APR 21 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
ECB
Prepares To Sacrifice Greek Banks With 50% Collateral Haircut. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 04/21/2015. In what seems like a coincidental retaliation for Greece's pivot
to Russia (and
following Greece's initiation of capital controls), the supposedly
independent European Central Bank has decided suddenly that - after dishing out
€74 billion of emergency liquidity to the Greek National Bank to fund its banks
- as
The NY Times reports, the value of the collateral that Greek banks post
at their own central bank to secure these loans be reduced by as much as 50%,
and the haircut scould increase if negotiations with Europe remain at an
impasse. As
we detailed earlier, this is about as worst-case-scenario for Greece as
is 'diplomatically' possible currently, and highlights an increasingly hard
line by The ECB toward The Greeks as the move will leave banks hard-pressed
to survive.
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Battlefield
America: The War On The American People. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. “When the people fear the Government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people,
there is liberty”. Thomas Jefferson. “A
government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a
thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in
deadly fear.” - John Salter.
We have entered into a particularly dismal chapter in the
American narrative, one that shifts us from a swashbuckling tale of adventure
into a bone-chilling horror story.
If you haven’t managed to read the writing on the wall
yet, the war has begun.
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Why
An American And A Russian General Are Suddenly Very Worried About Nuclear War.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. "We find
ourselves in an increasingly risky strategic environment. The Ukrainian crisis
has threatened the stability of relations between Russia and the West,
including the nuclear dimension — as became apparent last month when it was
reported that Russian defense officials had advised President Vladimir V. Putin
to consider placing Russia’s nuclear arsenal on alert during last year’s crisis
in Crimea. Diplomatic efforts have done little to ease the new nuclear tension.
This makes it all the more critical for Russia and the United States to talk,
to relieve the pressures to “use or lose” nuclear forces during a crisis and
minimize the risk of a mistaken launch."
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Guess
What Happened The Last Time Bond Yields Crashed Like This.... Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. Sadly, most
people are not willing to learn from history. Even though it is glaringly
apparent that we are in a historic financial bubble, most investors on Wall
Street cannot see it because they do not want to see it. This next financial
crisis will be strike number three. After this next crisis, there will never
be a return to “normal” for the United States.
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From
Delinquent To 'Seriously' Delinquent: Another Worrying Trend For Student Debt
Revealed. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. Recently, we noted that once America’s best and
brightest come out of deferment and forbearance, one in three quickly fall 30
days or more behind on their payments. Now we learn that not only are
delinquency rates on the rise, so too apparently, is the percentage of
delinquent borrowers who have simply stopped making payments, late or not.
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A Step By Step Guide How To Crash The Entire Market. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. "Defendants' use of the Layering Algorithm and the 188/289-Lot Spoofing intensified throughout the day. At 11:17 a.m. CT, Defendants turned the Layering Algorithm on for more than two consecutive hours, until 1 :40 p.m. CT. During this cycle, Defendants utilized the Layering Algorithm to place five orders, totaling 3,000 contracts. A sixth order was added at around 1:13 p.m. CT, increasing the total to 3,600 contracts.... Between 11:17 a.m. CT and 1:40 p.m. CT, Defendants' actions contributed to an extreme order book imbalance in the E-mini S&P market. This order book imbalance contributed to market conditions that caused theE-mini S&P price to fall361 basis points."
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Oil
Tumbles After Saudis Declare End To Yemen Aerial Bombing Campaign. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. Saudi Arabia said
its campaign of airstrikes in Yemen have succeeded in removing threats to
the kingdom and other regional countries, bringing to an end Operation
"Decisive Storm." As
Bloomberg reports, the Saudi Defense Ministry said a coalition of mostly
Sunni Muslim nations has “successfully eliminated the threat to the security of
Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries,” by destroying the heavy weaponry and
ballistic missiles held by the Shiite Houthi rebels. This comes one day
after Gulf envoys told The United Nations that Yemen strikes won't end soon.
Saudi Arabia hopes to restart a Yemeni political process and will begin
"Operation New Hope," which appears to mean Saudi National Guard
ground troops.
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Sabre-Rattling
Soars: Poland Buys US Patriot Air Defense System, Gold Pops. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. Just days
after Russia lifts sanctions on Iran and prepares to send its S-300 missile
defense system, it appears Washington has retaliated. As TASS reports, Poland - on Russia's
doorstep - has decided to buy the US Patriot air-defense system (made by
Raytheon) for a total cost of around $9bn: "The US proposal has been
found to be more profitable from the viewpoint of Poland’s security and
implementation of commitments within NATO framework." Washington,
keen to ensure Warsaw signed up with Raytheon, has decided to loan Poland a
battery of Patriots until the deal is signed.
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A
New Dark Age: When College Doesn't Pay. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. Idiocracy is upon us...
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Baker
Hughes Cuts 17% Of Workforce As Oil Slump Ripples Through Economy. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. Baker Hughes has
increased the number of jobs it plans to cut from 7,000 to 10,500 and will
close 140 facilities worldwide citing a need to "reduce the cost base and
resize [the company's] footprint" in the face of challenging market
conditions. Meanwhile, JPM reminds Richard Fisher that "the only thing
dropping in the Texas economy is the number of jobs."
[ AND WE ARE GREATEFUL TO SAUDIS for their oil dumping .. and
we are supporting Saudis genocide in Yemen .. we Americans do not get nothing
in return from this foreign policy]
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BofA
Is Confusing Liquidity Fueled And Secular Bull Markets. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. Bank of America is the latest to jump onto the
"new secular bull market" bandwagon; but what they miss is that
secular bull markets are not born of price, but rather of a set of fundamental
metrics that foster sustained economic growth over long periods of time.
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Greece
May Sign Russia Gas Deal As Soon As Today. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. It appears that Herr Schaeuble will be left in the
cold disappointed as following comments from the Greek energy minister that a
deal is coming "soon," it is being reported that:
*RUSSIA MAY SIGN GAS LINK ACCORD W/ GREECE TODAY: ROSSIYA
24
*GREECE MAY GET LOANS USING RUSSIA GAS TRANSIT GUARANTEE: MILLER
*GREECE MAY GET LOANS USING RUSSIA GAS TRANSIT GUARANTEE: MILLER
According to Gazprom's CEO comments on Greek TV, following
his meeting with Greek PM Tsipras, Russia will guarantee 47BCM/YR of gas via
Greece with the link to be built by a Russian-European group at a cost of
around €2 billion.
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Saudi
Arabia Orders Its National Guard To Enter Yemen War. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. Over the better part of the past month, the only
entities actively involved in the proxy war in Yemen against the local Houthi
rebel force have been air force units, mostly under Saudi command as part of
Operation "Decisive Storm." Which probably explains why there has
been little if any progress to note in pushing back said rebellion which, armed
heavily thanks to the US government, has successfully managed to push the
current president into an indefinite exile. That changed hours ago, when
Saudi Arabia's King Salman ordered the Saudi Arabian National Guard, widely
regarded as the kingdom's best equipped military ground force, to take part in
Riyadh's campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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There
Still Are Some Retail Investors Left: This Is What They Are Buying. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. What do retail
investors do on volatile days like Friday’s jolt lower on the S&P 500? Thanks
to one very large online broker’s publicly available order flow, we now know...
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White
House Refutes European Complacency: Warns Grexit Threatens Global Economic
Recovery. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. Despite our exposure of the contagious risk increases
in peripheral bond spreads, "many European officials believe a Greek
exit would be manageable, and in contrast to 2010-2011, we wouldn’t
see the same cascading effect on countries like Spain or Ireland,”
according to the European Centre for International Political Economy in
Brussels and EU Chair Jeroen Djisselbloem even noted that "the Greek
situation can be isolated." It appears America is getting nervous
at Europe's apparent complacency... White House economic adviser Jason Furman
says a Greek exit from the euro zone would present
"VERY LARGE AND
UNNECESSARY RISK FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY."
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Egypt's
Clinton-Backed Former President Jailed For 20 years. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015. Deposed former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was
sentenced to 20 years in prison today in connection with a crackdown on
protesters during demonstrations against his rule in late 2012. Morsi assumed
the Presidency in 2012 after Hosni Mubarak was toppled a year earlier during
the Arab Spring. Morsi's "democracy" lasted all of 4 months before
he granted himself special autocratic powers triggering unrest that would
eventually lead the military to assume power.
[Un Presidente Americano dijo que America no tiene amigos,
tiene socios para negocios que importan a las corporaciones americanas. No
importa si son dictadores criminales o no .. si es asi “son nuestros hijos de
puta” y los protegemos. Esa filosofía imperial
no ha variado, lo que ha cambiado son los dictadores en la periferia. En Egipto
Morsi fue un buen aliado del imperio mientras fue útil a ellos, ahora prefieren
no cualquier musulman sino al más rico, al Saudi, no importa que sea mas
criminal que el anterior. Los americanos si saben a qué palo se arriman; no a
uno pelado. They do not bark to the wrong tree. El tráfico de
influencia da mucho dinero y al parecer ya no es
delito. La dama Clinton -que ya está lista para comprar las elecciones- lo sabe
bien. Los saudis fueron el 3rd donante oficial de su fortuna. Check the biggest
foreign donor to the Clinton Foundation of them all, VISIT: Secretary
Of State For Hire: Hillary Clinton Made Millions From Foreign Donors In
Exchange For "Favors" ]
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European
Banks Are Paid To Borrow For First Time Ever As Euribor Goes Negative. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. In English that
means banks are being paid to borrow from one another in the interbank
money-markets (which sounds a lot like a 'glut' of excess cash) seemingly
confirming ICMA's de Vidts fears: "We are scared about the [repo]
market freezing," as the ECB is "driving without headlights in the
dark."
Of course this is yet another disturbing distortion on the heels of homeowners
being paid to take out mortgages...
[ Los bancos saben que cualquier maniobra para
detener la actual recession mundial es solo un patch al cancer terminal. Lo que
ha fracasado es el modelo neo-liberal liderado por especuladores glotones y
mientras ellos estén en el poder, cualquier truco para demorar la caída no solucionará
nada]
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Following
"Soft" Capital Controls, ECB Threatens Greece With ELA Cut Even As 1
Million Workers Go Unpaid For Months. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/21/2015. Things for
insolvent, cashless Greece are - not unexpectedly - getting worse by the day.
[ El ECB busca ser temido no importa si es odiado, pero lo que genera
son risotadas]
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/21/2015 - 07:40
- The Fed Still Wants Easy Money (BBG) - you don't say
- ECB Is Studying Curbs on Greek Bank Support (BBG)
- Banks Paid to Borrow as Three-Month Euribor Drops Below Zero (BBG)
- Baoding Tianwei is first state-owned Chinese enterprise to default (Reuters)
- Major Chinese Developer Says It Can’t Pay Dollar Debts (BBG)
- Wall Street Has No Idea How Much Money Venezuela Has (BBG)
- Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Find Different Paths to Profits (WSJ)
- Does the Collapse of a Chinese Developer Signal the Start of More Defaults? (BBG)
- Retail Traders Wield Social Media for Investing Fame (WSJ)
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FFF FUTURE FAST FORWARD
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Even The IMF Has Awakened To The Global Debt Curse: The Greek Flashpoint Crystalizes The Risks - By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (21/4/15)
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WASHINGTON BLOG
US
Intelligence: Houthis are Not Iran Proxy. Posted on April 22, 2015 by Robert
Barsocchini. HuffPo reports that US intelligence says: Iran is
not directing the rebels… “It is wrong to think of the Houthis as a
proxy force for Iran,” a U.S. intelligence official told The Huffington
Post.
---- The Founding Fathers Fought Against Inequality. Posted on April 21, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog . George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and James Madison Slammed Runaway Inequality
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CORRUPTION
Is What’s Making Us Vulnerable to Terrorism. Posted on April 21, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
. Americans’ Safety and Security Is Being Sacrificed On the Altar of
Corruption By the Military-Industrial Complex
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For
the First Time In Many Decades, More Americans Support Gun RIGHTS than Gun
Control. Posted on April 20, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
. After Spate of Mass Shootings, Americans Turn Pro-Gun
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Fukushima
Worse than Chernobyl: “Effects of Radiation Have Become Much More Severe” — “Enormous
Decline” in Animal Species By ENENews
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Blood
on their Hands: Libya’s Boat Refugees and “Humanitarian” Imperialism By
Johannes Stern and Bill Van Auken,
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World
Bank “Business Projects” in Developing Countries have Displaced 3.4 Million
People By Global Research News,
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NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL
Nazanin
Armanian Publico.es La firma del preacuerdo entre EEUU e Irán, por el
que el último imperio universal ha conseguido que el que fuera el primero se
comprometiese a no fabricar armas nucleares a cambio de aliviar las sanciones
que sufren sus ciudadanos, es un gran triunfo de la diplomacia y de las fuerzas
de la paz mundial que han impedido que otras decenas de miles de seres humanos
sean sacrificadas por los intereses del pequeño y gran capital, en una
región donde ya no cabe más dolor.
LEA:
Las cláusulas impuestas a Irán, Un acuerdo y dos
versiones, Y un par de observaciones.
ABRIR: http://www.nazanin.es/?p=11672
(aunque se le olvido enumerar los 16 demonios)
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PRESSTV
McCain,
Graham 'Obama’s lapdogs': Paul. Wed
Apr 22, 2015 Sen. Rand Paul says Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey
Graham are “lapdogs” for President Obama.
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Brotherhood,
Amnesty slam Morsi verdict. Wed Apr 22, 2015 The Muslim Brotherhood and
Amnesty International condemn a 20-year prison term handed down to Egypt's
former president Mohamed Morsi.
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Zarif:
Drafting nuclear deal to start Wed.. Tue Apr 21, 2015 The Iranian
foreign minister says Tehran and the P5+1 countries are to start drafting a
final nuclear accord on Wednesday.
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EU
grants €250mn to Ukraine. Tue Apr 21, 2015 EU says it is set to give
250 million euros ($267 million) more in loans to Ukraine.
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‘China
countering US influence in Asia’. Tue Apr 21, 2015 An analyst says that
recent deal with Pakistan shows Beijing's plans to counter US influence in the
region.
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US
seeks to ‘strangle Chinese economy’ . Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:6PM. The US is
threatening the Asia-Pacific region as it attempts to curb China’s economic and
military growth, analysts say.
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Kochs
to throw money into Bush camp?. Tue Apr 21, 2015 Charles and David Koch
are considering throwing their massive wealth into the Republican presidential
primary for the first time.
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