MAR 12 17 SIT
EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE. ECONOMICS
"You can’t build a wall to keep the robots out..."
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Looking at the most recent CFTC Commitment of
Traders report, BofA makes two notable observations ahead of what may be a
volatile week between the Fed's 25bps rate hike announcement on Wednesday, just
hours after the Dutch General Election, and on the same day as the US debt
ceiling expiration hits.
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Preparing the bed for FED-coin
1-
Bitcoin
is once again trading above the price of an ounce of gold as Friday's
collapse in the virtual currency - after the SEC's decision to deny an application for a Bitcoin ETF - has now been erased...
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2-
In the latest week, loan growth for Commercial and Industrial loans
unexpectedly tumbled to just 4.0%, more than 50% lower than the 10% pace it was
growing one year ago. This is
the lowest pace of loan growth since July of 2011 and has prompted the WSJ to inquire "who
hit the brakes?"
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Just as everyone was finally accepting the idea of deflation and
negative interest rates, inflation decides to pay a return visit. But what comes next?
The US increased its federal government debt by over $1
trillion, presumably spending the proceeds on things that raise wages or
increase the demand for commodities.
Since there’s no way for the
growth of global production to match this blistering pace of new money
creation, the result is higher prices for just about everything. Oil
and most other industrial materials are more expensive, wages are rising,
long-term interest rates (the cost of money) are up; you name it, it went up in
the past year.
What comes after a debt-driven
spike in inflation? History is pretty clear on this one:
instability, as rising interest rates spook the fixed income markets and rising
business costs spook stock speculators. Toss in global political upheaval as
populism (the inevitable result of previous bad policies) sweeps the globe, and
the “Great Moderation” of the past year – which was as it turns out just a
bunch of clueless people borrowing a ton of money – will give way to something
a lot more interesting.
The only amusing part of what’s coming will be the disarray
among the economists and politicians who have been advocating a higher
inflation target, as if a modern economy is a thermostat that can be dialed up
and then back down by an omniscient homeowner. As Jim Rickards likes to say, it’s not a thermostat, but a nuclear reactor that
can, if allowed to get too far out of balance, go critical.
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"It is surely one of the primary reasons why many if not most people have so much
trouble accepting the trouble the economy is in... despite asset
price levels and even record debt, all those prove is just how disconnected those places
have become from what used to be an efficient way to redistribute financial
resources."
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The hard
lesson learned during the past few years is that due to technological
advancements, U.S. shale oil producers can lower their breakeven prices and
challenge OPEC’s market dominance.
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"Only lowering our living standards will achieve sustainable growth...
Debt, energy consumption, housing affordability or superannuation – it’s all based on a
financial system that’s in fact a completely fictional model. This model
was always doomed to fail – eventually."
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POLITICS
"...the Republican replacement plan, which removes all taxes on individuals who don’t buy insurance,
and all penalties on employers who do not provide insurance to their
employees, will actually
make the problem far worse."
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
"China lowered its growth target again. As the World Bank warned
that today’s strong global upswing in confidence and financial markets are not
enough to pull the world out of a “low-growth trap.” If they’re right, we’re surely headed for
depression."
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We have entered a season where leaders all over the globe feel a need
to rattle their sabers, and many fear that this could be leading us to war. Will Trump be able to show that he
is tough without going over the edge and starting an actual conflict?
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
'Witch Hunt’: Dems 'Hope Find Anything Allowing Start of Impeachment' https://sputniknews.com/us/201703121051509909-witch-hunt-dems-trump/
RELATED
Democrats Seek to Delegitimize Trump to 'Distract Attention From Their Failure' https://sputniknews.com/us/201703071051353831-democrats-seek-delegitimize-trump/
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Aquí la
razon por que RU no bombardeo tanques Turcos que invadieron Syria .. Me
pregunto: que negocio impediría que bombardeen a invasores USA en Syria ..
hacerlo restauraría fe en ellos… Que eso nos pone en peligro WW3?.. no
lo creo.. MAD prevalecera.. y el chantaje nuclear desaparecera.
Turkish Stream: Prospects of Delivering Russian Gas to Europe Bypassing Ukraine
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201703121051509396-turkish-stream-prospects/
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German Interior Minister Speaks Out Against Turkish Campaigns
Nadie los quiere en Europa.. Cerdogan podría desplazar allí cientos de terroristas .. El prob de
fondo: NATO y sus guerras. Hay que salir de esa cloaca; desmontar NATO ..-sin
esta muleta no camina el cerdo ni el payaso de Kiev- .. Hay que afirmar relaciones
con Ru-China.. La Merkel tuvo buenas intenciones pero la fallo la derecha: UE
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Urge
poner límites al irresponsable aventurerismo militar USA.. un ligero error y
estalla WW3
Security Tensions Rise as US Pushes THAAD Missile System on South Korea https://sputniknews.com/asia/201703121051509691-thaad-missile-security-tension-rises/
RELATED
'Difficult to Stop': THAAD Deployment in S Korea 'Undermines Diplomatic Trust' https://sputniknews.com/world/201703081051367491-south-korea-thaad-system-deployment/
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RT SHOWS
On contact Plight
of the underclass with Linh Dinh
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Documentaries Wounded
Landscape & Bloodworth:
An innocent man
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on March 12, 2017 by WashingtonsBlog
Government employees swear an oath to uphold and defend the
Constitution. Intelligence workers are
no different …
And yet former CIA counterterrorism officer and former
senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kiriakou writes:
One of the things that most
observers don’t understand is that the CIA will do anything – anything – to
survive. All CIA officers are taught to lie. They lie all the time, about
everything, to everybody. And they justify it by trying to convince themselves
that they are doing it in the national interest, for national security. From my
very first day in the CIA, it was drilled into me, as it is into every other
employee, that “the primary mission is
to protect the Agency.” That was the mantra. Indeed, the CIA is a rogue agency. So is the NSA.
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Posted on March 12, 2017 by Charles
Hugh Smith
When do the unlimited powers of
the Intelligence/Security agencies threaten America’s domestic and global national
interests? The CIA and its
political enablers claim the agency’s essentially unlimited powers, partially
revealed by Wikileak’s Vault 7, pose no threat to America’s interests,
since they are intended to “defend” American interests.
This is the rationale presented
by neocon CIA allies in both political parties: the CIA can’t possibly threaten America’s
interests because the CIA defines America’s interests.
This is the wormhole down which
civil liberties and democracy have drained. It
is an extraordinarily defining moment in American history when the director of
the FBI publicly declares that there is no such thing as “absolute privacy” in
the U.S.
In effect, privacy is now
contingent on the level of interest the Security State has in the private
conversation/data. If we read the
U.S. Constitution, we do not find such contingencies: civil liberties are
absolute. Post-1790 presidents have temporarily mooted civil liberties in time
of war, and the CIA-led camp of the Deep State has justified its unlimited
powers by effectively declared “a state of war is now permanent and enduring.”
So what’s left to defend if
America has become the enemy of civil liberties and democracy, i.e. become a totalitarian state ruled by Security
Services and their political henchmen and apologists?
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Cerdogan got what he wanted: people support for change
Constit to get re-elected.. rest is comedy
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Diplomacy
in East Asia Korea-China
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