Stockman Warns Of "Awful Price To Be Paid For One-Way Markets"

The boys and girls on Wall Street are now riding their bikes with no hands and eyes wide shut. That’s the only way to explain Friday’s lunatic buying spree in response to another jobs report that proves exactly nothing about an allegedly resurgent economy.

 

Alan "Bubbles" Greenspan Returns To Gold

The former Fed chairman says he believes another debt crisis is inevitable. He believes it will lead to high levels of inflation. His solution? Gold: “Now if we went back on the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it exists let’s say, prior to 1913, we’d be fine. Remember that the period 1870 to 1913 was one of the most aggressive periods economically that we’ve had in the U.S., and that was a golden period of the gold standard.”

115 Shot This Week In Chicago As 'Gun-Free-Zone'-City Continues Death Spiral

The dismal saga continues in Chicago (with 115 shot this week alone) as violence across the US ticks upward following the Dallas police attack. All of which is quite a feat for a city which ranks as one of the most regulated cities in the nation for gun control.

Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist Calls For €150 Billion Bailout Of European Banks

David Folkerts-Landau, the chief economist of Deutsche Bank, has called for a multi-billion dollar bailout for European banks. Speaking to Germany's Welt am Sonntag, the economist said European institutions should get fresh capital for a recapitalization following a similar bailout in the US. What he didn't say is that the US bailout took place nearly a decade ago, in the meantime Europe's financial sector was supposed to be fixed courtesy of "prudent" fiscal and monetary policy. It wasn't.

Why Deutsche Bank Expects A Collapse In Monthly Job Growth To Under 60,000

The current labor/productivity gap implies that over the next 4 quarters, the cumulative slowdown in labor input growth should be 4.5 percent. This implies that aggregate hours (which most recently have been expanding at a 1.6 percent annual rate) would average just 0.5 percent (1.6 – 4.5 / 4). Expressed in terms of new jobs, this means that unless firms cut back on employee hours, monthly job creation would average close to 60K next year, a substantial drop from the 200K average of the past 12 months.

First Post-Brexit Bailout Looms As Bank Of England Mulls UK Property Fund 'Measures'

Who could have seen that coming? While many have questioned the "suitability of daily-traded, open-ended property funds that are giving investors access to an illiquid asset," all the time the price is rising, no one wants to rock the boat. However, now that Brexit has rocked the boat, spoiling the party for UK property investors and asset managers alike, it's time for Carney to ride to the tax-payer-funded bailout rescue to ensure Bear Stearns 2.0 does not become Lehman 2.0...

10 Years (Or Less): Orwell's Vision Coming True

“...it seems it has happened - UK out!!!  In my opinion, the most important long-term consequence of all this is that the exit will take Europe away from the anglo-saxons, meaning from the USA. It’s not the independence of Britain from Europe, but the independence of Europe from the USA.  And it’s not long until a united Eurasia - about 10 years.”

Rudy Giuliani Says Black Lives Matter "Is Inherently Racist, Anti-American"

"When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.. and anti-American," Giuliani states, saying that instead of telling young black kids to fear the police, parents should "teach your [black] children that the real danger to them 99 time out of 100 is not the police, but other blacks."

Gundlach Reveals His Portfolio Which Is "Outperforming Everyone Else's"

"People say, “What kind of portfolio is that?” I say it’s one that is outperforming everybody else’s. I mean, bonds are up more than 5%, gold is up substantially this year [28%], and gold miners have had over a 100% gain. This is a year when it hasn’t been that tough to earn 10% with a portfolio. Most people think this is a dead-money portfolio. They’ve got it wrong. The dead-money portfolio is the S&P 500."

ISIS Releases Footage Of Russian Helicopter Shot Down Over Syria; Two Pilots Killed

Eight months after a Russian fighter jet was downed over Syria by Turkish forces alleging the Su-24 had crossed into the country's air territory on November 24, Russia suffered another major casualty in its ongoing air campaign against the Islamic State when on Friday ISIS millitants shot down a military Mi-25 helicopter near Palmyra in Syria, killing two Russian pilots on board, Interfax news agency said, quoting Russia's defense ministry.

Osama Bin Laden's Son Emerges, Threatens Revenge For Father's Assassination

"We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and abroad in response to your oppression of the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the Muslim lands that did not survive your oppression,"

"Demented, Individual"? Dallas Shooter Linked To Leftist Revolution Groups, Nation Of Islam

Having carefully crafted the narrative that the black, former military Dallas shooter was a "demented individual... who just happened to have too easy access to guns," it appears President Obama's fiction-peddling may have run afoul of some 'facts' that show Micah Johnson had ties to and sympathies for the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, and the radical African American Defense League.

Morgan Stanley Lists The Ten Excuses Hedge Funds Give For Bad Performance

The alpha from the HFRI long-short index was close to 14% per annum in the early 1990s, and has been slightly below zero for the past few years. Why is this? We don’t claim to have some systematic rank ordering of reasons for the decay in performance, but here are ten thoughts.

Dallas Ambush Follows Pattern of Provocateured False Flags

from CorbettReport:

In February 2014 paramilitary snipers (later identified as Gladio operatives) opened fire on protestors and police forces in Ukraine, escalating the crisis and putting the final nail in the coffin of Yanukovych’s rule. In March 2011 the “spontaneous democratic protest” in Daraa led to carnage as trained snipers killed seven policemen, escalating the crisis and launching the five-year long devestation of Syria. In July 2016 unidentified snipers opened fire at an otherwise peaceful protest in Dallas, potentially sparking America’s next civil war. Do you see a pattern?

How George Soros Singlehandedly Created the European Refugee Crisis—and Why

by David Galland, Garrett Galland:
George Soros is trading again. The 85-year-old political activist and philanthropist hit the headlines post-Brexit saying the event had “unleashed” a financial-market crisis.
Well, the crisis hasn’t hit Soros just yet.
He was once again on the right side of the trade, taking a short position in troubled Deutsche Bank and betting against the S&P via a 2.1-million-share put option on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF.
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Facebook is a Terrorist Organization

by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:
Facebook is a terrorist organization, Americans need to leave Facebook immediately and join seen.life for their social media needs.
Fecebook will routinely ban posts and their authors who discuss Clinton’s criminality, Obama’s forsaking of the Constitution and egregious actions of American corporations who operate with impunity. However, Facebook sponsored an assassinte Donald Trump page. And now, Facebook is permitting images of black men slashing a white cop’s throat to be prominently displayed.
This entire travesty is covered in the brief podcast below. And when you are done listening, you will no doubt be motivated to join the social media revolution as Seen.life.
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Are You Planning Your Retirement? Forget About It. You Won’t Survive To Experience It.

by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:
The Israeli agents who comprise the Neoconservatives, a collection of war criminals that control US foreign policy, have already handed you your death certificate. The neoconservatives have far more power than they have intelligence or humanity.
At the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Conference, President Putin excoriated Western Journalists for endlessly repeating Washington’s lies that are driving the world to nuclear war. He asked Washington’s bought-and-paid-for-whores, the scum who comprise the Western news media: “How do you not understand that the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction toward nuclear war?”
Yes, indeed, how is it possible for the Western media to be totally blind? The answer to this question is that Americans live in the system of lies that comprise The Matrix, and media are paid to support the system of lies. The determining questions are: Can Americans escape their captivity in time to save life on earth? Do Americans have what it takes, or are Americans already a proven failed people who cower in ignorance under the threat of implausible “foreign threats”?
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