Jesus said in Matthew 24:42 to be on watch for His imminent return and in Matthew 16:3 to discern the signs of the times. Time is drawing to a close and the Body of Christ
must be prepared and on watch for His return. we must understand the days in which we live. Let us not be like those who Jesus rebuked with the words,
You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
Matthew 16:3
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"While many economists tried to explain away the 0.8 percent drop in January retail sales as simply a reflection of falling gasoline prices, there's more to it than that."--Newsmax report, Retail Sales Suggest Economy 'Significantly Weaker than Headlines', from Feb. 19, 2015.
There is an old saying, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." This year-old story is proof.
When you merely scan the leading economic headlines, you are getting a lot of fat. If you only look at stock values, you get more air than fat. The problem with the economy is the missing meat in the reports today in the last week of January, 2016.
After that miserable report from Newsmax, the markets rallied nicely in 2015 despite gasoline's year-long case of the dropsies.
In last February's report, Lance Roberts, a partner at STA Wealth Management, went on to state, "The current level of retail sales is suggesting that the economic environment is significantly weaker and that a 5.7% unemployment rate is likely not reality." If only Mr. Roberts would analyze today's situation we would probably have an identical report--but the governments of the world haven't fallen yet.
There were some pertinent factors presented in that 11-month old report that should be of value when viewed today.
A year ago it was stated "Average hourly wages rose only 1.7% in 2014, the lowest total since 2012. But in a recently received analysis by Goldman Sachs it was clearly demonstrated that, adjusted for inflation, hourly wages from the end of December, 2000, through the end of December, 2015, had gained a paltry .1% increase over those 15 years.
In another area the old report claimed productivity--output per hour worked--slumped to 1.8% for the 4th quarter of 2014 and gained only .8% for the entire year. In 2015 we find almost the same numbers being accepted by the Federal Reserve as a basis for its interest rate hike in December.
A year ago it was also stated, "Productivity's a major problem. Weak productivity hampers corporate profits and wage growth." Last Friday there was a headline, "Weak Corporate Profits Pose Risks to America's Jobs and Wages." Again, the same result but the anticipated financial collapse is still pending, not quite here.
The disconnect is in how the analysts see the data, even though the data has not changed in a year.
Now Neil Dutta, head of U.S. economics at Renaissance Macro Research, thinks the employment outlook is much more promising. "Productivity is still weak, which argues in favor of more hiring," according to Dutta.
The various arguments confuse me. So I ask a simple question, if corporations need better productivity to pay better wages wouldn't trimming workforces be just as profitable as hiring employees who are guaranteed to produce less? Apparently this solution doesn't occur to the people doing the analyzing or flies against the wants of the entity providing the funding for the research.
The researchers are ecstatic over the employment numbers the past quarter. The numbers coming from Labor are demonstrably maladjusted, yet the consensus is "resilient demand has helped the labor market post its best back-to-back years since 1998-1999.
Here's the biggest discrepancy from last year's report and the current news. A year ago the S&P fourth quarter earnings were well underway yet they had managed to show a profit growth of 3.1% collectively. This year we've just started compiling reports and the numbers are lower than projected as late as December.
The analysts are blaming "slow business growth, consumer fear and global economic slowing" for 2015's productivity drop. A year ago, with nearly identical data, it was looking to the unexpected drop in fuel prices as a hopeful barometer.
I have some news for you. Falling fuel prices are still here, employment was reportedly sky-high the last quarter of 2015 and the economic growth rate is less. How can the analysts take the same worn-out reports, with the same discouraging numbers and turn them into something good yet again?
Are they trying to fool themselves or the politicians they ultimately answer to?
Nothing has changed in a year. The reports' numbers are still murky, the various analyses latch onto one good item and try to hide all the poor information behind it and the press trumpets the positive.
A week ago I claimed the markets only demonstrated the lack of confidence in government and not the state of the economy. Too much of our remaining manufacturing base today owes their continued existence to the largesse given them by the government, not on the worth or quality of their product. These publicly-supported businesses filled with (mostly) environmental sycophants will sacrifice whatever principle they have for personal wealth gain and attaining a change in something too big for all humans who have ever existed to affect--the environment..
In analyzing all of the reports, I could find no mention of the effect government mandates had on the over-priced eco-friendly products or what their lack of profit was having on the economy. Until the government puts that figure into its 'economic reports' and accounts for the productivity losses there, we will never get a clear picture of the working economy again.
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man."--Thomas Jefferson
In October 2008, as the repercussions of the financial crisis were starting to ripple through the global economy, I noticed a press release from Swedish truckmaker Volvo saying that its European order book had fallen by more than 99 percent between the third quarters of 2007 and 2008 -- to just 155 from 41,970. That prompted me to study various other real-world activity measures ranging from shipping to air freight, and to conclude that "the news is all bad and getting worse, fast." The same exercise today, I'm afraid to say, leads me to a similar conclusion about the growth outlook.
Here's a chart showing what's happening to the volume of goods being shipped in containers from China's ports, one for the country and one for Shanghai. Both indexes are compiled by the Shanghai Shipping Exchange, and cover shipments to the rest of the world including Europe, the U.S. and Africa; activity is down more than 40 percent from its peak in mid-2012:
Source: Shanghai Shipping Exchange via Bloomberg
The traditional global shipping measure is called the Baltic Dry Index. Shipping purists (who rival gold bugs in their dedication to minutiae) will tell you it mostly reflects how many vessels are afloat on the world's oceans; a glut of shipbuilding means more boats available, which drives down the cost of shipping bulk raw materials such as iron ore, steel and coal. But given the fragile state of the global economy, it's hard to shake the feeling that the index has been trying to tell us something important about global demand in recent years:
Source: Bloomberg
There's a similarly contractionary pattern in the available data on air freight. Here's a chart showing tons of goods shipped per mile across U.S. skies since the start of the decade: And here's the equivalent chart for Europe, this time in tons per kilometer: While neither chart shows the volume of airborne freight falling off a cliff, both are drifting lower -- which is not what you want to see at this point in what is supposed to be a nascent global economic recovery.
So what about Volvo's order book? In the third quarter of 2015, the company had orders for just 42,648 trucks, a 30 percent slump from the end of 2014 and the lowest level in two years: While that's nowhere near as dramatic as the 2008 decline, it does suggest that companies who are in the business of moving goods by road from A to B aren't investing in any expansion of their fleets.
There's a scene in the film adaptation of Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Shipping News": An old newshound explains to newbie journalist Kevin Spacey how dark clouds on the horizon justify the hyperbolic headline "Imminent Storm Threatens Village."
"But what if no storm comes?" Spacey asks. The veteran replies with a second-day headline: "Village Spared From Deadly Storm." Unfortunately, having survived the storm fanned by subprime mortgages and the credit crisis, the clouds are gathering again over the global village we live in; they are getting darker every day.
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Caught off-guard by Zika, Brazil struggles Angela Rocha, a pediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas. Outside the room, seven mothers cradling infants with abnormally small heads line up for hours for tests. More than 1,000 cases of
Have you ever come away discouraged after trying to talk about prepping with friends or family members that just don’t seem to be interested? Over the years, I have heard countless excuses from people for why they aren’t getting prepared for what is about to happen to America. Some of the excuses, like a lack of money, are definitely legitimate. But in many other instances, the objections don’t seem to make a lot of sense. In America today, most people let others do most of their thinking for them. And in general, our political, religious and cultural leaders are telling Americans that there really is no reason to be overly concerned about the future. They assure us that they have everything under control, and that life is only going to get better in the years ahead. Bad beliefs lead to bad decisions which in turn lead to bad actions, and most Americans have chosen to believe what the elite are telling them at this point. As a result, only a small fraction of society is getting physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually prepared for the exceedingly hard times that are rapidly approaching. The following are 53 common excuses that people like to use for not prepping… (Read More....)
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The Goldman banker who helped arrange the financing for 1MDB, Malaysia's controversial development bank, is taking a "personal leave" and moving to Los Angeles from Singapore. Although it's not clear why Tim Leissner is making the change, the timing certainly is interesting...
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What Everyone Should Know About The Oregon Standoff
---Oregon Occupation: FBI Arrests Trio at Checkpoints Outside Remote Refuge
--------Bundy Family Claims Protestor was Unarmed, had Hands Up When Killed by FBI Truth in Media - The Bundy family claimed Arizona rancher Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was unarmed and had his hands up when he shot and killed by FBI agents during a confrontation Tuesday near Burns, Oregon. Finicum, 55, was part of the group of protestors occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge headquarters in Burns. At least eight others, including protest leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy, were arrested after the FBI and Oregon State police confronted them while they were traveling along U.S. Highway 395. Cliven Bundy posted an audio message on the Bundy Ranch Facebook page Tuesday night claiming that his son Ammon told two family members that he was arrested, his brother Ryan was shot in the arm, and Finicum was murdered in “cold-blood.”
Murder at Malheur: The Shot Heard Around the World We have seen this movie before. Federal officials abuse their authority and their heinous acts result in the deaths of people who did not deserve to die. Ruby Ridge Randy Weaver was convicted of possessing a shotgun that was one quarter of a inch too short. For his transgression, the FBI showed up on his property and shot his 15 year old son as ..
For the 13th month in a row, The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook was contractionary with a stunning -34.6 print following December's already disastrous collapse back to -20.1, post-crisis lows. With "hope" having plunged back into negative territory (-2.2) in December, January saw a complete collapse to -24.0 as one respondent exclaimed, "we expect the continued depression in the oil and gas industry to negatively impact our customer base and result in significant demand reduction."
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Has No Plan to Remove Poison Pipes in Flint NBC News - A day after NBC News reported that none of the corroded lead pipes at the core of the Flint water crisis have been removed, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Terrorist) admitted he has no immediate plans to replace them. NBC News repeatedly pressed the embattled governor Wednesday on how he expects to win the trust of Flint's residents while the pipes that poisoned the water supply are still being used...There are up to 25,000 service lines containing lead that run between water mains and homes in Flint. /
FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Skipped Last Debate Before IA Caucus – Went on to Win in Landslide Gateway Pundit - Trump is not the first Republican candidate to skip a debate. Ronald Reagan skipped the Republican debate ahead of the 1980 Iowa caucus. Bloomberg reported: Trump isn’t the first top-tier presidential candidate to skip a debate. Ronald Reagan did not attend a Republican debate ahead of the 1980 Iowa caucuses, which he lost to George H.W. Bush. Reagan went on to the win the nomination and the presidency. Reagan went on to win in a landslide.
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The Federal Reserve Just Made Another Huge Mistake Economic Collapse - As stocks continue to crash, you can blame the Federal Reserve, because the Fed is more responsible for creating the current financial bubble that we are living in than anyone else. When the Federal Reserve pushed interest rates all the way to the floor and injected lots of hot money into the financial markets during their quantitative easing programs, this pushed stock prices to wildly artificial levels. The only way that it would have been possible to keep stock prices at those wildly artificial levels would have been to keep interest rates ultra-low and to keep recklessly creating lots of new money. But now the Federal Reserve has ended quantitative easing and has embarked on a program of very slowly raising interest rates. This is going to have very severe consequences for the markets, but Janet Yellen doesn’t seem to care.
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Railroad slowdown ahead as Norfolk cuts 2,000 jobs, profits down 30%MarketWatch - Norfolk Southern Corp. said it would cut 2,000 jobs and downsize its rail lines after reporting its profit dropped a worse-than-expected 29% in the final quarter of the year as the railway tries to fend off a takeover attempt and deals with weak demand for coal.... The sweeping cost reduction plans come as the company tries to rebuff a takeover attempt from Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. Last month, the board shot down Canadian Pacific's latest offer--$30 billion in cash-and-stock plus a financial incentive known as a contingent-value right--calling it "grossly inadequate" in a sharply-worded letter that challenged the rationale for a merger.
I received a call late last night from a trusted friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, who had just got off of the phone with his friend, Victoria Sharp. He was obviously moved as he spoke to me, as his friend Victoria Sharp was in the vehicle ambushed by the FBI last evening; an ambush that resulted in the arrest of Ammon Bundy, and the death of patriot, La Voy Finicum.
For now, I will not add my personal commentary on this matter, but instead let the eyewitness testimony of someone who is probably grateful to still be living about now do the talking. Our prayers go out to the family of La Voy Finicum who, as you will hear, was shot down like a dog with his hands in the air. After he fell, they pumped up to 6 more rounds into him for good measure. To hear Victoria Sharp’s testimony, I have linked to my friend’s YouTube channel below and have uploaded the interview to create a podcast which you can also listen to below. UPDATED – Click HERE for the transcript of the audio recording
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Have you ever come away discouraged after trying to talk about prepping with friends or family members that just don’t seem to be interested? Over the years, I have heard countless excuses from people for why they aren’t getting prepared for what is about to happen to America. Some of the excuses, like a lack of money, are definitely legitimate. But in many other instances, the objections don’t seem to make a lot of sense. In America today, most people let others do most of their thinking for them. And in general, our political, religious and cultural leaders are telling Americans that there really is no reason to be overly concerned about the future. They assure us that they have everything under control, and that life is only going to get better in the years ahead. Bad beliefs lead to bad decisions which in turn lead to bad actions, and most Americans have chosen to believe what the elite are telling them at this point. As a result, only a small fraction of society is getting physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually prepared for the exceedingly hard times that are rapidly approaching. The following are 53 common excuses that people like to use for not prepping… (Read More....)
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