The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli spy agency Mossad both played crucial roles in the “sophisticated intel operation” that was the 9/11 attacks in New York, according to founder of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth, James Henry Fetzer The “highest levels” of the U.S. government are implicated in covering-up Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks, and the extent of the cover-up went far beyond hiding 28 pages of a congressional report on 9/11 which was released in 2002.

Over the weekend, Bloomberg View's quasi-economist wrote his latest laughable article, one which supposedly "explained" how "Everyone Worries Too Much About 'Black Swans'", which in addition to being a rambling, meandering stream of consciousness that as is regularly the case with this particular author, made little sense, sparked a Twitter feud with the Nassim Taleb, the person who made the concept of a Black Swan into a household name.

The world has not yet full realized the magnitude of the slowdown in China.

The “official” China growth numbers claim the Chinese economy is plowing along at 6%. I use quotations around the word “official” because Chinese economic data points are complete fiction.

Indeed, back in 2007, no less than current First Vice Premiere of China, Li Keqiang, admitted to the US ambassador to China that ALL Chinese data, outside of electricity consumption, railroad cargo, and bank lending is for “reference only.”

US health officials warned last week that the Zika outbreak could have more of an effect on the United States and called for additional funding to combat the virus. In fact they now want $1.9 billion to fight the “war against Zika”. To back their case, after months of scientific study, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that there was now enough evidence to clearly establish that the Zika virus causes microcephaly in the newborn offspring of infected mothers. Their report was published by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Some critical observations on investor positioning from BofA's Michael Hartnett

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On April 28th the current bull market in the S&P500 will become the 2nd longest ever

3 observations:

1. Quantitative Success on Wall Street