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All-Time Low Consumer Sentiment as Energy Surges and Metals Decline

Consumer sentiment plunges to an all-time low while energy prices surge and metals decline. Is this stagflation, or Iran-war-flation in action?

All-Time Low Consumer Sentiment as Energy Surges and Metals Decline

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Consumer sentiment plunges to an all-time low while energy prices surge and metals decline. Is this stagflation, or Iran-war-flation in action?

No Good Horrible Retail Sales, Strong Inflation, and Friday’s Paper Gold Smash

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by davefairtex

Of course, next week Trump et al might take a peek inside Fort Knox and find it empty, they might audit the Fed and expose 100 years of corruption, they might even decide to gold-back the Dollar. They could do some or all of this next week! And the COMEX might default! The Fed might…

No Good Horrible Retail Sales, Strong Inflation, and Friday’s Paper Gold Smash

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Recession Hints and Biden’s Replacement

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by davefairtex

The pace of change is increasing. It really feels as though anything is possible. The Secret Service whistleblowers (plural!) appeared to both OMG and the House committee just days after the event; the speed of the whistleblowing is yet another temporal marker for confidence collapse within the bureaucracy itself.

Recession Hints and Biden’s Replacement

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Retail Sales Winner, SPR Refilled, and an Ebola Lab Leak??

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by davefairtex

There were just 2 reports this week, alongside the things I usually track: Retail Sales (RSAFS): +0.19% m/m, prior +0.51%m/m, +1.49% y/y. Recessionary. Industrial Production (INDPRO): -0.54% m/m, prior -0.46% m/m, -0.45% y/y. Recessionary. Fed Balance Sheet (WALCL): -22B (-0.27%) w/w, prior -0.02% w/w. Deflationary. Total Bank Credit (TOTBKCR): +7.7B (+0.05%) m/m, +0.1% y/y. Deflationary….

Retail Sales Winner, SPR Refilled, and an Ebola Lab Leak??

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The Time For Shorting the Market Is Approaching

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by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary Why stocks may average 0% return (at best!) for the next decade The depressing data in Retail sales Housing Manufacturing Consumer confidence Why the time to short the market, or implement risk management strategies, is looking near If you have not yet read The Stock Market's Shaky Foundation, available free to all readers,…