The Turkish dictator Erdogan (Recep Tayyip Erdo?an) has just been deposed by a military coup. You have to know the history of the Turkish military to understand why this is a very good thing ... For many

Authored by Yojimbo via The Burning Platform blog, 1. No one needs a commercial truck this large. 2. The Founding Fathers never envisioned large commercial trucks, and did not intend for people to drive

Datta Phuge took the interwebs by storm three years ago when we introduced the $250,000 22-karat-gold-shirt-wearing 32-year-old Indian who proclaimed "I know I am not the best looking man but surely

Gun control - one of the main ways to combat terrorism proposed by liberals - wouldn't have stopped the terrorist from killing 80+ in Nice, France. The terrorist killed with a truck ... not a gun. 

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Janet Yellen, in my opinion, is about to make a critical mistake. She is not going to raise rates in July. Why is this a mistake? Simple. No matter

Update: TURKEY ARMED FORCES SAY THEY'VE TAKEN CONTROL OF COUNTRY * * * Shooting and explosion are being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above

Shooting and explosion are being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city. According to Reuters, gunfire and explosions could be heard

Shooting and explosion are being reported in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with military jets and helicopters seen in the sky above the city. According to Reuters, gunfire and explosions could be heard

Does anyone else feel like this is going on behind the scenes?   Quite a week: S&P up 3rd week in a row to record high - best 3-week run in over 4 months Trannies up 3rd week in a row (+4% this

Earlier today Germany's 10Y Bund crossed back into positive yield territory for the first time since Brexit, after touching as low as -0.20% earlier in the week... ... but that, oddly, does not mean that

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Jim Rogers told me to come here. We were having dinner a few weeks ago in Singapore, and Jim had just returned that morning from Russia full of optimism for

This article by David Haggith first published on The Great Recession Blog: ... or hair coloring on Donald Trump. Neither one helps. Do you scratch your head as I do, when you read one story in the news

Perhaps in an effort to appear 'tougher' than Clinton did last night - in the face of Republican bluster and rage - President Obama feels the need to address the nation with regard the massacre in the

According to Bank of America's Michael Hartnett, in the coming quarters - especially in the aftermath of the shocking wake up call to the "establishment" delivered by Brexit, one which forced even McKinsey

Unleash the revisionist history. Congress released on Friday a long-classified report exploring the alleged ties of the Saudi Arabian government to the 9/11 hijackers. The missing 28 pages from the 9/11

The mind-numbing Case-Shiller regional charts below are presented without too much comment. As MHanson.com's Mark Hanson adds, the visual says it all. Bottom line: Q:  If 2006/07 was the peak of the

Submitted by Matt Slowikowski via OilPrice.com, Electric cars are often touted as the nail in the coffin for gasoline-powered vehicles. However, there’s another fuel revolution in the developing

The new head of UniCredit, Italy’s biggest bank, has implored the EU to take a more lenient stance on rescuing the country’s troubled banking sector, as The FT reports Mustier urges Brussels

The first picture of the man behind the Nice terrorist attack, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, has been published. The image, which was taken from French TV reports that said the picture had come from the French