It is very fitting that on today's April 28th anniversary of the bull market, the day that officially makes this the second-longest "bull market" in history, the market got a stark reminder of just how it got there: through constant and relentless central bank intervention, which has been "beneficial" to stocks for the most part, however last night was anything but.
The US have confirmed they will be supplying advanced rocket launcher systems to Turkey in order to allow the Turkish regime to launch a military assault in Syria against the Assad regime. On Tuesday the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced that the US has agreed to supply them with the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HMIARS), a truck mounted rocket launcher used by the U.S. during the Iraq invasion. Sputniknews.com reports: The announcement lends credence to fears that the rockets will be turned against the Assad government.
Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
It’s been about 15 years now since passenger airliners struck the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, and we are still suffering the consequences of that day, though perhaps not in the ways many Americans might believe.
Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com,
In the wake of the release of the Panama Papers, which exposed financial dealings of some of the world's wealthiest people, much has been made in the media and on the U.S. presidential campaign trail about making sure everyone is paying their "fair share", and emphatically calling for improving transparency around how corporations and individuals handle their money.