JAN 6 16 SIT EC y POL
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
Dangerous miss-match between Politics & Economics: TransCanada
Sues Obama Administration; Says Keystone Pipeline Rejection Was
Unconstitutional. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/2016 : ..this could carry a multi-billion
dollar charge .. TransCanada filed a lawsuit in Federal court in
Houston, suing the U.S. government and claiming the Obama acted
unconstitutionally when he rejected the Keystone XL, while also seeking $15
billion alleging the pipeline denial was "arbitrary and unjustified."
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2016
Theme #3: The Rise Of Independent (Non-State) Crypto-Currencies. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. The invention
of the blockchain and crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin have opened the door to
non-state, non-central-bank currencies - money that is global and independent
of any state or central bank, or indeed, any bank. This doesn't just open
the possibility of escaping the debt-serfdom of central and private banks -
it opens the door to an entire global economy that's free of the
inequality and concentration of wealth and power that is the only possible
output of central bank created and distributed money.
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Macy's
Massacre: Thousands Fired; Guidance Slashed (Again); Weather Blamed. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. Two months
after the first "Macy's Massacre", the massacre is back with a
vengeance, and moments ago the iconic retailer not only reported yet another
cut in its guidance, but also announced it would be laying off another boatload
of retailers, demonstrating just how strong the "service" economy
truly is.
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Will
Weak Closes Drag Markets Down?. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. The concern, of
course, is that these divergences are not resolved by strengthening
stock market closes (a welcome sign of improved investor confidence) but,
rather, by pullbacks in the indexes themselves– a decidedly less envied
outcome. Currently, the Net Close
Indicator appears to be struggling to move up from levels last seen during 2011
and, before that, 2008– all while the S&P 500 remains within 5% of the
highs it reached in 2015:
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With
Stocks in Freefall, Nasdaq Breaks.... Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016: They tried to slam VIX (and failed). JPY was sold
(but failed). And Crude was temporarily ramped (but failed). So how do you
stall a sell-off - BREAK THE MARKET AGAIN!!
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Bank
Bulls Bust As Fed "Error" Boosts Bearish Bets. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016.: While US
financial credit markets have been anything but exuberant for weeks, equity
options markets have now turned their bullish backs on the banks as Bloomberg
reports the ratio of bearish to bullish options on the S&P
Financials ETF has climbed to the highest level in a year this week, reflects
rising demand for protection against losses as NIM hopes collapse and Fed
"error" probabilities increase.
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Fed
Lack Of Confidence Sends WTI Crude To $33 Handle Even As Dollar Dumps. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016: The FOMC Minutes hardly rang loudly and proudly of
the strong economy that warrants rate hikes... and crude is tumbling.
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Fed
Mouthpiece Reads "Liftoff" Tea Leaves. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/2016: Though the decision to raise rates was unanimous, some officials
expressed concern about lingering low inflation and the stifling effects on the
U.S. economy of a strong U.S. dollar and slow growth overseas."
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FOMC
Minutes Show Fed Rate Hike Decision Was "A Close Call", Feared Market
Reaction. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016: January's
meeting has negligible probabilities for a rate move but March has 45%
chance of a hike and 3% chance of a cut. The apparent unanimity of
December's decision appears questionable given the Minutes suggestions of some
dissent.
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Just
Out From Evercore ISI: "Sell All Rallies Down To 1900". Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/16: "With the macro backdrop more vulnerable today than at any
time since the financial crisis, and the S&P 500 and NASDAQ still near
all-time highs, .. we reiterate our view that Crude and Energy remain
structurally broken and possess significant downside from current levels which
will only agitate and exacerbate the ongoing collaps."
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DVA
Is Dead: Banks Will No Longer "Profit" From Collapsing. Sby Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016: The debt valuation adjustment, or DVA, will
no longer be included in net income, according to revisions to the
fair-value measurement standard published by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board Tuesday. The DVA rule increased net income
when a bank’s bonds tanked, on the theory that the firm could buy back its
bonds at a lower price and benefit from the decline in value.
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10
Key Energy Trends To Watch For In 2016. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016. What can we expect in 2016? Here is a rundown
of some key trends to watch for...
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Yes,
The ECB Chief Economist Really Said It: "If You Print Enough Money, You
Always Get Inflation. Always.". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. And with that
we can finally close the book on slippery central bank semantics on what
precisely it is that they do, and what it is they plan to achieve.
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WTI
Crude Plunges To $34 Handle After Record Gasoline Inventory Build. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/2016. Crude prices already gave up their API gains and are tumbling
back below $35 on this build news.
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Things
That Make You Go Boom: U.S. Spending On Military Aircraft Surges Most Since
September 11. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016: Now that the
subprime-funded "growth dynamo" that kept the US economy chugging
along over the past year has finally choked, as we saw yesterday when auto
sales posted the weakest print in half a year, there is just one industry that is keeping US
factory orders, which have already declined
for 13 consecutive months, from an all out implosion. War.
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US
Factory Orders Deep In Recession - Tumble YoY For 13th Month In A Row. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/2016. .. as a reminder, this data was buoyed by a 46.9% surge in
defense aircraft and parts orders to all-time highs. Traders better hope
for moar war or the reality of the economy will peak out from behind the
military-industrial complex veil.
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{Peter Schiff Warns: "The Whole Economy Has Imploded...
Collapse Is Coming". Submitted by Tyler Durden on
12/07/2015}
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US
Equity Collapse Erases All Post-QE3 Gains As FANTAsy Stocks Plunge. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/2016: But, but, but... it's not a market-driven only by The Fed,
right?. (see tables)
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A
Shocked Wall Street Reacts To China's "Surprising" Devaluation. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016: Today’s fixing was a big surprise, and
impression is that upside risks to USD/CNY have grown .. still, risk of capital outflows could
increase concurrently. .. Expect 5%-10% depreciation by end of the year, though
this depends on the pace of PBOC’s intervention and health of macroeconomy
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Revisiting
The Greatest Crash In History. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016: All we can do is
point out the risks, so that people can at least prepare on an individual
level. A major lesson everybody should take: You will be lied to in
the critical moments, and you could stand to lose a lot if you believe the
lies.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016 - 07:40
- Obama, wiping tears, makes new push to tighten gun rules (Reuters)
- Global stocks hit by China worries, North Korea nuclear test (Reuters)
- Oil hits 11-year low, Saudi-Iran row cuts chances of output restraint (Reuters)
- North Korea says successfully conducts first H-bomb test (Reuters)
- Valeant Planning to Appoint New Leader as CEO Remains Hospitalized (WSJ)
- Treasuries Extend 2016 Winning Start With Growth Outlook Clouded (BBG)
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Miss files from day 5
Nomi
Prins' Financial Road Map For 2016: "The Potential For Chaotic
Fluctuations Is Greater Than Ever". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2016. We are
currently in a transitional phase of geo-political-monetary power struggles,
capital flow decisions, and fundamental economic choices. This remains a
period of artisanal (central bank fabricated) money, high volatility, low
growth, excessive wealth inequality, extreme speculation, and policies that
preserve the appearance of big bank liquidity and concentration at the expense
of long-term stability. The potential for chaotic fluctuations in any
element of the capital markets is greater than ever. The butterfly
effect - the flutter of a wing in one part of the planet altering the course of
seemingly unrelated events in another part - is on center stage.
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The
Shale Defaults Begin Here: Banks Quietly Shrink These 25 Companies' Credit
Facilities. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/05/2016: Here are 25 deeply distressed companies, whose banks
we found have quietly shrunk the borrowing base of their credit facilities
anywhere from 6% in the case of Black Ridge Oil and Gas to a whopping 51% for
soon to be insolvent New Source Energy Partners.
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Keynesian
Economics 101 (In 4 'Simple' Lessons). Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/05/2016:
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POLITICS
Paul
Craig Roberts: The Rule Of Law No Longer Exists In Western Civilization. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016: American
justice is a joke. It does not exist. The USA is a lawless country. By that
we do not mean what conservative Republicans mean, which is, if we understand
them, that racial minorities violate law with something close to impunity. What
we mean is that only the mega-banks and the One Percent have legal
protection, and that is because these people control the government. For
everyone else law is a weapon in the hands of the government to be used against
the American people.
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Enough
Already! It's Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of
History. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016: For more than four decades Washington’s
middle eastern policy has been dead wrong and increasingly counter-productive
and destructive. Washington’s Mideast policy is predicated on the
assumption that the answer to high oil prices and energy security is deployment
of the Fifth Fleet to the Persian Gulf. And that an associated alliance with
one of the most corrupt, despotic, avaricious and benighted tyrannies in the
modern world is the lynch pin to regional stability and US national security. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The House of Saud is a scourge on mankind that
would have been eliminated decades ago, save for Imperial Washington’s
deplorable coddling and massive transfer of arms and political support.
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Cologne
Mayor Slammed For Telling German Women It Is Their
Responsibility To Keep Rapists At "Arm's Length". Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 01/06/2016.
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[ There are many things to investigate on this issue .. if don’t
.. many people will suspect that this is a corporate media set up in favor of xenophobia
and to expel migrants from Germany. ]
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Guns
Don't Cause Suicide. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. Homicide rates in
the United States have been declining for 20 years as the number of
privately-held guns in the US has increased substantially. In some states, such as New Hampshire and Oregon,
which have very weak gun laws, homicide rates are
remarkably low, and these states are among the safest places on earth.
As homicide rates have declined, however, and gun-related homicides with them, gun-control
advocates have attempted to create a new category of "gun violence"
by blaming suicides on access to guns.
New
Gallup Poll – Americans Consider Government A Much Bigger Problem Than Guns. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016:
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How
Corrupt Is the American Government? . Posted by: George Washington
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Miss it files from day 5
"Presidentialism"
Not Serving American Politics Well.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2016: Our system of
Presidentialism may have served us well in the past but its rigidity in the
political process denies the multiple voices that need to be heard in a democracy,
nor offers the required tools for political compromise. Sadly... here
we are, stepping into 2016 with the possible political prospect of having to
elect as chief executive of this nation either a lady with questionable
trust-credentials or a boisterous charlatan.
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The
Carnage Returns: Stocks Tumble After Sharp Chinese Devaluation; Brent At 2004
Lows; Gold Surges. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/06/2016: (blaming N-Korea-test)
North Korea says it tested a hydrogen bomb; Brent crude falls to lowest level
since 2004.
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MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
ISIS
– The Case For Non-Intervention.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. San Bernardino
doesn’t change the calculation. ISIS will eventually collapse under its
own homicidal and parasitical weight, probably with the help of one or more of
its neighbors, whose inactivity and divisiveness we currently underwrite. Then
ISIS will be replaced by something better... or worse... it is impossible to
know in this region. In the interim, we and our European friends
should focus our efforts on isolating ourselves from the madness. And we
certainly should not go out of our way to draw further fire.
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"Pray
For Us": Libya Issues "Cry For Help" As ISIS Advances On Oil
Fields. S.by Tyler Durden on 01/06/16
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Read
The Powerful Saudi Terrorism Article Censored By Al-Jazeera. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016. On December
3rd, a month before Saudi Arabia carried out it largest mass execution since
1980 - subsequently setting the region on fire - Arjun Sethi wrote an
article for Al-Jazeera titled:
Saudi Arabia Uses Terrorism As An Excuse for Human Rights Abuses.
According to Cora Currier at the Intercept: Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar
appear to have blocked the article outside of the United States because
it is critical of an ally of Qatar.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Chinese
Yuan Incorporated into IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR): US Congress Gives In
and Endorses the IMF Quotas Reform
[ Is this really
what China wants?.. IMF is an apparatus of financial frauds and US blackmailing
on emerging economies .. Why to get
inside this trap? ]
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North
Korea Implements “Successful” H-bomb Test [Why not?.. N-Korea was in the list of
countries to be bombarded by the US .. it is still considered a rouge “terrorist”
State .. Memories of the previous war against Korea (3million death) cannot be
wiped out by Law .. Whose Law?.. If we really do not want nuclear proliferation
.. we should 1st stop supporting
the economic base of ISIS in Syria .. and start the negotiations to
dis-assemble the Nuke stock accumulated by the US (the one who used in
Hiroshima & Nagasaky) and in other countries .. if we don’t do it we have
not basis to condemn N-K.]
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Neoliberalism Raises Its Ugly Head in
South America. By Jack Rasmus. What happens in Venezuela,
Argentina, and Brazil in the weeks ahead, in 2016, is a harbinger of the
intense economic and political class war in South America
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How Corrupt
Is the American Government?. By WashingtonsBlog. See For Yourself.
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Saudis Seek Chaos to Cover Terror Tracks.
By Finian Cunningham. The links of Saudi Arabia to terror groups
have been laid bare for all to see.
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Syrian War
- Realism vs. Hope. By Joe Contrarian. In contrast to all the MSM
propaganda, there was never civil war in Syria driven by deep internal
conflicts
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The Debate
on the Imperialist Violence in Syria. By Kim Petersen and B. J. Sabri.
{SIC}
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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El Estado Islámico adopta una nueva
estrategia de guerra con mapa de ataques ISIS J-6-16 https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/196114-estado-islamico-adoptar-nueva-estrategia-guerra
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Pionyang necesita armas nucleares
para protegerse de EE.UU. Por qué los cinco países nucleares pueden contar con bomba de hidrógeno y
no N-Korea?, se preguntan los expertos. E Limonov sostiene que las protestas no
son más que "racismo social" y darwinismo social contra esa nación,
Qué les queda a los norcoreanos viendo el destino de Irak, Libia y Siria",
reflexiona Limonov. Según él : "en los cementerios norcoreanos
descansan los restos de 3 millones de víctimas que dejó la invasión
estadounidense en la península coreana" entre 1950 y 1953, y para no
repetir esa historia es que Corea del Norte desarrolla su programa nuclear. Por que se arman? “para prevenir un chantaje nuclear
por parte de EE.UU.", informó la agencia oficial norcoreana KCNA. Además,
KCNA recuerda que testimonios y documentos secretos recientemente
desclasificados revelaron que EE.UU. tenía planes para atacar a varios países con armas
nucleares, y entre sus objetivos se encontraba Corea del Norte.
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"Se fragmenta el matrimonio
entre EE.UU. y Arabia Saudita" Washington nunca
condeno la violación de los derechos humanos por parte de Riad. Tampoco lo hizo
esta vez, pero la prensa USA lo hizo y el Gbno cedió espacio TV a Riad para que
se defienda. “El "irritante matrimonio" entre EE.UU. y Arabia Saudita
ha alcanzado un nuevo nivel de tensión después de que Riad ejecutara al estilo
del Estado Islámico a 47 personas, entre ellas un prominente clérigo chiita, y
cortara relaciones
diplomáticas con Irán, informa el diario 'The New York
Times'.
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El precio del barril de Brent
alcanza su mínimo en 11 años. Iran, RU y VEN en la mira
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