jueves, 6 de abril de 2017

APR 5 17 SIT EC y POL



APR 5 17 SIT EC y POL
ND denuncia debacle d Globaliz neoliberal y propone State-Social + Capit-compet in Econ


ZERO HEDGE  ECONOMICS
Neoliberal globalization is over. Financiers know it, they documented with graphics


The weakness in the dollar meant that everyone's favorite market-influencing carry pair would likewise suffer, and after breaking out above 111, the USDJPY tumbled as low as 110.70 once again threatening the key 110 support level.


As for stocks, with the most shorted universe soaring in early trading, dragging the Russell higher, this too was pummeled on all sides after the Fed's stark warning, prompting an accelerated liquidation of the most overvalued stock group, as shorts reasserted themselves.



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Those who are baffled by productivity never bothered to put their theories to rudimentary tests. Greenspan is correct that social benefits crowd out genuine investment; thus, those proposing some sort of guaranteed minimum living wage are totally off base. Entitlements are already a massive problem, let’s not make them worse.  Massive handouts have never solved any economic problems, and never will.
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If you prefer fake news, fake data, and a fake narrative about an improving economy and stock market headed to 30,000, don’t read this fact based, reality check article.

The narrative is fake news, as corporate profits have been stagnant for the last five years, as the market has advanced by 70%.


The truth is, this entire bull market has been generated through financial engineering. A critical thinking individual, which eliminates all CNBC bimbos/talking heads and Ivy League educated Federal Reserve schmucks, might ask how reported corporate earnings per share since 2009 have risen by 221% when corporate revenues have only risen by 28%. That’s quite a feat – creating fake earnings without increasing revenue. It’s easy when you implement a three pronged scheme to manufacture a phony economic and stock market recovery. 


Step one was to “temporarily” repeal FASB Rule 157 in March 2009 so banks could value their toxic real estate assets at whatever price they chose.  Step two was for the Federal Reserve to buy $3 trillion of toxic worthless assets from the criminal Wall Street banks at 100 cents on the dollar and stick them on their own insolvent balance sheet.

Step three was breathing life into failing corporations with unnecessarily  low interest rates. The Fed’s 0% interest rates allowed Wall Street banks to generate billions in risk free profits by depositing reserves at the Fed.  ZIRP also allowed insolvent financial firms, underwater real estate developers and zombie retailers to refinance their massive levels of debt at ridiculously low interest rates – eliminating the market clearing creative destruction that happens in free markets. Corporations also used off-balance sheet shenanigans to suppress leverage levels and boost earnings.

Lastly, S&P 500 companies embraced the benefits of globalization by off-shoring millions of jobs to slave labor camps in the Far East, drastically reducing their cost structures and boosting earnings. These same corporations used the BLS fake inflation data as the reason to suppress wage increases for their employees at a 2% level, further boosting earnings.
The following chart sheds some light on this “fundamentally” driven bull market.


S&P 500 companies have bought back $500 billion in stock in the last two years, and $2.1 trillion since 2010. Until recently, individual investors have been net sellers for the last eight years

After you’ve run out of accounting gimmicks, refinanced all your debt, and outsourced as many jobs to the third world as possible, how else can you make your earnings per share rise? Why invest your money in capital, innovation, research or human resources to grow your sales, when you can just buy back your own stock and goose earnings per share the easy way

But it gets better. Since 2009 over $1 trillion of debt was taken on by S&P 500 companies just to buyback their own stock. The narrative about corporations being flush with cash is complete bullshit

KEEP READING  >>>
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Stick a fork in the soft-data decoupling.
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The scorching ADP print may have brought another life into the reflation trade this morning, with TSYs dropping and the dollar rising, pushing S&P futures higher, but that may not be sufficient according to SocGen's Kit Juckes.
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"This is what makes today’s move in US rates after the strong headline ADP print so remarkable and FURTHER anxiety-inducing for said ‘reflationistas.’ Treasuries suddenly cannot sell-off."
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While the latest Gundlach presentation was largely a rehash of previous discussion topics, he made several notable observations, summarized in the following three charts.

Gundlach, made several notable comments. The first was that his outlook on inflation may be supportive of bonds as "the reflation narrative may be fading" and inflation globally has peaked. "With inflation falling in the months ahead, pressure for higher yields is reduced," Gundlach told Reuters after the webcast. "The bear case will need another narrative because CPI (the consumer price index) will be back below 2 (percent)."


Gundlach said that he still favors non-U.S. stocks over U.S. equities because of the huge run-up in US indexes. As evidence of the overvaluation of US stocks, Gundlach pointed to the outlier signal sent by the Price to Sales ratio in the S&P, which is fast approaching 2 standard deviations from the mean, a level which led to a crash during the dot com bubble.


Finally, while Gundlach said he does not expect a recession, he warned that there is one chart that is ringing alarm bells, namely the ratio of corporate debt as a % of GDP which is now at previous recession highs.


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In 2016, the US Fortune 500 companies generated $12 trillion in combined revenue, accounting for over two-thirds of US GDP, and employed 27 million people worldwide... 38%, saw their revenues decline.
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Following weeks of utter comaplcency, there are signs that investors are beginning to hedge for potential U.S. stock swings around France’s presidential ballot.
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It's been more than seven years since the 'great recession' officially ended, but while Fed policies have successfully generated massive asset bubbles which have accrued solely to the benefit of America's wealthiest, the majority of American families remain as vulnerable to financial disaster as they were during the height of the crisis.
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The wise approach forecasting the future with a profound humility, while the soon to be bankrupted foolish are confident in their grasp of what's knowable, unknowable and predictable.

POLITICS
La seudo democ y sist  duopolico es obsoleto por fraudulento y corrupto. Urge cambiarlo

It was a one-two knockout punch for anyone still holding out hope that Trump's domestic economic policies will take place in the near, or not even so near, future.
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
Global depression is on…China, RU, Iran search for State socialis+K- compet. D rest in limbo

Trump know that attacking Assad in alliance with Israel & Saudis is an attack on RU-Iran

“I do change. I am flexible. I am proud of that flexibility. I will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. It was a horrible, horrible thing. I've been watching it and seeing it, and it does not get any worse than that. And it is very, very possible, and I will tell you it is already happened, that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much.”
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European stocks rebounded after a downbeat start, aided by a return to the post-Euro open momentum ignition in the USDJPY while Asian stocks rose after China shares surged 1.5%, the most since August. For now S&P futures are fractionally in the red, although we expect them to turn progressively higher as US traders get to their desks to frontrun the now traditional "post open" ramp.
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DEMOCRACY NOW
US politics crisis: Trump captured by Deep state to reproduce old cronyism without alter-plan


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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Global Econ-Pol crisis leads to more business-wars:  profiteers US-NATO under screen


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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Deep on the US political crisis, their internal conflicts n chances of WW3


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Love and Western Nihilism  By Andre Vltchek  Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed
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ZCOMM.ORG/  https://zcomm.org/all-types/   &  COUNTER PUNCH
CP Though fake academicism (no thesis at front) it provides some good arts on Econ n Polit


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Vijay Prashad: Forgotten Americans
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Paul Craig Roberts   World’s Best Economist Tells All!
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
The nasty business of US-NATO-Global-wars uncovered .. pro RU view


Why Accusations of Chemical Weapons Used by Syrian Army 'Not Supported by Facts'  https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704051052334782-idlib-chemical-attack-no-facts/

RELATED 1
Hasty Judgment About Alleged Idlib Attack Made Despite Inquiry Just Beginning  https://sputniknews.com/politics/201704051052333343-idlib-chemical-attack/
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Chemical Weapons Attack on Idlib: Why Questions Need to Be Asked  https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201704051052330649-syria-chemical-attack-idlib/
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Russia Warns Against Laying Blame for Suspected Chemical Attack on Damascus   https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704061052341541-russia-against-blame-damascus-idlib-attack/

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Idlib Chemical Attack Staged to Blame Damascus – Syrian Lawmaker  https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704051052337497-idlib-chemical-attack-staged/

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Russia Submitted Draft Resolution on Probing Syria Chemical Attack  https://sputniknews.com/politics/201704051052337321-russia-draft-un-resolution-syria-chemical-attack/
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US SELLING WMD continue… we sold to Sadam the chemical used in Iran & then blame the victim
Lockheed Gets $129Mln Contract to Address F-35 Jet’s Processor Problems  https://sputniknews.com/military/201704061052344226-lockheed-martin-address-f-35-problems/

Related
Boeing Pitches ‘Super’ Super Hornets to Replace F-35  https://sputniknews.com/military/201704051052337374-boeing-pitches-super-hornet-f35/
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US General: Preemptive Strike May Be 'Only Option Left' With North Korea  https://sputniknews.com/military/201704061052343316-north-korea-us-military-strike/
Preemptive strike will bring the US to stone age.. Why? because that is a war on China-RU
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After Election Defeat, Hillary Clinton Unlikely to Return to Family Foundation  https://sputniknews.com/us/201704061052338789-hillary-clinton-unlikely-return-foundation/

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PodestaEmails: Clinton Foundation’s Money Used for Financing Chelsea’s Wedding  https://sputniknews.com/us/201611061047120487-clinton-foundation-chelsea-wedding/
RELATED 2
LockThemUp: What Went Wrong for Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative  https://sputniknews.com/politics/201703101051454217-clinton-foundation-hiv-aids/ Charles Ortel told Sputnik: There is no evidence that can be verified that their  'international' charity ever lawfully provided any help to victims of HIV/AIDS anywhere, he stressed. Instead Clintons said LockThemUp
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RT SHOWS
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Flash points on US politics: internal contradict.. Hugh Smith good articles reproduced


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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Latino America fight to break with collapsing Empire:  leftist view on alternatives


EC           El banquero Guillermo Lasso no sabe perder  Ignacio San Román
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Venezuela  -El nuevo juego de poder   Aram Aharonian
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COL  Medellín, una administración mortal   Adelaida Nikolayeva
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Feminismo   Conflicto: sustantivo femenino plural  Degender Communia
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PRESS TV
Global situation described by Iranian observers.. Titles often distorted by ISR-Mossad


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Russia vows to stand by Syria in  anti-terror battles
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Venezuela parl. debating removal of  gov-allied judges at Supreme Court
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Russia denounced as “unacceptable” the Western-proposed draft resolution
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