In February, Cripsin Odey's quite bearish $11 billion Odey Asset Management had a tumultuous month: it was down -10.6% as the overall market levitated relentlessly on low volume hopes of central bank stimulus and intervention ever since the February 11 lows, leading to the biggest short squeeze in history and the most overbought market ever.
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Growing numbers of Belgian Muslims live in isolated ghettos where poverty, unemployment and crime are rampant. In Molenbeek, the unemployment rate hovers at around 40%. Radical imams aggressively canvass in search of shiftless youths to wage jihad against the West.
The horrific events in Brussels are still resonating across Europe today. And, as Bloomberg's Mark Cudmore explains, despite what many analysts are saying, the real impact is likely to be more widespread than the very intense emotional anguish.
Mohamed El-Erian -- a regular Bloomberg columnist -- has been one of the most high-profile commentators to express the view that the “macroeconomic effects tend to be limited, and they fade,” in reference to acts of terrorism.
Sadly, that may not be the case this time.
Back in December, Pakistani-born Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Farook stormed a holiday party at a social services center in San Bernardino and killed 14 people with assault rifles. “Radical Islamic terrorism” had once again manifested itself on American soil.
In the wake of the shootings, Donald Trump - who at that point was still thought to be a long shot for the GOP presidential nomination - took his biggest political risk yet. He called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the country until lawmakers “can figure out what’s going on.”
From The New York Times, this report about how Belgium is an incubator of the Islamist fifth column destabilizing Europe:
The country of just 11.2 million people faces widening derision as being the world’s wealthiest failed state — a worrying mix of deeply rooted terrorist networks; a government weakened by divisions among French, Dutch and German speakers; and an overwhelmed intelligence service in seemingly chronic disarray.