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Via GEFIRA, Europe is planning on recolonizing Libya, and so it will send in armed forces in the coming months to restore order and stem the flow of migrants coming from Africa. If this expedition army succeeds in securing parts of the country and restoring law and order, Italian and German engineers from ENI and […]

Back in October 2015, Bloomberg reported that Bill Gross made a big bet that Brazil’s credit was improving. He sold enough Brazil CDS to make it a top 10 holding of his $1.4bn Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund. As Bloomberg pointed out, the contract maturities were December 2015, March 2016, and June 2016. This was […]

While trying to make sense of the “market” seems like a lost cause today more than ever, and it certainly led Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow to flip out on Monday, here is Breslow again, stoically trying to uncover the fundamental logic in what has devolved to nothing more than carefully calculated central banker verbal outbursts (and […]

Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, Amidst all the pearls of wisdom unleashed in mainstream economics over the past unbelievable eight years or so, it was one paragraph of common sense that had it been written and appreciated at the start of this period might have saved us all the inordinate and totally […]

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, More than 25 million people live in the vicinity of Mt. Popocatepetl, including Mexico City’s 18 million residents.  At 2:32 local time on Tuesday morning, the most dangerous volcano in Mexico roared to life in spectacular fashion, and this has many experts extremely […]

In a scene right out of Office Space, one week ago we read that TD Bank, the fourth-largest retail bank in Massachusetts, was pulling out its coin-counting equipment for “servicing” following reports that the machines were short-changing customers who came in to exchange their nickels and pennies for bills. As a recent NBC’s Today show […]

Pride comes before the fall… [embedded content] The Dow soared once again – why not – to its highest since June 2015 (when Fwd EPS was 1178 as opposed to 1120 currently)… VIX was slammed down to a 12-handle at the open… which sparked a bounce in VIX but once the S&P fell below 2,100, […]Read More

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Although scores of us in the alternative media world have been discussing the obvious links between Saudi Arabia and the attacks of 9/11 for many years, this reality has only now started to enter the mainstream consciousness due to a recent report on 60 Minutes. But that’s not […]Read More

And he is Canadian unless a CRBA was filed in 1970 by his mother who by that time was also a Canadian Citizen under Candian law at the time as. Ted’s Father has publicly admitted he became a Canadian citizen in 1968. If his mother’s first husband with surname of “Wilson” was also a Canadian […]Read More

According to a recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit, federal judges have no authority to “second-guess” the practice of federal prosecutors cutting deals with companies indicted for criminal wrongdoing. Such deals are known professionally as “deferred prosecution agreements.” The opinion, written by Judge Sri Srinivasan, shines a light on the somewhat controversial practice of negotiating […]Read More

Gavin Grimm, the transgender teen at the heart of the bathroom controversy in North Carolina, successfully convinced the Fourth Circuit that his case should be heard in court. Human rights groups have reacted approvingly to the decision, but North Carolina appears not to have moved and House Bill 2 in North Carolina appears to be […]

Victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism won big in the Supreme Court this morning. Today, in a 6-2 ruling authored by Justice Ginsburg, the Court upheld a law giving terror victims an explicit right to collect a court judgment against Iran. That 2012 law, passed as federal courts were considering the same question, did not overstep the […]