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"We Come To Mourn The Dead" - Obama Is First Sitting President To Visit Hiroshima, Offers No Apology
Ealier today, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit the memorial of the American atomic bombings of Japan in Hiroshima, however without offering no apology for the attacks. The trip comes amid Japanese protests over alleged crimes committed by US troops stationed in Japan. "We have a shared responsibility to look directly in the eye of history. We must ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again," Obama said in a speech at the memorial.
The Fed’s “Four Horsemen” Unite
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies…The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly...
"Land Of The Free?"
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Personal Income Growth Weakest Since QE3 As January's Spending "Surge" Revised Entirely Away
Headline data for income modestly beat expectations (+0.2% MoM vs +0.1% MoM) and spending met expectations at +0.1% MoM respectively. Income growth YoY slowed to 4.0% however - near its weakest since Nov 2013. Spending growth also slowed to +3.8% YoY (from 2.9% in Jan) but the big story is the major downward revisions in spending. January's +0.5% 'surge' in spending was revised to a mere +0.1% trickle - the weakest in over a year. Since QE3, income growth has been a one way street lower...
This Is How The Credit Collapse Spreads To Stocks
"Yeah but it's junk credit... who cares! I am invested in solid megacaps and even solider FANGs - what can go wrong?" The biggest buyer of stocks in 2016, will be, according to Goldman Sachs, the same as it was in 2015 - corporate management teams buying back their own stock in near record quantities. But there is a problem with this thesis...
Hedge Funds Suffer Worst Year Since 2011
Two months ago, when noting that hedge funds are about to underperform the market for the 7th consecutive year, we looked at the "why": "how do hedge funds manage to underperform the broader market for 7 years in a row?
We Now Have An ETA When The Biggest Bond Bubble In The World Will Burst
Together with Greece briefly soaring to prominence over the summer (only to fade into perpetual obsecurity in its new role as Germany's certified Mediterranean colony), the biggest event of this past summer - before the EM capital flow/Fed non-rate hike fiasco - was the rapid boom and spectacular bust of China's equity market, which culminated not only in arrest of sellers, but in the hiking of futures margins so high that nobody actually trades in China any more.
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