World Affairs
He’s Just Not That Into You
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer I’m trying, I swear, to get into the fold, but I just can’t NOT find this hilarious. On the eve of his presidency, Donald Trump tells European leaders, by not telling […]
EU
Freedom
Fire With Fire
René Magritte The Art of Conversation 1963 Sometimes you best fight fire with fire. This knowledge goes back to the advent of agriculture. Australian aboriginees have used it since as long as their stories of […]
Wealth Abuse
Europe Proposes Confiscating Gold In Crackdown On “Terrorist Financing”
by Tyler Durden Hot on the heels of China gold import restrictions, and India’s demonetization and gold confiscations, The European Commission proposed tightening controls on cash and precious metals transfers from outside the EU under […]
Wealth Abuse
Brace Yourself For Italy’s Bankruptcy
by Tyler Durden Submitted by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, When Charles Gave, paterfamilias of Gavekal, chooses to express displeasure over an economic trend, an asset class, or what have you, he does not exactly mince […]
World Affairs
Rickards: Obama’s blunder; Trump’s gambit
President Obama has conducted the most deleterious foreign policy of any U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson. This is not due just to a dead ambassador on the streets of Benghazi, a phony red line in […]
Freedom
Pound Tumbles After UK Government Wins Brexit Suit In Northern Ireland Court
by Tyler Durden Moments ago sterling did what it has been doing so well these past few months, it tumbled by as much as 50 pips after the UK government won a Brexit suit in […]
Commentary
Ungovernability
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Inge Morath Street Corner at World’s End London 1954 Over the summer I introduced a two-fold assertion: 1) global economic growth is over (and has been for years and won’t come […]
Commentary
One Giant Powder Keg… and the Fuse is Already Lit
by Nick Giambruno Their mission was to capture—or more likely—kill. Dozens of renegade commandos in three Blackhawk helicopters swooped in on the holiday residence of the president. Immediately, they engaged in a fierce gun battle […]
World Affairs
The Case For The Breakup Of The Ukraine
This article was written for the Unz Review:http://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-case-for-the-breakup-of-the-ukraine/ Just as the corporate media is not reporting that the USA and Russia are on a collision course which can end up in nuclear war, the corporate […]
Commentary
Revenge Of The Rubes – Why The Days Of The Financial Elite’s Rule Are Numbered
by Tyler Durden Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, Talk about not waiting for the body to get cold. The establishment oracles are out in force today proclaiming that Brexit has already been cancelled. Apparently, like in […]