Trumptopia Vs. Deep-State Democracy

Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

For years, it was easy to see the political storm clouds gather over Europe with its fractious coalitions and its ancient babble of conflicts. Marine Le Pen’s Daddy, severe old Jean-Marie, was on the scene in France decades before Donald Trump ascended to glory on the noxious clouds of America’s crapified culture, attended by heavenly hosts of Kardashian angels and the cherub Honey BooBoo.

Full List Of 214,000 Offshore Shell Companies Linked To "Panama Papers" Released Online

Full List Of 214,000 Offshore Shell Companies Linked To "Panama Papers" Released Online

Whether it was funded by Soros, the CIA, the Rothschilds or even Putin is unclear, but moments ago the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - the group responsible for preparing and organizing the Panama Papers leak - published a searchable database laying out 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands.

Fed President Says Fed's Job Is To "Serve Main Street"

Fed President Says Fed's Job Is To "Serve Main Street"

Former Goldmanite, and current Minneapolis Fed president and paradoxical "crusader" against TBTF banks and bank bailouts (such as the one he was instrumental in drafting during the financial crisis) Neil Kashkari, spoke moments ago at the Economic Club of Minnesota, where he delivered a speech titled "The Role and Limitations of Monetary Policy." Among the otherwise irrelevant things he said the following:

The Bank Of Japan Begins Selling ¥1.3 Trillion In Stocks Acquired Over The Years

The Bank Of Japan Begins Selling ¥1.3 Trillion In Stocks Acquired Over The Years

It often comes as a surprise to those unfamiliar with the Bank of Japan's M.O., that unlike other developed central banks (except the SNB, of course, while even the PBOC recently admitted it now buys stocks directly to prop up the Chinese stock market via the Buttonwood SPV), the BoJ has no qualms about admitting it actively purchases equities, either in the form of single name stocks or, more actively in recent years, ETFs. Or, as the case may now be, selling them. 

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