After ‘Volmageddon’, Blueprint for Major Market Meltdown Is Set

Goldman Warns of Liquidity-Fueled Sell-off After ‘Volmageddon’ Remember humans? Back when those glitchy, overemotional, unreliable windbags served as market makers, they could make human decisions in real time, stepping into a drastically oversold market, on their own, to buy cheap shares. When liquidity is driven by machines that take all of their cues from what … Read more

Martin Armstrong – Revolution Coming to Italy?

from Financial Survival Network Martin Armstrong joined us for a talk about what’s happening in Italy and the EU. Martin believes that all the EU bureaucrats care about is keeping their jobs and collecting taxes. People in Italy used their homes as savings vehicles because until recently there were no real estate taxes and no inheritance levies. … Read more

Switzerland’s financial regulator has accused Rothschild Bank AG and its trust subsidiary of violating anti-money laundering law in relation to 1MDB, the troubled Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

With the Rothschild Bank being a major backer of larger banks and even states, this exposes a larger scandal of trickery. via RT: Switzerland’s financial regulator has accused Rothschild Bank AG and its trust subsidiary of violating anti-money laundering law in relation to 1MDB, the troubled Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. According to the regulator, both … Read more

Something Fishy in Toronto?

by teddyrooseveltsfist This summer there has already been three attacks, in the city of Toronto and Im starting to wonder if they are somehow connected. The first was the van attack on 23 April 2018, in which it was decided that the killer’s motives were that he was an incel. This conclusion was reached after … Read more

Trump & Alternative Media Briefed by Attorney General Rod Rosenstein On Cybersecurity

by Thinker Trump not getting the support from the left and it would seem that Alternative Media is taking a hit from the newest cyber security sponsored by MSNBC, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Symantec, MITRE? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to make a “cybersecurity policy announcement” during his remarks at The Aspen Institute’s Aspen … Read more

White House doubles down on Rand Paul’s Call to Strip Security Clearances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_LcevjyR-c Rand Paul stated Monday that he intends to ask Trump to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance because he is monetizing his clearance by being a leaker. In reality why does he need security clearance if he no longer works for the government but now works for the media? This article contains Rand Paul’s tweets … Read more

BREAKING: Dam Collapses in LAOS – Hundreds Missing

Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number dead after a dam under construction collapsed in south-east Laos, state media reported. The collapse at the hydroelectric dam in Attapeu province late on Monday sent flash floods through six villages, Lao News Agency said. More than 6,600 people have been made homeless, it added. Pictures … Read more

Hollyweird Is Making the Biggest Existential Mistake in Defending James Gunn | America Won’t Forget

https://youtu.be/DI42ZRFp1ew Revealing Comments follow: I come from a family which lived for decades in the heart of Silver Era Hollywood. My mother used to say over and over hundreds, if not thousands of times: “HOLLYWOOD IS A CESSPOOL”. She always used the same words. Why? She was on boards to try and save endangered women, … Read more

We Are Seeing Heat And Drought In The Southwest United States Like We Haven’t Seen Since The Dust Bowl Of The 1930s

by Michael Snyder Despite all of the other crazy news that is happening all around the world, the top headlines on Drudge on Monday evening were all about the record heatwave that is currently pummeling the Southwest.  Of course it is always hot during the summer, but the strange weather that we have been witnessing in … Read more

10 Down-to-Earth Things Powell Said about Cryptocurrencies

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Go find someone else to regulate them. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, during his testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, was asked by representatives Patrick McHenry (R, North Carolina) and Juan Carlos Vargas (D, California) about the Fed’s thinking on cryptocurrencies. Instead of pussyfooting around the issues, as Fed chairs … Read more

Bond Yields Rise Worldwide On Stimulus Concerns; Earnings Loom

via Trevor Hunnicutt Fear that U.S. and Japanese policymakers will scale back economic stimulus sent quivers through debt markets on Monday, while U.S. stocks gained ahead of major company earnings reports. Bond yields climbed as investors forecast the Federal Reserve will continue raising interest rates due to stronger growth and inflation pressures despite U.S. President … Read more

CALIFORNIANS ASKED TO TURN OFF LIGHTS

The California Independent System Operator (ISO), the grid operator, said it issued the so-called “Flex Alert” due to high temperatures across the western United States, reduced electricity imports into the state, tight natural gas supplies in Southern California and high wildfire risk. The ISO’s alert followed an earlier notice by Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas), … Read more

AI everywhere! New method allows full AI on basic laptops! supercomputers could QUADRUPLE neural networks!

scientists have developed a revolutionary method that quadratically accelerates artificial intelligence (AI) training algorithms. This gives full AI capability to inexpensive computers, and would make it possible in one to two years for supercomputers to utilize Artificial Neural Networks that quadratically exceed the possibilities of today’s artificial neural networks. The scientists presented their method on June … Read more

Researchers Warn Income Inequality In US Getting Worse, It Was “Intentional”

by stockboardasset According to researchers at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington, D.C.-based liberal think tank, the top 1 percent of American families took home approximately 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent in 2015— a 4 percent increase from 2013. The report titled “The New Gilded Age: Income inequality in the U.S. by … Read more