martes, 30 de agosto de 2016

AUG 30 16 SIT EC y POL



AUG 30 16  SIT EC y POL


ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS



To the academics, “gloom” is irrational and thus requires translation into math to become somehow backwards explanatory for why the economy that “should be” isn’t. In the actual economy, “gloom” is properly called reality. In this world, people know all-too-well that jobs disappeared during and after the Great Recession and never came back. No amount of asset price manipulation can possibly make up that difference. This math is finally welcoming economists to that long run, a place their patron saint, Keynes, said didn’t exist.
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In the market, extreme optimism results in price bubbles. One of the real-life manifestations of extremely positive social mood is the construction of enormous buildings. Market tops and skyscrapers often seem to emerge simultaneously, because both phenomena are the result of the illusion of infinite prosperity. But extreme psychological conditions do not last very long...
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Sinking food prices, while good for the consumer, is devastating for almost everyone else in the supply chain from the farmer all the way to the grocers.
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While central banks assure the population that there is nothing to worry about when it comes to paper money, which may or may not soon be banned if certain Harvard economists have their way, they have been quietly accelerating their withdrawals of gold from the biggest centralized depository of global gold in the world: the New York Federal Reserve.
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  • Eequity Capital Markets volume is down ~50%, we’re in our 10th straight month of down y/y volume
  • PE funds are doing more selling vs IPO'ing lately and block trades are 3x their normal percentage of secondary volume as sellers look to take the money and run 
  • Several industries (like energy, biotech/health care and parts of technology) have been lesser participants
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Four years ago we first exposed the dismal fact that in the U.S., for the lowest income American Dreamers, work is punished. Sadly, the situation has grown worse as buying votes amid a burgeoning welfare state has left millions in the so-called 'low-wage-trap' leaving Americans teetering on the welfare cliff.
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UBS' Paul Winter believes we are witnessing the end of the credit cycle - earnings growth rates are flat, and the stock market impact has been increasing. Importantly, from a risk perspective, Winter warns that Systemic Risk is rising, and Economic Policy Uncertainty has hit all-time highs, warning that the key risk today lies in low-volatility stocks and the broad market's equity risk premia - "either earnings need to pick up dramatically, or alternately, equities would need to correct by around 20% to bring the equation back into equilibrium."
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QE was never a cure but simply a means to extend and pretend just a bit longer. Could it be the pretending and extending have hit some sort of limit and the Fed fears the next Fed administered "cure" may kill the patient?
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For the first time since Feb 2012, S&P CoreLogic's 20-City Composite price index declined for 3 straight months (dropping 0.07% in August, in line with expectations). The non-seasonally-adjusted annual growth rate of home prices rose just 5.13% - the slowest since since Aug 2015. San Francisco and San Diego showed the weakest growth of the 20-City composite while Portland and Seattle rose the most MoM, and Atlanta and Chicago saw the largest declines in price MoM.
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Central banks can only do one thing, and that's provide monetary welfare for the wealthy. Wake up, America. The only way to stop widening wealth and income inequality and kick your smack addiction is to eliminate the pusher.
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POLITICS


"It is literally amazing how an individual so crooked, so duplicitous, and with so many chargeable offenses can actually stay in the running for the presidency of the United States."
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IS THE JUSTICE SYSTEM POR SALE?

With hundreds of millions poured into presidential and congressional campaigns in the U.S. it's hard to know just how much "influence" you're "buying" in those races...that's why George Soros is instead "investing" millions into races of district attorneys which "exercise the greatest discretion and power in the system."
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The San Francisco police union sent a scathing letter to the CEO of the 49ers and the NFL Commissioner regarding Kaepernick's comments...apparently they don't like being called racist murderers with less skill than a hairdresser
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Pursuant to a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, Hillary has 30 days to respond, under oath, to these 25 questions from Judicial Watch.
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"The Clinton Foundation has become a symbol of the Clintons’ laudable ambitions, but also of their tangled alliances and operational opacity. If Mrs. Clinton wins, it could prove a target for her political adversaries. Achieving true distance from the foundation is not only necessary to ensure its effectiveness, it is an ethical imperative for Mrs. Clinton."
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In yet another email chain not disclosed to the FBI, Clinton Foundation donor, Abigail Disney, makes a very specific request directly of then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. 
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The processes that fueled the economic growth over the last 30 years are now beginning to run in reverse, and when combined with the demographic shifts in the U.S., the impact could be far more immediate and prolonged than the media, economists and analysts are currently expecting...It is simply a function of the math.
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They’ve tried to solve the debt crisis by printing trillions of dollars of more debt, and somehow they expect the economy to grow under the weight of those burdens. We’re just borrowing new money to pay back old money. I would say that we’re in the late stages of Ponzi finance.”
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We’re passing through an unprecedented period in history, in which quite a few of those nations that were once the most prosperous; the most free; the most forward-thinking, are all headed downward at the same time, and for the same reasons. Hence, we shall in the near future be observing the removal from the gene pool of nations many of the most powerful (and formerly most desirable) countries.
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THE BIG COLLECTOR of truth without power to do nothing about


With more records to be released tomorrow, AP reports another nail in the coffin of Clinton honesty today as The State Department is forced to admit that The FBI has discovered dozens of emails related to Benghazi that Clinton failed to hand over.
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ME & WORLD ISSUES


Yesterday, the White House announced that the US had met President Obama’s goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country; it did so ahead of schedule.  So where are they going: the top state destination for refugee influx are the states of Michigan and California.
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DEMOCRACY NOW


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GLOBAL RESEARCH


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THE REAL NEWS NETWORK

TRNN goes inside a FARC camp to hear why they have fought an insurgency for over 50 years against the Colombian government
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Citizens for Tax Justice's Richard Phillip: Congress needs to act to close loopholes that allow 'tax inversions' that allow corporations to avoid nearly all federal taxes
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The Brazilian oligarchy is on the cusp of achieving its major objectives through the parliamentary coup says James Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University
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COUNTER PUNCH


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SPUTNIK NEWS.com


'Much of Trump’s Racist and Populist Thinking' Comes Straight From John McCain  http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160831/1044798503/trump-racist-populist-thinking-comes-mccain.html
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Truth Hurts: McCain's Institute Responds to Russian 'Undesirable' Listing
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160831/1044798503/trump-racist-populist-thinking-comes-mccain.html
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Transatlantic Trade Deal on the Rocks as France, Germany Urge Pullout  http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160830/1044773030/ttip-hollande-gabriel-trade.html
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Sectarian Bloodbath: Washington Has Opened Pandora's Box in Syria  http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160830/1044790836/us-syria-sectarian-war.html
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US at Pains to Calm Tensions Between Its Allies in Northern Syria  http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160830/1044785246/us-kurds-turkey-syria.html
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Two Birds With One Stone: US 'Sacrifices' Its Kurdish Allies in Syria
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160830/1044785246/us-kurds-turkey-syria.html

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Erdogan Calls Putin as Russia Seethes at Turkey’s Syrian Incursion Russia furious at Turkish move to set up rebel “safe zone” inside Syria to assist Jihadi rebels there, putting the recently announced “normalisation of relations” between Russia and Turkey in jeopardy. In the immediate aftermath of the Turkish capture of Jarablus in Syria Turkish President Erdogan telephoned his “friend Putin” on Friday 27th August 2016. 
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RT SHOWS


Keiser Report  Episode 960  Max and Stacy discuss complacency and the “mother of all shorts,” as those who sicken of the calm,...
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Keiser Report  Episode 959  Max and Stacy discuss the door opened to lesser evil as journalism collapses and neoliberalism dies. In the second half, Max interviews economist Sandeep Jaitly about negative rates, private placements, and..
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WASHINGTON BLOG


By Chris Hedges

Bishop George Packard, right, holds a banner with fellow protesters as they block an entrance to a gas pipeline construction operation in Montrose, N.Y. The banner reads, “We Say No to Spectra’s Algonquin Pipeline Expansion.”  The bishop and eight others were later arrested. (Erik McGregor)

Chris Hedges is on vacation and will return to writing his weekly Truthdig column on Sept. 5. While he is on break, we will republish some of his past columns. This one originally appeared Nov. 15, 2015.

MONTROSE, N.Y.—It was 6:30 in the morning and George Packard, dressed in a dark suit, a purple clerical bib and a clerical collar, was at church. Or, rather, at what has become church for the retired Episcopal bishop, activist and highly decorated Vietnam War veteran.

Packard stood with 20 other protesters on a chilly morning Nov. 9 to block two roads leading to the staging area for Texas-based Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline project. After an hour, he and eight other protesters were arrested by New York state police.
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH


Bolivia frente a sí misma  Pablo Stefanoni
Nada que ver con intereses nefastos del imperio?
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No se necesita muro que ya existe .. lo que Trump necesita es borrar
su pecado original: lo dicho para ganar audiencia en la xenofobia GOP.
Pecar de palabra es grave en política.. Hillary peco en los hechos .. su
gula desmedida, su lealtad con terrorism Saudis e Israeli la condenan
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Lo que lograron es desgastar la vigencia de la Ley, y cuando eso ocurre,
Lo que viene es la insurrecion armada .. Se espera apoyo del ejecito a favor
de la Ley -como ocurrió en Ven- para definir la victoria de la Nacion contra
los usurpadores del poder y su corrupto legislativo. Entonces habrá paz.
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Endeudamiento y genocidio La política indígena de Estados Unidos R R
Los pilgrims les arrabataron sus tierra y riquezas y ese terrorismo aun
continua y es mayor con el Fracking de petroleros que arrebatan aguas
además de los terrenos que por Ley les fueron reconocidos.
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Feminismos Mirando para otro lado Carolina Vásquez  No hay solo dos
lados, y el más importante es el sello clase social que los envuelve.
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Opinion  Una libertad nada libre Marcelo Colussi Que libertad es libre?
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Ojala aun queden militares nacionalistas frente al imperio agresor
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Turquía   El sultán en su laberinto atropello dentro a su propio pueblo,
lo dividió mas y cree que la guerra “antimperial” lo salvara. No es mal
suenio o utopia, es distopia finita en el tiempo y relativa en el espacio,
por tanto condenada al fracaso, aun si temporalmente ganó adeptos.
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Ecuador  -¿Para quién es el Estado? J Báez Ridicula P pero merece Resp
Para la clase social que lo captura y al que debe servir, por supuesto.
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COL   “Mi compromiso con la lucha sigue intacto”  Esto si es real Fem,
feminismo desfeminizado en estándares rupestres: Lo dijo asi :
Alexandra Nariño, guerrillera holandesa de las FARC”, la entrevistada.
Y lo dice también Dilma Rouseff en Brasil, y sin arrodillarse al imperio.
Ambas merecen nuestra admiración, respeto y apoyo incondicional.
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Es una lucha contra la corriente como el salmon en los ríos del Ande
Al final llega a su destino y deshova. Vence. El guerrerismo imperial
Esta condenado a la derrota. Aquí en los EE.UU vemos esa derrota
todos los días en los ex -soldados pidiendo limosna en las calles y
en noticias hoy más frecuentes sobre suicidios de soldados in service.
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PRESS TV


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Is what the paid-media by Clinton said
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He already won the war in the ME, nothing to talk.
Just make sure that ISIS & allies are totally destroyed
& make sure they are well check on possible suicide bomb
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Just an incredible humanistic move for a little kid,
In time when kids are using for war propaganda.
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Is the escalation of bombing Syria by NATO and France allies
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This copy-cat reveal lack of creativity in Hillary’band
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Is Europe’ fear to imperial terrorism that is at stake
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US-Russia ‘clarity’ on Syria  Clarity on nothing.
They don’t accept the fact they are defeated.
NATO need there a serious final blow.. then clarity prevails
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