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Drudgereport.com was the number 1 source of information during the elections. It was and always has been, or at least for the past decade or so, the single most popular destination for news — especially during elections. On the same day that the Obama administration announced sanctions again Russia, Drudge goes down.

Coincidence?

Drudge ponders aloud on Twitter.

Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT?

Biggest DDoS since site’s inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing].

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) December 30, 2016

Attacking coming from ‘thousands’ of sources. Of course none of them traceable to Fort Meade…

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) December 30, 2016

One of my favorite interviews ever was when Drudge showed up to the Alex Jones show for a chat.

Content originally generated at iBankCoin.com

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Source: DRUDGE REPORT HIT WITH MASSIVE DDOS ATTACK; MATT DRUDGE PONDERS IF GOVERNMENT WAS BEHIND ATTACK

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By Tyler Durden

It is oddly appropriate that in a year everyone finally admitted markets are manipulated by central banks and broken by HFT algos, that on the last trading day of 2016, the dollar flash crashed with for no reason whatsoever.

Shortly after 6:30pm Eastern, the dollar plunged by 150 pips against the Euro, once 1.05 stops were taken out, with algos sending the EURUSD as high as 1.07 in a matter of seconds…

… while concurrently the Swiss Franc soared as much as 1.6% against the greenback, as the USDCHF tumbled from just over 1.025 to just above 1.0050 as the pair briefly flirted with parity.

What caused it? As there was no fundamental news, the answer is the same catalyst as the pound sterling flash crash: once EURUSD stops were taken out, algos all piled up on the same side of the trade and with virtually non existent market depth, it sent the world’s most actively traded currency pair soaring. Indeed, as FX traders in Asia, cited by Bloomberg said, the EUR/USD jump was partly driven by a surge of algo-buy orders after pair rose above 1.0500 in early session.

Others agreed: as Shigeki Yoshitoshi, head of Japan FX and commodities sales at Australia & New Zealand Bank said, it “seems to be no particular factor driving euro sharply higher in extremely thin volume” adding that “there wasn’t any particular news. Markets are extremely thin and perhaps position tuning occurred.”

So after the initial freak out where are markets now? Well, according to Bloomberg, after the Euro was dealt as high as 1.07 on the EBS platform, though that price level has been dismissed by banks and clients according to Asia-based FX traders, the pair is slowly returning to its pre-freakout level. As Bloomberg adds, the post-mortem of the EURUSD spike already has “traders swapping stories of clients dealing away and banks shedding tears” especially those who were stopped out by a few good stop-busting algos.

And while funds were seen buying under 1.0500, when the pair hit 1.0540 one trader says he had to take the loss.

Finally, if any readers missed the move, fear not: with the world’s most actively traded market having become a farcical, flash crashing joke, it is only a matter of time before the next algo-driven freak out returns.

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Source: Dollar Flash Crashes On Last Trading Day Of 2016

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By Tyler Durden

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

The English language Russian news agency, Sputnik, reports that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is advising US president-elect Donald Trump how to “bring the United States and Russia closer together to offset China’s military buildup.”

If we take this report at face value, it tells us that Kissinger, an old cold warrior, is working to use Trump’s commitment to better relations with Russia in order to separate Russia from its strategic alliance with China.

China’s military buildup is a response to US provocations against China and US claims to the South China Sea as an area of US national interests. China does not intend to attack the US and certainly not Russia.

Kissinger, who was my colleague at the Center for Strategic and International studies for a dozen years, is aware of the pro-American elites inside Russia, and he is at work creating for them a “China threat” that they can use in their effort to lead Russia into the arms of the West. If this effort is successful, Russia’s sovereignty will be eroded exactly as has the sovereignty of every other country allied with the US.

At President Putin’s last press conference, journalist Marat Sagadatov asked if Russia wasn’t already subject to forms of foreign semi-domination: “Our economy, industry, ministries and agencies often follow the rules laid down by international organizations and are managed by consulting companies. Even our defense enterprises have foreign consulting firms auditing them.” The journalist asked, “if it is not time to do some import substitution in this area too?”

Every Russian needs to understand that being part of the West means living by Washington’s rules. The only country in the Western Alliance that has an independent foreign and economic policy is the US.

All of us need to understand that although Trump has been elected president, the neoconservatives remain dominant in US foreign policy, and their commitment to the hegemony of the US as the uni-power remains as strong as ever. The neoconservative ideology has been institutionalized in parts of the CIA, State Department and Pentagon. The neoconservatives retain their influence in media, think tanks, university faculties, foundations, and in the Council on Foreign Relations.

We also need to understand that Trump revels in the role of tough guy and will say things that can be misinterpreted as my friend, Finian Cunningham, whose columns I read, usually with appreciation, might have done.

I do not know that Trump will prevail over the vast neoconservative conspiracy. However, it seems clear enough that he is serious about reducing the tensions with Russia that have been building since President Clinton violated the George H. W. Bush administration’s promise that NATO would not expand one inch to the East. Unless Trump were serious, there is no reason for him to announce Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for Secretary of State. In 2013 Mr. Tillerson was awarded Russia’s Order of Friendship.

As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, a global corporation such …read more

Source: Paul Craig Roberts Worries "What Is Henry Kissinger Up To?"

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By Tyler Durden

While Warren Buffett did best of all the billionaires in 2016, he was far from alone.

The biggest fortunes on the planet whipsawed through $4.8 trillion of daily net worth gyrations in 2016.

The volatility — triggered by disappointing economic data from China at the start of the year, the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union in the middle and the election of billionaire Donald Trump at the end — didn’t prevent the richest from getting richer.

Their fortunes rose 5.7 percent for the year at the close of trading on Dec. 27, or some $237 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Source: The Rich Got Richer In 2016 – $237 Billion Richer!

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Coming at an awkward time, just as the US accused Russia of doing (once again, without a shred of valid proof as opposed to a report which the DHS was quick to disown) what the CIA has done to other nations for decades, earlier today everyone’s favorite volatile, vulgar and outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte derided U.S. ambassadors as “spies”, responding to a media report of an alleged American plot to destabilize his government, a job he said some envoys were appointed solely to do.

Quoted by Reuters, the former mayor said though had received no intelligence reports of any U.S. plan to undermine his presidency, he believed most ambassadors were in cahoots with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which had a track record of meddling in other countries’ affairs.

The reason for the latest outburst is because the Manila Times newspaper on Tuesday reported a former U.S. ambassador to the Philippines had prepared a “blueprint to undermine Duterte“, citing a document it had received from a what it described as a “highly placed source”.

The Manila Times said Philip Goldberg, who recently ended his term as ambassador in Manila, had outlined various strategies over an 18-month period to destabilize Duterte. That would include supporting the opposition and co-opting the media, the military, neighboring countries and senior government officials to turn against Duterte and isolate him economically.

Duterte has previously called Goldberg a “gay son of a bitch” and referred to him in three successive live television interviews on Thursday, as Washington’s “superstar” with a track record of trying to undermine governments.

He may well be right: Goldberg was expelled as ambassador to Bolivia in 2008 by then President Evo Morales, who accused him of siding with his rightist opponents and of orchestrating street protests. The United States rejected that and said his expulsion was a “grave error”.

“Maybe he will deny it but it’s not good,” Duterte said of Goldberg’s alleged blueprint, which he said was plausible because of Goldberg’s history.

The U.S. State Department, which has yet to admit on the record that it is in the government overthrow business, naturally described the allegations as “false.”

Duterte, however, had a more cynical view: “most of the ambassadors of the United States, but not all, are not really professional ambassadors. At the same time they are spying, they are connected with the CIA,” Duterte said in a television interview.

He added that “the ambassador of a country is the number one spy. But there are ambassador of the U.S., their forte is really to undermine governments.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific Daniel Russel dismissed the Manila Times report.

“No such blueprint exists,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

“The United States respects the sovereignty of the Philippines and the democratic choices made by the Philippine people.”

Sure it does, and just to “prove” it here is a paper which showed that between 1946 and 2000, the US intervened in foreign elections “only” 81 times, …read more

Source: Duterte Says US Ambassadors Are CIA "Spies" As Alleged US Plot To Overthrow Him Emerges

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While everyone in the world appears convinced that (and positioned for) bond yields go higher, stocks go higher, gold goes lower, and risk has been vanquished, UBS notes that the world's largest, most active overweight crowded trade is in Amazon.com stock (followed cloesly by UnitedHealth.

At 175x P/E what could go wrong?

Notably, while Amazon is the most crowded long in the developed markets, Alibaba is the most over-crowded in global emerging markets…

UBS explains: How do we measure the active positions? Using the institutional ownership data provided by FactSet, we form an active trading portfolio by aggregating positions across global active managers. Essentially, we sum up all the holdings in dollar value across all the active managers and calculate the weights of stocks in this active trading portfolio. We then compare this weight with the relevant equity index benchmark to form the active weight.

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Source: Amazon & Alibaba Are The World’s Most Crowded Trades

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Upon his death in 1799, George Washington’s will set aside 50 shares of the Potowmack Company in his estate to fund the creation of a national university in the nation’s capital. Just over 20 years later, an Act of Congress created the Columbian College in the District of Columbia which subsequently changed its name to George Washington University in 1904 in honor of Washington. Per WikiPedia:

George Washington, the first president of the United States, had indicated to Congress through various letters, as well as his last will and testament, that he wanted to establish a university within the nation’s capital. Washington left fifty shares of the Potowmack Company in his estate for a national university in the District of Columbia. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on February 9, 1821, as the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. In 1904, it changed its name to the George Washington University in honor of Washington.

Now, some 200 years later, GWU, like many of the nation’s universities, has been overrun with liberal, elitist professors who have decided to shun America’s first president, and the inspiration behind the founding their university, by removing U.S. History as a required course for history majors. Of course, why would U.S. history be important for history majors…this country has been a fairly irrelevant player in shaping world history for the past 200 years.

Syndicated radio host Larry Elders recently blasted the decision on Fox News as just another effort to indoctrinate students with the notion that “America is nothing more than a series of incidents that oppress people,
whether it’s Native Americans or women or blacks or Hispanics or Asian
people.”

“According to a lot of professors, the founding fathers are a bunch of old rich white guys who owned slaves,” syndicated radio host Larry Elder said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” “As a result, they’re no longer relevant.”

“I call this the access of indoctrination. Schools have long since passed the line from education to indoctrination, and this is one more step toward that.”

“Kids are learning that America is nothing more than a series of incidents that oppress people, whether it’s Native Americans or women or blacks or Hispanics or Asian people,” he said. “That’s what they’re learning.”

Meanwhile, the chair of GWU’s history department told the school’s newspaper that the move was nothing more than an effort to cater to the university’s snowflakes who may be saddened by the burden of being forced to take a U.S. history course.

Katrin Schultheiss, the chair of the history department, said faculty made the changes to the requirements largely due to enrollment pressures. She said by becoming more flexible and more responsive to students’ interests, the department hopes to recruit students who might not have decided to major in history otherwise.

“I think the main gain for students is that they have a great deal more flexibility than they had before, and they can adapt it to whatever their plans are for …read more

Source: GWU Eliminates U.S. History As A Requirement For History Majors

    

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By Tyler Durden

As reported earlier today, amid the sweeping sanctions unveiled by Obama in response to Russian “hacking” of the elections, President Obama ordered the shut down, or rather confiscation, of a Russian-owned compound on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Obama gave Russia 72 hours to leave the 45-acre property, which the Soviet government bought in 1972.

Live video shot from NBC Washington on Thursday afternoon showed multiple unmarked cars on the perimeter of the property. Officials appeared to set up an antenna and lights at each entrance. Intelligence officials tell NBC News the property was used for work to monitor the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and another NSA building on Kent Island.

In what amounted to the strongest retaliation against Russia by the U.S. in decades, the administration also sanctioned two Russian intelligence services as well three companies officials said aided them, while expelling 35 diplomats. The administration also denied access to a recreational compound in Queen Anne’s County that officials said had been used for “intelligence collection activities.”

Why the focus on the Maryland compound? Here is a brief history of the property in question, courtesy of Baltimore Sun.

The 45-acre site on the Eastern Shore waterfront near Centreville was purchased by the Soviet Union in 1972, a State Department official said. Its ownership was not a secret — it has been widely covered by news organizations for decades — and Russian officials have previously said the site has been used as a retreat for diplomats and their families.

Property records show that the Russian government owns two parcels of land on Town Point Lane, about five miles west of Centreville, near where the Chester River meets the Corsica River. One parcel of 45.52 acres is valued at about $8 million for tax purposes, while the other is just shy of an acre and is valued at $537,200.

Both were transferred from the Soviet government to the Russian Federation in 1995, according to property records.

The U.S. Department of State also owns a 4-acre property on Town Point Lane. It has a 6,845-square-foot office building built in 1960, according to property records.

A spokesman at the Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Maryland property. In Moscow, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Associated Press that the Kremlin regrets the new U.S. sanctions and will consider retaliatory measures.

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Below, is a 1992 report from AP on the Russian Federation’s takeover of the Maryland Vacation retreat which 24 year later was repossessed by the US:

Russian Federation Takes Over Maryland Vacation Retreat

While turmoil and bloodshed surrounded the breakup of the Soviet Union, a vacation retreat in Maryland became the property of the the Russian Federation.

”It was bought by the former Soviet Union,” said Ivan Rumyantsev, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington.

There are no plans to sell the 45-acre estate, valued at $3 million, said Rumyantsev. It occupies prime property on the banks of …read more

Source: This Is The Russian "Retreat" In Maryland Which The US Government Just Confiscated

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As the first family enjoys their 29th, and last, vacation on the taxpayer dime, we thought it would be appropriate to highlight just how much money the Obama’s have spent on expensive golf resorts, exclusive beach villas and African safaris over the past 8 years. Per a study conducted by Judicial Watch, taxpayers will have spent nearly $90 million on vacations for the first family after their current, annual trip to Hawaii wraps up on January 2nd.

Of course, with each trip to Obama’s home state costing $3 – $4 million a pop, it’s not difficult to see how the costs add up quickly. As McClatchy points out, the cost of Air Force One, fighter jet escorts, helicopters, cargo planes, secret service advance teams, etc. can get costly.

The cost of Air Force One and other government planes as well as helicopters, cargo planes, armored cars, Secret Service protection and advance, communications and medical staff has led Judicial Watch to push for less personal travel.

“The Secret Service and the Air Force are being abused by unnecessary travel,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. “Unnecessary presidential travel for fundraising and luxury vacations on the taxpayers’ dime would be a good target for reform for the incoming Trump administration.”

But we don’t fault him, all that time spent fundraising and signing executive orders is really exhausting.

To put things into perspective, the Obama’s took a total of 29 vacations over their eight years in the White House spanning 228 days. At an aggregate cost of $90 million, that equates to roughly $400,000 per day or $3.1 million per trip. As a side note, the aggregate vacation time implies that Obama spent nearly 63% of one of his eight years in office, on vacation.

Of course, none of the vacation expenditures above capture the money spent on Obama’s fundraising trips to fill the coffers of the DNC and/or to campaign for Hillary Clinton.

Judicial Watch has been trying to calculate the price tag of Obama personal trips for years through public records requests. It recently received records on Obama’s trips to New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Palm City, Florida, in 2014 and 2015 in which he raised money, campaigned and golfed. The group says the cost was $286,000 solely for Secret Service travel and accommodations.

Some trips included the entire family, while others included one other member. Most trips of the first lady and daughters are not publicized and remain unknown. But Judicial Watch has received some records about some of those trips, including the family’s trip to New York and first lady Michelle Obama’s ski trip to Aspen, Colorado, as well as several of Barack Obama’s golf outings.

And while Obama’s proponents often site George W. Bush’s vacation days in defense of the current first family, they tend to omit the fact that the majority of Bush’s vacations were to his home in Texas or his family’s …read more

Source: Obama’s Vacation Costs Expected To Top $90 Million Over 8 Years

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Interesting day…

Bonds & Bullion now outpacing stocks post-Fed… (and bank stocks are down 1.6% post-fed)

Once again the opening ramp but it was lackluster as hopes for Dow 20,000 are dashed for now as pension rebalancing (and front-running tax-selling) accelerates…WTF was that idiotic panic buying atthe close in Small Caps!??

On the week, Trannies are worst…

VIX briefly tagged 13.5 today with The Dow now 200 points from Dow 20k…

Utilities are now the only sector green post-Xmas with financials underperforming… Financials biggest 2-day drop in 3 months

5Y yields dropped below 2.00% for the first time in 10 days, 10Y below 2.50%, and 3Y below 1.50% following the super strong 7Y auction…NOTE the 10Y yield briefly dipped lower post-Fed intraday but 30Y is -5bps…

This is the best 2 day drop in 5Y yields (-10bps) since June 27th.

As a reminder, despite the non-stop spewing on mainstream media, the yield curve is notably flatter post-Trump… not steeper!

The USD Index tumbled most since november 1st…

Led by JPY strength (on bank derisking following Toshiba contagion)

USD weakness sent PMs and copper higher but crude fell after inventory data…

WTI broke its 8-day win streak…

Gold is now up 5 days in a row…longest streak since before election

But we note that of all the precious metals, only Palladium is green post-Trump…

For the first time in the contracts' history, the Jan/Feb Gasoline spread has moved into backwardation (Bloomberg reports that recent regional refinery outages at PES Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc. and Irving Oil Lt.’s Saint John unit have limited supplies to New York Harbor, pushing front month contracts higher than the forward period).

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Source: Bonds & Bullion Bounce But Banks Bruised As Dollar Dumps

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