Archive - Jul 3, 2015
Greek Banks Considering 30% Haircut On Deposits Over €8,000: FT
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 22:56 -0500"Greek banks are preparing contingency plans for a possible “bail-in” of depositors amid fears. The plans, which call for a “haircut” of at least 30 per cent on deposits above €8,000, sketch out an increasingly likely scenario for at least one bank, the sources said."
What It All Comes Down To On Sunday
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 21:55 -0500"Do you think Europe should forgive your debt, check box 'Yes' or 'No'." "No" means a lot of pain now and recovery later. "Yes" means less pain now but no hope of recovery ever. Choose wisely...
Sugar Daddies Are Paying Their Share Of The $1.3 Trillion Student Loan Balance
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 21:55 -0500Welcome to the modern hooker economy...

The Superpower Conundrum - The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 20:40 -0500The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries. It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework for thinking about the fate of the planet. So it’s hardly surprising, when faced with a country once regularly labeled the “sole superpower,” “the last superpower,” or even the global “hyperpower” and now, curiously, called nothing whatsoever, that the “decline” question should come up. Is the U.S. or isn’t it? Might it or might it not now be on the downhill side of imperial greatness?
Greeks Turn To Bitcoin To Dodge Capital Controls
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 20:05 -0500There is at least one legal way to get your euros out of Greece these days, to guard against the prospect that they might be devalued into drachmas: convert them into bitcoin. As Reuters reports, although absolute figures are hard to come by, Greek interest has surged in the online "cryptocurrency", as new customers depositing at least 50 euros with BTCGreece, the only Greece-based bitcoin exchange, open only to Greeks, rose by 400% between May and June. With Bitcoin having surged from $238 to $268 in the last few days since Greek PM Tsipras announced Greferendum, it is clear it's not just the Greeks that are losing faith in faith-based fiat currencies.
FBI Admits 11 Attacks Against Internet, Power Grid Lines In California This Year
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 19:30 -0500On Tuesday, someone broke into an underground vault in Sacramento, and cut several high-capacity internet cables. Nobody knows who this person is or why they did it, but since that time the FBI has revealed that it was not an isolated incident. They’ve been investigating 10 other recent attacks on the internet infrastructure of California, and they seem to be deeply troubled by the vulnerability of these cables.
The $100 Trillion Bond Bubble Just Burst
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 07/03/2015 19:26 -0500Greece just took a hit… and once again it’s depositors that will take it on the chin. But this process is only just begun. Similar Crises will be spreading throughout the globe in the coming months.
BofA's Dire Prediction: Only Direct Government Buying Can Save China Stocks Now
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 18:55 -0500Even after this somewhat catastrophic drop, BofAML warns the Chinese market looks expensive. Deleveraging is likely far from over, they add, concluding that the market is a "falling knife" and only direct buying by the government will mark the bottom. As Deutsche adds, "so large are the losses for the 20 million accounts opened from mid-April to mid-June that in aggregate no money has been made for 2 years."
Artist's Impression Of A Greek ATM
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 17:45 -0500It's what goes unsaid that matters...
Arctic Drilling Future Now Rests On One Well
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 17:10 -0500Royal Dutch Shell is nearing a start to drilling in the Arctic, but has run into some hiccups. The U.S. government decided that Shell cannot actually drill both of its wells in the Chukchi Sea as planned. The Interior Department said that doing so would run afoul of its rules that protect marine life...
Gold Bullion Dealer Unexpectedly "Suspends Operations" Due To "Significant Transactional Delays"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 16:40 -0500
While the World Watches Greece THIS is Happening
Submitted by Capitalist Exploits on 07/03/2015 16:17 -0500While this Greek saga unfolds, very few are looking at China
Egypt Is On The Edge Of Full Blown Civil War
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 16:00 -0500In the last few days there were dozens of separate attacks in Egypt from the Sinai up to Cairo. More than 60 people died while the Egyptian army used F16 attack plains to protect itself against it disgruntled population. It is clear that the Egyptian rulers will not be able to contain the current situation, today could be marked as the start of Egypt’s civil war.
Greece Has Spent A Half-Century In Default Or Restructuring
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 15:25 -0500Barack Obama Tells Another Whopper - He Did Not Create 12.8 Million Jobs
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/03/2015 14:50 -0500America is better off when President Obama is out on the stump bloviating and boasting rather than in Washington actively doing harm. But the whoppers he just told the students at the University of Wisconsin are beyond the pale. Said our spinmeister-in-chief: "And the unemployment rate is now down to 5.3 percent. (Applause.) Keep in mind, when I came into office it was hovering around 10 percent. All told, we’ve now seen 64 straight months of private sector job growth, which is a new record — (applause) — new record — 12.8 million new jobs all told." That’s a pack of context-free factoids.





