Personal Freedom Versus Political Paternalism
Submitted by Richard Ebeling via EpicTimes.com, What is the role of government in society? This has been and remains the most fundamental question in all political discussions and debates. Its…
This Is What Hillary Told Wall Street Behind Closed Doors
Bernie Sanders has found the chink in Hillary Clinton’s political armor – and it has nothing to do with a private e-mail server. The riley socialist has begun hitting the…
“The People Who Cast The Votes Don’t Decide An Election, The People Who COUNT The Votes Do.”
Stealing Elections Is Easier Than You Can Imagine Princeton University scientists showed how easy it is to steal elections by tampering with voting machines: Here’s a summary: So did University…
Is This How The Smart Money Is Betting On A Market Crash?
Instead of allocating capital to expensive tail risk bets on direct asset class collapse (in equities, credit, and commodities), it appears, just as we detailed previously, the ‘smartest money in…
Is Deutsche Bank Signaling A New Banking Crisis?
The earnings season has started, and several major banks in the Eurozone have already reported on how they performed in the fourth quarter of 2015, and the entire financial year.…
The Number Everyone’s Been Waiting For: Chinese Reserves Plunge By $100BN – What Does It Mean For Markets?
As we previewed on Thursday, the biggest event of the week, and perhaps of the month, was not Friday’s nonfarm payroll report, but the January update of China’s FX reserves,…
2016: The Year When China Put Trump On The Throne
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at Note: The following is a parody. Characters are fictional (some, at least) and any similarities that may exist with people real or imagined are purely coincidental.…
An Exasperated John Kerry Throws In Towel On Syria: “What Do You Want Me To Do, Go To War With The Russians?!”
“Russian and Syrian forces intensified their campaign on rebel-held areas around Aleppo that are still home to around 350,000 people and aid workers have said the city – Syria’s largest…
Apple’s Trek to the Ordinary
From the Slope of Hope: Over the past ten months, in steps almost too small to be noticed by the mass media, Apple has shed over two hundred billion dollars…
Chinese Diplomat Says Nigeria Is China’s “Second Largest Export Market”
One of the biggest economic challenges Nigeria facing Nigeria today is its reliance on foreign imports of goods and services to survive. Even for its nascent manufacturing industry, it requires…