Koch Brothers "Freeze Out" Donald Trump

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 14:06
With everyone asking 'what can derail this?', perhaps, there is something. As Politico reports, the massively influential Koch brothers are freezing out Donald Trump from their influential political operation - denying him access to their state-of-the-art data and refusing to let him speak to their gatherings of grass-roots activists or major donors.

4 Of The Most Stunning Charts Of The Global Chaos In 2015!

from KingWorldNews:
With so much turmoil taking place in markets around the world, particularly in China, today King World News is featuring 4 of the most stunning charts of of the global chaos in 2015!
The following charts are from the Wall Street Journal and others. The first chart below from WSJ shows the new stock account openings by month in China. Note how they skyrocketed in 2015.
With so much turmoil taking place in markets around the world, particularly in China, today King World News is featuring 4 of the most stunning charts of of the global chaos in 2015!
Richard Russell Continues @ KingWorldNews.com

Another Day, Another V-Shaped Manic-Melt-Up Recovery In Stocks (To Unchanged)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 16:04

Brazil's Economy Slides Into Depression, And Now Olympians Will Be Swimming In Feces

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 15:55 Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games. An AP analysis of water quality revealed dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human sewage in Olympic and Paralympic venues — results that alarmed international experts and dismayed competitors training in Rio, some of whom have already fallen ill with fevers, vomiting and diarrhea.

From Hill-ary To Mountain-ary - How UBS Sent Millions To The Clintons After Saving The Bank In 2009

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 15:35 How many more blind eyes can the press (or "we, the people") turn?

The Real Story Behind Turkey's US-Backed "War On Terror"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 15:15 To let the media tell it, recent "attacks" - including a suicide bombing that killed 32 people earlier this month - have prompted Turkey to officially join the fight against ISIS. In reality, Ankara's motivations can be explained not by a desire to rid the world of "terrorists", but by considerations of political expediency and by an autocrat's insatiable thirst for power.

7 'Saves' In 7 Months: A Market Going Nowhere Fast

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 15:02 Can markets be saved an eighth time, a ninth time, a tenth time this year? How about next year?

Caught On Tape: Angry Mexican Crowd Attacks Uber Drivers

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 14:52 While everyone knows "you don't mess with Texas," it appears technologists worldwide just learned another truism, "you don't disrupt in Mexico." As the following disturbing clip shows, as WFLA reports, an angry crowd attacked Uber drivers and their vehicles with clubs and stones Tuesday outside the Mexico City airport.

Trade Like A Market Wizard - An Interview With Mark Andrew Ritchie

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 14:45 "...risk management is not another component... it is THE component of trading! Everyone goes broke because their trading size is wrong... Any fool can take a profit. It takes a lot of character, discipline and commitment to take losses and continue going – and that is the only way one can succeed. The lasting trader will always reduce trading size in order to continue trading and come back."

Did Planned Parenthood Just "Hack" Its Own Website As A Publicity Stunt?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 14:25 As Sean Davis of the Federalist reports, Planned Parenthood claims on several of its websites that the organization’s web operations have been attacked by "extremists"  but this so-called hacking has all the hallmarks of an orchestrated public relations stunt. A cursory check of the website moments ago shows it stating that "Our normal site is currently undergoing maintenance." What makes this hack unique, however, is that "numerous people on Twitter pointed to evidence suggesting that this so-called hack wasn’t a hack at all."

"The Virtuous Emerging Market Cycle Is Turning Vicious" Albert Edwards Remembers The 1997 Asian Crisis

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 13:52 Given that some two-thirds of Wall Street traders have never experienced a Fed tightening cycle, SocGen's Albert Edwards is not surprised he gets blank looks when he tries to explain how recent events in commodity and EM markets are in many key (worying) ways similar to the 1997 Asian crisis.

Former FDIC Head Sheila Bair Resigns From Parent Of World's Largest Subprime Auto Lender

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 13:43 Just days after Blythe Masters took up her role as Chairman of Santander Consumer - the world's largest subprime auto lenders; former FDIC head Sheila Bair has resigned her position on the board of Banco Santander citing excess "travel" as a reason. One cannot help but wonder if the clash of the titans was too much, if the embrassment of a failed stress test was unbearable, or if Ms. Bair sees the rapidly approach light at the end of the tunnel of subprime lending for what it is... a bigger train that 2008's.

3 Things: B2B, Warnings & Confidence

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 13:38 "The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains." The Skousen index suggests that the current economy is significantly weaker than headline statistics state.

An Angry Paul Volcker Responds To Accusations He Caused The Bond Liquidity Crunch

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 13:21 Paraphrasing Jean-Claude Juncker, "when it gets serious, you have to lie (or deny)" and sure enough in just 30 seconds, the vehement anger Volcker shows in the following clip when 'accused' of creating illiquidity in markets due to his rule suggests the former Fed head is more than a little 'fed' up... and he should be, as we have pointed out previously - while Fink et al. are happy to blame his rule, it is HFT and Central Bank distortions that have created the illiquid disaster that so many call 'markets' today.

Weak 7 Year Auction Tails 0.8 bps After Foreign Central Bank Buyers Balk

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2015 - 13:14 With a When Issued trading at 2.013%, traders were looking for a high yield to print well inside of that. Instead they got a nearly 1 basis point, or 0.8 bps to be price tail, to 2.021%, even though the Bid to Cover was nominally above last month's 2.384, printing at 2.468. The reason for this almost certainly was the steep drop in the Indirect take down, which dipped from 56.64% in June to just 49.15%, which was the lowest foreign central bank demand since October. And with Directs relatively unchanged, at 12.01%, it mean that Dealers had to step up and take 38.8% of the issue, the most since September of 2014.

Why Social Security Could Be Bankrupt In 12 Years

by David Stockman, Contra Corner:

The so-called “trustees” of the social security system issued their annual report last week and the stenographers of the financial press dutifully reported that the day of reckoning when the trust funds run dry has been put off another year—-until 2034.
So take a breath and kick the can. That’s five Presidential elections away!
Except that is not what the report really says. On a cash basis, the OASDI (retirement and disability) funds spent $859 billion during 2014 but took in only $786 billion in taxes, thereby generating $73 billion in red ink.  And by the trustees’ own reckoning, the OASDI funds will spew a cumulative cash deficit of $1.6 trillion during the 12-years covering 2015-2026.
Read More @ DavidStockmansContraCorner.com

California Drought May Wipe Whole Towns off the Map

from The Daily Sheeple:
People build cities and towns in many different regions on Earth, and for many different reasons. We seek out places that are easy to build our homes on, provide security, have an abundance of resources, or have easy access to neighboring communities. In the modern world however, many of our basic necessities are available no matter where we live, and it’s easy for us to take for granted the one resource that really matters. That resource is water of course, and if you don’t have it where you live, then all of the other advantages that might be found in your community’s location, are completely negated.
Read More @ TheDailySheeple.com

Incongruities in the News

from Paul Craig Roberts:
Jonathan Pollard, a paid spy for Israel described by Michael D. Shear as “one of the country’s most notorious spies,” has been pardoned from his life sentence. It strikes me as hypocritical for the US government to sentence anyone to prison for spying when the government itself spies on everyone everywhere. All Americans including members of the House and Senate, congressional staff, military officers, foreign governments including the leaders of Washington’s closest allies, and foreign businesses are spied upon. No one is exempt from Washington’s spying.
Washington claims that its worldwide spying does no harm. So how did the very limited spying of one person—Pollard—a civilian employee of Naval intelligence do so much harm as to warrant a life sentence? What some of us would like to see is a life sentence for NSA.
Read More @ PaulCraigRoberts.org

Miracle Garlic Soup Recipe – 100 Times More Effective Than Antibiotics

by Anna McPhee, Natural News:
A study from Washington University has shown that garlic is up to 100 times more efficient than popular antibiotics in combating diseases.
Day by day, people increasingly have faith in natural remedies. Antibiotics are not always effective, as viruses and bacteria may become more and more resistant. The main chemical allicin in garlic has ability to fight these viruses, and it is not affected by the mutations of the new bacteria and viruses.
Garlic is considered to be helpful in preventing heart diseases, lowering the cholesterol and preventing blockage of blood vessels.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com

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