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If there was still any doubt whether the Trump juggernaut can be stopped before, if not so much after the Michigan primary earlier this week, it can be laid to rest now because shortly after Trump received the endorsement of Chris Christie, the real estate mogul has now secured his second highest profile backing, that […]

Submitted by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com, It’s not the hair. Or the bad manners. Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll build. There’s a different, more subtle reason why the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news media in general hate Donald Trump. The reason can be found in a New York Times […]Read More

Remember that once-in-a-lifetime, “don’t worry there’s plenty of liquidity” flash-crash in japanese Government Bond futures on Tuesday night (Wednesday morning Japan time)… well it happened again… JGB Futures to be halted any minute… And so the market chaos even among the “safest” of securities, the result of central bank intervention, continues. Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow summarized […]Read More

One month ago, when describing the latest in an endless series of Vancouver real estate horror stories, in this case an abandoned, rotting home (which is currently listed for a modest $7.2 million), we explained the simple money-laundering dynamic involving Chinese “investors” as follows. Chinese investors smuggle out millions in embezzled cash, hot money or […]

Back in the summer of 2014, roughly a year and a half before the second bubble of profitless, “story”, aka “tech”, companies had burst, we wrote in dismay, that “the true indicator of just how bubbly the second coming of the dot com era has become comes courtesy of none other than Jessica Alba’s, yes […]Read More

Submitted by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, They met in secret to plan a devastating attack… Two powerful men, colluding at a palace in the Middle East. In September 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Saudi Arabia. He was there to meet with King Abdullah, the country’s ruler and one of the richest […]Read More

Judging by the progression of the previous 11 GOP debates, tonight’s slugfest will involve actual measurement of genitalia, a Hulk-Hogan-esque chair-slamming, and excessive use of four-letter words. As “handy” Trump, “little” Marco, “lyin'” Ted, and “quiet” Kasich step up to the podiums (podia?), the chairman of the Republican Party has declared that he wants tonight’s […]Read More

Given China’s new focus on a basket of currencies, rather than pegging to the dollar alone, today’s record-breaking reversal in EUR has sparked a yuuge 300 pips rally in Offshore Yuan (from 6.5270 to 6.4940) pushing to its strongest level since mid-December. At the same time, Gold is accelerating as China opens, pushing up to […]Read More

Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted at SputnikNews.com, Imagine one of the most admired global political leaders in modern history taken from his apartment at 6 am by armed Brazilian Federal Police agents and forced into an unmarked car to the Sao Paulo airport to be interrogated for almost four hours in connection with a […]

The economy of the United States was destroyed almost overnight. As VisualCapitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, more than 5,000 banks collapsed, and there were 12 million people out of work in America as factories, banks, and other shops closed. Many reasons have been supplied by the different economic camps for the cause of the Great Depression, […]

3 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email The Islamic Movement in Nigeria said in a statement on Thursday that attempts by the Nigerian Army to paint the faith based organisation as a terrorist group after it killed many of its members in Zaria some months ago will fail. The full statement is below. In the […]

6 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email Sokoto government will establish a new medical school, an infectious diseases hospital and a state-of-the-art renal and cardiac centre, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal announced on Thursday. Mr. Tambuwal was speaking at the opening of the 58th meeting of National Council on Health in Sokoto. L-R: Sokoto State Governor, […]