Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Sometimes what doesn’t occur tells us much more than what did – as in Sherlock Holmes’ case of the dog that did not bark in the night. Yes, two things did not occur at the G20, at the end of last week: Why? And what do […]

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is just one short excerpt: In the longer run, bringing charges against Meng is likely to accelerate the division of the world into two competing systems of law, technology and commerce — namely those of China and the U.S. That will encourage international relations to […]

Social psychologist and prominent “sexpert” author, Dr. Justin J. Lehmiller, a Research Fellow at Indiana University’s The Kinsey Institute, has actually compiled the data. He posed the question as part of his research: I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about sex robots and how they’re supposedly going to revolutionize our sex lives. A lot of these […]

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The Central Intelligence Agency made six remote-controlled dogs as a part of their MKULTRA “behavior modification” or mind control program.  Using brain surgery, newly requested documents show that the dogs were “field operational” and controlled by human beings. The CIA marked the 65th anniversary of the launch of Project […]

Just weeks after we noted that Australia’s household debt to income ratio has ballooned to shocking levels over the past three decades as Sydney is ranked as one of the most overvalued cities in the world, Australia’s regulators have been warned to prepare “contingency plans for a severe collapse in the housing market” that could lead to […]

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Somebody out there apparently does not want President Trump to make a trade deal with China.  Just after U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to suspend the implementation of new tariffs for 90 days, one of China’s most important tech executives was literally kidnapped as she was […]

The CIA has a long and checkered history of sending highly trained agents into very foreign environments to conduct everything from espionage to assassinations.  In order to pull off these clandestine and high-risk assignments, CIA agents must have a watertight cover story and a disguise that could fool your average Russian FSB officer as he flips through a […]

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, The US State Department has issued a statement accusing the Syrian government of having carried out a false flag chemical weapons attack in northwestern Aleppo with the intent to blame it on the jihadist factions in the region, citing “credible info” that the public has not been permitted to see. Never […]

Your wife may not know about those little trips to that Thai massage place in the strip-mall, but your smartphone does – and it may be telling any one of at least 75 companies exactly what time you went, how you got there and where you stopped on the way – with staggering precision to within a few […]

Authored by Steven Mosher via The Epoch Times, On Nov. 20 President Trump’s trade advisor, Robert Lighthizer, issued an exhaustive report on China’s efforts to beg, borrow, and steal U.S. intellectual property. Eleven days later, on Dec. 1, Stanford University Professor Zhang Shoucheng, who had been collaborating with the Beijing regime’s drive to dominate hi-tech under its […]

In his first public comments in more than a week, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that his administration will show “no mercy” towards “Yellow Vest” protesters who have committed violence over the last four weeks of demonstrations across the country, while also announcing a series of economic measures in an attempt to restore […]

Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is worried about excessive leveraged lending and the level of corporate debt across Wall Street. “Corporate indebtedness is now quite high and I think it’s a danger that if there’s something else that causes a downturn, that high levels of corporate leverage could prolong the downturn and lead to […]

Donald Trump, it turns out, may have been the best thing that could have happened to American democracy. No, I haven’t lost my mind. Individual-1 is clearly a wannabe dictator who has contempt for the rule of law, not to mention being corrupt and probably in the pocket of foreign powers. But he’s also lazy, […]

Brexit opponents protest outside Parliament in London. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) December 10 at 5:45 PM Even if you’re not a fan of British humor, it’s hard not to laugh a little at Brexit. Sure, there have been bigger disasters in history, but it’s rare to find dumber ones. The whole idea, after all, behind Britain […]

by Bill McBride on 12/10/2018 05:22:00 PM

By EU2017EE Estonian Presidency (Theresa May) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons The U.K. will either leave the European Union or not on precisely March 29. This may seem like plenty of time; lots of members of the British Parliament, for instance, think three-and-a-half months is more than sufficient to produce the miracle that the […]

Jay Powell may have been appointed to the head of the Federal Reserve by Donald Trump, but this does not mean he is of a piece with the president of the United States. Perhaps you realized this at some point during Trump’s campaign to undermine a man he’d called “strong, committed and smart” less than […]

Inversion of the so-called yield curve is yet another reason to fear an earnings, or even an economic, recession in 2019, according to Morgan Stanley. The bank’s chief U.S. equity strategist told clients that while it’s difficult to forecast what an inverted yield curve means for stocks in the near term, he wasn’t surprised to […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Why Trump’s trade war is pushing China to become smarter and stronger, faster” [Hellenic Shipping News]. “The final communiqués at these lovefests must usually be written beforehand for anything to be agreed. Trump is the exception. He likes one-on-ones. He is a professional deal maker in a way that […]

It appears that the stock market has finally succumbed to the omni-persistent chaos of this bleakly batshit moment in human history. Like everything else, equities are reflecting a notionally negative sense that the world is too confusing what with a growing majority of global leaders acting unmedicated. It’s very hard to feel certain about anything, so […]

by Bill McBride on 12/10/2018 01:10:00 PM

Donald Trump Owns This Stock MarketIt wasn’t smart to dump a dovish Fed chief, run up the deficit, and start a trade war. Trump did all three.Bloomberg, December 10, 2018 For those of you who are looking for an explanation why the stock market suddenly become tumultuous in the fourth quarter of 2018, you can […]