The Situation in Syria is Very, Very Dangerous

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/09/29/the-situation-in-syria-is-very-very-dangerous/

Secret Swiss Military Bunkers Being Filled With Gold By Billionaires Seeking "Alternatives To Bank Deposits"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-30/swiss-vaults

The Fed’s Monetary Politburo Is Finally Catching Some Flack

End the Fed.  They pose as high priests of finance, when they are merely sophisticated scoundrels, liars, cheats, and thieves.

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-feds-monetary-politburo-is-finally-catching-some-flack/

Trump Right on Trade Predators

http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-right-trade-predators-125775

How Much Money Have Humans Created - A Visual History

Got gold?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-28/how-much-money-have-humans-created

Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Against Russia

This professor deservedly calls out both Democratic and Republican warmongers alike.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/26/hillary-clintons-campaign-against-russia/

White House lashes out at 'embarrassing' Senate veto override

White House Press Secretary called out the Senate for overriding Obama's veto, saying it was embarrassing.  The Senate overrode the bill enabling 9/11 victims the ability to sue Saudi Arabia by a margin of 97-1.  My question:  the vote was embarrassing to whom--the Senate of Obama?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/298290-white-house-lashes-out-at-embarrassing-senate-veto

"There's A Real Problem Here" - Did Fed's Plosser Just Admit Trump Is Right About Yellen?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-28/theres-real-problem-here-did-feds-plosser-just-admit-trump-right-about-yellen

The Secrets of Cheryl Mills

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secrets-of-cheryl-mills-1474932673

This Is Why the Middle Class Is Dying

http://bonnerandpartners.com/this-is-why-the-middle-class-is-dying/

Bridgewater Calculates How Much Time Central Banks Have Left

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-27/bridgewater-calculates-how-much-time-central-banks-have-left

Ok fine, central banks are "running out of road", however at the same time they are terrified to rip (or even peel) the band-aid off. This has put the system in an unstable equilibrium: on one hand, central bankers - as even they admit - need to hand over the growth impulse over to governments, yet on the other hand, they terrified of even the smallest change to the status quo as they know they may undo some 7 years of "wealth effect" creation overnight.

How much longer can this charade continue?

While many would be quick to answer "indefinitely" that is not true, because with every bond, ETF or stock, purchased by central bankers they come to the point where they either monetize the entire lot, or they increasingly impair the functioning of the capital markets (just ask the dozens of marquee hedge funds that have shuttered in recent years).

Luckily, in a recent analysis, Ray Dalio's Bridgewater asked precisely this question, and even better, provided the answer to how much time is left until both the ECB and BOJ hit the limits on their existing programs. 

As the chart below shows, assuming no changes to existing programs, the ECB and the BOJ, the two central banks most actively monetizing debt currently, have 8 and 26 months respectively, if they do no changes to their programs. 

However, if incremental easing is layered on, like expanding the scope of their bond buying programs or purchasing equities even more aggressively, the total rises substantially. The final answer: 68 months, or just above 5 and a half years,  in the case of the ECB, were it to steamroll all political opposition and monetize virtually every possible bond (and 20% of the equity market), and 48 months, or 4 years, in the case of the BOJ.

The Donald Nailed It: “We Are In A Big Fat Ugly Bubble”

This is why both Democrats and establishment republicans do not like Trump.  Do you really want to understand global finance and central bank corruption?  Read this.

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-donald-nailed-it-we-are-in-a-big-fat-ugly-bubble/

Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/september/26/wells-fargo-or-the-federal-reserve-who-s-the-bigger-fraud/

"America Is On Our Side": Al-Nusra Commander Tells German Press US Is Arming Jihadists

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-26/america-our-side-al-nusra-commander-tells-german-press-us-arming-jihadists

Elect The Warmonger Killary And You Will Have Victoria Nuland As Secretary Of State

It's interesting that two former officials of the Reagan administration, considered pro-military and defense spending, are openly criticizing former GOP Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, and portraying them as war-mongers.  This shows just how extremely hawkish Hillary Clinton is on foreign policy, as Kagan and Nuland are in her camp.  And people think Donald Trump is dangerous?  Perhaps, but Hillary could start World War III.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/05/20/elect-the-warmonger-killary-and-you-will-have-victoria-nuland-as-secretary-of-state/

Something Odd Emerges When Fact Checking The "Fact Checkers"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-25/politifact-apparently-even-facts-are-subjective-and-based-party-affiliation

17 Nobel Laureates and 1200+ Economists Agree with Ben Carson re U.S. Fiscal Gap

The government is running a ponzi scheme, applying cash accounting to report their financials, instead of GAAP accrual accounting.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2015/05/13/17-nobel-laureates-and-1200-economists-agree-with-ben-carson-re-u-s-fiscal-gap/#281b4fe65931

More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3 – Part 2

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/09/20/more-troubling-evidence-that-hillary-clinton-will-start-ww3-part-2/

We’re going to war — either hybrid in nature to break the Russian state back to its 1990s subordination, or a hot war (which will destroy our country). Our citizens should know this, but they don’t because our media is dumbed down in its “Pravda”-like support for our “respectable,” highly aggressive government. We are being led, as C. Wright Mills said in the 1950s, by a government full of “crackpot realists: in the name of realism they’ve constructed a paranoid reality all their own.” Our media has credited Hillary Clinton with wonderful foreign policy experience, unlike Trump, without really noting the results of her power-mongering. She’s comparable to Bill Clinton’s choice of Cold War crackpot Madeleine Albright as one of the worst Secretary of States we’ve had since … Condi Rice? Albright boasted, “If we have to use force it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.”

Hillary’s record includes supporting the barbaric “contras” against the Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess, and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at “regime change” in Syria. Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more chaos in the world, and more danger to our country. Next will be the borders of Russia, China, and Iran. Look at the viciousness of her recent AIPAC speech (don’t say you haven’t been warned). Can we really bear to watch as Clinton “takes our alliance [with Israel] to the next level”? Where is our sense of proportion? Cannot the media, at the least, call her out on this extremism? The problem, I think, is this political miasma of “correctness” that dominates American thinking (i.e. Trump is extreme, therefore Hillary is not).
This is why I’m praying still for Bernie Sanders, because he’s the only one willing, at least in the name of fiscal sanity, to cut back on our foreign interventions, bring the troops home, and with these trillions of dollars no longer wasted on malice, try to protect the “homeland” by actually rebuilding it and putting money into its people, schools, and infrastructure. - Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone endorsing Bernie Sanders is not surprising, given his left leanings.  What is more surprising to convention wisdom is Stone's denunciation of Hillary Clinton.  He actually compares Trump as the more favorable candidate, despite Trump's flaws.  In hindsight, Stone's opinion of Hillary should be surprise anyone.  Her track record of missteps leaves some pretty heavy clues.

What If We're in a Depression But Don't Know It?

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/09/what-if-were-in-depression-but-dont.html

Russia Views Hillary Clinton as An “Existential Threat” to Peace

Hillary Clinton is the war hawk presidential candidate, not Donald Trump.  This article is spot on about US foreign policy in the middle east.  It doesn't even go into Ukraine's regime change and subsequent civil war, instigated by the US and NATO, not Russia.

http://theantimedia.org/russia-clinton-existential-threat-peace/

Un-Becoming American

http://www.foreignbynature.com/becoming-un-american/

The Charlotte Riots: What They Are Not Telling You

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-22/charlotte-riots-what-they-are-not-telling-you

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Puerto Rico Blackout Enters Second Day - Entire Island Of 3.5 Million People Without Power

This is what a debt default and bankruptcy of a country/state looks like.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-22/puerto-rico-blackout-enters-second-day-leaving-entire-island-and-its-35mm-people-wit

The Invisible American

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/195680/invisible-american.aspx

I've been reading a lot about a "recovering" economy. It was even trumpeted on Page 1 of The New York Times and Financial Times last week. 

I don't think it's true.

The percentage of Americans who say they are in the middle or upper-middle class has fallen 10 percentage points, from a 61% average between 2000 and 2008 to 51% today.

Ten percent of 250 million adults in the U.S. is 25 million people whose economic lives have crashed.

What the media is missing is that these 25 million people are invisible in the widely reported 4.9% official U.S. unemployment rate.

Only In California - Governor Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Regulate Cow Flatulence

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-19/only-california-governor-jerry-brown-signs-bill-regulate-cow-flatulence

In yet another attack on California businesses, yesterday Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill (SB 1383) that requires the state to cut methane emissions from dairy cows and other animals by 40% by 2030.  The bill is yet another massive blow to the agricultural industry in the state of California that has already suffered from the Governor's passage of a $15 minimum wage and a recent bill that makes California literally the only state in the entire country to provide overtime pay to seasonal agricultural workers after working 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day.

"The California Air Resources Board wants to regulate cow emissions, even though its Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) reduction strategy acknowledges that there’s no known way to achieve this reduction." 

Among other things, compliance with the bill will likely require California dairies to install "methane digesters" that convert the organic matter in manure into methane that can then be converted to energy for on-farm or off-farm consumption.  The problem, of course, is that methane digesters are expensive and with California producing 20% of the country's milk we suspect that means that California has just passed another massive "food tax" on the country.

That said, many California dairies will probably elect to simply close down and move to other states as they did in 2015.  Per the California Department of Food and Agriculture, all but 1 of California's top 10 dairy producing counties saw a reduction in dairy production in 2015.   

China Now Dumping Unprecedented Amounts Of U.S. Treasuries

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-19/panic-gasoline-buying-southeast-leads-massive-car-lines-gas-shortages-price-gouging

The Grand Global Circus: 2016 US Presidential Elections

http://orientalreview.org/2016/09/19/the-grand-global-circus-2016-us-presidential-elections/

The Existential Madness of Putin-Bashing

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/12/the-existential-madness-of-putin-bashing/

Economist Laurence Kotlikoff: U.S. $222 Trillion in Debt

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/01/economist_laurence_kotlikoff_us_222_trillion_in_debt_363.html

WikiLeaks CONFIRMS Hillary Sold Weapons to ISIS… Then Drops Another BOMBSHELL!

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/wikileaks-confirms-hillary-sold-weapons-isis-drops-another-bombshell-breaking-news/#ixzz4GUgUfkzT

Why the Fed Destroyed the Market Economy

http://www.acting-man.com/?p=46614

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New DNC Leaks Blow Hillary’s Health and Obama’s Corruption Wide Open

http://www.usasupreme.com/breaking-new-dnc-leaks-blow-hillarys-health-obamas-corruption-wide-open/

Here Are The "Lines Of People" Waiting For The New iPhone 7

Is it time to sell Apple shares?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/here-are-lines-people-waiting-new-iphone-7

In His Own Words

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is calling current monetary policy from central bankers "crazy.".  The only problem is he was the kingpin of reckless money printing, and he enabled it.

http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2016/09/14/in-his-own-words/

The US War on Terror Has Cost $5 Trillion and Increased Terrorism by 6,500%

http://theantimedia.org/us-war-terror-5-trillion/

The Mainstream Media Bet the Farm on Hillary--and Lost

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-mainstream-media-bet-farm-on.html

Harvard Crushes The "Obama Recovery" Farce With 9 Simple Charts

Harvard has jumped off the propaganda financial bandwagon.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-15/harvard-debunks-obama-recovery-farce

Corrupt and Deranged

https://straightlinelogic.com/2016/09/07/corrupt-and-deranged-by-robert-gore/

The American golden calf

http://personalliberty.com/american-golden-calf/

The impoverishment of the masses

https://wealth.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-impoverishment-of-the-masses

When they say ‘hoarding’ instead of ‘saving’ you know you’re in trouble

https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/when-they-say-hoarding-instead-of-saving-you-know-youre-in-trouble-20185/

IRS Warns Against Keeping IRA Funds In Gold At Home

My only comment regarding storing physical gold inside an IRA is analogous to the wolf guarding the hen house.  Sure, it's legal to do so, but why would you?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-07/irs-warns-against-keeping-ira-funds-gold-home

"What A Mess!" - Pentagon At War With CIA In Syria

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-06/what-mess-pentagon-war-cia-syria

Beware of World Collapse: Private Conversation of Shemitah and Jubilee Revealed at Davos

https://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2016/01/20/beware-of-world-collapse-private-conversation-of-shemitah-and-jubilee-revealed-at-davos.html

Three Big Lies that Pervade America's ‘News’ Media

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/09/05/three-big-lies-that-pervade-americas-news-media.html

Surprise Shocker And China’s Latest Move Will Create An Upside Explosion In The Price Of Gold

http://kingworldnews.com/this-surprise-shocker-and-chinas-latest-move-may-create-an-upside-explosion-in-the-price-of-gold/

Rothchilds Buying Gold On "Greatest" Money "Experiment" In "History of the World"

The only implication I disagree with is the implication that the Rothschilds are managing billions of dollars.  I would speculate the family net worth is in the trillions.  Regardless, they are joining the ranks of other billionaires who are guying physical gold, as they diversity away from other paper financial assets.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-19/rothchilds-buying-gold-greatest-money-experiment-history-world

Duterte tells Obama not to question him about killings

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cd9eda8d34814aedabb9579a31849474/duterte-tells-obama-not-question-him-about-killings

Caption Contest: Whatcha Talkin' Bout Putin?

Last time I checked, Turkey was an ally of NATO and the US, not Russia.  How low America has sunk.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-04/caption-contest-whatcha-talkin-bout-putin

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Dr. Drew was asked to retract Hillary health comments – Received “scary” and “creepy” phone calls

http://planetfreewill.com/2016/09/04/dr-drew-asked-retract-hillary-health-comments-received-scary-creepy-phone-calls/

The World Is Hanging By A Thread, On A Frightening Road To Perdition

http://kingworldnews.com/the-world-is-hanging-by-a-thread-on-a-frightening-road-to-perdition/

The Dumbed-Down New York Times

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/27/the-dumbed-down-new-york-times/

Doug Casey on Why You Shouldn’t Take This Election Seriously

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/doug-casey-on-why-you-shouldnt-take-this-election-seriously

China's Monetary Ascension Is Paved With Gold

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-02/chinas-monetary-ascension-paved-gold

"Tremendous Ripple Effects" - Retailers Demand Bailout After Hanjin Collapse Paralyzes Trade

This could be the black swan that causes commerce to collapse, earnings to nose dive, and markets to plummet.  At the very least, it will be painted as a disaster, justifying an imminent bursting of the bubble.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-02/ripple-effect-could-be-tremendous-retailers-demand-government-bailout-after-hanjin-c

The "Secret Sauce" of the Byzantine Empire: Stable Currency, Social Mobility

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-secret-sauce-of-byzantine-empire.html

Deutsche Bank Refuses Delivery Of Physical Gold Upon Demand

There are no two ways about it.  This is a commercial signature failure to deliver physical gold--an outright default from Deutsche Bank.  The price of physical gold should be soaring right about now.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-31/deutsche-bank-refuses-delivery-physical-gold-upon-demand