Frontrunning: March 8
GOP Disagrees on How—and Whether—to Pay for Tax Cuts (WSJ)'It's like kumbaya:' Trump's genial private meetings with CEOs jar with public attacks (Reuters)New Health Plan Sparks Debate Over Obamacare...
View Article"Anything Can Happen" - Is Now The Time To 'Fade The Fed'?
Via Kevin Muir of The Macro Tourist blog,Last week’s hawkish Federal Reserve guidance sent the front end of the yield curve for a tailspin. In the process, the odds of a March hike went from less than...
View ArticleChina Unexpectedly Tightens Monetary Policy
Following The Fed's 3rd rate hike in 11 years, the PBOC decided, unexpectedly, to follow in the Fed's footsteps, and tighten conditions by raising the interest rates on its open-market operations, the...
View ArticleFurious British Spy Agency Slams "Utterly Ridiculous" Claim It Wiretapped Trump
After a report by Fox News' Judge Napolitano that UK spies helped Obama spy on president Trump during the presidential campaign, the British spy agency GCHQ issued a rare and angry denial of the...
View Article'Anonymous' Joins Hacker Crusade To Steal Millions From Global Central Banks
Roughly a year ago we wrote about perhaps the most notable bank heist in history in which a group of hackers used Swift, the interbank messaging system, to steal $81 million from the Central Bank of...
View ArticleAbe School Scandal Set For Major Escalation After Donation Receipt Emerges
The crisis that has rocked the previously unshakeable administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not the result of bungled economic policies, party in-fighting or any of the other...
View ArticleObama, Bernanke and Yellen Rigged the Bond Market. Now it’s Trump Turn to...
Government dysfunction is at its worst. We voted them in. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Granted, the choices were abysmal. But the Republican and Democratic parties, with no third party...
View ArticleBillionaire Banker David Rockefeller, Former Head Of Chase Manhattan, Dies At...
David Rockefeller, the famous banker and philanthropist with the family name that controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world in the world of...
View ArticleUS Bans Laptops, iPads, 'Anything Bigger Than A Cellphone' On Flights From 13...
U.S. government officials have temporarily banned most electronics (including laptops, iPads, and Kindles) on certain flights into and out of the country, according to Jordan’s national air carrier.As...
View ArticleApple Launches Red iPhone 7, Introduces New iPad
As previewed last week, in what we hope is not considered "innovation", moments ago Apple has introduced a 9.7-inch iPad with Retina display, starting at $329. The pricing starts at $329 for 32GB with...
View ArticleU.S. Prepping Case Linking North Korea To $81MM New York Fed Bank Heist
As tensions between the U.S and North Korea continue to escalate, with the most recent provocation coming from Kim Jong Un last night, the Wall Street Journal has just reported that Federal prosecutors...
View ArticleDoug Casey Has "Never Seen Anything Like This"
Via InternationalMan.com,Nick Giambruno: Doug, what do you think is the root problem of the US economy and financial system?Doug Casey: There areseveral, including incompetence, corruption and, of...
View ArticleAnti-Trump Propagandist David Brock Suffers Heart Attack
Founder of Media Matters, and infamous Hillary "attack dog" and agit-prop specialist, David Brock has suffered a heart attack, but is expected to make a "swift recovery," a senior aide said Wednesday....
View ArticleMeet "Thankful Beggar" Seth Williams - Philadelphia's Most-Corrupt Politician...
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform, Every Democrat politician in Philly is a dirtbag. The Federal Prison has an entire wing dedicated just for crooked Philly politicians. But this scumbag...
View ArticleRussia Readies Back-Up System For Potential "Split With International Banking...
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,The grand order of things could be undergoing some major overhauls.To put it more bluntly, a war to reset the global financial order is about to be...
View Article6 Charts Screaming Buy GOLD – Sell USD! Are US Equities On The Verge Of A...
1.) Long-term readers of Palisade Research know this chart well. We are now 297 trading days into a bull market on the TSX Venture Exchange, as depicted by our 1990 to Present – Bull & Bear Markets...
View ArticleYou Will Never Hear These Truths Discussed In The Mainstream
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,The general public truly lives in two separate worlds.We have the world of the mainstream media, popular culture and political rhetoric; a world which...
View ArticleS&P Futures Fade Overnight Gains As Euro Slides; China Stumbles
Asian shares and oil are lower, European shares are little changed, and S&P futures are fractionally in the red after gaining for most of the overnight session, perhaps troubled by warnings from...
View ArticleVenezuela Opposition Calls For Military Intervention After Supreme Court "Coup"
The leader of Venezuela's coalition of opposition forces and the president of the National Assembly, Julio Borges, said President Nicolas Maduro had staged a coup and called for a military...
View ArticleAfrica's Gate To Europe: Operation Husky, Again
Authored by Daniel Moscadi via GEFIRA,Vallombrosa is a unique place in Tuscany. Its founder, Saint Giovanni Gualberto, a Benedictine monk, chose this secluded place in the mountains 40 km east of...
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