US officials say the fingerprints of about 5.6 million US workers were stolen during the hack. —By AJ Vicens Howard Bartrop/Zuma On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first state visit to Washington, DC, […]
by Tyler Durden Last Thursday, we asked [8] if China was set to join Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime in Syria. Our interest was piqued when the pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an […]
An important update on the supply of physical gold by Chris Martenson One of our long-running themes here is that the truly historic and massive flows of gold from West to East is (someday) going […]
by John Rubino After borrowing — and largely wasting — $15 trillion during the Great Recession, China now looks like a typical decadent developed-world country, complete with slow growth, anemic consumer spending and unstable financial […]
stoupa/Shutterstock A perfect storm of failing trends by Charles Hugh Smith When stock markets are free-falling 10+% in a matter of days, it’s natural to seek some answers to the question “why now?” Some are […]
by John Rubino It’s safe to say that most of the world is riveted by the news pouring out of the major (and minor) stock markets. Record declines followed by near-record spikes — besides being […]
Submitted by Tyler Durden Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index is now down over 21% from the highs, having fallen over 9% in the last week, and Taiwan’s TAIEX is down over 20% from April highs, […]
By Michael Snyder, on August 12th, 2015 Things continue to line up in textbook fashion for a major financial crisis by the end of 2015. This week, Wall Street has been buzzing about the […]
By Tyler Durden Early last month in, “The Noose Around Syria’s Assad Tightens [11]” we outlined the latest developments in the country’s prolonged civil war. Here’s what we said then: The US-led alliance realizes very […]
by John Rubino The whole “market economy” thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China’s dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008 crash the country borrowed about $15 trillion […]
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