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Post by machineghost on May 24, 2016 21:40:47 GMT
It looks like the nationalist far-right narrowly lost by a slim majority to an environmentalist party in Austria based on counting absentee ballots. I wouldn't doubt it at all if the EU cooked the vote again (as they allegedly did with Scotland's independence vote and will certainly try like hell to do with the Brexit vote next month!).
But something strange just happened in Israeli. The PM junked the center-left for his coalition and went 180 degrees to the far-right to one of his most virulent critics and who wants to be defense minister.
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Post by reub on May 24, 2016 21:57:27 GMT
Israel should be bombing Iran's nuclear sites sometime early next year so how best to buy oil futures or stocks before then?
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Post by machineghost on May 25, 2016 1:10:40 GMT
Is that the far-right's defense minister's agenda?
I thought it rather odd that after the Iran treaty was ratified, Iran launches off a nuclear missle. WTF?!! Why is the treaty even still in effect?
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Post by reub on May 25, 2016 1:52:13 GMT
It's in effect because Obama is an agent for Iran. Simple.
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Post by machineghost on May 25, 2016 20:21:10 GMT
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Post by machineghost on May 25, 2016 21:14:18 GMT
This'll be interesting...
The ECB will aim to start small when it begins buying corporate debt next month, seeking first to lure new issuers and then slowly raise the monthly pace of purchases to €5-10B, several bank sources told Reuters. Investment-grade corporate bonds issued in euros are the latest addition to a growing list of assets the central bank is buying as part of its effort to boost eurozone economic growth via lower borrowing costs.
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Post by deuxlsteau on May 26, 2016 13:54:38 GMT
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reub
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Post by reub on May 26, 2016 14:06:25 GMT
Baby steps.
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Post by sophie on May 26, 2016 16:14:34 GMT
I'm planning a short sabbatical in Europe later this year, and as part of my planning I did a quick search for mass sexual assaults by Muslim men in the areas I'm visiting. It turns out that one area has been relatively quiet, as it's a country that chose to close its borders to refugees, but the other has had a rather large number of such incidents, even though it's a small city that is rarely newsworthy.
Fortunately I'm obviously not a teenager, which seems to be the victim of choice, but all the same...I don't plan to wander around by myself much. And I'm absolutely amazed that European countries are still doing their best to ignore the problem. As a woman I'm definitely not interested in paying the price for such political correctness. Is it any wonder that far right groups are gaining so much traction throughout Europe?
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Post by machineghost on May 26, 2016 16:23:47 GMT
I'm planning a short sabbatical in Europe later this year, and as part of my planning I did a quick search for mass sexual assaults by Muslim men in the areas I'm visiting. It turns out that one area has been relatively quiet, as it's a country that chose to close its borders to refugees, but the other has had a rather large number of such incidents, even though it's a small city that is rarely newsworthy. Fortunately I'm obviously not a teenager, which seems to be the victim of choice, but all the same...I don't plan to wander around by myself much. And I'm absolutely amazed that European countries are still doing their best to ignore the problem. As a woman I'm definitely not interested in paying the price for such political correctness. Is it any wonder that far right groups are gaining so much traction throughout Europe? What's really odd is that when there's a pot on the fire, you immediately know when you get burned and remove your hand. It has to take a serious amount of self-delusion otherwise to ignore the pain and I've never heard of anyone managing that kind of feat, not even so-called Yogis and certainly not liberals, especially the Clintons. So I have to think the open borders policy is EU-wide, a top-down, command and control edict over the naturally instictive objection's of the member state's. It just doesn't make any sense otherwise. To call this behavior "political correctness" seems like a stretch. Wanting to be polite and a good host is one thing, but being invaded and rioted by rapacious Muslim men is another. They don't seem to even care about their host's politeness and goodness, so why would it be an issue to treat them proportionate to how they're acting? Who is the host ultimately worried about if they give off a bad impression in dealing with these thugs???  |
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Post by machineghost on May 27, 2016 5:06:00 GMT
What happens when the central bank becomes the equivalent of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) from all this crazy intervention??? I can't exactly elucidate why, but I just know it's not going to end well.
Investment-grade corporate paper is the latest asset class to be added to the ECB's growing list of things it will monetize with freshly printed euros, and the bank will start small next month, reports Reuters, before slowly growing the monthly pace to between €5B and €10B. Though the €600B European market for such paper is limited to big corporations which already have easy access to credit, the ECB hopes its purchases will trickle down to the smaller borrowers in the EU for whom funding is currently more problematic. This trickle could be a slow and uneven one, which is the reason for the small start to the program.
But wait, there's more!
Bayer could receive financing from the ECB to help fund its possible takeover of Monsanto (NYSE:MON), according to a Reuters analysis of the terms of the ECB's bond-buying program. The ECB can buy bonds issued by companies that are based in the euro area, have an investment-grade rating and are not banks, provided that they are denominated in euros and meet certain technical requirements. While the purpose for the bonds is not among the criteria set by the ECB, the bank will start buying corporate paper on the market and directly from issuers next month. In theory, the ECB could buy debt issued by Bayer (OTCPK:BAYRY).
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