What Is A Globalist? If you've been following this election at all, you have probably heard the words "globalist" and "globalism" thrown around a lot. As The Rebel's Lauren Southern explains, some of the people using it are nationalists, or patriots (they see globalism as a threat to the sovereignty of their nation… whichever nation …

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The Existential Madness Of Putin-Bashing Submitted by Robert Parry via ConsortiumNews.com, Official Washington loves its Putin-bashing but demonizing the Russian leader stops a rational debate about U.S.-Russia relations and pushes the two nuclear powers toward an existential brink. Arguably, the nuttiest neoconservative idea – among a long list of nutty ideas – has been to destabilize nuclear-armed Russia …

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Electile Dysfunction: From Landslide To Loser Authored by Alan Dershowitz via The Gatestone Institute, This is the strangest presidential election in my memory. Despite the polls, the outcome is utterly unpredictable. This was true even before Hillary Clinton's recent health issue. Just consider this: it was only a month ago that the Washington Post declared …

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European Leaders Discuss Plan For European Army Submitted by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, Critics say that the creation of a European army, a long-held goal of European federalists, would entail an unprecedented transfer of sovereignty from European nation states to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, the de facto capital of the EU. Others say …

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Dow 100,000? Marc Faber Warns: Central Banks "Will Monetize Everything… Introduce Socialism" Submitted by Valentin Schmid via TheEpochTimes.com, They call him Dr. Doom and for good reason. Dr. Marc Faber, author, investment adviser, and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, usually emphasizes the risks in the financial system and never minces his words. …

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Bob Farrell's (Illustrated) 10-Investment Rules Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the weekend, it was interesting to see the number of advisors/analysts quickly rushing to defend their “buy and hold” investing philosophies following the sharp decline on Friday. As I wrote this past weekend: “The downfall of all investors is ultimately ‘greed’ and ‘fear.’   …

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Germany: Beginning Of The End Of The Merkel Era? Submitted by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged ahead of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in elections in her home state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The election was widely seen as a referendum on Merkel's open-door migration policy …

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Global Economic Overview (Brexit, China, Screwflation, Humility, Patience… )   Global Economic Overview (Brexit, China, Screwflation, Humility, Patience… )   By Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA The following is an excerpt from Investment Management Associates’ second-quarter letter to investors (also published on Institutional Investor) In this letter we are taking up the ambitious goal of painting a …

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The "Oh Shit" Guy That Wiped Hillary's Server With BleachBit Was Just Granted Immunity Last week, after the FBI dropped their Friday before Labor Day weekend bomb on Hillary, we wrote about the various events leading up to the deletion of Hillary’s emails (full details here: “The “Oh Shit” Moment: Hillary Wiped Her Server With …

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The "Bomber Harris" Of Central Banks By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in …

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