Hong Kong is now in it's 13th week of protests, and the demonstrations are increasing in violence. 1st October is the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, which is a date the Chinese government want the protests to be gone by. It's quite possible in the next few days we may see Chinese boots on the ground of Hong Kong to quell the protests. Longer term there is little chance of a full take over of Hong Kong by China, when you follow the money it becomes obvious there are hundreds of billions of dollars parked in Hong Kong financial institutions, much of this money is from politicians in China and from the Chinese elite, it's unlikely these special interests wish for the current semi-autonomous, 'one country, two systems' arrangements to end. #HongKong #China #Protest ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwId33v-IgE

Cheap money helped set up the Dot Com bubble, when that popped the Fed dropped rates and created the housing bubble, when that popped every central bank dropped rates to zero and now we have the Everything Bubble. #EverythingBubble #Meltdown #CrackUpBoom ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IFNf27wzU

The coming recession is going to be huge, interest rates are near zero and the quantitative easing from the last recession hasn't been unwound. Going into the next recession the central banks of the world will only have limited tools to fight the economic slow down. The irony of 'Project Fear' in the UK over Brexit, is that British businesses have spent the last 3 years being told by government the economy is going off a cliff, so ironically have been preparing for hard economic times, this has put them in a strong position to survive the next crash. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYPIeVg8F7s

Goldman Sachs has reversed its bearish outlook on stocks, saying to expect the S&P 500 to hit 3000 by the year end. US freight slow down signaled weak US economy late 2019/early 2020. https://www.cassinfo.com/freight-audit-payment/cass-transportation-indexes/march-2020 #StockMarket #SandP500 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgWuXR6Go_o