"I'm 100% Sure" The US Presidential Campaign Is Being Tampered With

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 11:52
There is a growing recognition of the increasing tail wagging the dog nature of the internet's control over election outcomes. We recently detailed "the hidden persuaders" at work showing how the internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. Confirming all of this to be chillingly true is Andrés Sepúlveda, who rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. On the question of whether the U.S. presidential campaign is being tampered with, he is unequivocal - "I'm 100 percent sure it is."

A "Generational" Peak In Corporate Profit Margins

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 14:00
Falling profit margins and rising valuations (as earnings fall) make for a pretty bearish one-two punch for the stock market. Investors will surely become less eager to pay higher valuations for companies growing more slowly. That equation usually works in reverse. And there’s no reason we can see to expect these challenges to corporate profit margins to let up any time soon. The S&P 500 now trades at its highest price-to-earnings ratio since the bull market began even as the index remains well off its recent price highs. And profit margins still could have a long way to fall before even reaching their average level since 1950.

"We Won The Votes, They're Trying To Steal Them" Trump Urges Tennesseans To Crash Establishment Party

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 13:27 Building on the worst two week-period of his campaign, Donald Trump took to Twitter overnight to implore his Tennessean supporters to rise up, raging that the state’s Republican Party was "trying to steal" his delegates and urging them to crash a party meeting on Saturday morning to stop them - "We won the votes. They are trying to steal them. I can’t believe I am writing this. But the Tennessee Republican Party wants to steal your vote TOMORROW." As Politico reports Establishment leaders, alarmed by an intensifying backlash, have hired extra security for the event.


Your NEXT president...

State Department Suspends Probe Of "Top Secret" Clinton Emails

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/01/2016 - 23:48 While the media goes into a frenzy every time someone is punched or maced at a Trump rally, or frankly any time Trump says anything out of place (and lately he has has had more than his fair share of supply), what according to many is the real scandal, is quietly being doused with the media obligingly looking the other way. Moments ago, AP reported that the State Department has suspended its internal review into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or her top aides mishandled emails containing information now deemed "top secret." 

The World’s Biggest Retirement Scam

by Jason Simpkins, Outsider Club:

A lot of people are starting to get the hint: Wall Street is a rip-off.
Pension funds, insurers, university endowments, and other well-heeled investors have pumped hedge fund assets up to a record $3 trillion over the last decade.
And for what?
Hedge fund returns have failed to outpace the S&P 500 for seven straight years — and 10 out of the last 13. Last year, the S&P 500 Index outperformed the return on the average hedge fund by 1.36% to 0.42%.
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Greece Demands Explanation From IMF Over Leaked Transcript

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 12:42 Greek politicians wasted no time in seeking a response from the IMF over the leaked transcript released earlier today by Wikileaks suggesting the IMF may threaten to pull out of the country's bailout as a tactic to force European lenders to more offer debt relief, and which according to the Greek government was "interpreted as revealing an IMF effort to blackmail Athens with a possible credit event to force it to give in on pension cuts which it has rejected."

What SocGen Thinks Happens Next: "The Longer The Fed Feeds This Game, The Bigger The Mess Will Be"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 12:28 "The Fed is increasingly worried about these ever-weaker fundamentals, yet asset markets seem more preoccupied with the omnipresence of the Fed put than downside cyclical risk. This then perhaps points to the bigger underlying concern for investors, the overwhelming build-up of leverage in the system. For in the absence of sensible drivers of returns (i.e. sensible interest rates, EPS growth etc.), investors and corporates resort to leverage.... With miserly rates of return on offer in fixed income markets, investors are leveraging up. The longer the Fed feeds this game, the bigger the mess when the inevitable downswing comes along."

Danish Central Bank Warns Of "Risk Illusion", Fears "Fire Sale" Plunge In Asset Prices

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 11:18 Having slashed rates below zero and unleashed various rounds of asset-purchases, the Riksbank (Denmark's central bank) recently warned the rest of the world that "we have reached the limits of monetary policy." Now, however, Denmark's Systemic Risk Council has raised the financial system warning level to DEFCON1, warning that low levels of interest rates have led to excessive risk-taking and risk illusion among borrowers and credit institutions... and low market liquidity combijed with sudden shifts in risk perceptions may still lead to significant falls in asset prices and fire sales.

Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To "Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 10:40 In a leaked transcript, IMF staffers are caught on tape suggesting that a threat of an imminent financial catastrophe was needed to force other players into accepting its measures such as cutting Greek pensions and working conditions, or as Bloomberg puts it, "considering a plan to cause a credit event in Greece and destabilize Europe."

Canada Goes Full-Krugman, Jacks Up Borrowing And Spending, Confirms Gold Sale

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/02/2016 - 09:01 In his youth, Morneau completed graduate studies at the London School of Economics and INSEAD in France, where, as Talleyrand would have said: “He learned nothing and forgot nothing.” The result, as might be expected, was a Canadian budget that was pure Keynes/ Krugman, with a bit of Larry Summers thrown in.

Gold And Silver – Qrtly, Monthly Charts. No Change In Trends.

by Michael Noonan, Edge Trader Plus:

“Nothing ever changes on Wall Street. Speculation is as old as the hills. What has happened before in the markets will happen again.” Jesse Livermore
Despite taking his life at the Sherry Netherland Hotel in 1940, at the age of 63, [he considered himself a failure], Livermore is revered by many as the consummate trader.
We often comment on the importance of rules, and our adherence to rules does not come from Livermore, but he always attributed his losses to the times when he failed to follow his rules.
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The Coming Amerikan Hellstorm

by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:

In any repressive regime, before subjugation is complete, the totalitarian government comes for both the guns and the food. Both events are well underway in the present moment inside the United States.
America’s Coming Holodomor
On one hand, we see the forces of the EPA and the BLM are tag teaming ranchers and farmers off of their land.
The goal is the cessation of private food production.
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Documented Link Between Turkey And ISIS

from The Sleuth Journal:

Previous articles discussed Erdogan’s support for ISIS, giving its fighters safe haven on Turkish territory, allowing them free cross-border passage into Syria and return, providing them arms and other material support, selling their stolen oil.
An RT International documentary film crew discovered damning evidence found by Kurdish YPG fighters in northern Syria of Turkey’s involvement with ISIS in transporting, refining and selling stolen Syrian oil – Erdogan and other regime officials profiting hugely, separate evidence revealing it.
Turkey claiming it’s combating ISIS, not supporting it, is contradicted by hard evidence proving otherwise.
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