The Dow shed 592 points yesterday, in the wake of a historic crash in short-term oil prices, with benchmark West Texas intermediate crude closing at negative $37.63 on Monday… the first time oil futures had not only reached, but sunk, below zero. The market selloff continued today with indexes across Asia, Europe and the U.S.,...
Tag: apr 21 2020
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CURE WORSE THAN THE DISEASE?
As reported in last week’s Trends Journal, the mass shutdown of the global economy is having the most drastic effects on the poor and middle class. In the U.S., the wealthiest country in the world, aerial photographs show miles-long lines of cars seeking much-needed food bank handouts. Over 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment...
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PSYCHOTIC BREAKDOWN, TOTAL CONTROL
Has the world gone mad? On orders of politicians, over four billion people are locked down. In the United States alone, some 300 million citizens, “from sea to shining sea,” are “sheltered-in-place.” To date, 22 million people filed for unemployment. Multiply that number by the billions out of work across the globe. Do you know...
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SOME AMERICANS FIGHT THE SHUTDOWN
Last Wednesday, Michigan residents went to the state capitol to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s state shutdown, chanting “We are not prisoners.” Called “Operation Gridlock,” the rally attracted an estimated 4,000 people, mostly in cars, voicing anger over Governor Whitmer’s “stay-at-home” orders, which ban residents from visiting any other home except for taking care of a...
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MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD
EUROPE Germany Begins to Gradually Reopen Economy Germany will begin restarting its economy this week, with Volkswagen returning some factories to production before the end of this month. Select kinds of small stores that had been deemed “non-essential” can open now. Schools will reopen 4 May for older students. Younger students will return in stages....
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TREND TRACKING LESSON: “THINK FOR YOURSELF”
The motto of the Trends Journal is “Think For Yourself.” The masters of propaganda, however, slip in words and thoughts to direct readers and viewers with words and phrases that subliminally or overtly do the thinking for you. There is a new phrase being drummed up by mainstream media and which is starting to proliferate...
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U.S. HOUSEHOLDS PUSHED TO THE BRINK
The current economic crisis is bringing the rock and the hard place closer together for millions of American households. In December 2019, weeks before the economic shutdown and tidal wave of unemployment, surveys found that 40 percent of U.S. households lacked the cash to manage a $400 emergency expense. About 60 percent couldn’t borrow enough...
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IN THIS MARKET, UP IS DOWN
By Gregory Mannarino Just when it seems economic news can’t possibly get worse, well stocks go higher. The current market environment is completely and absolutely upside down. Despite every single piece of dismal economic news thrown at it, well stocks go higher. How can that be? The mechanism behind it is simple: the Federal Reserve,...
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THE HERD MENTALITY
by Gerald Celente As a Trends Journal subscriber, you know we provide hard facts, and that I am a political atheist. Not only do I have no belief in the political system, I have true disdain for who they are and what they do. And why not? Here is the definition of “politician”: “A person...
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