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White House Set To Release Secret Pages From Sept 11 Report
White House Set To Release Secret Pages From Sept 11 Report Over the past several weeks, the White House has been very vocal about its opposition to both the Bipartisan Bill that would allow families of Sept 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its involvement in the WTC attack, as well as stonewalling when […]
“This Is Going To Be A National Crisis” – One Of The Largest U.S. Pension Funds Set To Cut Retiree Benefits
“This Is Going To Be A National Crisis” – One Of The Largest U.S. Pension Funds Set To Cut Retiree Benefits A dark storm is brewing in the world of private pensions, and all hell could break loose when it finally hits. As the Washington Post reports, the Central States Pension Fund, which handles retirement benefits […]
SocGen: “Now We Know Why The Fed Desperately Wants To Avoid A Drop In Equity Markets”
SocGen: “Now We Know Why The Fed Desperately Wants To Avoid A Drop In Equity Markets” With the ECB now unabashedly unleashing a bond bubble in Europe of which it has promised to be a buyer of last resort with the stronly implied hint that European IG companies should issue bonds and buy back shares, and promptly […]
Ben Bernanke: “Helicopter Money May Be The Best Available Alternative”
Ben Bernanke: “Helicopter Money May Be The Best Available Alternatives Now that the prospect of helicopter money by the ECB has so infuriated Germany, the ECB had to reach out to Schauble to “mollify” the Germans who are dreading the second coming of monetary paradrops in one century, it was only a matter of time before Citadel’s […]
“It’s Pure Chaos Now; There Is No Way Back” – Venezuela Hits Rock Bottom As Its Morgues Overflow
“It’s Pure Chaos Now; There Is No Way Back” – Venezuela Hits Rock Bottom As Its Morgues Overflow When we previewed Venezuela’s upcoming hyperinflation, which in January was predicted to be 720% and as of this moment is likely far higher… … we said “This Is What The Death Of A Nation Looks Like” and […]
“The Game Is Rigged”: From Luxurious Lake Como Villa, Finance Professor Admits “QE Adds To Inequality”
“The Game Is Rigged”: From Luxurious Lake Como Villa, Finance Professor Admits “QE Adds To Inequality” While attending the ultra-exclusive Ambrosetti Workshop, University of Chicago finance professor Luigi Zingales took a few minutes to discuss income inequality in an interview with Bloomberg. We were delighted that the irony of being at a luxurious villa on the shores of […]
How To Hack A Presidential Election
How To Hack A Presidential Election There is a growing recognition of the increasing tail wagging the dog nature of the internet’s control over election outcomes. We recently detailed “the hidden persuaders” at work showing how the internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. Confirming all of […]
Diversify Into Gold As An “Insurance Policy” Against Geopolitical Risk
Diversify Into Gold As An “Insurance Policy” Against Geopolitical Risk “Investors could be forgiven for heading for the hills given the tumultuous start to 2016,” so writes Andrew Oxlade in The Telegraph today who advises investors to diversify into gold as an “insurance policy”: We have long been advocates of exposure to gold as an insurance policy. […]
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War”
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War” While this all started with a currency “war,” it seems – according to a stunningly candid transcript of Japan’s finance minister’s conversation with none other than Paul Krugman – that the real endgame here is actual war. Aso remarked that “a similar [deflationary mindset] had occurred in the […]
Pentagon Admits It ‘Kinda Sorta’ Deployed Spy Drones Over America
Pentagon Admits It ‘Kinda Sorta’ Deployed Spy Drones Over America In what will likely not surprise too many, The Pentagon has admitted it has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for non-military missions over the past decade. Confirming yet another conspiracy theory is conspiracy fact, FBI director Robert Mueller testified before Congress that the bureau […]
China Proposes Unprecedented Nationalization Of Insolvent Companies: Banks Will Equitize Non-Performing Loans
China Proposes Unprecedented Nationalization Of Insolvent Companies: Banks Will Equitize Non-Performing Loans In what may be the biggest news of the day, and certainly with far greater implications than whatever Mario Draghi will announce in a few hours when we will again witness the ECB doing not “whatever it takes” but “whatever it can do”, moments ago Reuters […]
Why Helicopter Money Can’t Save Us: We’ve Already Been Doing It For 8 Years
Why Helicopter Money Can’t Save Us: We’ve Already Been Doing It For 8 Years There’s a lot of talk going around these days about “helicopter money.” For those unfamiliar, it’s billed as a kind of last Keynesian resort when ZIRP, NIRP, and QE have all failed to boost aggregate demand and juice inflation. For instance, HSBC […]
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest
Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million […]
BlackRock Suspends ETF Issuance Due To “Surging Demand For Gold”
BlackRock Suspends ETF Issuance Due To “Surging Demand For Gold” BlackRock’s Gold ETF (IAU) has seen fund inflows every day in 2016 (no outflows at all) and with the stock trading above its NAV for most of the year, the world’s largest asset manager has made a significant decision: *BLACKROCK SAYS ISSUANCE OF GOLD TRUST […]
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First Back in August 2012, when negative interest rates were still merely viewed as sheer monetary lunacy instead of pervasive global monetary reality that has pushed over $6 trillion in global bonds into negative yield territory, the NY Fed mused hypothetically about […]
