Tag: Oct2018

Rising U.S. interest rates, higher oil prices, lower earnings and geo-political unrest are merging to form an economic tsunami. When the Dow dropped 830 points on 10 October, and fell 1,300 points for the week, $1.7 trillion was wiped off the S&P 500 and nearly $3 trillion off global stocks. Since that turning point moment...

While technically, President Donald Trump has no day-to-day management authority over the Federal Reserve, he can with “cause” fire Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, who he appointed, and the U.S. Senate would have sign off on any replacements he recommends. The Federal Reserve and its board of five governors, also appointed by the president, serve as...

With 30-year residential fixed mortgage rates now at 5 percent in the U.S., higher interest rates are hitting the real estate market. On the heels of the September 0.25 percent rate hike, mortgage applications fell 32 percent lower than last year, when rates were a full percent lower. And new home sales plunged 5.5 percent...

Over the past decade, while wages have shown modest spikes, mostly benefitting higher-pay categories, the increases have barely kept pace with inflation, essentially wiping out any net gains in workers’ take-home pay. In fact, when factoring inflation, real average wages have about the same purchasing power today as they did 40 years ago, The numbers...

As we have long forecast, the higher U.S. interest rates rise, the lower gold goes. The stronger the dollar becomes, the lower gold goes. It’s a simple equation. The higher rates increase, they boost the dollar and push up U.S. Treasury yields, making gold a less attractive investment since it does not bear interest. And...

Equity markets are manipulated. The facts show, when they get out of control, governments and central banksters rush in and rescue them. The United States has its Plunge Protection Team. By executive order by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, the PPT “Working Group” was formed to keep Congress and the White House informed of critical...

Fear is in the air. It’s a freak show, and everyone with a half a brain and an open heart knows it. And in the U.S., where they’re continually bragging about being number 1, “The Presidential Reality Show®,” starring Reality Show Champion, Donald Trump, is the greatest show on earth and indeed number 1 in...

The day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow mainstream media obsessive coverage of the apparent murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is, from our trend-tracking perspective, a despicable example of medias’ self-driven priorities at the expense of covering real, lasting examples of innocents being slaughtered, murdered, maimed and starved to death. Saudi Arabian officials are being accused...

The media censorship trend that accelerated with the multi-platform shutdown of Alex Jones in the summer of 2018 and his media operation INFOWARS has erupted into an unprecedented, full scale assault on First Amendment rights on the internet. Barely getting attention, and certainly not stirring the outrage it deserves, Facebook has undertaken a massive purge...

Whether to invest, or not. Sell or hold. Trends Journal subscribers are asking a lot of questions about the future of cryptocurrencies. For many, this turbulent year signaled the wild ride is over. For others, this has been a transitional year, a year in which government interventions, new regulations and heightened scrutiny, as well as...