Exclusive: "And It's Gone... It's All Gone" - The One Gold Scandal That Goes...
Long before Turkey was flagrantly arming and funding the CIA-created "terrorist organization" known as ISIS, there was another, far more elaborate way in which Turkey was flaunting international...
View ArticleDave Barry Answers - Was 2015 The Worst Year Ever? (Spoiler Alert: Yes)
Authored by Dave Barry, originally posted at The Miami Herald,Sometimes we are accused - believe it or not - of being overly negative in our annual Year in Review. Critics say we ignore the many...
View ArticleArt Cashin's 2015 Summary: From Caitlyn Jenner To Confederate Flags
Authored by the venerable UBS NYSE Floor Director Art Cashin,'Tis two days yet to New Yearbut despite what you’re hopin’The folks in the Board Roomsay “the full Eve we'll stay open” So we'll buy and...
View Article15 News Stories From 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn't
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism (I repeat myself) to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate...
View ArticleThe Next Big Short
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,If you have forgotten your Gulliver’s Travels, recall that Jonathan Swift described the people of Brobdingnag as being as tall as church steeples and...
View ArticleOn The Trail Of Dubai's Stolen Gold: A Robbed Client Breaks The Silence, And...
On Christmas Day, 2015, we told our readers the fascinating tale about the Turkish-Iranian gold smuggling ring - perhaps the biggest and most brazen in history, one which lasted for years, which saw...
View ArticlePretend To The Bitter End
Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,Forecast 2016 There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e. an economy + a polity = a political...
View Article"Pray For Us": Libya Issues "Cry For Help" As ISIS Advances On Oil Fields
“We are helpless and not being able to do anything against this deliberate destruction to the oil installations. NOC urges all faithful and honorable people of this homeland to hurry to rescue what is...
View Article"Panic Is Building" BofA Admits; Asks "How Bad Could This Get?"
Just one month ago, Bank of America's equity strategist Savita Subramanian told Barrons to stay the course and to expect a 2,200 year end target on the S&P based on a year end 125 EPS forecast and...
View ArticleIran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen For "Illegally Entering Iranian Waters"
Update: Iran plans to return the crewmen to a ship from the USS Truman carrier strike group on Wednesday.JUST IN: Plans are in place for Iran to return U.S. sailors to U.S. Navy Wed. morning, gulf...
View ArticleCould The ECB Go 'Full Retard' On The Back Of The Oil Price Crash?
More than six weeks after the governing council of the European Central Bank has met in Frankfurt, the ECB has finally published the minutes of the meeting which paved the way for a disappointing...
View ArticleBlockchain In a Zombie Apocalypse
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.atWith a strong focus on investing in game changing trends, whether in private or public markets, it's not surprising that the technology underpinning the Bitcoin...
View Article"What To Own In An Equity Death Spiral"
Just one month ago, BofA's excited head equity strategist Savita Subramanian told Barron's that storm clouds would disperse and that the S&P would close out 2016 at 2,200, incidentally the same...
View ArticleA Glimpse Of Things To Come: Bankrupt Shale Producers "Can't Give Their...
Over the course of the last several weeks, we’ve spent quite a bit of time sounding the alarm bells on America’s growing list of bankrupt oil and gas drillers.We’ve also been keen to point out that the...
View ArticleThe Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures)
Give me that!! It belongs to the Chinese now!h/t @FedPornAs we previously detailed, two topics we’ve deemed critically important to a thorough understanding of both global finance and the shifting...
View ArticleItaly Races To Defuse €200 Billion Bad Loan Time Bomb With "Bad Bank"
When Portugal “surprised” senior Novo Banco bondholders with a €2 billion bail-in late last month, the market got an unwelcome reminder that euro periphery banks are far from “solid.”Novo was supposed...
View ArticleDramatic Footage Depicts "Heinous Massacre" Of Civilians, Rescue Workers By...
March will mark a year since Saudi Arabia began its air campaign in Yemen, where Iran-backed militiamen drove President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi into exile in Riyadh.The Houthi advance was a decidedly...
View ArticleSo What Now?
Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr,After breaking key support on January 6, the Global Dow Index has straight-lined down 10% to our next projected support level.In a January 6 post, we outlined why we felt that...
View ArticleThe Ultimate "Truth Bomb" - The East Knows The West Is Bankrupt
Submitted by Bill Holter via Jim Sinclair's Mineset blog,What a tangled web the global geopolitical situation has become. Geopolitics and finance have always been interrelated but recently much more...
View ArticleSuccess Is A Source Of Destabilization
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,We tend to assume our system for understanding the cause of failure must be sound, because we've experienced Roaring Success for so long.Rip-Roaring...
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