Dow Dumps 250Pts, Nikkei Plunges 500Pts After China Credit Concerns, Kuroda Comment It appears the world is ganging up on The Fed as following China's recent clear and present threat should the USD strengthen, BoJ's Kuroda warned that further QQE might threaten the bank's finances – implicitly demanding moar from Yellen because he knows he's …

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Massive Explosions Rock Jakarta In Apparent Suicide Bombings; Gunfire, Casualties Reported Two months after the Paris explosions of November 13, it appears that terrorism has struck again, this time in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta where moments ago, at least six bomb explosions, gunfire and casualties were reported, with at least one of the explosions taking place …

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The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall St's Oil-Price Monopoly Submitted by William Engdahl via New Eastern Outlook, Russia has just taken significant steps that will break the present Wall Street oil price monopoly, at least for a huge part of the world oil market. The move is part of a longer-term strategy of …

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Open Letter to the Banks Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase Brian T. Moynihan, Bank of America Michael Corbat, Citigroup Gentlemen: On Friday, I attended a digital money summit at the Consumer Electronics Show. I am writing to you to warn you about the disruption that is about to occur in banking. There are many startups …

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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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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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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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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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"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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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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