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David Wynn Miller (or David-Wynn: Miller as he is known in his natural habitat) is not a name you’ve probably heard of before, unless you’re in the most rarefied of far-right conspiracy theorist circles. Miller is a tax-avoidance acolyte most closely associated with the “sovereign citizen” movement. He’s also a self-appointed judge of an archaic […]Read More

From the Slope of Hope: When I saw this article yesterday, I could hardly believe what I was reading. I have never in my life read such naked hubris from a central banker. You just know this remark will be quoted in history books decades from now.   To that I only have one response: Average: Your rating: NoneRead More

Back in November, when it was laying out its (five out of six wrong) Top Trades and predictions for 2016, Goldman strategists forecast that because the “US will be the first to grow GDP demand above potential” the stock market party would be over and that the “Bernanke Put” would be replaced with the “Yellen […]Read More

Update: The latest poll from left-leaning Publi Policy Polling found that Cruz leads with 38 percent support, with Trump right behind at 37 percent — within the margin of error. Amid campaign-manager-assault-gate and the abortion fiasco, Donald Trump appears to be facing his own Waterloo. Polls show Cruz up by 10 points in Wisconsin and […]

Submitted by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute, Erdogan has boasted that he is proud of boldly blackmailing EU leaders into paying him protection money. Erdogan’s threats were almost criminally sinister: “… the EU will be confronted with more than a dead boy on the shores of Turkey. There will be 10,000 or 15,000. How […]Read More

Thursday was a rough day for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. At a pre-recorded town hall meeting hosted by MSNBC and Chris Matthews, Trump got tripped up over a question about illegal abortion. “Should [illegal] abortion be punished?,” Matthews quizzed. “This is not something you can dodge,” he added. “There has to be some form of […]Read More

Back on December 31, the day which was the first quarter and year-end after the Fed’s first rate hike cycle in nearly a decade, we pointed out something unexpected – the Fed’s rate hike corridor had just been broken when the Fed Funds rate traded as low as 0.12%, far below the mandated minimum of […]Read More

“Whichever way we slice the data, the growth in working age population stands out as a key driver of economic growth for most countries. A healthy dependency ratio, a skilled workforce, together with strong institutions and an absence of major resource imbalances is usually the formula for country-level success. But with most DMs weighed down […]

Having read the Telegraph’s piece “Saudi tourist brings four gold cars worth more than £1m to London“, exiled UAE expat Iyad El-Baghdadi sent out a simple tweet which we are confident not only Muslims around the world, but everyone else, can agree with. This is more offensive to my sensibilities as a Muslim than a […]Read More

He does it again pic.twitter.com/VxemrcowNf — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 31, 2016 The market ended red today… But The Dow and The S&P ended Q1 in the green after a yuuge drop… In fact this was the greatest comeback in the history of stocks… (Q1 2016’s 11.3% drawdown is the biggest on record for a quarter […]Read More

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestment Advice.com, Fed Levitation What is going on at the Federal Reserve? On Tuesday, Janet Yellen comes out and announces that despite inflation being on the rise and employment below 5%, she is not going to raise the Fed Funds rate 4-times this year, nor even two times this year, […]

Mr. Pade Olapoju published this “open letter” the day President Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner of the presidential election on 31 March 2015. No one could have captured it better. Read. VICTORY FOR THE MASSES History was made in Nigeria today when the candidate of the opposition party defeated a sitting president. It is unprecedented […]