South Africa's still-newly-minted government has decided to apply the same cleansing of the "original sin," to the nation's resource mining operations...
The Permania has begun to take its toll on all those investors that saw it as the next huge thing. With production booming, pipeline capacity has become tight, and producers are forced to sell their crude at a painful discount to benchmarks.
Brittany Kaiser said she had been in close contact with Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange, even traveling to see him inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and funneling money to Wikileaks' bank accounts using cryptocurrency.
Global stocks, US equity futures and Treasury yields extended gains while the dollar slumped as "risk-on" sentiment returned after the U.S. and China exchanged trade proposals meant to avoid an escalation of economic tensions.
"Trump’s need to surround himself with the likes of Pompeo, Haspel and Bolton betrays an acquiescing desire to appease the deep state rather than fight it..."
"I was in Argentina last week and saw the carnage first-hand...When rates go up sharply, stuff blows up, because lots of people are negatively exposed to higher rates. "
