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By Eddie Zipperer, originally published in The Hill The complete idiot’s guide to being right about Donald Trump If you operate under the assumption that helium is heavier than the air around you, you’re going to lose your balloon. If you’re smart, you won’t lose many balloons before you change your assumption. If you don’t […]Read More

…but this is a list you do not want to be at the top of… As The Burning Platform’s Jim Quinn so eloquently exclaims… Thank God for the Department of Education and Common Core.   No child is being left behind in our quest for idiocy. I’m sure paying union teachers more money will solve […]Read More

After repeated warnings about China’s soaring non-performing loans on this site (here, here and here), which have underscroed the basis of Kyle Bass’ “big trade for 2016”, namely shorting China’s currency in the bet it will have to massively devalue in order to address its incipient default cycle, virtually everyone is aware that China has […]Read More

Submitted by Dalan McEndree via OilPrice.com, Do the Saudis have an oil market strategy beyond pumping crude to defend their market share? Are they indifferent to which countries’ oil industries survive? Or, alternatively, are they targeting specific global competitors and specific national markets? Did they start with a particular strategy in November 2014 when Saudi […]

Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, What we see happening today is why we called our news overview the “Debt Rattle” 8 years ago. The last gasps of a broken system ravished by the very much cancer-like progress of debt. Yes, it took longer than it should have, and than we […]

The move in gold, up 17% year to date, is important, according to ConvergEx’s Nick Colas… We’ll be blunt: most financial asset investors really hate gold. Anything – even leaving money in the bank – is better than owning gold since at least society has access to your capital through the banking system.  Once you […]Read More

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, When one looks at the deplorable state of the world, one cannot help but wonder at the insouciance of the American people. Where are they? Do they exist or are they a myth? Have they been put to sleep by an evil demon? Are they so lost in The Matrix […]

Press Statement As part of the efforts of the Nigerian military towards ensuring equity, fairness and rule of law, some suspected members of Boko Haram Terrorist who were arrested, thoroughly screened and investigated have been released to the Borno State Government. Investigation carried out revealed that 275 among the suspected detainees were found innocent and […]

A rather interesting case involving a “not compliant” leather-gladiator gay pride outfit will be marching itself to the Ninth Circuit in March. Will Walters’ selective enforcement suit has already scandalized and inflamed the internet when it was revealed to the public in 2012. Now, years later, the Ninth Circuit (appropriately located in San Francisco) will […]

When last we met, we finally found out who shot Annalise. And if her bleeding body wasn’t enough, Shonda Rhimes threw two more on the pile, and then one off the side of a building, for good measure. But that was three months ago. Now we’re back from the mid-season break and How to Get […]

If you missed your flight to NYC for this year’s Legaltech New York conference, there’s no need to miss out on some of the legal innovations that were presented there. In one of the more interesting Legaltech events, nine startups gathered for “Legal Disruption Lightning Rounds.” (Think “Shark Tank” but without the proprietary content.) These […]Read More

Remember the Atkins diet? One of the low carb diet’s most outspoken and enterprising exponents was Dr. Mary C. Vernon of Kansas — and now she’s headed to prison. The Tenth Circuit just upheld her criminal conviction for tax evasion and greenlit the penalty of $311,000. Now Vernon is headed to prison for three years […]Read More