presidential elections

Submitted by Saxo Bank's Martin O'Rourke via TradingFloor.com,

Via Disobedient Media

It took just a few months for Disobedient Media to go from a sleepy news outlet to apparently garnering the attention of multiple power brokers on the global stage.

Thanks Bloomberg, for another useless piece of regurgitated info we've known for years; fake news drives the fake markets which are artificially inflated.  Actually thanks to the Fed for doing the academic research on this topic to confirm what we've known for years - the markets are rigged and one way they are manipulated is by the mainstream news.  As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies - the markets are artifically inflated and manipulated by remote control (yes - that remote control.  It's a metaphor!)  TV watchers have a 'remote control' and so does the CIA.

On Friday, after it emerged that as part of Marine Le Pen's strategic vision for France, should she win, is a return to the French franc as well as redenomination of some €1.7 billion in French (non-international law) bonds, both rating agencies and economists sounded the alarm, warning it would "amount to the largest sovereign default on record, nearly 10 times larger than the €200bn Greek debt restructuring in 2012, threatening chaos to the world financial system on top of the collapse of the single currency."

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