Armstrong Economics

• newPRIVATE BLOG – US Share Market 10/21/2020
  PRIVATE BLOG – US Share Market 10/21/2020 Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates.com. https://ask-socrates.com/
  - 1 hour ago 21 Oct 20, 5:06pm -
• newUnderstanding Inflation – Chicken or the Egg
  QUESTION: Hi AE….think I finally get your message about money supply vs inflation. But aren’t we just dealing with a difference of semantics? If the gov’t prints endless amounts of currency, that HAS to. at some point, impact prices etc. which…
  - 14 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 4:09am -
• newWhy No Bankers Ever go to Jail
  QUESTION: Why are bankers never prosecuted? The New York courts are not trustworthy. Can you explain why this is allowed to go one all the time? SK ANSWER: It is very simple and the shareholders are the ones who are being defrauded. The banks can rou…
  - 14 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 4:05am -
• newBill Gates and MIT Unveil Quantum Dots to Mark Children
  Bill Gates and MIT unveil quantum dot technology to mark children’s skin so they can be scanned for vaccine compliance and anything else to be determined later. The MIT researchers have been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the N…
  - 14 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 4:04am -
• newAl Gore – Really the true Clown
  COMMENT: Just an observation after reading the blog on how scientific illiterate Al Gore is. I actually had to LOL when I noticed that on the cover of his book “An Inconvenient Truth” the hurricane image arising from the smokestack was backwards…
  - 14 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 4:01am -
• Market Talk – October 20, 2020
  ASIA: China on Tuesday asked India to approach ties with Taiwan “prudently and properly,” and said it would “firmly oppose” any official exchanges between New Delhi and Taipei. The statement from China’s Foreign Ministry came in response to…
  - 1 day ago 20 Oct 20, 5:39pm -
• Voter Turnout May Reach 61%
  As of the weekend, more than 26 million people have voted, according to the U.S. Elections Project, a turnout-tracking database run by the University of Florida political scientist Michael McDonald. That’s more than six times the number of votes ca…
  - 1 day ago 20 Oct 20, 11:48am -
• A Blue Wave is Bullish?
  It seems very strange that Trump was seen as being bullish for stocks, but Wall Street is trying to claim a Blue Wave will be even more bullish under Biden. Even the economist at Bank of America said the best scenario for the stock markets was a Demo…
  - 2 days ago 20 Oct 20, 4:09am -
• Chuck Schumer will not Lose – Because He is Not Running
  COMMENT: I really had to laugh how many people claim they called the Trump victory in 2016 on just inuendos. The real laugh is the lastest one that claims Pelosi, Schumer, and AOC will all lose. Schumer isn’t even running until 2022. Thank you for…
  - 2 days ago 20 Oct 20, 4:08am -
• Coming Famine?
  QUESTION: I just want to be prepared. How long is the famine supposed to happen? 1-2 years? More? SD ANSWER: These lockdowns have already set in motion a reduction in the food supply. In the United States, there were temporary shortages of certain fo…
  - 2 days ago 20 Oct 20, 4:06am -

Wolf Street

• new“Creative Destruction” or Just “Destruction?”
  Under the effects of the Pandemic, consumers and businesses grapple with their own “Reset.”
  - 3 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 2:57pm -
• newSynchrony Financial Disclosed Radical Work-from-Home Plan, Layoffs, and “Office Footprint” Reduction
  Landlords and their lenders who're still thinking work-from-home is just a blip will undergo a reckoning in due time.
  - 22 hours ago 20 Oct 20, 8:30pm -
• Trucking, Container Carriers, FedEx, UPS, Other Freight Firms Warn of “Capacity Shortage,” Expect Americans to Keep Splurging Despite Jobs Crisis
  Better produce a big-fat stimulus bill pronto and keep eviction bans and forbearance going, or else these companies will face economic reality.
  - 2 days ago 20 Oct 20, 4:41am -
• Amid Eviction Moratorium, Wiggle Room Tightens for Retail Landlords & Tenants in the UK
  Land Securities, a Giant UK REIT, announced that it would try to sell a large portion of its properties. No buyers identified yet.
  - 2 days ago 20 Oct 20, 1:23am -
• Worst Recovery Ever: To Soothe Investor Pain, Government Agency TSA Hypes Airline Stocks in Chilling PR Stunt
  What the TSA said in its PR stunt and what it forgot to say.
  - 2 days ago 19 Oct 20, 4:44pm -
• THE WOLF STREET REPORT: “Creative Destruction” or Just “Destruction”?
  Under the effects of the Pandemic, consumers and businesses grapple with their own “Reset.”
  - 3 days ago 18 Oct 20, 2:18pm -
• Stimulus & Debt-Deferral Economy: Americans Splurged. Huge Price Increases Boosted Auto Sales. Liquidation Sales Pumped up Department Stores
  Depicted by my 13 whiplash-charts.
  - 5 days ago 16 Oct 20, 9:53pm -
• Extend-and-Pretend Caused Bankruptcies to Plunge in Germany, France, Spain. Now Central Banks Tell Banks to Prepare for Bankruptcy Surge
  The "second wave," if prolonged, could cause bad loans to almost triple, to €1.4 trillion, says the ECB.
  - 5 days ago 16 Oct 20, 6:49pm -
• Airlines Raised $$$-Billions via Frequent Flier Programs. Delta alone Raised $9 billion via SkyMiles as Collateral. How?
  “You’re the Collateral.” Separating the assets (including you) from the liabilities (your miles), and pledging the assets.
  - 6 days ago 15 Oct 20, 10:56pm -
• The Great American Oil & Gas Massacre: Bankruptcies Hit New Milestone as Bigger Companies Let Go
  The American Oil Boom Was Where Money Went to Die.
  - 7 days ago 15 Oct 20, 12:21am -

Money Game

• newTrump needs a psychiatric test now. He's evaded it for years, and COVID-19 can affect the brain long after the illness fades.
  Last year, mental-health experts bucked ethical guidelines to warn Trump was mentally unfit to serve. COVID-19 could have made his cognition worse.
  - 9 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 6:01pm -
• newThe UK food and drink industry warns Boris Johnson companies will have to pull out of Northern Ireland due to Brexit
  39 leaders of the UK food & drink industry wrote to Boris Johnson's government on Monday amid growing alarm that the UK isn't ready for Brexit.
  - 10 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 6:00pm -
• newBitcoin leaps to highest since July 2019 after PayPal opens service to cryptocurrencies
  The billionaire investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz said PayPal's move was "the biggest news of the year in crypto."
  - 25 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:45pm -
• newPelosi strikes an optimistic tone on stimulus negotiations with the White House, saying 'there will be a bill'
  "I'm pretty happy. I think we have a prospect for an agreement," Pelosi said in an MSNBC interview. She also said Trump would have to get GOP support.
  - 27 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:43pm -
• newThe history of the polarizing Hummer, from notorious gas-guzzling SUV to zero-emission electric pickup of the future
  GMC just revealed its new Hummer EV electric pickup, so here's a look back at the history of the military-inspired SUV.
  - 37 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:33pm -
• newMichelin-starred chefs are leaving their jobs to become private chefs for the ultra-rich, where they can make upwards of $14,000 a month
  Neil Snowball left his coveted position as head chef at Gordon Ramsey's Pétrus restaurant to earn more money cooking for private clients.
  - 48 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:22pm -
• newHow to watch 'Rebecca,' Netflix's new romantic thriller starring Lily James and Armie Hammer
  "Rebecca" is now available to stream on Netflix. The thriller is based on the 1938 novel, which was previously made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
  - 49 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:21pm -
• newThe startup behind these $199,000 backyard tiny homes that can be built in a a day just raised $3.5 million — take a look
  A Silicon Valley startup is delivering accessory dwelling units (ADUs) that can be installed in just a day.
  - 49 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:21pm -
• new6 Wall Street firms now expect Snap's stock to surge more than 37% after earnings. Here's what they had to say about the blowout quarter.
  "LA just keeps winning," Stifel analysts said following Snap's strong third quarter earnings report.
  - 50 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:20pm -
• newHow the US coronavirus outbreak compares to other countries in 11 charts
  The US ranks eighth in cases per capita and ninth in deaths per capita. Experts think the worst of the country's third surge is still to come.
  - 53 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:17pm -

Sovereign Man

• newTaking back control– one small step at a time
  At the height of World War II, when American soldiers were on the front lines in Europe and the Pacific battling for the very survival of civilization, life back home was starting to feel pretty bleak. The psychological toll alone was severe. Countle…
  - 2 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 4:13pm -
• The First Law of a Plan B
  In the summer of 1687, after years of study and reflection, the legendary English scientist Isaac Newton published one of the most important works in the history of the world. He called it Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, and the insight…
  - 2 days ago 19 Oct 20, 3:39pm -
• Twitter Mob forces dictionary to change definitions
  Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Dictionary changes de…
  - 5 days ago 16 Oct 20, 4:16pm -
• The first time we went to see the Germans. . .
  [Editor’s note: This letter was written by our Sovereign Woman—Viktorija.] I was probably six or seven years old when my mother first put that idiotic pink bow in my hair. She had me dressed up like a little doll, in my nicest shoes and dress, al…
  - 6 days ago 15 Oct 20, 3:15pm -
• Antifa is real. It’s violent. And you need to plan for it.
  American diplomat George Messersmith found himself in an awkward situation while attending a luncheon in Kiel, Germany in August of 1933. As lunch came to a close, the attendees erupted into song with arms outstretched in the Nazi salute. First they…
  - 7 days ago 14 Oct 20, 4:46pm -
• When ancient Greece experienced their own ‘2020’…
  For the powerful city-state of Athens in ancient Greece, the year 430 BC was one of the most tumultuous and dramatic in its history. Prior to 430 BC, Athens had been at the pinnacle of stability and power for decades. But in the course of that single…
  - 9 days ago 12 Oct 20, 3:27pm -
• Capitalists should be “lined up against the wall and shot”
  Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Former Twitter CEO sa…
  - 12 days ago 9 Oct 20, 3:16pm -
• Don’t ignore the world we’re living in. Plan for it.
  One of the unique benefits of living in Puerto Rico is that it’s usually not too difficult to talk people into coming down here. It must be something about the beaches and warm, sunny weather… because whenever there’s a face-to-face meeting tha…
  - 13 days ago 8 Oct 20, 2:35pm -
• Escape to distant, exotic lands… like Canada?
  Last Tuesday night, around 10:30pm the Google search term, “How to apply for Canadian citizenship,” spiked. Other popular searches that night included “how to move to Canada” or simply, “move to Canada.” This was in response to two men in…
  - 15 days ago 6 Oct 20, 1:12pm -
• Europe’s Covid refugees are heading to this gorgeous island
  
  - 16 days ago 5 Oct 20, 4:28pm -

Financial Survival

of two minds

• newThe New Tyranny Few Even Recognize
  Clearly, the Fed reckons the public is foolish enough to believe the Fed's money will actually be "free." It's pretty much universally recognized that authorities use crises to impose "emergency powers" that become permanent. This erosion of civil an…
  - 13 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 5:35am -
• Will the Stock Market Be Dragged to the Guillotine?
  The Fed's rigged-casino stock market will be dragged to the guillotine by one route or another. The belief that the Federal Reserve and its rigged-casino stock market are permanent and forever is touchingly naive. Never mind the existential crises ju…
  - 2 days ago 19 Oct 20, 4:11pm -
• The "Titanic" Analogy You Haven't Heard: Passively Accepting Oblivion
  Whether we realize it or not, we're responding with passive acceptance of oblivion.You've undoubtedly heard rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as an analogy for the futility of approving policy tweaks to address systemic crises. I've used the…
  - 5 days ago 16 Oct 20, 6:14pm -
• Why We're Doomed: Our Delusional Faith in Incremental Change
  Better not to risk any radical evolution that might fail, and so failure is thus assured. When times are good, modest reforms are all that's needed to maintain the ship's course.By "good times," I mean eras of rising prosperity which generate bigger…
  - 8 days ago 14 Oct 20, 3:39am -
• Our Simulacrum Economy
  In the hyper-real casino, everyone has access to the terrors of losing, but only a few know the joys of the rigged games that guarantee a few big winners by design. Readers once routinely chastised me for over-using simulacrum to describe our econom…
  - 9 days ago 13 Oct 20, 3:03am -
• How We Institutionalized Incompetence
  And so we face the ultimate irony: 'bailing-out-everything' destroys the entire rotten system.You've probably noticed things no longer work as well as they once did. For example, the store's online inventory says something is in stock and when you g…
  - 10 days ago 12 Oct 20, 2:44am -
• Has Our Luck Finally Run Out?
  We are woefully unprepared for a long run of bad luck. Long-term cycles escape our notice because they play out over many years or even decades; few noticed the decreasing rainfall in the Mediterranean region in 150 A.D. but this gradual decline i…
  - 12 days ago 9 Oct 20, 3:07pm -
• A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
  The status quo is about to discover that it can't stop the hard rain or protect its fragile sandcastles. You'll recognize A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall as a cleaned-up rendition of Bob Dylan's classic "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". Since the world had…
  - 13 days ago 8 Oct 20, 4:08pm -
• What Could Go Wrong? Plenty
  Quite a lot of things can go wrong, especially if the mainstream's rose-tinted sunglasses induce a delusional confidence in fantasy. The conventional assumptions are remarkably rosy: the "recovery" is V-shaped in all the ways that count (i.e. the t…
  - 15 days ago 6 Oct 20, 10:59pm -
• Corruption Is Now Our Way of Life
  Systemic corruption and the implosion of the social contract have consequences: It's called collapse. Social and economic decay is so glacial that only those few who remember an earlier set-pointare equipped to even notice the decline. That's the pos…
  - 16 days ago 5 Oct 20, 5:09pm -

Jesse's Cafe Americain

• newStocks and Precious Metals Charts - Der Untergang - The Madness Serves None But Itself
   “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves.”Leo Tolstoy  "The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought." Rudiger Dornbusch  "R…
  - 21 hours ago 20 Oct 20, 9:01pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Carnival of Heels and Souls
  "One can protest against evil; it can be unmasked and, if need be, prevented by force.  Evil always carries the seeds of its own destruction, as it makes people, at the least, uncomfortable.Against folly we have no defense.  Neither protests nor fo…
  - 2 days ago 19 Oct 20, 9:20pm -
• Harvest Moon
    When we were strangers I watched you from afarWhen we were lovers I loved you with all my heartBut now it's gettin' lateAnd the moon is climbin' highI want to celebrateSee it shinin' in your eyeBecause I'm still in love with youI want to see…
  - 4 days ago 17 Oct 20, 4:50pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Storm Warnings
  "It begins with a highly complex financial system, whose very complexity makes it difficult for anyone to know what might be going wrong; by definition, the multiple parts of the financial system are linked, which means that trouble in one institutio…
  - 5 days ago 16 Oct 20, 8:25pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - And the Love of Most Will Grow Cold
   "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."  Isaiah 29:13  "The U.S. went off the gold standard in August 1971.  With no benchmark, central banks could print money and debase…
  - 6 days ago 15 Oct 20, 10:14pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Beginning of Sorrows
   “Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism  "I warn you, as I have warned you before, that those who join in this lawlessness will not inh…
  - 7 days ago 14 Oct 20, 8:49pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The Hollow Men - Life in the Golden Age of Fraud
   "This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path.” Reed Albergotti  "His money came from human misery a…
  - 8 days ago 13 Oct 20, 9:16pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Risk On
  "Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;He knew human folly like the back of his hand,And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,An…
  - 9 days ago 12 Oct 20, 8:25pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Just Because - Time Is a Flat Circle
  "Time is a flat circle.  Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again— forever.  This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading.  It's like there was never anything here but jungle. " Rust…
  - 12 days ago 9 Oct 20, 8:39pm -
• Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - The God of the Markets
  "At the root of America's economic crisis lies a moral crisis: the decline of civic virtue among America's political and economic elite.   A society of markets, laws, and elections is not enough if the rich and powerful fail to behave with respect,…
  - 13 days ago 8 Oct 20, 8:21pm -

The Burning Platform

• newThe Awakening
  Guest Post by The Zman When Finnish nationalists get together every year to socialize and organize, they call their event The Awakening. It is a great term for them to use as it has multiple meanings in this context. One is the obvious awakening amon…
  - 3 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 2:57pm -
• newDisgusting Professorial Teachings
  Guest Post by Walter E. Williams The ugliness that we have recently witnessed including rioting, billions of dollars of property destruction, assaults, murders and grossly stupid claims about our nation has its origins on college campuses. Two websit…
  - 4 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 1:47pm -
• newMark Zuckerberg Donates Hundreds Of Millions To Increase Voter Turnout In Democratic Strongholds
  Via ZeroHedge While Facebook has come under fire recently for its algorithm ‘favoring conservatives‘ – which the company says is due to right-wing figures being ‘more engaging,’ founder Mark Zuckerberg has donated millions of dollars in non…
  - 7 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 11:28am -
• newRudy Giuliani Turns Over Alleged Photos Of Underage Girls From Hunter’s Hard Drive To Delaware Police
  Via ZeroHedge Things just took a very dark turn in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. While the alleged crack, cronyism, corruption was enough to spark the biggest media suppression in history, and no denials whatsoever from the Biden camp, the bombshe…
  - 7 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 11:22am -
• newSharing War Stories While Playing Tag With Flashlights in the Dark
  By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com A few weeks ago, I ran into an acquaintance who I’ve known less than a year: a 60-year-old liberal woman who started out by saying:  “I don’t know where you stand politically, but I just can…
  - 7 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 11:09am -
• newGoogle Mobility Data Suggests Sweden “Socially Distanced” Less Than Other Countries
  Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, As is often pointed out by prolockdown publications like the New York Times, Sweden has experienced covid-19 deaths at a rate above that of some of its neighbors that imposed relatively strict lockdo…
  - 7 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 11:04am -
• newComing Famine?
  Guest Post by Martin Armstrong These lockdowns have already set in motion a reduction in the food supply. In the United States, there were temporary shortages of certain foods. You can see plenty of videos where farms lost 100% of their crops because…
  - 7 hours ago 21 Oct 20, 10:59am -
• newTHIS DAY IN HISTORY – President Harding publicly condemns lynching – 1921
  Via History.com On October 21, 1921, President Warren G. Harding delivers a speech in Alabama in which he condemns lynchings—extrajudicial murders (usually hangings) committed primarily by white supremacists against Black Americans in the Deep Sout…
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• newSTEAL TEAM SIX
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• newQUOTE OF THE DAY
  
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War Room

• newTrump needs a psychiatric test now. He's evaded it for years, and COVID-19 can affect the brain long after the illness fades.
  Last year, mental-health experts bucked ethical guidelines to warn Trump was mentally unfit to serve. COVID-19 could have made his cognition worse.
  - 9 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 6:01pm -
• newThe UK food and drink industry warns Boris Johnson companies will have to pull out of Northern Ireland due to Brexit
  39 leaders of the UK food & drink industry wrote to Boris Johnson's government on Monday amid growing alarm that the UK isn't ready for Brexit.
  - 10 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 6:00pm -
• newBitcoin leaps to highest since July 2019 after PayPal opens service to cryptocurrencies
  The billionaire investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz said PayPal's move was "the biggest news of the year in crypto."
  - 25 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:45pm -
• newPelosi strikes an optimistic tone on stimulus negotiations with the White House, saying 'there will be a bill'
  "I'm pretty happy. I think we have a prospect for an agreement," Pelosi said in an MSNBC interview. She also said Trump would have to get GOP support.
  - 27 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:43pm -
• newThe history of the polarizing Hummer, from notorious gas-guzzling SUV to zero-emission electric pickup of the future
  GMC just revealed its new Hummer EV electric pickup, so here's a look back at the history of the military-inspired SUV.
  - 37 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:33pm -
• newMichelin-starred chefs are leaving their jobs to become private chefs for the ultra-rich, where they can make upwards of $14,000 a month
  Neil Snowball left his coveted position as head chef at Gordon Ramsey's Pétrus restaurant to earn more money cooking for private clients.
  - 48 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:22pm -
• newHow to watch 'Rebecca,' Netflix's new romantic thriller starring Lily James and Armie Hammer
  "Rebecca" is now available to stream on Netflix. The thriller is based on the 1938 novel, which was previously made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.
  - 49 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:21pm -
• newThe startup behind these $199,000 backyard tiny homes that can be built in a a day just raised $3.5 million — take a look
  A Silicon Valley startup is delivering accessory dwelling units (ADUs) that can be installed in just a day.
  - 49 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:21pm -
• new6 Wall Street firms now expect Snap's stock to surge more than 37% after earnings. Here's what they had to say about the blowout quarter.
  "LA just keeps winning," Stifel analysts said following Snap's strong third quarter earnings report.
  - 50 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:20pm -
• newHow the US coronavirus outbreak compares to other countries in 11 charts
  The US ranks eighth in cases per capita and ninth in deaths per capita. Experts think the worst of the country's third surge is still to come.
  - 53 mins ago 21 Oct 20, 5:17pm -

Dr. Housing Bubble

• Young Americans Moving Back Home Because of Covid-19: Nearly 40 Percent of Younger Millennials Say the Pandemic has them Moving Home Again.
  The pandemic has made it harder for younger families to purchase homes in a few ways. Inventory has been severely depressed for a few years and that continues to be the case today. The pandemic has also disproportionately hit younger Americans hard w…
  - 10 days ago 12 Oct 20, 5:10am -
• National Home Prices Remain Stable While Millions Remain in Forbearance: The Covid-19 Effect on Housing
  Home prices remain stable in the face of a global pandemic, record high unemployment, and millions of Americans actively not paying on their mortgages through forbearance. Not exactly a rosy picture. On the surface, the stable prices would seem to in…
  - 52 days ago 30 Aug 20, 7:23am -
• The Home Less Millennials: In 1981 the Median age of a Home Buyer was 31 and Today it is 47
  Pre-Covid our cohort of Millennials in California were already living at home in dramatically large numbers. The total was 2.3 million Millennial adults were living at home with mom and dad because they were unable to afford high rents, let alone pur…
  - 80 days ago 2 Aug 20, 6:37am -
• The Forbearance Tsunami: 4.1 Million Mortgages are in Forbearance with many on Extensions.
  A startling number of American households are currently not paying their mortgages. This number is at 4.1 million and this data was before we entered what now appears to be a second shutdown as cases of the Coronavirus spread across the country. Yet…
  - 97 days ago 16 Jul 20, 7:53pm -
• Covid-19 and the impact on housing. SoCal Home Sales hit an all-time low in May and 4.76 million Americans are now actively not paying their mortgage.
  Things are so good in the housing market, that the data from May for SoCal home sales hit an all-time record low. That is right, this was the worst performing May in recent memory in terms of sales volume. This is a critical point because sales volum…
  - 21 Jun 20, 9:10pm -

Shadow Stats

• Flash Commentary No. 1449
  (SGS Subscription required) • Federal Reserve Will Maintain Its 0.00% to 0.25% Targeted Fed Funds Rate and “At Least” the Current Pace of Asset Purchases, For the Duration • Broad FOMC Outlook Appears Little Changed in Wake of September Meet…
  - 35 days ago 16 Sep 20, 9:07pm -
• Flash Commentary No. 1448
  (SGS Subscription required) • Evolving, “L”-Shaped Economic Recovery Confirmed by Latest, Consistent Reporting of New Claims for Unemployment Insurance • August 2020 CPI and PPI Core Inflation Continued to Spike • Record Annual Money Supp…
  - 37 days ago 14 Sep 20, 4:59pm -
• Flash Commentary No. 1447
  (SGS Subscription required) • Economic Rebound Continues to Falter • August 2020 Payroll and Unemployment Details Show Intensifying Flattening in the Developing L-Shaped Recovery • Year-to-Year Decline in Payrolls Has Stabilized Around 7.0% (…
  - 43 days ago 8 Sep 20, 8:46pm -
• Economic Commentary No. 1446
  (SGS Subscription required) • Amidst Mounting Inflation Dangers, the Weakening L-Shaped Recovery from the Pandemic-Shutdown Began to Look Even Softer in July and Early-August Reporting • Revised Second-Quarter GDP and Initial GDI and GNP Reporti…
  - 49 days ago 2 Sep 20, 4:05pm -
• Flash Economic Commentary No. 1445
  (SGS Subscription required) • Mounting, Fundamental Risks for Hyperinflation and Systemic Instabilities Promise New Highs for Gold and Silver Prices, Irrespective of the August 11th Sell-Offs • Historic GDP Collapse Wiped Out the Last Five Years…
  - 70 days ago 12 Aug 20, 11:26am -
• Economic Commentary No, 1444
  (SGS Subscription required) • FOMC Continues to Hold Its Extraordinary Interest-Rate and Liquidity Policies in Place for Duration of the Pandemic-Disruption, Amidst Signs of Renewed Slowing in Economic Activity • Exploding Gold and Silver Prices…
  - 84 days ago 30 Jul 20, 2:00am -
• Flash Commentary No. 1443
  (SGS Subscription required) • Previewing Special Economic Commentary No. 1444 • Soaring Gold and Silver Prices, and a Weakening U.S. Dollar Increasingly Foreshadow Potential Hyperinflation and Systemic Instabilities • Reporting of Deepest-Eve…
  - 90 days ago 24 Jul 20, 1:58am -
• Flash Commentary No. 1442
  (SGS Subscription required) • Soaring Gold and Silver Prices Reflect Intensifying Investor Concerns for Inflation Risk and Systemic Instabilities • Rising Gold Prices Suggest Central Banks and Treasury Departments Are Not Doing Their Jobs; Any R…
  - 10 Jul 20, 12:57am -
• Special Commentary No. 1441
  • U.S. Economic Activity Was Faltering Before the Pandemic-Driven Collapse • Pre-Pandemic Economic Troubles Were Driven Primarily by Intensifying Federal Reserve Policy Malfeasance • March 2020 Economic Numbers Took the Initial Hit of the Pan…
  - 24 Jun 20, 10:31pm -
• Flash Commentary No. 1440
  • June FOMC Outlook: Deepening Near-Term Economic Collapse, Protracted Recovery • Unlimited Money Creation and 0.00% to 0.25% Fed Funds Promised for Foreseeable Future • May 2020 Money Supply M1, M2 and M3 Annual Growth Rates Accelerated to R…
  - 14 Jun 20, 12:35am -

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