Home » Posts tagged 'united states' (Page 109)
Tag Archives: united states
The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War
The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War A U.S. Army convoy in northern Syria. Photo: Sebastian Backhaus/NurPhoto via Getty Images The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining troops from the Iraqi, Syrian, and more general Middle Eastern conflicts? Or, for that matter, […]
Kass: “Don’t Blame Powell For The Mess He’s Left To Clean Up”
Kass: “Don’t Blame Powell For The Mess He’s Left To Clean Up” Do we want to be Japan? “I need the Fed to shut up. I don’t trust the Fed at all. I don’t trust Jay Powell at all. Jay said everything that caused a tremendous selloff. You have got to start recognizing how powerful […]
The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis
The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis Those of us who closely follow the credit cycle should not be surprised by the current slide in equity markets. It was going to happen anyway. The timing had recently become apparent as well, and in early August I was able to write the following: “The timing for the […]
Commanders In Syria Recommend Leaving US Weapons With Kurds
Commanders In Syria Recommend Leaving US Weapons With Kurds It has been little over a week since President Trump upended US foreign policy in the Middle East by abruptly recalling the few thousand US troops fighting alongside Kurdish fighters in Syria, and the administration is still figuring out exactly how to manage the withdrawal in […]
WTI Extends Losses After Production Rebounds To Record
WTI Extends Losses After Production Rebounds To Record WTI has slid lower overnight following API’s surprise large crude build (and no equity pump) and was unable to hold gains after a bigger than expected gasoline build (and tiny crude draw) along with a production rebound to record highs. If U.S. crude output rises, it’s likely […]
US Troops Out, Syrian Army In: Kurdish City Handed Back To Damascus As Turkey Poised To Invade
US Troops Out, Syrian Army In: Kurdish City Handed Back To Damascus As Turkey Poised To Invade After days of Turkey mustering huge military forces poised to enter the northwestern Syrian Kurdish town of Manbij, and just as American advisers have pulled out of the area based on Trump’s broader Syria draw down, what many […]
Ten 2018 Extinction Awards
Ten 2018 Extinction Awards Given the way people are transforming the earth into a place where the human species cannot survive, it is only right and just that we honor achievement in the race to extinction. Without further ado, here are the top eight Extinction Awards of 2018. 2018 Extinction Global Person of the Year […]
Who Was Secretly Behind America’s Invading and Occupying Syria?
Who Was Secretly Behind America’s Invading and Occupying Syria? The invasion and occupation of Syria by tens of thousands of jihadists who were recruited from around the world to overthrow Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, was financed mainly by US taxpayers and by the world’s wealthiest family, the Sauds, who own Saudi Arabia and the world’s largest oil company, […]
DataTrek: “Healthy” Markets Don’t Rally 1,086 Points On The Dow
DataTrek: “Healthy” Markets Don’t Rally 1,086 Points On The Dow Even with Wednesday’s rally, December’s 11-13% declines (S&P 500, Russell 2000) for US stocks couldn’t have come at a worse time for markets. First, there is the psychological damage of seeing such a swoon in what is a typically good month for domestic equities. Then […]
Saudi Arabia and China are preparing for war
Saudi Arabia and China are preparing for war The fact that Saudis want to control Yemen and the Chinese are increasing their presence in Myanmar is a preparation for the conflicts that may soon flare up. It is about securing the flanks. The war in Yemen is being waged more and more brutally by the […]
We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends
We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd as he arrives to speak to navy and shipyard personnel aboard nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. AP/Shutterstock So we’re […]
Mnuchin’s Bizarre Statement Rattles Markets
Mnuchin’s Bizarre Statement Rattles Markets If he thought it would inspire confidence in the markets, his bizarre announcement did just the opposite. Over the weekend, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin issued a statement saying that he “conducted a series of calls today with the CEOS of the nations six largest banks,” which included Bank of […]
The Battle For Syria’s Oil Region
The Battle For Syria’s Oil Region The Syrian Civil War has gone through several phases over the course of seven years and it now appears to be entering another one. Government forces have regained control over much of Syria with Russian air support and Iranian ground forces. Only Idlib and the territories east of the […]
