JUL 25 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
World situation:
"...this is undoubtedly the lowest quality economic recovery we have seen
globally... full stop... the number of 'zombie
companies' has doubled since 2007..."
When asked whether an imperfect system constituted a clear
and present danger for the financial markets, Watling replied:
"Whatever
you want to call it doesn't really matter but these sorts of things always
unwind when you tighten money. The problem is judging what is tight? And that
is sort of the million dollar question."
Will that pain begin in October?
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This
note details how a short vol unwind might develop. A violent rise in volatility
could be driven by just a 3% to 4% one-day S&P 500 selloff. Right now the risk is greatest in the VIX
complex, and demand for VIX futures from three main sources could result in
100,000 contracts
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Do you ever get the sense that
your favorite steak at that Quick Service Restaurant of your choice keeps getting thinner and thinner all while your check size
at the end of the night continues getting larger and larger. Well,
it is.
Known in grocery circles as 'liar
packs', shrinking portion sizes became an attractive alternative to
simply raising prices back during the great recession when
consumers became particularly sensitive to price.
Mark Jones, a food and drink solicitor at Gordons law firm, said: “Shrinkflation was borne out of the recession and has
gathered staggering pace since 2009. The ONS’s report confirms this.
Against the back drop of a weak economy, commodity prices have been rising over
the last five years.
"The
recession made people very price sensitive and you can see the evidence of that
by looking at the impressive growth of discount retailers in the last five
years, no retail sector has grown faster.
“Suppliers and retailers do not want to raise the ‘on the shelf’
price, but both have had to adapt to increasing commodity prices.
"Shrinking
the size of the products being sold, whether that is toilet paper, chocolate or
cleaning products, is just another way of pushing through a price increase, but
in a more subtle way. How many of us noticed
Andrex reduce the number of sheets on a toilet roll from 240 to 221?”
And here is the breakdown by month over the past 5 years:
Conclusion: Caveat emptor...there is a whole army of
Harvard MBAs working in consumer goods companies all around the world whose
sole mission in life is to get you to pay more for less without ever noticing.
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Open full article here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/shrinkflation-how-food-companies-implement-massive-price-hikes-without-you-ever-noti
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Thanks to 'beats' by MCD, CAT, and UTX, The Dow is soaring in the pre-market - up over
110 points, back near record highs. Despite GOOGL hovering near
post-earnings lows (-2.8%), Nasdaq Futs are levitating along with S&P Futs
as VIX is clubbed like a baby
seal to 9.12...
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Cook County Illinois has the largest population loss of any county in the
nation. Chicago represents just over half of the population of Cook
County...
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Billonaires way of thinking?
"I actually think that a slowdown or a recession would probably do
the economy some good. You clear out some of the dead wood and you prevent forest fires. It’s the same
with concepts such as Schumpeter’s creative destruction"...
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Recession Ahead: Wall
Street Agrees On When The Bull Market Will Finally End
"...responding to a question on the
next U.S. recession, the median answer
was the first half of 2019"...
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POLITICS
La seudo democ y sist duopolico es obsoleto por fraudulento y
corrupto. Urge cambiarlo
"...the success of this false and orchestrated story
of Russian hacking, for
which not a scrap of evidence exists, revealed to the military/security complex
the opportunity to remove Trump and thus protect the
oversized budget and power of the military/security complex that is threatened
by Trump’s intention to normalize relations with Russia."
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“One
knowledgeable official estimates that the CIA-backed fighters may have killed
or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and their allies,” writes
columnist David Ignatius. Given that Syria’s prewar population was not 10
percent of ours, this is the equivalent of a million
dead and wounded Americans. What
justifies America’s participation in this slaughter?
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“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a
VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC
server) & Intel leakers!” Trump tweeted.
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"I think it's the obligation of some executive branch officials to
refuse to carry out some of these orders that again are inconsistent with what
this country is all about.... If Mueller is fired, I
hope our elected reps will stand up and say enough is enough."
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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
After sliding to 3 month lows on "car
cartel" concerns yesterday, European stocks have rebounded after three
days of declines, while oil extended gains after Saudi export cuts, with
Brent rising above $49 and WTI just shy of $47. Asian stocks fell while S&P
futures rose 0.2% to 2,473, helped by a tumbling VIX
which was hammered early by 3% in early Tuesday trading, down to 9.17.
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Despite Chinese officials reassurance that "military means shouldn’t be an option,"
WSJ reports that
China has been bolstering
defenses along its 880-mile frontier with North Korea and realigning forces in surrounding regions to
prepare for a potential crisis across
their border, including the possibility of a U.S. military strike.
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According to this Intel
Center list, there are currently 43 worldwide terrorist groups which have pledged
allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State.
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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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America's Militarized Police - Made in Israel? By Philip Giraldi
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COUNTER PUNCH
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David W. Pear Venezuela
on the Edge of Civil War
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Linda Ford Feminism
Co-opted
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
The nasty business of
US-NATO-Global-wars uncovered .. pro RU view
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RT SHOWS
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Flash points on US
politics: internal contradict.. Hugh Smith good articles reproduced
There’s an entire sub-industry in
journalism devoted to the idea that China is poised to replace the U.S. as the
“global empire” / hegemon. This
notion of global empire being something like a baton that gets passed from
nation-state to nation-state is seriously misleading, in my view, for this
reason:
There is only one global empire:
finance. China and the U.S. both exist within the Empire of
Finance. Virtually every mercantile nation with access to global markets lives,
works and thrives/dies within the Empire of Finance. Every nation that allows
capital to flow into its economy is subservient to the Empire of Finance. Every
nation with capital and debt markets exposed to (or dependent on) global
financial flows is just another fiefdom in the Empire of Finance.
China has thrived within the
Empire of Finance by creating more debt and at a faster rate of expansion than
any other fiefdom. China has brought 20 years of future growth
and income forward, and eventually that vein of “wealth” runs out as time
advances into the stripmined future.
The same can be said of all nations that have borrowed
heavily from future growth and income to fund consumption/GDP “growth” today.
The Empire of Finance has few
requirements for hegemony in its realm, but they are big ones.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Latino America fight
to break with collapsing Empire: leftist
view on alternatives
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PRESS TV
Global situation
described by Iranian observers.. Titles distorted n incomplete sentences
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BDS
under attack by US lawmakers
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Israel: The
Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment attacked
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