January 2016 archive

Today’s News 11th January 2016

Silver Flash in the Pan, Report 10 Jan, 2016 by Keith Weiner   No doubt, many people were excited on Thursday to see a spike in the silver price. The big news almost seemed like it would be a spike in the silver price. We were not quite so exuberant, tweeting (follow us on Twitter …

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Today’s News 10th January 2016

China Goes Full Keynesian-tard: Demolishes Never-Used Just-Built Skyscraper "Growth" meet "mal-investment boom-bust" In a perfect example of the smoke-and-mirror-ness of China's credit-fueled expansion, a 27-storey high-rise building which was completed on November 15th 2015 was just demolished, "having been left unused for too long." As China People's Daily reports, Directional blasting demolition of a high-rise …

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Today’s News 9th January 2016

Taiwan Election: How a DPP Win Would Tick Off China   By EconMatters Taiwan will elect a new president and parliament on January 16. The current President Ma Ying-jeou, from the Nationalist party (Kuomintang, KMT, led by Chiang kai-shek before his demise in 1975), will complete his second term in May. During the eight years …

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Today’s News 8th January 2016

Internal War Is Now On The Horizon For America Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, If internationalists were to get their way fully with the world and future historians write their analysis from a globalist perspective of the defunct American nation, they will probably say simply that our collapse was brought about by our own …

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Today’s News 7th January 2016

"Markets In Turmoil" As Europe Opens With Chinese trading halted mere minutes into its day-session on the back "insane" moves as one Asian manager exclaimed, the rest of the world's markets have borne the brunt of hedging, unwind, selling pressure.   Dow Futures are down 300 points from After-Hours highs…   Crude has crashed back …

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Today’s News 6th January 2016

KiM JoNG BooM! How Corrupt Is the American Government? Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants An EPA employee who downloaded …

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Today’s News 5th January 2016

Playing The Government’s Game: When It Comes To Violence, We All Lose Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once …

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Today’s News 4th January 2016

China Halts Stock Trading For Day After Entire Market Crashes Following the initial halt in CSI-300 Futures at the 5% limit down level, the afternoon session opened to more carnage and amid the worst 'first day of the year' in at least 15 years, Chinese stocks collapsed further to a 7% crash. At 1334 local …

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Today’s News 3rd January 2016

ISIS: The 'Enemy' The US Created, Armed, & Funded Submitted by Robert Fantina via TheAntiMedia.org, Out of nowhere, it seems, Daesh, also commonly referred to as ISIL or ISIS, spontaneously formed, a group that perverts aspects of Islam for its own violent ends, and threatens, we are told, all that the civilized world holds dear. …

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The Keynesian Recovery Meme Is About To Get Mugged, Part 2

From David Stockmans Contra Corner Our point yesterday was that the Fed and its Wall Street fellow travelers are about to get mugged by the oncoming battering rams of global deflation and domestic recession. When the bust comes, these foolish Keynesian proponents of everything is awesome will be caught like deer in the headlights. That’s because they view the world …

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