Archive - Jul 29, 2015
Affirmatively Destroying America's Neighborhoods In The War On Suburbia
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 21:15 -0500Few of us understand patient gradualism. We live and have our being within a few years and mostly in an unconscious automated state of mind. But people in power are long-term planners. They absolutely understand human nature and how to channel it to the evolution and refinement of the authoritarian state. The goal is perfect docility and perfect harmony with authoritarianism (economic, social and spiritual). Until the people accept collectivism under some pretext, they are not docile and completely subdued. Once they do, rebellion and confrontation are impossible. This is the ultimate goal of the globalists, and the American system is nearing this state.
Hackers Claim John McCain Knew ISIS Execution Videos Were Staged
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 20:45 -0500In a rather stunning note, CyberBerkut, a Ukrainian group of hackers, claims to have hacked John McCain’s laptop while he was in the Ukraine, and as Techworm reports, what they have released from his June visit appears to be a fully staged production of an ISIS execution video...
Chinese Stocks Open Lower As Margin Debt Tumbles To 4-Month Lows, Regulators Probe Officials' Sales
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 20:18 -0500Following last night's afternoon session melt-up at the hands of a $100bn injection into China's sovereign rescue fund, Chinese stocks opened higher but faded fast, with no follow-through from yesterday's farce. With Warren Buffett's favorite indicator flashing red for China (and US) stocks, and so many rural Chinese citizens "just hoping to get out at breakeven," any assistance in levitating the nation's stocks are simply being sold into as margined traders unwind their positions. One such leveraged 'citizen' is none other than State-Owned-Enterprise GM Yang Shengjun, whose firm was ironically among the most vocal in blaming the crash on "malicious foreign sellers trying tio start an economic war" and is now under investigation for dumping his own shares... do as I say Chinese people, not as I do.
Flight MH370 Wreckage Found, Close To Madagascar
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 20:15 -050016 Months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared off the coast of Malaysia, The Telegraph reports that fragments of a wing washed up in the French island of Reunion (near Madagascar) could be wreckage from the missing plane, according to an aviation expert.
If Spending Is Our Military Strategy, Our Strategy Is Bankrupt
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 20:15 -0500US global superiority in military affairs is actually the superiority of a rich kid who thinks he’s really smart but in reality is merely just rich. When the seemingly endless flow of money slows (as it inevitably will), the mask of cleverness will fall. Everyone who resented the kid will be waiting at the edge of the playground for this day of reckoning, and because no one else will have been so dependent on spending-as-strategy, the erstwhile rich kid will find it tough going.
Total Collapse: Greece Reverts To Barter Economy For First Time Since Nazi Occupation
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 19:43 -0500"He is going to pay me back in some sort of product when he is able to, maybe in cheese."
In Latest Market-Rigging Scandal, ITG Busted For Frontrunning Clients In Its Dark Pool
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 19:36 -0500Since the market is once again on the verge of a terminal liquidity seizure with its associated side-effects (see China for details), the authorities needed to remind the "market" just who the scapegoat will be when the next crash finally does come. Which is why earlier today in an unexpected "preliminary second quarter guidance" release, ITG, owner of the Posit dark pool, was just busted with a $22.6 million potential SEC settlement for what appears to have been blatant frontrunning of company clients in its own prop trading pod. But what is particularly amusing in this case is that while everyone knows that when it comes to HFT's, it is never called "rigging" - the proper nomenclature is "glitch", so now we learn a new term to use instead of "criminal frontrunning" - drumroll... trading experiment,
Meanwhile In Venezuela... The Socialist Paradise Has Arrived
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 19:19 -0500As we recently warned, the hyperinflationary collapse in Venezuala is reaching its terminal phase. With inflation soaring at least 65%, murder rates the 2nd highest in the world, and chronic food (and toilet paper shortages), the following disturbing clip shows what is rapidly becoming major social unrest in the Maduro's socialist paradise... and perhaps more importantly, Venezuela shows us what the end game for every fiat money system looks like (and perhaps Janet and her colleagues should remember that).
4 Mainstream Media Articles Mocking Gold That Should Make You Think
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 19:15 -0500Religious imagery... peak condescension... everyone proclaiming "gold is dead"... In a nutshell, sentiment has plunged to negative levels not seen in years, if not more than a decade. Here are four mainstream media articles that provide some evidence we may be approaching a sentiment low. Some of them we're sure you’ve seen, others perhaps not. What amazes us is how they’ve all come out within the last two weeks.
Presenting Jeremy Grantham's "10 Topics To Ruin Your Summer"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 18:45 -0500In GMO’s latest quarterly missive, Jeremy Grantham is back with another dose of inconvenient truthiness, this time in the form of "ten quick topics to ruin your summer"...
Bill Gross Explains (In 90 Seconds) How It's All A Big Shell Game
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 18:23 -0500"All global financials markets are a shell game right now... There is no doubt that the price of assets right now is a question mark... and ultimately when Central Banks stop manipulating markets where that price goes is up for grabs... and probably points down"
Hillary Saves Capitalism!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 18:15 -0500We don’t know what we would do without Ms.Clinton. How would we know, for example, how long we should hold an investment without her to tell us? She seems to believe that today’s average holding period is too short. It causes an obsession with short-term results that she calls “quarterly capitalism.” How will “working to end short-termism” help working families? How many months of holding an investment is acceptable to the Democratic Party’s front-runner? Why would anyone even think that Ms. Clinton – who has never held an honest job in the private sector – could possibly have any idea about how to save capitalism… or how long an investment should be held?
Hillary Does It Again: What "Everyday American" Would Pay $600 For This Haircut?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 17:46 -0500There are plenty of 'everyday Americans' out there with perfectly good haircuts, styled by perfectly good hairdressers, in perfectly good Main Street salons... so why is self-proclaimed populist person-of-the-everyday-American Hillary Clinton getting a $600 haircut at Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue store in NYC?
1 In 5 US Stocks Now In Bear Market
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 17:45 -0500With the major US equity markets within 1-2% of their record highs, Gavekal Capital notes that underneath the headline indices, stock markets are extremely tumultuous. Rather stunningly 21% of MSCI USA stocks are at least 20% off their recent highs, and 68% of Canadian stocks are in bear markets, but the real carnage is taking place in Emerging Markets.
The War On Cash: Why Now?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/29/2015 17:15 -0500Why are governments suddenly so keen to ban physical cash? The answer appears to be that the banks and government authorities are anticipating bail-ins, steeply negative interest rates and hefty fees on cash, and they want to close any opening regular depositors might have to escape these forms of officially sanctioned theft. The escape mechanism from bail-ins and fees on cash deposits is physical cash, and hence the sudden flurry of calls to eliminate cash as a relic of a bygone age — that is, an age when commoners had some way to safeguard their money from bail-ins and bankers’ control.


