Trump Is De-Globalizing

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by SP Peter Koenig at The Saker Blog looks at the wreck that Trump is making of the global commerce status quo.  Where as we assumed he was more of a bull in the china shop, perhaps it is something very different. I think that this is BIG. The globalization effort of the last several decades most benefited the owner … Read more

P2P/Consumer lending market in China

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by ForwardInstance Has someone done good research around P2P/Consumer lending companies in China. I have done some preliminary research and below are my observations – Observations – P2P lending market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 35% to around $1 tn Top players listed in the US are Yirendai (YRD), Hexindai (HX), Qudian (QD), … Read more

ECB Bond-Buying Creates Zombie Companies, Possible Successor to Dimon Warns

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Even JP Morgan is getting worried about the actions of the ECB, what are your thoughts about this? via Bloomberg: The European Central Bank’s bond-buying program has created a “dangerous” environment for investors by masking risks in the market for corporate debt, according to Mary Callahan Erdoes, the head of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset and … Read more

China’s total credit market debt rose from $7T to $35T (~500%) in the last 9 years. Yet, despite it all, GDP and monetary velocity continue to decline

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COPPER: down -17.5% in 2018, the Chinese have not been able to centrally plan this market price higher = Bearish TREND @Hedgeye #reiterated China Not Messing Around: Serious QE Means Serious Currency Devaluation “They. Drew. First. Blood.” So said John Rambo, and a similar sentiment may well be echoing through the halls of Party central … Read more

Is GE a Falling Knife?

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by dvdmovie1 There’s value and there’s value trap. “It seems that GE is facing administrative issues on their end and each headline just keeps causing the stock to drop.” GE had nearly 17 years of awful management and rot set in. Their choice of “clean up person” after Immelt’s nearly two decades of awful was an … Read more

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

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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

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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

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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