Zero. None. Nada... that is how many Tech IPOs there has been in 2016 - the worst start to a year in recent record.  Indeed, January marked the first month since September 2011 without an IPO of any kind, according to Renaissance Capital, manager of IPO-focused funds.

Authored by Steve H. Hanke of The Johns Hopkins University.

With each financial crisis, politicians of all stripes go into overdrive. They busy themselves by ducking any examination of the policy blunders that created the crisis in the first place. A favorite tactic is to fan anti-market flames. Markets get a bum wrap, and a cascade of new laws and regulations ensue.

Seen at a Moscow bus stop: "Smoking Kills more people than Obama"

h/t @adagamov and @olliecarroll

By EconMatters

A choppy day in the oil market with a very tight pit trading range. API will set the tone for Thursday`s EIA Inventory report, API is out tomorrow night after the pit close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMFNCz8ecI

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In the following interview Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of treasury under President Ronald Reagan, says that the neocons in Washington are a dangerous group of people. They can drag America and the world into war and chaos, the likes of which are manifest in Syria. Pravda Report YouTube Channel: What is your forecast for the situation in Syria? Do you think that the World War III can still start because of the clash of interests around that country?