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Saudi Arabia up in Flames: Riyadh Is Headed for a Major Disaster

Federico Pieraccini On Saturday September 14th, Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced that they had conducted a massive attack on several Aramco plants in Saudi Arabia, including the largest oil refinery in the world in Abqaiq, using [...]
Military

Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran?

September 19, 2019 by Patrick J. Buchanan A more fundamental question arises: If the United States was not attacked, why is it our duty to respond militarily to an attack on Saudi Arabia? President Donald Trump does [...]
Wealth Abuse

Dave Kranzler: Repo Rates and Gold — Something big is Happening

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand Something big is happening beneath the surface of a Dow and S&P 500 trading near all-time highs. The soaring repo [...]
World Affairs

Avigdor Lieberman Is Israel’s New “Kingmaker”, And He Will Use That Leverage To Make Sure Israel Goes To War With Hamas

September 17, 2019 by Michael Snyder Last November, Avigdor Lieberman resigned as Israel’s defense minister when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to reject Lieberman’s plan for a military operation in Gaza and agree to a ceasefire [...]
World Affairs

Crises – the Middle-East and a Few Hopefully Useful Pointers

[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] The Middle-East is literally exploding: the Houthis have delivered an extremely effective blow against Saudi oil production which (so they claim) has now dropped by 50% before bouncing [...]
Financial

Liquidity Shortage Getting Worse: Fed’s Repo Oversubcribed Even More As Funding Demand Jumps

by Tyler Durden For those hoping that the dollar shortage and overnight funding crunch would ease on the third day after the G/C repo rate exploded as high as 10%, we have bad news: it has [...]
World Affairs

Putin’s Multipolar Offer to Saudi Arabian Exceptionalism

Tim Kirby Global Islamic Terrorism is universally recognized as today’s big threat and has been the justification for all sorts of changes, especially to life in the West after 9/11. The Islamic terrorists whom we [...]
Freedom

Bolton’s Firing Opens a New Potential for a Russia-China-USA Alliance

Matthew Ehret With President Trump’s long overdue firing of John Bolton on September 10th, a window into the battle between neocon zombies infesting the White House and Donald Trump was made visible once more. As [...]
Wealth Abuse

Today’s “Watershed” Repo-calypse Is “One Of The Worst Things That Can Happen”

by Tyler Durden While it is being ignored by most (because the S&P didn’t crash), the chaos in the Fed-controlled short-term liquidity markets should panic everyone as for the first time in a decade, NYFRB was [...]
World Affairs

A View from the Brink

Welcome to the world where things don’t add up. For instance, some people did some things to the Saudi Arabian oil refinery at Abqaiq over the weekend. Like, sent over a salvo of cruise missiles and armed [...]

Saudi Arabia up in Flames: Riyadh Is Headed for a Major Disaster

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Federico Pieraccini On Saturday September 14th, Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced that they had conducted a massive attack on several Aramco plants in Saudi Arabia, including the largest oil refinery in the world in Abqaiq, using [...]

Saudi Arabia up in Flames: Riyadh Is Headed for a Major Disaster

Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran?

Dave Kranzler: Repo Rates and Gold — Something big is Happening

Avigdor Lieberman Is Israel’s New “Kingmaker”, And He Will Use That Leverage To Make Sure Israel Goes To War With Hamas

Crises – the Middle-East and a Few Hopefully Useful Pointers

Liquidity Shortage Getting Worse: Fed’s Repo Oversubcribed Even More As Funding Demand Jumps

Putin’s Multipolar Offer to Saudi Arabian Exceptionalism

Bolton’s Firing Opens a New Potential for a Russia-China-USA Alliance

Today’s “Watershed” Repo-calypse Is “One Of The Worst Things That Can Happen”

A View from the Brink

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