By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing.
Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all its glorious insanity.
Police in Los Angeles arrested 150 child sex offenders over the last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have reported. The arrests were part of a raid targeting 160 people who were believed to be “criminal aliens, illegal and re-entrants and immigration fugitives.” According to authorities, 150 of those arrested had criminal histories, including convictions for previous child sex crimes. CBS Los Angeles reports: The arrestees – which were 95 percent male – included nationals from a dozen countries, according to ICE.
With the news cycle clearly far less interested in Trump's golf game or Abe's handicap, just before 8am local time (6pm ET), North Korea decided to provide CNN with some "exciting" news when it fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, in what was the latest test of Trump's resolve to retaliate to North Korean provocations.
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As reported earlier, one of the immediate consequences of the Trump immigration executive order - and one which has so far gone largely unchallenged - has been a crackdown against illegal immigrants residing in the US. This promptly led Mexico’s Foreign Ministry to say on Thursday it has intensified efforts to protect Mexican migrants, “foreseeing the hardening of measures by immigration authorities in the U.S., as well as possible constitutional violations during raids or in due process.”