Could Germany Ever Allow Deutsche Bank To Go Under? Via Golem XIV blog, Deutsche Bank, one of Europe’s behemoths, is in very deep trouble having lost 90% 0f its share price value since 2007, has been falling sharply all this last year (48% loss this year) and, with its $42 Trillion in Derivatives exposure was singled …

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Europe Is Doing Its Best To Pull Itself Apart By Richard Breslow, a former FX trader and fund manager who writes for Bloomberg At the end of last week, the EU-27 held what was meant to be a reaffirmation of their joint commitment to solidarity and outline their plan to make Europe great again. It …

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On Europe's Train Wreck Of Monetarist Absurdity Authored by Constantin Gurdgiev via True Economics blog, One chart that really says it all when it comes to the fortunes of the Euro area economy: And, courtesy of these monetary acrobatics, we now have private corporates issuing debt at negative yields, nominal yields…  The train wreck of monetarist …

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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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