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Using a Prechteresque term, Bill Gross Says the "Bull Market Super-Cycle is Nearing End" . The attempt by global central banks to cure a debt crisis with more debt doesn’t have much further to run, which will end a rally that’s lasted three and a half decades, the 71-year-old manager wrote in an investment outlook for Janus Capital Group Inc
Their report, " Garland Shooting Suspect Elton Simpson’s Father: ‘My Son Made a Bad Choice’ ," states: Followers of ISIS had been sending messages about the event in Texas for more than a week, calling for attacks. One referenced January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in France and said it was time for "brothers" in the United States to do their part. Simpson was well known to the FBI.
Please consider Chicago’s Fiscal Stress: New Term, Same Problems .
Continue reading here: China Manufacturing PMI in Contraction: New Orders and Operating Conditions Decline at Strongest Rate in a Year
Via translation from Les Echos, May 2, 2015: Poll shows 75% of French Do Not Expect Improvement in Unemployment until 2017 .
Now that we have the backdrop out of the way, please consider Twinkie’s Miracle Comeback: The Untold, Inside Story of a $2 Billion Feast Walk in the door of Hostess Brands’ flagship bakery in Emporia, Kansas and your first thought is: What a dump.
Links US Nominates War College Grad as Ambassador to Thailand May 2, 2015 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – There are two kinds of "ambassadors" the US employs across the globe to project its unwarranted power and influence beyond its borders. One is a friendly face covert subversion and manipulation can hide behind, the other is a strong voice that subversion and manipulation can openly rally around
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional
Tweet Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, aka coal in WVa, has a Nixon problem. Â Turns out the Don recorded his phone calls and now the prosecutors have them. Â How they have them is one of those stories.