September 24, 2023 | One Last Turn of the Screw, then REAL Pain

The bullish gap on the chart holds ominous implications for the global economy, since it removes almost all doubt that interest rates on U.S. Treasury Bonds are headed significantly higher. The rally looks nearly certain to reach 4.81%, the target of the pattern shown.  The red line through which the gap occurred last Thursday is a […]

September 24, 2023 | Mark Jeftovic: Cash Isn’t The Solution To CBDCs

Bombthrower Media’s Mark Jeftovic just posted some provocative thoughts on the timing of the forced migration to CBDS and how today’s seemingly omnipotent governments are dancing on the edge of the abyss. Here’s an excerpt: Cash will be no refuge under CBDCs The world is headed toward Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and everybody knows it, even […]

September 24, 2023 | General Mark Milley – A Threat to the Nation?

  Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley is a Neocon. He has taken every possible action against Donald Trump because Trump was against war. His latest venture to support the neocons is to imply that Trump is a threat to nuclear war. He said that while the president has the […]

September 23, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For September 23, 2023

KING Dollar higher for ten consecutive weeks The US Dollar Index registered its highest weekly close in ten months, up ~6% from the mid-July Key Turn Date. The Euro (the Anti-Dollar) has closed lower for ten consecutive weeks, falling ~6% from its mid-July highs. The Yen has dropped ~7% from its mid-July highs and closed this week at 10-month lows […]

September 23, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Interest Rates, USD, Canadian Dollar, Gold, Oil.  Special Offer! Receive 25% Off New Annual Subscriptions.
• Victor Adair: (11:18)  Interest Rates, USD, Inflation
• John Rubino: (44:19) Oil, Uranium, Inflation, AI, Labour Shortages

September 23, 2023 | Unaffordable Homes and Cars

A new report from RATESDOTCA found that Canadians who took a five-year insured $500,000 variable-rate mortgage in the low-interest days of 2021 would be paying $23,579 more in cumulative interests by September 2023 compared to a fixed-rate mortgage option. See Variable rate mortgage holders on the hook for thousands in interest: The figure represents 63 per cent in […]

September 23, 2023 | Tech Talk for Saturday September 23rd 2023

The Bottom Line North American equity indices and related stocks are closely following their weakest period of the year from the second week in September to the second week in October. Broadly  based U.S. equity indices completed Double Top or Head & Shoulders patterns (including a double top pattern the Dow Jones Industrial Average on […]

September 22, 2023 | Stock Market Traders Wishing for Rate Cuts Will Be Disappointed

The U.S. stock market sold off this week after the Federal Reserve announced that rates will have to stay higher for longer. But the stock market should be careful what it wishes for. The record shows clearly that rate cuts are usually bad for the stock market and the economy. This week Jerome Powell, chair […]

September 22, 2023 | Finally, The Housing Crash

Spiking interest rates are normally a death knell for homebuilders, for obvious reasons. Higher mortgage rates raise monthly payments, which crash house prices, which make existing houses cheaper than newly built ones, which causes demand for new houses to shrink, which causes homebuilders to lay off their workers and sell their spec houses and excess […]

September 22, 2023 | Stocks Tank on Fed’s ‘Hawkish’ Pause

Excellent overview of key data in this segment. Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO & Chief Strategist of QI Research, returns to Forward Guidance to share her views on the September meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). Filmed on September 20, shortly after Fed Chair Jay Powell’s press conference. Here is a direct video link.

September 22, 2023 | US Real Estate Prices Extremely Unsustainable

Inflation the biggest threat to US Economy

September 22, 2023 | China’s Real Estate Meltdown Sees Arrests

What is the outlook for Gold?

September 21, 2023 | Trump Promises Largest Deportation in US History

  Illegal aliens are pouring into America from the southern and northern borders. Cities have been destroyed, public places overrun, and local governments are wiping out their budgets to support these intruders. US citizens are beginning to clash with refugees, as was witnessed in Staten Island, NY, when people tried to prevent migrants from exiting […]

September 21, 2023 | Falling Incomes and Forced Home Sales

Lucid insights on macro conditions and the housing cycle in this segment. Homeowners in America have run out of money in 2023, which could spark a wave of panic selling that will cause inventory to surge. Here is a direct video link.

September 21, 2023 | Update on Key Housing Indicator

            [The above chart was presented in my Sept 2023 Timing Letter, as was the following transcript:]   “Based on the 1-2-3 chart pattern shown in the chart, odds are high that more months’ supply of homes for sale is going to start hitting the market in the months (and maybe years) ahead.”   […]

September 21, 2023 | Quick Video: CBDCs “Sound Like Fascism

From today’s Jimmy Dore show: Digital Currency = Total Control The G-20 just announced a global regulatory framework for central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. The central banks have been partnering with governments and private corporations to usher this in. Kind of sounds like fascism, doesn’t it? You’ve already witnessed how central banks have been using […]

September 21, 2023 | Value of US Dollar Tied to Interest Rates

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September 21, 2023 | Governments Rarely Survive Voter Pain from Foreclosures

Scandal plagued Ontario Premier Ford stops Green Belt housing plan

September 20, 2023 | Bonfire Of The Silver Shorts

After 40 years of silver price manipulation and suppression on the COMEX, the physical market has experienced a lack of production growth and enhanced demand brought about by too-low silver prices. According to the immutable law of supply and demand, silver is now in a deepening physical shortage in which sharply higher prices are both […]

September 20, 2023 | What This $100 Billion Ghost City Says About China’s Realty Crisis

Country Garden, once seen as one of China’s most stable property developers, is now struggling financially, leaving the future of unfinished megadevelopments like Malaysia’s Forest City in doubt. Here’s how overbuilding, and a streak of bad luck, have left China’s real-estate developers in the red. Here is a direct video link. This entry was posted

September 20, 2023 | Peter Zeihan: China Is Collapsing — Now

Demographer and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan is known for his brutally harsh take on China’s prospects. But the collapse he saw coming was always in the indeterminate future. But in his latest video, he seems to have moved the terminal date up to … today. Some bullet points: Chairman Xi has eliminated anyone capable of […]

September 20, 2023 | Pix System in Brazil

You likely have not heard of the Pix system unless you live in Brazil. Pix is an “instant payment ecosystem” launched on November 16, 2020, by Brazil’s central bank (BCB). Pix primarily works through the use of QR codes that users use to access their digital accounts for payments. The pandemic helped push people to […]

September 20, 2023 | Fed Pause Doesn’t Preclude Future Hikes

Real Estate problems a global phenomena

September 19, 2023 | Becoming Invisible, Part 10: Your WiFi Can See you

Bombthrower.com’s Mark Jeftovic just posted a must-read story from one of his favorite techies. As you’ll see, it’s something we should all be aware of. Your WiFi Can See You Follow Mr. E on Substack and Twitter! When police suspected Danny Kyllo, an Oregon man, of growing cannabis in his home they drove to his house with a thermal imaging […]