November 2016 archive

War Breaks Out Between Neo-Cons And Libertarians Over Trump's Foreign Policy In late October, when it was still conventional wisdom that Hillary was “guaranteed” to win the presidency, the WaPo explained that among the neo-con, foreign policy “elites” of the Pentagon, a feeling of calm content had spread: after all, it was just a matter …

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Algorithmic Trading is the Investment of the Future From Fortress Capital: Let’s face it – investing is difficult!  Gone are the days of saving for retirement.  The average savings account in the USA pays less than 1%.  Fortunately for most investors the stock market has been going up and up, but it’s going to correct (it …

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Welcome To The Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World Authord by Pepe Escobar, originally posted op-ed via Strategic-Culture.org, This does not mean that the Soros regime change racket and its multiple tentacles, in parallel to the Clinton machine-dominated DNC, will quit. Plan A – Maidan in the USA – is not exactly a winner among the masses. …

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Democratic Leadership ADMITS that Clinton Lost the Election Because of Voters’ Economic Worries Democratic Leadership ADMITS that Clinton Lost the Election Because of Voters’ Economic Worries Posted on November 16, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog We’ve repeatedly said that Trump mainly won the election because voters thought that the status quo would hurt them economically. Today, the …

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Japandemonium – Is Kuroda Losing Control Of JGB Market? For the first time since February, 5Y JGB yields have spiked above BOJ policy rates (to -9.5bps), but despite a policy of maintaining 10Y yields and attempting to steepen the yield curve, it appears Kuroda and his cronies have lost control as the short-end of the …

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Whiff of Panic in Miami’s Condo Market By Wolf Richter, WOLF STREET The Miami-Dade County condo market is coming under severe stress, and turmoil is spreading. There are two aspects: supply and sales activity overall, and the more obscure but highly indicative “preconstruction market.” Preconstruction condos are a favorite playground for condo flippers. They buy …

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China Money Market Rates Spike To 1-Month Highs As Yuan Hits 7-Year Lows In what appears to be yet another effort to spook shorts out of speculative positions in offshore Yuan, China appears to have tamped down its liquidity spigot driving overnight HIBOR rates up a shocking 194bps to 3.53% – the highest in over …

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Martin Armstrong Exposes "The Real Clinton Conspiracy" Which Backfired Dramatically Submitted by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, Meanwhile, Hillary lost not merely because she misread the “real” people, she decided to run a very divisive and nasty negative campaign, which has fueled the violence ever since. According to WikiLeaks emails from campaign John Podesta, Clinton colluded with the …

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Do Progressives Really Find "White Trash" More Threatening Than Nuclear War? Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, The American electorate’s preference for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders has established two facts. One is that the majority of the American people do not believe the media presstitutes. The other is that only the “progressives” and “liberals” who …

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"He Won Because The Elites Want Him There, The Global Economy Will Collapse" Though Trump’s election was a great victory/rebuke over the dictates and controls of the financial oligarchy that own and run this nation, SHTFPlan.com's Mac Salvo warns, the American people are not out of the woods yet. Quietly but constantly in the background …

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