The U.S. stock market halted its death spiral to close higher Tuesday after a wild day of trading that saw the Dow ricocheting more than 1,000 points, underscoring a new regime of volatility on Wall Street. The turnaround, which follows on the heels of the blue-chip index’s worst one-day point decline on Monday, helped to […]
European Markets Plunge…
The Decline and Fall of General Electric, the Poster Child of Obamanomics…
Sometimes we look back a decade or so and reconsider our word choice. For instance, I used to call General Electric — with its heavy lobbying, its intimate ties to the White House, all its bets on green energy, on embryonic stem cells, on Obamacare, on industrial policy — the “for-profit arm of the Obama […]
Trump Transition Team Emails: Here’s Why Washington Insiders Are Freaking Out…
On Saturday, the news broke that Kory Langhofer, counsel to Donald Trump’s transition team known as Trump for America, Inc. (TFA), had sent a 7-page letter to House and Senate Committees stating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office had improperly received “tens of thousands of emails” from the General Services Administration (GSA), a Federal agency, […]
How to Wipe Out Puerto Rico’s Debt Without Hurting Bondholders by Ellen Brown…
During his visit to hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump shocked the bond market when he told Geraldo Rivera of Fox News that he was going to wipe out the island’s bond debt. He said on October 3rd: You know they owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. We’re gonna have […]
Wall Street Banks Sued Again for Conspiring to Control a Market…
As summer draws to a close and the Wall Street titans enjoy the last of their lazy long weekends in the Hamptons, summering next door to the army of lawyers that keep them out of jail, it’s a curious time to be reading about a major new lawsuit that has the potential to shake Wall […]
They Killed the Tsar – Now the Globalists Target Putin by Phil Butler…
In today’s crises centered around Russia, world historians seem to have forgotten that it was American President Woodrow Wilson who made it possible for Leon Trotsky to enter Russia with an American passport. Observed in an historical context the underlying intent of western-eastern détente today should be seen in crystal clarity, but it is not…
The DNC and Media Corporate Establishment Is Grooming Kamala Harris as Obama 2.0…
One has to wonder how many humiliating defeats party members, and prospective party members, are going to accept from the corporate Democratic establishment before they toss them out, or form a third party, and encourage the zombie politicians to take their after office deals with their Big Money donors and Wall Street…
40% of the Fed’s Interest on Excess Reserves Is Paid to Foreign Banks…
Even as both the Fed and Wall Street are gripped by a raging debate over when, how and how much the Fed should shrink its balance sheet, most appear to be ignoring the $2.1 trillion elephant in the room: the fact that every incremental increase in the Fed Funds rate (also an increase in the […]
Court House Doors Will Reopen for Millions of U.S. Consumers…
Yesterday, Richard Cordray, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that was created in 2010 under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, did what few Americans thought he would dare to do: he stood up to threats of being fired; threats of backlash from Wall Street titans; threats of having his agency’s budget gutted; […]
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