JAN 8 17 SIT EC
y POL
ZERO HEDGE, BLOOMBERG & WS-J
ECONOMICS
Taken
together recent economic data paint a picture of a global economy that’s
finally returning to the kind of solid growth and steady, positive inflation
that most people consider both normal and good. Unfortunately, the
reason for the improvement is emphatically not good: In 2016 the world
borrowed a huge amount of money and spent the proceeds. The result is “growth,”
but not sustainable growth.
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In December 2014, as gas prices had plunged over 20% YoY, Janet
Yellen proclaimed "from the standpoint of the U.S... the decline we've
seen in oil prices is likely to be, on net, a positive," and
that narrative of slumping gas prices being "unequivocally good" for
Americans was spewed everywhere across linear-thinking mainstream media. So we wonder, with
gas prices up 22% year-over, the fastest spike since 2011, is that
"unequivocally bad" for America?
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Talk about conflicted. Just ask yourself WHY
Wall Street spends BILLIONS of dollars each year in marketing and advertising
trying to keep you invested at all times. Since optimism is what sells products, it is not surprising, as we
head into 2017, to see Wall Street’s average expectation ratcheted up another
4.7% this year.
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“Investor appetite for U.S. equities is
seemingly insatiable,” said David Santschi, chief executive officer of
TrimTabs. “U.S.
equity ETFs have had inflows on all but six trading days since the U.S.
presidential election, and the buying volume has been by far the strongest
we’ve ever seen.”
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"We will wait for unambiguous signs of bullish
investor Positioning, bullish Profit expectations & hawkish Policy from
Fed/ECB, as well as outperformance from laggard risk assets in 2016, before
calling for The Big Short."
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Suddenly the coolest thing in corporate America is announcing major
capital investments in the US while adding thousands of American jobs, in other words the opposite of the globalization trend of the
past 30 years, in yet other
words, doing precisely what Donald Trump demands.
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POLITICS
Dear Senator McCain: If meddling in foreign governments is an act
of war, you are personally involved, with tremendous blood on your hands.
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Reince Priebus spoke on Fox News Sunday and said Trump understands that
Moscow was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations. "He accepts the fact that this particular case was
entities in Russia so that’s not the issue" and added that Trump "is not denying that entities in Russia
were behind this particular hacking campaign."
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Trump
still hasn’t - now just days before entering the White House - reversed himself
regarding his intention to improve relations with Russia. Becoming even more hostile toward Russia is
almost a unanimous goal of the U.S. aristocracy. They’re thus rebelling against
him, in their ‘news’ media, and they won’t stop trying to cripple his
Presidency unless and until he relents on this, turns around, and continues,
ever-hotter than before, their (under Obama, increasing) ’Cold War’ against
Russia.
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Excuse us for wanting to point out the
obvious, but sometimes the obvious gets
very lost in the web of narratives spun by the master narrator inside the White
House. Forgive us, but are we not losing the idea that the only
narrative that really matters is that all of the information 'leaked' was obtained through a simple fishing
e-mail sent to John Podesta. See their own words here...
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NOT TIME, NOT SPACE
FOR HER IN REAL DEMOCRACY
Just days after rumors
emerged of Hillary Clinton potentially running for New York City mayor, Hillary Clinton confidante Neera Tanden told
CNN thatshe doesn't expect Clinton to run for New York City mayor... or
anything else, ever again.
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DOES HE KNOWS TOO
MUCH? .. WHOSE TERRORISM?
Federal prosecutors filed court documents on
Saturday charging Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting suspect Esteban Santiago with
carrying out an act of violence at an international airport resulting in death
- a charge which carries a maximum punishment of the death penalty. Meanwhile,
it emerged overnight that a firearm seized from Santiago by the FBI and
Anchorage police was returned to him in December after he was found not to be
mentally ill.
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
The volatility in the Chinese currency has gone
from the sublime to the ridiculous. After exploding 21 handles stronger in the biggest PBOC-engineered
short-squeeze in history - erasing the entire post-election
sell-off - offshore Yuan is now collapsing once again, down 350 pips tonight
(and over 10 big figures from
Thursday's highs). While interbank rates have calmed down, the rush to
exit the currency has not...
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While Russia continues to mostly mock and
ridicule, and generally take in good humor the constant allegations by the
Obama administration that it "hacked the election", China's reaction
to a similar accusation has demonstrated far less sense of humor.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Enemies
of the State: How The Financial Services Industry Is Destroying Democracy By Graham Vanbergen,
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
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As a CIA spy, I have faked
intelligence, lied to government leaders, and managed a modest false flag
operation.
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Shai Masot is recorded discussing how to
discredit MPs.
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
Donald Trump Accepts Russia’s Role in DNC Hacking - Aide
https://sputniknews.com/us/201701091049383169-trump-accepts-intelligence-conclusion/
https://sputniknews.com/us/201701091049383169-trump-accepts-intelligence-conclusion/
Related
Treason? McMullin Says Trump Acts on Behalf of Russia
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201701091049382211-mcmullin-trump-foreign-agent/
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201701091049382211-mcmullin-trump-foreign-agent/
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'Embarrassment': How Foreign Journalists Reacted to Report on
'Russian Hacking'
https://sputniknews.com/world/201701081049367385-journalists-report-russia-hacking/
https://sputniknews.com/world/201701081049367385-journalists-report-russia-hacking/
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Netanyahu Caught on Tape Offering Favors in Exchange for
Better Coverage
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201701091049382932-netanyahu-offers-favors-publisher/
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201701091049382932-netanyahu-offers-favors-publisher/
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People's Bank of China Weakens Yuan Against Dollar by 0.87%
Monday
https://sputniknews.com/business/201701091049385075-china-weakens-yuan-dollar/
https://sputniknews.com/business/201701091049385075-china-weakens-yuan-dollar/
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RT SHOWS
On contact Strategies
of resistance with Michael Gecan
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on January 8, 2017 by WashingtonsBlog
By Joe Giambrone, Political Film Blog.
Democrats and their apologists have proven to be far more
pathetic than previously witnessed. A quasi-fascist nationalism has
erupted, and the blind rush to conflate Donald Trump with Russia has expanded
the envelope of delusion.
What is it they claim now? And
based on what actual evidence?
The CIA floated a conspiracy theory to undermine Trump in
the Electoral College, a Hail Mary pass after the election upset. Yes, a
conspiracy theory, the dangerous kind that puts nuclear-armed nations at each
other’s throats.
“And yet, there is skepticism
within the American government, particularly at the F.B.I., that this evidence
adds up to proof that the Russians had the specific objective of getting Mr.
Trump elected.”
What’s more, that’s still the case!
“Officials reiterated that there is no single intercepted
communication that qualifies as a ‘smoking gun’ on Russia’s intention to
benefit Trump’s candidacy or to claim credit for doing so.”
“Reiterated” because the message is clearly not getting
through the solid wall of hysteria.
That plain truth is clearly the opposite of the propaganda
blitzkrieg we have just witnessed, from Saturday Night Live to the usual
suspects at the foundation-funded left-leaning propaganda complex, those
“gatekeepers.” Nor to the nation’s political cartoonists, who have led the
charge to conflate Trump with Vladimir Putin, even though none of us has seen a
single shred of credible evidence. The propaganda tsunami has been so
voluminous that it’s difficult to recall a previous comparable situation. Only
the false ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ bamboozle comes to mind, and we know
how that worked out; don’t we?
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The U.S. government has now generated numerous news stories
and released multiple “reports” aimed at persuading us that Vladimir Putin is
to blame for Donald Trump becoming president. U.S. media has
dutifully informed us that the case has been made. What has been made is the
case for writing your own news coverage. The “reports” from the “intelligence
community” are no lengthier than the New York Times and Washington
Post articles about them. Why not just read the reports and cut out the
middle-person?
The New York Times calls the latest report “damning
and surprisingly detailed” before later admitting in the same “news” article
that the report “contained no information about how the agencies had collected
their data or had come to their conclusions.” A quick glance at the report itself would have made clear to you that it
did not pretend to present a shred of evidence that Russia hacked emails or
served as a source for WikiLeaks. Yet Congresswoman Barbara Lee declared the
evidence in this evidence-free report “overwhelming.” What should progressives
believe, the best Congresswoman we’ve got or our own lying eyes?
Supposedly the evidence has been made public and is
overwhelming, but try to find it and you’ll come up dry. Ask why, and you’ll be
told that of course the evidence cannot be made public as that would
risk revealing how the U.S. government came upon the information. Yet the same government feeds the U.S. media with the
story that it intercepted communications of top Russian officials just after
the U.S. election celebrating Trump’s victory. Did that story not run that
risk? The U.S. government feeds the U.S. media (specifically the “free” press
of the Washington Post whose owner makes more money from the CIA than
from the Washington Post) that Russia has hacked Vermont’s electrical
supply, and — because this was a claim that could be checked by an independent
party — the secret methods of the CIA quickly turned out to be these: they had
simply made the thing up.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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