Clinton Foundation Hacked, "Foundation Vulnerabilities" Document Leaked By Romanian Hacker

Moments ago the newswires lit up with news that the Clinton Foundation was among the organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the U.S. political apparatus ahead of the Nov. election. Among the document leaked is a file titled "Clinton Foundation Vulnerabilities Master Doc" - here are its contents.

S&P Analyst Admits: Central Banks Have Destroyed Any Chance Of Fiscal Reform

We have said for many years that accommodative monetary policy completely removes the burden from politicians that would require them to actually make difficult decisions around fiscal reforms, and now Standard & Poor's is saying the same thing.

Blackouts Loom With California In Power Grid Emergency: "All Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power"

All customers, including homes, hospitals, oil refineries and airports are at risk of losing power at some point this summer because a majority of electric generating stations in California use gas as their primary fuel. In April, millions of electric customers in Southern California were warned they could suffer power outages on up to 14 days this summer due to the closure.

Juncker Proclaims Himself All-Knowing God Of EU

European Council president Jean-Claude Juncker proves just how scary it is to belong in the EU. Juncker actually stated your vote should be ignored, unless of course you agree with him.

OPEC May Be Forcing Venezuela Into Regime Change

"If Maduro doesn’t have the oil revenues to continue supporting the socialist government… there may be regime change..."

Tuesday Humor: What's Wrong With This Chart?

Sorry but seriously!!

Spot The Algo That Just Ramped Stocks To The Highs Of The Day

Wondering why stocks suddenly ripped higher (Dow surging 80 points) to the highs of the day? Brexit headline? Nope. Yellen? Nope. Johnny 5? Yep...

The Zombification Of America's Millennials

Nearly four in 10 millennials (39%) say they interact more with their smartphones than they do with their significant others, parents, friends, children or co-workers... the creeping zombification of America continues.

TEPCO Admits Cover-Up Of Fukushima Meltdown

The president of Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted the company concealed the reactor meltdowns at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant immediately after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. "I would say it was a cover-up," Hirose told a news conference. "It's extremely regrettable."

3 Heavily Armed People Arrested At Holland Tunnel On Way To New York City

Three people were arrested with multiple loaded guns, rifles and ballistic vests at the Holland Tunnel Tuesday when police stopped them for driving with a cracked windshield.  The three individuals, two men in their 50s and a woman in her 20s who may be from Pennsylvania, were stopped on the New Jersey side of the tunnel around 8 a.m., authorities said. A search of their vehicle revealed the weapons cache.

Kim Kardashian Disappointed After Senate Votes Down Four Gun-Control Proposals In One Day

In the wake of the Orlando shootings, there has been a renewed push by lawmakers to show their constituents that they are actually working on strengthening gun control measures - now if only anyone could agree on anything. On the same day that the Supreme Court turned away two separate appeals challenging assault weapon bans in New York and Connecticut, the Senate rejected a total of four proposals centered around gun control... and Kim Kardashian is not amused.

If You Want More Jobs And More Job Stability: Disrupt More, Not Less

Reducing disruption to protect the privileged status quo is akin to poisoning the patient to "protect them from harm."

Trump Responds To Press Mockery Of "Terrible" Fundraising Report

“If need be, there could be unlimited “cash on hand” as I would put up my own money, as I have already done through the primaries, spending over $50 million dollars. Our campaign is leaner and more efficient, like our government should be.”

Goldman Responds To Yellen's Testimony: "Little New Ground"

"Chair Yellen broke little new ground in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. She remained upbeat about the economic outlook, but said that the FOMC would need to watch incoming labor market data to determine whether recent signs of slowing are indeed transitory."

Ugly, Tailing 5 Year Auction Sees Lowest Bid To Cover Since 2009

If yesterday's 2 Year auction was at best mediocre, today's auction of $34 billion in 5 Year paper was downright woeful. The high yield of 1.218% tailed the When Issued by a whopping 1.3bps, suggesting far less interest than the market expected. This was confirmed by a look at the fundamentals, which showed a Bid to Cover of just 2.29, far below last month's 2.60 and below the 12month average of 2.45%. In fact, the Bid to Cover was the lowest since 2009.

Short-Term VIX Premium Soars To Highest Since August Crash

Despite the exuberant rally in stocks following the dreadful murder of UK lawmaker Jo Cox last week, investors are anything but convinced that everything is awesome. As polls show the Brexit vote remains very evenly-matched, so traders have piled into short-term VIX protection (covering the next few days) spiking from 11 to 22 in the last week. This is the widest spread to 'normal' VIX since the August crash following China's turmoil-inducing currency devaluation.

The Top 100 Hedge Funds Of 2016 According To Barron's

Here is the table of the Top 100 best performing hedge funds of 2016 ranked by their 3-year compound return, with an average return of 16.98% (ranging from 30% to 12%), outperforming the S&P's 3 year return of 15.13%.

"My Vote's Up For Grabs" - A Millennial's Advice To Trump

"The age of Obama has passed and the ordained era of Democratic power is over. At least when it comes to millennials. Trump can win those voters. But he must continue to move away from the GOP's historical insular focus on social issues. He must woo us with conservative fiscal policies, which promote self-sufficiency and can offer young Americans a brighter, more prosperous future. The times, they aren't a changing, they've already changed."

Russia And U.S. “Losing Patience” With One Another Over Syria

by Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post:
As the recent standoff between Russian and American jet fighters over Syria still simmers in the headlines, both sides are claiming a loss of patience with the other regarding the support and opposition for Western-backed terrorist forces and the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Not even a week before the standoff, the United States via war criminal and Skull and Bones member John Kerry warned the Russians, Iranians, and the Syrians that U.S. patience is “not infinite.” Notably, Kerry’s comments were more heavily directed at Russia than any other power.
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WHEN WILL THE BIGGEST BUBBLE OF ALL BURST?

by Andy Hoffman, Miles Franklin:
It’s early Tuesday morning, and it’s one of those rare days when I don’t have something completely urgent, and compelling, to speak of.  Don’t get me wrong, the financial world is chock full of urgent, compelling topics.  However, at this rare snapshot in time; five hours before Janet Yellen’s semi-annual “Humphrey-Hawkins” Congressional testimony; two days before the BrExit referendum; three days before the COMEX “Commercials” report if they’ve made any progress in covering the all-time highnaked short positions that threaten to imminently destroy them; and five days before Spanish Parliamentary elections; we’re stuck in a temporary financial market “time warp,” in which all markets are onmanipulative lock down.
Case in point, the utterly ridiculous “propaganda meme” that Jo Cox’s death changed the course of European history; and consequently, this is “good” for stocks, and “bad” for gold and silver.  Which, from a Precious Metals standpoint, will fail as miserably as May’s “FOMC Minutes Attack” – in which the Cartel attempted to smash gold under the false propaganda meme that the Fed was about to, LOL, raise interest rates.
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5 Things Slipped by the Public While Attention was Diverted to the Orlando Shooting

by Michael Depinto, Freedom OutPost:
After any major tragedy, we develop an obsessive need to analyze, debate, and argue every conceivable aspect of what’s taken place — as if time stops. That tragedy dominates mainstream and, often, independent media headlines for days or weeks, exhaustively positing theory after theory until the public begins to lose interest.
But tragedy doesn’t occur in a vacuum, and — though it might feel as if the world pressed pause to allow society to grieve — important, pertinent issues continue to arise while our attention is trained elsewhere.
As collective shock from the massacre in Orlando begins to fade, it’s a good idea to review what happened as the media obsessed over the last few days.
1) A major lawsuit exposing probable electoral fraud in eleven states could effectively alter the landscape of the presidential race.
Slated to be filed by the Institute for American Democracy and Election Integrity, the lawsuit presents evidence of statistically impossible differences between exit polls and electronic vote totals.
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Sanders Supporters Plan World’s Largest “Fart-In” During Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech

by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg:
“Trump says very scary things — deporting immigrants, massive militarism and ignoring the climate. Well, Hillary, unfortunately, has a track record for doing all of those things,” she added.
Clinton boasted at a town hall in New Hampshire in November 2015 that, as a senator, she had voted for 2006 legislation that authorized the building of roughly 650 miles of wall on the border.
“So we see these draconian things that Donald Trump is talking about, we actually see Hillary Clinton doing,” she added.
– From the post: Jill Stein of the Green Party – Clinton Helped Create Trump
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Asia: US “Pivot” Turns to Panic

by Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook:
US foreign policy in Asia Pacific has centered around the so-called “Pivot to Asia,” initially rolled out as an alleged means for the US to strengthen ties with Asia, but was incrementally revealed as the latest leg in a decades-long attempt to encircle and contain China by overrunning the socioeconomic and political sovereignty of its neighbors, thus maintaining what US policymakers themselves refer to as American “primacy over Asia.”
It is no surprise then that nations across Asia have responded negatively to the “Pivot.” What gains the US has made, have been made through coercion, political subversion, and even terrorism – and this is done in front of an increasingly geopolitically aware Asian population.
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