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ECONOMICS
THE STRUGGLE for
Econ truth continue, most people want it to ..
protect themselves. ... Those in power are against the
current
The US
investment grade corporate bond market has more than doubled in size since
the financial crisis while that expansion was bought by
just two investors – mutual funds/ETF and foreigners.
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Are we in a “liquidity trap?” Maybe. Of course, no one recognized Japan’s problems either until it was far
too late.
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The last
20 years have brought great wealth to a few while
most of the population was lucky to break even. Whether you’re a member of the
elite/protected class or one of the unprotected, it’s hard to deny this reality. Globalization has
created divisions between skilled and unskilled workers. Too few of the gains from growing trade are going to the
unprotected class. They’re angry. We’re seeing this backlash
now in people’s attraction to Trump, who promise to bring jobs back.
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And The
Market Breaks (Again)
Despite a positive open, stocks startd to slide rapidly on heavy volume
with VIX suddenly surging... so what was to be done!! .. Break The Market...
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Despite a modest bounce in Philly Fed headline data - thanks purely to
a jump in 'hope' from 33.7 to 45.8 (the highest in 18 months) - the
underlying components of the Philly fed survey are a disaster. New orders
collapsed, employment crashed to 7 year lows, Average workweek plunged, prices
paid soared, and inventories fell.
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Caterpillar's rolling 3-month retail machine sales dropped by 19% in
July vs the more modest 12% fall in June and May. It also means that, as shown in the chart below, in the
past month CAT retail sales just posed the second largest monthly drop since
the financial crisis.
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Record Saudi output; multiple nations
proclaiming no output freeze; US production up
most in 15 months; rig counts rising...global GDP
growth plunging, China demand tumbling... Brent near $50 and WTI soaring to 6-week highs...
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Under guise of preventing fraud the ECB voted to kill the €500 note. Fraud was not the real reason. The real reason was to make it more difficult for banks to store physical
cash to avoid negative interest penalties... but it's not working.
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"This is the
biggest bond bubble in world history... Everyone is in the dark... the ultimate
breakdown from this environment is likely to be surprising, sudden, intense,
and large."
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In the US the year-on-year trend
for productivity has turned negative . Most central bankers dismiss this fact
as a short-term aberration. But the Japanese economy provides an example of what interest rates at or
near zero can do to a large, developed economy. The answer is not much: not much real growth; not
much inflation - and, together, not enough nominal GDP growth to repay historic debt should yields on
sovereign debt ever return to normal.
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"America
has become crisis prone. The pressure points have been identified, and
provoked. Civil unrest could be triggered on any given day –
police killings, or stock market collapse. Maybe something to do with
elections. After the initial 72 hours of confusion
and the fog of war, people will be left stranded, hungry, and either
ready to turn to government for help or on each other. Holdouts and hoarders
are treated as criminals, and shortages on numerous
essentials will make everyone desperate."
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POLITICS
"Although no documents have emerged, the
attacks have left some Democrats and Clinton campaign officials worried that
the hackers might have obtained emails and voice messages that could be used to reinforce Republican charges that
donors to the Clinton Foundation were rewarded with access to Clinton and her
aides while she was secretary of state or to her husband, former President Bill
Clinton."
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Addiction and drug use are
medical/mental health issues, not
criminalization/imprisonment issues.
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State
Department Admits Obama Lied - $400 Million Payment To Iran Was Contingent On
Prisoner Release
If you define "ransom" as
"a payment exchanged contingent on the release of a hostage" then you
find yourself forced to admit that President Obama lied last week when he
aggressively denied (and was irked at the question) that he paid Iran a $400
million ransom for the return of 4 hostages. Today, The
State Department's spokesperson John Kirby told the
truth that the Iran payment was contingent on the prisoner release... but of course spun this 'ransom' payment as
masterful diplomacy "deliberately leveraging the moment."
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How
The Global Elites Screw Peons (While Media Fools Cheer)
People
are not “mindlessly angry”. They are angry because they have been ripped off by the Fed,
by their governments, and by ignorant media jackasses who are clueless about why there is so much
anger.
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The irony
is that these censors and would-be censors, such as the European Commission, the
Dutch and Austrian courts, Facebook, Twitter are using their freedom of expression to suggest
that someone else be robbed of his freedom of expression.
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This isn’t a case of companies making a profit
because the government has little to no say in regulating what goes on. In any given arms sale, the U.S. government
is involved in the entire process. Yet this is the same
government that claims to passionately care about gun violence domestically
while enabling chaos and destruction around the world.
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
Gold investors around the world
continue to be fooled about Chinese gold demand. For some reason GFMS is restrained
in disclosing that any
individual or institution in China can directly buy and withdraw gold at the
Shanghai Gold Exchange, which is the most significant reason for the
discrepancy in question. According to calculations, true
Chinese gold demand in 2015 must have been north of 2,250 tons.
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S&P Futures Unchanged As Europe Rises; Dollar Slide Sends Oil Above $47
In the latest quiet trading session, European shares rose while Asian
stocks fell and S&P futures were little changed. Minutes of the Fed’s last meeting damped prospects for a U.S.
interest-rate hike, sending the Bloomberg
Dollar Spot Index done 0.3%, approaching
a three-month low. Dollar weakness continues to buoy commodities, with
the Bloomberg Commodity Index set for the most enduring rally in more than two
months, as WTI flirted with $47.
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Under guise of preventing fraud the ECB voted
to kill the €500 note. Fraud was not the real reason. The real reason was to make it more
difficult for banks to store physical cash to avoid negative interest
penalties... but it's not working.
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The reality is that an ongoing destabilization of large portions of the
global economic framework will be used by the elites as leverage to convince
the public that greater centralization is necessary.
[[ Texas already said: if Hillary is elected ..
they will secede .. get away from the
FED. 3
Out 5 Texans Support Secession If Hillary Wins Presidency. Other States may
follow ..] ]
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- World stocks rise, dollar weakens on divided Fed (Reuters)
- U.S. Held Cash Until Iran Freed Prisoners (WSJ)
- Brazil police pull U.S. swimmers from flight amid robbery probe (Reuters)
- Rio’s Latest Headache: Loads of Empty Seats (WSJ)
- Clinton Foundation hired cyber firm after suspected hacking (Reuters)
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Failed
Coup in Turkey, Escalating War in Ukraine, The Battle For Aleppo, Freedom for
Saif al-Gaddafi in Libya By Hugo Turner
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The
Associated Press Smears Trump By Eric Zuesse No 1st time AP slander
& lies to support Clinton
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One
World Governance and the Council on Foreign Relations.“We Shall have World
Government… by Conquest or Consent.” By Joachim Hagopian,
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Concealing
US Lethal Aid to ISIS-Daesh-Al Qaeda Terrorists. West’s Media-Driven Deception
in Syria Falling Apart By 21st Century Wire,
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Former financial
regulator Bill Black explains how this will affect the policy she would pursue
on the TPP, foreign policy, and the environment during her first term
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Henry Giroux tells
Paul Jay that fear is an organizing principle of U.S. society
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Media critic Jeff
Cohen says there should be a full spectrum debate with varying points of view
beyond the two candidates who are at their height of unpopularity
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PERI's Jeannette
Wicks-Lim says race privileges and disadvantages go beyond interactions with
the police and criminal justice system
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Russia and Iran has
now reached a new level and which will have a major impact upon this war. This
is very, very good news.
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The Russians are not
pansies and they are not primitive
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COUNTER PUNCH
This Week on CounterPunch Radio: Green Party VP
Candidate Ajamu Baraka
HOST: Eric Draitser
TOPICS: Contemporary liberalism, corporate imperialism
and so much more!
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For Hannah Arendt,
that consolation meant oblivion and self-deception: ‘he who chooses for the lesser evil all too readily forgets
having chosen evil."
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Lawrence Davidson The
West’s Favored Autocrats
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Ramzy Baroud The
Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East
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Paul Craig Roberts Will
Human Evil Destroy Life on Earth?
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Jane Stillwater Helen
Caldecott: “America Still Thinks It Can Win a Nuclear War”
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Paul Cienfuegos The
People of Vermont vs Monsanto and the Feds
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RT NEWS first and SHOWS after: they restored
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SHOWS
On contact Black
America with Prof. Eddie Glaude
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WASHINGTON BLOG
It’s
Time to Abolish the DEA and America’s “War on Drugs” Gulag Posted on August 18, 2016 by Charles
Hugh Smith
It’s difficult to pick the most
destructive of America’s many senseless, futile and tragically needless wars,
but the “War on Drugs” is near the top of the list. Prohibition of
mind-altering substances has not just failed–it has failed spectacularly, and
generated extremely destructive and counterproductive consequences.
What was the result of the
Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s? Prohibition
instantly criminalized 40+% of the adult populace and created hugely profitable
criminal organizations.
What was the result of the “War
on Drugs”? This modern-day
Prohibition instantly criminalized large swaths of the adult populace and
created hugely profitable criminal organizations.
If you want to increase drug use,
criminalize innocent citizens and spawn gargantuan criminal organizations, then
by all means declare “war” via Prohibition. The results of
Prohibition/War on Drugs are so visibly perverse and so destructive that the
entire enterprise is sickeningly Orwellian.
The well-paid apologists for
Prohibition/War on Drugs claim that imprisoning millions of people “helps” them
avoid drugs. If you think being tossed in prison for a few years
“helps” people, then step right up and accept a fiver (5-year sentence)
in an American prison, which is essentially a factory that produces one
product: people damaged by imprisonment, deprived of their full citizenship,
hobbled by a felony conviction–ex-con beneficiaries of years of tutorials by
hardened criminals.
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Ecologia Qué calidad de agua estás bebiendo? Marion Kuprat. Que
banana y pescado comes? Dificil escapar
al terrorismo transgenico y la polucion del mar. Mas difícil aun aceptar que el
neoliberalismo nos envenena todos los días. Org la lcucha contra las grandes
Corp en cada pueblo, es la respuesta.
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Ellas son guerreras, ellos elegantes Patriarcalismo en la mass-media
de los JJOO
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Aquí preguntar
eso es como decir La tomenta de lluvia moja o no moja?
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Las capas del Estado Islámico de Iraq y Siria
Yasin al Haj Saleh
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PRESS TV
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Don’t blame the victims .. blame you real enemies
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