Archive - Dec 17, 2015

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A Big, Fat "Policy Error" Or Worse? Find Out Tomorrow





Did algos finally figure out precisely what we said first thing this morning, namely that the market completely ignored what was a hawkish hike, and that as a result, what Yellen has done, now that the kneejerk reaction is over, is policy error, pure and simple?

 

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Financial Warfare & The Big Reset: Koos Jansen Interviews Willem Middelkoop





Economic warfare aims to capture or otherwise control the supply of critical economic resources or destroying a country’s currency.  The US understands better than anybody else that a country can sometimes be hurt more by doing this than by bombing its infrastructure. The tool of exclusion from the dollar-denominated global financial system is described as a 'neutron bomb' constituting a more potent bomb than any military weapon. But recent developments signal the first stages of the US dollar’s decay.

 

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Markets Brace For More Fund Liquidations As Record Outflows Slam Debt Funds





As new investor liquidity evaporates and as billions are redeemed first from the junk bond universe, then investment grade and then loans, the debt crisis which was unleashed in anticipation of the Fed's rate hike, is about to get much worse, and lead to even more prominent hedge fund "gates" and liquidations.

 

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All Of The World’s Money And Markets In One Visualization





How much money exists in the world? Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract definition of money we use, the higher the number is.

 

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We Disappeared Some Folks: Details Emerge In China's Sweeping Probe Of Stock Market Rescue





“Communist Party graft busters have been taking officials, one by one, to a hotel close to the [CSRC’s] headquarters to press them to come clean or report on others."

 

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Gold & The Federal Funds Rate





It is widely assumed that the gold price must decline when the Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates. It seems logical enough: gold has no yield, so if competing investment assets such as bonds or savings deposits do offer a yield, gold will presumably be exchanged for those. There is only a slight problem with this idea. The simple assumption “Fed rate hikes equal a falling gold price” is not supported by even a shred of empirical evidence.

 

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Dear Janet, Explain This!





Having been unable - or unwilling - to answer various reporters' questions with regard the 'odd' timing of The Fed's rate hike yesterday, we thought we would offer just one more chart to question the credibility of the central planners. Plucked from The Fed's own research, last week saw the largest surge in St.Louis Fed's Financial Stress Index (FSI) since August... and as Yellen proclaimed "all clear" the FSI was screaming "Danger" even louder than it did in September - when The Fed folded.

 

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ISIS, Al Qaeda And The CIA: The Documented Connection





It was recently written in the Washington Post that many Shia Iraqis harbor the conspiratorial belief the US created the Islamic State to destroy Iraq.  Conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact. 

 

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Artist's Impression Of The Fed Rate Hike Hangover





Data-dependent... and unrepentent!

 

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America, It's Over! Yale Students Sign Petition To Repeal First Amendment





America, It's Over! Summing up the ignorance exposed in political satirist Ami Horowtiz's petition of Yale students to "blow up" The First Amendment, one student remarked, "I think this is fantastic, I absolutely agree."

 

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Dramatic Footage Of Reporters Mugging Martin Shkreli At Brooklyn Courthouse





A dramatic scene unfolded in front of a Brooklyn courthouse, where dozens of reporters mugged the diminutive and scandalous Martin Shkreli after he posted a $5 million bond to be released back into society, something we have not seen since the days of Bernie Madoff.

 

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Thursday Humor: Lawyer For Martin Shkreli Hike Fees 5,000%





“Compared to what he pays for an hour of Wu-Tang Clan, sixty thou is a bargain"...

 

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