Editor’s Alert: At time of publication, Hillary Clinton was not indicted by the FBI over mishandling classified emails.This conforms to what we have expected and additionally seems to make clear that she will indeed be the next President of the United States.Enormous political capital has been expended on ensuring her innocence. It is surely unlikely that the elite establishment, having prod...Read More

Raghuram Rajan: Why RBI needed more of him ... Finally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke up to give outgoing RBI governor Raghuram Rajan a thumbs up. The endorsement that came a wee bit too late was welcome nevertheless ... – India.comWith economies worldwide in a mess, the mainstream media is increasingly concentrating on individual central bankers.This is propaganda, of course.Instea...Read More

Canaccord Thinks Private Prison Equities Could Break Out ... The first private prison emerged in 1984, and the industry has grown ever since. America continues to have the highest incarceration rates in the world. One financial services company sees significant upside in the private prison sector. - Benzinga.comIn this article we can see how private prison equity is being treated like any othe...Read More

Second EU referendum would be possible, former attorney general says ... Research suggests as many as 1.2 million Leave voters now regret their vote ... Dominic Grieve, a Conservative MP who was the Government's chief legal advisor until 2014, said the result of the first referendum had to be "treated with respect" but that it was not necessarily set in stone. - UK IndependentWhile most Brits wan...Read More

Nobody who knows the status of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s server is talking. ... The FBI interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for many hours on Saturday morning. On Saturday afternoon CNN Senior Producer Teddy Davis tweeted “Sources tell CNN’s Evan Perez: expectation is that there will be announcement of no charges in Clinton email probe w/in next...Read More

Gold eases off near two-year high, silver crosses $21/oz ... Gold slides to two-week low as Brexit fears abate ... Gold eased off a near two-year high, while silver breached the $21 level for the first time since July 2014 in highly volatile trade on Monday, prompted by a burst of short-covering in China. – BloombergGold and silver are having great runs now that the monetary manipulation h...Read More

More Hole in the ozone layer is finally ‘healing’ ... Chlorine reacting with these beautiful stratospheric clouds over Antarctica is the cause of the hole in the ozone layer (Cynthia Spence/NSF) The ozone hole over Antarctica is finally “healing” almost 30 years after the world banned the chemicals responsible for its creation, researchers say. – ABCSo the Ozone hol...Read More

Review: 'Bush,' a Biography as Scathing Indictment ... If Mr. Bush eventually gets a more sympathetic hearing by history, as he hopes, it will not start with Jean Edward Smith's "Bush," a comprehensive and compelling narrative punctuated by searing verdicts of all the places where the author thinks the 43rd president went off track. -New York TimesThis review of a biography of Bush tracks some of...Read More

CNN and MSNBC confirm Hillary Clinton will not face any charges in email inquiry ... Hours after Hillary Clinton held her long awaited interview with the FBI in the name of helping its investigation of a Romanian email hacker, which the media has routinely and willfully misreported as being an "investigation of Clinton" for the past year, MSNBC is now finally reporting the obvious: she'll face no...Read More

If the City has truly found humility, it can still be useful to Britain ... Some figures in the financial services industry are almost starting to sound contrite. Given the trade surpluses they generate, it's tempting to listen ... The City is nervous about Brexit. – GuardianThis article is telling us that post-Brexit, London's City is “remorseful” about how it has acted. Or at...Read More

The president of France has launched a scathing attack on Republican candidate Donald Trump, saying relations between the US and Europe would be complicated if the New York tycoon wins the White House. In comments that were surprisingly outspoken for a sitting head of state about another country's political candidate, Fran??ois Hollande urged Democrats to work to ensure the victory of Hillary Cl...Read More

Silver scores biggest weekly jump in almost 3 years ... Silver futures logged their largest weekly climb since 2013 Friday, hitting a nearly 22-month high as the U.S. dollar softened and investors continued to search for safety. -MarketWatchUsually the mainstream media provides us with a variety of propaganda that distorts the truth.But there was little in the way of distortion yesterday when gold...Read More

The claim that Hillary is innately dishonest is simply accepted as a given. It is an accusation and conviction so ingrained in the conversation about her that any attempt to even question it is often met with shock. And yet here's the thing: it's not actually true. -AndrewTobias.comWe are told by Andrew Tobias that Hillary was actually the most truthful candidate (of either Party) in the 2016 elec...Read More

Tomorrow never comes: neglecting the nuclear force ... In 2014, following several high-level embarrassments, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered two enterprise-level reviews of nuclear forces. Remarking on their findings, Hagel said, "the internal and external reviews I ordered show that a consistent lack of investment and support for our nuclear forces -over far too many years - has left us...Read More

German orthodoxy stands on the way of Eurozone recovery argues the billionaire … Billionaire and philanthropist George Soros told the European Parliament on Thursday that Brexit "unleashed" a financial crisis akin to the 2007-2008 Lehman Brothers meltdown. European thingGeorge Soros has been launching broadsides against Brexit during the past week, and this one, above, seems to be in line...Read More

Kiss Your Domestic Bias Goodbye, Central Bankers of the World ... In a globalized world, managing domestic economic conditions requires having one eye focused abroad. For evidence, look no farther than the global monetary policy fallout from Britain's June 23 vote to leave the European Union. – BloombergBrexit reverberations continue to generate calls for more central banking coordination.Ju...Read More

On ABC’s "Good Morning America," FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver predicted that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election against Donald Trump. Clinton has a 79 percent chance of winning, compared with Trump’s 20 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight's forecast. -ABCNate Silver is back at it, predicting a Trump defeat. The most famous pollster in America was wrong about Trump...Read More

ECB's Mario Draghi Urges Central Banks to Align Monetary Policy ... ECB chief warns against competitive currency devaluations Speaking at a European Central Bank conference in Portugal, ECB President Mario Draghi says divergent monetary policies among major central banks can create uncertainty about their policy intentions.-Wall Street JournalHow is it that people have been put in jail for cons...Read More

Trump Dares Corporate America to Leave the GOP ... The speech Trump delivered in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, attacking globalization and trade, will provide more cause for panic among Republican elites. -Bloomberg opinionThis article disparages Trump's appeal and suggests that large corporations might leave the GOP.That’s a direct result of Trump, of course. In his speech Tuesday, he blasted gl...Read More

Trump slams globalization, promises to upend economic status quo ... Donald Trump on Tuesday trashed U.S. trade policies that he said have encouraged globalization and wiped out American manufacturing jobs in a speech in which he promised to herald a U.S. economic resurgence. -CNNWe recently identified a growing global meme as one that is now pitting "populists" against "globalists."There has be...Read More