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[ Thus, worse than Trump, so far.
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.. and similar to Victoria Nuland, her Assistant Sec. of
State
.. the wife of R Kagan, the ideological leader of Neo-cons.]
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
Asset
Management Companies Should Dump Their Own Stock. Submitted by Tyler Durden
on 05/19/2016 : Asset management companies make their living
by deciding where to allocate money to or away from, and when. A number of
these companies are publicly traded and part of an index called the Dow Jones
U.S. Asset Managers Index. Like any other index, the Asset Managers Index can
be tracked and charted. And based on our read of the chart, it might be wise
for these managers to be allocating money away from their own collective
stocks.
The reason for our view is that the Asset Managers Index
was recently firmly rejected by what we would consider major chart resistance
around the 167-168 level.
See image at: http://65.media.tumblr.com/ce5532c9d184f62bba061252187dddab/tumblr_inline_o7e9w2fFlo1sq14jh_500.jpg
3 of the main sources of potential – and once realized
– resistance are the following (on a log scale):
- The underside of the post-2009 Up trendline that was broken on January 6
- The 12-month Down trendline from the all-time highs last May
- The 61.8% Fibonacci Retracement of the May-February decline
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"Sell
In May" Strikes Once Again - S&P, Dow Plunge Into Negative Territory
For 2016 . Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2016 : Once again a late-day miracle
VIXtermination-driven bounce "off the lows" is erased on heavy volume
selling. With the S&P breaking key technical levels, only Dow Transports
remains in the green (up less than 1%) for the year now as Fed speakers pile on
the hawkish tone...
See image at: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/05/18/20160519_YTD1_0.jpg
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Caterpillar
Retail Sales Fall For Record 41 Consecutive Months. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 05/19/2016 : For Caterpillar, the great recession was bad,
for about 19 months. In May 2010, after declining sharply for just under two
years, CAT posted it first positive global retail sales comps and never looked
back... until December 2012 when comp sales once again turned negative and have
been negative ever since. For the past 41 months!
See image at : http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2016/05/13/CAT%20global.jpg
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Initial
Jobless Claims Worse Than Expected, Near 3-Month Highs. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2016 : The downtrend remains 'broken' as the 4-week-average
prints at 3-month highs, catching up to weakness in layoffs, earnings,
macro data, ISM/PMI surveys, and retail stocks.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2016 - 07:42
- Fed Puts June Rate Increase on Table Provided Economy Says Go (BBG)
- European shares drop as mining stocks weaken, airlines fall (Reuters)
- Oil drops below $48 on Fed hike speculation, fading support from outages (Reuters)
- Violent Struggle Over Oil and Money Rattles Global Energy Market (BBG)
- Bayer Proposes to Acquire Monsanto (WSJ)
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POLITICS
If George Orwell envisioned the future as a
boot stamping on a human face, a fair representation of our present day
might well be a muzzle on that same human face.
By
John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,. NICE
ARTICLE. Open http://nd-hugoadan.blogspot.com/ : SHAME ON THE SUPREME COURT FOR MAKING A
MOCKERY OF... for a short version.
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
Malvinas
War 2.0? - Independent Audit Confirms The Falkland Islands Are A Billion-Barrel
Basin Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/19/2016 : (British
company) Falklands oil and gas producer Rockhopper Exploration Plc has
announced that its net contingent oil reserves have doubled to more than 300
million barrels, and independent experts are now eyeing this as nearly
billion-barrel basin. However, Foreign Ministry officials in Buenos Aires
have said the British energy companies would face prosecution for what they
called illegal operations in Argentine territory.
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Greek
Pipeline Breakthrough To Challenge Russian Gas Dominance In Europe. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/19/2016 : After
years of debate, political jockeying and acrimony, a major pipeline project to
bring natural gas to Southern Europe has broken ground. The Trans-Adriatic
Pipeline (TAP) will
connect the Caspian Sea to European markets, providing Europe with another
large source of natural gas that will help the continent diversify away from
Russia. The route begins at the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, where the South
Caucuses Pipeline will carry Caspian gas from the large Shah Deniz-2 gas field,
delivering it to the border with Turkey.
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China
Furious After US Launches Trade War "Nuke" With 522% Duty. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 05/19/2016 : the US unleashed what is nothing short of
a nuclear bomb in its rapidly escalating trade war with China, by imposing
duties of 522% on cold-rolled steel used in automobiles and other manufacturing.
In doing so it has effectively rendered Chinese exports to the US unsustainable
and will force even more excess Chinese production to remain landlocked within
China's borders, making the domestic glut that much worse.
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Oil-For-Drugs
Swap: India's Answer To Venezuela's Unpaid Bills. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2016 : Venezuela can’t pay its millions of dollars
in debt to Indian pharmaceutical companies, say Indian officials, so officials
are considering a proposal that would see the Latin American country swap oil
for its drug debts.
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British
General Says A Nuclear War With Russia In 2017 Is "Entirely
Plausible". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/19/2016 : With
tensions between Russia and the West at post-cold war highs, a former NATO
deputy military chief is now saying that a nuclear war with Russia over the
Baltic nations in 2017 is "entirely plausible." All that's left is a
catalyst, something the US is apparently trying desperately to deliver as
it continues to fly spy planes over Russia's border, and encircles Russia with
troops. If ever either side were to make one small mistake in how they
choose to interact with each other, it could very well lead to nuclear war..
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Yesterday :
NATO
Announces War Policy Against Russia. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/18/2016 : On
May 18th, Britain’s Guardian headlined “West
and Russia on course for war, says ex-Nato deputy commander” and
reported that the former deputy commander of NATO, the former
British general Sir Alexander Richard Shirreff (who was Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe from 2011-2014), expressed outrage that Britain isn’t
urgently preparing for war against Russia, and also reported that "He
describes Russia as now the west’s most dangerous adversary and says
Putin’s course can only be stopped if the west wakes up to the real
possibility of war and takes urgent action
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EU-Turkey
Migrant Deal Unravels Turning Greece Into Massive Refugee Camp. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/19/2016 : The
EU-Turkey migrant deal, designed to halt the flow of migrants from Turkey to
Greece, is falling apart just two months after it was reached. European
officials are now looking for a back-up plan - a confidential plan to house
all migrants arriving from Turkey on Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Migrants
would remain on the islands permanently while their asylum applications are
being processed. The plan, which Bild reports is being discussed at
the highest echelons of European power, would effectively turn parts of
Greece into massive refugee camps for many years to come.
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China
Sends Hawkish Fed A Message - Devalues Yuan Near 2016 Lows. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/18/2016 : The
PBOC sent a message loud and clear to the newly hawkish Fed following today's
surge in the dollar after the minutes were released. With the 2nd biggest
daily devaluation since the August collapse, China pushed the Yuan fix
against the USD down to its lowest since early February - barely above the
January lows. As we
warned earlier, the China-Panic trade looms loud now as turmoil
appears all that is left to stop The Fed unleashing another round of
liquidity-suckiong rate hikes sooner than the market wants.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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COUNTER PUNCH
Get a ticket to
attend the SUPER BOWL OF
CITIZEN ACTION.
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Eric Draitser. Hillary
Clinton’s Race Problem
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Pepe Escobar . Is
China a House of Cards?
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Richard Foster. The
Humane Society and the Greenwashing of the TPP
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George Payne, With
or Without White People, Black Lives Matter
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on May 19, 2016 by Charles Hugh Smith
Is anyone else fed up with the Federal Reserve? To paraphrase Irving Fisher’s famous
quote about the stock market just before it crashed in 1929, we’ve reached a
permanently high plateau of Fed mismanagement, Fed worship and Fed failure.
The only legitimate role for a central bank is to provide
emergency liquidity in financial panics to creditworthy borrowers. Once the bad debt (credit extended to
failed enterprises and uncreditworthy borrowers) is written off, the system
resets as asset valuations adjust to reality–how ever unpleasant that might be
for the credulous participants who believed the ever-present permanently
high plateau shuck and jive.
Just to state the obvious: Fed
policies are not just insane, they’re destructive:
— Bringing future sales/demand forward by lowering interest
rates to zero just digs a gigantic hole in future sales/demand. Funny thing,
the future eventually becomes the present, and instead of a brief recession of
low demand we get an extended recession of weak demand and over-indebted
households and enterprises.
— Enabling massive systemic speculation by those closest to
the Fed’s money spigot is insane and destructive, as capital is no longer
allocated on productive returns and risk but on the speculative gains to be
reaped with the Fed’s free money for financiers
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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America’s
& NATO’s Outrageous Behavior, Greatest Threat that Exists. Posted on May 19, 2016 by Eric Zuesse.
On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current
Secretary General — the very top person — laid out
in preliminary form the case for war against Russia, which presumably
will be presented in more detail at the NATO Summit to be held in Poland on 8-9
July this year.
There is nothing in international law that justifies our unilateral
military ‘challenge’ to China’s presence” there, in that area which
is contested between five countries: China, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and
Brunei. The American government, which has no authority to speak for
the entire world regarding international law — of which the U.S. itself
has been perhaps the most frequent violator during the past 16 years — isn’t
“policeman of the world,” certainly not judge and jury and executioner (well,
maybe executioner) of the world, but instead it’s merely an aspiring
global thug: “The Pentagon declared on 10 May that China’s
‘excessive maritime claims are inconsistent with international law as
reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention in that they purport to
restrict the navigation rights that the United States and all states are
entitled to exercise’.” Cloughly points out that the U.S. “refuses to
ratify the Law of the Sea Convention — while ordering every other country to
abide by it.”
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Trump has a 45-42 percent edge
over Clinton, if the
presidential election were held today.
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Bernie Sanders has a 46-42
percent advantage over Trump in a hypothetical matchup.
Why would Sanders win?
For one thing –
unlike either Clinton or Trump – people believe he’s truthful and on the
straight-and-narrow. As Fox notes:
Clinton has a net negative
honesty rating of -35 points.
That’s because a new low 31 percent say she’s honest, while a record 66 percent
say she isn’t.
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