The USA Is Now a 3rd World Nation
By Charles Hugh Smith | 8 July 2018 OF TWO MINDS — I know it hurts, but the reality is painfully obvious: the USA is now a 3rd World nation. Dividing the Earth’s nations into 1st, 2nd […]
Banksters / Financial Manipulations
Putin’s People Would Like to Have a ‘Word’ with William Browder, and Here’s Why
During Monday’s Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki, Putin specifically mentioned Jewish-Brit (formerly American) vulture-investor William Browder as a criminal suspect to which Russian authorities would like access. This seemed to surprise observers and begs the […]
Over 800 Cryptocurrencies Are Now Dead as Bitcoin is 70% Off Its Record High
Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead and worth less than one cent. New digital tokens are created through initial coin offerings but some of these projects have been scams and many have not materialized into […]
Trump and the ‘Russian’ Zio-Oligarch Cesspool
A new “Russian” connection to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has come to light, Reuters reports. In an affidavit attached to a July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for […]
Nomi Prins: The Central Banking Heist Has Put the World at Risk
By Liam Halligan | 15 June 2018 UNHERD — “The 2008 financial crisis was the consequence of a loosely regulated banking system in which power was concentrated in the hands of too limited a cast of […]
The Steady Enmity of Powerful People
4 JUNE 2018 GOLEM XIV — “Crime doesn’t pay.” Actually it does, handsomely. If you are a banker or large financial player, it pays wonderfully. You get filthy rich committing the crimes and after…you continue to […]
Tactics of Israeli Psy-Group, Black Cube Revealed in Canadian Court Battle
Toronto-based investment firm West Face alleges a rival hired both companies to help sway a business dispute By Tomer Ganon and Orr Hirschauge | 3 June 2018 CTECH — Two Israeli intelligence gathering firms, Psy-Group […]
Deutsche Bank CoCo Bonds Plunge, Shares Hit Record Low, after US Entity Makes FDIC’s ‘Problem Bank List’
The old question: When will she buckle? By Wolf Richter | 31 May 2018 WOLF STREET — Shares of Deutsche Bank fell 7.2% today in Frankfurt to €9.16, the lowest since they started trading on the […]
Know Your Oligarch: A Guide to the Jewish Billionaires in the Trump-Russia Probe
Of 10 billionaires with Kremlin ties who funneled political contributions to Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders, at least five are Jewish By JTA and Ron Kampeas | 23 May 2018 HAARETZ — The […]
Canada’s Brookfield On Buying Spree In Brazil, Where There’s ‘Blood In The Streets’
By Tyler Durden | 21 May 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Brookfield Asset Management is one of Canada’s largest investing firms, with over $285 billion under management. The company was formerly founded in 1899 as the Sao […]
Usurious Debt-Slave Ponzi Units Have a Rancid Odor Now
Public economic confidence by some measures and in some quarters is quite high. My hypothesis is that the haves are still feeling self-satisfied about their hyper-inflated $900,000 shacks and fantasy social media surveillance/police state FANG […]
Theresa May’s Husband’s Firm made a ‘Financial Killing’ from Syria Bombing
20 April 2018 COVERT GEOPOLITICS — It is common knowledge that Theresa May’s husband Philip essentially acts as the unofficial advisor to the Prime Minister – a fact proven by the former Conservative MP for […]
Janet Yellen Hits The Paid Speech Circuit
By Tyler Durden | 5 April 2018 ZERO HEDGE — The trading world was taken aback for several moments yesterday when Jefferies’ QE-fanboy David Zervos tweeted an Instagram photo that showed what Cloud 9 surely looks like for […]
Crime Syndicate Signals War With Russia and Her Allies
The Crime Syndicate-Shadow Government has signaled its objective of war with Russia and Iran. China has signaled its intention to ally with the latter in a war. There are even reports that Chinese naval ships […]
Den of Vipers Ready to Charge it to the People
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, […]
Dropped SEC Inquiry Raises New Questions About Kushner Conflicts of Interest
2 March 2018 ABC NEWS — The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped an inquiry of Apollo Global Management six weeks after the private equity firm extended a loan to a real estate firm owned by the […]
Iran Threatens To Abandon Nuclear Deal If Western Banks Don’t Start Doing Business
By Tyler Durden | 23 February 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Iran says it will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal if big banks continue to avoid doing business with the Islamic republic, deputy foreign minister […]
After Years of Crisis in Spain, Pensioners Next to Feel the Pain
Doubts emerge as to who is saving whom. By Don Quijones | 21 February 2018 WOLF STREET — Structural unemployment and falling wages, precarious jobs, an endless brain drain, a rapidly ageing population, and the government’s constant […]
Italy’s Newest Bank Bailout Cost as Much as Its Annual Defense Budget
By Simon Black | 26 June 2017 SOVEREIGN MAN — Two more Italian banks failed over the weekend– Banco Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca. (In other news, the sky is blue.) The Italian Prime Minister […]
The Next Enron? The End of Cheap Debt
26 February 2018 DANIEL LACALLE — The end of the era of cheap money highlights the risk of “Enron-style” bankruptcies in many sectors, including renewable energy. With the path of three rate hikes in the United States […]
Trump Parasite Guildists Munchin, Cohen and Ross to Manage Loot of US
Donald Trump reached deep into the belly of the beast of Wall Street for his administration’s key economic positions. His choices signal that the U.S. will be subjected to brutal Parasite Guild measures, including privatizations via the […]
US Fiscal Train-Wreck: Accident Waiting to Happen
Central bankers can’t print trillions of dollars and expect inflation to remain contained to asset prices. It’s now seeping into the real economy. They’re in a box. There’s too much debt, markets are severely overpriced […]
Crypto Crackdown: Bitcoin is a ‘Combination of Bubble, Ponzi Scheme, Environmental Disaster’
‘If authorities do not act preemptively, cryptocurrencies could become more interconnected with the main financial system and become a threat to financial stability.’ By Wolf Richter | 7 February 2018 WOLF STREET — The official crackdown […]
Weekly Commentary: The Grand Crowded Trade of Financial Speculation
3 February 2018 CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN — Even well into 2017, variations of the “secular stagnation” thesis remained popular within the economics community. Accelerating synchronized global growth notwithstanding, there’s been this enduring notion that economies are […]
Wage Inflation is Finally here, and it’s Toxic for the Fed
Even uber-doves are now looking over their shoulder. By Wolf Richter | 2 February 2018 WOLF STREET — There have been all kinds of carefully phrased semi-hawkish statements emanating from carefully contained semi-hawkish Fed governors recently. […]
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, How to Set the Economy on Fire
By Nomi Prins | 1 February 2018. TOM DISPATCH — There’s no way to measure just how cheery this period really is — not if you’re the CEO of a major company. Just as the […]
Pick Your Poison: The American Spy-on-Spy Battle for Control
Former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich was one of the stalwarts of the Democratic progressive movement back when it was anti-war and focused on real issues. Real progressives, such as the ones I knew (and respected) […]
Winston Churchill Helped Start ‘Unnecessary War’
Winston Churchill was a crypto-Jew who sold out his country to advance the Rothschilds’ program of world domination. The Masonic Jewish central bankers contrive wars for profit, to kill patriots and to degrade and enslave […]
Trump’s Trojan Horse Immigration Policy
President Donald Trump’s new “framework for amnesty” plan is straight out of the Trojan-horse carnival-barker script. This, after endless talk and no action about “extreme vetting,” the program would provide citizenship to at least 1.8 million […]
‘Biggest Theft In Crypto History’: Over $400M Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange
By Tyler Durden | 26 January 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Earlier today we reported that cryptocurrencies tumbled overnight after one of the most popular – if unlicensed – Japanese exchanges, Coincheck, halted withdrawals of funds and cryptos […]