Loading ...I’ve talked to many young mid eastern men ” the civilized type” not from Nigeria but Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq. You know what the common problem is?? No jobs and poverty. They want normal things like a family, a life. How long are they supposed to wait? How long can they wait for these Mid East leaders to get things together and get civilized and stop suppressing progress. Easy to divert with war, yeah take it up with them while their leaders are economically clueless except maybe the Arabs but they even have more to go.
@Goldilocks Everything They Say, Is Usually a Special Interests Advertisement, And Or A Diversionary Tactic
I think the PTB’s biggest potential problem is a big economic slowdown on the entire planet. For example an abnormal 5 year BULGE in car sales normally would create an abnormal LACK of car sales later. Real estate sales too.
So…..Since they started decades ago, an unnatural globalization, or global socialism situation, they created or spread around the world an abnormal artificial ahead of its time, a “bulge” in jobs and prosperity around the world. Similar thing 1913 to 1929 16 years, was a bulge, that took 10 years to un-bulge.
This time its a much longer BIGGER bulge. 1934 to 2008, 74 years. Note they used gold confiscation and a new war II after the crash to artificially un-bulge the cost of that bulge. All this war hoopla may be related to a catch 22 situation with their global economy creation.
Maya 01:21 – I hope so too!
“Deep down I just hope he is playing chess with the deep state lackeys… giving them enough rope to hang themselves. Really dangerous playing with Russia like this, though.”
So far , in the last year since the inauguration , he seems to be a step ahead of his detractors , but this move has me worried . It certainly plays into the hand of the Military/Industrial Complex that Ike warned us of , almost 70 years ago .
Mr Copper
It doesn’t matter what you say don’t ya know. What matters to them is how they interpret it.
Nothing They Say Is Really The Way It Looks Sounds Or Smells
“We” do everything “they” want. “We” say everything “they” tell us to say. “We” get the blame or credit for everything depending on what “it” is.
Before I get too bearish:Specifically, the combined front-month gamma-weighted Schaeffer’s put/call open interest ratio=surged above 6.0 last week — the most elevated reading since 2011
In conclusion, there’s an abundance of near-the-money put open interest on the SPY, QQQ, and IWM — more than we’ve seen in over a year. As Schaeffer’s Senior V.P. of Research Todd Salamone noted on Monday, heavy SPY put open interest could translate into an options-related floor for stocks in the near term. What’s more, after previous instances when the combined front-month gamma-weighted SOIR of the aforementioned ETFs went north of 5.0, the stock market tended to rocket higher, while the VIX plummeted.
After a slow burn to record highs in 2017, the U.S. stock market has been on a roller coaster this year, with volatility ramping up in a big way. As such, the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) — also known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — kicked off 2018 with a bang, logging its best start to a year ever. Against this backdrop, near-term put open interest on a handful of major equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has surged, sending up a stock signal not seen since before the November 2016 presidential election.
NEAR-THE-MONEY APRIL PUTS PREVALENT
Specifically, the combined front-month gamma-weighted Schaeffer’s put/call open interest ratio (FM-GW SOIR) on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ), and iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)surged above 6.0 last week — the most elevated reading since 2011, according to Schaeffer’s Quantitative Analyst Chris Prybal. In a nutshell, this indicates that near-the-money put open interest on SPY, QQQ, and IWM handily outweighs call open interest in the April series of options, which expires at next Friday’s clos
PREVIOUS OPTION SIGNALS HAVE BEEN BULLISH
The combined FM-GW SOIR 10-day moving average officially topped 5.0 on March 23, marking its first trip above this threshold since Nov. 3, 2016. Below is how the S&P 500 Index (SPX) has performed after previous such highs in this metric, looking back to 2008. Notice that there were no signals in 2013, 2014, or 2017
Goldcountry
Don’t forget Joy Behar propaganda rocket man is saner than Trump. Trying to spin the fact he accomplished something no other president has with him backing off. I guess those rockets flying around were okay with her. Now they’ll say he should be only concerned with issues at home so they can complain about that too.
I wonder if U.K. And France watch Maddow too.
Paul Craig Roberts on possibilities – written before last nights strikes
(1) The Russians, trapped in the deluded belief that facts and evidence matter to the West and that common sense will prevail, accept the attacks. This outcome is the most dangerous of all, because this outcome will encourage more attacks until Russia is backed into a corner and has no alternative to a direct nuclear attack on the US.
(2) Russia takes the initiative in the brewing conflict and escorts the US missile ship, USS Donald Cook, out of attack range of Syria before the attack flotilla arrives and declares a perimeter line beyond which the Western flotilla becomes target for attack. This should force a showdown between Trump’s warmonger government and the US Congress that would challenge Trump’s ability to unilaterally commit the US to war.
(3) Russia escorts the Donald Cook away from the scene and simultaneously wipes out the military capabilities of Saudi Arabia and Israel, removing Washington’s ground-based allies in its attack on Syria, thus loading the odds in Russia’s favor, and making it clear that Russia is going to pre-empt attack, not respond to one.
(4) Russia, in the deluded belief that it must prove itself in the right, accepts the attack and its unpredictable damage before responding. This outcome is almost as bad as the first, as this lets the war start in contrast to options (2) and (3) which have some possibility of preventing a US/Russian confrontation by forcing common sense on the Americans.
(5) Senior German politicians inform Merkel that Britain and France’s support of the US strike on Syria could commit NATO to a war with Russia. Germany has had one devastating experience with the Russian military and does not need another. They could pressure Merkel to withdraw Germany from NATO. The resulting consternation/confusion would likely halt the US attack on Syria/Russia.
(6) The US Joint Chiefs of Staff could easily and honestly conclude that in the event of a Russian response to an attack on Syria, the entire flotilla could be lost, carrier included, inflicting a humiliating defeat on US arms, and that in view of this possibility, the Joint Chiefs recommend against the announced attack. Possibly this has occurred and explains Trump’s latest tweets, which suggest that doubts might have entered Trump’s mind.
Even if a hopeful outcome such as (5) and (6) occurs, we are left with the dangerous situation that some elements in the US and UK governments were able to orchestrate two events—the alleged Skripal poisoning and the alleged Assad chemical attack—and use the events to leverage unsupported accusations against Russia and Syria as justifications for an illegal military attack on a sovereign country. That such an outrageous orchestration is possible proves that there is no democracy or constraint on government in the US and UK.
Gold_Titan1 @ 3:19
Gold Titan do you really believe the propaganda machine , really ??
Rachel Maddow comes to mind.
R640 – concur
unless something else transpires and escalates the situation over the weekend, DOW is good for 500 up Monday am – gold slammed for $20
Sadly, we lost this country a long time ago and the new champion Trump is like the old champions Obama, Bush, Clinton etc.
The Syrian anxiety is neatly over-with honor, we kicked ole Assads butt-by Sunday nite/Mon morn stock futures should open strongly-gold down–both will be a fade-Remember JPM’s reversal Friday.
PONZI WORLD
The two largest banks in the U.S.:
ZH: Wells Fargo Reports Worst Mortgage Number Since 2009
ZH: JP Morgan Sweeps Credit Card Delinquencies Under The Rug
Of course, they bought it hook line and sinker…
CNBC: Stocks Will Try To Ignore Reality On Friday the 13th
“Jeffrey Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James, said he believes the market has successfully retested its bottom at 2,532 on the S&P 500 and he has been a buyer.
“I think the bottoming process was textbook. You got a failed throwback rally, you came back down and made an undercut low”
“I bought for the tax cut, but when that didn’t pan out, I stayed for the trade war and WWIII
One thing we know with 100% certainty, they don’t see it coming:
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January 31st, at the all time high:
Jeff Saut: The Nine Year Bull Market Has Many Years To Go
CBOE Skew index:
“The crash of October 1987 sensitized investors to the potential for stock market crashes and forever changed their view of S&P 500® returns. Investors now realize that S&P 500 tail risk – the risk of outlier returns two or more standard deviations below the mean – is significantly greater than under a lognormal distribution”
An Idiocracy has no forever, there’s not even a two months ago…
GT
The only one with no shred of evidence is Heir Mueller and after coming up empty is now raiding the private files of his attorney because of a prostitute from a decade ago that has nothing to do with Russians or collusion. That’s not to mention the other characters behind the scenes, how they got the fake info, where it came from and who funded it while Sessions sits on his hands.
I’m sure if this was created the swamp would be all over it. But then they don’t need evidence do they just throw accusations out there. Nice try though.
RE Syria goldielocks @ 2:32 on April 14
Goldie do you really believe the propaganda machine , really ??
You said “I don’t want war either but apparently Assad does because as soon as Trump said he wanted to pull our troops out he gases citizens killing men woman children.”
There is no shred of evidence that any form of gases were used or anyone died, plus why would Assad kill his own people,as the Syrian government and the rebel were close to some sort of resolution.
YOU DON’T THINK THE WHOLE INCIDENT IS A DISTRACTION FROM INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP’S GOVERNMENT ?? – MUELLER COMES TO MIND.
Please check other credible sources for more complete assessment of the situation.
Cheers
GT
goldielocks this is for you
Ron Paul Rages: Assad Gassing His Own People Is “Total Nonsense”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-13/ron-paul-rages-assad-gassing-his-own-people-total-nonsense
gtg
Ipso
I don’t want war either but apparently Assad does because as soon as Trump said he wanted to pull our troops out he gases citizens killing men woman children. He can’t use Russia as his body guard while he brutalizes citizens. There must be some reason they were targeted as uses it to keep the people afraid of him. Apparently there was enough evidence he did it including ground terrorists don’t have aircraft. Obama set red lines and Russia passed right through them. We no longer have a weak president. There was no known targets on Russia. Hope our troops in the north stay safe as I’m guessing they have terrorists, Russia and who knows who around them even if they are away from the target zone. I pray no innocent citizens were harmed in a effort to protect them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have underground facilities. One tweet said to the citizens with Assad military saying they’re untouchable. That doesn’t look like peace to me. We can use may rely on what we hear though.
Maya
Perhaps this will cause people to realize how risky the whole Syria situation is and give impetus to new peace negotiations. I want to see Trump and Putin go alone into a locked room for a few hours. I’m sure a lot could be hashed out.
Gold Train
Daylight Run thru the gorge.
http://railpictures.net/photo/654594/
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/654758/
I’m with you, Ipso… depressing
How does Trump go from “We’re gonna pull out of Syria” to lobbing missiles in a week or two. I wonder what strings the deep state are pulling on Trump. Deep down I just hope he is playing chess with the deep state lackeys… giving them enough rope to hang themselves. Really dangerous playing with Russia like this, though.
Attacks
What a depressing development. Right now I am ashamed that my country could be so stupid.
At least the Russians haven’t retaliated. Yet
Must see video !!
You make up your mind.
Most on this website have probably seen it but it’s good to see it again.
Current events coming in on Syria
Initially ONLY #Damascus attacked, I can now confirm #Hama and #Homs as well. Talk of a 4th city too. I am not sure
CONFIRMED: #Russia IS helping defend #Damascus from US-led missile attack.
Hezbollah base hit in #Qusayr reportedly: First time US/UK/FR Hit Hezbollah. BUT They already evacuated Qusayr. #Syria
#Breaking: Fighter jets have just arrived in the past few minutes at RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus, Ready to be deployed and to strike! #Syria @lookner
Top Syrian opposition negotiator says the U.S. strike on Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center, where CW is made, “fully failed
#BREAKING – #Russian Airforce jets taking off from #Latakia now.
BREAKING: Shadow missiles used against military facility 15 miles west of Homs, believed to be site of chemical weapon precursors – UK Defence Minist
norm winski saying HUGE astro weekend coming up …… his forecast
25 mins in
listening to the shows host today….. Larry said the best gold correlation he ever saw is when the pope is traveling…never short gold
(in case I have to delete play bar astro forecast link for winski go to Larry Persavento Wednesday April 11)
http://www.tfnn.com/archived_shows.php
I had to delete play bar
Re Trade war. There Were No Bad Trade Deals, It was The Agenda To Relieve The USA Of Some Of Its Wealth.
The 35% tax here and 10% in China? No accident. The tax breaks for US businesses to move overseas, was no accident. The tax payers subsidies for cheaper mailing cost out of China et al, no accident. The too strong dollar for importing traitor products no accident. Capital equipment investments buying imported machinery, getting a faster write-offs no accident.
IT WAS ALL DONE ON PURPOSE. China didn’t screw the USA, big businesses did it.