Submitted by Rudy Takala via The Washington Examiner,

Regulators in Washington are showing increasing interest in tightening rules on political speech on the web, arguing that the dissonant voices enabled by "new media" have become too influential. If that effort is successful, experts wonder whether it could impact more traditional media as well, especially in how it relates to conservatives.

Filipinos are casting their votes on Monday for a new president, with a tough-talking straight-shooting Donald Trump type of candidate poised as favorite to win. Voice of America reports: Rodrigo Duterte, the long-serving mayor of the southern city of Davao, is leading in public opinion polls by as much as 10 percentage points over his nearest rivals, Senator Grace Poe and Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas, the preferred candidate of outgoing President Benigno Aquino.

There is some serious turmoil going on in credit, commodities, and FX.. but stocks shurugged it all off because jobs were shitty enough to warrant a bid??

Just days after  Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was moved to a prison near the US border, a Mexican federal judge has ruled that the notorious drug lord can be extradited to the US to face criminal charges Guzman’s lawyers are fighting the decision. They say that several appeals remain pending and that any effort to send him to the U.S. now would violate his human rights.

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

Commercial bankruptcies are skyrocketing, oil prices have collapsed, profits have declined and Central Banks globally are pushing negative interest rates in hopes of keeping economies afloat. At any other point in history, such a combination of events would have investors scrambling for cover as market prices fell.