jueves, 30 de julio de 2015

JUL 30 SIT EC y POL



JUL 30 SIT EC y POL



ZERO HEDGE



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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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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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 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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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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"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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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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"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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"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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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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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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The worst "economic expansion" in history was even worse than previously expected.
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Initial jobless claims rose 12k last week to 267k but remains zero-interest-rate-dismissingly close to 42 year lows...
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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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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)
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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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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
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 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
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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NEWS IN SPANISH

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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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