by Fri, 11/18/2016 - 08:52 0 SHARES Update 2 : U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS HAS ACCEPTED TRUMP'S OFFER TO SERVE AS U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL -TRANSITION OFFICIAL Some background on the Sessions appointment, courtesy of Bloomberg , which elevates one of Trump’s earliest congressional backers, and one of…

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was fired from his last job in the military, sat next to Russian President Vladimir Putin after giving a paid speech in Moscow, called for Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned, and said President Obama was a “liar” with no plan for…

Albert Edwards Previews The Trump Recession: "Minus 1% Yields, Helicopter Money" by Fri, 11/18/2016 - 15:40 0 SHARES In his interview with the Hollywood Reporter's Michael Wolff, Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon made one particularly notable statement . When discussing his vision for…

Steve Bannon Interviewed: "It's About Americans Not Getting F—ed Over" by Fri, 11/18/2016 - 23:52 0 SHARES Moments ago, the Hollywood Reporter released the much anticipated Michael Wolff interview with Steve Bannon, the controversial president-elect's chief strategist. As a preface, Wolff reveals…

EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini pictured in Brussels last month. The bloc’s approach to military defense is in the spotlight with Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president after his questioning of the degree of U.S. commitment to NATO. Photo: Bloomberg News BRUSSELS—European governments…

Janet Yellen Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images For most of the years since the 2008 financial crisis, central bankers around the world have pleaded with their counterparts in government for help. They've asked for regulatory reform to unshackle markets and for greater fiscal spending to…

Officials at the European Central Bank fear they could be hemmed in by legal action as they look for ways to extend their quantitative easing programme to help fuel the eurozone’s fragile recovery. The €80bn-a-month bond buying plan is already the subject of a legal challenge and officials fear that…

Give markets credit. After a brief but sharp risk-off reaction to a Donald Trump win that few gave more than about a 10% chance of happening, markets quickly moved on to pricing in the Trump presidency. U.S. Treasury 10-year notes rallied some 14 basis points (bps), from 1.86% to 1.72%, before CNN…

Fed Chairwoman to appear before Joint Economic Committee on Nov. 17 By Kate Davidson Nov. 10, 2016 12:34 pm ET|WSJ Pro Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will testify before a joint committee of Congress on Nov. 17 about the economic outlook. Photo: Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Chairwoman…

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by Sat, 11/12/2016 - 12:39 0 SHARES President-elect Trump has made a $1 trillion infrastructure investment one of his first priorities as president, promising in his victory speech early Wednesday morning to “rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals.” As Goldman's…

His proposals are a series of puzzle pieces that don’t fit together into a coherent whole, according to experts on both sides of the aisle. Donald Trump’s budget and policy proposals have resonated with the Republican base, even if elements of his plan run entirely counter to conservative economic…

President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he was likely to abandon the American effort to support “moderate” opposition groups in Syria saying “we have no idea who these people are.” In an interview with The Wall Street Journal he said that the United States should focus on defeating ISIS and…

Here’s a surprising conclusion you reach when you start to game out what economic policy will look like in Donald J. Trump’s administration: While many details of his policy agenda are likely to be staunchly opposed by the left, Mr. Trump appears likely to enact a fun-house mirror version of what…

by Fri, 11/11/2016 - 16:21 0 SHARES One day after his first and only meeting with Barack Obama, Donald Trump suggested he may take a more flexible view of what to do with Obamacare. “Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal in an interview .…

NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump said he would consider leaving in place certain parts of the Affordable Care Act, an indication of possible compromise after a campaign in which he pledged repeatedly to repeal the 2010 health-care law. In his first interview since his election earlier this…

PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report )—Dropping a bombshell less than a week before the Presidential election, the F.B.I. Director James Comey revealed on Wednesday that the Bureau was investigating Hillary Clinton's ties to Bill Clinton. The announcement, which…

Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said. Agents, using informants and recordings from…

Julian Assange Ends The Suspense: "The Source Of Hacked Emails Is Not Russia" by Thu, 11/03/2016 - 09:11 0 SHARES With countless hours of media, and Clinton campaign, speculation and accusations that the source of hacked Wikileaks Democratic emails including the Podesta files, is none other than…

by Tue, 11/01/2016 - 03:47 0 SHARES With the FBI accused of pushing the Clinton campaign, which as recently as a week ago was seen as invincible as it stormed toward the November 8 presidential election, over the proverbial cliff, it was perhaps inevitable that in order to preserve the appearance of…

Is ECB 'Omnipotence' "Too Powerful For Any Democracy To Abide"? by Wed, 11/02/2016 - 04:00 0 SHARES Authored by Otmar Issing, originally posted via Project Syndicate, The reputation of central banks has always had its ups and downs. For years, central banks’ prestige has been almost unprecedentedly…

Donald Trump gives a fist-pump to the ground crew as he arrives on his plane in St. Augustine, Florida, on Oct. 24. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Read Franklin Foer's follow-up story for new statements from the Trump campaign and Alfa Bank and analysis of the competing theories about the server and its…

According to this Slate article , Trump has a secret server for communicating with Russia. Even Hillary has piled onto this story. It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia. https://t.co/D8oSmyVAR4 pic.twitter.com/07dRyEmPjX — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October…

by Tue, 11/01/2016 - 16:25 0 SHARES Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, After posting Friday’s column, “ A Presidency from Hell ,” about the investigations a President Hillary Clinton would face, by afternoon it was clear I had understated the gravity of the situation. Networks exploded…

WASHINGTON — For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking…

A federal agency has likely opened an investigation into whether FBI Director James Comey is interfering in the presidential campaign by disclosing new materials related to the federal probe concerning Hillary Clinton ’s emails. An Office of Special Counsel (OSC) spokesman declined to address…

Reuters Trial Balloon: ECB "Almost Certain" To Keep Buying Bonds Beyond March by Wed, 10/26/2016 - 09:54 0 SHARES It has been a while since we had an ECB-linked Reuters headline trial ballon, with the last one coming over a month ago and suggesting that the ECB may buy equities at some point in the…

Janne Salminen kommentoi erittäin mielenkiintoisesti Saksan valtiosääntötuomioistuimen tekemää ennakkoratkaisupyyntöä, joka koskee Euroopan keskuspankin OMT eli outright monetary transactions -päätöstä. Oma reaktioni ennakkoratkaisupyyntöön on kuitenkin pessimistisempi kuin Salmisen. Onko kyseessä…

Ison-Britannian kansanäänestyksen tuloksen käsittelyn varjoon on jäänyt Euroopan unionin kannalta juhannuksen tienoilta toinen niin ikään merkittävä tapahtuma. Kesäkuun 21 päivänä Saksan liittovaltion valtiosääntötuomioistuin näet antoi odotetun ratkaisunsa Euroopan keskuspankin OMT-ohjelmaa…

Almost eight years ago, the Lehman Brothers collapse plunged the global economy into recession. The interbank market collapsed, and the entire industrialised world was thrown into the worst crisis since the end of the second world war. Though central banks have maintained ultra-low interest rates,…

European Central Bank policy makers are using the specter of deflation as an excuse to help the euro area’s weaker nations, said Hans-Werner Sinn, head of Germany’s Ifo economic institute. The argument by central bankers that the ECB needs to act because inflation is below its goal of just under 2…

Srećko Horvat & Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London – Sunshine Press Publications. When the ruling class is in panic, their first reaction is to hide the panic. They react out of cynicism: when their masks are revealed, instead of running around naked, they usually point the finger at…

Some news organizations, including The Intercept, have devoted substantial resources to reporting on the newsworthy aspects of the archive of emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta that was published last week by WikiLeaks. Numerous documents from that archive have shed considerable light…

SPIEGEL: Mr. Weidmann, US President Barack Obama reportedly asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for your phone number. Has he already called you? Weidmann: I haven't received a call from President Obama. I occasionally talk on the phone with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, though. It's an…

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has to convince investors on Thursday he still has ammunition, without saying what it is. Photo: European Pressphoto Agency FRANKFURT—European Central Bank President Mario Draghi faces a delicate balancing act on Thursday: reassuring investors…