Bernie Sanders
"We The People Are Pissed": New Poll Finds Whites And Republicans Are Angriest Americans
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016 17:30 -0500"We the people are pissed. The body politic is burning up. And the anger that courses through our headlines and news feeds - about injustice and inequality, about marginalization and disenfranchisement, about what they are doing to us - shows no sign of abating,"
Nomi Prins' Financial Road Map For 2016: "The Potential For Chaotic Fluctuations Is Greater Than Ever"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2016 18:15 -0500- Bernie Sanders
- Bond
- Brazil
- Capital Markets
- Central Banks
- China
- Circuit Breakers
- Corruption
- default
- European Central Bank
- Excess Reserves
- Federal Reserve
- Fitch
- Greece
- Investment Grade
- Iran
- Italy
- Janet Yellen
- Japan
- Mexico
- Monetary Policy
- None
- OPEC
- Portugal
- Recession
- recovery
- Saudi Arabia
- Unemployment
- US Dollar Index
- Volatility
- Yuan
We are currently in a transitional phase of geo-political-monetary power struggles, capital flow decisions, and fundamental economic choices. This remains a period of artisanal (central bank fabricated) money, high volatility, low growth, excessive wealth inequality, extreme speculation, and policies that preserve the appearance of big bank liquidity and concentration at the expense of long-term stability. The potential for chaotic fluctuations in any element of the capital markets is greater than ever. The butterfly effect - the flutter of a wing in one part of the planet altering the course of seemingly unrelated events in another part - is on center stage.
Pretend To The Bitter End
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 14:45 -0500- Afghanistan
- Bernie Sanders
- Bond
- BRICs
- China
- Corruption
- CRAP
- Detroit
- Donald Trump
- ETC
- Eurozone
- Federal Reserve
- Ford
- France
- Germany
- Global Economy
- Goldilocks
- Great Depression
- Greece
- High Yield
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- KIM
- Middle East
- NASDAQ
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Nomination
- North Korea
- Portugal
- Racketeering
- Reality
- recovery
- Saudi Arabia
- SWIFT
- Turkey
- Ukraine
There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e. an economy + a polity = a political economy) based on debt that will never be paid back is certain to crack up. Its institutions will stop functioning. Its business activities will seize up. Its leaders will be demoralized. Its denizens will act up and act out. Its wealth will evaporate. Given where we are in human history - the moment of techno-industrial over-reach - this crackup will not be easy to recover from. Things have gone too far in too many ways. The coming crackup will re-set the terms of civilized life to levels largely pre-techno-industrial. How far backward remains to be seen.
My Presidential Election Prediction
Submitted by Tim Knight from Slope of Hope on 01/03/2016 16:25 -0500Status Quo means Hillary. Financial Mayhem means Bernie. Fear means Trump.
In Latest NSA Spying Scandal, World Learns Obama Lied Again; Congress Furious it Was Spied On
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/29/2015 22:45 -0500"The bottom line is that people around the world, regardless of their nationality, should know that the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don’t threaten our national security, and that we take their privacy concerns into account in our policies and procedures. This applies to foreign leaders as well." - Barack Obama, January 17, 2014
"2016 Will Be No Fun" - Doug Kass Unveils 15 Surprises For The Year Ahead
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/29/2015 11:36 -0500- American Express
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Apple
- B+
- BAC
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Bernie Sanders
- Bill Gates
- Boeing
- Bond
- Book Value
- Capital Expenditures
- Carl Icahn
- Chesapeake Energy
- China
- Citigroup
- Comcast
- Crude
- dark pools
- Dark Pools
- David Faber
- Donald Trump
- Doug Kass
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Elizabeth Warren
- ETC
- European Union
- Federal Reserve
- Florida
- Ford
- Fox Business
- France
- General Motors
- goldman sachs
- Goldman Sachs
- GOOG
- Greece
- HFT
- Housing Market
- Janet Yellen
- Joe Kernen
- JPMorgan Chase
- Morgan Stanley
- MSNBC
- NASDAQ
- NBC
- New York City
- New York Stock Exchange
- New York Times
- Nominal GDP
- President Obama
- Real estate
- Recession
- recovery
- REITs
- Sears
- Stagflation
- Unemployment
- Vladimir Putin
- Warren Buffett
- Wells Fargo
- Yield Curve
My overriding theme and the central drama for the coming year is that unexpected events can take on greater importance as the Federal Reserve ends its near-decade-long Zero Interest Rate Policy. Consensus premises and forecasts will likely fall flat, in a rather spectacular manner. The low-conviction and directionless market that we saw in 2015 could become a no-conviction and very-much-directed market (i.e. one that's directed lower) in 2016. There will be no peace on earth in 2016, and our markets could lose a cushion of protection as valuations contract. (Just as "malinvestment" represented a key theme this year, we expect a compression of price-to-earnings ratios to serve as a big market driver in 2016.) In other words, we don't think 2016 will be fun.
Dave Barry Answers - Was 2015 The Worst Year Ever? (Spoiler Alert: Yes)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 14:20 -0500- Apple
- B+
- Bernie Sanders
- Black Friday
- Carbon Emissions
- Comcast
- Donald Trump
- FBI
- Florida
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- International Monetary Fund
- Iran
- Iraq
- Japan
- Joe Biden
- KIM
- M1
- Mexico
- Middle East
- NBC
- New York Times
- Nomination
- North Korea
- Obama Administration
- Ohio
- President Obama
- Reality
- Same-Sex Marriage
- SWIFT
- Treasury Department
- Tribune
- Vladimir Putin
- Volkswagen
- Volvo
- Washington D.C.
- White House
We apologize, but 2015 had so many negatives that we’re having trouble seeing the positives. It’s like we’re on the Titanic, and it’s tilting at an 85-degree angle with its propellers way up in the air, and we’re dangling over the cold Atlantic trying to tell ourselves: “At least there’s no waiting for the shuffleboard courts!” Are we saying that 2015 was the worst year ever? Are we saying it was worse than, for example, 1347, the year when the Bubonic Plague killed a large part of humanity? Yes, we are saying that.
Bernie Sanders: We Need A "Full And Independent Audit" Of The Federal Reserve
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015 16:20 -0500"Unfortunately, an institution that was created to serve all Americans has been hijacked by the very bankers it regulates.” 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders said in an op-ed on Wednesday that a full independent audit of the Federal Reserve is necessary “to reign in Wall Street."
Putin Blasts Interventionist US Foreign Policy, Calls Forcible Regime Change "Intolerable"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 16:00 -0500On the heels of Hillary Clinton's comments during the third Democratic debate regarding the appropriateness of America's pursuit of regime change in Syria, Vladimir Putin is out reiterating Russia's position that "outsiders forcing change of legitimate powers in other countries is intolerable."
The Road To Galactic Serfdom - Libertarian Lessons From Star Wars
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/15/2015 21:50 -0500The libertarian spin on the path to the dark side has many lessons for our country. Shortly after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney said on television, “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will.” And, stricken with terror and indulging in hate, America did embrace the dark side, accepting torture, indefinite detention, warrantless surveillance, assassination, perpetual illegal wars, and mass civilian casualties. Terror led to hate, hate led to aggression, and aggression has led to suffering, not only for the the direct victims of the wars, but for Westerners at home, as we find ourselves afflicted by blowback in the form of a refugee crisis and terrorist attacks.
The American Dream "Exposed" In 22 Depressing Datapoints
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 18:50 -0500
At one time, the United States had the most vibrant middle class the world had ever seen. We were the envy of the rest of the planet, and people all over the world wanted to come here and live out “the American Dream”. Unfortunately, “the American Dream” is now dying, and most Americans don’t seem to care. Politicians of all stripes are saying the exact same thing during this election season... Sadly, when we send these politicians to Washington D.C. they just continue on with business as usual. No matter who resides in the White House and no matter who controls Congress, the game remains the same and the middle class just continues to suffer.
America's Reckless Fight Against Evil: Six Mistakes On The Road To Perpetual War
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/08/2015 21:30 -0500Why do we as a nation keep on playing into the same dismal scenario and committing the same mistakes? Why this seemingly irresistible urge to fight yet another war against evil? The longer we fight, the more deeply we are seized by fear. The more we fear, the more fiercely we are determined to fight. Perhaps the point is not to win the war but to remain trapped in this vicious circle, which feels perversely comforting because it offers a sense of unified national identity as nothing else can in our otherwise deeply divided nation.
NYT: Americans With Assault Rifles Should "Give Them Up For The Good Of Their Fellow Citizens"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/07/2015 19:00 -0500The left is now mixing terrorism and mass shootings to push a narrative to eviscerate the Second Amendment. We once again have rehashed stories about the AR-15 rifle, which isn’t as powerful as a hunting rifle and rarely used in crimes. And we have the media endorsing gun control policies that would require gun bans and confiscation. They’re insinuating parts of it, but the brash call to ban guns entirely is coming.
Bernie Sanders & The "Tyranny" Of Working For A Living
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/07/2015 17:40 -0500The dream and demand of Bernie Sanders and all of the other "democratic socialists" of all political parties is that all or at least significant parts of human life need to be micromanaged and controlled by government so people may be liberated from the "tyranny" of not having all they may want without finding effective ways of acquiring it through honest and peaceful work. The "freedom" about which Bernie Sanders speaks, and before him Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, involves a loss of liberty into an even greater degree of political paternalism.
For Citi, This Is The "Greatest Event Risk" For Markets In 2016
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 20:30 -0500"In the year ahead, geopolitics likely poses the greatest potential to disrupt markets in terms of event risk. There is also the potential for geopolitical risks to intersect with economic fragility in the event of a downturn, amplifying both."



