Authored by Daniel Lazare via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
June turned out to be the cruelest month for the Russia-gate industry.
The pain began on June 8 when ex-FBI Director James Comey testified that a sensational New York Times article declaring that “members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials” was “in the main … not true.”
If this is true and not Internet BS, the US is not a country. It is a cesspool.
Brad Pitt: ‘Elite Hollywood Pedophiles Control America’
http://www.neonnettle.com/news/2316-brad-pitt-elite-hollywood-pedophiles-control-america
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-operation-broken-heart-arrests-20160621-snap-story.html
Where are the investigative reporters? If these stories are false, they need to be exposed as false. If they are true, then Americans are “the exceptional, indispensable people” in a very unflattering way.
Authored by EconomicPrism's MN Gordon, annotated by Acting-Man's Pater Tenebrarum,
Disproportionate Rewards
The International Monetary Fund reported an unpleasant outlook for the U.S. economy on Wednesday. The IMF, as part of its annual review, believes the U.S. economic model isn’t working as well as it could to generate shared income growth.
Supping with the IMF (we recommend trying to avoid invitations to structurally adjusted suppers if possible. Their air of finality is reportedly unbearable). [PT]
Despite a hiccup in the last week or so, global stocks survived as the best-performing asset class of the year (with the MSCI All-Country World Index wrapping up its best first half in 19 years)...
But, as Bloomberg reports, Wall Street strategists are fighting historic odds when urging investors not to chase the rally in the U.S. stock market.
They’re predicting the S&P 500 Index will see momentum fade in the second half after shares climbed 8.2 percent for the best first-half performance since 2013.
Authored by Lynn Paramore via INETEconomics.com,
The famed short-seller offers a mid-2017 reality check for “fake fiscal news,” economic pipe dreams, and “portents of even worse things”