FEB 27 17 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE. ECONOMICS
"It’s
like the Federal Reserve is Wayne Gretzky’s poorly coordinated older brother.
Instead of skating to where the puck is going, the Fed can’t even skate to
where the puck is, and is instead busy skating to where it has been."
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It appears
David
Stockman's warnings over the looming debt ceiling debacle has sparked some
investors to face up to reality once again. The Treasury-Bill yield curve has inverted
further and swap spreads soared to five-year highs.
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Buy the
Trump-speech rumors?
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What
we have is a bunch of sclerotic, dying institutions and systems resisting
anything and everything that threatens to disrupt the status quo.
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Against
expectations of a 0.6% rise, pending home sales in January plunged 2.8% MoM -
the biggest drop since May. As mortgage rates have soared since the election,
affordability has become a major issue according to NAR with pending home sales
at the lowest in a year.
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"Still
long stocks. Still short bonds," David Tepper told CNBC and mused
rhetorically "why are stocks and bonds acting differently? It's as if
they're reacting to two different economies."
Close up this looks even more divergent.
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"One
man alone cannot make 'America great again'. That you have to realize,"
warns Marc Faber, the editor of "The Gloom, Boom, & Doom Report,"
reminding the world that the US stock market
is vulnerable to a seismic sell-off that won't be caused by any single
catalyst. His argument: Stocks are very overbought and sentiment is way too bullish
for the so-called Trump rally to continue.
Faber, a supporter of
President Donald Trump, isn't blaming the new administration for his bearish
forecast:
"Trump,
unlike Mr. Reagan, is facing huge, huge headwinds — including a debt to GDP
that is gigantic, as it is in other countries."
Faber lists rising interest rates and record earnings and
margins as additional risks to the historic rally.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record level for a twelfth consecutive session today with
the S&P 500 to see the fewest declines in February than in any month since
May 1990.
Faber says that
resource commodities such as copper and gold would probably bring the traders
solid profits this year.
“When you look at Trump and his administration,
and the way the budget is, I think
further money printing down the line is inevitable,” he said,
stressing that such a policy could push commodities
even higher.
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A look at why the grain commodity farmers of
the U.S. are locked in a vicious cycle of a perpetually oversupplied market.
See all charts at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-27/baml-explains-why-ag-economy-isnt-likely-get-much-better-2017
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"No one wants to see a gas tax, but you’ve got to get the money from somewhere..."
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Welcome to 'Landlord Land'. The housing market
is "starkly different than a
decade ago..."
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POLITICS
Story tale of a Poor
baby deceived and raped by his pedophilo father ..
So, we’re demanding
the monster be killed and the pure baby
be loved.
Does Trump’s
sainticity be the main plot & actor for next Hollywood’ Oscar?
A Pentagon panel known as The Defense Science
Board, told the Trump administration that they need to remake our nuclear arsenal into a force that is capable of engaging in a
"limited" nuclear war. There’s only one problem with the idea
of engaging in a limited nuclear war.
It simply can’t be done.
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With the new Administration just over a month
old, we are seeing both hopeful and
discouraging signs of how the
Trump foreign policy is playing out...
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
China’s top economic planner has launched an
investigation whether speculation has distorted commodity futures prices, due
to concerns that the recent rally will drive inflation higher.
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Fake
News Alert: CNN Finally Admits “White Helmets” Staged Fake Video vs. Oscar’ charade
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Military Industrial Complex Wins
White House Calls for $54B Bump in
"Defense" Spending, Sharp Domestic Cuts By Alex Guillén, Sarah Ferris and Jeremy Herb. We don’t need Trump anymore
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COUNTER PUNCH
Norman Pollack Political
Castration of State: Militarization of Government
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Lawrence Wittner Why
Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
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Andrew Stewart Down
with Obamacare, Up with Single Payer!
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
HNC: 'We Believe Russia, They Can Play Major Role to Solve Syrian Problem' https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702281051099273-hnc-russia-syria/
RELATED
Pentagon Declines to Confirm Russia Included in Anti-Daesh Fight Plan https://sputniknews.com/world/201702271051090165-pentagon-daesh-strategy-review/
The war in Syria was won by Sy-Ru-Iran.. it need to be
re-affirmed at whatever cost
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Trump Wants More - US Has More Weapons, Spends More Cash But It’s Not Enough https://sputniknews.com/military/201702281051098895-trump-military-expenses-more/
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Oscar for White Helmets: Hollywood Gave Credibility to 'Terror-Affiliated' Group https://sputniknews.com/us/201702271051090677-oscar-white-helmets-terror/
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RT SHOWS
On contact Assault
on the Arts
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SophieCo US
intel agencies deliberately sank Flynn, don’t care about national security –
ex-CIA officer
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Planning WW3 ?
Posted on February 27, 2017
by Eric Zuesse.
On February 27th,
Reuters headlined “Trump
seeks ‘historic’ increase of 9 percent in U.S. military’s budget” and
reported that “Trump will ask Congress to boost Pentagon spending in the next
fiscal year by $54 billion in his first budget proposal and slash the same
amount from non-defense spending.”
The U.S. Department
of Defense is one of the 15 U.S. Cabinet departments,
the others being: State, Treasury, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce,
Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development,
Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs (which is entirely
‘Defense’-related and so their budget is actually an essential part of
America’s military expenditures), and Homeland Security (which is another
essential military expenditure).
In addition, there
are 16 intelligence agencies within a federal “black budget,” whose combined
expenditure, when that was reported by the BBC headlining on 30 August
2013 “US
intelligence agencies’ ‘black budget’ detailed”, was “$52.6bn in total
for 16 intelligence agencies, according to the files” that had been “disclosed
by leaker Edward Snowden.” As the Washington Post had first reported it the prior day:
“The $52.6 billion
‘black budget’ for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from
former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic
and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny.
Although the government has annually released its overall level of
intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the
money or how it performs against the goals set by the president and
Congress.” In addition, there was reported “a separate $23 billion
devoted to intelligence programs that more directly support the U.S.
military.” So, a grand total spent on ‘intelligence’ in that year was $75.6
billion. And, actually, none of it has “been subject to public scrutiny.”
‘Defense’ and ‘intelligence’ are the only portions of the U.S. federal
budget that have never “been subject to public scrutiny,” as will here be
explained.
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One way to understand the rising sense of disintegration
and discord around the globe is to realize that those systems that aren’t busy
being born are busy dying–and virtually none of our primary systems are
busy being born.
The line is from Bob Dylan’s song It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding): “he not busy being born is busy dying.”
What does busy being born mean? For both individuals and systems, it means adapting
by advancing understanding, flexibility and capabilities.
Systems that are dying are rigid,
mal-adapted, resistant to change, obsessed with obscuring their failure and
retaining their grip on cronyist privilege and power. Big Pharma: dying. Banking: dying. Governance, a.k.a.
political processes: dying. Enforced consensus: dying.
Those slices of the economy that
are exposed to competition and innovation have a choice: adapt or die.
Everything that is protected by monopoly–private-sector cartels, government,
government-managed sectors such as Big Ag, Big Pharma, Military-Industrial
Complex, Higher Education and the entire intelligence agency alphabet soup–are
focused on maintaining their grip on power.
“Adaptation” for
those systems busy dying has been reduced to limiting transparency, PR
campaigns aimed at diverting attention from their rackets, devoting resources
to protecting their cronyist skims, desperately clinging to the status quo and
fighting off innovation that threatens to disrupt their rackets.
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PRESS TV
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Pro-Russians
threaten to seize ..
enterprises in east
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