by Charles Hugh-Smith The U.S. Constitution leaves too many areas open to interpretation; a New Constituion of 2,300 pages (+ 200 redacted secret pages) is the solution. The Obama Administration has proposed replacing the current U.S. Constitution (4,543 words, including the signatures with a 2,300-page “new Constitution” that in the words of an administration spokesperson, “clears … Read more
BREAKING: #Russia and #China have reportedly withdrawn from the Security Council meeting. Confirmed: #Russia and #China have officially withdrawn from security council meeting on #Syria ITS ON https://twitter.com/ana_cherine Sky News Arabia: Russian and Chinese representatives withdraw from UN Security Council on Syrian crisis https://twitter.com/NOW_eng Interfax News Wire » Russia News REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA … Read more
by Michael Snyder Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative … Read more
by LV On May 6th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped almost 1000 points in a matter of minutes and just as quickly recovered most of the losses. This unprecedented event set in motion a series of conversations among public officials and traders. All of the conversations shared the elemental human reaction of high anxiety. … Read more
by LV By definition, a plutocracy is government by the wealthy. The only thing worse than an outright plutocracy is a stealth plutocracy. The anger and hopelessness so many Americans feel stems from the fact that we are effectively being ruled by a plutocracy in the form of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Board … Read more
by LV According to The Free Dictionary, the term “cornering the market” means “purchasing a security or commodity in such volume as to achieve control over its price”. The cornering entity can manipulate prices to its advantage and can trigger a sell off if it dumps those assets on the market. The dictionary further states … Read more
by LV The SEC and CTFC have pinpointed the trades that began the flash crash on May 6th and issued a report. Instead of calming the fears of investors, the report should increase their anxiety, assuming they are paying attention. A single mutual fund, who tried to hedge its positions in a relatively short time … Read more
by LV First, there was the well-chronicled sub-prime mortgage-backed security disaster where investors, taxpayers and savers ultimately paid the price for the excesses of the wise guys on the Street. Next, there was the flash crash, which was a preview of things to come. Government regulators failed to do their jobs and they failed miserably. … Read more
by LV Technical market analysis is based strictly on market action (i.e. price movement and volume) as opposed to fundamental market analysis, which concerns itself with the factors that drive the market to change. Technical analysis assumes that price movements are a reflection of everything that is known to the market that could have an … Read more
by LV On May 6, 2010 the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped almost 1000 points in a matter of minutes and just as quickly recovered most of the losses. Over the next two years, numerous mini-flash crashes have occurred in the trading activity of individual stocks. These perturbations, though reported in the financial press, did … Read more