Bill Blain: "Throughout My Career, Years Ending In 7 Haven’t Been Good" While we wish one of our favorite market commentators’, Mint’s Bill Blain, all the best as he recovers from his recent heart attack, we would like to share with readers his inaugural for 2017 note, which lays out his current concerns about the …
January 2017 archive
Jan 10
Today’s News 10th January 2017
We All Lose: Obama's Legacy And What It Means For A Trump Presidency Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; …
Jan 09
Today’s News 9th January 2017
Tonight's Forecast Inside the Golden Globes: Lots of Snow with a Chance of Trump Tears The entire star-studded audience at the Golden Globes practically cried in unison, after Meryl Streep took to the mic to lament over an incident that happened last year regarding what she thought was Donald Trump mocking a disabled reporter. …
Jan 08
Today’s News 8th January 2017
Newt Gingrich Likens Russian Hacking Probe to Benghazi, Says 'Profoundly Wrong Things Going On' Newt Gingrich dropped some redpills during a Fox News interview, wondering out loud ‘what’s going on here?” Amongst his chief complaints is the fact that NBC obtained the report from the Obama administration before President elect Trump. What was Obama doing …
Jan 07
Today’s News 7th January 2017
The False Economic Recovery Narrative Will Die In 2017 Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Yes, the narrative of the “new normal” has been around for so long now that many people have simply grown used to it. The assumption is that the fiscal “new normal” has become the fiscal “normal,” and though the fundamentals …
Jan 06
Today’s News 6th January 2017
Silver Dumps, Peso Jumps As Mexican Central Bank Intervenes (Again) If at first you don't succeed, intervene again! For the second time today (at midnight ET), Banxico officials confirmed the central bank entered the market to sell US dollars in an attempt to strengthen the peso. Now we await the next Trump tweet to take …
Jan 05
Today’s News 5th January 2017
Chinese Cruise Ship With 2,000 Passengers Stuck At Sea For Two Days Due To Smog Beijing’s pollution problem is getting worse by the day. On Wednesday, the Chinese capital issued its highest “red fog alert” for only the second day in history, keeping highways closed in and around the city which is already under a …
Jan 04
Today’s News 4th January 2017
The Titanic Sails At Dawn: Warning Signs Point To Danger Ahead In 2017 Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ? Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be stuck on repeat, …
Jan 03
Today’s News 3rd January 2017
Chinese Interbank Lending Freezes; Government Bond Trading Halted After Massive PBOC Liquidity Drain Earlier today, we were surprised to note that having aggressively drained liquidity from the interbank funding market, on the first trading day of 2017, the PBOC not only fixed the Yuan well lower (sy 6.9498 vs 6.9370 on the last day of …
Jan 02
Today’s News 2nd January 2017
How A United Iran, Russia, & China Are Changing The World Submitted by Federico Pieraccini via Strategic-Culture.org, The two previous articles have focused on the various geopolitical theories, their translations into modern concepts, and practical actions that the United States has taken in recent decades to aspire to global dominance. This segment will describe how Iran, China and …
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