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New Trump Executive Order Targets Clinton-Linked Individuals, Lobbyists And Perhaps Uranium One

By silveristhenew | Published December 27, 2017

The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or entities deemed “serious human rights abusers,” along with government officials and executives of foreign corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in corruption – which includes the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for […]

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Long Island Woman Indicted For Funding ISIS With Bitcoin

By silveristhenew | Published December 14, 2017

With intriguingly coincidental timing, as cryptocurrencies reach mainstream and grab the world's attention, the US Justice Department has unsealed a grand-jury indictment that shows a Long Island woman has been indicted on charges that she tried to funnel money to ISIS using Bitcoin. The Eastern District of New York press release details the crimes… Long […]

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‘Meddling’? The US State Department’s New Program To Take On Hungarian Media

By silveristhenew | Published November 13, 2017

Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Hypocrisy may be the only consistent guiding principle of US foreign policy. Here's a prime example of the "do as we say, not as we do" that is the core of how Washington does business overseas: In the same week that the […]

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Why Robert Mueller Was Selected To Be The Special Prosecutor

By silveristhenew | Published November 12, 2017

Authored by Eric Zuesse, It all began with the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in the Saudi city of Khobar, which killed 19 U.S. military, who worked at the Dharan air base three miles away. That incident became the lynchpin of the accusation by the Saudi royal family, the U.S. State Department, and the CIA, that […]

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Junk Bond ETFs Have Rough Two Weeks: Deals Pulled, Outflows Rise

By silveristhenew | Published November 12, 2017

Submitted by Mish Shedlock Volatility has returned, at least in the junk bond market. JNK, the Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, and HYG, the iShares High Yield Bond ETF, both had the steepest decline in three months. Is this another buy the dip opportunity, or is risk avoidance about to take hold? Cracks Widen Reuters […]

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Here’s How Much Each HSBC Trader Made In Their FX Front-Running Scheme

By silveristhenew | Published October 16, 2017

Last week we wrote about how some former HSBC FX traders, led by Mark Johnson, orchestrated a carefully crafted plan to front-run a massive buy order for British Pounds using the code phrase “my watch is off.”  Now, courtesy of court filings in a British case to extradite one of the participants, Stuart Scott, we […]

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Greece Arrests Russian “Mastermind” Behind $4 Billion Bitcoin Laundering Scheme

By silveristhenew | Published July 27, 2017

Greek authorities have arrested a 38-year-old Russian man wanted in the United States on suspicion of masterminding a money laundering operation involving at least $4 billion through transactions in bitcoins. Reuters reports, a US jury indicted the man on Wednesday over the scheme which involved crimes ranging from computer hacking to drug trafficking. KeepTalkingGreece reports […]

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Frontrunning: May 24

By silveristhenew | Published May 24, 2017

Trump Meets With Pope Francis After Policy Clashes (WSJ) Fed Minutes to Offer Clues on Debate Over Path of Rate Increases (WSJ) Manchester bomber had ‘proven’ links to Islamic State (Reuters) U.K. Chides U.S. for Leaking Manchester Bombing Probe Details (BBG) Manchester Bomber, Salman Abedi, Is Thought to Have Traveled to Syria (NYT) ‘No defeat, […]

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Selloff Accelerates As Trump Fears Mount: “The Market Will Revert To Much Higher Volatility”

By silveristhenew | Published May 18, 2017

European and Asian stocks slumped on Thursday following the worst one-day drop in US stocks in 8 months, while S&P futures tumbled to session lows, down 0.3% to 2,350 after initially posting a modest rebound, following a new Reuters report alleging that Trump campaign members communication with Russians on at least 18 occasions, and which […]

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Are Big Banks’ Dark Pools Behind The Run-Up In Bank Stock Prices?

By silveristhenew | Published February 27, 2017

Bankers have sold hundreds of millions of their own stock as the market has ripped higher post-election – more than in any year of the last decade…     Which makes us wonder – are big banks' dark pools behind the run-up in their own stocks? Submitted by Pam Martens and Russ Martens via WallStreetOnParade.com, […]

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