Former U.S. Treasury Official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Warns Black Swans Will Engulf The World: “It’s A Perfect Storm”

http://kingworldnews.com/former-u-s-treasury-official-dr-paul-craig-roberts-warns-black-swans-will-engulf-the-world-its-a-perfect-storm/

David Stockman On Black Swans & The U.S. War With Russia

I agree with Stockman's opinion on the illogical and dangerous US foreign policy of encroachment on Russia.  But I do disagree with this part:

“There was no reason to expand NATO all the way through eastern Europe — adding 14 new countries since the Cold War ended — coming all the way to the border of Russia, creating tensions and antagonisms that have no reason to exist."

There were reasons--nefarious and misguided notwithstanding.  China needs energy, and it has secured energy sources from Russia.  The BRICS countries have the population, the natural resources, and are generally more solvent than the over-indebted western powers.  Current US policy of agitating Russia is an affront against both superpowers China and Russia.

So there are reasons behind the US' "war against Russian aggression."  But it doesn't make the campaign against Putin moral, and it will end up being disastrous.

http://kingworldnews.com/david-stockman-black-swans-u-s-war-russia/

Yes, Russia To Unleash Black Swans Against West But Here Is The Scary Part

It's becoming pretty clear why the Obama administration is making nice with Cuba, and declaring North Korea's "cyber-attack" on SONY.  Both are allies of Russia and China, respectively.

In fact, North Korea can't lift a finger without China's approval and capabilities.  Re-declaring North Korea as a terrorist threat is merely misdirection to rally nationalistic support against China.

Russia and China individually are formidable nuclear-capable threats.  The two foes combined make them impossible to engage militarily.  From a foreign currency perspective, the USDollar is gaining strength and wreaking havoc in all oil-exporting nations.

These currency devaluation wars are a precursor to military conflict.  King Dollar must maintain its hegemony, or it's lights out for the US. 

http://kingworldnews.com/yes-russia-unleash-black-swans-west-scary-part/

Nassim Taleb on Wall Street Protest, Banking

The author who coined and penned "The Black Swan" gives a classic rant on bankers' salaries.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/78027552/

Rick Rule - Many Black Swans that Could Hit This Market

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/10/4_Rick_Rule_-_Many_Black_Swans_that_Could_Hit_This_Market.html

“If there is a bid for gold and a hedge fund is having trouble meeting redemptions, they will sell their gold.  How long can this go on?  I don’t know.  Remember this, Eric, in the midst of the biggest gold bull market of all-time, the 1970 to 1980 bull market, when gold went from $35 to $850 an ounce, in the middle of that decade, in 1975, the gold price fell by half....

“Could that happen now?  I don’t think so.  The set of circumstances that caused that market to fall by half was an increase in real US interest rates and a consequent increase in the value of the US dollar.  I don’t see that occurring.

Remember also, in 1975 when the gold price fell from $200 to $100 an ounce, certainly an unnerving event for people who were long gold, in the five years after that gold ran from $100 an ounce to $850 an ounce.  So someone who got shaken out of the gold market, in a cyclical decline, deprived themselves of an 850% escalation over the next five years.

Is A Thunderous Flock Of Black Swans Imminent, Or The "Price Stability" Redux

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/thunderous-flock-black-swans-imminent-or-price-stability-redux

...physics can not be circumvented with a printer, and a crash deferred today, is double the crash that can not be deferred tomorrow.