Since we know that the nature of the government is to expand, we must ask the gun controllers an honest question: How much more “common sense” gun control is needed?
"Though it seems like only yesterday, it’s been a decade since my former employer, Lehman Brothers, went bankrupt... In some ways, we seem much better off now - employment and asset prices are booming... But that only tells half the story..."
"US economic and equity market resilience - despite tariffs - will embolden the President on all geopolitical fronts – autos, NAFTA and particularly Iran – and thus risk a major miscalculation from sanctions that are tough to calibrate." - JPMorgan
"The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business - ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do not want it changed."
Ten years after central banks unleashed a period of record low interest rates, the central banks' central bank is warning that this may not have been the smartest move.
"What is different now is that, as this debt comes due, it is unlikely that companies will be able to roll to lower rates than they are currently paying."
"Seeking to maintain its credibility, The New York Times dispenses with the criminal justice system and basic principles of journalism to weigh in again on Russia-gate..."
Having rallied 800 points last week on hopes that US-China trade tensions were on a path to de-escalation, Dow futures are opening down just 100 points (and Yuan is lower) after China escalated and canceled two planned trade talk visits.
"Volatility is always the failure of medium... the crumpling of a reality we thought we knew to a new truth. It is the moment where we learn that we are a fish living in a false reality called water...This is all you need to know to understand when the volatility storm will truly come..."
"...both China and the US have built their economies on financialisation while ignoring the people’s concerns, and the trade war will hasten the reckoning both countries need..."
