FEB 15 17 SIT EC
y POL
ZERO HEDGE. ECONOMICS
The
idea that the entrenched political establishment is willing to take these risks
to further their political agenda is frightening.
The Keynesians and the
Capitalists are heading for an economic showdown at the O.K. Corral.
Keynesians believe the central government should control the
economic levers affecting the masses. The economy can’t be entirely left up to
the free market. Big government believers want the “leaders” determining the
winners and losers. Controlling reallocation of wealth preserves the power of
the political class. Using tax dollars to garner votes has turned into an art
form.
George Bernard Shaw
said, “A government that robs
Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
US Governmentspending.com “guesstimates” 2017
spending on welfare and Medicaid will top $1.127 trillion. While the welfare
class grows, Peter is working his butt off and sees a lot of his hard earned
money wasted.
Is the economy better?
Not according to 24/7
Wall Street’s article, “Happy Holidays, You’re Fired: List of Companies Laying People
Off.” The list includes Boeing,
General Motors and market bellwether Caterpillar (49 straight months of
declining sales). Others point to Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, Sears, and Macy’s closing
stores and laying off workers.
The Labor Force Participation Rate contradicts Mr. Krugman’s
full employment claim. It’s historically low and the trend is going down.
Economically President Trump can
do everything right and still be run out of town like Jimmy Carter. The battle
is on for the hearts and minds of the American public. Who will prevail? The
outcome will set the direction of our country for decades.
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3 CHARTS THAT SHOW HOW FAKE IS OUR BONANZA.. or "melt up"
Intraday,
March rate-hike odds hit 46%, seemingly surging off "off the table" levels
before the week began...
Surging inflation,
plunging real wages, jumping mortgage delinquencies, and record crude and
gasoline inventories... then Trump drops the 't' word [TAX cuts for big corp] and the market
melts up...
Then we saw this: VIX-S&P decoupling is growing wider...
And the Dollar Index
began the day rising for the 11th straight day - the longest winning streak
since 2012 - but after spiking higher on surging inflation, the USD tumbled all day (weak
IP, weak mortgage?)
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"I’m worried that this stock ‘melt-up’
move is extraordinarily mechanical right now - almost entirely the
aforementioned forced-covering, not high conviction induced-buying - and may be
sending a 'false signal' which is potentially dragging-in new buying on the
breakout to new highs. This
could lead to a scenario where a market can 'collapse under their own
weight'."
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After dumping a record $405 billion in US
Treasuries in the past 12 months, the liquidation by foreign central banks
ground to a halt, and in December, foreign official institusions added $19
billion in US paper: the biggest monthly purchase in two and a half years.
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POLITICS
"From 1998 through 2016, the defendants helped smuggle approximately 20
tons of cocaine through [Miami Airport]..."
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For 60 years the labor force participation rate of 25-54 year old men
in America has declined. There are many reasons for this existential decline,
but Philly Federal Reserve President Pat Harker
explained today during a Q&A session that he is concerned that more 25-54 year old men are out of the workforce and
blamed "drug abuse" for the problem. Of course, this is
not the first time Fed officials have claimed 'drug abuse' as an excuse for the
failure of their policies.
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"Certainly someone in the
1960’s would never believe that the United States would have these issues, but we’ve ignored them far too long... When we look at
this dam, which is a highly regulated
dam, a dam more highly regulated than almost any others.
They had an emergency spillway filled with trees. They had a principle spillway
that was in the process of failing and had been for years. So, if this can exist on one of the most highly regulated dams
then one can just interpolate and imagine what the rest of the situation is
like."
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
Their agenda may be on the rocks in the United
States at the moment, but that doesn’t mean
that the globalists are giving up.
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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The
Neocons and the “Deep State” have Neutered the Trump Presidency, It’s Over
Folks! By The Saker, F
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
While Elites Played Empire, America Fell
Apart By Charles Hugh Smith
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Barf Alert President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu
Joint News Conference Video
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COUNTER PUNCH
David Krieger The
Nuclear Weapons Threat to Our Common Future
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Joseph Grosso It’s
Getting Late Early: the Left and the Working Class
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ADRIAN KUZMINSKI The
End of the Republic and the Coming of the Neo-Kinship World
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS International
News
Tired of Freeloaders? Pentagon Chief Gives European Allies Ultimatum https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702161050727143-mattis-gives-nato-allies-ultimatum/
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Russia, India Yet to Agree on S-400 Battalion Numbers to Be Delivered – Rostec https://sputniknews.com/military/201702161050730440-russia-india-s400/
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Astana Talks to Focus on Syria Truce Monitoring - Kazakh Foreign Ministry https://sputniknews.com/asia/201702161050730024-astana-mfa-syria-ceasefire/
Related
All Options Considered in Possible Talks Between Syrian Gov't, Opposition https://sputniknews.com/politics/201702161050729885-astana-syria-talks-opposition/
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Signs of internal division inside the deep-state. Can T. change members of US Intelig- appar?
US Intelligence Withholding Sensitive Information From Trump for Fears of Leaks https://sputniknews.com/us/201702161050730293-trump-security-intelligence-information/
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First Daesh Tank Attack in Iraq May Indicate Existence of 'Vile Criminal Racket' https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201702151050693204-daesh-iraq-tank-attack/
Related
Daesh Launches First Ever Tank Attack on Iraqi Militia, but Gets Crushed https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201702131050618263-daesh-tank-attack-iraq/
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Chinese Commerce Ministry Expects National Economy Growth to Exceed 6.5% in 2017 https://sputniknews.com/asia/201702161050730818-china-economy-growth/
Related
Message to Trump: EU to Hold Free Trade Summit With China https://sputniknews.com/business/201702161050725191-eu-china-trade-summit-hastened/
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RT SHOWS
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WASHINGTON BLOG
FACT: FOSIL FUEL ENERGY IS THE WORSE KILLER & POLUTER OF OUR
TIME
It is much worse than nuclear power energy , if nuclear
disposal is planed
Posted on February 15, 2017 by WashingtonsBlog
Nuclear lobbyists and some scientists are under the mistaken
impression that nuclear power is virtually carbon-free, and thus must be
pushed to prevent runaway global warming. (If you don’t believe in global
warming, then please forward this to your friends, family and colleagues who
do.) But this is a complete and total
myth …
A former Commissioner for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission says that building nuclear plants to fight global warming is
like trying to fight global hunger by serving everyone caviar. More information here, here and here.
Dr. Mark Jacobson – the head of Stanford University’s
Atmosphere and Energy Program, who has written numerous books and hundreds of
scientific papers on climate and energy, and testified before Congress numerous
times on those issues – notes that nuclear puts out much more pollution (including
much more CO2) than wind power, and 1.5% of all the nuclear plants built have
melted down. Jacobson also points out that it takes at least 11 years to permit
and build a nuclear plant, whereas it takes less than half that time to
fire up a wind or solar farm. Between the application for a nuclear plant and
flipping the switch, power is provided by conventional energy sources …
55-65% of which is coal.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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El escándalo de Brasil se vuelve internacional Raf
Custers
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EC
Ent. a Lenin Moreno, candidato presid
Por el buen vivir del pueblo ecuatoriano, la
integración y el cambio de matriz productiva
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Tricontinental: “Pueblos del Tercer
Mundo al asalto del cielo” "El internacionalismo no es una opción
sino una necesidad" Alex Anfruns y Raffaele Morgantini
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ARG
¿por qué nos inundamos? El desafío no es cómo sacar el agua,
sino cómo retenerla (resumen)
Ricardo Luis Mascheroni
Ricardo Luis Mascheroni
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Médico español asegura que la causa
principal de cáncer son los alimentos con agroquímicos
Matilde Moyano
Matilde Moyano
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[[ Barking to wrong
tree .. ese árbol puede caer.. y el día que ocurra .. todos harán leña con él y con sus ramas (o acólitos)
.. Una parte de la oligarquía financiera lo apoya .. la otra podría bajarlo.
Ninguna de ellas es alternativa para el Sur. Urge armar los comandos
antimperialistas del Sur .. y articular apoyo a Mov sociales anti-imperio.]]
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EC. El auto-golazo
de los banqueros Sergio Martín-Carrillo La elección está clara: votar por la banca o votar
por el modelo económico al servicio de las mayorías. Votar por un
gobierno plutocrático al servicio del gran capital financiero o votar por un gobierno ciudadano.
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Publican por primera vez fotos
únicas de Marilyn Monroe embarazada El clan
Kennedy mato a dos.
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[[ Al toro hay que enfrentarlo de frente ..
tomarlo por las astas.. no por la cola. .. Quien quiera sacarlo del poder tiene
que sacarlo muerto o morir en el intento. .. Lo demás es blah-blah .. Esta Trump con
la soga al cuello?.. Yo no lo creo. Y si así fuera.. quien le jale la silla,
tendría que estar muy cerca de él.. yo no lo veo aun. Ese es el problema de sus “admiradores” (a la inversa). Es muy difícil predecir esa
caída. Yo personalmente no creo que la caída de T. será súbita… Si creo que va a cometer errores graves .. y está
ocurriendo.. y esto puede determinar su aislamiento interno en el deep-state ..
entonces si habrá quien jale la silla. Por lo pronto, aun goza de simpatía arriba y abajo.. por eso
T. puede aun bailar sobre la silla. El asunto de fondo es.. que se ganaría con la caída súbita de T.?.. Subiría el VP, otro aliado de los war-mongers de Israel ..
Esto es: Nada cambiaria. Por eso creo en un
proceso político de org de masas
orientadas hacia una estrategia post-neoliberal. Y esto supone 1ro luchar por
la paz, contra el armamentismo y las guerras imperiales a nivel mundial. El
desmantelamiento nuclear .. es una causa común que puede unir a muchísimos hoy,
dentro y fuera del país. Por aquí hay que empezar. De este mov popular podrían
nacer las brigadas internacionales contra el neoliberalism.]]
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PRESS TV
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Is
Bibi tapping into Trump’s mental illness?
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Palestine
affirms two-state solution commitment
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‘Pay
up for US support,’ allies told Mattis in Brussels
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Israel has them & is ready to use it to stole Oil from
Iran
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