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Bond market ‘close to a crash,’ which is endangering the rest of Wall Street and Americans’ retirement accounts: Expert

October 17, 2022 - bond market, in part, because 'there is $50 trillion more in world debt today than there was in 2018.' And that will hurt equities," van Doorn writes.

"The bond market dwarfs the stock market — both have fallen this year, although the rise in interest rates has been worse for bond investors because of the inverse relationship between rates (yields) and bond prices," he continued. "About 600 institutional investors from 23 countries participate in chats ...

Brace yourself: Ongoing Treasury bond collapse ranks among worst in market crash history – and the carnage has only just begun

October 09, 2023 - bond market sell-off, which is nearing the same intensity as what occurred during some of the worst market meltdowns this country has ever seen.

The 46 percent decline in Treasury bonds with 10-year maturities pales in comparison to the decline in 30-year bonds, which have plunged about 53 percent since the start of the scamdemic.

"Those losses are nearly in line with stock-market losses seen during the worst crashes of recent history – when equities slumped ...

COLLAPSE? Bond bloodbath commences as Fed’s desperate fight against inflation fails

October 27, 2023 - bond market by the resurgence of inflation, and by the belated realization that this inflation isn't just going away on its own somehow. "This is a huge regime change after years of the Fed's QE and interest rate repression, and all prior assumptions are out the window," he further pointed out.The Daily Doom's David Haggith agreed with Richter's sentiments and commented: "Delusion ends hard when the denial breaks up, and the Fed's financial demolition ...

Bond investors warn: Brace for INEVITABLE RECESSION caused by Fed’s continued RATE HIKES

June 16, 2023 -

The investors' warnings contrasted with the Biden administration's narrative of U.S. stocks returning to a bull market, the economy outperforming expectations and the threat of an economic collapse being mitigated. Sticking to their pessimistic forecasts, they advised against hedging any bets on risk assets.

Steve Ellis, global fixed-income chief investment officer at Fidelity International, remarked he is most concerned about "something akin to a credit crunch." A report ...

Trump’s fraud case bond payment reduced to $175 million, delaying AG James’ efforts to seize assets

20 days ago -

This is the ruling of a New York appeals court that decided Trump has just 10 days from March 26 to pay the $175 million bond for his civil fraud case.

Back in February, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his co-defendants, which include his two adult sons and several former Trump Organization executives, to fork over $460 million in damages and interest for making fraudulent valuations of Trump's business assets.

The appellate court's ruling ...

DUMPING DEBT: Nearly two dozen countries, including many US allies, are dumping their US Treasury bond holdings

July 31, 2023 -

China began its long process of selling off its massive U.S. debt holdings in June 2019, when it was removed from its top spot as the largest foreign owner of U.S. Treasuries as Japan increased its own bond holdings. By April 2022, U.S. Treasuries held by the Chinese dropped below the $1 trillion mark.

From December 2022 to March, China sold over $31.3 billion in U.S. debt. By the end of July, China once again sold $46.2 billion in U.S. Treasuries. Current estimates of ...

Bidenomics in shambles: Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs in gaming market

January 29, 2024 -

(Article by Graham republished from WLTReport.com)

Microsoft is joining a growing trend of large companies laying off employees.

The layoffs will see 8% of their employees cut.

Microsoft to begin mass layoffs

It has begun

The economy will break this year

— ?0HOUR? (@0HOUR) January 25, 2024

Fox Business shares more:

Amazon, Google and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have already laid off employees this year, as have banking titan ...

Massive government spending is keeping inflation high, warns market expert

September 05, 2023 -

Market expert Larry McDonald warned that America's fiscal situation will get worse without any change. "No one is calling them out," he said. "Washington is stepping on the gas – colossal deficit spending – and the brakes – with epic rate hikes – at the same time." (Related: DEBT BLOWOUT: US debt has soared $1.2T since debt ceiling suspension – and the Treasury expects to add another $1.5T by year's end.)

Despite the Fed's interventions raising borrowing costs from ...

Airbnb listing revenue COLLAPSES, driving fears of housing market crash

July 04, 2023 -

While in years past both Airbnb and VRBO would be seeing many additional stays across the United States this time of year, the opposite is happening now. Homeowners who rent out rooms and spaces are seeing dwindling interest, which is driving down prices for stays.

In popular destination cities like Phoenix, Ariz., and Austin, Tex., revenues per listing have dropped by nearly 50 percent, according to the most recent data from AllTheRooms, which compared Airbnb revenues ...

Apple bails out of EV market and shifts focus to AI

a month ago -

The internal announcement was made on Feb. 27, shocking the nearly 2,000 employees involved in the project. The people who shared the news requested not to be identified because the announcement wasn’t public.

The decision was shared by Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, the vice president in charge of the project.

Williams and Lynch informed employees that the project will start winding down and that many employees on the car team will be ...

Worsenining commercial real estate market woes could spark a new banking crisis

2 months ago -

This year, around $929 billion in outstanding commercial mortgages will mature, the Mortgage Bankers Association reports. This is a staggering amount that equates to 20 percent of the $4.7 trillion outstanding debt overall. But with higher interest rates taking a huge toll on property values in the sector and many businesses relying less on office buildings as remote and hybrid work become more popular, the stage is set for a disaster.

The National Bureau of Economic Research ...

General Motors to bring back plug-in hybrids as EV market falters

February 13, 2024 -

This move was announced by CEO Mary Barra during the company's recent earnings call on Jan. 30. Before this call, GM was expected to ride on the success of the Chevrolet Bolt EV, the company's first all-electric vehicle launched in 2017 and billed as "America's most affordable EV."

The Chevy Bolt, as it is more popularly known, was described by auto enthusiasts as having the "distinction of beating the Tesla Model 3 to market" – with its tempting starting price at $26,500 ...

Ukraine’s barbaric Donetsk market attack kills 27 civilians, seriously injures 25 more

January 26, 2024 -

The latest tally was recently announced by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) head Denis Pushilin, who blamed the violent attack on the suburb of Tekstilshchik on the Ukrainian military. He said that the area had been hit by 155mm caliber and 152mm caliber artillery and that the shells had been fired from the direction of Kurakhove and Krasnohorivka to the west. "This again confirms [the West’s] direct involvement in the conflict and makes it complicit in the criminal acts ...

Chinese stock market loses BILLIONS in days following crash of snowball derivatives

January 24, 2024 -

Snowballs – named because of the potential "snowballing" accumulating gains for investors who hold them – are structured derivatives sold in China and Hong Kong that are tied to the performance of certain underlying indexes. They offer dividends to investors in the form of bond-like coupons but only as long as the indexes of the snowballs are tied to stay within certain predetermined ranges.

If the indexes rise above the top of the ranges, then a so-called "knockout" ...

Dr. Peter McCullough: COVID shots should be taken completely off the market

November 20, 2023 -

"We're seeing a disturbing continued trend of cardiac arrests in people who have taken the vaccine," said McCullough. "Now we have data from Nakahara in a human cardiac PET [positron emission tomography] study, showing that PET scans of the heart change in almost everybody who took the shot, at least for six months or longer, where the heart's metabolism changes."

"Of interest among those with a sore arm after the shot, there were more striking differences in the heart ...

America heading toward a housing market crash worse than the Great Recession

September 28, 2023 -

"This will be the greatest crash in the history of housing," warned financial expert John Perez, who predicted that, following the crash, average housing prices across the country could plummet by 50 to 70 percent, bringing prices down to pre-1995 levels. "This is going to be a wipeout like we've never seen before." (Related: Nearly 800,000 Californians behind on rent, with over $5B accumulated rental debts.)

Fannie Mae, a government-backed mortgage financing corporation, ...

Maddow MELTDOWN: Falsely claims AR-15 for ‘babies’ has hit the market

August 10, 2023 -

(Article by Nicholas Fondacaro republished from NewsBusters.org)

In reality, it was just another .22LR rifle that was designed to be used by parents to teach their young kids (not "babies" and "toddlers") about firearms and firearms safety. It was a level of ridiculousness that requires a tongue-in-cheek response.

Maddow began by shrieking about the rifle “specifically designed to be wielded by babies” as if it was made for an African warlord who was raising an ...

Democrats push to remove parasite hedge funds from housing market to improve affordability

December 19, 2023 -

Two bills proposed by Democrats this week would require all hedge funds with single-family homes in their portfolios to sell them all off within the next 10 years. The bills would also prohibit hedge funds from owning any single-family homes at all.

In case you have not noticed, housing in America has become just another "stock" that rich people are buying up and hoarding as assets rather than using as a place to live. This has not only driven up housing prices to unsustainable, ...

Unstable U.S. Treasury market experiences its worst day in the last six months

November 14, 2023 -

On the same day, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told reporters at the International Monetary Fund conference in Washington that another interest-rate hike aimed at curbing inflation is still possible, unleashing a surge in short-term yields.

Everyone has already been noticing the sharp rise in yields in recent months. In early October, the U.S. 10-year hit the highest yield level in 16 years, which is about five percent. Because of this, rate hikes by the Fed ...

Dr. Mercola files LAWSUIT against JPMorgan Chase for de-banking Mercola Market employees

August 23, 2023 -

Dr. Mercola sat down with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, to talk about what JPMorgan Chase, under the leadership of Jeffrey Epstein sympathizer and supporter Jamie Dimon, did to try to destroy his business.

"A few weeks ago, we received a letter to our business, and actually the CEO of our company, Steve Rye, and our CFO, Amy Lagaspi, who have both been with me for close to 20 years, and the letter was from Chase stating that they were giving us a month to take our funds ...