Remember yesterday’s column, where I explained why the market would drop? This morning I can write the reciprocal column without even having to put on the thinking cap.
Shall we?
I could say Hillary is leading in polls and that might be enough, since all big Money Men are dems (Buffett et al). But there is more.
1. The Retail Sales figures are out. Here’s the top of the press release on this data point.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $459.8 billion, an increase of 0.6 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month, and 2.7 percent (±0.9%) above September 2015. Total sales for the July 2016 through September 2016 period were up 2.4 percent (±0.5%) from the same period a year ago.
The July 2016 to August 2016 percent change was revised from down 0.3 percent (±0.5%)* to down 0.2 percent (±0.2%)*. Retail trade sales were up 0.6 (±0.5%) from August 2016, and up 2.2 percent (±0.7%) from last year. Nonstore retailers were up 10.6 percent (±1.6%) from September 2015, while Food services and drinking places were up 6.1 percent (±3.3%) from last year.
The BIG Headline SHOULD be that America is Saved by Auto Companies – again!.
Main thing is the world hasn’t collapsed in the numbers, at least not until after the election.
2.Ditto, same-oh, for the Producer Price Index/Final Demand press release just out. Again, feast your baby blues on this one:
The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.3 percent in September, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Final demand prices were unchanged in August and declined 0.4 percent in July. On an unadjusted basis, the final demand index increased 0.7 percent for the 12 months ended in September, the largest 12-month rise since advancing 0.9 percent in December 2014. (See table A.)
In September, over three-quarters of the advance in final demand prices can be traced to a 0.7- percent increase in the final demand goods index. Prices for final demand services inched up 0.1 percent.
This also means the world hasn’t ended – yet.
3.The next “biggie” although it’s one of the “softs” I look at: Janet Yellen (herself) is out speechifying today. Around lunch time. That MIGHT move the market. Main thing is that despite all the hoopla you hear about how “free markets” work, the “free” market part – suck-ups mostly – don’t trash the markets until after the Fed Chief (or in this case Chieftess) are done speaking and have time to get back to their mahogany fox hole. THEN things get interesting.
4.I have also told you several quintillion times that the world is running out of stuff to invest in. This is because we are at a place called “Consumer Super saturation.” Even if you make something everyone else in the world is making at the same price, MARKET SHARE is everything in the world now. We live where it’s not the product, it’s the platform. With a few exceptions, like Yahoo, where the acquisition deal may blow up because of hack reports.
5.Mortgage rates have turned up. This is because brother-in-law Bates and his Mrs. Are safely moved in to their new home now. “Raise away!” We all have our housing prices and rates locked, so if you missed two years of hints around here, the bad is on you and the Fed will gingerly try talking things up after the election. This will cause the ONE LAST POP in real estate before we get to the Massive Bubble peak in 2017 after which life will be ridiculous. Partly because between regular taxes, the massive Education Tax (formerly sold as Student Loans) and the Obamacare Tax (sold as healthcare reform to the longest-hair sheep), no one will have two dimes to rub together after Christmas. This will freeze up credit card debt, retail sales will fall, the bottom-fishers of mortgages will be done, and thanks to the Fed raising rates (which they have to, don’t get me wrong) stocks will briefly go to the moon.
Let me put it in historical context for you…because even if you don’t subscribe to our Peoplenomics.com in-depth reports, you still ought to look into the face of the Grim Reaper now and then.
And that is why the market will go up today. Our Peoplenomics trading model is bouncing off the….wait. We’ll cover that tomorrow for the people in the front-row seats.
Futures are up 62 on the Dow, I still have my short position and I will re-evaluate just before the bar closes this afternoon.
Sad But True
Dandy read in Real Clear Politics on the topic “Trump: Corporate Media Clinton’s Most Powerful Weapon, “No Longer Involved in Journalism“.
Not that it matters, as the latest Wikileaks dump proves, the press has been crooked and coopted by the Clinton/Podesta clan.
I trust you saw where “Wikileaks Bombshell: John Podesta Owned 75,000 Shares in Putin-Connected Energy Company?”
Yes, after all the Trump-Trashing, we find out the kettle really was making up sh*t about the pot being black.
(OK: A bit anachronistic if you’re under 50. Back in the day pots were used for cooking on wood stoves and fires and actually got black. In your world, this is something of a buggy-whip reference But at this hour, I couldn’t think of an Astroglide, three bathroom, LBGT-friendly, viewpor-configured, Android phone reference that would make sense to us over 50-types.)
The BIG War in Background
Say, I know I’ve bothered you in the past about things like the Muslim re-conquest of Europe and I’m sure you have seen other examples of attacks on Christianity and such. But here’s a story I bet you didn’t see: “Satanic Temple plans to open state’s first club at Tacoma elementary school.”
Tacoma? Well, let me see: Ted Bundy grew up just up the hill from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, didn’t he? Hmmm…
Not to put too much of a biblical slant on things, but since were are decimating the plains of Damascus (metaphorically) isn’t this when the shock troops of Azazel are supposed to be showing up? Just as more Dead Sea Scroll fragments surface? Oh my…
Meantime Back at Isaiah 17…
Which says in part “Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.”
The rest of it makes interesting reading, too, even if you are not religiously inclined. When 2,000 year old prophesy begins to line up, it’s time to start paying attention to the news coming from that part of the world which will likely “light up” right after the election.
Which stories? Why isn’t everyone worried about NukeWar? Debates and Circuses, pal. But look at the news flow in background:
Syria’s Assad says taking Aleppo from rebels key to pushing ‘terrorists’ back to Turkey.
On the other end of the battlefield Britain And France Prepare Military Escalation In Syria.
Democrats are the War Party and you can look at Roosevelt goading the Japanese into WW II, the Kennedy/Johnson Vietnam War, or the three new one that Peace Prize fellow has started if you doubt me.
This SHOULD be one of the two top topics of the presidential debates (along with economic collapse when the mountain of debt we refer to as the Debtberg rolls over on us in 2017.
That’s why the ever so forgetful Hill can’t do anything but run as an amnesiac. Yeah, you knew this…
You may rest assured that when dems are so whipped up in self-righteousness over Trump word and sliding the wanderings of Dick Clinton under the carpet, there is something else – Bigger – going on.
But maybe not. Depends how you would score regional nuclear war…
“Every head is shaved
and every beard cut off.”
Sure sounds like nuclear decontamination procedures to me. You’re welcome to another viewpoint, of course. Not preaching. Just noting that for a 2,000 year old predictive line, this is looking a lot stronger right now. And THAT is a worry.
Some of the Auto numbers have been helped by the floods in Louisiana. There seem to be more new purchase cardboard license plates on cars on the road than regular ones due to the massive amounts of cars and trucks destroyed by the floods.
Just don’t buy one refurbished and resold.
Those ‘flooded’ cars are one of the biggest scams – even looking at an original title doesn’t help – be sure to check in normally hidden places on the car for water damage. Flooded cars are prone to some bad problems – ‘wholesalers’ (read criminals) ship cars around the county to normally non-flooded areas to dump the damn things . . .
No one wins in nuclear war. The elites in their bunkers will have to deal with the various nuclear power plant meltdowns. There is about 444 of those plants world wide. More uncontrolled meltdowns will damage the plant and life on it. We could end up like Mars.
Space suit won’t be able to be used in clean up, why? No radiation protection. Otherwise they would have used it in cleaning up the on going nuclear disaster in Japan.
Idiots, can’t see past their noses. The contract between the power structure passing themselves off as our government and the citizens of the USA is null and void. They no longer represent us.
So I call the city I live in and asked about getting a map of the Fallout shelters, none to be had. I was told they would tell us where to go in case of an “emergency.” Really?!
Ever hear of the Khazarian mafia? Is this the element behind the curtain? Are they the Skull and Bones? Are they responsible for the thousand of missing/exploited children? I wonder if anyone has done any research on the number of children gone missing around the Satanic holidays compared to ordinary days.
Cherish each day with your loved ones.
There is no such thing as a “regional nuclear war”.
Drop one nuclear bomb and the array in return wipes out this world.
Hey George. Like you a lot; I read your column every day.
This Blow-off Top/Cataclysmic Drop you say is coming in 2017. Is this the same one you said was coming in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016?
Also, you all do understand that Trump will add over $5 trillion to the national debt and Clinton almost nothing?
Still love you, George. Mike.
Yep… I’d like an explain. Made financial decision based on the 2016 prediction and THAT didn’t happen. What’s up with ure “futures” George ??
What 2016 prediction? I was on Coast to Coast back in Jan, said market would hit bottom in Feb (it did) and then on to new highs by summers…so what 2016 “prediction” are you talking about?
(I don’t have a problem answering questions from subscribers, but sounds like you’re not one..
No..turns out you are a troll…banished!
No, that’s not what I said. Don’t be a dumb troll or you’ll be banished.
Give me a quote and a date and happy to explain.
Don’t banish me George… I’m not even sure what a “troll” is, but I don’t think I’m one. I read previous comment and agreed… it seems you keep pushing the drastic drop further out in time. I did not “loose” money and I wouldn’t blame you for anything. I enjoy reading you… and again, I apologize
The only way Clinton adds almost nothing to the national debt is if she is never elected. Otherwise, she is the queen of tax and spend.
***warning*** If you have a problem with Trumps “word”, you will hear/see the current occupant in the WH use it too, Lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh18oWKmOTA
the Lord says the earth will pass away with furvent heat
Fi8ne description of DEFCON 1