general elections

A mathematician from Kansas says she has uncovered evidence of widespread election fraud from this year’s election and claims government officials are trying to silence her.  According to Wichita State mathematician Beth Clarkson, irregularities in election returns from across the United States are being ignored by State officials in order to cover-up the magnitude of election fraud committed. Accmag.com reports: Analyzing election returns at a precinct level, Clarkson found that candidate support was correlated, to a statistically significant degree, with the size of the precinct.

Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

Last night we noted that Team Hillary, which was supportive of Jill Stein's recount efforts, should be careful what they wish for.  New data released yesterday revealed that voting machines in 37% of all Detroit precincts, which skew heavily democratic, registered more votes than they had of actual voters showing up at the polls.  The scale of the "voting irregularities" discovered prompted an automatic vote audit by the Michigan Secretary of State, Ruth Johnson.

ECB 'Bazooka' Extended - Will Buy EUR 60 Billion Per Month Until At Least December 2017

The ECB's 'Bazooka' is back and ‘Super Mario’, the European Central Bank’s monetary magician did not disappoint QE addicted markets yesterday by extending ultra loose monetary policies and quantitative easing until at least December 2017.

While the market overcame its initial scare following yesterday's counter-establishment Italian referendum vote, and European stocks proceeded to not only make up all losses, but soar in the overnight session by the most since Trump's presidential victory, what happens next in Italy is largely unknown. What follows are Goldman's snap thoughts on the Italian next steps.