lunes, 31 de agosto de 2015

AUG 31 SIT EC y POL

AUG 31 SIT EC y POL


RT ON EU MIGRATION POLICY
The real and imagined refugee crisis engulfing Europe: What accounts for the EU’s near indifference to the plight of refugees clamoring to enter European countries? Could it be that these people are from countries NATO members have attacked,...  Aug 31, 2015
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ZERO HEDGE


According to Western diplomats (sick..), a RUSSIAN expeditionary force has already ARRIVED in Syria and set up camp in an Assad-controlled airbase. The base is said to be in area surrounding Damascus, and will serve, for all intents and purposes, as a Russian forward operating base. In the coming weeks thousands of Russian military personnel are set to touch down in Syria, including advisors, instructors, logistics personnel, technical personnel, members of the aerial protection division, and the pilots who will operate the aircraft.

[ To feed de army & foster military-patriotism & war mogerism in the US we use to say “Russian are coming” .. since the launching of the Sputnik Russians were coming and we had to be armed against them … today this xenophobic anti-Russian attitude got its highest point & RUSSIAN ARRIVED is the sick mentality … so the US must send more military to Syria and continue killing innocent people to get the aim of “regime change” .. If the Russians really sent Lavrov’s assistant to Syria then we are in the road not to foster diplomatic talk .. but confrontation with the US.. will Russia eat this crap? .. We do]
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US & China Stocks Are Plunging After PMI Hits 6.5-Year Low, PBOC Strengthens Yuan Most Since Nov 2014. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015 [ so it is the world recession that did arrive ]

Fact: “China, US, and Japanese stocks are plunging... SHCOMP -4%, Dow -280, NKY -340”. According to Zerohedge.com
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The Oligarch Recovery: Low Income Americans Can't Afford To Live In Any Metro Area. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015 [ or under the bridges .. yeap .. so we will need more bridges in America  asap plus some comfort for them in the Metro Area.. more benches, water fonts … ]

We were told we needed to bail out Wall Street in order to save Main Street. Well the results are in... Wall Street has never done better, and Main Street has never done worse.
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Meet Wang Xiaolu, the JOURNALIST detained by Chinese authorities is being held responsible for the “chaos” in China’s stock market.

[ Wang Xiaolu is not a journalist .. HE IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST .. saying that he is only a disposable or undesired journalist is the most cynical attack on HR .. that is not acceptable in current US-UN standards.. just say the truth, otherwise you allow China run-over a tank on him ]  

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Exposed: The New American Way Of Life Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015

It's enough to make you cry... or SCREAM.  [My advise: don't waste your tears.. scr.. ]


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The Age Of Voodoo FinanceSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015

the Federal Reserve has become, not an organ of stability or even expertise but a public relations effort aimed squarely at trying to convince everyone possible that it is. Given the unique circumstances at the moment, the real issue is not whether they might raise rates but just how much systemic misdirection has already been revealed even to the least attentive of people.
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There’s no question that the world economy has been shaky at best since the crash of 2008. Yet, politicians, central banks, et al., have, since then, regularly announced that “things are picking up.” One year, we hear an announcement of “green shoots.” The next year, we hear an announcement of “shovel-ready jobs.” And yet, year after year, we witness the continued economic slump. Few dare call it a depression, but, if a depression can be defined as “a period of time in which most people’s standard of living drops significantly,” a depression it is.
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One of the most curiously persistent surrealisms of Washington, DC is the reflexive deference given the Federal Reserve System. The Washington elite tends to accord more infallibility to the Fed than do Catholics the Pope.
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The fundamentals for the US dollar are terrible, but people keep dumping money into it like trained monkeys simply because nothing else in financial markets makes any sense. This perception of 'safety' is based on a complete myth - every credible fundamental suggests that the dollar is dangerously overvalued; but if not the US dollar, then which currency is the safe haven? The euro is garbage, the Chinese are fighting a depression, Japan is a disaster. And that’s precisely the point. When every option in the financial system is grounded in absurdity, the only solution is to start looking for safety outside of it.

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Say Goodbye To Normal - We're Going Medieval, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015
 The tremors rattling markets are not exactly what they seem to be. A meme prevails that these movements represent a kind of financial peristalsis - regular wavelike workings of eternal progress toward an epic more of everything, especially profits! You can forget the supposedly “normal” cycles of the techno-industrial arrangement, which means, in particular, the business cycle of the standard economics textbooks. Those cycle are dying. They’re dying because there really are Limits to Growth and we are now solidly in grips of those limits. READ ALSO: Economics 102: WalMart Cuts Worker Hours After Hiking Minimum Wages : “undergrad economics is rearing its ugly again at Wal-Mart as the retailer cuts workers’ hours in a desperate attempt to offset more than a billion in wage hikes.”  AND THIS: More Bad News From Tom DeMark: "We Should See The Market Drift Lower For The Next Month": We should see the market drift lower for the next month or so. And we could probably make a new low, the low of last week's low, before the market finally bottoms." IF YOU’RE NOT CONVINCED OF THE DEBACLE COMING, READ THIS"The Quantitative Easing Hangover Is Starting" - Dallas Fed Dead-Cat-Bounce Collapses To Post-2009 Recession Lows : With the biggest miss sicne April 2013, Dallas Fed's 2-month dead-cat-bounce has collapsed to -15.8 (against expectations of -4.0). This ispractically the weakest level for the manufacturing index since 2009. The entire report is a disaster - Fisher's exit seems well timed? - as New Orders crash from +0.7 to -12.5 and Pries Paid cratersfrom +0.1 to -8.0.Even worse, 14 of the 15 'hope' indicators declined and as one respondent warned "the quantitative easing hangover is starting." We have 3 simple words - "not unequivocally good."  ALL THESE NEWS ARE TODAY LATEST IN http://www.zerohedge.com/  on  8/31/2015
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[ Big mafias of speculators that own America are imploring to the FED one more QE or bailout ]
the globe, emerging markets is in turmoil, oil dependent countries in the Middle East seeing budgets go deeply in the red, Greece and the other insolvent southern European countries nearing collapse and tensions rising between Russia, Europe and the U.S.,there is plenty to fear in this central banker created debt bubble world. History teaches us this isn’t over. It’s only just begun.The bubblevision assertions that the worst is behind us is false. They will insist all is well until you’ve lost half your net worth. When fear overtakes greed, neither monetary easing, propaganda, nor acts of desperation by politicians, government bureaucrats, or central bankers will turn the tide.
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 The Real Refugee Crisis Is In The Future. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015

"It is estimated that sub-Saharan Africa will have 900 million more inhabitants in the next twenty years. Of these, at least 200 million are young people looking for work. The chaos of their countries of origin will push them further north." That is the future. It will no more go away by itself, and by ignoring it, than the present crisis, which, devastating as it may be, pales in comparison. Europe risks being overrun in the next two decades.
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World oil production is about 90 million barrels a day, representing a cash flow of about nine billion dollars a day which comes down to three trillion dollars a year. With the oil price 40 to 50% lower, this flow is also cut by 40 to 50%. This amounts to 10% US GDP. Compare it with the 0.5% growth we are now missing in China, we prefer to keep our eyes on the oil price.These extreme moves can not be without consequence.
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[ Neo-nazis clowns returned to the main stage after Ukraine government's vote for constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive ]
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With 'truths' like this, is it really surprising that he’s close to catching Wall Street-handler Hillary Clinton?

[ Sanders’ train will soon run over the track of the mafia Clinton .. this will be force her to make alliance with other crooks .. the real chance for Sanders is to forge an alliance with the liberals in the GOP & and the only person suitable for this option is Rand Paul .. is the only way to kill 2 birds in one shoot: the oligarchy behind Clintons’ and the billionaire bufon inside the GOP, D Trump. WHEN? In my opinion this alliance has to be done before the Primaries’ exclusion of a 3rd choice ]
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Citi Admits The Truth: "If The Market Drops 10%, The Fed Will Most Likely Not Hike". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015 [ .. Because of Circular Logic works  ]

The market has already delivered its verdict swiftly in the face of the global equity market correction– reducing substantially the probability of a rate hike in September, and pricing in a full rate hike only by March next year. We assign a higher probability than the market for a lift off in September but acknowledge that the risk has shifted towards later… we hold on.. that we initiated two weeks ago. "Data dependency” over the next couple of weeks might really mean “equity market dependency”. If the equity market drops 10%, the Fed will most likely not hike, no matter what the payrolls data is.
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China's Ministry of Public Security says the accused are very, very sorry for their actions, in which they "misled society and the public, generated and spread fearful sentiment, and even used the opportunity to maliciously concoct rumors to attack [Communist] Party and national leaders."
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Frontrunning: August 31. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/31/2015 - 07:31
  • Hilsenrath: Fed Appears to Hold Line on Rate Plan (WSJ)
  • Europe, Asia stocks set for worst monthly drop in three years on China, Fed (Reuters)
  • Beijing abandons large-scale share purchases (FT), if only for a few hours
  • China’s Next Problem: Paying for Its Stock-Market Bailout (WSJ)
  • Crises Put First Dents in Xi Jinping’s Power (WSJ)
  • Man Group’s China Chief Said to Assist Police in Probe (BBG)
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Yesterday, the FT triumphantly proclaimed: "Beijing abandons large-scale share purchases", and that instead of manipulating stocks directly as China did last week on Thursday and Friday, China would instead focus on punishing sellers, shorters, and various other entities. We snickered, especially after the Shanghai Composite opened down 2% and dropped as low as 4% overnight. Just a few hours later we found out that our cynical skepticism was again spot on: the moment the afternoon trading session opened, the "National Team's" favorite plunge protection trade, the SSE 50 index of biggest companies, went super-bid and ramped from a low of 2071 to close 140 points higher, ending trading with a last minute government-facilitated surge, and pushing the Composite just 0.8% lower after trading down as much as -4.0%.

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NEWS IN SPANISH


RESCATE DE LA POLÍTICA EN CONTRA DEL PODER DEL DINERO.  Emir Sader.
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Opinión.  Son seres humanos. Owen Jones. Esa cosa tan sencilla que parecemos haber olvidado sobre los refugiados.
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China.  La gran muralla de la especulaciónAlejandro Nadal
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AUG 30 SIT EC y POL

AUG 30 SIT EC y POL


ZERO HEDGE


Following Monday’s historic stock market downturn, many politicians and so-called economic experts rushed to the microphones to explain why the market crashed and to propose "solutions” to our economic woes. Not surprisingly, most of those commenting not only failed to give the right answers, they failed to ask the right questions.
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"Something happened  The August turbulence in global markets has produced significant shifts, including a 6.6% fall in equity prices. The currencies of emerging market countries have depreciated substantially against the G-4, while emerging market borrowing rates for sovereigns and corporates have moved higher. Global oil prices have been whipsawed as have G-4 bond yields. The speed and magnitude of these movements is reminiscent of past episodes in which financial crises emerged or the global economy slipped into recession. However, nothing appears to be breaking."
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Manipulation = Fragility. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/30/2015

In markets distorted by permanent manipulationthe most powerful incentive is to borrow as much money as you can and leverage it as much as you can to maximize your gains in risk-on asset bubbles. However, a core dynamic is laying waste to global financial markets: the greater the level of central bank/government manipulation, the greater the systemic fragility.
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...one theory is that some within the Fed realized that QE wasn’t working, and never worked, thus another path was needed. But what alternative did they have, since rates were already ZERO? So maybe they changed courseand took a strong dollar policy vs. a weak one to intentionally weaken the commodity sector and thus boost consumer spending. Throughout this down turn, that message has been repeated by Yellen herself many times, as a source of economic stimulus and for sure has been repeated over and over in the media and the talking heads of Wall Street.
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Like a dog returns to its vomit, the Fed's speculative bubble policy enables the one percent to once again feast on the carcass of the real economy. 'And no one could have ever seen it coming.' Once is an accident. Twice is no coincidence. Remind yourself what has changed since then. Banks have gotten bigger. Schemes and fraud continue. What will the third time be like? And the fourth?
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Economic problems are now compounded by lower population growth and ageing populations; slower increases in productivity and innovation; looming shortages of critical resources, such as water, food and energy; and man-made climate change and extreme weather conditions.

Future generations will bear the bulk of the cost as they are left to tackle the unresolved problems of their forebears. … Governments are unwilling to tell the truth about the magnitude of the economic problems, the lack of solutions and cost of possible corrective actions to the electorate.

For the moment, to paraphrase Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the “permanent lie [has become] the only safe form of existence”. …. But the world cannot postpone, indefinitely,dealing decisively with the economic, resource management, social and political challenges we face.
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"This feels like 2008 all over again," as NPR reports the latest Iowa Poll showed Sanders just 7 points behind Hillary Clinton, who leads 37 to 30 percent among likely Democratic caucus-goers. Why 2008? As NPR notes, that's when a heavily favored Clinton stumbled and lost to Barack Obama, then a young senator whose middle name, Hussein, was the same as a dictator the U.S. had just overthrown and whose last name rhymed with America's Public Enemy No. 1. And while the socialist septuagenarian continues to surge, Hillary faces yet another 'issue', as Yahoo Tech reports, 1 million (or one third) of her 'apparent' Twitter followers are fake.

[ The trend: a graphic shows they are going in different –opposite- directions. Hillary is going down & Sanders is moving up. See Graphic:  ] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/08-overflow/20150830_bernie3.jpg

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During the last crisis period, starting in March 2007 and lasting through November 2008, foreign central banks withdrew gold for a total of 20 out of 21 consecutive months, repatriating a grand total of 409 tons of gold. The last period of peak redemption culminated with the failure of Lehman in September 2008, the near failure of AIG in October and November 2008, coupled with the Fed's bailout of the western financial system. If past is prologue, one should ask: what current or future event is driving the ongoing redemption of 246 tons of gold (and rising) from the NY Fed this time?
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"The first three months of 2015 only saw a marginal increase in SWF assets in the headwind of falling oil prices. TheCityUK expects that SWFs’ assets will increase by 4% in 2015 to $7.4 trillion, well below the 12% average annual growth seen over the previous five years. Flows into some funds could turn negative. Growth in SWFs’ assets is closely related to the price of oil, as around 60% of SWFs’ assets originate from commodity exports."
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The virtuous circle that has sustained the dollar and buoyed USD assets for decades has definitively been broken. Now, with China's Treasury liquidation serving to exacerbate the pressure from the demise of the petrodollar, it's critical to take stock of accumulated petrodollar reserves in order to understand how large the unwind could ultimately be in a worst case scenario. As it turns out, narrowly focusing on official FX reserves could understate the size of petrodollar accumulation by some $2.5 trillion.
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The Value-At-Risk Fiasco, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/30/2015

VAR (invented at J.P. Morgan well before both the global financial crisis and their entertaining London Whale drubbing) is an expression of the largest possible loss, contained within a specified confidence interval.  We can for example explore the history of worst weekly losses in the S&P, for each month starting more than 5 years ago in January 2010 (and through May 2015).  A total of 65 months.  We can set a probability tolerance of just over 6%, and state that the probability of seeing a loss greaterthan this VAR should be less than or equal to ~6% (or 1 in 16 months). 

[ el arte de mentir con números tiene la simpleza de usar números y Stats para darle autoridad a la auto-mentira .. Alguien se imagina la 5ta pata del gato y de acuerdo a su dimensión establece un índice de efectividad del animal para cazar ratones y para mantener equilibrio en la cuerda floja en la que esta = Ciencia ...? Yo lo que creo es que la farsa y el auto-enganio de los especuladores tiene límites .. pueden mentirse a sí mismos y gozar su VARitonitis .. pero no estafar al resto ]
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NEWS IN SPANISH


Colombia. Negocios cotidianos. Bandas paramilitares, narcotráfico, y poder político y económico en Colombia y la frontera con Venezuela. Juan Alberto Sánchez Marín
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Europa. La Grecia ficciónPablo M Fernández Alarcón
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ALC.  Guatemala profunda. Carolina Vásquez Araya
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Perú.  Dia de la vergüenza nacional. Gustavo Espinoza M.
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Colombia.  -De nuevo cada quien por su lado. Adelaida Nikolayeva
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Perú . DEMAGOGIA HUMALISTA EN EDUCACION  Por Mauricio Quiroz. https://www.facebook.com/mauricio.quiroz.73113/posts/560753230744706
Humala continua mintiendo al pais en educación en la entrevista que presenta frecuencia latina el domingo 30 de agosto. Sigue el mismo camino de su ministro de Educación Jaime Saavedra, incompetente ministro que ni siquiera puede ejecutar el presupuesto asignado. Ofreció 6% del PBI para educación y ya termina su gobierno y nada. …
Tampoco existe articulación en el diseño curricular con el proyecto educativo nacional. Al 29-08-15 se ha gastado el 40.5% en inversiones educativas cuando debería estar en 70 %. …
En infraestructura para instituciones educativas ha reducido el presupuesto que paso de s/.  918 millones en el presupuesto de apertura para tener solo s/. 632 millones en su presupuesto modificado anual. En materiales educativos, tiene asignado s/. 152 millones y solo ha ejecutado a la fecha el 19 %.   
Socialmente, mantiene a cerca de 90,000 maestros en condición de contratados cuando su gobierno recibió con menos de 15,000. Tiene a cerca de 200,000 maestros con sueldos inferiores a 1,200 nuevos soles, sin ningún incremento en sus casi 5 años de gobierno. …
Pretende evaluar a los maestros en su desempeño obligándoles a aceptar una ley de seudo reforma magisterial nº 29944 que liquida la ley del profesorado nº 24029 pese a que existe una demanda en curso ante la Comisión interamericana de derechos humanos. …
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GLOBAL RESEARCH


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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE


Pushing the Edge on Nuclear War. By William R. Polk. Washington’s neocons and liberal hawks are ratcheting up tensions again over Ukraine with the goal of humiliating and even destabilizing nuclear-armed Russia
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American, Not Russian, Aggression is the Real Problem. By Bryan MacDonald. The fact that genuine Russia analysts, who understand the country, have been replaced by neocon nutters who lump the nation in with the likes of Syria, ISIS and North Korea is, frankly, disturbing
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Barak’s Tales of Israel's Near War With Iran Conceal The Real Story. By Gareth Porter. A good cop/bad cop routine by the US and Israel was in fact a strategy to get crippling sanctions against Iran approved by the UN Security Council
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Palestine Overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants. By Juan Cole. If there were a Palestinian Donald Trump, he’d be fulminating against illegal immigrants swamping the Palestinian West Bank
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Welcome To The Trade Deal Wars. By Pepe Escobar. TPP has been developed as the economic/trade arm of the “pivoting to Asia”
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Beijing BingoBy Eric Margolis. China’s raw material import boom is finished. So watch out Canada, Australia, Brazil, Peru, and Africa.
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PRESS TV

US considering sanctions against China. Mon Aug 31, 2015 The US is considering imposing a package of sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals over the alleged cyber theft.
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‘Journalist behind China market chaos’. Mon Aug 31, 2015 A journalist in China confesses to causing a stock market crash.
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I advised Snowden to go to Russia: Assange. Mon Aug 31, 2015 WikiLeaks Assange says he advised NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to seek asylum in Russia.


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sábado, 29 de agosto de 2015

AUG 29 SIT EC y POL

AUG 29 SIT EC y POL



WALL STREET DAILY. Most Influential articles of the week

Volatility Is Back! Trade This Moving Market Like a Pro
Following Monday's "carnage," 80% of the S&P 500 is ripe for investment - and this technical indicator will show you how. Read More »
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The Flash Crash of 2015
The morning of Monday, August 24 saw one of the most chaotic stock market events in years. Here's what happenedRead More »
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Wall Street's Most Hated Stock is About to Break Out
For years, analysts have wrongly predicted GameStop's death. Now, the chart is showing that a breakout is imminent. Read More »
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RED DEL TERCER MUNDO Boletín Nro 224/2015 - 28 de agosto

Los estados miembro de la ONU adoptaron este mes la Agenda de Desarrollo Posterior a 2015, resultado de casi dos años de negociaciones transparentes y relativamente democráticas, pero al final hubo un giro abrupto de consultas a puertas cerradas y regateos de último minuto. Leer más
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Realpolitik y Weltpolitik. Deflación, depresión, ¿con giro militarista global?. Alberto Graña
¿Las tres devaluaciones consecutivas realizadas por el Banco Central Chino son medidas aisladas? ¿Se trata de una estrategia explícita o de una medida desesperada? ¿O todas las anteriores? Leer más
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La desinformación oculta la dimensión real del “rescate” griego. Roberto Savio
La mayoría de los europeos están convencidos de que la responsabilidad de la situación de Grecia cabe exclusivamente a sus ciudadanos y a su gobierno. Pero esto solo se debe a que el sistema de los medios de comunicación cesó de proporcionar puntos de vista alternativosLeer más
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IPS WEEKLY

For years, Latin America has exported its raw materials to China’s voracious factories, fuelling economic growth. But now that the Asian giant is putting a priority on domestic consumption over industrial production, how will this region react? China’s dizzying growth gave a boost to the ... MORE > >
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Along the road to the Viñales valley, travelled by thousands of tourists to Cuba, lies the home of self-taught artist Miguel Antonio Remedios, which he has turned into a sort of museum to show visitors a wooden home typical of this mountainous area in the west of the country. “It would be a big ... MORE > >
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The United States is providing a thinly-veiled cover virtually legitimising the use of cluster bombs – banned by an international convention – by Saudi Arabia and its allies in their heavy fighting against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Asked if cluster bombs are legitimate weapons of war, “if used ... MORE > >
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ZERO HEDGE



The race issue has even begun to split the Democrats. When former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a card-carrying liberal, attended a conference of Netroots Nation and responded to a chant of “Black Lives Matter!” with the more inclusive, “Black Lives Matter! White Lives Matter! All Lives Matter!” he was virtually booed off the stage.

O’Malley proceeded to apologize for including the white folks.

To many Americans, even many who did not vote for him, the election of Barack Obama seemed to hold out the promise that our racial divide could be healed by a black president. Even Obama’s supporters must concede it did not happen, though we would, again, argue angrily over why.

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Lagarde: "China's Slowdown Was Predictable, Predicted"... Yes, By Everyone Except The IMF. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/29/2015 

[ el colmo de la complicidad y la hipocresía  .. ella es la jefe del IMF ]

"The [Chinese] slowdown was predictable, predicted, unavoidable," Lagarde was quoted as saying." Well, yes, it was... by everyone but the IMF. Here is the history of the IMF's Chinese GDP growth forecasts taken straight from its World Economic Outlook quarterly pieces. The graph needs no explanation.
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Simply put, a perfect storm of failing trends...
Five Interconnected Trends
1. The China Story is Over..    I explained why in a previous essay, Is China’s “Black Box” Economy About to Come Apart? 

2. The Emerging Market Story Is Also Done. Emerging currencies and markets have soared on the back of the China Story, as China’s insatiable demand for oil, iron ore, copper, soy beans, etc. drove global demand to unparalleled heights.

This demand pushed prices higher, which then pushed production (supply) higher, as the low cost of capital globally enabled marginal resources to be put into production with borrowed money.

Now that China’s demand has fallen off—by some accounts, China’s GDP is actually in negative territory, despite official claims that it’s still growing at 7% annually—commodity prices have crashed, taking the emerging markets’ stock and currency markets down. (Source)

3. Diminishing Returns on Additional Debt. The simple truth is that expanding debt has fueled global growth. Though people identify China as the driver of global demand for commodities, China’s growth is debt-driven. As noted above, China quadrupled its officially tracked debt from $7 trillion in 2007 to $28 trillion as of mid-2014—an astonishing 282 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

4. Limits on Deficit-Spending (Borrowed) Fiscal Stimulus. When the global economy rolled over into recession in 2008, governments borrowed money by selling sovereign bonds to fund increased state spending.  In the U.S., federal borrowing soared to over $1 trillion per year as the government sought to replace declining private spending with public spending.
Governments around the world have continued to run large deficits, piling up immense debts since 2008.  The global move to near-zero yields has enabled governments to support these monumental debt loads, but even at near-zero yields, the interest payments are non-trivial. These enormous sovereign debts place some limits on how much governments can borrow in the next global recession—a slowdown many think has already started.

5. Central Bank Stimulus (Quantitative Easing) as Social Policy Has Been Discredited. In the wake of the Global Financial Meltdown of 2008-2009, central banks launched monetary stimulus programs aimed at pumping money into the economy via bank lending. The stated goals of these stimulus programs were 1) boost employment (i.e. lower unemployment) and 2) generate enough inflation to stave off deflation, which is generally viewed as the cause of financial depressions.
While it can be argued that these unprecedented monetary stimulus programs achieved modest successes in terms of lowering unemployment and pushing inflation above the zero line, they also widened wealth and income inequality.
Even as these programs made modest dents in unemployment and deflation, they pushed asset valuations to the moon—assets largely owned by the few at the top of the wealth pyramid.

[Summing up:… ]
The 2008-09 Fixes Are No Longer Available  In summary, the fixes for the 2008-09 recession are no longer available in the same scale or effectiveness.  Expanding debt to push up demand and investment, rising state deficit spending, massive monetary stimulus programs—all of these now face limitations. This means the central banks and states have very limited tools to reignite growth as global recession trims borrowing, investment, hiring, sales and profits.

What Ultimately Matters: Capital Flows. In Part 2: What Happens Next Will Be Determined By One Thing: Capital Flows, we’ll look at the one dynamic that ultimately establishes assets prices: capital flows.
Click here to read Part 2 of this report (free executive summary, enrollment required for full access)
[ take the Ex summary and live the habanero of this enchilada (enrollment) para los USAnos ]
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What Happens When A Company, Or An Economy, Can’t Squeeze Any More Juice Out Of The Lemon. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/29/2015

The more we think about it, the less the classical division between microeconomics (which studies the behavior of individuals and production entities) and macroeconomics (which deals with the performance of the economy as a whole and not its individual markets and components) makes any sense - certainly not in the 21st century. And in our view it is this disconnect between the two that is at the heart of the failure of Keynesian economics – which at best is incomplete and at worst is all just baloney. [ Easy Qt. .. change the lemon is the answer .. What if other were also squeezed like Brazil ? ]
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE

Lebanon – What If It Fell?.  By Andre Vltchek
If Lebanon collapses, the entire region will once again become a colony
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Norway’s NRK broadcaster has obtained a copy of the formal requests US authorities sent to Norway’s Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Justice asking it to arrest NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and effectuate his return to the United States.
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I’m not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I’m willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuses to go to war” Albert Einstein “
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How could anyone who finds Israel’s actions unacceptable imagine that they had the right to become leader of a major British political Party?
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When can we stop referring to this activity as “buybacks” and call it by its real name; looting?
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Today the Navajo and their Apache cousins are once again under threat.
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Is it possible, that the way we act is often in direct conflict with who we think we are?
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RT – SPUTNIK & SHOWS


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Kim Jong-un: ‘Landmark’ deal with S. Korea [Reconciliation in process  ... bye, bye America ]
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What Else Are They Scared of? Russia, China Again in US Media Spotlight. http://www.sputniknews.com/military/20150829/1026343376/us-russia-china-aircraft-carrier.html

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Busting the Myth of Polish Sympathy for Ukraine. http://www.sputniknews.com/europe/20150829/1026345836.html
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CrossTalk. Recession 2015?
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EE.UU. Acuerdo nuclear de EE.UU. con Irán. Demos una oportunidad a la diplomacia Amy Goodman
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60,000 US settlers live in West Bank. Sat Aug 29, 2015 An estimated 60,000 Jewish American settlers live in the occupied West Bank, according to a study by an Oxford University scholar.
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Iran nuclear agreement 'deeply flawed'. Sat Aug 29, 2015 An influential Republican US congressman has said the nuclear agreement with Iran is “deeply flawed.”
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Turkey hits Syria as part of US-led coalition. Sat Aug 29, 2015 Ankara says it has launched its first airstrikes in Syria as part of the US-led coalition allegedly targeting the Daesh Takfiri terrorists .
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Sexual violence in Iraq, Syria ‘war crime’. Sat Aug 29, 2015 The United Nations Security Council says sexual violence against women in Iraq and Syria is a war crime.

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