JAN 24 17 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE, BLOOMBERG & WS-J
ECONOMICS
GLOBAL CONTEXT: N.1
No difficult economic terms, no tough charts, just simple math...we've gone over the cliff but somehow haven't
realized it quite yet.
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N.2
Mainstream media are reporting that
Japan has become the biggest holder of the US treasuries, surpassing China last
month. However, this is true only in regard to single countries, as The EU became the top US Treasury holder in February 2016,
i.e. one year ago. Unfortunately, the EU’s holdings are artificially
overstated because of some financial havens and they are going in the opposite
direction to the trend: up rather than down.
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Panorama interno:
EL TITANIC USA a la DERIVA… sin timón ni capitán.. Solo el
crash podría decir que aún existe
The
last month has seen the lowest trading range for The Dow since 1900...
And as
realized volatility has collapsed...
The
Dollar and Yields decoupled today...
The USD
Index flip-flopped around all day... having tumbled to the lowest levels since
The ECB meeting in December...
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SEE ALL IMAGES AT THIS WEB-SITE:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-24/trillion-dollar-plan-sends-stocks-record-highs-volatility-hits-record-lows
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The US
Dollar and rates have decoupled for the first time since the election: As
RBC highlighted by rates continue to see "reflation" bets placed,
while Dollar longs look to be scaling-back/"selling the
inauguration."
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President
Trump’s initial emphasis on renewing the US manufacturing base is largely
symbolic. Even if his administration were to successfully use tax
incentives, protectionist measures and immigration policies to re-patriate
factories and labor, and even if government were to spend big on fiscal
stimulus, it still would not solve the
structural leverage problem facing the US economy.
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After two weeks of large crude and gasoline
builds, API reported bigger than
expected builds in crude, gasoline, and distillates (and smaller than
expected draw in Cushing) which sent WTI prices tumbing, crossing back below the $53 Maginot
Line once again.
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You've heard the axiom "History repeats
itself." It does, but never in exactly the same way. To apply the lessons of the past, we must
understand the differences of the present.
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To
economists, free trade means the absence of government interference with
trade: no tariffs, quotas, subsidies, or other interventions, explicit or
implicit. To politicians,
"free-trade" means a complex set of managed trade policies. "In
truth," as Rothbard noted, "the
bipartisan establishment’s trumpeting of 'free trade' since World War II
fosters the opposite of genuine freedom of exchange."
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According to the latest, just released
quarterly Capital One financial report, the US taxicab industry may be on the
verge of collapse as the NPL rate of
the company's Taxi Medallion loans exploded from 38.8% to over 51% in just one
quarter.
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POLITICS
[[ “The demonstrations of
defiance last Saturday, showed we
are two nations now, two peoples, two
Americas in the North”. TRUE:
In one side are the mafias of buyers and sellers of stolen wealth –the parasites
of Wall Street-, those who assaulted our democracy during the elections of2016..
with two corrupted parties .. financed by
super-packs , n anonymous foundations. They paid a bunch of polit mercenaries called
super-delegates… this is the tiny part of
America –the 1%- who now control the political
power. We call them “oligarchy”. In the
other side is the people, the nation, the working classes, the small business
man or middle classes.. all of them with debts up to their neck .. and the
young people with not future inside the obsolete neoliberal system .. those are
the repressed people by the police in the streets; those are the ones daily harassed,
extortionate by debt collectors send by bankers,
big pharma and other corp owner of their health and their life. These are the two nations, two peoples whose interests are
totally different. Those are the ones who went to streets to say to Trump
that he don’t represent us. Now is clear that him and la dama Clinton represent
the oligarchy, the small sector of the society that corrupted & destroyed the rests of
our democracy in 2016. These demonstrations are the
continuation of people struggle for real
democracy. The nation has said that they are ready to continue the
struggle.. “All wrong things you do, the nation will
put it down”. That will happens, not matters
what and how.. They will find the means. That is for sure. ]]
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President Barack Obama had an average approval rating of 47.9% during his
time in office, according
to the Gallup poll. That puts him behind Richard Nixon, who resigned, and George W. Bush,
who saw his approval rating drop as low as 25% near the end of his term.
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The
growth of US military power has rarely, if ever, been the result of legitimate
concerns about defensive strategy, let alone about the national welfare. Instead,
it’s more often a consequence of a waste, corruption, and imperial ambition
that together have produced the modern military-industrial complex.
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Trump's orders are said to involve restricting
access to the United States for refugees and some visa holders from Iraq, Iran,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, said the aides and experts, who asked
not to be identified.
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
"It is a frightening reality that the U.S. now has a Commander-in-Chief
who has demonstrated ignorance of the nuclear triad, stated his desire
to be ‘unpredictable’ with nuclear weapons.. and has suggested that he would consider
launching nuclear attacks against terrorists.. it is essential for the standard [of checks and balances] to be
applied to the potentially civilization-ending threat of nuclear war."
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Despite today's expected decision by the UK
Supreme Court, which ruled that Theresa May has to put the Brexit decision to a
vote in parliament, the government announced that the decision would not
adversely impact its Article 50 timeline. So what happens next? Here is a quick
recap of next steps in the Brexit saga
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Trump
Kills TPP … Wins Praise from Bernie Sanders, Labor Leaders and Other
Progressives By Washington's Blog
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
"This is China’s response to threats pronounced by the
new US president, Donald Trump.
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CIA are permitted to
use weapons of war to kill anyone whom they deem to be worthy of death
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It matters little
whether a liberal democrat or an autocratic republican sits in the White House.
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The prosperity he is
promising can only come about through a consistently peaceful foreign policy
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COUNTER PUNCH
Sharmini Peries - Michael Hudson Developer
Welfare: Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
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Melvin Goodman Trump
at the CIA: the Orwellian World of Alternative Facts
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Pepe Escobar Will
Trump Hop on an American Silk Road?
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Kenneth R. Culton Violence
By Any Other Name
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
Corruption Investigation: Israel’s Probe of Netanyahu Widens https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201701251049975423-israel-corruption-netanyahu/
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Vast Majority of Americans Back Trump’s Blast Against Washington Establishment https://sputniknews.com/us/201701251049978609-america-supports-trump-against-establishment/
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US Navy Prepares to Fire 150-Kilowatt Laser Gun From Sea Vessels https://sputniknews.com/military/201701241049973978-us-navy-prepares-laser-gun/
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Changing NAFTA Provisions May Result in Mexico’s Withdrawal
From Deal https://sputniknews.com/latam/201701251049978355-nafta-changing-result-mexico-quit/
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RT SHOWS
On contact President
Obama’s legacy with Glen Ford
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Keiser
Report Episode 1023
Max and Stacy present
their own ‘dodgy dossier’ handed to them on social media which shows central
banks were forced into enabling the destruction of the global economy and
financial system.
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News with Ed Schultz labor leader Leo Gerard, United
Steelworkers international president, joins RT America’s Ed Schultz to discuss
Trump's withdrawal from TPP
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on January 24, 2017 by Charles
Hugh Smith
As noted yesterday in The
Collapse of the Left, the working class has finally awakened to the
Left’s betrayal and abandonment of labor in favor of the protected privileges
of the elitist Establishment. I also described the Left’s Great
Con:
To mask the collapse of the
Left’s economic defense of labor, the Left has substituted social justice
movements for economic opportunities and security.This has
succeeded brilliantly, as tens of millions of self-described
“progressives” now parrot the Great Con that “social justice” campaigns on
behalf of marginalized social groups are now the defining feature of
Progressive Social Democratic movements.
This diversionary sleight-of-hand
embrace of economically neutered “social justice” campaigns masked the fact
that social democratic parties everywhere have thrown labor into the churning
propellers of globalization, open immigration and neoliberal financial policies–all
of which benefit mobile capital, which has engorged itself on the abandonment
of labor by the Left.
Meanwhile, the fat-cats of the
Left have engorged themselves on capital’s largesse in exchange for their
treachery. Bill and Hillary Clinton’s $200 million in
“earnings” come to mind, as do countless other examples of personal
aggrandizement by self-proclaimed “defenders” of labor.
But it isn’t just the Left’s fat-cats who have feathered
their own nests while denigrating the Working Class with arrogantly
contemptuous scorn: the entire protected, privileged
“liberal” elitist Establishment has responded with a very illiberal outrage
that their protected, privileged skims and scams might be endangered by an
uprising of the loathed and ridiculed Working Class that they reckoned would
remain safely cowed and conned.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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Re-Posted on January 24, 2017 by WashingtonsBlog
Originally published in 2014.
Big Oil Is Gaming the System to Raise
Domestic U.S. Prices
Bloomberg notes:
Completion of the entire [Keystone]
pipeline would raise prices at the pump in the Midwest and
Rocky Mountains 10 to 20 cents a gallon, Verleger, the
Colorado consultant, said in an e-mail message.The higher crude prices also
would erase the discount enjoyed by cities including Chicago, Cheyenne and
Denver, Verleger said.
CNN Money reports:
Gas
prices might go up, not down: Right now, a lot of oil being produced
in Canada and North Dakota has trouble reaching the refineries and terminals on
the Gulf. Since that supply can’t be sold abroad, it reduces the competition
for it to Midwest refineries that can pay lower prices to get it.
Giving the Canadian oil access to
the Gulf means the glut in the Midwest goes away, making
it more expensive for the region.
Tyson Slocum –
Director of Public Citizens’ Energy Program – explains:
How does bringing in more oil supply
result in higher gas prices, you ask? Let me walk you through the
facts. A combination of record domestic oil production and anemic domestic
demand has resulted in large stockpiles of crude oil in the U.S. In particular,
supplies of crude in the critical area of Cushing, OK increased more than 150%
from 2004 to early 2011 (compared to a 40% rise for the country as a
whole). Segments of the oil industry
want to import additional supplies of crude from Canada, bypass the surplus
crude stockpiles in Oklahoma in an effort to refine this Canadian imported oil
into gasoline in the Gulf Coast with the goal of
increasing gasoline exports to Latin America and other foreign markets.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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EE.UU. Trump: el discurso y el plan de verdad Andy Robinson
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COL
La sordera y ceguera del Estado tenía metas
ahora claras: Preparar brutal invasión paramilitar contra
todos nuestros asentamientos
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- China instala misiles intercontinentales en la frontera con Rusia
- China dice estar dispuesta a dirigir el mundo si fuera necesario
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Keiser
report 1023 ¿Llegan malos tiempos para los
banqueros centrales?
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PRESS TV
US
silent on new Israeli settlement units Sign of complicity
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The war won’t solve anything.
La Guerra nuclear es nuestro suicidio seguro.
No habrá 1st strike ni invasión a Russia. Lo
que habrá es bombardeo simultáneo.
China apunta directo al imperio con sus
sub-nucleares y su poder misilero I-C.
Nuestro pueblo no está preparado para la guerra.
El patio trasero tampoco lo esta
La reacción aquí será contra la Oligarquía. Con
Trump perdemos cualquier guerra
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Europeans
sleeping under blanket of-smog
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Trump
signs orders advancing oil pipelines
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