It was meant to be a fleeting slowdown for Europe’s economic powerhouse, followed by a rapid rebound. Instead, Germany has been stuck in neutral for a year with hopes fading for a turnaround, a situation that threatens to spread lasting economic gloom across Europe. Its vast industry is in recession, a victim of shifting consumer […]
Thuringia Foretells the Fracturing of Germany…
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the election results last weekend in Thuringia. The complete collapse of the two centrist parties there, Angela Merkel’s CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD), is looking like a harbinger of what comes next in German politics. A majority in Thuringia, ruled by the CDU since the early 1990’s […]
Merkel Says German Multicultural Society Has Failed…
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German. The comments come amid rising anti-immigration feeling in Germany. A recent […]
NATO Chief Warns ‘Fight Against Islamic State Is Not Over’…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Wednesday that “Islamic State” could revive itself following the US withdrawal in Syria. In a press conference setting the agenda for an upcoming, high-level NATO meeting, Stoltenberg said the fight against IS must continue. “Ending IS was the reason NATO went in (to northeastern Syria). We have to […]
Where Are the Hundreds of Billions in Loans from the Fed Actually Going on Wall Street?…
No one can say with any certainty where the hundreds of billions of dollars that the Federal Reserve has been pumping into Wall Street since September 17 are actually ending up. The Fed is not releasing the names of which of its primary dealers (securities firms) are taking the lion’s share of the loans nor […]
“Panic at the Repo”: One of the World’s Top Repo Experts Explains What Really Happened…
Panic At The Repo: As a professional trader, I keep an eye out for the next panic or market crisis. Since the beginning of my career, there was a crash or panic every few years in one market or another. You try to think about what market is overbought. What market is in a bubble. […]
German Intelligence Reports on Iran’s Illicit Nuclear Activities Met with Silence from European Powers…
Serious questions have emerged about the International Atomic Energy Agency’s and the European powers’ silence regarding a series of German intelligence reports documenting the Iranian regime’s illegal attempts to obtain nuclear weapons technology as late as 2018. Emily B. Landau, director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Project at the Institute for National Security […]
There’s Nothing Normal About the Fed Pumping Hundreds of Billions Weekly to Unnamed Banks on Wall Street: “Somebody’s Got a Problem”…
Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee released its hearing schedule for October. There is not a peep about holding a hearing on the unprecedented hundreds of billions of dollars that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is pumping into unnamed banks on Wall Street at a time when there is no public acknowledgement of […]
German Police Raid Former NATO Bunker Data Center Used for Illegal Activities…
German investigators shut down a “criminally operated data center” in a former NATO bunker that they claim was used to host sites selling drugs, child pornography and illegal botnets. More than 600 police officers stormed the ‘CyberBunker’ data center in Traben-Trarbach, western Germany, where they seized roughly 200 servers. Seven people were arrested. Prosecutor Juergen […]
The Repo Loan Crisis, Dead Bankers, and Deutsche Bank: Timeline of Events…
Last week, as the Fed was carrying out hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency loan operations on Wall Street for the second week in a row – the first such operations since the financial crisis – Deutsche Bank’s headquarters office in Frankfurt, Germany was being raided by police for the second time in less […]
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