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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.-Lady Gaga By all accounts, I was a real smartass as a teenager.  One favorite and reoccurring smartass remark I remember well is that whenever my parents blamed something on, “they,” I would inevitably ask them, “who is they?”  The conversations would go something like […]Read More

A few years ago we asked why anyone would exclude litigation charges from bank EPS. While we are still waiting for someone to explain that to us, we’d like to show an update on just how dilutive to shareholder value these “one-time, non-recurring” litigation charges have been over the past six years. The top three […]

The following brief comment by Morgan Stanley’s chief FX strategist Hans Redeker is one of the best summaries of the sad state the centrally-planned world finds itself in after 7 years of constant central bank manipulation to push risk assets higher no matter the cost. Global imbalances have stayed strong but these imbalances are no […]

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Commercial bankruptcies are skyrocketing, oil prices have collapsed, profits have declined and Central Banks globally are pushing negative interest rates in hopes of keeping economies afloat. At any other point in history, such a combination of events would have investors scrambling for cover as market prices fell. Currently, however, the majority […]Read More

There is some serious turmoil going on in credit, commodities, and FX.. but stocks shurugged it all off because jobs were shitty enough to warrant a bid?? [embedded content] China stocks crashed…biggest 2-day drop in 3 months… China Commodities collapsed….With Iron Ore now down 22% from the meltup highs, entering a bear market… And Steel […]Read More

Submitted by Rudy Takala via The Washington Examiner, Regulators in Washington are showing increasing interest in tightening rules on political speech on the web, arguing that the dissonant voices enabled by “new media” have become too influential. If that effort is successful, experts wonder whether it could impact more traditional media as well, especially in […]

Over the weekend we showed a Citi presentation in which Matt King laid out why he is growing concerned as the systemic tipping point approaches. However, one slide deserves particular attention, the one in which King shows that job creation since 2009 has been largely bimodal, benefiting the two income extremes, or as he puts […]

President Muhammadu Buhari arrives in London on Tuesday to join 50 other world leaders at a landmark international anti-corruption summit called by Prime Minister David Cameron. The “Anti-Corruption Summit London 2016” will bring together world leaders, business and civil society to agree a package of practical steps to:Expose corruption so there is nowhere to hide […]

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Lekan shonde the guy that was alleged to have killed his wife in Lagos with CKN as we turned him to the police this afternoon…..The blogger said on Facebook. Previous articleLondon 2016, A Recognition Of Buhari’s Focus, By Garba Shehu Next articleTotal War: Niger Delta Militants Kill 4 Nigerian […]

Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) raise their riffles to celebrate news of a successful operation by their colleagues against the Nigerian army in the Niger Delta on September 17, 2008. MEND has declared a full-scale ‘oil war’ against the Nigerian authorities in response to attacks by the Nigerian […]

LONDON May 9 (Reuters) – A series of attacks on Nigeria’s oil infrastructure has pushed its output of crude close to a 22-year low, Reuters data shows, putting intense pressure on the country’s finances. Shell workers at Nigeria’s Bonga oilfield in the southern Niger Delta were evacuated following a militant threat, a senior labour union […]Read More

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