Authored by Karl Denninger via The Market Ticker blog,

The fear in both the GOP and Democratic party is visible at the surface when it comes to Trump, and it's not that he's any of what they've accused him of.  No, it's really much simpler than that, and both Republican and Democrat parties, along with the mainstream media, are utterly terrified that you, the average American, is going to figure out what underlies all of these institutions in America.

Following weakness in the middle-east and as WTI prices slide back into the red (on the heels of record speculative shorts in crude oil), Asia-Pac stocks are opening to the downside (but only modestly). On the bright side, the ZARpocalypse has been delayed briefly as the Rand is rallying on the back of Zuma hiring a new finance minister.

Despite the bloodbath in corporate credit markets, talking heads remain cognitively dissonant as to the reality lurking under the surface of this colossal leap in cost of funds for every firm. However, Credit Suisse is "worried" about the implications of these two disheartening charts expose, suggesting a default environment that might abort the Fed hiking cycle - which in this case is not a market-reassuring outcome.

War With Russia: Alastair Crooke agrees with PCR

Here is Alastair Crooke’s full article:

http://www.conflictsforum.org/2015/cornering-russia-risking-world-war-iii/

Alastair Crooke, a British diplomat, was a senior person in British intelligence.

Crooke has come to the same conclusions as I have:

Compare Crooke:

“we should perhaps contemplate the paradox that Russia’s determination to try to avoid war is leading to war”

Sanders FTT would almost certainly do more to change behavior on Wall Street then everything that Clinton has proposed taken together by a rather large margin. It's sort of like evaluating the New England Patriots' Super Bowl prospects without discussing their quarterback.