On the one hand...
Source: Townhall.com
One can't help but look at the current debacle and consider whether, just as we warned, The Cloward-Piven strategy is reaching a pivotal moment...
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
This week, SU-24 fighter-bombers buzzed a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The Russian planes carried no missiles or bombs.
Message: What are you Americans doing here?
In the South China Sea, U.S. planes overfly, and U.S. warships sail inside, the territorial limits of islets claimed by Beijing.
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As the following chart showing the collapse in trading revenue across the banks who have reported Q1 earnings so far shows...
... it has been a very bad start to the year for America's largest, too big to fails/too big to prosecute.
It has been just as bad for bank employees, but while most US banks have seen the occasional drib and drab here and there, nothing compares to Barclays, which in the past 4 months has fired a stunning 8,000 workers.
Excerpted from 50-Year Wall Street Veteran Joe Rosenberg's Op-Ed via The Wall Street Journal,