“Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said that he agrees with the aggressive statements President Trump has made towards North Korea. The former Secretary of State said that the Trump Administration ‘will hit that fork in the road, and the temptation to deal with it with a pre-emptive attack’ against North Korea ‘is strong, and the argument is rational.'”
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China promises bank rescue in next crisis
“China’s financial regulator has vowed to rescue the Chinese banking system immediately to avert a banking crisis when the bubble bursts, issuing a blanket guarantee that no major institution will be allowed to fail. Beijing says it has studied the errors that led to the Lehman crisis in the 2008 and will not allow a chain reaction to occur, even if this means paying a price in terms of lost economic growth and dynamism.”
All I Want For Christmas Is the End to Unnecessary War
“The lives of young Americans are too high a price to pay for wars driven by threat inflation, ego, or foolhardy social experiments.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-end-to-unnecessary-war/
Warning: Trump’s Federal Reserve Pick Hates Gold and Cash
“Marvin Goodfriend thinks there should be a robust negative interest rate placed on cash. For example, if there was a -10% interest rate on cash, your $10 bill would actually be worth only $9. It is basically a penalty for using cash. The excuse is that this will stabilize the economy by keeping more capital in the banks. It means banks, and by extension, the Federal Reserve, have more control over your money. The gold standard, Goodfriend argues, was also an encumbrance on monetary policy, ‘destabilizing’ prices.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/warning-trumps-federal-reserve-pick-hates-gold-and-cash/
Bernanke Backs Ripple At Blockchain Conference
“Two months ago we noted former Fed chief Ben Bernanke’s apparent flip-flop since leaving office as he agreed to be the keynote speaker at a blockchain conference, having warned in 2015 of ‘serious problems’ with bitcoin due to its ‘instability’ and ‘anonymity’…”
Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-16/bernanke-backs-ripple-blockchain-conference-tech-promising
With the stroke of a pen, 31 million more Americans have hypertension
“Tighter blood pressure guidelines from U.S. heart organizations mean millions more people need to make lifestyle changes, or start taking medication, in order to avoid cardiovascular problems. At the new cutoff, around 46 percent, or more than 103 million, of American adults are considered to have high blood pressure, compared with an estimated 72 million under the previous guidelines in place since 2003. Potentially deadly high blood pressure can be brought under control with a wide array of medications.”
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed”
“With one unit of Bitcoin now worth 10,000 times the US dollar, it makes sense that the Fed would begin to feel a bit defensive. Indeed, the speech comes to the defense of the central bank, the existing money, and payment system networks, and calls for the pace of innovation to be controlled by regulators in the interest of ‘prudence.'”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/fed-official-decries-bitcoin-as-not-backed/
Bitcoin should be ‘outlawed’, says Nobel prize-winning economist
“Joseph Stiglitz said that he favours making the digital currency illegal because it does not have a ‘socially useful function’. ‘Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight,’ the renowned economist said.”
Supreme court cellphone case puts free speech – not just privacy – at risk
“On Wednesday, the supreme court will consider whether the government must obtain a warrant before accessing the rich trove of data that cellphone providers collect about cellphone users’ movements. Among scholars and campaigners, there is broad agreement that the case could yield the most consequential privacy ruling in a generation. Less appreciated is the significance of the case for rights protected by the first amendment.”
The Black Swan In Plain Sight—Debt Out The Wazoo
“Washington has suspended it way into a $5.7 trillion increase in the public debt in just six years since October 2011. That is, during a period which supposedly constitutes the third longest business expansion in US history. At the end of the day, you can’t borrow your way to prosperity. That’s the oldest rule in the book of sound money and sustainable finance. And it’s about ready to be learned all over again.”
Read more: http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-black-swan-in-plain-sight-debt-out-the-wazoo/