'Holier-Than-Thou' - How America's Mainstream Media Rebuke Foreign Leaders
Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation,In the week of World Press Freedom Day the New York Times carried one of its holier-than-thou and unintentionally ironical editorials,...
View ArticleHow Is This Not A Recession? Ford To Slash 10% Of Global Workforce
Having admitted in March that "used car prices will drop for years" and amid near-record inventories, a so-called 'plateau' in car sales, and soaring auto-loan losses, WSJ is reporting that Ford is...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 16
Trump Says He Has ‘Absolute Right’ to Share Terrorism Facts with Russia (WSJ)Russia's response: don't read U.S. newspapers (Reuters)How the Democrats Are Trying to Beat Back Trump (BBG)Trump to Join...
View ArticleIndustrial Production Surges Most Since Feb 2014 As Auto Assembly Spikes
Industrial Production rose 0.96% in April - the biggest MoM move since Feb 2014 - dramatically better than expected (and one of the first 'hard' data beats this month). Year-over-year, IP is up over 2%...
View ArticleBuchanan On Comey & The Saturday Night Massacre
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, said Marx.On publication day of my memoir of Richard Nixon’s White House, President Trump fired...
View ArticleDollar Slumps To 6-Month Lows As Stocks Do Something They Haven't Done Since...
Anyone get the feeling we are at 45 seconds into this clip? The Dollar is down 5 days in a row - today's drop is the biggest since Trump commented on the "too-strong" dollar two months ago. This move...
View ArticleCarmageddon: All 3 Major Auto Markets Contract YoY For The First Time Since...
For the first time since January 2009, sales of cars declined year-over-year in all three of the world's largest auto markets of Western Europe (-6.8%), China (-1.8%) and the United States (-3.7%)....
View ArticleThe American Dystopia Didn't Begin With Trump
Authored by Darrell Delamaide via MarketWatch.com,Dystopia is here. It’s not just the “imagined place” of the dictionary definition or a future state of dystopian novels. It is very real and right now,...
View ArticleAre Auto-Makers Bailing On Their Job-Creation Pledges?
Carmakers quickly kowtowed to Trump after his upset victory over Hilary Clinton on Nov. 8, allowing the then-president-elect to take credit for their pledges to hire thousands of workers and keep U.S....
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 18
FBI’s Russia Probe Gains Credibility With Mueller In Charge (BBG)Trump storm hits stocks again but dollar steadies (Reuters)Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed – after being paid as its agent...
View ArticleMusk Admits "Tesla's Market Cap Is Higher Than We Have Any Right To Deserve"
Having taunted shorts just over a month ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have flip-flopped back to reality this morning, admitting in an interview with The Guardian that "I do believe this market...
View ArticleJames Jaeger: New Documentary “Mainstream” on The Globalist Agenda in Movies
Via The Daily BellJames Jaeger is an award-winning filmmaker who co-founded Matrix Entertainment which has partnered with Bill Van Alen, of Cornerstone Entertainment, Constitutional attorney, Edwin...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm Hits Used-Car Values: The Foundation Of The Auto Industry...
Submitted by Daniel Ruiz via Blinders Off blog,The Perfect StormThe following topics all have their part in fueling the storm to come:1) Trade Cycles and How They Affect New Vehicle Sales VelocityUsed...
View ArticleIn Major Shake Up, Ford Fires CEO Mark Fields As Punishment For Declining...
Confirming weekend rumors of a dramatic management shakeup at Ford, late on Sunday Forbes reported that Ford would replace CEO Mark Fields with Jim Hackett, the former head of office-furniture maker...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 22
Trump Arrives in Israel, May Show His Cards on the Peace Process (BBG)Taxes, Budget Are Focus for White House Despite Probes (WSJ)Paul Manafort’s Lucrative Ukraine Years Are Central to the Russia Probe...
View ArticleThe Final Show Of The Greatest Country On Earth
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,On May 31, 1866, John C. Ringling was born in Iowa to German immigrants in what felt like an extremely bleak year.The chaos and devastation from the Civil...
View ArticleBank Of America: "These Markets Are Very Weird"
In the latest delightful note from serious "non-tinfoil" sources confirming just how broken the market has become (and how right all those who said central banking and HFT would eventually break it),...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 25
World stocks hit record after Fed minutes (Reuters)OPEC extends oil output cut by nine months to fight glut (Reuters)Father and Brother of Manchester Bomber Arrested in Libya (BBG)In testing Montana...
View ArticleList of Seven Troubles Assailing the US Economy as We Head into Summer
The following article by David Haggith was published on The Great Recession Blog:The following is not simply a list of negative risks to the economy but a list of of serious economic conditions that...
View ArticleThe Inconvenient Truth Behind The Net Neutrality Movement
Via Disobedient MediaThe control of private information on the internet has been a contentious for as long as the people have been online. It has long been the consensus that maintaining internet...
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