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The Crude Oil Export Ban - "What, Me Worry About Peak Oil?"
Submitted by Arthur Berman via ArtBerman.com,Congress ended the U.S. crude oil export ban last week. There is apparently no longer a strategic reason to conserve oil because shale production has made...
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"2016 Will Be No Fun" - Doug Kass Unveils 15 Surprises For The Year Ahead
Via Seabreeze Partners' Doug Kass,"I begin every day by asking three important questions. One among them is this: 'In a paperless and "cloudy" world, are we as investors and citizens as safe as the...
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Pretend To The Bitter End
Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,Forecast 2016 There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e. an economy + a polity = a political...
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Newsflash From The December 'Jobs' Report - The US Economy Is Dead In The Water
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,Here’s a newsflash that CNBC didn’t mention. According to the BLS, the US economy generated a miniscule 11,000 jobsin the month of December.Yet...
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Capitulation In Rig Count Collapse?
Submitted by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com,After last week’s moderate drop in rig count, the amount of horizontal oil rigs seems to implode this week. The U.S. land rig count was down 37 this week and...
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GM/Ford Credit Risk Surges To 2 Year Highs As Fitch Raises Auto Sector Concerns
With the feds probing Deutsche Bank's exaggerating Auto ABS demand, car dealerships suing automakers for being forced to channel-stuff, direct evidence of massive channel-stuffing with near-record...
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Trump Will Force Apple "To Build Its Damn Computers And Things" In America
In case you didn’t get the message, Donald Trump is going to “make America great again.”Typically, campaign slogans try to capture something or other about the candidate by alluding to experience or...
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Billionaire Blackstone CEO Trolls American Public – Doesn't Get Why People...
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,DAVOS MAN: “A soulless man, technocratic, nationless and cultureless, severed from reality. The modern economics that undergirded Davos capitalism...
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Oil Drops as Saudis to Maintain Spending, China Diesel Use Falls (BBG)Saudi Arabia is able to withstand low prices says Saudi Aramco Chairman (WSJ)Recession Warnings May Not Come to Pass (WSJ)... or...
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Presidential Crimes Then And Now
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s?Not much remains of the once vibrant American...
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Futures Bounce Fades As Oil Treads Water, Italian Banks Turmoil, Chinese...
Following the Fed's disappointing "dovish, but not dovish enough" statement which effectively admitted Yellen had committed policy error by hiking just as the US economy "was slowing down" which in...
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Unease over Fed rate path dents European stocks (Reuters)Global Stocks Pressured After Fed Statement (WSJ)Japan's Economy Minister Amari to Resign Over Graft Scandal (BBG)Authorities working to clear...
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Saudi Arabia Conducted 119 Airstrikes Against Civilian Targets In Yemen, UN...
In March, Saudi Arabia’s air campaign in Yemen will enter its second year.Riyadh began flying combat missions last year in an effort to rollback the Iran-backed militiamen who drove Yemeni President...
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Another Nail In The US Empire Coffin: Collapse Of Shale Gas Production Has Begun
Via SRSroccoReport.com,The U.S. Empire is in serious trouble as the collapse of its domestic shale gas production has begun. This is just another nail in a series of nails that have been driven into...
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A Norwegian Gold Allocation Would Counter Sovereign Incompetence Risk
Submitted by Alexander Grover in Oslo, Norway A Norwegian Gold Allocation Would Counter Sovereign Incompetence RiskThe Norwegian Oil Fund (The Government Pension Fund) or “The Fund” belongs to the...
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Star Wars VII: The Audience Awakens
By EconMattersWhile I do not see EconMatters as a movie critic like Roger Ebert, sometimes it feels almost like civil duty to let people know not to waste money on a bad movie. I missed the Start...
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Shale Shock: Another Leg Lower In Oil Coming After Many Producers Found To...
One of the great unknowns facing the US shale industry, and threatening the recurring rumors of its imminent demise, is how it is possible that despite the collapsing number of oil wells, and despite...
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EU Slashes 2016 Inflation Forecast to 0.5% as Growth Seen Slower (BBG)Bank of England cuts UK growth forecasts (FT)Investors Cast Wary Eye on Fed Rate Increases (WSJ)U.N. halts Syria talks as...
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Obama Proposes $10/Barrell Oil Tax To Fund Government Transportation Spending
"It's a supply issue", "No, it's a demand issue" - when it comes to the cause for plunging oil prices, the two camps will surely never agree on just what is causing it. Luckily, Obama may provide just...
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Jimmy Carter: "Legal Bribery" Is Prevailing In The US Political System
Submitted by Andrea Germanos via TheAntiMedia.org,Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter has taken aim at the “erroneous” Supreme Court ruling that “gives legal bribery a...
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