Europe

• Bad News Is Great News: Cautious Yellen drives world stocks near 2016 peaks (Reuters)
• Yellen Spurs Global Stock Rally as Oil Rebounds, Dollar Tumbles (BBG)
• Trump drops pledge to back Republican presidential nominee other than himself (Reuters)
• Second judge says Clinton email setup may have been in 'bad faith' (Reuters)
• Brussels Airport Remains Shut as Police Hunt Third Attacker (BBG)
• Europe Traders Aren't Waiting Around to See If Rebound Holds (BBG)
• Western Digital Bond Sale Is Test for Junk Market (WSJ)

At the end of the day, it was all about the dollar.

Submitted by 'Jeremiah Johnson', retired Green Beret, via SHTFPlan.com,

Many of the things that are happening this very moment have direct parallels in literature of the past.  Whether it is an account such as the “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn or a work of “fiction” such as “1984” by George Orwell is irrelevant.  Elements of the history or the storyline (regarding the former and the latter works) are now becoming thoroughly inculcated into the fabric of modern reality.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the public that there is an information war going on at the moment, and says that for the past two years the Zionist media controlled by the West has done its best to demonize him to the public.  Responding to a 2014 Telegraph article entitled, “Europe should punish Vladimir Putin, not the City of London,” Putin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said: “They say that Russia has a bad public image. Do you know who else now has a bad image – the United States.

Submitted by Paul-Martin Foss via The Mises Institute,