Business

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

I recently penned a post discussing various data points which were hitting record levels. To wit:

Interesting day...

Bonds & Bullion now outpacing stocks post-Fed... (and bank stocks are down 1.6% post-fed)

It looks like Eddie Lampert isn't quite done with Sears yet. I remember when he was the genius that was going to turn around K-Mart, based solely on its real estate holdings. Then they merged with Sears and Eddie was going to change the retail landscape. After all, this is a man who negotiated his own release from gun-wielding kidnappers after 30hrs and turned Autozone into the powerhouse it is today.

Submitted by David Yager via OilPrice.com,

Even with oil barely over half of what it fetched in June of 2014 and the active drilling rig count doing better than (December 20, 2016 – 257, December 16, 2014 – 420; source JWN Rig Locator) compared to two years ago, it is obviously reckless to declare next year a success while it hasn’t even started yet.

We’ve known for 5,000 years that mass spying on one’s own people is usually aimed at grabbing power and crushing dissent, not protecting us from bad guys.

We’ve known for 4,000 years that debts need to be periodically written down, or the entire economy will collapse. And see this.

We’ve known for 2,500 years that prolonged war bankrupts an economy.

We’ve known for 2,000 years that wars are based on lies.

We’ve known for 1,900 years that runaway inequality destroys societies. ... and leads to revolution.