Donald Trump, GOP frontrunner and self-styled anti-establishment candidate, knows how to entertain. 

He also understands that he has built a political brand which garners momentum from the very type of controversy that would sink any other candidate in the field. 

When you put those two things together, you have a recipe for bombastic rhetoric designed to hold the electorate in a perpetual state of shock and embed a tiny voice that says “you know, maybe he’s right” in the back of voters’ collective mind. 

Read my lips, no new 'taxes'...

Source: Investors.com

Via ConvergEx's Nick Colas,

The Energy names in the S&P 500, as measured by the S&P Energy Select Sector Index, haven’t broken their August lows in the recent downdraft for the group. 

 

 

That’s surprising for two reasons.

“For every seven Shiites killed, we want seven Sunnis [killed] in their place.”

That rather alarming declaration comes from outspoken Iraqi lawmaker Hanan Al-Fatlawi. Not known for holding her tongue, the Shia MP inflamed sectarian tensions with her eye for an eye tirade in the summer of 2014, prompting Diana Moukalled, the Web Editor at the Lebanon-based Future Television to pen the following sharp rebuke: 

With sadly ironic timing, we noted just last week that the blowback from "unequivocally good" low oil prices was set to cross the border from an increasingly suicidal Canada, and so, as AP reports, it appears Alaska is facing the toughest of times. As oil prices make new cycle lows, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has called for the state's first income tax in 35 years in order to close a $3.5-billion-dollar deficit the state is carrying.