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The Good Old Days

My old stomping grounds just on left – 60 Broad.  Goldie down the street on right at 90 handle Broad Street. https://twitter.com/historyinpix/status/971303696566030339  

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Now This Will Be Interesting….

Think “disarm” is the key, which is missing. Thank goodness they’re talking, however, but not going to get lathered up just yet. Didn’t the special envoy,  Jimmy Carter,  meet with the father in 2010? EXCLUSIVE Sr US official tells me S … Continue reading

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This Day In Market History: 1936

This Day In Market History: 1936: Hitler's first aggression https://t.co/yNuO3CbBIZ via @Benzinga pic.twitter.com/Taj0tPxiBV — Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) March 7, 2018

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Wealth Inequality In the United States

This is not a chart that generates confidence in future political and social stability.   It looks like the jaws of a Great White ready to bite someone in the arse. Clearly a contributing factor in the rise of populism and anti-elitism, … Continue reading

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The Chinese Economy In 60 Seconds – FT Confidential

https://twitter.com/FTConfidential/status/971425115912261633

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Major Stock Index Recovery Percentages

Bouncing around.  Doesn’t seem like many real sellers out there.  Traders and ‘bots push the indices down and then have to cover into the close.  We wrote about this in our Week In Review post this past Sunday. Risks are … Continue reading

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China’s Staggering Demand For Commodities

Great chart from the Visual Capitalist brought to of us from our favorite Polish crude and rude trader,  the Skrypecker. Now you can see why the markets work themselves into a deflationary tizzy when China hits a speed bump.  

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World Current Accounts And The Trump Tariffs

Given all the noise around the Trump Tariffs,  we have updated our ranking of the world’s 2018 Current Account Balances (CAB) by country from largest surplus to biggest deficit, both as a percentage of GDP and in US$ billions,  in … Continue reading

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Can The Bears Deliver The Knockout Punch?

Yes, we believe so. https://twitter.com/HistoryInPix/status/967915137142280192 Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, but sometime this year the S&P500 will break into bear market territory at 2,298.30,  20 percent off its January 26th high, and 15.76 percent down from today’s close.  

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Inside the bitter Oval Office tariff fight – Axios

Interesting story by Axios about the war between Peter Navarro’s economic nationalist camp and Gary Cohn’s free trader-cohort inside the Oval Office which culminated in Cohn leaving the White House tonight. The money quote that says it all: Cohn tried to … Continue reading

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