JUL 30 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
DEBT
SLAVES: 7 Out Of 10 Americans Believe That Debt "Is A Necessity In Their
Lives". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
Could you live without debt? Most Americans say that they
cannot. According to a brand
new Pew survey, approximately 7 out of every 10 Americans believe that
“debt is a necessity in their lives”, and approximately 8 out of every 10
Americans actually have debt right now. Most of us like to think that “someday”
we will get out of the hole and quit being debt slaves, but very few of us ever
actually accomplish this. That is because the entire system is designed to
trap us in debt before we even get out into the “real world” and keep us in
debt until we die. Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize what is
being done to them.
[ Debt slavery start
getting worse and worse since the approval of the Washington Consensus in 1985
and with the Reagan policies … Neoliberalism was imposed on America by authoritarian
decree of both parties, Dems and Reps.. While they are in power they won’t solve
the problem … We need to abolish or change this system radically.. the way was
done by FDR in 1935-6 is one option, the other: Revolution.. Then after we will have the best education for all &
the best health system for all &
real future for new generations . Then we will be free from the 1% of slavers,
the only one who profit from the current neoliberal system ]
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"Greed
Is King" - What We Learned Talking To Chinese Stock Investors. Authored
by J.J. Zhang, originally posted at MarketWatch.com. S-by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
During a short stay in Shanghai a few weeks ago on unrelated
business, we had an opportunity to witness the ground zero of the China
market frenzy at its peak and its nascent plunge. Chinese retail investors
make up 85% of the market, a far cry from the U.S. where retail investors own
less than 30% of equities and make up less than 2% of NYSE trading volume for
listed firms in 2009. Combined with the highest trading frequencies in
the world and one of the lowest educational levels, describing China’s market
as immature is an understatement.
…
READ: Opinion: What I learned talking to stock-market investors in
Shanghai, China, By J.J.
Zhang http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-i-learned-talking-to-stock-market-investors-in-shanghai-2015-07-28/print Here subtitles in this art:
-- Bubbles
can be surprisingly predictable
-- Chasing
bubbles in China isn’t new
-- Early
birds get the worms
-- Greed is
king
-- But fear
is the emperor
-- Moral hazard in government rescues is real
-- Maturity
takes time
Short
conclusion: Perhaps in another generation, after several
years of painful lessons and surprising opportunities, it’ll look completely
different.
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Why
Do So Many Working Age Americans Choose Not To Enter The Workforce?. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
You could call
it the "Mystery of the Missing Worker" – why do so many people of
working age chose not to enter the workforce? Here are the numbers, as of the most
recent Employment Situation report: 250 million: the total number of people of
working age in the United States; 149 million: the total number of people in
that population that have a job; 8 million: the number of people who want a job
but do not have one; leaving 93 million: the number of people who don’t work,
and don’t want work. To put some context around that last number, it is
30% of the entire U.S. population. Why?
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China
Says US "Militarization" Of South China Sea Shows Washington
"Wants Nothing Better Than Chaos". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
"China is
extremely concerned at the United States' pushing of the militarization of the
South China Sea region. "What they are doing can't help but make people
wonder whether they want nothing better than chaos."
[ Aggressive militarism.. is one of the
reason why China change his policies and initiate their decoupling from the
neoliberal system… That is a cul-de-sac .. unless we retreat … Unfortunally,
there is not mood for that .. both Dems & Reps are feeding the stupid
military supremacism.. THAT STRATEGY IS OBSOLETE.. is the path to nuclear devastation
and world dismantling of US empire ]
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Does
This Look Like An Accidental Relationship To You?. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
Monetary policy
divergence manifests itself first in currencies, because
currencies aren’t an asset class at all, but a political construction that
represents and symbolizes monetary policy. Then the divergence manifests
itself in those asset classes, like commodities, that have no internal dynamics
or cash flows and are thus only slightly removed in their construction and
meaning from however they’re priced in this currency or that. From there the
divergence spreads like a cancer (or like a cure for cancer, depending on
your perspective) into commodity-sensitive real-world companies and national
economies. Eventually – and this is the Big Point – the divergence
spreads into everything, everywhere.
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"Why
Commodities Defaults Could Spread", UBS Explains. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015
"In the wake
of the commodity price swoon one of the recurring questions is will the stress
in commodity markets spillover to other sectors?," UBS asks. Spoiler
alert: the answer is "yes."
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"Moscow
Must Burn" Ukraine's "Christian Taliban", Pledges Anti-Russian
"Crusade" Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015 [ La sintaxis of this joke has been modified a little bit]
[ Yes,
Moscow must burn .. but not all Ukraine,
only the chechenian mercenaries in Kiev & south, said Ali-Ban,
another Christian sin-T.. a non-taliban Christian .. who works in a fire-station ]
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From
Hill-ary To Mountain-ary - How UBS Sent Millions To The Clintons After Saving
The Bank In 2009. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
How many more blind eyes can the press (or "we, the
people") turn?
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"...risk
management is not another component... it is THE component of trading! Everyone
goes broke because their trading size is wrong... Any fool can take a
profit. It takes a lot of character, discipline and commitment to take losses
and continue going – and that is the only way one can succeed. The lasting
trader will always reduce trading size in order to continue trading and come
back."
[ RATS with character, discipline and commitment ..
es esta la peste que invadió el planeta de nuestros días?... en esto que llaman
neoliberalismo. Sin duda esta peste es
peor que la peste de ratas que invadió Europa
en la edad media .. aquellas no pensaban, estas si ….aunque quizá lleven el
mismo gen caucásico. Expertos en biogenética estudian el caso ]
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While the Puerto Rican creditors' bargaining power on the island is to
put it mildly, negligible, especially after the budget director made the
imminent default into a crusade of poor versus rich, saying
he won’t redirect cash from its operating budget to make debt payments, an
unexpected supporter has emerged thousands of miles from the beleaguered
island: New York's socialist mayor Bill DeBlasio. As CBS
reports "New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio demanded President
Obama and Congress immediately come to the island's fiscal rescue." "It's
the federal government's obligation to act, because they can't stand idly by
and watch Puerto Rico fail," de Blasio told a crowd of hundreds of Puerto
Rico boosters gathered on the steps of City Hall.
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ETF
Trading Volume Eclipses US GDP. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
"In the past
12 months investors traded $18.2 trillion worth of ETF shares. For perspective,
that means the amount of dollars exchanging hands through ETFs is now more
than the U.S. gross domestic product, which stands at $17.4 trillion,"
Bloomberg
reports. Or, put differently, the financial
apocalypse draws near.
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The
Summation Of All Fears. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
This negative
breadth signal has an ominous long-term track record. The 59 occurrences
all took place in 4 distinct periods, though most of them happened within 2
clusters: August 1972 (13), November 1999-March 2000 (44), September 2007
(1), July 2015 (1)
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70% Of Americans See Economy Worsening, Consumer Comfort Collapses By Most In 10 Month. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015
With stocks just 1-2% from record highs, because China is
fixed, oil is recovering, Europe is awesome, and gas prices are low? it appears
the talking heads forgot to tell the 'people' how great things are. Bloomberg's
Consumer Comfort index plunged (by the most since Sept 2014) to hover at 18
month lows as 70% of Americans see the state of the economy as negative.
Rather amusingly an intriguing 1% of Americans see the state of the economy as
'excellent' - wonder which 1% that is...
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Lagarde
Says No To IMF Aid For Greece. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
"The International Monetary Fund’s board has been
told Athens’ high debt levels and poor record of implementing reforms
disqualify Greece from a third IMF bailout of the country, raising new
questions over whether the institution will join the EU’s latest financial
rescue."
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This
Is How The Much Anticipated "Second Seasonal Adjustment" Affected Q1
GDP. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015
A look at the internals reveals a major surprise - while
many said that the Q1 economy does not expose the true strength of the US
consumer (instead of shopping in stores, they shopped online which wasn't
captured or comparable), what actually happened was that Personal
Consumption Expenditures as a % of GDP actually declined from 1.4% to 1.2% when
netting out the harsh winter impact. As in the real economic driver was even
weaker and this time you can't blame it on the weather!
[ FED bankers will
print money anyway. The problem is the decoupling of China from the
neoliberal system. They are doing so with iron hand based on the safeguard of
the Shanghai agreement and the pact with RU and BRICS partners. Nothing will
stop them .. no even nuclear threats and 1st strike .. they are
going to respond and they preparing the nation to such event, if happens. .. Is
their choice as sovereign State…The cut of trade with China will affect the US, it will
create inflation and force the re-design of the neoliberal system. Rising interest rates will solve nothing. America
have only one choice of solve this crisis
and that is re-installing an up-dated version of the Glass-Steagall Act
to stop and clean big corporation fraud .. all other choices means to perish ]
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"Bad
News Is Bad News"? 30Y Yield Plunges Under 3.00%, Stocks & USD Slide
After GDP Miss. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
Is bad news, bad news again?
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"No question that low interest rates have
exacerbated the wealth gap between the poor and the rich because the rich have
assets."
[ Rising interest
rates will create even more inequality.. an explosive one ]
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US
Economy Grew Less Than Expected In Q2: Worst Economic Recovery Since WWII
Revised Even Weaker. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
The worst "economic
expansion" in history was even worse than previously expected.
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Initial
Jobless Claims Tick Up, Hover Near 42 Year Lows. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
Initial jobless claims rose 12k last week to 267k but
remains zero-interest-rate-dismissingly close to 42 year lows...
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The
Energy Layoffs Resume: Shell Fires 6,500, Whiting Cuts 2015 Budget 2 Weeks
After Raising It .Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015
Yesterday it was US and Italian energy giants Chevron
and Saipem which announced a total of over 10,000 new job cuts in the
aftermath of oil sliding back under $50 and resuming its downward trend. Today,
we got more confirmation of this when Royal Dutch Shell, still basking in the
glow of its proposed $70 billion mega-acquisition of BG Group, announced it
would axe 6,500 jobs this year and step up spending cuts, responding to an
extended period of lower oil prices which contributed to a 37 percent drop in
the oil and gas group's second-quarter profits.
[This is the beginning .. more layoffs are coming according to
previous credited News ]
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An
Exasperated Tsipras Calls For Syriza Referendum On Bailout Cancellation.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015
Speaking to a gathering of some 200 Syriza lawmakers on
Wednesday, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras drew a line in the sand, insisting that the
divisions within the party cannot persist. In a dramatic move, Tsipras
called for a party referendum on Sunday to decide once and for all whether
Syriza lawmakers will support the bailout or push for its cancellation.
[ Disolver el partido
Syriza fue y es la intencion de la troika.. El NO a la austeridad ya se dio..
cual seria el propósito de un nuevo Referendum? .. The only real choice is
getting out of the EU… en cualquier caso, dentro o fuera de la EU la criminal
austeridad vendrá .. solo que dentro del EU afectara a todos y para siempre, es
decir, afectara a las próximas generaciones.. El getting out of the EU traerá también
austeridad, pero transitoria y con choices de alivio viables en el contexto económico
mundial. Hay que crear el mind-set del pueblo para la auto-dererminacion,
libertad frente a la troika y respeto a la soberanía de Grecia. Asi visto el panorama el nuevo Ref podria
preguntar : Austeridad con autonomía y futuro libre para las nuevas
generaciones, vs. austeridad via troika para siempre y con esclavización de
nuestros hijos. Si se vota por austeridad con la troika: Tsipras deberá renunciar
al cargo. ]
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/30/2015 - 07:38
- Second-quarter GDP seen rebounding on consumer spending, housing (Reuters)
- China Stocks Fall as Traders Puzzle Over Sudden Late-Day Swings (BBG)
- European 'alliance of national liberation fronts' emerges to avenge Greek defeat (Telegraph)
- Thomas Cook warns on earnings over Greece (MW)
- Largest Greek toy seller Jumbo warns of hit from capital controls (Kathimerini)
- Chevron and Exxon Get the Plaudits, but Some Smaller Drillers Faring Well (WSJ)
- Schäuble outlines plan to limit European Commission powers (FT)
- UBS Deal Shows Clinton’s Complicated Ties (WSJ)
INFORMATION CLEARING
HOUSE
Everything you’ve been reading about “Islamic State-free
zones”, “safety zones”, or “no-fly zones” is lies.
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Washington
Turns Its Back on Kurds Fighting ISIS
By Lee Fang
By Lee Fang
Some of the most successful fighters against the
Islamic State are being isolated and attacked by America’s new favorite
ally in the region.
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Ukraine: To
The Edge
By Conn Hallinan
By Conn Hallinan
Neocons believe in aggressively projecting American military
power and using regime change to get rid of leaders they don’t like.
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It’s Not
the Muslims Stupid!
By GH Eliason
By GH Eliason
It’s not Islam. It never was. It is western fascist
political philosophy that’s been tailored to suite the Middle East.
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Decolonizing
Humanity
By Chip Richards
By Chip Richards
For the descendants of settlers and occupiers of stolen
land, this is a powerful time to wake up to what the indigenous people of those
lands have always known
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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The
Official 9/11 Cover-Up. Then NSA Director General Hayden Told a Lie, and It’s a
Whopper By William A. Blunden,
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NEWS IN SPANISH
GRECIA “La pregunta ya no es si podemos criticar las
políticas de austeridad, sino si la izquierda es capaz de generar una visión
alternativa". Daphne
Barley
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Entrevista radial a
James Petras. “El gobierno de Syriza, un partido
supuestamente de izquierda, firmó un acuerdo militar con Israel". Efraín Chury Iribarne
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Mundo. -Un artículo de George Soros traducido y
críticamente comentado por Miguel Candel.
Extractos de “Una asociación con China para
evitar una guerra mundial”
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Brasil, EE.UU. Los recientes acuerdos Brasil-Estados Unidos
¿El retorno del patio trasero? . Raúl Zibechi
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