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CEOs, Wall Street are furiously making hay while the storm moves in.

WWIII, Anyone?

The further you go towards the tails of the bell curve, the more similar social characteristics.  In a society that has been even more polarized, we increasingly see similarities between the very wealthy, and the very poor.  The declining middle class is more and more a world of it's own (as the elite used to be). 

In Summary, the Superclass "Elite" UHNWI and the ultra poor have the following in common:

Focus on policies promoting economic growth, lower taxes, and spending tax receipts more efficiently and not on one`s sexual orientation in the bedroom.

If you know someone special that likes the finer things in life, and lives where they may need to defend those finer things and their life, I offer mrs_horseman's recipe for, "Can-of-Whoop-Ass."

The world is awash with debt. With central banks increasing their balance sheets through quantitative easing, simultaneously pushing down interest rates and taking huge chunks of the market out of circulation, investors have had to stray beyond developed market government bonds in search of yield.

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This is a commentary which should never have needed to be written. 

This signal has triggered four times in the last 20 years. Every time it did stocks lost between 20% and 50% in the following six months.

Our previous look at Nov 6 compared spot and futures. This time, let’s look at gold futures and GLD.

The Federal Reserve has been telegraphing to markets that they are going to raise the fed funds rate by 25 basis points next month at its December Fed Meeting.

The debt to GDP ratio for the entire world is 286%.  In other words, global debt is almost 3 times the size of the world economy.  Both public and private debt are exploding and - despite what mainstream economists think - 141 years of history shows that excessive private debt can cause depressions.

Yes, what we are about to show you is simply a collection of anecdotal data points.

If you think you're fighting the market, or the banks, or the Fed, you're dead wrong!

Fed Speak became hawkish to telegraph to financial markets that the December meeting was a potential live meeting for a rate rise.