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Are
Big Banks Using Derivatives To Suppress Bullion Prices?. S- by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
Seven years of bailing out the big banks that control the
Federal Reserve and US Treasury at the expense of the US economy has threatened
the US dollar to the extent that the dollar must be protected at all cost,
including US regulatory tolerance of illegal activity to suppress gold and
silver prices.
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For
The First Time Since It Was Mexico, California Now Has More Latinos Than Whites.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/09/2015
Two weeks ago, we highlighted a statistic that reflects the rapid
demographic shift taking place in America. Non-Hispanic whites, Bloomberg
reported, citing the Census Bureau, are no longer the majority in Americans
under 5 years old.
Why does this matter or, perhaps more to the point, why do
we mention it here? Because demographic shifts often have far-reaching
consequences for the economy.
These are but two examples of how much demographic shifts
matter. Against this backdrop we present the following chart
and brief commentary from the LA Times with no further comment:
The shift shouldn’t
come as a surprise. State demographers had previously expected the change to
occur sometime in 2013, but slow population growth pushed back projections. In
January 2014, the state Department of Finance estimated the shift would take
place at some point in March.
The moment has
officially arrived.
"This is sort of the
official statistical recognition of something that has been underway for almost
an entire generation," said Roberto Suro, director of the Tomás Rivera
Policy Institute at USC.
California is now the first
large state and the third overall — after Hawaii and New Mexico — without a
white plurality, according to state officials.
"Where L.A. goes is
where the rest of the state goes and where the rest of the country goes,"
he said. "We announce, demographically speaking, the future for the rest
of the country."
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10
Very Strange Things That Have Happened In Just The Past Few Weeks. S-
by Tyler Durden on 07/09/15
Have you noticed that events have begun to accelerate?
Over the past few weeks, things have officially started to get very weird
#1 On Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange, United
Airlines and the Wall Street Journal were all taken down by unexpected “technical glitches“.
Authorities are assuring us that hackers were not responsible for any of this.
#2 In China, a full-blown stock market crash is
unfolding. The Shanghai Composite Index has plummeted more than 30 percent in less
than a month, and the Chinese version of the NASDAQ has dropped by more than 40 percent.
The amount of “paper wealth” that has been lost in China is 15 times greater than the GDP of
Greece.
#3 Just the other day, hackers were able to hack into
a German
surface-to-air missile battery…
#4 Earlier this week, Barack Obama told reports that
“we’re speeding up training of
ISIL forces“…
#5 Just a few days ago, the U.S. Mint announced that they were sold out of
American Eagle silver coins on the exact same day that the price of silver hit
a new low for 2015. How does that make any sense?
#6 On June 30th, an unexpected blood moon was seen
over a significant portion of the United States. The following is an
excerpt from a recent article by Caiden Cowger…
#7 Even though NASA recently stated that they know of
“no
asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth” and that “no
large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred
years“, NASA has teamed up with the National Nuclear Security
Administration to try to figure out a way to use nuclear weapons to destroy asteroids
that are threatening our planet. If there is no threat, why spend so much
time and energy on this?
#8 A couple of weeks ago, we learned that Barack
Obama has issued 19 “secret directives“. What is
Obama planning, and why won’t he let the general public know about it?
#9 This week, Pope Francis called for the creation of
“a
new economic and ecological world order where the goods of the Earth are shared
by everyone, not just exploited by the rich.” So exactly what would
such a “world order” look like?
#10 The Greek people just overwhelmingly voted to
reject austerity, so EU officials have responded by giving the Greek government
a one week deadline to come to an agreement
that will include even more austerity for the Greek people. If the Greek
government does not submit, EU officials are threatening them with bankruptcy,
the collapse of their banking system and expulsion from the euro.
Then in September comes a radical new sustainable development
agenda at the United Nations that is being endorsed by the Pope, and a vote
on a UN Security Council resolution
that would formally establish a Palestinian state.
And that is just the stuff that we know about.
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When
The Going Gets Tough, The Feds Take Your Money. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
The time of deflationary confiscation is coming closer
for the remaining Greek bank depositors. Those who kept their cash in safe
deposit boxes at banks are out of luck too: the government has decreed they may
not take it out. This is something one needs to keep in mind – if one wants to
keep cash outside the banking system, one cannot leave it in a bank safe
deposit box either. The government will confiscate it when push comes to
shove and the banks need to be rescued.
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Free
Trade Is Quantitative Easing For The Heroin Market. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
This all seems like good investment strategy: Convince
everyone that "free trade" is good, take their jobs, make them desperate
enough to become heroin addicts, and then take the last bit of their money by
profiting from their drug-related healthcare expenses. For some reason, the
average person always seems to come out on the wrong side of quantitative
easing.
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A
Union Divided: "More Europe" Means "More Germany". Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/09/2015
The tense
division in Europe's union are becoming increasingly evident. Between
Greece's "no" vote, yesterday's EU Parliament outbursts, and today's
German parliament commentary it is clear that,
as Bloomberg reports, the centerpiece of Merkel’s cure for Europe -
fiscal retrenchment - has catalyzed her in the eyes of many as despite her calm
but firm entreaties, an economic bully. “The lesson of this crisis is
more Europe, not less Europe,” Angela Merkel said in 2012 as the integrity
of the region’s monetary union was threatened by financial instability, but
many, like Greece, have come to understand "more Europe" means
something different: "more Germany."
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Nobel
Prize-Winning Economist Demands US Taxpayers "Show Humanity & Save
Greece". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
When the going gets tough, the taxed get going and
that is what Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz thinks should
happen. In a Time
op-ed, Stiglitz warns (likely correctly) that if Greece continues with
austerity, it would be depression without end; and so his solution is simple...
"The U.S. was generous with Germany as we defeated it. Now, it is
time for the U.S. to be generous with our friends in Greece in their time of
need, as they have been crushed for the second time in a century by
Germany, this time with the support of the troika." Strawman much?
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From Deutsche Bank:
From Bloomberg:
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Rick
Santelli Unleashed: It's Not The Economy, Stupid - "The Central Planners
Are In Control". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
"China is not doing anything that the US has not
already tried," exclaims Rick Santelli as he derides the
'entitlement' society that has reached the investor class. Whether it's US,
Japan, Europe, or China, "the idea of trying to prop up returns in
the equity market - admitted or not - is going on," Santelli
notes, asking - after forcing every mom and pop out of savings and into
investment, "if it doesn't turn out well... do they have a moral
obligation to help out?" Simply put, he rages - drawing the chart
of the year - "the central planners are in control... and I
don't suspect they will give up the reins any time soon."
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Greek
"Compromise" Proposal Leaked, And There May Be A Problem. S-
by Tyler Durden on 07/09/15
So far so good, and perhaps indeed suggestive of a big step
down. The problem emerges upon a closer read of the proposal, which is
clearly not nearly "capitulatory" enough.
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Are
The EU And Asia Turning A Blind Eye To Russian Sanctions?. S- by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
We
previously questioned whether western sanctions imposed on Russia were
being regularly breached by E.U. and Asian companies, noting that sanctions
only work if all countries unite behind them. Now,
only one year after being imposed, the sanctions are eroding as it seems
that government and business policies are pulling in opposite directions. A
U.S. State Dept. representative may have let the truth slip out recently when
he noted, "if you tell us you’re going [to break a sanction], we’ll
probably order you not to, but if you go and don’t tell us, we’ll probably do
nothing."
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Why
China Has No Choice But To Arrest The Sellers. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
After dozens of separate interventions, manipulations, and
central-planning machinations over the past three weeks, China
resorted to threats overnight when it called for the arrest of "hostile
short sellers." The reason they went full Orwell, this is the great
loss of 'wealth' in China's history... losing equivalent to 15 Greeces in just
17 days.
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Greek
Drachma Makes Mysterious Appearance In Hotel Bill. S- by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions
on a Bloomberg reporter's Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. were posted
as being carried out in "Drachma EQ."
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Greece
Enters Its Crack-Up Boom Phase - When Fridges Become Money. S- by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/15
The Austrian School of economics has a concept called a
“crack-up boom” in which a critical mass of people conclude that their
government is actively trying to devalue its currency. Consumers respond by
front-running the government, spending their paychecks immediately in order
to convert their soon-to-be-less-valuable money into real things. Merchants,
not happy about the sudden influx of suspect currency (and sensing the panic of
their customers) hold out for ever-higher prices, causing inflation to spike.
But it’s a special kind of inflation, driven not by a sudden increase in the
money supply but by collapsing confidence among holders of the currency. In
a very short time, so goes the theory, the supply of stuff available for
purchase dries up, prices hyperinflate, and the economy collapses. Welcome,
in other words, to Greece...
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"Greece
Is No One's Hostage": Leftist Energy Minister Lays Out €2 Billion Russian
Gas Project. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
Greece's outspoken Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis laid
out the details for the country's pipeline project with Russia on Thursday and
went out of his way to let PM Alexis Tsipras know that the referendum
"no" vote is "not going to become a humiliating 'yes'".
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Draghi
Voices "Unprecedented Doubt" Greek Solution Will Be Found: Complete
Greek Overnight Summary. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
In an odd escalation over the Grexit fiasco, where Greece is
now expected to provide yet another detailed reform proposal today by midnight
at the very latest, it was the one man whose decision will make or break the
Eurozone when (if) he decides to impose even more ELA collateral haircuts (or
yank ELA entirely) forcing Greece to Grexit by imposing its own currency (since
there is no legal mechanism to kick a nation out of the new
Berlin Wall) that made some surprisingly candid comments on the fate of the
Greek negotiations. According to Reuters,
ECB president Mario Draghi voiced "unprecedented doubts about the
chances of rescuing Greece from bankruptcy as Greek Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras was due to put forward last-ditch reform proposals on
Thursday."
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Nigel
Farage Destroys EU Group-Think: "There's A New Berlin Wall... And It's
Called The Euro". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015
Standing before the European Parliament yesterday, it
took Nigel Farage just four minutes to completely destroy every argument
supporting the Eurozone. As Nigel explains in the video below, right
from the start, the system was never intended to help the Greek people. Greece
entering the euro was great for Goldman Sachs. But terrible for Greeks. It
chained the country to a system in which it didn’t belong.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/09/2015 - 07:36
- Only update software on down days: NYSE, SEC Suspect Software Update Triggered Trading Halt (BBG)
- Trade halts add to China’s Potemkin market problem (Reuters)
- Why Beijing’s Efforts Have Failed to Tame China’s Stock Market (WSJ)
- Irrational Exuberance Triggers Chaos as China Watchdog Sidelined (BBG)
- China bounce ends five-day losing streak for stocks (Reuters)
- Fear Grows in Greece as Decisive Hour Nears (WSJ)
- Once Swarming with Greek Visitors, a Bulgarian Town Reels as Business Languishes (WSJ)
- Greece Shuts Markets Through July 13 as Officials Debate Bailout (BBG)
- Germany calls for European defence sector consolidation (Reuters)
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When It
Comes To ‘Islamic State,’ The West Just Doesn’t Get It
By Abdel Bari Atwan
By Abdel Bari Atwan
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Syriza, ejemplo moral y político para los
pueblos. Ángel Guerra Cabrera
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PRESS TV
EU
parl. urges end to abuses in Bahrain. Fri Jul 10, 2015 The European Parliament urges Bahrain to put an
end to all human rights abuses in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
[ What about the abuses on Greece ?... ]
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Parents
of 5 kids shot dead in US. Fri Jul 10, 2015 A Florida couple was shot
dead Thursday while their five young children were inside their home, police
said.
[ En mi país se
respetan los derechos NO humanos. Hasta
cuando?.. Que vergüenza!! ]
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'US wants intrusive
inspections in Iran'. Fri Jul 10, 2015 Obama won't agree to a nuclear
deal with Tehran, unless Iran goes along with “the most intrusive set of
inspections” of its nuclear facilities, says the White House.
[ Al parecer lograron
la información que querian … ahora no les importa decir lo que quieren. .. Pero
de Israel no dicen nada … estos se alistan ya para atacar a Iran junto al ISIL ]
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‘US
wants ISIL war to bleed into Iran’. Thu Jul 9, 2015. The US wants the
ISIL war to bleed into Iran so that it can expand its operations against the
terrorist group there, says a political analyst.
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General:
Russia greatest threat to US . Thu Jul 9, 2015 The nominee to be the
next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, rates
Russia as the greatest threat to US national security.
[ Paranoia de
conveniencia .. eso solo sirve para vender mas armas a vecinos anti-Rusia ]
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