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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
In the
weeks since Donad Trump was elected president, US financial stocks (and energy
companies) have soared with all eyes on Dow 20k. However, across the world's
capital markets, investors have lost a combined $1.2 trillion in debt and
equity values, as the bond losses have outweighed stock gains dramatically
(especially post-Fed). The question is - what happens next?
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Bottom
line: Resale prices are down 1% from 2006 but the monthly payment is 32%
greater and annual income needed to qualify for a mortgage 68% more.
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Expectations
were for more inventory draws in total crude levels (and another build in
Cushing), but API reported a considerably larger than expected 4.15mm draw in
overall crude inventories. Both Gasoline and Distillates saw notable draws and
Cushing built for the 4th week in a row (but less than expected). WTI crude
kneejerked higher on the news...
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They're giving it all they've
got!! Bob Pisani said that Dow 20,000 was "inevitable.. we'll do it at
tomorrow's open"... VIDEO url: https://youtu.be/bT8CRi9k4bo
They
did their best - breaking the market and slamming VIX three times - but just
couldn't make it... Record Highs though still (13 points shy of 20k)
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"Whatever’s going to happen is going to happen between now and early 2018,
because that’s their window of time to create enough chaos and desperation in
order to convince people, to rationalize the idea of switching to a
global currency system. After that, I would expect there would be a process of
acclimating the public to this new system, and I would expect that a lot of countries would be in third world conditions for a
while after that."
VIDEO url:
https://youtu.be/UYbRmVXZpnA
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It’s the same story every time: Imbalances
build up during a recovery but most
investors ignore them because good times have become the new normal and the
uptrend seems bullet-proof. Then things fall apart and everyone wishes
they’d paid attention to history.
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POLITICS
The
never-Trumpers are never going to surrender the myth that Russian President
Vladimir Putin ordered the hacking of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John
Podesta and the Democratic National Committee to defeat Clinton and elect
Donald Trump. Their investment in the myth is just too huge.
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"History is replete with the tales of empires that sought to gobble up the
world - to subject all people to the whims and dictates of one central
government. Never has this been truer than
today, when so many American leaders have touted the supposed necessity of a
“One World Government” or “New World Order” in which the US reigns
supreme."
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While the market, and various pundits and
economists have been mostly focused on the still to be disclosed details of
Trump's infrastructure spending aspects of his fiscal plan, "one of the
least talked about but possibly most important tax shifts in the history of the
United States" is, according to DB, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s and
President-elect Trump’s “border tax adjustment” proposal.
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According to just released Census data, in 2016
the U.S. population grew at the lowest rate since the Great Depression, while
the state of New York shrank for the first time in a decade. The biggest loser,
again, was Illinois which shrank for a third consecutive year, losing 38,000
people, mostly from the Chicago area.
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
The pro-government
Yeni Safak newspaper announced the murder of the ambassador with a headline
saying, “Great
sabotage.” The daily said “The
pro-FETÖ assassins of the CIA have been mobilized” in order to
ruin Turkish-Russian relations. “It is stated that the
US has begun open attacks [against Turkey] over FETÖ,” said the daily.
[ IF Obama’s CIA section is involve in this terrorism .. not
only his life is in danger.. There will be a tit for tat .. what goes around
comes around.. like a boomerang .. Nobody knows how & when the retaliation
will take place… All we know is that US targets abound ..]
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In January, the US Army in Europe is due to deploy a total of 4,000 American troops and
around 2,000 military vehicles on a rotational basis to Poland, Romania,
Bulgaria and the Baltic nations. NATO forces will move to the Baltic States in
early spring. In an overtly provocative
move, an American battalion will be stationed in Poland near the border with
Kaliningrad, Russia’s Baltic enclave.
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"The diagnosis is simply that Italy has become woefully uncompetitive, and
as a result, is not solvent. This much is clear from the perilous state
of its banking system, which is always the outcome when banks lend to firms
that have been rendered uncompetitive by some reckless central banker..., This has to be the most well-telegraphed, and
now inevitable, national bankruptcy that I have seen in my 45-year career."
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Binding
Legislation Required to Restrict Authority of the US President to Order Nuclear
Strikes against Non-nuclear-weapon States
By Global Research
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Silencing
the Truth? The Mainstream Media Declares War on the Alternative Media By Timothy
Alexander Guzman,
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COUNTER PUNCH
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
Life in Liberated Aleppo Goes On, Traces of Militants'
Presence Seen Everywhere https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612211048813876-life-aleppo/
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Russian Ambassador Murder Caused by 'Propaganda of Aleppo Liberation Opponents'
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612201048810612-ambassador-murder-aleppo-liberation-opponents/
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Russian Ambassador Murder Caused by 'Propaganda of Aleppo Liberation Opponents'
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612201048810612-ambassador-murder-aleppo-liberation-opponents/
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SHOW RT
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on December 20, 2016 by Charles
Hugh Smith
The mainstream media continually
hypes the authority of “experts,” i.e.
people with a stack of credentials from top institutions.
But does the mainstream media
ever check on whether the “experts” got anything right? Let’s compare the “experts” (conventional PhD
economists) diagnoses and fixes with the results of their policies.
Let’s stick to the big issues:
inflation, productivity, near-zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), employment and
“growth”. If you get these wrong, you get the entire economy wrong.
If you can’t get the big issues right, your “expertise” has
failed: your “expertise” is not just worthless, it’s counter-productive,
because if common-sense policies had been put in place instead of the
“experts'” fixes, we’d have made progress rather than digging a deeper hole.
1. Inflation.
Conventional “experts” believe inflation has been near-zero for the past decade
and will continue to be near-zero as far as the eye can see.
Did they get this right? No.
Households exposed to healthcare, higher education and rental expenses have
seen staggering increases in costs for the same (or diminished) services. In
other words, the purchasing power of their earnings has plummeted.
If we measure these “Big Ticket”
items, we find inflation rates of 100+% over the past decade. I laid
this out in detail in The
Burrito Index: Consumer Prices Have Soared 160% Since 2001
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Muerto el TPP, ¡viva la
liberalización! Luciana Ghiotto y Evelin Heidel
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Aguien dijo que son las menstruaciones
de la globaliz neoliberal, .. lo que alarga vida al sistema
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El intelectual frente a la política Jaime Richart
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Golpistas y asesinos son los mismos y ya
fracasaron .. lo que vendria es la limpieza de estos
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PRESS TV
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