The Egyptian Government has agreed a $500 million loan deal with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). The loan is expected to help the country reduce its forex scarcity and provide…
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, For several years now the small coterie of Keynesian academics and apparatchiks who have seized nearly absolute financial power through the Fed’s…
Two years after the US State Department, and specifically Victoria Nuland, hand-picked Ukraine’s next government in the aftermath of the Euromaidan riots which led to a coup and the ouster…
For those who still believe that only the GOP establishment has lost its nerve with its fringe frontrunner of a candidate, here is proof that when it comes to Bernie…
Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com’s Pater Tenebrarum), A Different World BALTIMORE – We left the fantasy island of modern finance today. We had to…
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, When Janet Yellen testified to Congress last week, she was as usual careful with her words. Alan Greenspan once called it “mumbling…
Russia and Iran are on a roll in Syria. Just two months ago, it appeared as though Moscow was indeed set to get bogged down in the conflict as the…
With yet another resounding defat under his belt, Jeb Bush has announced his decision to “suspend” his campaign for the Republican Presidentoal nomination. *JEB BUSH DROPS OUT OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL…
Authored by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, originally posted at The Week, Venezuela’s economy is collapsing. The country has topped Bloomberg’s “Economic Misery Index,” which takes into account several economic measures, for two…
It appears, first slowly and now quickly, the world is realizing that Alan Greenspan was right after all: “Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier…