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Taliban fighters have taken over the Afghanistan after a stunning blitz across the country that saw them seize most of the country in just over a week. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has also fled abroad, leaving the government in collapse, while demoralized Afghan security forces offered no resistance. The lightning sweep comes after the U.S. […]
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From Zero Hedge: It seems like the discussion of whether or not there’s finally going to wind up being an official Bitcoin ETF has been ongoing for years. Gone are the days of waiting to see if the Winklevoss ETF would be approved and here are the days of what feels like dozens of other […]
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What worries us is macroeconomic data has already begun to slow amid unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimuli in history, and all those tailwinds could soon become headwinds. For instance, retail sales plunged again in July, and the employment and industrial production data are becoming disappointing considering the level of stimuli. One month after the BEA shocked Wall […]
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Submitted by Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Research There was something in today’s FOMC meeting minutes that, from our cursory word search of prior meetings, doesn’t appear to have ever been a topic of conversation before: virtual currencies. Here is the exact quote: “Some participants cited various potential risks to financial stability including the risks associated with expanded […]
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From Zero Hedge: Anyone watching Tuesday’s US market cash session sees red across the board. One of the strongest sell programs in months dumped stocks at the start of trading on Tuesday, and equity volatility spiked to the upside. As Nomura warned looking the arcane gamma topology underpinning the market, this could be the beginning […]
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From Zero Hedge As we noted earlier in the year in one of our detailed explanations of market action, historically speaking, gamma squeezes have been primarily associated with markets dropping, not rising. This is because often as markets start to selloff, traders seek downside protection by purchasing put options. As traders buy puts, dealers (who are short […]
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Authored by Marlon Weems via GEN on Medium, While billionaires like Bill Gates buy up all the nation’s farmland, Wall Street investors snatch up every home they can get their hands on… For Father’s Day a few years back, my wife and kids surprised me with a trip to Medieval Times, an immersive dinner theater […]
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From Hal Turner Did you know the United States of America actually has a PLAN in the event they can no longer service their debt? They do! Adopted it back in the early 2000’s. Meet the “6900 Protocols.” With all the hoopla taking place nowadays, our national government being completely ILLEGITIMATE via a fraudulent and […]
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Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Tether FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) continues, most recently with highly respected commentators such as Grant Williams weighing in and ascribing a high likelihood of the stablecoin being under-reserved and possibly fraudulent. In this note we’re going to look at the claims and try to evaluate what effect it could have on our […]
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From Zero Hedge: Late last week, Deutsche Bank’s head of FX research George Saravelos attended a “virtual macro dinner” with a mix of real money, hedge fund and public sector institutions. Here is a summary of the main observations he made during the event Mind the gap. Many would argue that there is a linear […]
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