In 2010, the People voted for change, now the state legislature is ignoring the People who elected them and siding with the Lobbyists. Dale Folwell has an excellent plan, and I support him in this fight! https://t.co/UpqlTVfCUW— Allen Chesser (@gachesser) April 6, 2019
Please read about House Bill 184 in the Civitas Internet Link below. This Bill could cost North Carolina taxpayers $400-600 million. What is most confounding is that some NC House Republicans are sponsoring the Bill including Surry... https://t.co/G5pKz7hl4U— SurryGOP (@SurryGOP) March 31, 2019
Well, shit. pic.twitter.com/c0g1gycolV— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) April 7, 2019
Surprise! pic.twitter.com/xZ6dv6GKBH— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 7, 2019
The 2018 US corporate tax cut has mainly boosted buybacks and not capex. (via DB) pic.twitter.com/fZ0kz8feD7— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) April 7, 2019
Chart: Australia's current housing market correction worse than 2009 and 2011 - pic.twitter.com/dzojZwA9eK— (((The Daily Shot))) (@SoberLook) March 19, 2019
Russia's and China's gold holdings vs. gold price https://t.co/9SiuWJLCdA via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/rchATiMOOh— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) March 28, 2019
Maybe it is just me, but I can't wait for the investigative reporters to get behind the causes of the early 2019 equity rally. Inflows it ain't. pic.twitter.com/FQaymBwzIM— Peter Atwater (@Peter_Atwater) April 1, 2019
Usury or higher risks of charge offs? pic.twitter.com/6bZ72WnPsP— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 7, 2019
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) April 5, 2019
One last time:— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) April 3, 2019
The market is not the economy
The economy is not the market
Liquidity, artificial or otherwise, is the market. pic.twitter.com/cLsfoupiAu
IMF Lagarde: The World Is Experiencing A ‘Synchronized Deceleration’— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) April 2, 2019
Is it me or has Amazon become the indestructible alien spaceship from the movie Independence Day pic.twitter.com/Hx2BUoVnVT— Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) April 2, 2019
It's called the Affordable Care Act, yet health care for an insured family of four is TWICE as expensive today as it was in 2008. This is called a policy failure.— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 28, 2019
Chart: US single-family building permits (year-over-year) - pic.twitter.com/kjynK8udAA— (((The Daily Shot))) (@SoberLook) March 27, 2019
Cone Health is a Racket;— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 27, 2019
“There’s no turning back,” Folwell said of his plan. “People are no longer going to accept not knowing what they spend 20 percent of their income on.”
https://t.co/RdaMDnqKOs
[With money created from nowhere,] "The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) on Tuesday announced a HUF 300 billion corporate bond purchase program from July 1, 2019."https://t.co/srDcWrnGkG— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 26, 2019
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.”— Prof. Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) March 26, 2019
― Samuel Adams pic.twitter.com/HduOk4iIOI
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 26, 2019
if you're looking for growth here's the year over year picture— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) March 26, 2019
Grey areas = recessions.
But it's probably nothing... pic.twitter.com/FAa2ucIaCU
#Fed already buying stocks indirectly by manipulating rates lower so corporates can lever up to do #Buybacks...— Mark W. Yusko (@MarkYusko) March 26, 2019
That and #StealthQE of companies doing #Buybacks with proceeds from #TaxDeform cuts are only things keeping $SPX from 40% decline.... https://t.co/CnDiYNuT7Q
US journalism has been broken since at least 2003. The invasion of Iraq, the 2008 crisis, Obamacare, the 2016 election, and the Russia investigation constitute a pattern of melodramatic scoop and headline chasing without regard for the factual accuracy of what is being reported."— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 25, 2019
— Krisgator ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@KrisSGator) March 25, 2019
Federal government current tax receipts YoY— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) March 24, 2019
Grey areas recessions pic.twitter.com/gQF5iQZdhV
The inventors of insulin sold their patent for a buck. Why is it so expensive? https://t.co/Va1tXLwZMF— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 24, 2019
This is a fun chart - New Car prices have supposedly gone nowhere since 1997 or so. Now, I know, the cars are safer, better etc,, but it really doesn't matter if they can do brain surgery if you can't afford them. https://t.co/YjRiYZM52W pic.twitter.com/jgH0h9fa0K— Rudy Havenstein, Financial Justice Warrior (@RudyHavenstein) February 19, 2019
Meanwhile, behind the scenes of the U.S. Government. pic.twitter.com/DrLZIKwHHw— Duke Wilder (@TheDukeWilder) March 21, 2019
— The Reckoning Begins (@TimeofRevealing) March 23, 2019
Fed cancels all 2019 rate hikes— GreekFire23 (@GreekFire23) March 20, 2019
Fed lowers GDP growth forecast
Fed ends balance sheet run-off
Powell: “economic fundamentals remain strong and our outlook is positive”
In case u forgot about Japan prelim machine tool orders that crashed -29.3%, here's a reminder that the FINAL number:— Trinh (@Trinhnomics) March 20, 2019
Yep, -29.3% for Feb. No sign growth anywhere (see table) ð§. -50.4% for China, after months of decline of about the same magnitude. RIP regional manufacturing ðĪĒ pic.twitter.com/dGpYKoeVc8
Yep. The Fed didn't "save the world." The FASB just laid an opaque sheet over the abyss, and just like that, the abyss ceased to exist. That's how Ponzi schemes work. https://t.co/zSiy3rK3kP— John P. Hussman (@hussmanjp) March 19, 2019
BOJ SAYS IT HELD 42.99% OF JGBS AT END-DEC.— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 18, 2019
.@businesscycle: Global demand for semiconductors has collapsed. https://t.co/uE8wHLFiMp pic.twitter.com/oFsSnpMhZ2— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) March 16, 2019
Another analyst warning of the 'flowless rally.' Citigroup joins Goldman and JPMorgan in warning the equities rally hasn't been matched by inflows into equity funds: "Buybacks, not investor inflows, now drive the US market." pic.twitter.com/DHRfDUZ6Ba— Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) March 14, 2019
Coordinated effort between all central banks, while they mask their interventions (QE +ZIRP/NIRP) as being for the economy and middle class. Biggest con in history.— Stalingrad & Poorski (@Stalingrad_Poor) March 13, 2019
The Slippery Slope of Political Capture:— Paranoid Bull (@paranoidbull) March 13, 2019
But we HAD to bail out the System in 2008 or else...
AND keep the same executives in place...
AND bid the Assets of the Rich...
AND allow limitless consolidation...
AND keep Money Free...
for a Decade.
Complete Captured Capitalism.
Powell: “Business cycle has not been repealed”— Steve Henningsen (@Stevephenni) March 11, 2019
No, it has been gagged, bound and injected with huge amounts of steroids. ð
— Peter Ryan (@Pulpisafiction) March 10, 2019
Photo of sad Wall Street "investors" reacting after failing to spike everything green in the closing minutes. pic.twitter.com/lzLYY1r590— PeakProsperity.com (@chrismartenson) March 8, 2019
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) February 21, 2019
The #Fed is clearly getting desperate. First a surprise 180 on policy for no apparent reason. Now talking about the use of new tools "previously rejected" to address the next crisis. Ask yourself why are they saying all of these things and why now? What's coming down the pipe? https://t.co/7fAVgAeEpH— David Brady (@GlobalProTrader) February 22, 2019
Alinsky https://t.co/riNIlXmWcR— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) February 23, 2019
— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) February 25, 2019
Most share buybacks are done at the top of the market. Perhaps we should view CEO resignations in the same light. Chief executives tend to like to go out at the top of their game. Perhaps their resignations are telling us something about the market now. https://t.co/14FUGeGFjg pic.twitter.com/GmOOjQ6irI— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) February 26, 2019
Or collapse up. https://t.co/RViTSFE82G— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) February 27, 2019
Most share buybacks are done at the top of the market. Perhaps we should view CEO resignations in the same light. Chief executives tend to like to go out at the top of their game. Perhaps their resignations are telling us something about the market now. https://t.co/14FUGeGFjg pic.twitter.com/GmOOjQ6irI— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) February 26, 2019
The last time World Trade broke below the monthly 25sma it was Oct 2008 pic.twitter.com/NVQbrgbQlm— Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) March 2, 2019
The economy died in 2008 pic.twitter.com/xKelpTIvae— OCCUPY WISDOM (@OccupyWisdom) March 3, 2019
"The Crestmont P/E of 31.6 is 121% above its average (arithmetic mean) and at the 99th percentile of this fourteen-plus-decade series." pic.twitter.com/ooAX6fXv8L— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 3, 2019
U.S. companies put record number of robots to work in 2018 https://t.co/Zi3ith9k7D— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 4, 2019
The value of home loans in Australia is plunging just as building approvals declined 28%!— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) March 4, 2019
Chinese money is drying up and the Aussie economy continues to deteriorate.
Recent rally in Aussie banks seems overstretched.
Not enough people focusing on underlying fundamentals. pic.twitter.com/9NljB546eT
Fed's Kaplan: 'In the event of an economic downturn, record corporate leverage and falling liquidity could contribute to a deterioration in financial conditions which could, in turn, amplify the severity of a growth slowdown in the U.S. economy.' https://t.co/qd9dC3DqmM pic.twitter.com/8oquVrvTCA— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) March 5, 2019
Area Legislators Opposing Folwell Plan Caught Red-Handed With Hospital Systems' Contributions - https://t.co/dEfoYmzHBc via @Shareaholic— Abner Doon (@Aenbrnood) March 7, 2019
