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Two weeks after Deutsche Bank’s whimsical, James Joycean derivatives strategist, Aleksandar Kocic disaggregated the market’s current sweeping complacency regime in a florid stream-of-consciousness report, and warning that the market's current "metastability" would lead to "cataclysmic events", with a crash becomes increasingly more likely the longer price discovery in the market (one not propped up by Federal Reserve) is delayed, in his latest note from this week he takes on a more practical - if just as abstract - target; quantifying complacency, both in a market sense and as a metaphysica

Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,

Recently, a Spanish group called “Ecologist in Action” asked me to give them a presentation on what kind of financial crisis we should expect. They wanted to know when it would be and how it would take place.

Originally published on DailyKanban.com,

Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,

There will be an extremely painful oil supply shortfall sometime between 2018 and 2020. It will be highly disruptive to our over-leveraged global financial system, given how saddled it is with record debts and unfunded IOUs.

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Total capitulation by Governor Bruce Rauner is in the works. The taxoholics wore him down.

In the emergency session, Rauner has agreed to hike the personal income tax rate to 4.95% from the current 3.75%. The corporate income tax rate will rise to 7% from the current 5.25% rate.

For what? Nothing. Reforms are non-existent.

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