December 16, 2015 - When The End Of The Bubble Begins

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 21:00 Can the third great bubble of this century survive a Fed that finally wants to get off the zero bound after its way too late, but can’t do it anyway without a massive crash inducing cash drain from Wall Street? And in the teeth of the next recession to boot? Yes, the end of the bubble does begin on December 16th.

The Eerie Echo Of 2007: It Really Is Bear Stearns, All Over Again

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 11:19 In a supreme twist of irony, Bear Stearns is back - maybe not the firm itself - but the people who were in charge of its distressed and junk bond trading group, and just like the summer of 2007, it is an ex "Bear"-run hedge fund that was the first to gate, just as the credit cycle is turning and the default cycle has begun, as we explained last week, just one day before everyone's attention finally focused on junk debt.

World Bank & UN Plan To Use False Flag Terror To Phase Out Passports & Implement Global Biometric ID

from Spiro:

The 17-page Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Report, issued to law enforcement last week, says ISIS likely has been able to print legitimate-looking Syrian passports since taking over the city of Deir ez-Zour last summer, home to a passport office with “boxes of blank passports” and a passport printing machine. Another passport office was located in Raqqa, Syria, which has long been ISIS’s de facto capital.

Is ISIS Simply A "Saudi Army In Disguise"?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 22:00 What stinks in Saudi Arabia ain’t the camel dung. It’s the monarchy of King Salman and his hot-headed son, Prince Salman. For decades they have financed terrorism under a fake religious disguise, to advance their private plutocratic agenda. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with money and oil. Saudi control of that oil wealth (from Iraq to Syria) via their ISIS agents, along with her clear plan to take out the US shale oil competition, or so Riyadh reckons, would make the Saudi monarchy a vastly richer state.

Emerging Market Vulnerability - The Most Likely For Disruption From Fed Liftoff

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 21:25 The build-up in credit or leverage in many Emerging Market economies has been an important focus for EM investors given historical episodes of credit crunches and subsequent growth slowdowns. While broadly speaking, EM stocks began to drastically underperform DM stocks at the start of QE3, Goldman summarizes in a heat map, the EM nations with greatest potential for the upcoming Fed liftoff to cause a major disruption.

ZARpocalypse Now?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 20:25 As goes the South African Rand, so goes The World?

Tear Gas, Water Cannons Deployed In Germany As Leftists, Neo-Nazis, Police Clash

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 20:10

China's Gold Army

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 19:50
Meet 'The Gold Armed Police' - China's special army unit dedicated to acquiring and protecting the nation's precious metals.

"Coppock Guide" Signals A Bear Market Is At Hand

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 19:25 Since 1929, there have been only eight such instances, and each one was followed by bear market losses of 30% or more...

The American Dream "Exposed" In 22 Depressing Datapoints

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 18:50 At one time, the United States had the most vibrant middle class the world had ever seen. We were the envy of the rest of the planet, and people all over the world wanted to come here and live out “the American Dream”. Unfortunately, “the American Dream” is now dying, and most Americans don’t seem to care. Politicians of all stripes are saying the exact same thing during this election season... Sadly, when we send these politicians to Washington D.C. they just continue on with business as usual. No matter who resides in the White House and no matter who controls Congress, the game remains the same and the middle class just continues to suffer.

Austria Proudly Shows Off The 15 Tons Of Gold It Repatriated From London

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 18:13

Zombies, Cronies, And The Trouble With Yellen's Future

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 17:40 Elections are misunderstood. On the surface they are contests between zombies and cronies. The zombies (leftists, socialists, Democrats) want lots of little handouts. The cronies (rightists, Wall Streeters, Republicans) want fewer but bigger ones. All the loot comes from the voters – who willingly give up both their money and their liberty believing that, somehow, they are better off for it. But the real winner is the Deep State. It usually controls the candidates... and continues to gain power and resources, no matter which side wins. But the Deep State is not immune to setbacks.

President Obama Explains How He Just 'Saved' The World From Its Greatest Threat - Live Feed

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 17:20 "Mission Accomplished?" Amid failure after failure for President Obama's 'legacy' policies, Americans can rest assured that the "historic" signing of today's climate accord will be spun in its most positive, "see, I saved the world from its greatest threat" awesomeness, despite, as we detailed earlier, the utter farce of it all.

500,000 Reasons Why Millennials Are Having Fewer Babies

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 16:45

The West’s Alliance With Saudi Arabia Fuels Islamism

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/12/2015 - 16:07 The spread of extremist Islamist ideology is as much a result of Western foreign policy as of Saudi machinations. It is no coincidence that ISIS is adopting Saudi religious textbooks in its schools, killing Shia in Saudi Arabia just like the early Wahhabi zealots wanted to, and generally garnering much support on a popular level in the kingdom.

“Holy Grail of Shipwrecks” $17 Billion of Gold: Spanish Treasure Boat at Center of Ownership Fight

from CCTV America:

Some call it the “holy grail of shipwrecks”. The San Jose Galleon that sank off the coast of Colombia 300 years ago, has been found. Experts say what’s on board could be worth up to $17 billion. Now the find is caught in a showdown involving those who claim ownership.

Government data shows U.S. being bombarded with Fukushima radiation 1,000 times higher than normal

by Mike Adams, Natural News:

Government data shows that the U.S. is being bombarded with Fukushima radiation 1,000 times higher than normal.
In the months following the 2011 meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, residents of Los Angeles were being exposed to levels of dangerous alpha radiation nearly 1,000 times above normal levels, a government study found.
The data came from a July 2012 presentation at the National Conference on Radiation Control. The presentation was given by Joji Ortego, Principal Radiation Protection Specialist for Los Angeles County Radiation Management.
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Bond Market Dying to Crash…This Will Lead to Hyperinflation – Andy Hoffman Interview

from VisionVictory:

Red or Blue: What Happens When YOU Are Put On A List? “If You’re On That List, Your Right Is Cancelled”

by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan:

After they have come for the terrorists, and the once-legal gun owners, what happens when they come for you?
Secret lists are becoming the law of the land. Overseas, Obama uses a secret list to authorize the killing of suspects (and bystanders) via drone strike. Execution, as determined by “secretive processes, without indictment or trial.” Some of those killed have been American citizens.
Secret lists have been used to determine who can fly on a plane, who is worth watching as a potential terrorist, and who can travel. None of this necessarily requires that a crime has been committed, or that the individual in question has done anything wrong.
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from Rense:

If you think this image overstates the dangers, please watch this: FUTURESHOCK 2016-2020: Death of the Dollar

Bank Crimes Pay: Under the Thumb of the Global Financial Mafiocracy

from Washington’s Blog:

On Nov. 13, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced it was charging 10 individual bankers, working for two separate banks, Deutsche Bank and Barclays, with fraud over their rigging of the Euribor rates. The latest announcement shines the spotlight once again on the scandals and criminal behavior that have come to define the world of global banking.

To date, only a handful of the world’s largest banks have been repeatedly investigated, charged, fined or settled in relation to a succession of large financial scams, starting with mortgage fraud and the Libor scandal in 2012, the Euribor scandal and the Forex (foreign exchange) rate rigging. At the heart of these scandals, which involve the manipulation of interest rates on trillions of dollars in transactions, lie a handful of banks that collectively form a cartel in control of global financial markets – and the source of worldwide economic and financial crises.

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