martes, 14 de marzo de 2017

MAR 14 17 SIT EC y POL



MAR 14  17  SIT EC y POL 


ZERO HEDGE.  ECONOMICS


For the first time since prior to the election, HYG (the high yield corporate bond ETF) has broken below its 200-day moving average...


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History is full of examples of debt bankrupting dominant superpowers, going all the way back even before the ancient Egyptians. This time is not different. Debt is a ticking time bomb. And in this case, given the widespread consequences across the world, the bomb is nuclear.
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Ni los de arriba se salvaran

Bank of America's internal credit and debit card data for February showed something very troubling: spending at Department stores just plunged the most on record, even surpassing the collapse during the financial crisis.
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Despite a massive rally in the stock market, Illinois public pension liabilities continue to grow. GARS, the Illinois General Assembly Retirement System, is only 13.52% funded, down from 17% funded in 2013. How long can GARS last?
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By an overwhelming 56-13 margin, the Idaho House of Representatives today voted to end all Idaho taxation on precious metals, e.g. gold and silver coins and bars.
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"With growth momentum nearing its peak and rates increasing further with a hawkish Fed, the asymmetry for equities is turning increasingly negative. This also means more vulnerability to potential shocks, e.g., from European politics, US policy, commodities and China. Given the asymmetry for equities is getting worse, we downgrade equities to Neutral for 3m."
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"This is what we've been warning about since last year, and now we are watching it unfold..."
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Despite Obama's efforts to establish "Income Driven Repayment" plans for student debt (which more or less simply defers principle repayments until some point in the future when they can be taken over by taxpayers), a record amount of student debt fell into default in 2016...shocking.
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As we sit here waiting to see whether the Federal Reserve does, or does not, raise interest rates; one thing is becoming clearer: This time – it’s different.
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High teck kill jobs


A problem for the U.S. shale oil and gas industry that analysts and observers have warned about for a long time has materialized: there is a shortage of workers.
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What’s different this time around is that the deep state bureaucrats have apparently decided to sabotage what they undoubtedly believe to be the usurper in the White House. To this end, they’ve been draining Trump’s bank account rather than borrowing the money to pay Uncle Sam’s monumental bills.
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Not paraphrasing the Onion, BofA then goes on to say that "this extreme buy-the-dip mentality is helping crush equity volatility, with S&P 3M realized vol now at a meager 6.6% and in the 3rd percentile since 1928."


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Official poll .. lying now?


In the latest weekly Gallup survey, 48% of Americans say the economy is getting better, and 45% say it is getting worse. That compares with 54% and 39%, respectively, the prior week. As a result, the economic outlook component of Gallup's index fell to +3 from +15.
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The Trump Range Chart  here we have a quasi- alternative to official poll


In today’s case, the enthusiasm of pro-growth fiscal initiatives are destined to collide with decades worth of ill-advised economic policies and political obstacles. As such, we created the Trump Range Chart to gauge the market’s faith in Donald Trump’s ability to effect real economic change.

How To Read The Charts  here only extracts, get the source below to read full article

The data in the Trump range chart above is shown in a format that is quite different from what is commonly used to illustrate market changes. This format provides an easy way to view relative performance across a broad number of indexes and securities. It is intended to be a meaningful supplement and not a replacement to the traditional charts most investors review on a routine basis.

The base time frame captured by the graph reflects the market move for each index or security since Election Day, November 8, 2016. This change is represented by the 0% to 100% on the left hand axis. The 0% level reflects the intra-day low of the security since November 8 and the 100% level the intra-day high. For more clarity on the prices associated with the range, see the table below the chart for each respective index.

The (red/blue) bar reflects the price range of the past month relative to the base time frame.  The black “dash” within the 1-month bar reflects the previous week’s closing level (PWC) and the red dot highlights the closing level on the “as-of” date in the top left corner.

The diagram below isolates the chart and data for the Russell 2000 to further illustrate these concepts.


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POLITICS


Over the weekend we noted chatter that some saw Mike Pence as "the Deep State's insurance policy," and now, judging by tweets from Wikileaks' Julian Assange, .. that may well be the Clinton/Intelligence Officials plan...
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Those urban regions that pursue decentralized, networked, localized solutions will prosper. Those urban regions that pursue the hierarchical, one "solution" fits all, high-cost bureaucratic model of central states will sink into the same cesspool of corruption, cronyism, sclerosis and failure to adapt that characterize central states.
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The real story here is that there is no story: what MSNBC confirmed is that Trump made more money than some of his accusers said he made, and that he paid a generous effective income tax rate, well above that paid by Mitt Romney.
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The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere.
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"We do believe that having a Republican in the White House…negatively impacts gun sales in that it effectively eliminates any threat of new gun regulation for the foreseeable future."
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WORLD ISSUES and ME


Europe, so many years after the Cold War, is ideologically divided into a new East and a West. This time, the schism is over multiculturalism. What Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has termed "liberal babble" continues to govern Western Europe's response to the challenges that migration and Islamic terrorism have brought, especially to personal security.
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Having sent crude oil prices tumbling overnight by admitting they cheated on OPEC production cuts, Saudi officials are desperately trying to unwind that faux pas by claiming the over-production was purely for domestic storage. The problem with this "explanation" is that Saudi deliveries to China soared in January...
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DEMOCRACY NOW


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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE


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Letter to My Friend in Damascus  By Barbara Nimri Aziz  Sy-Ru has to wipe-out US troops.. L-D matter
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When 'Disinformation' Isn’t Truth   By Robert Parry half truth + half  truth = lie
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In Case You Missed It "Rebuilding America's Defenses" – A Summary By Bette Stockbauer
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In Case You Missed it  America Is A Bully. OK. There, I Said It!  By Tom Feeley
America's democracy has been subverted, not by communists or terrorists, but by our choices.
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COUNTER PUNCH


Russell Mokhiber  The Time for Single Payer Has Come (So Why is Bernie Sanders Still Hawking ObamaCare?)  because he is an stupid masoquist : the Dems party buried him.. n he is still there..
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Robert Fisk  Trump’s Kind of Immigrants: White Canadians! Trump es un racista hasta el tuetano
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Chris Wright   Communism and Human Nature
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS


Buscandole 5 patas al gato sabiendo que tiene 4. He did fraud: pretexto hipocrática
White House Says Stealing, Publishing Trump Tax Returns ‘Totally Illegal’  https://sputniknews.com/us/201703151051588069-white-house-illegal-steal-tax-returns/
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The message was clear: don’t mess with China… It was stupid sent Thadd missiles to S-K
Obama Administration Halted $1B Arms Sale to Taiwan Before Exiting Office  https://sputniknews.com/military/201703151051586577-obama-administration-arms-sale-taiwan/
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Astana Talks on Wednesday to Focus on Separation of Terrorists, Syria Opposition  https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703151051589230-astana-talks-syrian-opposition-terrorists/
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Iran Uses Naval Cooperation to Boost Ties With Russia Amid Sanctions  https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703141051553986-russia-iran-navies/
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RT SHOWS
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Keiser Report  Episode 1044  Max-Stacy discuss d tripling of Chinese bank system & F-cris in West
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WASHINGTON BLOG


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In yesterday’s entry, I suggested that rather than bemoan the inevitable failure of centralized “fixes,” let’s turn our efforts to the real solutions: decentralized, networked, localized. To commentators such as Richard Florida, decentralized, networked, localized describes cities.

He describes the transition from central states imposing solutions to cities being the incubators of solutions as The Most Disruptive Transformation in History: How the clustering of knowledge lays bare the need to devolve power from the nation-state to the city.

Florida has authored three books on the increasing concentration of the “creative class” and capital in urban zones–cities and their surrounding satellite cities, suburbs and exurbs: The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life.


Florida’s main thesis is straightforward: solutions are coming from city governments, institutions and enterprises, not central states. Since the world’s populace has rapidly urbanized, this transformation affects the majority of people in both the developed and developing worlds.

I’ve often written about the need to move from centralization to decentralization: centralized command-and-control mechanisms are optimized for the economy and society of the late 1940s – early 1960s, not the economy/society of today that is being creatively disrupted by the 4th Industrial Revolution (digital communications, software, automation, robotics, Internet).
Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH


Ent a Bernie Sanders  “Perder la esperanza no es una opción”  Ed Pilkington
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La cleptocracia desafiada  Ebullición frente al ajuste  Claudio Katz
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Que sucedió a la URSS por de Moshe Lewin   A modo de introducción (I)  S.  López
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COL        ¡Mujeres, la lucha continúa!  José Javier Capera
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Ecuador  -Marxismo probancario?  Juan J. Paz y Miño C.
                ¿Quo vadis, Ecuador? (II)   René Báez
                Basado en “Premisas y desafíos del nuevo escenario internacional” ALAI 2009
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Argentina, la cleptocracia desafiada   Ebullición frente al ajuste  Claudio Katz
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Unión Europea  Deconstruir para reconstruir  Jaime Pastor
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La "industria del rescate"  El cartel de las auditorías en la UE. José Bautista
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Siria   El pueblo resiste en medio del caos  Josep Daher
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