Thursday, September 29, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Was Fed Information In the Trump Debate...


from Silver Doctors:
If you recall or re-watch this debate, Mrs. Clinton began it by blinking oddly as if she was trying to focus.
Later in the debate her eyes kept shifting left as if she was reading something.  Still later in the debate her eyes were opening extremely wide. Now what would cause that reaction?
From LCThis is worth that 350,000 dollar donation from you multi millionaires.
For those who happened to watch the Trump Clinton Debate, or care to rewatch it, you will notice something that others noted in Mrs. Clinton was speaking in these sentences which seemed to be as if someone was reading them to her in a translation.
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Just Spotted In Front Of The New York Fed



Three months later, the shredders are back...

Frank Gaffney on Obama’s Attempt to Slip Irreversible Internet Surrender Under the Radar: ‘We’ve Got Three Days to Fix This’

by John Hayward, Breitbart:
Center for Security Policy president and founder Frank Gaffney joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday to offer his thoughts on the first presidential debate and a vitally important topic that was not addressed, the impending surrender of U.S. control of Internet registration.
Gaffney recalled a discussion with Congressman Mike Pompeo of Kansas, in which Pompeo told him:
Hillary Clinton made the case – I think pretty well, actually – for more of the same, and if you really want more of the same, whether it’s in immigration, whether it’s in trade policy, whether it’s in national security or generally, whether it’s on jobs or anything else, she’s the clear choice. I don’t think there’s any getting around it.
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4 States Sue To Block Obama's Internet Transition Set For Tomorrow Night


Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas have filed a federal lawsuit to block Obama's internet transition plan saying that “trusting authoritarian regimes to ensure the continued freedom of the internet is lunacy.”
 

FBI Investigating More Dead People Voting In The Key Swing State Of Virginia

At look into another curious case of dead people voting in another key swing state...Zombie Apocalypse or rampant voter fraud?
 

US Outcry Over Syria... Tears Followed By NATO Bombs

Emoting about humanitarian concerns is a well-worn prelude for NATO barbarism on behalf of Washington’s geopolitical interests. Crocodile tears followed by bombs. And no better person to carry out this subterfuge than UN ambassador Samantha Power.
 

The Run Begins: Deutsche Bank Hedge Fund Clients Withdraw Excess Cash




Deutsche Bank concerns just went to '11' as Bloomberg reports a number of funds that clear derivatives trades with Deutsche Bank AG have withdrawn some excess cash and positions held at the lender, a sign of counter-parties’ mounting concerns about doing business with Europe’s largest investment bank.

Here Are The Best Scream Fests From Today's John Stumpf Hearing


How Reuters "Tweaked" Its Latest Poll (Again) To Show A Clinton Lead




Rigged? Here's how Reuters "tweaked" it's latest poll to create an artificial 8.5% swing toward Hillary...

Turkish-Born Cascade Mall Shooter Facing Voter Fraud Charge As WA Law Prohibits "Verifying Citizenship"




You can add voter fraud to the list of charges alleged against the Cascade Mall shooter after he was found to have voted in the past 3 election cycles even though he's not a U.S citizen.  "We don’t have a provision in state law that allows us to verify someone’s citizenship."

Trump Campaign Releases “Ten Inconvenient Truths About The Clinton Foundation”

from Zero Hedge:
Just a few weeks back we introduced you to the work of Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel who spent the past year and a half digging into the Clinton Foundation and subsequently labeled it as a “Charity Fraud Of Epic Proportions” (see our full post on the findings here:  ““Clinton Foundation Is Charity Fraud Of Epic Proportions”, Analyst Charges In Stunning Takedown“).  As many of our readers know, Ortel is the analyst that uncovered financial discrepancies at General Electric before its stock crashed in 2008, and was described by the Sunday Times of London as “one of the finest analysts of financial statements on the planet” in a 2009 story detailing the troubles at AIG.
After a year and a half of looking into the Clinton Foundation, Ortel summarized his findings as follows:
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BREAKING: DEMS ORDER FBI INVESTIGATION OF ROGER STONE

from The Alex Jones Channel:



What’s that I See In Your Wallet? A True “Store” of Value!

from Rogue Money:
It is amazing to watch people take “stock” in themselves, over and over and over, while at the same time they keep putting aside taking stock in their personal financial situation. A facelift here, a”tuck” there, a pill here, a pill there, but no need to worry about their personal financial situation. Why? We are in the USA, and we always win. Sorry folks, the fact is we haven’t won much of anything in quite a while! Witness the failure that is the TPP (toilet paper protocols) and the TTIP (The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) which is being rejected in massive fashion by the primary industrial powerhouses in the EU. We couldn’t sell breath to a dying man. Even if we had good salesmen it wouldn’t help as the product is crap, so no-one is buying.
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Syria Claims to Have Proof US Talked to ISIS Prior to Airstrike on Syrian Troops

from Hang The Bankers:
Damascus has a recording of conversations between the American military and ISIS terrorists ahead of the US-led coalition airstrike that hit Syrian troops near Deir ez-Zor on September 17, the speaker of the People’s Council of Syria said.
“The Syrian Army intercepted the communications between the Americans and Daesh [Arabic pejorative for Islamic State/IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] ahead of the attack on Deir ez-Zor,” Hadiya Khalaf Abbas said, as cited by Sputnik Arabic.
According to the People’s Council speaker, the Syrian authorities have evidence that the US-led coalition’s airstrike was a deliberate act.
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LEAKED COLIN POWELL EMAILS CONFIRM ISRAEL’S SECRET NUKE STASH

by Darius Shahtahmasebi, The Daily Sheeple:
The various email scandals that continue to plague the current presidential election race are gifts that keep on giving. The latest culprit of the most recent leaked email scandal, allegedly courtesy of Russian hackers, is none other than Iraq-war intelligence-manipulating mastermind, Colin Powell.
In an email to U.S. Democratic party donor Jeffrey Leeds, Powell discussed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress in March 2015 about the dangers posed by the proposed Iranian nuclear deal. In that email, Powell cast doubt on Netanyahu’s pro-war rhetoric, doubting that using a nuclear weapon would even be an option for Tehran because “the boys in Tehran know Israel has 200, all targeted on Tehran, and we have thousands.”
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2017: Gold and Silver’s Year of “Public Recognition”

by David Smith, Money Metals:
In all probability, December 2015 marked the bottom of the cyclical gold and silver bear market – a bear cycle that had been in play since silver topped in May 2011 and gold in September of the same year.
During the fourth quarter 2015, share price declines of the precious metals mining companies tapered off once the last of the weak hands gave up and sold their positions to stronger, forward-looking investors.
If you go to a free chart service like stockcharts.com, you can choose any number of mining stocks and look at their January 19 daily price action. On this date – for most of the top and second-tier companies – the last intraday price plunge took place. For purpose of example only, we have chosen Endeavour Silver.
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THE TOP FOUR PRECIOUS METALS: Which Will Be The Best Investments During The Next Financial Crash

by Steve St. Angelo, SRSRocco Report:
When the next financial crash occurs, investors need to understand which of the top four precious metals are the best to invest in. Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of faulty analysis that has mislead many investors about the fundamentals of gold, platinum, palladium and silver.
I will provide information in this article on the top four precious metals that has not been covered correctly by the majority of analysts. While some may have touched on individual aspects, very few have put together an in-depth analysis on these metals to properly educate investors.
However, before I get into the details of these top four precious metals, I would like to share some very important information.
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The Run Begins: Deutsche Bank Hedge Fund Clients Withdraw Excess Cash...




Deutsche Bank concerns just went to '11' as Bloomberg reports a number of funds that clear derivatives trades with Deutsche Bank AG have withdrawn some excess cash and positions held at the lender, a sign of counter-parties’ mounting concerns about doing business with Europe’s largest investment bank.
 

How Hillary Clinton Was Fed Information In the Trump Debate

from Silver Doctors:
If you recall or re-watch this debate, Mrs. Clinton began it by blinking oddly as if she was trying to focus.
Later in the debate her eyes kept shifting left as if she was reading something.  Still later in the debate her eyes were opening extremely wide. Now what would cause that reaction?
From LCThis is worth that 350,000 dollar donation from you multi millionaires.
For those who happened to watch the Trump Clinton Debate, or care to rewatch it, you will notice something that others noted in Mrs. Clinton was speaking in these sentences which seemed to be as if someone was reading them to her in a translation.
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Trump's Right - Morgan Stanley Warns "Big, Fat, Ugly Bubble" Is "An Illusion" Driven By The Fed



"In a looping debate rant, Mr. Trump argued that an increasingly “political” Fed is holding interest rates low to help Democrats in November, driving up a “big, fat, ugly bubble” that will pop when the central bank raises rates. This riff has some truth to it... The stock market should be a barometer of the economy, but in practice it has become a barometer of Fed policy."


"People Are Mad" - Dave Collum Warns "Existential Change Is In The Air"



Chemistry professor, and infamous market observer Dave Collum, author of the encyclopedic 'Year in Reviews', senses "existential risk in the American Experiment." In an excellent interview with The Cornell Review, Collum opines on everything from 'safe spaces' to 'social unrest' warning "people are now mad, and it shows in the chaotic election. We are guaranteed to elect a president that half the populace finds repugnant...Change is in the air."
 


You know your screwed... when they tell you that they are screwing you with your own money...

Yellen Says Fed Buying Stocks Is "A Good Thing To Think About" And Could Help In A Downturn



Having hinted overnight that The Fed could buy stocks "maybe in the future," Janet Yellen blurted out confirmation that buying assets other than long-term U.S. debt is on the table. Despite the total and utter failure of SNB and BOJ direct equity buying to create increased consumption, Yellen explained "it could be useful to be able to intervene directly in assets where the prices have a more direct link to spending decisions."
 

The Central Bank Power Shift From West To East, Game Of Thrones Style



The Fed clings to status quo. Other central banks are vying to knock it down, or at least loosen its grip on them. But the Fed behaves as if it has no idea there are other powerful central banks that want to grab and harness its power. It carries on refusing to acknowledge that there may come a time, sooner rather than later, where its power is attacked. The ramifications of such an attack will impact the standing of the U.S. in the world.  The Fed can carry on being oblivious, but Game of Thrones illustrates the struggles playing out right now.

Stocks Dump As Deutsche Doubts Drum Up 2008 Dread




Smart money was out of the markets last year...

Billionaires 'Bunker'-Down For Trumpocalypse



"People are going for luxury [to] live underground because they see the future is going to be rough. Everyone I've talked to thinks we are doomed, no matter who is elected."
 

Gundlach: "The Market Will Keep Pushing Deutsche Bank Lower Until It Is Bailed Out"



"The market is going to push down Deutsche Bank until there is some recognition of support. They will get assistance, if need be. One day, Deutsche Bank shares will go up 40 percent. And it will be the day the government bails them out. That jump will happen in a minute," Gundlach said. "It is about an event which is completely out of your control."

Just 3 Things



Record levels denote the point that previously marked the end of a cycle, not the beginning of a new one. This point is often missed by the mainstream media. Record highs of anything, whether it is economic, fundamental or financial data, are warnings signs of late stage events.

How Reuters "Tweaked" Its Latest Poll (Again) To Show A Clinton Lead



Rigged? Here's how Reuters "tweaked" it's latest poll to create an artificial 8.5% swing toward Hillary...

Why Perry Capital Shut Down: The Full Letter



" Although I continue to believe very strongly in our investments, process and team, the industry and market headwinds against us have been strong, and the timing for success in our positions too unpredictable."



U.S.A...U.S.A. U.S.A....Get ready to send your kids as cannon fodder...

US To Suspend Syria Diplomacy With Russia, Prepares "Military Options"



"The United States is expected to tell Russia on Thursday it is suspending their diplomatic engagement on Syria following the Russian-backed Syrian government's intense attacks on Aleppo."

Dangerous Crossroads: Both Russia and America Prepare for Nuclear War?

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research:
Barely acknowledged by the Western media. both Russia and America are “rearming” their nuclear weapons systems. While the US is committed to a multibillion dollar modernization project, Russia is largely involved in a “cost-effective” restructuring process which consists in decommissioning parts of its land-based ICBM arsenal (Topol) and replacing it with the more advanced Yars RS-24 system, developed in 2007.
While a new arms race has “unofficially” been launched, the US modernization process pertains to the all three legs of the triad system, -i.e land based airborne and submarine launched atomic missiles. It is also coupled with the development of the B61-12 tactical bomb to be deployed in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Turkey.
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BofA Stunned By Record VIX Roundtrip; Fears "Fragile Market"



In recent months, BofA notes that the speed of mean reversion in the VIX has been particularly striking by historical standards. Since the end of QE3, VIX spikes have had very little persistence, generating low cumulative volatility relative to the previous 25 years, underscoring BofA's thesis of a fragile market that features rapid jumps from states of calm to states of stress and back.

You Want To Fix The Economy? Then First Fix Healthcare



We don't just deserve an affordable, sustainable healthcare system - we're doomed to bankruptcy without one.

Saudi Arabia Reacts To Sept. 11 Bill Veto Override



While so far there has been nothing but a stony silence from Riyadh, some Saudis have bristled, saying the kingdom should curb business and security ties in response. "What would happen if Saudi Arabia froze its cooperation with the United States with regards to counter-terrorism as a response to JASTA?"

Deutsche Bank Is Now Smaller Than Twitter



Just some context for what has happened...

Wells Fargo To Be Sanctioned By DOJ For Improperly Seizing Soldiers' Cars



And the hits just keep on coming. The full court press on Wells Fargo continues, on the heels of California's sanctions, Bloomberg reports the bank is now facing a Justice Department sanction over improperly repossessing cars owned by members of the military, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation.

"You Shouldn't Listen to Me" – Here's What Bernie Said About Voting For Hillary



Before he lost the rigged Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton (only to become her sad mascot in the subsequent months), Bernie Sanders was actually speaking some truth to voters.

Stocks Are Crashing - Led By Banks


Major Dollar Shortage Exposed In Europe As Deutsche Bank Contagion Spreads



"Storm in a teacup" this is not.

Bix Weir – Final Collapse is Happening Now

by Kerry Lutz, Financial Survival Network:
Bix Weir joined the show today. Deutsche Bank is imploding before our very eyes. Their bonds will soon be worthless and no one is coming to their rescue. Bix thinks it’s the end of the world economic system as we know it, and it can’t come soon enough for Bix. There’s nothing that can save it now. According to Bix the end is imminent, so buckle your seat-belts and be prepared.
Click HERE to Listen

2017: Gold and Silver’s Year of “Public Recognition”

by David Smith, Money Metals:
In all probability, December 2015 marked the bottom of the cyclical gold and silver bear market – a bear cycle that had been in play since silver topped in May 2011 and gold in September of the same year.
During the fourth quarter 2015, share price declines of the precious metals mining companies tapered off once the last of the weak hands gave up and sold their positions to stronger, forward-looking investors.
If you go to a free chart service like stockcharts.com, you can choose any number of mining stocks and look at their January 19 daily price action. On this date – for most of the top and second-tier companies – the last intraday price plunge took place. For purpose of example only, we have chosen Endeavour Silver.
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THE TOP FOUR PRECIOUS METALS: Which Will Be The Best Investments During The Next Financial Crash

by Steve St. Angelo, SRSRocco Report:
When the next financial crash occurs, investors need to understand which of the top four precious metals are the best to invest in. Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of faulty analysis that has mislead many investors about the fundamentals of gold, platinum, palladium and silver.
I will provide information in this article on the top four precious metals that has not been covered correctly by the majority of analysts. While some may have touched on individual aspects, very few have put together an in-depth analysis on these metals to properly educate investors.
However, before I get into the details of these top four precious metals, I would like to share some very important information.
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Mickey Fulp – Gold Is Money, That’s Why I Own Precious Metals! ! !

from Proven And Probable:

Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist, sits down with Maurice Jackson of ‘Proven & Probable’ to discuss 1) Current State of the Natural Resource Space 2) Are we out of the Bear Cycle 3) What are the catalyst’s 4) Gold 5) Silver 6) Platinum 7) Palladium 8) Stewardship of Precious Metals 9) How much allocation should investors have in bullion 10) Identifies the difference between bullion and mining companies. 11) Investing Vs. Speculation.



Hitler would be very proud of them...

Beginning October 1st North Carolina Police Can Block Release Of Camera Footage

by Derrick Broze, Activist Post:
A new North Carolina law will make it harder for the public to acquire police dash cam and body camera footage.
North Carolina has been the scene of recent riots and protests as the public calls for accountability in the police shooting of Keith LaMont Scott. After initially fighting the release of body camera footage, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney reluctantly allowed the public to see the shooting with their own eyes. Beginning October 1, Chief Putney and other North Carolina law enforcement will now legally be able to deny the public access to body camera and dash cam footage.
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a bill two months ago that would limit public access to police footage. The law has been supported by the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association. Governor McCory argued that the bill would respect “the constitutional rights of the officer.”
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Was Goebbels Right?

by Andy Hoffman, Miles Franklin:
From the day my precious Sylvie, now nearly five years old, first understood me, I’ve taught her that the two most important things to understand are “be nice, and don’t lie.” Generally speaking, it’s worked well for me, and the vast majority of people throughout history. Regarding the latter, there’s a good reason why it’s one of the Ten Commandments, as lying, for all intents and purposes, is the root cause of destruction.
“White lies,” or “fibs” may not be as harmful, but the process of propagating even the smallest lie often leads to far greater evils.
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BLACKSTONE GROUP SAYS THE MARKET IS THE MOST TREACHEROUS THEY HAVE SEEN

by Jeff Berwick, The Dollar Vigilante:
There has rarely ever been another time like this.
Not since 1999 and not since 1929 before that, have so many billionaires, central banksters, financial elites and fund managers, warned that we are on the verge of a catastrophic bust.
And now, Joe Baratta, Blackstone Group LP’s top private equity deal maker, admits at a WSJ conference this week, “You have historically high multiples of cash flows, low yields. I’ve never seen it in my career. It’s the most treacherous moment.”
The most treacherous moment!
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WORLD CHAMPION POKER PLAYER: CLINTON SECRETLY SIGNALED MODERATOR DURING DEBATE

[UPDATE: This video has now been BLOCKED by You Tube on the absurd grounds of copyright infringement. Certainly ‘fair use’ doctrine should prevail in sharing video from a PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, if You Tube was FAIR.]
from InfoWars:
Hillary Clinton used hand signals to communicate with moderator Lester Holt during the first US presidential debate, a four time world champion poker player has stated.
A video recently uploaded to Youtube depicts the former secretary of state scratching her face several times during the 90-minute debate – signals to Holt, the video’s editor claims, which “meant Clinton wanted to get a ‘zinger’ in and to go to her without changing the subject.”
“Hillary Clinton used this gesture to signal Holt on six different occasions,” the video asserts.
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Turkish-Born Cascade Mall Shooter Facing Voter Fraud Charge As WA Law Prohibits "Verifying Citizenship"

You can add voter fraud to the list of charges alleged against the Cascade Mall shooter after he was found to have voted in the past 3 election cycles even though he's not a U.S citizen.  "We don’t have a provision in state law that allows us to verify someone’s citizenship."



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THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY FROM DONALD TRUMP RALLY AS CROWDS SWELL TO NEAR RECORD LEVELS OF ATTENDANCE


by Geoffrey Grider, Now The End Begins:
IN HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ON MONDAY, DONALD TRUMP WAS WELCOMED BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS TO A FLORIDA AIRPLANE HANGAR.
If you want to see who won the first presidential debate, forget the polls. Look out your window, and you will see the line of people who want to come and listen to Donald Trump speak stretching out so far you really cannot see the end of it or even close.
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How Reuters "Tweaked" Its Latest Poll (Again) To Show A Clinton Lead


Rigged? Here's how Reuters "tweaked" it's latest poll to create an artificial 8.5% swing toward Hillary...

Mainstream Media Silent as Democrats Threatening Government Shutdown

by Michael DePinto, Freedom OutPost:
How many Americans know that we are less than 100 hours away from a government shutdown over the federal budget? If you listen to Senator Elizabeth Warren in the video below, aka Pocahontas, you might think it is the Republicans who are the ones threatening the shutdown, but then again… we’ve heard this story before.
The truth is, other than the “race card,” blaming Republicans for a looming government shutdown is one of the last moves left in the liberal playbook. Listen to how insane Warren sounds in the video below, and then wait until you learn what is REALLY going on in the subsequent video…
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Stock Chart PROVES Deutsche Bank CRASHING Like Lehman Part 2!

from The Money GPS:


Pain Spreads To Germany's Second Biggest Bank: Commerzbank Scraps Dividend, Fires 20% Of Workforce


With Deutsche Bank mercifully missing from overnight headlines for the first day in almost two weeks, it is time to bring attention to Germany's second largest bank which, as a Handelsblatt leak cautioned earlier in the week, confirmed it is also going through a historic rough patch.

Major Dollar Shortage Exposed In Europe As Deutsche Bank Contagion Spreads


"Storm in a teacup" this is not.

EU Banking Mayhem, One Bank at a Time, then All at Once

by Wolf Richter, Wolf Street:
Investors are not amused.

The European banking crisis simply doesn’t let up. Currently, the big two German banks are grabbing the headlines away from the Italian banks, due to their size and the damage they could do to the global financial system. Other banks are in bigger trouble still, and some have already collapsed, with bailouts and bail-ins getting lined up.
Deutsche Bank had to endure a horrendous Monday after it was leaked on Friday that Merkel had refused to entertain bailing out the bank before the general elections a year from now. Merkel’s popularity has gotten broadsided recently, and bailing out bank bondholders with taxpayer money is just not popular at the moment.
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Stanley Fischer's Novel Idea: "We'd Be Better Off With A Price For Using Money"


The end game of central bank lunacy is surely near. Even the Fed heads appear to be mumbling bits and pieces of truth in public.

Apple, Nasdaq Slide On Report Of Exploding iPhone 7


First it was Samsung, now it's Apple's turn. According to a just released report by Boy Genius Report, an iPhone 7 did what its main South Korean competitor has seemingly mastered: it exploded.

Outflows From Active Funds Surpass A Record $200 Billion


Over the last several years, we have observed an accelerating trend of flows out of active funds and into passive vehicles. Price sensitivity of investors to fees, coupled with poor performance trends, have conspired against active funds, and year-to-date flows out of active have reached a post-crisis high. As of this moment, the outflows from active funds have surpassed $200 billion: an all time high.

Stocks Slammed: S&P Gives Up OPEC Gains Despite Oil's Rally


Well that de-escalated quickly...

Watch Live As Wells CEO John Stumpf Gets Grilled On The Hill Again: Five Things To Look For


Wells Fargo embattled CEO John Stumpf returns to Capitol Hill for the second time in 10 days, for a contentious hearing with the House Financial Services committee. Despite Stumpf's belated clawback of $41 million in unvested stock, which took place only after tremendous congressional and populist outrage, his job remains very much under threat.

Mainstream Media Still Silent As Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spread, Construction Blocked In Iowa


The media blackout of opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline continues as widening protests, which have now blocked pipeline construction in Iowa, go unreported by the national corporate media.

Final Q2 GDP Comes At 1.4%: US Set To Grow At Slowest Pace Since Financial Crisis


Putting the US economy data in context, over the last 12 months real GDP continues to drop, sliding to 1.28% even with the modest upward revision, and has been below 2% in the last three quarters.

Jobless Claims Joke Of The Day


Initial jobless claims remain stuck at four decade lows (254k this week)... so where are all the jobs?

Post-February Uptrend In Stocks Being Tested


Key indices across the U.S. equity market are testing their uptrend lines stemming from the February lows.

India Assets Slide After Modi Launches "Surgical Strikes" In Kashmir, Killing Two Pakistani Soldiers


India conducted "surgical strikes" on suspected terrorist camps just across the border in Pakistan, marking its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan. The military offensive was the worst since 1999, when then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee - also a member of Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party - responded to what he said was repeated cross-border infiltrations by militants in Kashmir.

Bank Of England Governor Warns Of ZIRP/QE "In Perpetuity"


“Deep structural forces have combined to depress the level of interest rates at which the economy would be in equilibrium...The neutral rate of interest is closer to zero than it used to be."

Trump’s Mirage of Spending Cuts Will Make America’s Collapse Great

by David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog:
In the first debate, Hillary Clinton called Trump’s tax plan “trumped-up, trickle-down” economics. It’s the one thing that came out of her mouth that I had to entirely agree with. Many others are saying it, too:
New analysis from a nonpartisan group finds that Donald Trump’s latest tax proposals would increase the federal debt by $5.3 trillion over the next decade, compared with $200 billion if Hillary Clinton’s ideas were enacted. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget looked at Trump’s newly revised tax plan as well as other proposals…. Trump has also proposed a sharp increase in spending on the military and veterans. He has proposed some spending cuts, but the committee calculated they wouldn’t come close to balancing the budget. (Newsmax)
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The Banquet Of Consequences Is Being Served

by Adam Taggart, Peak Prosperity:
ast week, the Federal Reserve decided to keep US interest rates unchanged, marking its 96th month of life at the zero bound. Apparently, for all of its “data dependence”, the Fed feels the economy could still benefit from *just* a little more of its ZIRP happy juice.
But as anyone with a little common sense will tell you, More is not always better. It’s quite possible to have too much of a good thing.
And in its pursuit to kick the can for a little longer, the Fed has crossed a dangerous line. Dangerous not just to the health of our market economy (that line was crossed a long time ago); but to its own existence. A central bank’s authority is based on faith in its power to effect its mandate. Last week’s decision was so toothlessly passive that even the Fed’s cheerleaders are beginning to question if it has any clue for how to escape from the corner it has painted itself into.
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If Elizabeth Warren Wants to Probe Worker Abuse on Wall Street, Start With the Unprecedented Rash of Deaths and Suicides

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade:
On September 22, 2016 eight Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley and Sherrod Brown, wrote to the Department of Labor requesting an investigation of the banking behemoth, Wells Fargo, to determine if it violated labor laws. The letter came amidst the public outcry over news that Wells Fargo’s employees had opened as many as 2 million customer accounts without authorization in order to meet stringent sales quotas for cross-selling products. The Senators wrote in the letter:
“…dozens of former and current Wells Fargo employees have come forward to describe the lengths they went to in order to meet the bank’s aggressive sales quotas. When quotas weren’t met, employees faced threats of termination; mandated hours of unpaid overtime; harassment; and other forms of retaliation. For years Wells Fargo employees have described a management culture characterized by ‘mental abuse,’ being forced to work overtime ‘for what felt like after-school detention’ during the week and on weekends, and being ‘severely chastised and embarrassed in front of 60-plus managers.’ ”
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The Petro-SDR: World Money Rising

by Jim Rickards, DailyReckoning:
The response to U.S. efforts to cheapen the dollar in 2010 — 2011 was not long in coming. It came from four directions — IMF, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. Enter the new world money: Petro-SDR.
Less than a year after Obama’s declaration of a new currency war, the IMF released a paper that is a blueprint for implementation of a new global reserve currency called the Special Drawing Right (SDR), or world money.
On December 1, 2015, the IMF announced that the Chinese yuan would be included in the basket of currencies used to determine the value of one SDR. With China onboard, the SDR is poised to become the de facto global reserve currency.
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How Constant Is Gold’s Purchasing Power?

by Koos Jansen, Gold Seek:
An often-perceived analysis in the gold community is that gold is the constant in our global economy. But is this true? Yes and no. Allow me to share my observations. Although gold has an exceptionally constant nature, and we have yet to see another currency that can compete with gold’s constant nature, the reality is, that there is no exact constant in economics. In any market all goods, assets, currencies, etc. continuously fluctuate in value relative to each other due to ever changing supply and demand dynamics. Having said that, in this post we’ll examine gold’s constant nature by measuring its purchasing power in the short (weeks) medium (years) and long term (decades). Additionally, we’ll compare our findings to fiat’s nature.
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Conspiracy Theorists Were Right — Congress to Expand TSA in Other Forms of Travel Like Bus & Train

by Claire Bernish, The Free Thought Project:
No one’s favorite government agency, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, will be harassing innocent travelers on buses and trains, if new legislation — unsurprisingly proposed after rather questionable ‘attacks’ in New York City and New Jersey on September 18 — passes as expected.
Several U.S. senators from both sides of the aisle apparently want to make travelers lives’ a veritable hell of red tape and insidious surveillance by increasing putative ‘security’ for rail lines, highways, and marine routes by adding presence and screening procedures at Megabus depots, Amtrak stations, and more.
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Private Equity: a Formula for Fraud

from BATR:
How quaint, private equity sounds like the very definition of capitalism. Well, peel back this onion and the tears come streaming from your eyes. As with any insider investment scheme, the devil is in the details. So when these operations fell under government regulation, some optimists felt good that the government would protect the limited partners and the entire financial system. Just how did it work out?
Mike Konczal reports in The SEC Has Revealed Astounding Corruption in Private Equity.
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