What is old news for Trends Journal subscribers who were warned back in May that the launching of COVID War 2.0 to fight the Delta variant, has now, some three months later, made its way into the mainstream mindset. According to data analyzed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) last week, the...
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AS CELENTE FORECAST: U.S. WOULD LOSE AFGHAN WAR LAUNCHED BY BUSH. THE WORST IS YET TO COME
Pick up the newspapers, listen to the news. What a disgusting freak show. Blaming Joe Biden—who voted for the Afghan War and every other war America has launched since he’s been sucking off the public tit when he was sworn in as a Senator from Delaware at the age of 30—for America’s defeat in Afghanistan....
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CNN BLAMES THE SKY FOR SKYROCKETING FOOD PRICES
When all else fails, blame the weather. A 13 August CNN business story (“Get used to surging food prices: Extreme weather is here to stay”) sought to divert attention away from the obvious, with respect to spiraling food costs. According to the story, a global COVID shutdown egged on by MSM outlets, and inflationary government...
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HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY
A handful of Big Tech companies currently control the lion’s share of e-commerce, web advertising, social media, cloud services and more. Everyone knows the players: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Twitter. They make more the GDP of many countries, escape fair taxation (ie. levels average citizens in many places pay), and manipulate policy debates....
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MARKETS: AN EXTREME PARADOX—WHEN TO DUMP STOCKS
By Gregory Mannarino TradersChoice.net If you are a follower of my work here in the Trends Journal, then you are already aware of the epic distortions which are now occurring in the financial markets. For some time I have been detailing for you how, in the face of everything being thrown at this market, stocks...
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MARKET OVERVIEW
DOW, S&P EDGE UP TO NEW RECORD CLOSES The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index barely moved on Friday, but scratched out enough of a gain to notch new record closes for both. The Dow tacked on 15.53 points to end the week at 35,515; the S&P nudged up 7.17 to...
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USE ADULT JUDGEMENT FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE!
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato A recent news story reported that a woman producing a handgun and leveling it at another woman over a dispute regarding—of all stupid things—the armed woman’s alleged refusal to apologize to the other woman’s 15 year old daughter after bumping into her! Look, if you bump into someone (or...
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CHINA’S GDP SWELLS 12.7 PERCENT IN 2021’S FIRST SIX MONTHS
After expanding 18.3 percent in this year’s first quarter and 7.9 percent in the second, China’s economy posted a cumulative 12.7-percent growth during the first half of this year to 53.2 trillion yuan, the National Bureau of Statistics reported, the equivalent of about $8.2 trillion. After adding 2.3 percent in 2020, the bureau calculates the...
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GERMANY’S FACTORY OUTPUT FALLS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT MONTH
Germany’s manufacturing economy turned out 1.3 percent less value in June than in May, bringing its three-month slide to production levels 6.8 percent smaller than in February 2020, the country’s statistics agency reported. Materials shortages and kinks in supply chains caused the drop, the agency said. Short of computer chips, Germany’s vehicle makers shrank output...
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TOURISTS’ ABSENCE CRIPPLES EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
For the second consecutive summer, emerging nations are facing an absence of the tourists that have been the lifeblood of their economies, which already are burdened by debt and drained by the cost of fighting the COVID War, the Financial Times reported. In January through May, international arrivals were 85 percent fewer than 2019’s 540...