Selling Out America...Obama Abruptly Waives 1980 Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 12:43
FIRPTA was implemented during a better era for Americans in response to international investors in the late 1980s and early 1990s buying U.S. farmland, as well as the more publicly visible buying of trophy U.S. property by the Japanese.  The US government has now expediently waived FIRPTA.

Hedge Fund AUM Falls By Most Since Crisis As Desperate Managers Cut Fees To Keep Clients

“If you’re pushing for lower management fees to save minimal basis points on a fund where you are unhappy with performance, as a fiduciary, you have to decide whether you want to keep that fund at all.”

Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2015 - 17:05 Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans.

An Xmas Message From Satan - "Ignorance, My Poor Dear Americans, Will Not Save You"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 14:35 "My minions in the Federal Reserve - such loyal servants! - continue feeding an orgy of leverage and debt, spreading ruination under the false guise of prosperity. What a delicious irony, that the fools doomed to eternal damnation in my Empire believe themselves prosperous as they absorb the poison of exponentially rising leverage and debt."

Here's What Spain's Messy Election Result Looks Like Right Now

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 14:05

Israel Assassinates Notorious "Terrorist" In Airstrike On Damascus

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 14:00 "I am not confirming or denying anything to do with this matter, but it is good that people like Samir Qantar will not be part of our world.
"Such acts of the Zionist regime, which have become a consistent method, are the most dangerous forms of state terrorism."

Matt King:"The Risk Is That Central Banks Created A Monster That Drives The Economy On The Way Down"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 13:28 "Rather than the economy driving markets, as is supposed to be the case, the risk is that central banks have now created a monster such that markets drive the economy, if not on the way up, then certainly on the way down."

This Is What Obama Was Doing During The Democratic Debate

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 13:00 If you missed the third democratic debate, don't worry, you are not alone: the President himself had much more important pursuits to attend to when the potential successor from his party was laying out her (or his) ideological vision for the future of America.

Saudi Arabia: The Source Of Islamic Radicalism

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 12:28 Al-Qaeda inspired terrorism is a threat to the Western countries but the Islamic countries are encountering a much bigger threat of inter-sectarian conflict. For centuries the Sunni and Shi’a Muslims have coexisted in relative peace throughout the Islamic World but now certain vested interests are deliberately stoking the fire of inter-sectarian strife to distract attention away from the Home Front: that is, the popular movements for democracy and enfranchisement in the Arab World.

The Fed's "Alarm Clock" Went Off 6 Hours Too Late: What This Means For Stocks And Bonds

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 12:00 "Typically rate rises start when profits are growing faster than debt and when companies are still deleveraging. This is around “half-past two” on our leverage clock2: 1994 and 2004 both fit this pattern. Now, with companies having been leveraging up for the past four years, and net debt/EBITDA in both Europe and especially the US at its highest non-recessionary level ever, it feels more like eight o’clock, or possibly even later."

“This is a Coup” – The Story of How Greece Lost Its Democracy

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 11:17 Presenting an "exhilarating, disheartening, infuriating, touching and powerful" mini-documentary on last summer's Greek saga.

Putin Blasts Interventionist US Foreign Policy, Calls Forcible Regime Change "Intolerable"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 - 09:00 On the heels of Hillary Clinton's comments during the third Democratic debate regarding the appropriateness of America's pursuit of regime change in Syria, Vladimir Putin is out reiterating Russia's position that "outsiders forcing change of legitimate powers in other countries is intolerable."

Obama Finally Commits To Putin's Syrian Policy - Yet Continues Violating It

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2015 - 22:20 The basic policy-difference on Syria has been between U.S. President Barack Obama’s insistence that Syria’s legal President must be ousted before any peace-process starts, versus Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence that no foreign power possesses the right to determine whom the leader of Syria or any other country will or won’t be - only the residents there do, via free and fair democratic elections. Putin proposes an internationally monitored and verified election in Syria to determine the identity of Syria’s President; Obama has rejected that proposal - until now.


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