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Debt Rattle March 12 2017

Mar 122017

March 12, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:59 am Finance Tagged with: Bharara, boomers, diaspora, Flynn, revenues, sociopaths, stocks, Trump, Turkey, valuations 2 Responses »

NPC Newsstand with Out-of-Town Papers, Washington DC 1925 • Individual Investors Wade In as Stocks Soar (WSJ) • Stock Market Valuations Are Totally Unprecedented (Felder) • US Subprime Auto Loan Losses At Highest Level Since Financial Crisis (BBG) • US Government Revenues Suffer Biggest Drop Since The Financial Crisis (ZH) • Trump Fires US Attorney Preet Bharara After He Refuses To Quit (ZH) • A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Boomers Betrayed America (MW) • Netherlands Bars Turkish Ministers

Debt Rattle March 11 2017

Mar 112017

March 11, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:38 am Finance Tagged with: ban, bitcoin, debt, famine, Flynn, jobs, Kurds, Merkel, Trump, Turkey, wealth 4 Responses »

Robert Capa Warsaw, Poland 1948 • US Jobs Report Means Fed Rate Hike Is A Bolt-On Certainty (G.) • US Household Wealth Has Never Been Higher Relative To Income (ZH) • Rising Household Debt A Concern Across Asia (TEP) • Sessions Asks 46 Obama-Era US Attorneys To Resign (R.) • Trump’s Revised Travel Ban Dealt First Court Setback (R.) • Trump To Ask Merkel For Advice On Putin, Ukraine (R.) • Nobel Economist Deaton Takes Aim At Rent-Seeking US

Debt Rattle March 10 2017

Mar 102017

March 10, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:47 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, austerity, bloodbath, CIA, JFK, QE, Steve Keen, Truman, Trump, Tusk, Yellen 1 Response »

Marjory Collins “Italian girls watching US Army parade on Mott Street, New York” 1942 • Janet Yellen Is Busy Preparing America For A New Economic Era (G.) • Albert Edwards: Next Week The Fed Will Unleash “A Bond Market Bloodbath” (ZH) • Bill Gross: Don’t Be Fooled By ‘Trump Mirage’ (Forbes) • Why Do Politicians Continue To Push The Zombie Creed Of Austerity? (G.) • New WikiLeaks Reveal Proof Of Slippery Slope Toward Totalitarianism (Kucinich) • Assange Says Leaks

Debt Rattle March 9 2017

Mar 092017

March 9, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:43 am Finance Tagged with: ECB, euro, France, Fukushima, Greece, jobs, oil, pensions, recession, Trump, Vault7 4 Responses »

Marjory Collins “Crowds at Pennsylvania Station, New York” 1942 • WikiLeaks Says Just 1% Of #Vault7 Covert Documents Released So Far (RT) • US Private Sector Adds 298,000 Jobs In February – ADP (R.) • Trump Begins to Map Out $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan (WSJ) • US Oil Price Plunges Toward $50 As A Perfect Storm Brews (CNBC) • Professor Steve Keen On The Problem With Europe (DR) • Varoufakis Back In Brussels In Push For ECB Transparency (EUO)

How to Drain the Deep Swamp

Mar 082017

March 8, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 7:04 pm Finance Tagged with: 1984, Assange, CIA, deep swamp, enemies, JFK, Kim Dotcom, Obama, Putin, Snowden, Trump 20 Responses »

Pablo Picasso Girl Before A Mirror 1932 Obviously, like hopefully many people, I’ve been following the WikiLeaks CIA revelations, and closely. It’s too early for too many conclusions, if only because WikiLeaks has announced much more will flow from that same pipeline. But one thing is already clear: the CIA is -still- a club that sees enemies behind every tree, and behind every TV set too. Which is not as obvious a world view as it may seem; it’s

Debt Rattle March 8 2017

Mar 082017

March 8, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:10 am Finance Tagged with: austerity, bubble, CIA, confetti, coupons, deficit, deportations, Dotcom, Greece, Snowden, Vault7, Wikileaks, women 7 Responses »

Dorothea Lange A Family Of Mexican Migrants, On The Road In California 1936 • Wikileaks ‘Vault 7’, Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Docs (ZH) • Snowden: What The Wikileaks Revelations Show Is “Reckless Beyond Words” (ZH) • WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged CIA Hacking Documents (NYT) • Wikileaks: CIA Capable Of Cyber “False Flag” Attack To Blame Russia (TAM) • CIA Contractor on #VAULT7 Leak: ‘There is Heavy Shit Coming Down’ (RF) • US Trade Deficit Jumps To

Debt Rattle March 7 2017

Mar 072017

March 7, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:32 am Finance Tagged with: consent, curse, Greece, homeless, incarceration, rate hike, Syria, trauma, Trump 1 Response »

Edward Steichen Marlene Dietrich 1932 • The World Economy Can’t Handle Even One US Rate Hike (CNBC) • Wall Street Investors Make $3 Trillion Since Trump Election Victory (Ind.) • China Banking System Overtakes Eurozone To Become Biggest In The World (Ind.) • The Finance Curse (Renegade) • Money and the Government – Ann Pettifor (Vogue) • Great Expectations -Not- (Jim Kunstler) • Manufacturing Consent: The Movie – Journalism Cannot Be A Check On Power (RS) • 66 Of

Debt Rattle March 6 2017

Mar 062017

March 6, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:03 am Finance Tagged with: cash, China, Erdogan, EU, fake news, Growth, pollution, Renzi, stench, UBI, Yemen 8 Responses »

Dorothea Lange Negro woman who has never been out of Mississippi July 1936 • The Government Doesn’t Actually Want Housing To Be More Affordable (SMH) • In Praise Of Cash (Aeon) • Basic Income Isn’t Just A Nice Idea. It’s A Birthright (G.) • Oil Falls On Lower China Growth Targets, Doubts On Russian Output Curbs (R.) • China’s Credit Target Implies Adding Entire German GDP This Year (BBG) • Record-Breaking Stocks A Bad Reason For The Fed To

Debt Rattle March 5 2017

Mar 052017

March 5, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:40 am Finance Tagged with: Canada, China, deportation, Le Pen, limbo, Mexico, pessimism, refugees, Turkey, UBI 8 Responses »

Near The Hermitage, SaintPetersburg, Russia 1930 • The Rich Already Have a UBI (Jacobin) • The Next Market To Break *Should* Be Stocks (MA) • America’s Miserable 21st Century (CM) • China Cuts GDP Growth Target to 6.5%, Targets Reforms, De-Leveraging (CNBC) • China Signals Slower Increase In Defense Spending (BBG) • The Priced-In Risk of Marine Le Pen’s Victory (BBG) • Self-Fulfilling Pessimism (Vox) • Only The Rich Are Poisoned (Taleb) • Austrian Chancellor Calls For EU-Wide Ban

Debt Rattle March 4 2017

Mar 042017

March 4, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:42 am Finance Tagged with: Brexit, ECB, Fed, ICE, QE, rate hike, recession, refugees, selloff, terrorism, Yellen 4 Responses »

DPC Pine Street below Kearney after the great San Francisco earthquake and fire 1906 • Yellen Points To March Rate Hike As Fed Signals End Of Easy Money (R.) • The Fed Is Embarking On A Path That Usually Ends With A Recession (Udland) • A Selloff Is Looming As Fear Stalks The Stock Market Rally (MW) • Medicine In The USA Is A Hostage Racket (Jim Kunstler) • Chevron Warns Future Oil Drilling May Be ‘Economically Infeasible’ (Ind.)

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