July 2018 – Trading Your Own Way

China's Oil Futures Contract Is Beginning To Show Its Teeth

Authored by Rory Hall via The Daily Coin, So far so good. Petrodollar will be showing signs of wear-and-tear in the very near future. We have been documenting the demise of the dollar hegemony for the past several years and the past two years the pace of the demise seems to be moving like a […]

"I Go Days Without Eating": Some Amazon Workers Left Homeless After Workplace Injuries

Workplace safety incidents have been a major topic of discussion at certain high-flying companies over the last couple of months, but one of the names that hasn’t recently been mentioned has been Amazon. With the release of a new report by The Guardian early this week, that may very well change. Amazon employees who suffer […]

Debunking The Putin Panic With Stephen Cohen

Via TheRealNews.com, Part 1 President Trump’s warm words for Vladimir Putin and his failure to endorse U.S. intelligence community claims about alleged Russian meddling have been called “treasonous” and the cause of a “national security crisis.” There is a crisis, says Prof. Stephen F. Cohen, but one of our own making… AARON MATE: It’s The Real […]

US Treasuries, JGBs Rally As Bank Of Japan Shifts To "More Flexible" Bond-Buying Plan

After a few years of relative apathy, today’s Bank of Japan statement is greeted with considerable anticipation as it may well have some significant impacts on global markets, judging by the last two weeks’ action after hints at BoJ policy shifts. Background: Japan’s economy is shrinking once again… Industrial Production is plunging… As a reminder, […]

BRICTS: Turkey Is Getting Off The US Reservation

Authored by Tom Luongo, This year’s BRICS Summit was a big show. No question. The main event was provided by Turkish President cum Dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan wants to a a “T” to the acronym, making them the BRICTS. Erdogan also made it very clear Turkey’s shift away from the West will proceed faster […]

NATO Is A Goldmine For US Weapons' Industries

Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Countries of the NATO military alliance have been ordered by President Trump to increase their spending on weapons, and the reasons for his insistence they do so are becoming clearer. It’s got nothing to do with any defence rationale, because, after all, the Secretary General of […]

Spain's "Fragile Tolerance" At Risk As Socialist PM Sees "Obligation To Help" Migrants

With the migrant crisis continuing to peak for Europe’s Mediterranean nations, and as it has lately become politically disastrous for others like Germany, resulting in a half-baked quick fix offered by the European Union to pay out 6,000 euros ($7,000) for each migrant a country takes in, statements coming Spain’s political leaders suggest its reputed “tolerance” as […]

Child Brides In Turkey

Authored by Burak Bekdil via The Gatestone Institute, Where would you like your daughter to be when she is 13? In school, or in bed with a grown man? The answer to this question is largely beyond argument in much of the world. In Islamic societies, however — including non-Arab and theoretically secular Turkey — […]

The US 2019 Defense Budget Bill: Congress Defies The New World Order

Authored by Alex Gorka via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The House and Senate versions of the draft National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019 were unveiled by Congress on July 23. Both include a provision to temporarily bar the transfers of F-35 joint strike fighters (JSF) to Turkey. According to the final 2019 […]

Facebook, Zuck Sued By "Shocked" Shareholders As "The Truth" Emerges

Following a disappointing earnings announcement that wiped out about $120 billion of shareholder wealth, Facebook, its CEO and CFO, are being sued by a shareholder potentially opening the floodgates for sore-losing stock market gamblers the world over. “As a result of Defendants’ wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of […]

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