Selloff could deepen further

hedge funds are getting crushed pic.twitter.com/OH4eV4k4CP — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 5, 2018 pic.twitter.com/ZOFfXC0v3e — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 5, 2018 https://twitter.com/ThemisSal/status/1059476996193968129 Surprisingly calm mkt and lack of panic in options. S&P put skew is at bottom 5th percentile. Investors monetizing existing …

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Banking fraud is one of the biggest conspiracies out there.

by MKULTRA_Escapee added a section on banks to the List Of proven Conspiracies https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/wiki/lopc “Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever” http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425 (http://archive.is/etdQa) The US government decided not to pursue criminal charges against HSBC for allowing terrorists and drug dealers to launder millions …

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Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Out

by Charles Hugh-Smith An unknown but likely staggeringly large percentage of small business owners in the U.S. are an inch away from calling it quits and closing shop. Timothy Leary famously coined the definitive 60s counterculture phrase, “Turn on, tune …

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Bad News: Cost of Money Going Higher

Libor making fresh cycle highs again pic.twitter.com/XastpX2qBh — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 4, 2018 Bad news for US debt markets: EU & JPN cost to hedge dxy- denominated assets hit 2018 high; a jump in hedging costs for foreign buyers tends …

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The Fed’s QE Unwind Hits $321 Billion

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The “up to” exacts its pound of flesh. Over the four-week period from October 3 through October 31, the Federal Reserve shed $35 billion in assets, according to the Fed’s weekly balance sheet released Thursday afternoon. This brought …

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