Zero Hedge | One of the main reasons a month ago we started carefully following the commodity trading giants, the Glencores, Mercurias and Trafiguras of the world…
Washington’s Blog | Three cheers for Reuters pointing out that the Pentagon can’t explain what it did with $8.5 trillion that taxpayers gave it between 1996 and 2013.
CNBC.com | U.S. stock index futures indicated a sharply lower open on Thursday.
The Hill | Employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spent $31,413 at Starbucks in 2013, according to an audit by the department’s inspector general released Aug. 11.
Mac Slavo | Officials from the Federal Reserve are beginning to acknowledge the colossal failure of their quantitative easing.
Michael Krieger | At this point, it almost feels like kicking someone while he’s down. Jeb Bush can’t even stand up to Donald Trump, let alone his own growing series of scandals.
Brandon Smith | It is truly amazing how the rhetoric from the mainstream economic yes-men is changing.
Michael Krieger | Who says there’s no affordable housing in NYC or San Francisco?
Washington Examiner | The cost of cleaning up a major toxic waste spill in the West caused by an Environmental Protection Agency contractor could soar as high as $27.7 billion.
Mac Slavo | The cashless control grid may still be coming, but it is not going to replace cash anytime soon.
Mac Slavo | The system is teetering on edge, and nearly everyone in the financial sector is waiting for one decision – will the Fed finally raise rates?
Monty Pelerin | The US and world economies are frauds that are coming unraveled.
Michael Snyder | You can stop waiting for a global financial crisis to happen. The truth is that one is happening right now.
Kit Daniels | Major gold purchase indicates coming financial collapse.
Zero Hedge August 17, 2015 “Time is now rapidly running out,” warns The Telegraph’s John Ficenec as the British paper takes a deep […]