X22Report: Economic News

[turiya]

Putin Declares Independence From The
Rothschild Banking System - Episode 1365a
(Published on Aug 28, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maro_RHBWmg
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Carmageddon Continues - Dealers "Wildly Overweight" SUVs As Sales Slow (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-27/dealers-wildly-overweight-suvs-sales-slow)

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The auto boom - one of the key components propping up consumer spending - has come to an end...

Aug 27, 2017 12:45 PM



Putin Declares ‘Total Independence’ From Rothschild Banking Cabal (https://newspunch.com/putin-total-indepdence-rothschild/)

In June last year President Putin banned (https://newspunch.com/putin-bans-rothschilds-from-russia/) Jacob Rothschild and his New World Order banking cartel family from entering Russian territory “under any circumstances,” and now, just over one year later, Putin has declared “total independence” from the global banking cartel and Rothschild international money lending organizations.
Declaring the achievement the “greatest gift” that can be given to future generations, Putin hosted a party in the Kremlin to celebrate the achievement.
“They said we couldn’t do it, they said we would be destroyed,” Putin told staff and senior associates. “Our future generations will be born without Rothschild chains around their wrists and ankles.”
“This is the greatest gift we can give them.”
Putin’s greatest legacy
Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin also spoke at the event and praised Putin’s achievement in driving the Rothschilds out of the country.
“They don’t go easily,” Kudrin said. “But we have proved it is possible.”
“The greatest legacy that can be passed on to your children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in life, but rather a legacy of freedom from enslavement.”

Source: yournewswire.com

[turiya]

X22Report... Economics... for August 29, 2017...

The Ugly Truth Of The Economic Disaster
That's Headed Our Way - Episode 1366a
(Published on Aug 29, 2017)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxVxMIOgcU

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Economy

Eurozone Consumer Spending Growth Likely To Slow In 2017: Capital Economics (http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/eurozone-consumer-spending-growth-likely-to-slow-in-2017-capital-economics/)

Consumer spending growth in Eurozone is likely to slow this year despite an improvement in consumer confidence, Stephen Brown, an economist at Capital Economics, said.

Further, households’ real income growth has slowed this year on higher inflation amid subdued wage growth.
“As a result, households might become less optimistic about the outlook for their personal finances in the coming months and we continue to expect annual consumer spending growth to ease from 2 percent in 2016 to 1.5 percent this year,” said Brown.

Source: hellenicshippingnews.com


Cryptocurrencies could undermine US hegemony, says Telegram founder (https://www.rt.com/business/401299-durov-russia-us-bitcoin-hegemony/)
The founder of the Telegram messaging service and the VKontakte social network Pavel Durov suggests the world may finally have a chance to ditch US dominance thanks to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
“For the first time in 70 years, the global financial system has an opportunity to get rid of the US hegemony, which has imposed its national currency upon the whole world as a reserve currency,” Durov posted on his VK page (https://vk.com/durov).
”Since then, the US had been collecting tribute from all the countries, paying its debts with incessantly printed dollars and using them to buy assets worldwide,” he added.

Source: sott.net


Best Buy tumbles after CEO says strong sales are not a ‘new normal’ (http://www.businessinsider.com/best-buy-earnings-stock-price-q2-2017-8?utm_source=feedburner&amp%3Butm_medium=referral&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+I nsider%29)

No.1 U.S. electronics retailer, reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings and sales
Best Buy in fact benefitted from this challenging environment in the second quarter as some of its competitors closed stores, particularly the electronics-retailer hh Gregg (http://www.businessinsider.com/retailers-are-going-bankrupt-at-a-staggering-rate-2017-4).

Source: businessinsider.com


Home Prices In 80% Of US Cities Grow Twice Faster Than Wages… And Then There’s Seattle (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-29/home-prices-80-us-cities-grow-twice-faster-wages-and-then-theres-seattle?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)

A quick look at US housing shows that while wages may be growing at roughly 2.5%, according to the latest Case Shiller data (http://us.spindices.com/documents/indexnews/announcements/20170829-574349/574349_cshomeprice-release-0829.pdf?force_download=true), every single metro area in the US saw home prices grow at a higher rate, while 16 of 20 major U.S. cities experienced home price growth of 5% or higher: double the average wage growth, and something which even the NAR has been complaining about with its chief economist Larry Yun warning that as the disconnect between prices and wages become wider, homes become increasingly unaffordable.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/EARNINGS%20GROWTH_0.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/EARNINGS%20GROWTH.jpg)

Putting the above data in context, here are two charts courtesy of real-estate expert Mark Hanson (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/house-price-bubbles-20-pictures), the first of which shows how much household income increase is needed to buy the median priced home in key US cities…


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/HOUSEHOLD-INCOME-MUST-INCREASE_0.png (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/HOUSEHOLD-INCOME-MUST-INCREASE.png)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/divergence-hh-income-vs-hh-cost-to-own_0.png (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/divergence-hh-income-vs-hh-cost-to-own.png)
Source: zerohedge.com


The average American had a bigger savings account… in 1997! (https://www.sovereignman.com/market-bubble/the-average-american-had-a-bigger-savings-account-in-1997-22337/)
According to data from the US Labor Department, for example, the percentage of Americans in their prime work years (between the ages of 25 and 54) who actually have jobs is still WAY below the level prior to the 2008 Great Recession.

https://cdn.sovereignman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/chart-uslabor1-1024x410.png
Wage growth has also been stagnant..
On top of that, debt levels are hitting record highs. Student debt. Consumer debt. Auto loans.
And people are once again unable to pay their debts.
Over the last 12 months, for example, Capital One’s net charge-offs increased 40%.
Cash levels are also incredibly low.
We’ve all seen the stories about how little savings the average American has.

Bank of America’s annual report from 2016 shows that the bank has $592 billion in consumer deposits from 46 million households.
That works out to be an average of $12,870. Per HOUSEHOLD. Not per person.
And that amount includes EVERYTHING: savings, investments, retirement, etc.
What’s amazing is that, 20 years ago, Bank of America’s annual report (http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/71/71595/reports/1998_ar.pdf) showed the bank had $392 billion in deposits from 30 million households.
That worked out to be $13,067 per household… in 1997!
So 20 years later, Bank of America’s average customer has LESS MONEY. And that’s before adjusting for inflation.

Source: sovereignman.com


Bank of America; "This Could Get Ugly, We Think" (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-29/bank-america-could-get-ugly-we-think)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fp_thumb/images/user5/imageroot/barnaby%20bid%20offer.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-29/bank-america-could-get-ugly-we-think)
BofA looked at the liquidity structure in the bond market and found that while currently there is little to worry about, it's all thanks to central banks; once the central bank put (or balance sheet) melts away, that's when the real test will take place. And, as BofA puts it "this could get ugly, we think."

Aug 29, 2017 12:18 PM



The Last Time This Few Americans Thought Stocks Would Drop, They Crashed (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-29/last-time-few-americans-thought-stocks-would-drop-they-crashed)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fp_thumb/images/user3303/imageroot/20170829_conf2.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-29/last-time-few-americans-thought-stocks-would-drop-they-crashed)
According to the latest Conference Board survey, 80% of Americans surveyed believe that stock prices will not be lower in the next 12 months. The last time the nation was so convinced of the market's 'permanently high plateau' was in the fall of 2007, as the S&P topped...

Aug 29, 2017 1:50 PM
Only 20% of Americans believe stocks will fall in the next 12 months – that is the lowest number since mid-2017

What happened next was not pretty (oh and in 1999/2000…)
And don’t forget that[/B] [B]speculators have never been more net long Dow futures…

Source: zerohedge.com

[sandy]

Thanks turiya>>>>one of the main reasons war is being set up IMO.. :-(

[turiya]

Yep... Deep State / Cabal wants it so bad they are salivating over it...
they need it to keep what they got... and their stranglehold over the rest of us innocents...

[turiya]

Eye-opening interview w/ Bix Weir... on George Soros, what Trump is moving towards, Clinton / Huma Abedin emails... cryptos... DNC & GOP crime syndicates... two sets of law...

@1:41 of the interview:
Bix Weir: "The question is: when are they going to "pull the plug" on this game?
Because, more & more people have come to realize that the markets are rigged. And do you want to be 'in' a rigged market at the height of a bubble, or do you want to be 'far-far away'? And, I think alot of people are thinking 'far-far away'. 'Far-far away' means physical metals in your possession, it means holding as many 'crypto-currencies' as a part of Block-chain type companies as you can. So yeah, I think we are right on the brink.

I thinks a good sign from the 'good guys': Steve Bannon has left the Trump administration - he was like the last 'good' guy who was sticking to what Trump had promised - he promised to drain the swamp & just filled the White House with other swamp people.

So, Bannon leaving is just a great sign that they're about to "pull the plug". Because you don't want the destruction of the economy to happen because of all the changes that Trump put in place. Right now, they're not letting him change anything. So, he's just going to let the system fall apart and say:
"Hey, its not my fault. You are the guys who stopped me from doing all the things that I've wanted to do. I should be able to choose who I want in my own cabinet. I should have been able to do to 'make America great again'. But you - the media & the Deep-State - decided that you were not going to let me, so I'll just let the system fall apart."

Dave (X22Report): So, you're saying that the people that he has right now - those people in the GOP & others that are also not with him - they are the ones that chose who should be in his administration. And he [Trump] really didn't have a choice in the matter. He may have had some suggestions, but the people who are there were put there without him saying: "Yes, I really want this person."

Bix Weir: Yes. I mean, the people he did choose, they got outed - they all got kicked out - for one reason or another. And its not a Republican / Democrat thing, really - its the Deep-State. Its those people that control our lives that have all the control & abuse all that control.

And, when the system falls apart - its one of those things - now, Trump is free to drain the swamp. Whereas, before he couldn't do it. Now he can...
To drain the swamp, all you have to do is release the 350,000 emails who they have of Huma Abedin... you know - Hillary Clinton's left-hand girl, so-to-speak...."


Bix Weir: The Economic
Transition Has Already Begun
(Published on Aug 23, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GDF8tdccE

[turiya]

Strange, Rothschild Dumps A Huge
Amount Of US Assets - Episode 1367a
(Published on Aug 30, 2017)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB3FzgR3eGg
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Economy


ADP Employment Surges By The Most In 5 Months (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-30/adp-employment-surges-most-5-months?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)

ADP reports the US economy added 237,000 jobs in August, notably more than the expected 185k. This is the biggest addition since March, and follows upward revisions for July. While Services dominated (adding 204k), Goods-producing jobs rose 33k (with manufacturing adding 16k).


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Source: zerohedge.com


The US Cities with the Biggest Housing Bubbles (https://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/29/the-us-cities-with-the-biggest-housing-bubbles/)

Amazing house price bubbles, city by city. Bubbles really aren’t hard to recognize, if you want to recognize them. What’s hard to predict accurately is when they will burst. Normally the Fed doesn’t want to acknowledge them. But now it has its eyes focused on them.
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for June was released today. It jumped 5.8% year-over-year, not seasonally adjusted, once again outpacing growth in household incomes, as it has done for years. At 192.6, the index has surpassed by 5% the peak in May 2006 of crazy Housing Bubble 1, which everyone called “housing bubble” after it imploded (data via FRED (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA), St. Louis Fed):



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The index was set at 100 for January 2000. An index value of 200 means prices have doubled in the past 17 years, which is what most of the metros in this series have accomplished, or are close to accomplishing.
Real estate is local. Therefore real estate bubbles are local. If enough local bubbles balloon at the same time, it becomes a national housing bubble. As the above chart shows, the US national Housing Bubble 2 now exceeds the crazy levels of Housing Bubble 1, and in all ten major metro areas, home prices are setting new records.


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Home prices in the Seattle metro have spiked over the past year, pushing the index 20% above the peak of Housing Bubble 1 (Jul 2007):


https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/US-Housing-Case-Shiller-Seattle-2017-08-29.png



Then there’s Denver’s very special house price bubble. The index has soared a stunning 43% above the peak of Housing Bubble 1 (Aug 2006):


https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/US-Housing-Case-Shiller-Dener-2017-08-29.png



People in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro felt left out during Housing Bubble 1, The index has now surged by 42% from the peak in June 2007:


https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/US-Housing-Case-Shiller-dallas-2017-08-29.png



The Atlanta metro, where home prices had plunged 36% after Housing Bubble 1, has now finally squeaked past the prior peak by 2%,


https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/US-Housing-Case-Shiller-Atlanta-2017-08-29.pngSource: wolfstreet.com


US Second Quarter GDP Revised Sharply Higher To 3.0%, Best In Two Years (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-30/us-q2-gdp-revised-sharply-higher-30-best-two-years?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)

In a surprise for traders – and the Fed – moments ago the BEA reported that after its first revision of Q2 GDP (a quarter which ended two months ago), the initial estimate of 2.6% was revised to 3.0%, beating expectations of a 2.7% print, and the highest annualized growth rate since Q1 2015. The annualized Q2 GDP was more than double the first quarter number which as a reminder printed at 1.2%


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2017/08/12/Q2%20GDP%202017%20summary_0.jpg

Sharp drop in profits of domestic financial corporations decreased 6.2% after decreasing 7.9%.



Somewhat surprisingly, profits from the rest of the world decreased 2.0% after decreasing 2.1%,

Source: zerohedge.com

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Big Bank Bosses Are Dumping Their Stocks As “Credit Risk Ricochets Back” (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-29/big-bank-bosses-are-dumping-their-stocks-credit-risk-ricochets-back?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


“Credit risk is ricocheting back as a legitimate concern after years of hibernation…” warns David Hendler, founder and principal at Viola Risk Advisors, who considers recent share sales by executives at the big retail banks, in particular, to be smart, asconsumer portfolios are showing signs of strain (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-09/credit-card-defaults-surge-most-financial-crisis).


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Executives of the biggest TBTF banks were dumping their shares as a post-Trump rally took their stock prices higher…


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Insiders at the big six banks by assets — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — have in total sold a net 9.32m shares on the open market since the turn of the year.
That is an unusually long streak of net sales, across each of the big six.

Source: zerohedge.com


Rothschild Just Dumped Massive Amounts of US Assets, Sending an Ominous Signal (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/rothschild-aggressively-moves-assets-out-us/)

In what is a sure signal to oligarchs across the globe, Lord Jacob Rothschild, founder and chairman of RIT Capital Partners, has substantially minimized his exposure to what he views as a risky and unstable U.S. capital market. In the half-yearly financial report for RIT Capital Partners (http://www.ritcap.com/sites/default/files/245291%20RIT%20R%26A%20Interim%20WEB.PDF), Rothschild explained the company’s aggressive moves to significantly reduce exposure to U.S. assets.
Additionally, Rothschild stated that he believes quantitative easing (QE) programs employed by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the U.S. will “come to an end.”
Rothschild was quoted in the report as saying, “The period of monetary accommodation may well be coming to an end.”


http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Roths.png (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Roths.png)Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

X22Report.com (http://x22report.com/strange-rothschild-dumps-a-huge-amount-of-us-assets-episode-1367/#more-280027)

[turiya]

Gregory Mannarino: When The Market
Corrects, Bubbles Will Pop & It Will Be Epic
(Published on Aug 31, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VVhCFgELbo
_______Article by Gregory Mannarino_______

Global Debt And The Human Bubble (https://realityparadigm.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/global-debt-and-the-human-bubble/)

By Gregory Mannarino
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/29482055-gregory-mannarino/3201455-global-debt-and-the-human-bubble

The issue of a global population bubble is virtually not spoken of, in fact I may have been one of the first to openly discuss how grave a situation it really is. However this bubble may be about to burst.




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When an issue facing an individual or an entire population in this case is so immense, without any solution, it gets blocked involuntarily by the brains inability to cope. When an event is so far out and away from the ability of the average individual to get their head around a self-preservation mode “kicks in,” and subsequently the reality of a given situation gets pushed out of the psyche. The actuality is that the explosion in world population brought directly about by a complete “mismanagement” of the global monetary system via the world’s central banks has inflated a HUMAN BUBBLE.

As I have discussed in my book The Politics Of Money and on my business day MarketReport (http://www.youtube.com/user/GregVegas5909?feature=player_offer) many times, the issue of exploding global debt IS NOT just a monetary issue, it is a problem regarding resources.

It’s just that simple.

When our politicians allowed Central Banks to implement a fiat monetary system (a debt based economic model), a virtual alternate reality was allowed to manifest itself. This debt based economic model has now evolved into the greatest threat facing mankind with no way out, and there lies the problem.

A massive global loss of life is a mathematical certainty.

The world’s central banks are responsible for creating a “market” for their product, “currency backed by nothing.” This “arrangement” demands cash be borrowed into existence in perpetuity. This mechanism is a self-feeding one as well, allow me to explain. This debt based system permits and demands an ever increasing debt to be acquired in order to function. Therefore as this fiat currency is borrowed into existence, resources are pulled from the future creating an environment of excess. This has allowed a global population boom and as such the demand for more debt to be borrowed into existence is constantly generated.

What must be understood by you the reader is this, without exception all “bubbles” must burst at one point and why is that?

Simple, because they rise above a level which can be sustained BY ANY MEANS. The world’s central banks fiat monetary system has allowed a borrowing of monies from the future to live a better now. By pulling monies from the future we have been able to acquire and have access to resources which would normally not have been available. As such we now exist in a “reality” which is not sustainable.

A global ever ballooning bubble in debt has directly fuelled a population boom, in fact they have risen in tandem. It should be clear to you that the issue of exploding global debt is not sustainable by any means. Therefore, this global HUMAN BUBBLE will burst along with the DEBT BUBBLE simultaneously and tens of millions of people in every continent around the world will die.

[turiya]

Economic Indicators Plunge And Banks
Move To The Block Chain - Episode 1368a
(Published on Aug 31, 2017)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpw42L-i_xg
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Economy


Brexit negotiations go nowhere – but the insults are flying (https://www.rt.com/uk/401567-brexit-insults-davis-barnier/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS)
The third round of Brexit talks, which come to a close on Thursday, have been marked by insults and acrimony between the two negotiating sides.
The EU has accused Britain of being ill-prepared, ambiguous in its position, and not taking negotiations seriously, while the UK has warned it could simply walk away if the EU does not show some flexibility.
From the outside, talks appear deadlocked, with the UK and EU failing to make progress in any of the key areas.
Juncker said there were still an “enormous” number of issues to be settled. He says the bloc had received “no definitive response” on the Ireland issue, citizens’ rights, or the divorce bill.
Source: rt.com


Real Personal Spending Disappoints In July, Savings Rate Tumbles To Lowest Since Dec 2016 (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/real-personal-spending-disappoints-july-savings-rate-tumbles-lowest-dec-2016?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)
Following June’s MoM decline in incomes, Americans saw a modest 0.4% bounce in July (better than expected). However, their spending grew less than expected (up 0.3% MoM vs 0.4% expectations).
However, real personal spending rose just 0.2% MoM in July (below expectations).


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This sent the US personal savings rate down to just 3.5%, the lowest since December 2016.



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Source: zerohedge.com


Amazon is actually the weakest of the big U.S. retailers, Moody’s says (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-is-actually-the-weakest-of-the-big-us-retailers-2017-08-30?siteid=rss&rss=1)

Amazon.com Inc., far from dominating the retail sector, is actually the weakest of the big U.S. players based on operating results, Moody’s Investors Service said Wednesday.
The e-commerce giant is the subject of a number of myths regarding its size and clout that mask the reality of its position compared with rivals like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -0.57% (http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wmt?mod=MW_story_quote) and Costco Wholesale Corp. COST, +1.57% (http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/cost?mod=MW_story_quote) , according to Charlie O’Shea, Moody’s vice president
Amazon’s stock AMZN, +1.27% (http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn?mod=MW_story_quote) has outperformed rivals, but it’s mostly based on the company’s growth story, and particularly the success of its cloud business, Amazon Web Services,
O’Shea wrote in a new report.
The perception that Amazon is poised to take over the grocery business via its acquisition of Whole Foods, which closed this week (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-shoppers-arent-convinced-whole-foods-will-stop-being-whole-paycheck-2017-08-28), is another myth,[/B] said O’Shea:
“Online sales still account for only about 10% of overall U.S. retail sales, with a much lower percentage in the grocery segment, leaving the big brick-and-mortar retailers, led by Walmart, still really formidable competitors in the industry,” he wrote.


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Chicago PMI Refuses To Bounce After July Plunge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/chicago-pmi-refuses-bounce-after-july-plunge?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)

Following Chicago PMI’s collapse in July, August failed to provde any bounce in the soft survey data, printing unchanged at 58.9 (July was revised slightly higher).


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The Employment indicator slipped for the third consecutive month in August,

Source: zerohedge.com


The Biggest US Cities where Rents Are Plunging (https://wolfstreet.com/2017/08/31/most-expensive-u-s-cities-apartment-rents/)

An inconvenient math for housing is beginning to dog Chicago: The third largest city in the US has been losing population for years. Not huge numbers, but it adds up… In 2016, according to the Census estimate, the population dropped by about 9,000 people. Since 2014, the population (http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&idim=place:1714000:0644000&hl=en&dl=en) has dropped by about 14,000 people. Chicago’s fiscal woes, junk credit rating, and the threat of bankruptcy hanging over it don’t help.
According to Zumper’s National Rent Report (https://www.zumper.com/blog/2017/08/zumper-national-rent-report-september-2017/) for August, the median asking rent in Chicago dropped by 13.7% year-over-year to $1,510 for a one-bedroom apartment, and by 15.7% to $2,200 for a two-bedroom. From their peaks in late 2015, asking rents have plunged 26% and 17% respectively.



In New York City, the median asking rent for a one-bedroom dropped 8.9% year-over-year to $2,850. For two-bedrooms, it dropped 8.3%. Measured from the peak in March 2016, asking rents — not including incentives — have plunged 15% and 20%.


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Oakland, which received the San Francisco housing refugees, median one-bedroom and two-bedroom rents plunged 16% and 14% from their peak.
And Honolulu, with an 18% and 23% plunge from the peak, nearly rivaling Chicago.

Source: wolfstreet.com


Pending Home Sales Slump Completes July Triple Whammy For Housing ‘Recovery’ (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/pending-home-sales-slump-completes-july-triple-whammy-housing-recovery?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)
Following a plunge in existing home sales and new home sales, pending home sales slumped in July, dropping 0.8% MoM (missing expectations of a 0.3% rise). This completes the triple whammy of misses and drops for July’s housing data…


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/08/31/20170831_pend_0.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/08/31/20170831_pend.jpg)
Source: zerohedge.com


Banks are finally preparing to use cryptocurrency to move money between them (https://qz.com/1066601/ubss-utility-settlement-coin-could-put-cash-on-a-blockchain-in-2018/)

The world’s biggest banks aren’t immune from cryptocurrency euphoria, with a range of projects underway to explore how traditional financial firms can benefit from the innovation. Swiss banking giant UBS and 10 other companies say that they plan (https://www.ft.com/content/20c10d58-8d9c-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d) to use the technical idea behind bitcoin—a distributed ledger called a blockchain—for their own digital currency (https://www.ft.com/content/20c10d58-8d9c-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d) (paywall). This could show the way for the world’s biggest central banks to do the same.
Banks like Barclays and HSBC are the latest to join the “utility settlement coin” project, started by UBS and Clearmatics
the UBS group is looking to come up with something that is cheaper, and more reliable than existing systems. Each settlement coin would represent fiat currency like euros and dollars on a one-to-one basis, and would thus be 100% backed by collateral at the domestic central bank, according to UBS. The idea is that exchanging the digital currency as payment for assets will be a more efficient means of exchange.

Source: qz.com

[turiya]

Russia & BRICS Go After Excessive Domination
Of Reserve Currencies - Episode 1369a
(Published on Sep 1, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7MfMETyDA
________Relevant Articles________


Economy



Six Banks Join UBS's "Utility Coin" Blockchain Project (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/six-banks-join-ubss-utility-coin-blockchain-project)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/fp_thumb/images/user3303/imageroot/20170831_ubs.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/six-banks-join-ubss-utility-coin-blockchain-project)

Sep 1, 2017 2:45 AM

Here’s a piece of news that the remaining human members of Wall Street’s FX sales and trading desks probably don’t want to hear.

According to the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/20c10d58-8d9c-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d), six of the world’s largest banks have decided to join a blockchain project called “utility coin” that will allow banks to settle trades in securities denominated in different currencies without a money transfer. What’s worse, the banks expect to begin live-testing the project late next year.

“Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG and State Street have teamed up to work on the “utility settlement coin” which was created by Switzerland’s UBS to make financial markets more efficient.

The project’s managers say they’ve already involved representatives from various central banks…


Hyder Jaffrey, head of strategic investment and fintech innovation at UBS, said: “We have been in discussions with central banks and regulators and we will continue that over the next 12 months with the aim of a limited ‘go live’ at the back end of 2018.”




They could settle those payments in utility coin instead of routing payments through an interbank broker. This will only hasten the declining employment of human currency traders, as fewer trades executed via traditional systems means even less business and even more pressure to automate.

Source: zerohedge.com


Ugly Jobs Report: August Payrolls Miss, Slide To 156K; Hourly Earnings Also Disappoint (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-01/august-jobs-miss-slide-156k-prior-revised-lower-hourly-earnings-disappoint)

Sep 1, 2017 9:16 AM

We warned readers yesterday to "Prepare For Disappointment" (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/august-payrolls-preview-prepare-disappointment) with today's jobs report, and sure enough that's precisely what we got when moments ago the BLS reported that in August just 156K jobs were created, a big miss to the 180K expected, as both the unemployment rate and hourly earnings disappointed as well.

BLS reported that in August just 156K jobs were created, a big miss to the 180K expected, and following a sharp downward revision to June and July, which were revised to 210K and 189K, respectively, a 41K drop combined.


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The number of employed Americans declined by 74,000 to 153,439K[/B]. On an annual basis, the increase in the employment level dropped to 1.2%, the lowest since March.


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The unemployment rate also disappointed, rising from 4.3% to 4.4%


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While the labor force participation rate remained unchanged at 62.9%, the number of Americans not in the labor force increased once again, growing by 128K in August to 94.785 million.


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Ironically, manufacturing employment somehow rose by 36,000 in August, with Job gains allegedly occuring in motor vehicles and parts (+14,000) – at a time when virtually every car factory was furloughing workers

Source: zerohedge.com


U.S. purchase mortgage activity hits six-month low – MBA (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-storm-harvey/thousands-flee-texas-towns-flooded-by-harvey-gas-prices-spike-idUKKCN1B50G4)

U.S. mortgage applications to buy a home fell last week to the their lowest level in more than six months, even as some home borrowing costs fell to their lowest since November, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday.

Source: reuters.com


Construction Spending Unexpectedly Declines (https://mishtalk.com/2017/09/01/construction-spending-unexpectedly-declines/)

Economists missed the construction spending mark by a mile this month.
The Econoday (https://b-us.econoday.com/byshoweventfull.asp?fid=477904&cust=b-us&year=2017&lid=0&containerId=eco-iframe-container&prev=/byweek.asp#top) consensus was for spending to rise by 0.6%. Instead, construction spending fell by 0.6%.

Econoday finds strength in the numbers, I don’t.

The real weakness in the report is on the nonresidential side where private spending, reflecting weakness across all components and especially commercial building, fell 1.9 percent for a yearly decline of 3.6 percent. Public building is likewise soft with the educational category down 4.4 percent in July.

Strength?
Both new and existing home sales reports have been weak. Family formation is weak.
The alleged strength in this report comes not from building more houses, but from building more expensive houses.

However, construction spending is extremely volatile and heavily revised. All of the numbers in this report are suspect actually.

Source: mishtalk.com


Russia & BRICS to counter ‘excessive domination’ of certain few reserve currencies – Putin (https://www.rt.com/business/401698-brics-summit-putin-letter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS)

Russia wants to promote economic cooperation within the BRICS format. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, there has been a number of practical achievements in the work of the five-nation bloc

In an [B]open letter (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55487) published ahead of the 9th BRICS Summit in China, Putin expressed confidence the BRICS countries will continue to act against protectionism and new barriers to global trade.

He added that Russia shares the BRICS countries’ concerns over the “unfairness of the global financial and economic architecture, which does not give due regard to the growing weight of the emerging economies.”

The Russian President also voiced readiness to work in promoting international financial regulation reforms and overcoming the excessive domination of the limited number of reserve currencies. “We will also work toward a more balanced distribution of quotas and voting shares within the IMF and the World Bank,” he said.

He also pointed out the successful implementation of a BRICS Strategy for Economic Partnership which was adopted on Russia’s initiative at the Ufa Summit in 2015.

“We hope to be able to discuss new large-scale cooperation tasks in trade and investment and industrial cooperation at the Xiamen Summit,” said Putin.

Source: rt.com

x22report.com (http://x22report.com/putin-warns-the-world-of-a-major-event-that-might-unfold-episode-1369/#more-280072)

[turiya]

De-Dollarization Begins, China Readies
Yuan Base Crude Oil - Episode 1370a
(Published on Sep 4, 2017)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7dIgBAxSzI
_____Relevant Articles_____

Economy


Kremlin says rules for crypto-currency circulation should be discussed (http://tass.com/economy/963629)

The Kremlin believes that the rules for circulation of crypto-currency should be worked out and this is an issued for discussion, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman of President Vladimir Putin, told reporters


Answering journalists’ question about the attitude of the Russian president’s administration to the plans of the Ministry of Communications to introduce a personal income tax for all transactions in crypto-currencies, he said:
“These topics are subject to inter-departmental discussion, this is a new phenomenon in our life,” he said.
Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal

Source: tass.com


The Working Class Can’t Afford The American Dream (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/working-class-cant-afford-american-dream?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


For millions of middle- and working-class Americans, the “American Dream” is all but dead. Far from being able to afford their own homes, the Fed’s latest survey (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-20/quarter-american-adults-cant-pay-all-their-monthly-bills-44-have-less-400-cash) on the wellbeing of US households revealed that nearly a quarter of Americans are unable to pay their monthly bills on time, and nearly half have less than $400 in the bank…


But in what’s perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of the financial security of American workers, a study published by HowMuch.net (https://howmuch.net/articles/where-the-working-class-can-afford-to-live)explores the true cost of living for working-class Americans in dozens of US cities.


What they found is hardly surprising. In most areas of the country, the average working-class household would be running a spending deficit.
The darker the shade of green, the better off they would be. The size of the bubble also fits on a sliding scale—large and dark red means the city is totally unaffordable. Bigger dark green bubbles likewise indicate a city where the working class can get by.


And as you can see, the red is much more prominent than the green.


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So where are the best places for working-class families to live?
Here are the top five cities with the net surplus wokers are left with after living expenses.

1. Fort Worth, TX ($10,447)
2. Newark, NJ (($10,154)
3. Glendale, AZ ($10,120)
4. Gilbert, AZ ($9,760)
5. Mesa, AZ ($7,780)


And here are the five worst cities, with their associated cost-of-living deficits.
1. New York, NY (-$91,184)
2. San Francisco, CA (-$83,272)
3. Boston, MA (-$61,900)
4. Washington, DC (-$50,535)

Source: zerohedge.com


De-Dollarization Accelerates: China Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-02/de-dollarization-accelerates-china-readies-yuan-priced-crude-oil-benchmark-backed-go?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


The world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to bypass U.S.-dollar denominated benchmarks by trading in yuan, Nikkei Asian Review reports (https://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Commodities/China-sees-new-world-order-with-oil-benchmark-backed-by-gold?page=1).


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The crude oil futures will be the first commodity contract in China open to foreign investment funds, trading houses, and oil firms</b>. [B]The circumvention of U.S. dollar trade could allow oil exporters such as Russia and Iran, for example, to bypass U.S. sanctions by trading in yuan, according to Nikkei Asian Review.


To make the yuan-denominated contract more attractive


China plans the yuan to be fully convertible in gold on the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges.


Last month, the Shanghai Futures Exchange and its subsidiary Shanghai International Energy Exchange, INE, successfully completed (http://www.ine.cn/en/news/news/911319711.html) four tests in production environment for the crude oil futures, and the exchange continues with preparatory works for the listing of crude oil futures, aiming for the launch by the end of this year.


The yuan-denominated futures contract has been in the works for years, and after several delays (http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Moves-Closer-To-Launching-Oil-Benchmark.html), it looks like it may be launched this year.


Some potential foreign traders have been worried that the contract would be priced in yuan.

Source: zerohedge.com

[turiya]

BRICS Prepare For The Death Of The Dollar
By Widening Membership - Episode 1371a
(Published on Sep 5, 2017)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le28Q8lgnxI

________Relevant Articles__________
Economy


Leaked Brexit Document Reveals UK Hardline Plan To Deter EU Immigrants (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-05/leaked-brexit-document-reveals-uk-hardline-plan-deter-eu-immigrants)

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According to a document leaked by the Guardian and prepared (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/05/leaked-document-reveals-uk-brexit-plan-to-deter-eu-immigrants?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)by the Home Office, the UK has prepared a "hardline" Brexit plan according to which Britain will end the free movement of labor immediately after Brexit and introduce restrictions "to deter all but highly-skilled EU workers."


Sep 5, 2017 2:31 PM


According to a document leaked by the Guardian and prepared (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/05/leaked-document-reveals-uk-brexit-plan-to-deter-eu-immigrants?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)by the Home Office, the UK has prepared a “hardline” Brexit plan according to which Britain will end the free movement of labor immediately after Brexit and introduce restrictions “to deter all but highly-skilled EU


"Workers.” The proposal seeks to drive down the number of lower-skilled EU migrants, as well as a phased-in introduction to a new immigration system ending the right to settle in Britain for most European migrants.


Plans to restrict EU immigration by giving “preference in the job market to resident workers”. The government could also restrict EU nationals from seeking work, reduce the opportunities for workers to settle in the UK long-term, and limit the number of EU citizens able to come to the UK to do low-skilled work.


The full leaked document can be found here (https://www.scribd.com/document/358064862/THE-BORDER-IMMIGRATION-AND-CITIZENSHIP-SYSTEM-AFTER-THE-UK-LEAVES-THE-EUROPEAN-UNION?secret_password=fsPTN0fgKY20OJByq1yI#from_em bed).

Source: zerohedge.com


This Hasn’t Happened to Gold in Over a Decade (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-05/isnt-happened-gold-over-decade?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


The next leg up for Gold is officially here.


Gold has broken out of the mother of all triangle patterns established by the long-term bull market trendline established in 2006 and its seven-year descending line from the 2010 peak.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user20289/imageroot/2017/08/17/sc-1_0.png

Of course, things won’t be moving in a straight line from here. But the upside target for this formation is well north of $3,000 in the next few years (again, remember this formation took over a decade to form).


We get confirmation of this from the Gold Miners to Gold ratio (GDX: GLD). Think of this as a measure of Gold beta as Gold Miners typically lead the precious metal during major moves.


With that in mind, consider that the Gold Miners to Gold ratio has broken out of a bullish falling wedge pattern running back in 2007. This is MASSIVELY bullish and predicts the ratio moving to 0.45.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user20289/imageroot/2017/08/17/sc-2.png

Put another way, Gold is going to be moving sharply higher. And Gold Miners are going to be going through the ROOF.

Source: zerohedge.com


Lego to Cut 1,400 Staff as 10-Year Sales Boom Ends (https://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/lego-sales-staff-toy/2017/09/05/id/811633/)


Lego said it would lay off 8 percent of its staff and revamp its business after reporting its first fall in sales in more than a decade on Tuesday.

Source: newsmax.com


July Factory Orders Plunge To Weakest Since Feb (As Boeing Bounce Disappears) (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-05/july-factory-orders-plunge-weakest-feb-boeing-bounce-disappears?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


Following the Boeing-driven spike, July is landing with a thud back to reality as final data today confirms a 3.3% MoM tumble in factory orders and 6.8% plunge in durable goods orders.


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In fact, it gets worse as aggregate factory orders are now back at their lowest level since February…


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Source: zerohedge.com


Latest NAFTA Talks End In Disappointment As Attendees Question Lack Of U.S. Engagement (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-05/latest-nafta-talks-end-disappointment-attendees-question-lack-us-engagement?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


President Trump has threatened a quick termination of NAFTA a countless number of times, with the latest coming just last weekend via twitter:


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We are in the NAFTA (worst trade deal ever
made) renegotiation process with Mexico &
Canada.Both being very difficult,may have to
terminate?

6:51 AM - 27 Aug 2017
________________________________


The latest Nafta talks are nearing conclusion without a major breakthrough or agreements on even the least-contentious topics

Source: zerohedge.com


NAFTA Update: Outlook for Agreement Virtually Disappears – Canada’s Chrystia Freeland Demands Control of U.S. Legislation… (https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/04/nafta-update-outlook-for-agreement-virtually-disappears-canadas-chrystia-freeland-demands-control-of-u-s-legislation/)


Press review: BRICS to widen membership (http://tass.com/pressreview/963707)


BRICS considering construction of high-speed Eurasian railway (http://theduran.com/brics-considering-construction-high-speed-eurasian-railway/)


The issue which will be discussed during the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia seeks to pool the strength of the BRICS with the ambition of One Belt–One Road.


China’s One Belt–One Road trading and commerce initiative has seen China extend high speed rail and modern highway networks in its own country as well as in that of neighbouring Pakistan. The ever expanding China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a testament to the power of modern infrastructure projects to unite Asian partners.


With BRICS members discussing the feasibility of using investment capital from the BRICS Development Bank to jointly finance Russian High Speed Rail, it becomes ever more clear that the BRICS bloc functions best when cooperating with other regional endeavours including One Belt–One Road

Source: theduran.com

[turiya]

It Begins, Central Bank Shake-Up &
The Control Of The Fed - Episode 1372a
(Published on Sep 6, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gskBp3pVN30
___________Relevant Articles_____________

Economy


Almost half of Canadian employees living paycheque to paycheque, survey indicates (http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/payroll-salary-survey-1.4276782?cmp=rss)


More than a third of those polled say they feel ‘overwhelmed’ by debt levels


Nearly half of workers are living paycheque to paycheque due to soaring spending and debt levels, a new survey by the Canadian Payroll Association suggests.


The poll found 47 per cent of respondents said it would be difficult to meet their financial obligations if their paycheque were delayed by even one week.


The survey, which polled 4,766 Canadian employees between June 27 and Aug. 5, also found that 35 per cent said they feel overwhelmed by their level of debt.

Source: cbc.ca


Toronto Home Price Bubble Descends into Bear Market (https://wolfstreet.com/2017/09/06/toronto-house-price-bubble-descends-into-bear-market/)


With surprise rate hike, Bank of Canada turns against housing market.

Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area, the largest housing market in Canada, plunged 34.8% in August compared to a year ago, to 6,357 homes, with sales of detached homes and semi-detached homes getting eviscerated:



Sales by type:
Detached houses -41.6%
Semi-detached houses -37.3%
Townhouses -27.5%:
Condos -28.0%.
Even as total sales plunged, the number of active listings of homes for sale soared 65% year-over-year to 16,419, with 11,523 new listings added in August, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB (http://www.trebhome.com/MARKET_NEWS/release_market_updates/news2017/nr_market_watch_0817.htm)).



And the average price of all homes, at C$732,292 in August, plunged 20.5% from the crazy peak in April (C$920,761). By this measure, it has now entered a bear market.
Source: wolfstreet.com


Central Bank Balance Sheets Are About to Hit $20 Trillion (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-06/central-bank-balance-sheets-are-about-hit-20-trillion?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


We just hit a new record high.
No, I’m not talking about the stock market. I’m talking about Central Bank balance sheets. While everyone is talking about the Federal Reserve’s proposal to shrink its balance sheet, globally other banks have been cranking up the printing presses.
As a result of this, the G-4 Central Banks balance sheets (Japan, the US, the ECB, and the UK) are closing in on an astounding $20 trillion.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user20289/imageroot/2017/08/17/GPC96171.jpg
H/T Dimit.

This is truly astonishing. And what’s worse is that we’re only going up from here. When the next Crisis hits, Central Banks will unveil truly NUCLEAR levels of QE and money printing.
Source: zerohedge.com


Stanley Fischer, No. 2 at the Federal Reserve, resigns unexpectedly (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/stanley-fischer-no-2-at-the-federal-reserve-resigns-unexpectedly/article/2633519)


http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax/files/7d/7d304eb3-a5dc-4da9-8397-ffea461b77b2.jpg

Stanley Fischer, the number two official at the Federal Reserve, unexpectedly submitted his resignation Wednesday, citing “personal reasons.”
The vice chairman’s resignation, effective Oct. 13, will allow President Trump to replace him at the central bank three-quarters of a year ahead of schedule. Fischer likely would have been an obstacle to Trump’s ambitions for cutting back regulations on banks, as he described (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-fed-official-warns-gop-efforts-to-loosen-bank-rules-is-very-very-dangerous/article/2631694) the effort to loosen rules on big banks as “very, very dangerous” last month.
Already, Trump faced a major task (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-faces-short-timeline-major-challenges-in-reshaping-fed/article/2632844) in choosing the next chairman of the Fed before February and replacing most of the central bank’s Board of Governors. One Fed watcher called it (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-faces-short-timeline-major-challenges-in-reshaping-fed/article/2632844) the biggest overhaul of the Fed’s leadership since 1936.
Source: washingtonexaminer.com


Trump’s ability to control Fed sped up by Fischer resignation (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-ability-to-control-fed-sped-up-by-fischer-resignation-2017-09-06?siteid=rss&rss=1)


President Donald Trump’s ability to gain control over the Federal Reserve has speeded up in wake of the departure of Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, analysts said Wednesday.
Trump will be able to appoint at least four and perhaps five of the seven-member Fed board. The only two holdovers are Fed Govs. Lael Brainard and Jerome Powell. Both were Obama nominees.
Source: marketwatch.com


“We’re Now Seeing Bubbles Everywhere” – Deutsche Bank Boss Urges End To “Era Of Cheap Money” (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-06/were-now-seeing-bubbles-everywhere-deutsche-bank-boss-urges-end-easy-money-policy?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


The head of Germany’s largest commercial bank warned of the fallout from cheap money, cautioning against using the strong euro as a justification for printing more.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/09/04/20170906_cryan.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/09/04/20170906_cryan.jpg)


Bloomberg reports that the Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer John Cryan called for an end to the era of cheap money in Europe, saying that the prolonged period of rock-bottom interest rates is starting to inflate asset bubbles and putting the bank at a disadvantage to U.S. rivals.


We are now seeing signs of bubbles in more and more parts of the capital market where we wouldn’t have expected them,” Cryan said, adding that the interest-rate policy has been partly responsible for the decline in earnings at European banks.



We at Deutsche Bank had access to over 285 billion euros of liquidity at the end of the second quarter, because we are now receiving huge cash inflows. This money, which actually constitutes the strength of a bank, is costing us penalty interest.”

In conclusion, Cryan urged that The ECB should “wave goodbye” to loose monetary policy because while it helped banks, financial markets and individual countries emerge from the financial crisis, it’s now causing “ever greater upheaval.”
Source: zerohedge.com

x22report.com (http://x22report.com/it-begins-central-bank-shake-up-the-control-of-the-fed-episode-1372/#more-280145)

[turiya]

entral Banks Decide That Discontinuing Stimulus
Will Collpase The Economy - Episode 1373a
(Published on Sep 7, 2017)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtIxpg0MwI
_______Relevant Articles_______

Economy

Jobless Claims Spike Most Since 2005 Amid Harvey Hangover (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-07/jobless-claims-spike-most-2005-amid-harvey-hangover?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


Initial jobless claims spiked 62k last week – thanks to a 51k surge in Texas – as the impact of Hurricane Harvey ripples (transitorily) through economic data.


This 26% spike in claims is the largest since 2005(and biggest absolute rise since 2012).


The 298k print is the highest since April 2015.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/09/06/20170907_claims_0.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/09/06/20170907_claims.jpg)Source: zerohedge.com


Brick & Mortar Meltdown: Toys R Us Hires Bankruptcy Law Firm (https://wolfstreet.com/2017/09/06/brick-mortar-meltdown-toys-r-us-hires-bankruptcy-law-firm/)


Toys R Us... In what is a classic sign, the company has hired mega law firm Kirkland & Ellis, whose bankruptcy-and-restructuring practice is considered (https://www.kirkland.com/sitecontent.cfm?contentID=230&itemId=12881) a leader in the now booming bankruptcy-and-restructuring industry.


Toys R Us, with 1,694 stores globally, has $5.2 billion in long-term debt, according to its latest quarterly report (https://www.toysrusinc.com/investors/financial-reports/report-detail/financial-document-detail?id=11652656&vid=aHR0cDovL2FwaS50ZW5rd2l6YXJkLmNvbS9maWxpbmcueG 1sP2lwYWdlPTExNjUyNjU2JkRTRVE9MCZTRVE9MCZTUURFU0M9 U0VDVElPTl9FTlRJUkUmc3Vic2lkPTU3), and sports a negative equity of $1.3 billion. Quarterly sales declined 4.8% year-over-year, to $2.2 billion. This isn’t a one-quarter dip: sales are down 15% from the same quarter in 2012. And the net loss jumped 30% year-over-year to $164 million.


The company needs to restructure its debts, particularly $400 million that is coming due in 2018, and a bankruptcy filing is one of the options, “sources familiar with the situation” told CNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/toys-r-us-weighs-possible-bankruptcy-filing.html) on Wednesday.

Source: wolfstreet.com


Here’s How Many Americans Live In Houses They Can’t Afford (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-06/heres-how-many-americans-live-houses-they-cant-afford?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development suggests that you spend no more than 30% of your annual budget on housing costs as it could put you and your family at greater risk of being unable to afford other necessities. That said, Americans are overachievers.


Per the following chart from howmuch.net (https://howmuch.net/articles/how-americans-spend-money-2017), the average American family spends roughly $57,000 per year and have thrown caution to the wind with housing costs eating up nearly 33% of annual budgets. In all, some 40 million houses (or about 1/3) are occupied by people who can’t afford them.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/09/06/2017.09.06%20-%20Expenses_0.JPG (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/09/06/2017.09.06%20-%20Expenses.JPG)
Of course, this is hardly surprising in light of the following chart which reveals that the average working class family can’t afford to live in the majority of metropolitan cities around the country due to ballooning housing costs.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/09/06/2017.09.06%20-%20Housing%202_0.JPG (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/09/06/2017.09.06%20-%20Housing%202.JPG)

data from Harvard found that over 18 million households are currently stuck spending more than 50% of their annual income on housing, which is up 35% compared to 2001 levels


. Per Harvard Study (http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/harvard_jchs_state_of_the_nations_housing_2017_cha p1.pdf):


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/09/06/2017.09.06%20-%20Housing%201_0.JPG (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user230519/imageroot/2017/09/06/2017.09.06%20-%20Housing%201.JPG)
Source: zerohedge.com


ECB Keeps Rates, Statement Unchanged; QE To Run Until “December 2017 Or Beyond” (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-07/ecb-keeps-rates-statement-unchanged-qe-run-until-december-2017-or-beyond?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


The ECB has kept not only its three key rates and pace of QE unchanged, but also its most recent statement, reiterating that it sees QE “at the current monthly pace of €60 billion, are intended to run until the end of December 2017, or beyond, if necessary”, sees rates at present level well past the end of QE –
Source: zerohedge.com


Physical Gold In Vault Is “True Hedge of Last Resort” – Goldman Sachs (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-06/physical-gold-vault-true-hedge-last-resort-goldman-sachs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedg e+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+fo r+everyone+drops+to+zero%29)


– Physical gold is “the true currency of the last resort” – Goldman Sachs
– “Gold is a good hedge against geopolitical risks when the event leads to a debasement of the dollar”
– Trump and Washington risk bigger driver of gold than risks such as North Korea
– Recent events such as N. Korea only explain fraction of 2017 gold price rally
– Do not buy gold futures or ETFs rather “physical gold in a vault” the “true hedge”
What’s increasing the demand for gold? Is it Kim Jon-Un’s calls for nuclear war? Trump’s tough tweets on government and trade and unleashing “fire and fury” on North Korea? The threat of World War III? Possibly not, according to Jeff Currie of Goldman Sachs. This is more to do with the market mechanics underlying such events.
Source: zerohedge.com


Is This The Global Elites’ Secret Plan For Cryptocurrencies? (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-05/global-elites-secret-plan-cryptocurrencies)


[I]There is every indication that governments, regulators, tax authorities, and the global elite are moving in for the crypto-kill.

The future of Bitcoin (https://dailyreckoning.com/is-bitcoin-money/) may be a dystopia in which Big Brother controls what’s called “the blockchain” and decides when and how you can buy or sell anything and everything.

Furthermore, cryptocurrency technology could be the very mechanism used by global elites to replace the dollar based financial system.



Governments don’t like competition especially when it comes to money. Governments know they cannot stop blockchain, in fact they don’t want to. What they want is to control it using powers of regulation, taxation, and investigation and ultimately more coercive powers including arrest and imprisonment of individuals who refuse to obey government mandates with regard to blockchain.
Blockchain does not exist in the ether (despite the name of one cryptocurrency) and it does not reside on Mars. Blockchain depends on critical infrastructure including servers, telecommunications networks, the banking system, and the power grid, all of which are subject to government control.
An elite U.S. legal institution called the Uniform Law Commission, that proposes model laws intended for adoption in all fifty states, has released its latest proposal called the “Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act.”
This new law will not only provide a regulatory scheme for state regulators, but will also be a platform for litigation by private plaintiffs and class action lawyers seeking recourse against real or imagined abuses by digital coin exchanges and facilities. Once litigation begins, anonymity is the first casualty.
Cryptocurrencies and the Super-Elites Plan

Consider the following additional developments:


- On August 1, 2017, the SEC announced “Guidance on Regulation of Initial Coin Offerings,” the first step toward requiring fundraising through blockchain-based tokens to register with the government.

- On August 1, 2017, the World Economic Forum, host body to the Davos conference of global super-elites, published a paper entitled “Four reasons to question the hype around blockchain.”

- On August 7, 2017, China announced they will begin using blockchain to collect taxes and issue “electronic invoices” to citizens there.


Perhaps most portentously, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has weighed in. In a special report dated June 2017 (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:X31eirO_YloJ:https://www.imf.org/%7E/media/Files/Publications/SDN/2017/sdn1705.ashx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us), the IMF had this to say about blockchain:


These open schemes (that underlie Bitcoin, for instance) could be very disruptive if successfully implemented. By contrast, in permissioned DLTs, the validation process is controlled by a pre-selected group of participants (“consortium”) or managed by one organization (“fully-private”), and thus serve more as a "common communications platform.” (emphasis added).


This paper should be viewed as the first step in the IMF’s plan to migrate its existing form of world money, the special drawing right or SDR (https://dailyreckoning.com/death-dollar-new-world-money/), onto a DLT platform controlled by the IMF.
Source: dailyreckoning.com

x22report.com (http://x22report.com/the-great-rotation-has-begun-countries-now-moving-towards-china-russia-episode-1373/#more-280176)

[turiya]

John McAfee The Worst is yet to come for US banks,
Cryptos will soar, expect Bitcoin to hit 500,000

(Published on Sep 7, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVVjlYz-YeM
_______________________

[Emil El Zapato]

I love that picture of Putin in the opening post...He's such a sweet looking guy...Beady eyes and all. I have a theory about eyes. The wider set, the more understanding and thoughtful. The closer set, the more predatory. I know that's a throwback to Nazi phrenology but nobody is perfect, not even Putin.

I checked for Putin's statements regarding 'the Rothschild Banking system' and couldn't find anything. Propaganda is evil, no matter the source. I fully understand that we live in broken economic system, doomed to failure because of its inherent and fundamental flaws, BUT:

More Machiavelli than Adam Smith

The Russian banking crisis may well be largely psychological. The failure of a few small banks does not justify the current run on deposits at Alfa Bank, the largest private institution. But psychology is an extremely important tool of government. And President Vladimir Putin is a clever leader. He is well on the way to getting what he wants – an economy that depends entirely on the state’s goodwill. International investors have to accept that the government rules.

It is too early to tell how far the Russian bank crisis will spread. The banking system has recovered since its 1998 collapse, but it is still weak and corrupt. Indeed, most observers believe that as many as 90% of the 1100 privately owned banks should be closed.

From the state’s perspective, the private banking system is at best a mixed blessing. It does finance commerce, but it also supports crime and capital flight. The government is particularly suspicious of banks owned by big industrial groups, for example Alfa Bank. As oil company Yukos has learned, independent wealth is seen as a potential political threat. And the government has a banking alternative. Its own banks already have most of the retail deposits and finance most of the international trade.

Certainly, the government’s actions do not suggest great concern for the private bank sector. Its tighter regulation precipitated the crisis. It has been tepid in providing regulatory relief and indirect support for threatened banks. And when Guta Bank, a mid-sized institution, failed, it was the government-owned Vneshtorgbank that came to the rescue. Effectively, that is a nationalisation.

The current problems in the private banking sector are best understood as part of the Putin economic strategy. He wants the state to retain close control of everything important in the economy. Central planning has been abandoned as an economic tool, but nothing like economic-political autonomy is going to be tolerated. The prime goal of the Russian government is not increased consumption but centralised stability.

International investors in Russia would prefer a government that put their interests first. Foreigners want to deal with powerful businessmen who can keep promises. But in the new Russian system, only the government has that power

[turiya]

Greg Hunter - Weekly News Wrap-Up 9.8.17
(Published on Sep 7, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oAEe_Xr3a4

[Emil El Zapato]

I'm from Kansas and live in Texas. I know from a lifetime of experience that the Kansas legislature is only marginally less disturbed than the Texans.

NAP

[turiya]

Marxism Versus Capitalism
Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux
(Published on Sep 6, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR61UgG2qi8


_____________________

[Emil El Zapato]

Are we actually getting to the point now?

[turiya]

FROM CRYPTO BASICS TO BLACKMOON
Nick Amenta & Oleg Seydak
(Published on Sep 2, 2017)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZiveCqs3B8
Crypto currencies and blockchain technology is here to say, says Nick Amenta of the TruthBlitz Media You Tube channel. Nick helps break down the basics of crypto investing and the merits of the new Blackmoon Crypto ICO.

Then, we welcome Blackmoon founder & CEO Oleg Seydak to the show, and I ask him tough questions about tokenizing assets on the blockchain, Blackmoon's use of owl imagery in their promotional video & much more. The Blackmoon ICO is open to citizens of the United States and with only 60 million tokens in total being offered, the September 12th offering is sure to sell out quickly.

___________________

Russia Signals Willingness To Professionalize
Crypto Currency Trading On Exchange

http://f10.baidu.com/it/u=3734579679,2415688335&fm=72

A trader at the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) speaks on a telephone at his desk with a view of Red Square. Qualified investors could be able to buy and sell risky crypto-currencies and related products on the Moscow Exchange. Exchange regulators want bitcoin to be traded on a regulated exchange and the National Settlement Depository, a subsidiary of MOEX, is testing a blockchain platform expected to be rolled out next year. Putin has his reasons. (Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)


Got Bitcoin?


Russian regulators are taking steps to allow for trading in it on the Moscow Stock Exchange if you're a qualified investor. In doing so, Russia would be the first stock exchange to make crypto-currency a new investable asset. They're not there yet. But wheels are in motion at the chief regulator of the Russian stock exchange that hopes to have a testing platform up and running in early 2018.

Source: forbes.com (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/08/30/moscow-stock-exchange-opens-to-crypto-currency-trade/#7394d19626d1)

[Emil El Zapato]

Truth is, African Indigenous tribes have more leisure time than most denizens of Western civilizations. The thing many people overlook is that social reality reflects Thesis->Antithesis->Synthesis. The key word here is Synthesis. Why must we by default take a worldview of win-lose. Why not compromise and work toward win-win.

NAP

[turiya]

When it becomes obvious that an administrator / moderator of the TOT forum gives thanks to a poster that is specifically present to insert more & more off-topic nonsense into a thread that is created to provide information to others on what is occurring in the world of economic finance throughout this domestic & world scene. This thread now comes to its ultimate & final end.

Again, thanks for nothing!




:D

Peace-Out!

[Aragorn]

When it becomes obvious that an administrator / moderator of the TOT forum gives thanks to a poster that is specifically present to insert more & more off-topic nonsense into a thread that is created to provide information to others on what is occurring in the world of economic finance throughout this domestic & world scene. This thread now comes to its ultimate & final end.

I have not been monitoring this thread beyond the first couple of posts, simply because quite frankly, as an individual, I'm not interested in economical affairs. As far as I myself am concerned, the whole economy can go to hell, and I say this both out of ideological considerations and out of the fact that both the western economical policies and those who cherish them have taken such a huge toll from me that I can't even pay my bills and taxes anymore right now. I did however catch NotAPretender's post, which I thanked because I agreed with it — regardless of whether you consider him to be on-topic or off-topic.

Furthermore, just because I happen to be the administrator here doesn't mean that everything I say or do would be in function of that role. I am still a human being with a mind of his own, and I am free to express that through my posts and through my choice of which posts I read or skip, and which posts I thank or not, just like every other member of The One Truth. If you wish to read more into that than is there, then that is your problem, not mine, and then I would advise you to find yourself a firmer grip on reality.


:fpalm:


P.S.: Shall we compare the number of posts I have thanked since I signed up here as a member in March 2015 to how many posts you have thanked since you yourself joined The One Truth in May 2014? And just for fun, shall we then also take a look at how many posts made by myself have been thanked by you, versus the number of posts that you made and which have been thanked by me?

Didn't think so either.


:getcoat:

[Emil El Zapato]

I apologize Aragorn, I have that effect on some people... :cry:

[Aragorn]

I apologize Aragorn, I have that effect on some people... :cry:

Apparently, so do I. :hmm: :scrhd: :tea:

[Emil El Zapato]

lol...somehow that doesn't surprise me... :chrs:

[Myst]

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[Emil El Zapato]

Aren't we being a little obvious, Myst? I do respect that, though. Kudos to you!

NAP

[Elen]

I'm sad to see turiya's reporting end. Maybe the solar flare was a factor. I feel affected also.

Yes I chime in with...it must be the solar flares...people that normally are very peaceful are getting agitated easily. But if turiya is reading this...WAIT a while and come back, because you'll feel different soon when it's all over, you just had to get it out somehow. :chrs:

@ NotAPretender, not to worry :hugs:

[Emil El Zapato]

Hi Aragorn,

In the rush of things, I never commented on your post regarding economic issues. I'm with you 100% on that. I don't much care about economics and as far as I'm concerned it can all go to hell. What interests me are the motivations behind posts. Motivations are the foundation of hate, love, peace, and war. As a species, by and large, we are obsessed with the material and that is why we suck... :ireful: