MAY 3 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
Legal
Corruption In The US: Meet The 1% Of The 1% Who Drive American Politics.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2015 "In
the 2014 elections, 31,976 donors - equal to roughly one percent of one percent
of the total
population of the United States - accounted for an astounding $1.18 billion
in disclosed political contributions at the federal level. Those big givers -
what we have termed the Political One Percent of the One Percent - have a
massively outsized impact on federal campaigns.They’re mostly male, tend to
be city-dwellers and often work in finance. Slightly more of them skew
Republican than Democratic. A small subset - barely five dozen — earned the
(even more) rarefied distinction of giving more than $1 million each. And a
minute cluster of three individuals contributed more than $10 million apiece."
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What
Bubble? Wall Street To Turn P2P Loans Into CDOs. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. When student debt and subprime car loans aren't
enough, you have to get creative. It now appears Wall Street is set to feed its
securitization machine with a new kind of debt: peer-to-peer loans. You read
that correctly. Soon enough, the pool of micro loans that are facilitated by
sites like LendingClub will be used to create CDOs.
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Socialists,
Central Banks & Credit Is Not Capital. by Jeffrey
Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. As with all good socialists, central banks have
locked the global economy onto but a single path without any possibility of
choice. The purpose of all this intrusive nature through finance is
actually to dethrone the defining quality that makes capitalism so useful in
society’s advance – dynamic destruction. Despite the radical alteration as to
what is taught in “business” schools, credit is not capital and it will
never be. No amount of math will make it so, but the longer it remains
operative the greater the potential we all end up with something even worse. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-03/socialists-central-banks-credit-not-capital
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HFT
+ Inept Regulators + Fed Distortion = More Flash Crashes. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. "I think we have to blame central bank
intervention. How can we not? It’s all around the world. They’re setting
interest rates at a ridiculous level. Quantitative easing is distorting all
sorts of prices of assets. How do you price things anymore when you have
such a giant manipulator out there?"
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Why
Deflation Is Unlikely. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. The prices of gold and silver reflect the
deflationary view to the exclusion of the likely outcome of all this
experimentation. There is no doubt that many dealers believe that gold and
silver are merely commodities, otherwise they would be chasing their prices
upwards in a dash for cash. Future historians should be puzzled.
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There
Is No Solution To The Crisis. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. The end result of Fed policy appears to be to keep
us in perpetual economic malaise, to keep us all confused. They keep
interest rates low masking the huge structural issues of huge federal budget
deficits and whenever the economy appears to be picking up a bit, they threaten
to take away the government props of QE and low interest rates faster thereby
slapping down the economy. All this happening while the ticking time bomb of
huge Federal Debt accumulates more potency. There is no solution to the
crisis, merely a choice of which roads to choose, a deflationary debt collapse,
or a hyperinflationary dollar collapse or World War III. Pick your poison...
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It's
Official: The Top Is In For Chinese Stocks. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. Presenting, a contrarian indicator...
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There
Is No Recovery: Sucking Spoilt Milk From A Bloated Dead Sow. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2015. "With US GDP
growth ‘officially’ back where it belongs, in the Arctic zone close to freezing
on the surface but much worse in real life, for reasons both Albert Edwards and
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (not exactly a pair of Siamese twins) remarked this
week; that is, excluding the 'biggest inventory build in history, the
economy contracted sharply', it’s time for everyone to at long last change
the angle from which they view the world, if not the color of their
glasses."
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"Stop
Being So Negative": Putting It All Together. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015.
Considering:
1) governments are unable to eliminate deficits
2) global government debt is increasing exponentially
3) 0% interest rates are allowing governments to borrow more to pay off old loans and fund deficits
4) Global growth is declining despite money printing and bailouts And, we've saved the latest and greatest fact for last: as stunning as 0% interest rates sound, the mathematically-challenged-fantasyland called Europe has just one upped everyone by introducing NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES.
2) global government debt is increasing exponentially
3) 0% interest rates are allowing governments to borrow more to pay off old loans and fund deficits
4) Global growth is declining despite money printing and bailouts And, we've saved the latest and greatest fact for last: as stunning as 0% interest rates sound, the mathematically-challenged-fantasyland called Europe has just one upped everyone by introducing NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES.
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Why
There Will Never Be A CapEx Recovery. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/03/2015. Unfortuantely, until three things change
dramatically, there will never be a capex boom, corporate revenues will
keep declining, and companies will continue artificially inflating their stock
prices by diverting every last profitable dollar into instant gratification for
"activist" shareholders (and option-compensated management) instead
of investing into long-term growth.
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FUTURE FAST FORWARD
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WASHINGTON BLOG
US-Coordinated
Saudi Bombers Using Illegal, US-Made Cluster Bombs: HRW. Posted on May 3, 2015 by Robert Barsocchini
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Did a
Chinese-Russian-Iranian Coalition Opposing NATO Debut in Moscow?
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The Moscow Conference on International Security in April was used as a venue to give notice to the US and NATO that other world powers will not let it do as it pleases.
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The Moscow Conference on International Security in April was used as a venue to give notice to the US and NATO that other world powers will not let it do as it pleases.
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US “Grand
Strategy” for War Against China Laid Out
By Nick Beams
Entitled “Revising US Grand Strategy Toward China,” the report is nothing less than an agenda for war.
By Nick Beams
Entitled “Revising US Grand Strategy Toward China,” the report is nothing less than an agenda for war.
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US Control Over the World Is Rapidly Eroding
By Michael Payne
An increasing number of countries have decided that they have had enough of this intimidation and they no longer will be controlled and dominated by the U.S. government.
By Michael Payne
An increasing number of countries have decided that they have had enough of this intimidation and they no longer will be controlled and dominated by the U.S. government.
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No Alternatives to US Empire: Bernie Sanders
and the 2016 Elections
By Vincent Emanuele
For Sanders, it’s not that the US Empire or Pentagon is inherently unsustainable and destructive, it’s that they are simply being mismanaged and misused.
By Vincent Emanuele
For Sanders, it’s not that the US Empire or Pentagon is inherently unsustainable and destructive, it’s that they are simply being mismanaged and misused.
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US Climbing
into Bed with Al-Qaeda
By Daniel Lazare
The Obama administration has finally come clean about its goals in Syria. In the battle to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, it is siding with Al Qaeda.
By Daniel Lazare
The Obama administration has finally come clean about its goals in Syria. In the battle to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, it is siding with Al Qaeda.
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Who is
Bombing Whom in the Middle East?
By Robert Fisk
The sectarian and theological nature of this war seems perfectly clear to all who live in the Middle East – albeit not to our American chums.
By Robert Fisk
The sectarian and theological nature of this war seems perfectly clear to all who live in the Middle East – albeit not to our American chums.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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NEWS IN SPANISH
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Qué lleva a
las jóvenes europeas a integrarse en las filas del Estado Islámico, si decenas de miles de mujeres (y
hombres) huyen de su terror?. Todo
empezó cuando en un tweet atribuido al jeque salafista Mohammad El-Arefe se
autorizaba a los yihadistas contraer matrimonio temporal con niñas mayores de
14 años y advertía a las mujeres musulmanas del mundo de su deber de
prestar servicios sexuales a estos “combatientes del Islam” si querían ir
al Cielo. OPEN
http://www.nazanin.es/?p=11679
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PRESSTV
‘Iran's
new way to dodge sanctions’. Mon
May 4, 2015 Iranian officials say a mechanism to trade with other countries in
local currencies will help dodge sanctions.
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US
police-blacks relation, national crisis. Mon May 4, 2015 US House Speaker John Boehner says the
deteriorating relationship between police and blacks has become a national
crisis.
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Baltimore
holds victory rally. Mon May 4, 2015 Thousands of people have staged a
victory rally in the US city of Baltimore after the mayor announced to lift
curfew.
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OSCE
slams truce violations in E Ukraine. Sun May 3, 2015 The OSCE condemns
the violation of the Minsk ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
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America
needs ‘political revolution’. Sun May 3, 2015 Senator Sanders who has
recently announced his bid for the White House says the US needs a “political
revolution” for working families and against money in politics.
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'ISIL
serves US interests in Iraq'. Sun May 3, 2015 An analyst says
Washington is trying to contain ISIL to push ahead with its own plans in Iraq.
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‘American
cluster bombs killing Yemenis’. Sun May 3, 2015 An analyst says cluster
bombs that Riyadh regime use against Yemenis are American and put thousands of
lives in danger.
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Israel
builds new structures in WB. Sun May 3, 2015 Israel builds 2,026
structures on territories grabbed from the Palestinians in the occupied West
Bank.
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Israel
child abuse brought to UN attention. Sun May 3, 2015 The Palestinian
envoy to the UN sends an open letter to the Security Council, demanding justice
over Israel abuse against Palestinian children.
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Baltimore
mayor lifts nightly curfew. Sun May 3, 2015 The mayor of Baltimore has
lifted a curfew imposed against the US city earlier this week.
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‘No
need for US to escort ships in PG’. Sun May 3, 2015 Iran Navy chief
says the US Navy does not need to escort US-flagged ships sailing in Persian
Gulf.
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