Frontrunning: March 23
Futures little changed day after Brussels attacks (Reuters)Trump, Clinton win big in Arizona, but Cruz, Sanders show fight (Reuters)Belgium identifies Brussels bomb suspect, suicide bombers...
View ArticleYellen, Draghi, Kuroda: Deranged Lab Rats
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,The stock market has regained all of its loses year to date as economic indicators continue to flash red, corporate profits continue to plunge,...
View ArticleFrom Marxist To Markets: Why Robber Barons Are "Safer Foes" Than Meddling...
Authored by Chris Campbell, via LFB.org,“Of all tyrannies,” C.S. Lewis once wrote, “a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. “It would be better to live...
View ArticleDon't Blame It All On Donald Trump
Submitted by Tom Englehardt via TomDispatch.com,The other week, feeling sick, I spent a day on my couch with the TV on and was reminded of an odd fact of American life. More than seven months before...
View ArticleThe Battle To Keep The Establishment In Power
Submitted by Martin Armstrong via ArmstrongEconomics.com,The last time a Republican Presidential Convention opened without a decided nominee in the primaries was 1976, during the fight between Ronald...
View ArticleAuto Sales Disappoint Despite Surging Incentives, "Worrisome Trends Are...
Just as we predicted, it seems - despite the "everything is awesome" jobs data - that auto sales exuberance has hit the wall of credit saturation. Despite a surge in incentives in Q1, GM US auto sales...
View ArticleTrump's 1990 Playboy Interview: "We Are Being Laughed At Around The World..."
While The Donald may come across as 'shooting from the hip', it appears based on this 1990 interview with Playboy that Trump has been thinking about the decline of America, the weakness and corruption...
View Article"Unprecedented Leak" Exposes The Criminal Financial Dealings Of Some Of The...
An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents, called the "Panama Papers", has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world's wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and...
View ArticleMossack Fonseca Has 441 U.S. Clients: Who Are They?
As the shock from the initial revelation of leaked Mossack Fonseca files fades away, one recurring question has emerged: why were there no American clients of the firm named (at least not yet)? After...
View ArticleShots Fired: Wikileaks Accuses Panama Papers' Leaker Of Being "Soros-Funded,...
Earlier today, for the first time we got a glimpse into some of the American names allegedly contained in the "Panama Papers", largest ever leak. "Some", not all, and "allegedly"because as we said...
View ArticlePanama Tax Haven Scandal: The Bigger Picture
A Huge LeakThe “Panama Papers” tax haven leak is big …After all, the Prime Minister of Iceland resigned over the leak, and investigations are taking place worldwide over the leak.But Why Is It Mainly...
View ArticlePutin Denounces "Panama Papers" As U.S. Plot To Destabilize Russia
The last few days days have been rife with speculation about the motivation, if any, behind the release of the Panama Papers, with the most prominent example coming from Wikileaks two days ago on...
View ArticleWas The Panama Papers "Leak" A Russian Intelligence Operation?
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,As I wrote on Monday, ever since I started reading about the Panama Papers “leak” something kept rubbing me the wrong way. From the absence of any...
View ArticleThe Delusional GOP Establishment Is "Heading For A Train Crash" In Cleveland
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,After winning only six delegates in Wisconsin, and with Ted Cruz poaching delegates in states he has won, like Louisiana, Donald Trump either wins on the...
View ArticleSwiss Bank Whistleblower Claims Panama Papers Was A CIA Operation
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new...
View ArticleWhy Is The Mainstream Media Covering Up Recessionary Data?
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,The Census Bureau put out their monthly retail sales report yesterday morning. During good times, the MSM would be hailing the tremendous increases...
View ArticleDefault Cycle Now In Full Swing As Goodrich Petroleum Is Latest To File...
The energy bankruptcy wave has been officially unleashed. After just yesterday Energy XXI became the latest shale company to seek bankruptcy protection, this morning another troubled energy producer,...
View Article"America First" - The Trump Slogan the Establishment Hates
Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com,Why do they hate Donald Trump?Why has the Establishment pulled out all the stops in an effort to smear him, stop him, and crush him underfoot? Every single...
View ArticleFutures Rebound Off Lows Following Chinese Intervention; Oil Dips Ahead Of...
Ahead of two key central banks events this week, the Fed announcement on Wednesday - in which Yellen is expected to do nothing and most likely will continue the dovish relent first seen a month ago -...
View ArticleThe "Fracklog Trigger": Why 500,000 Barrels Of Shale Crude Could Hit The...
Yesterday, when reading through Pioneer's results we stumbled on something unexpected: not only was the company pumping more than its had previously guided, but announced it was waiting for $50/barrel...
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