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How often do you notice during an average market day that the mainstream financial news media very often seem to run headlines that not only contradict one another entirely but sometimes emanate from the very same news wire? Well trust us, it happens all the time. In fact, this type of epic confusion is one […]

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, I don’t find conversations about how morally repugnant Trump is to be interesting when the rest of the candidates seem to also support imperialistic and fascist policies concerning drone strikes, torture and mass surveillance. Do I like Trump’s platform? No, I think most of it is silly […]

“The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million people. Naoto Kan expressed satisfaction at the three TEPCO executives facing charges […]Read More

Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org, The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalization efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as states legalize cannabis use and cultivation, the volume of weed brought across the border by Mexican drug cartels […]

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its data on U.S. trade in goods by selected countries and world region for 2015. HowMuch.net built three maps to provide a proportional visualization of the trade that occurs between the U.S. and other countries. Exports are represented in green, imports are represented in red, and the balance (exports – imports) […]Read More

In a nation as ‘distracted‘ as America where virtual relationships seem more popular than real ones, it appears different states ‘attention‘ is drawn to very different methods of entertainment. In 30 states in the West, Midwest and East, “lesbian” was on top as the most commonly searched term. And the term was most popular in […]Read More

Plans are on top gear for Kaduna State Government, Dangote Group and the Bank of Industry (BOI) to acquire majority shares of Kaduna based moribund Peugeot Automobile. Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai made this disclosure at the on-going Kaduna International Trade Fair. According to El- Rufai, interest for this acquisition has already been submitted to […]

In an often feisty interview, President Buhari was on the hot seat on Al Jazeera’s “Talk to Al Jazeera” program where he was made to respond to questions ranging from Boko Haram, fight against corruption and the economy. Buhari appeared a bit flustered sometimes especially when the issue of devaluation was brought up again. His […]

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, By nominating Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party is handing over the presidency to Donald Trump. This is a sentiment I’ve been repeating consistently over the past several weeks, and one that has yet to be truly appreciated by most people. There continues to be extreme denial amongst […]

The cracks are starting to appear in the ‘paper’ gold market. BlackRock’s rather shocking decisision to halt ETF creation due to gold demand (i.e. being unable to source enough physical gold to meet mandated requirements given the inflows) follows the largest gold ETF inflows since Feb 2009 (just as The Fed started QE1 and unleashed […]Read More

Everything happening today is in some ways interconnected: popularity of ‘non-establishment’ political candidates; ineffectiveness of central bank policy in lifting inflation; economic pessimism; weak capital spending (from handcuffed capitalism); and angst due to perceptions of inequality. Scotiabank’s Guy Haselmann explains… Business investment and capitalism are being held back by a lack of visibility on what […]Read More

Two weeks ago, we reported that NYSE Short Interest has risen 4.5%, back over 18 billion shares near the historical record highs of July 2008 (and up 7 of the last 9 months). We said that this dynamic means one of two things: Either a central bank intervenes, or a massive forced buy-in event occurs, […]