Email From US Special Forces Veteran; 500 US Blackwater Mercenaries in Ukraine? US Backs Ukrainian Neo-Nazis

US Special Forces in Ukraine? In response to US Special Forces in Mariupol? I received an interesting email from "Dan" a 23-year ...

Swiss Franc Yield Curve Negative for 12 Years; Bond Crash - Austrian Bank Raiffeisen; Another One Bites the Dust

The casualties continue to pile up in the wake of the Swiss National Bank dropping its peg to the euro. (See Rabbit Hole Intervention Fails:...

Self-Driving "Fully Automated" Vehicles on German Autobahn; Supply Chain Math; Uber and Khan Academy

Don't worry taxi drivers, this is only a test: Self-driving cars to hit German Autobahn . A section of the A9 Autobahn in Bavaria will b...

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Here's a new map of major military operations in Ukraine. I say "new" but the caption indicates it is a day old. An estimated ...

US Corporations Take Huge Losses on Venezuelan Currency

When black markets in currencies develop, you can be 100% sure the official exchange rate is overinflated. In Venezuela, the fixed rate of e...

Dutch Central Bank President Cites "Financial Bubbles", Voices Strong Opposition to QE in TV Interview; Death by 1,000 Pin Pricks

Mario Draghi has strong opposition to his QE program from two sources: German central bank president Jens Weidmann and Dutch central Bank pr...

Pact With the Devil? Syriza Projection 150 Seats; Coalition Deal Already; "Indisputable Mandate to Leave Austerity"

One Short of Outright Majority With vote counting nearly over, it appears Syriza captured exactly half of the 300 member Greek parliament wi...