Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders may be a strong voice on income inequality but his positions on military spending and foreign policy are muddled and his criticism of ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s neocon-oriented world view is muted, as anti-war activist David Swanson notes in this book review. By David Swanson Every time I write about a…
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Corn Market 2015
We end the year with a dump bump and the best analogy for US equity markets we could find all year... (Forward to 2:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB5LXF0c__g
Never Gets Old, sorry.
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WORST SINCE 2008...
2015 - the year when The Fed hiked rates for the first time in a decade to confirm its own narrative that "everything is awesome" and the US economy can handle 'normalization'.
And/Or
2015 - the worst collapse in US macro-economic data since 2008 on both an absolute and relative to expectations basis.