Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields – a fact with which future historians will find baffling. The spread of negative yields to mortgage-backed bonds is both inevitable and ominous. Inevitable because the current amount of negative-yielding debt Read more…
But in a preview, the Daily Beast essentially recounts the highlights from the interview, including a statement volunteered by Kanye – because Letterman has opted not to bring up President Trump during these interviews. Kanye said his decision to wear a 'Make America Great Again' hat isn't about politics – Read more…
“How we think about that, and how we act on that risk and the management of that risk, seems to me a pretty significant and urgent question that isn't reflected fully in the (U.N.) Security Council,” she told Reuters according to The Hill. The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which is backed Read more…
In that regard, the president's planned four-day visit isn't off to a great start: The Associated Press reports that Trump opened his state visit by “needling” Japan over its trade imbalance with the US. In what could be characterized as an attempt to pick up where Reagan left off, Trump Read more…
Authored by Tom Luongo, Nigel Farage is the single most influential politician of the 21st century. He knew that Britain had been completely betrayed by its entrenched and entitled political and aristocratic classes. The longer Farage's Brexit party is on the scene, pulling patriots from across the political spectrum, the Read more…
“Increased US presence in our region is extremely dangerous and it threatens international peace and security, and this should be addressed,” Zarif said. The USS Abraham Lincoln performing a high-speed turn, via US Navy video. And separately a top Iranian military general touted “secret weapons” that are capable of sinking Read more…
Outgoing US puppet Petro Poroshenko was such a disaster that Ukrainians voted 3 to 1 to get rid of him in favor of a political neophyte and television comic. That's how badly the US has mismanaged Ukrainian post-coup affairs. And the Russians are supposed to be the bad guys in Read more…
So it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of these judges – US District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, appointed to the bench by Obama in 2014 – sided with the ACLU, Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition on Friday and ruled that two border-wall related construction projects Read more…
Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister of Italy and leader of the nationalist League Movement, called for a “Trump-style” revolution in his cash-strapped country. As The Express notes, Salvini has clashed with Brussels over Italy's budget proposals and has also enraged European Union bosses with his hardline stance on immigration. Read more…
The pipeline under construction would carry Russian natural gas to Germany, and has been a lightning rod of controversy both in Europe and across the Atlantic. At first, when US LNG exports began in 2016, shipments were going to a smattering of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lower Read more…