Stock Market & U.S. - China Trade Deal

The market already expects a trade deal – a good trade deal. I think that is a dangerous position for the United States because it puts President Trump in a position where he really has to deliver.

More Signs Of Economic Weakness

Look at the data coming out: (we had) the biggest drop in retail sales in one month since 2009 when we were in the Great Recession. 

Look at the numbers we got out on delinquencies in auto loans: they are at an all-time record high, on people who are 90 days or more behind in their car payments.

I just read today that restaurant sales are falling now for four out of the last five months at the fastest pace in more than 25 years. That means that restaurant sales now are weaker than they were in the 2001 recession or in the 2008 recession.

The Real National Emergency

Of course the real national emergency is not the lack of a wall, the failure to build a wall but building up the national debt to $22 trillion! We eclipse that dubious milestone earlier in the week and again when you talk about the national debt at $22 trillion we're talking about the tip of a huge iceberg. 

This is just a funded portion of the debt and it doesn't include liabilities like what the government owes for social security, guaranteed bank deposits or student loans. That's not there, those are contingent liabilities and they're just as real but they're not even part of the national debt.

So, when you look at all the liabilities that the US government is on the hook for, you're talking about well over a $100 trillion or $200 trillion. Twenty trillion is maybe five or ten percent of the debt but that debt that is the real national emergency.

Portfolio Allocation: "I Have A Lot Of Money In Gold Stocks"

I have a lot of money in gold stocks, more the senior producers. But I also have a lot of global stocks that pay good dividends. 

I could be 40 percent gold stocks and the rest are non-gold stocks, some of those are energy stocks too. But overall they're just good businesses I like around the world in currencies I like. I get a lot of dividends coming.

US Dollar: The Catalyst For The Big Drop

As the US economy weakens and the Federal Reserve starts monetizing all those debts again, which they will, there's gonna be no demand for dollars and the US Dollar is gonna fall like a stone.

The US Economy Is A Gigantic Credit Bubble

I think the longest bull market in history already ended. We're in a correction right now, the first correction of the new bear market.

This idea that the US is the cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper is a bunch of nonsense. I mean the US economy is a gigantic credit bubble. Debt is at an all-time high on an individual level when you look at credit cards, student loans, auto debt... But more importantly the national debt: we're now running $100 billion per month deficit spending. We are borrowing more money now during this recovery than we did at any point during the Great Recession!