Martin ArmstrongWarnsEuropeansOfTheComingExpropriationOf 10% OfEveryone’sAccounts http://feedly.com/k/1coAqdR As we have discussed in depth previously (2 yearsagohere as "muddlethrough has failed" and most recently here as theIMFdiscussed a "one–off" wealthtax), a confiscation (akin to Cyprus overnight debacle) is coming and Martin Armstrong believes sooner than most think. Submittedby Martin ArmstrongviaArmstrongEconomics, Anyone who thinks it is a fantasy that government will simply just confiscate 10% of everyone’s accounts in … Seguir leyendo Martin Armstrong Warns Europeans Of The Coming Expropriation Of 10% Of Everyone’s Accounts

Crude’sWorstDayIn 13 MonthsSendsTranniesTumbling http://feedly.com/k/1drKXpM WTI crude is back below $95.50 – its lowest in a month – as the price of the front-month has droppedover 3% today – itsbiggest single-daydropsinceNovember 2012. USD strength (+0.3%) is being ignored for now by gold and silver which are jumping handily (back over $1230 and $20 respectively). US equities are suffering for the first day of the year for … Seguir leyendo Crude’s Worst Day In 13 Months Sends Trannies Tumbling

USManufacturingPMIShowsSolidExpansion, LedbyLargeCompanies; Expect "Measured Pace" Tapering http://feedly.com/k/1d2nn4y Both the ISMReport and the MarkitPMI report show strengthening US manufacturing. ISM: The December 2013 ManufacturingISMReportOnBusiness® shows Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in December for the seventh consecutive month. "The PMI™ registered 57 percent, the second highest reading for the year, just 0.3 percentage point below November’s reading of 57.3 percent. The New Orders Index increased … Seguir leyendo US Manufacturing PMI Shows Solid Expansion, Led by Large Companies; Expect “Measured Pace” Tapering

70% ofSpanishCitizensDon’tBelieve Prime MinisterRajoyontheRecovery http://feedly.com/k/19OnvyA In what may be the least shocking economic statistic reported so far this year (albeit it’s very early), 70% ofSpanishCitizensDon’tBelieve Prime MinisterRajoyontheRecovery. Via translation from El Economista… In 2013, Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, promised the "economic recovery" would begin in 2014. A survey released Wednesday by the newspaper El Mundo shows 71% of the citizens of our country believes that … Seguir leyendo 70% of Spanish Citizens Don’t Believe Prime Minister Rajoy on the Recovery

La formación ha publicado la lista de 70 candidatos (44 hombres y 26 mujeres) para las primarias que se celebrarán mediante un sistema de elección a dos vueltas. Equo ha hecho público este viernes el listado definitivo de candidatos para las primarias que la formación celebrará el próximo 22 de enero. De esos comicios, saldrá su lista para las elecciones europeas del 25 de mayo. Según … Seguir leyendo Equo espera que 19.000 votantes participen en sus primarias abiertas para las europeas

El expresidente de Cantabria anima al juez a perseverar para que “imperen la verdad y la Justicia” en el caso Blesa. El expresidente de Cantabria Miguel Ángel Revilla ha logrado ya reunir casi 116.000 firmass en la campaña que puso en marcha el pasado viernes en la plataforma de activismo social Change.org, en apoyo del juezElpidio Silva. El magistrado que envió dos veces a prisión a Miguel … Seguir leyendo Revilla recaba 116.000 firmas en seis días en apoyo al juez Silva en Change.org

WhyPoliticalProtestsUltimatelyAlwaysFail http://feedly.com/k/1g5zigG As postedyesterdayathttps://www.smartknowledgeu.com/blog, byJSKim, Managing Director, SmartKnowledgeU Currently in Bangkok, Thailand, protests against the government remain strong with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands regularly gathering across the city in an attempt to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. However, there are many reasons why such protests never achieve their long-term goals, even when they achieve their short-term objectives. For example, were … Seguir leyendo Why Political Protests Ultimately Always Fail

TheProbabilityOf A StockMarketCrashIsSoaring http://feedly.com/k/K8LLWl While some individual stocks (cough TWTR cough) may have reached irrational bubble territory, the US equity market is undergoing a seemingly ‘rational’ bubble. However, as John Hussman illustrates in the following chart, the probabilityof a stockmarketcrashisgrowingextremelyrapidly. Based on the thispaper, Hussman simplifies the rational bubble as: Youonlyholdonelongone more periodifexpectedreturnis positive – requiringEXTRAGAIN x (1-p) + CRASHLOSS x (p) to be greaterthan … Seguir leyendo The Probability Of A Stock Market Crash Is Soaring

EuropeanMonetaryUnionMisnamed; I ProposeGEU (GermanEconomicUnion) orUSG (UnitedStatesofGermany) http://feedly.com/k/JgY6qS The irony and hypocrisy in chancellor Angela Merkel’s first parliamentary speech of her third term would be astounding were it not par for the "Everything for Germany" course of action. Please consider Chancellor Urges Reformsto Preserve Euro In her first parliamentary speech since her re-election for a third term on Tuesday, she warned that Europe needed to take … Seguir leyendo European Monetary Union Misnamed; I Propose GEU (German Economic Union) or USG (United States of Germany)