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The Real Reasons Why The Fed Will Hike Interest Rates
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/16/2015 21:30 -0500With a complex and disaster-prone system of interdependence causing social strife and chaos, why not just simplify everything with a global currency and perhaps even global governance? The elites will squeeze the collapse for all it’s worth if they can, and a Fed rate hike may be exactly what they need to begin the final descent.
Analyst Who Said "Buy Lehman" 20 Days Before Its Collapse Is Now On The Financial Stability Oversight Council
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/15/2015 12:38 -0500Seven years ago today, Lehman Brothers failed. But it is what took place just over two weeks prior that is of interest for the scope of this article.
America - Good, Bad Or Ugly? Part 1: The Bad
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/02/2015 21:20 -0500This nation has become a land where character and integrity are secondary to profits for the few and self serving interests of the powerful. And as we are seeing already for the third time in this millennium’s infancy, stability and prosperity can be but short lived for even the highest paid CEO’s in such a world.
Guest Post: The Donald Exposed (A Reality Check For Trumpeteers)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/27/2015 19:00 -0500It’s all emotional bullshit because what one hardly ever reads about from these Trumpeteer Marionettes is an actual discussion about Trump on the issues. It’s more important to squeeze out yet another orgasmic fountain of joy because he threw out some Univision reporter; “Oh, look! Isn’t zee Donald just Wunderbar!!” Screw that. So, let’s look at what The Donald believes... by his own words.
Why The Bear Of 2015 Is Different From The Bear Of 2008
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/24/2015 07:27 -0500Are there any conditions now that are actually better than those of 2008? Or are conditions now less resilient, more fragile and more dependent on unprecedented central bank interventions?
The Oligarch Recovery - Renting In America Is Most Expensive Ever
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/14/2015 09:26 -0500Characterizing the upward transfer of virtually all American wealth to a handful of oligarchs a “recovery,” represents a grotesque insult to the english language as well as common sense. The writing was on the wall from the very beginning. We knew as soon as TARP passed that we as society would regret the day we bailed out the bankers who destroyed the world economy. It didn’t take long.
‘My Bailout Is Bigger Than Yours’ – China Is Buying More Time To Buy More Gold Before Joining The SDR-basket
Submitted by Secular Investor on 08/09/2015 06:03 -0500China: "I wish that I could be like the cool kids. 'Cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in."
Economic Reality Now Catching Up To Market Fantasy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/07/2015 21:25 -0500In a murky world of market fantasy, our first guideposts are the fundamentals themselves. Supply and demand can be misrepresented for a time through manipulated statistics, but the tangible effects of decline cannot be. Our secondary guideposts are the paths that internationalists and central banks bulldoze through the fiscal forest. To anyone with any sense, the endgame is clear: Total centralization is the goal, and economic fear is the tool they hope to use to get there. We have written on numerous solutions to this threat in past articles; but the first and most important action is for each of us to acknowledge, wholeheartedly, that the system we know is ending. It is over. What replaces that system will either be up to us or up to them. Only by admitting that there is an end to the fantasy, a painful end, will we then be able to help determine our future reality.
China Spends 10% Of GDP On "All Bark, No Bite" Stock Bailout
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015 12:10 -0500"Public statements, media reports and market data reveal that Beijing unleashed 5 trillion yuan in funds - equivalent to nearly 10 percent of China's GDP in 2014 and greater than the 4 trillion yuan it committed in response to the global financial crisis - to calm a savage share sell-off. Beijing has thus produced the equivalent of around 1 index point gain for every $1 billion committed," Reuters reports.
China Destroyed Its Stock Market In Order To Save It
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/19/2015 18:00 -0500During the Vietnam War, surveying the shelled wreckage of Ben Tre, an American officer famously remarked, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” His comment came to epitomize the sort of self-defeating “victory” that undoes what it aims to achieve. Last week, China destroyed its stock market in order to save it. Faced with a crash in share prices from a bubble of its own making, the Chinese government intervened ruthlessly, and recklessly, to turn those prices around. Its heavy-handed approach seemed to work, for the moment, but only by severely damaging far more important goals and ambitions.
The One Lesson To Learn Before A Market Crash
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/13/2015 14:58 -0500Greece is saved!!! I mean BANKERS are saved!!! The market will celebrate the total capitulation of Greece to the EU bankers. Nothing has been resolved. The debt won’t be repaid. The can has been kicked again. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland and even France are essentially insolvent. It’s all a ponzi scheme. The bankers win and the people lose. Hope is not a strategy. Hussman’s weekly tome shows how a crisis plays out. Bad shit happens and the powers that be react with bad solutions that keep their wealth and power protected. Their bad solutions lead to a worse crisis. More bad solutions. And so on, until complete collapse.
The Crony Capitalist Pretense Behind Warren Buffett's Banking Buys
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/12/2015 18:05 -0500- 8.5%
- Alan Greenspan
- B+
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Bond
- EuroDollar
- Fail
- Global Economy
- goldman sachs
- Goldman Sachs
- Gordon Gekko
- Great Depression
- Greece
- Housing Bubble
- Italy
- Lehman
- Michael Lewis
- Milton Friedman
- New York Times
- None
- TARP
- Treasury Department
- US Bancorp
- Wall Street Journal
- Warren Buffett
- Wells Fargo
When Warren Buffet put $5 billion in Berkshire Hathaway funds into Goldman Sachs the week after Lehman failed, amidst total turmoil and panic, it appeared from the outside a high risk bet. Buffet had long tried to portray himself as a folksy engine of traditional stability, investing only in things he could understand, so jumping into a wholesale run of chained liabilities may have seemed more than slightly out of character. We have no particular issue with Buffet making those investments, only the pretense of intentional mysticism that surrounds them. The reason the criticism of crony-capitalism sticks is because this was not Buffet's first intervention to "save" a famed institution on Wall Street. If Buffet's convention is to stick with "things you know" then he has been right there through the whole of the full-scale wholesale/eurodollar revolution.
Good On You, Alexis Tsipras (Part 1)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/29/2015 19:30 -0500Late Friday night a solid blow was struck for sound money, free markets and limited government by a most unlikely force. Namely, the hard core statist and crypto-Marxist prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras. He has now set in motion a cascade of disruption that will shake the corrupt status quo to its very foundations.
Systemic Corruption Has Destroyed America
Submitted by George Washington on 06/03/2015 10:53 -0500- 8.5%
- Alan Greenspan
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bitcoin
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Corruption
- Department of Justice
- FBI
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Bank
- General Electric
- Iraq
- Lehman
- Main Street
- Monsanto
- New Orleans
- Obama Administration
- Quantitative Easing
- Rating Agencies
- SPY
- TARP
- Tim Geithner
- Treasury Department
- Washington D.C.
- White House
- World Bank
There's Always Been Some Corruption in the U.S. ... But Never Like THIS
America’s Main Problem: Corruption
Submitted by George Washington on 05/07/2015 19:41 -0500- 8.5%
- Alan Greenspan
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bitcoin
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Corruption
- Department of Justice
- FBI
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Bank
- General Electric
- Iraq
- Lehman
- Monsanto
- Quantitative Easing
- Rating Agencies
- SPY
- TARP
- Tim Geithner
- Treasury Department
- White House
- World Bank
Systematic Corruption Has Metastasized throughout the U.S. ... Making Our Once-Great Nation Deathly Ill




