Archive - Oct 6, 2015
California Mayor Forced to Hand Over Electronics and Passwords at Airport, Compares U.S. To Nazi Germany
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 22:52 -0500“I think the American people should be extremely concerned about their personal rights and privacy. As I was being searched at the airport, there was a Latino couple to my left, and an Asian couple to my right also being aggressively searched. I briefly had to remind myself that this was not North Korea or Nazi Germany. This is the land of the Free."
Commodity Trading Giants Unleash Liquidity Scramble, Issue Record Amounts Of Secured Debt
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 20:54 -0500In a furious race to shore up as much liquidity as possible, Glencore - which a month ago announced a dramatic deleveraging plan - and its peers have been quietly scrambling to raise billions in secured funding. Case in point none other than Glencore's biggest competitor and the largest independent oil trader in the world, Swiss-based, Dutch-owned Vitol Group, whose Swiss unit Vitol SA earlier today raised a record $8 billion in loans.
The Two Major Factors That Will Drive Markets In Q4 According To SocGen (Spoiler: Not The Fed)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 20:29 -0500For SocGen, as a result of a rather unfortunate credibility-losing accident, the Fed will not be one of the two major factor that will drive markets in the fourth quarter. So what will? According to the French bank, it is all up to China and Earnings now.
Fortress Backs Hundred Million Dollar Subprime, Payday Lender Scheme: "He Has Peacock Feathers Tattooed Down His Left Arm"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 20:01 -0500"I don’t hide tattoos, I don’t take earrings out. I just don’t do that, because ultimately if you don’t like who I am, you’re not going to like what I do."
Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 19:29 -0500Russia can be seen as maneuvering to split OPEC into two blocs, with Russia, although not a member, persuading the “Russian bloc” to isolate Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab OPEC members within OPEC. This might persuade the Saudis to seek a compromise with the have nots.
A "Heroic" Ben Bernanke Blames Congress For Poor Economic Recovery
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 19:06 -0500"That’s why I often said that monetary policy was not a panacea — we needed Congress to do its part. After the crisis calmed, that help was not forthcoming. When the recovery predictably failed to lift all boats, the Fed often, I believe unfairly, took the criticism."
Putin Has Just Put An End to the Wolfowitz Doctrine
Submitted by George Washington on 10/06/2015 18:55 -0500The Russians Will No Longer Allow Regime Change of Their Allies
NYSE Short Interest Surges To Record, Pre-Lehman Level
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 18:28 -0500There are two ways of looking at the NYSE short interest, which as of September 15 surged by 1.4 billion to 18.4 billion shares or just shy of the level hit on July 31, 2008: one is that a massive short squeeze is about to be unleashed, sending the S&P500 to new all time highs; the other is that just as the record short interest in July 2008 correctly predicted the biggest financial crisis in history and all those shorts covered at huge profits, so another historic market collapse is just around the corner.
How Developed Markets Become Banana Republics: "Debt Is A Much Easier Way To Gather Consensus"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 18:00 -0500"A smart politician can see that if somehow the consumption of middle-class householders keeps rising, if they can afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, and best of all, a new house, they might pay less attention to their stagnant monthly paychecks. And one way to expand consumption, even while incomes stagnate, is to enhance access to credit."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama Agenda For 40% Of The Global Economy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 17:29 -0500We have just witnessed one of the most significant steps toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen. Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been completed, and if approved it will create the largest trading bloc on the planet. In this treaty, Barack Obama has thrown in all sorts of things that he never would have been able to get through Congress otherwise. And once this treaty is approved, it will be exceedingly difficult to ever make changes to it. So essentially what is happening is that the Obama agenda is being permanently locked in for 40 percent of the global economy.
Russian Embassy Trolls Saudi Arabia On Twitter
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 17:01 -0500The Kremlin has thus far observed some semblance (and we do emphasize the word “some”) of decorum in criticizing the West’s approach to Syria. The nicetites just went out the window...
The Phrase That Launches Recessions
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 16:35 -0500“It feels like someone just flipped the switch to ‘off’ without any concrete reasoning,” one of the executives commented.
Barry Diller: "If Trump Wins I'll Move Out Of The Country"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/06/2015 16:32 -0500"If Donald Trump doesn’t fall, I'll either move out of the country or join the resistance. I just think it's a phenomenon of reality television as politics and I think that that is how it started. Reality television, as you all know, is based on conflict. All he is is about conflict and it's all about the negative conflict. He's a self-promoting huckster who found a vein, a vein of meanness and nastiness."
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Earnings Still Matter
Submitted by Tim Knight from Slope of Hope on 10/06/2015 16:03 -0500As we head into another earnings season, the bulls better pray to whatever pagan gods they worship that company after company magically defy the downturn that the economy is quite obviously entering.





