Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 329 points to close at 23,390. The NASDAQ rose 39 points to 8,192. The Dow’s loss can be attributed to investors taking profits from last week’s gains and waiting out first-quarter earnings reports due from big banks, which are expected to be negative. Last week, the S&P index...
Tag: apr 14 2020
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VENEZUELA: CACHES & WARSHIPS
The Trends Journal has been reporting on the United States ongoing actions to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro when he was sworn in to a new term in January 2019 and replace him with self-declared president Juan Guaidó. As reported, on 26 March, the United States placed a $15 million-dollar bounty on President Maduro, accusing...
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YEMEN: THE VIRUS OF WAR CONTINUES TO SPREAD
While COVID-19 continues to dominate headlines and TV news reports 24/7, there is barely any mention on a true crisis far deadlier than coronavirus: in Yemen, at least 14 million people are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations. The cause is not a virus, but the disease of war, which has...
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THE “CURE” IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
A United Nations report released on 8 April states that coronavirus and the shutting down of the global economy to deal with it could push half a billion more people into poverty. This represents about an additional 8 percent of the entire population becoming impoverished. Even if the lower end of the estimated range is...
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HOSPITAL BLUES
For months, we’ve been hearing hyper-ventilated calls from political leaders and mainstream media about the emergency crisis caused by lack of ventilators to handle coronavirus patients with the most severe symptoms. Now that hard data and firm science is starting to emerge, it turns out the safety and health advantages of ventilators for COVID-19 have...
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SHUT DOWNS & SHUT INS
Taking advantage of successful fear campaigns, political leaders continue to shut down economies and shut in their citizens based on their individual temperament rather than hard data. As of last week, over 100 countries were in full or partial lockdown affecting billions of people. Looking for consistency? In Italy, where it is now known that...
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CRACKS IN THE DEBT BUBBLE
by Gregory Mannarino We have entered a new paradigm, one that for years I have outlined would occur, and, now, it is here: an era in which massive debt expansion, on an unprecedented scale, is taking place. What we now are witnessing is a global takeover by the new World Central Bank, formally known as...
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REAL ESTATE DEAD? TIME TO BUY?
With the economy at a standstill, U.S. office space under long-term leases is no longer a safe investment. Long-term leases no longer offer a guaranteed return if the tenant can’t pay rent or goes out of business. As a result, investors are bailing out of real estate investment trusts as tenants successfully pressure their landlords...
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THE NUMBERS DON’T ADD UP
“DEATH TOLL PASSES 20,000 IN USA” That was last Sunday’s DRUDGE headline. Happy Easter! Twenty thousand have died out of a population of 330,000,000… or 0.00606 percent of the nation. As we noted on the cover of our 28 January Trends Journal: “CORONAVIRUS: 106 Dead in China – 1.4 Billion Still Alive. New Black Plague?”…...
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A TOUCH OF SANITY IN A WORLD GONE MAD?
At least two national leaders are successfully dealing with the coronavirus without closing down the country’s economy and forcing people to stay at home. In Sweden, families can be seen eating on benches beneath the giant statue of the Viking God Thor in Stockholm’s Mariatorget Square. Nightclubs are open, with gatherings allowed up to 50...
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