Xi warns of globalisation backlash at BRICS summit … Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday a rising tide of protectionism and anti-globalisation was endangering the world economy’s still fragile recovery as BRICS leaders vowed to forge closer business and trade ties. -AFPThis summit provides yet more evidence that at the very top, the BRICs are aligned with the Western controller...Read More
Donald Trump Is One More Bullyboy in a World of Strongmen ... Watching Donald Trump skulking behind Hillary Clinton on the debate stage Sunday night, muttering about locking her up if he wins, was a reminder that we are drifting toward a kind of bullyboy-world, where power is everything. - RealClearPolitics/Washington PostPopulism has now been linked directly to tyranny as we can see from this a...Read More
Donald Trump Is One More Bullyboy in a World of Strongmen ... Watching Donald Trump skulking behind Hillary Clinton on the debate stage Sunday night, muttering about locking her up if he wins, was a reminder that we are drifting toward a kind of bullyboy-world, where power is everything. - RealClearPolitics/Washington PostPopulism has now been linked directly to tyranny as we can see from this a...Read More
Donald Trump Prepares New Attack on Media, Clinton … Donald Trump will broaden his attack against the media to hit globalism and the Clinton Foundation by charging that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is part of a biased coalition working in collusion with the Clinton campaign and its supporters to generate news reports of decades-old allegations from several women. -Wall Street JournalThe...Read More
Donald Trump Prepares New Attack on Media, Clinton … Donald Trump will broaden his attack against the media to hit globalism and the Clinton Foundation by charging that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is part of a biased coalition working in collusion with the Clinton campaign and its supporters to generate news reports of decades-old allegations from several women. -Wall Street JournalThe...Read More
Citi Is Worried About the Political Winds Blowing Against Yellen … A premature exit? … Citigroup Inc. on Tuesday posed an unspeakable question: will a political storm sweep Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen after the election that will force her to quit before her term ends in February 2018? -BloombergCiti claims to be worried about the demise of Janet Yellen as Fed head but actua...Read More
Citi Is Worried About the Political Winds Blowing Against Yellen … A premature exit? … Citigroup Inc. on Tuesday posed an unspeakable question: will a political storm sweep Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen after the election that will force her to quit before her term ends in February 2018? -BloombergCiti claims to be worried about the demise of Janet Yellen as Fed head but actua...Read More
Republican Politicians Have Only Their Fears to Blame ... In calls this morning, many Rs privately want to defect from Trump. But they say the debate gave them pause since he roused their base. ... Remember, there were already an unusual number of high-profile Republicans who had broken with their own nominee, with many saying they would support Hillary Clinton and others just refusing to vote f...Read More
Republican Politicians Have Only Their Fears to Blame ... In calls this morning, many Rs privately want to defect from Trump. But they say the debate gave them pause since he roused their base. ... Remember, there were already an unusual number of high-profile Republicans who had broken with their own nominee, with many saying they would support Hillary Clinton and others just refusing to vote f...Read More
Schieffer: Presidential Debate 'Was Just Disgraceful' ... Bob Schieffer was not a fan of Sunday night's presidential debate. -CBSBob Schieffer, CBS news contributor and former "Face the Nation" host made news for calling the most recent presidential debate "disgraceful."But the debate was more predictable than disgraceful.In fact, the entire presidential election is predictable. It is the outc...Read More
Schieffer: Presidential Debate 'Was Just Disgraceful' ... Bob Schieffer was not a fan of Sunday night's presidential debate. -CBSBob Schieffer, CBS news contributor and former "Face the Nation" host made news for calling the most recent presidential debate "disgraceful."But the debate was more predictable than disgraceful.In fact, the entire presidential election is predictable. It is the outc...Read More
World Finance Officials Pledge More Resources to Aid Growth … World finance leaders pledged Saturday to use more resources to try to bolster economic gains as they confront stubbornly slow growth and a rising backlash against globalization. The policy committee for the 189-nation International Monetary Fund said the world has “benefited tremendously from globalization” but that...Read More
World Finance Officials Pledge More Resources to Aid Growth … World finance leaders pledged Saturday to use more resources to try to bolster economic gains as they confront stubbornly slow growth and a rising backlash against globalization. The policy committee for the 189-nation International Monetary Fund said the world has “benefited tremendously from globalization” but that...Read More
Caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump reeled under widespread condemnation Friday ... Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, "I was wrong and I apologize." Yet even as he did so, he claimed the astonishing recording was "nothing more than a distraction" and argued his words were not nearly as egregious as former President Bill Cl...Read More
Caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump reeled under widespread condemnation Friday ... Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, "I was wrong and I apologize." Yet even as he did so, he claimed the astonishing recording was "nothing more than a distraction" and argued his words were not nearly as egregious as former President Bill Cl...Read More
Via Daily Bell Staff If there's a golden rule for central bankers in the 21st century, this is it: Seek clarity and avoid uncertainty. A central bank's target should be clear. The data it uses should be known. The analysis it conducts on that data should be comprehensible. And, certainly, politics should have nothing to do with its decisions. Yet across the world, central bankers are struggl...Read More
Via Daily Bell Staff If there's a golden rule for central bankers in the 21st century, this is it: Seek clarity and avoid uncertainty. A central bank's target should be clear. The data it uses should be known. The analysis it conducts on that data should be comprehensible. And, certainly, politics should have nothing to do with its decisions. Yet across the world, central bankers are struggl...Read More
Inventors Who Invented Water-Powered Cars, but were Killed or Forced to End Their Work ... With all the talk and rhetoric these days, about global climate change, it is worthy to mention the works of some alternative scientists in the automobile industry. Of course, we all know that the so-called scientific community is being controlled by a hidden interest. The purpose of this article is to let...Read More
Inventors Who Invented Water-Powered Cars, but were Killed or Forced to End Their Work ... With all the talk and rhetoric these days, about global climate change, it is worthy to mention the works of some alternative scientists in the automobile industry. Of course, we all know that the so-called scientific community is being controlled by a hidden interest. The purpose of this article is to let...Read More
Backlash to World Economic Order Clouds Outlook at IMF Talks … Policy-making elites converge on Washington this week for meetings that epitomize a faith in globalization that's at odds with the growing backlash against the inequities it creates. From Britain's vote to leave the European Union to Donald Trump's championing of "America First," pressures are mounting to roll back the ec...Read More