Price This Into Markets: Larry Nichols Says Clinton Will Flip 38 Electors and Take Presidency

How do I introduce someone who claims he was a hitman for Bill Clinton? I can feel the concern trolling from the comments section now. But Larry Nichols says Hillary will flip the electors to her side, thereby snatching Trump’s chain and thrusting America into the dark ages.

At a minimum, this is a very entertaining clip.

For the love of Comet Ping Pong Pizza, can the demoncrats admit defeat already?

The fuckery is indeed very real.

The fervor and energetic effort into preventing Trump from taking the Presidency, has taken on new levels of lunacy by the left — who are absurdly panicked and beguiled by paranoia to the point of making themselves into carnivale clown jackasses — all but assuring the reelection of Trump in 2020 and the Silver Fox in 2024.

Springboarding off the hysterical media and their Russian fairytales of election tampering and raging Putin vendettas, a new organization has appeared — seemingly out of nowhere. They call themselves United For America and they are cucks.

Here is their mission statement.

According to their Whois data, the website was launched shortly after Thanksgiving, suggestive that plans to deny Trump the Presidency has been in motion for at least three weeks.

Here is their sparsely followed Twitter account — again indicative of their irrelevancy and newness to the 2016 elections.

And here is their video, a plea for help from the electors — practically begging them to ignore the will of the people and to vote against Trump on 12/19, saying they’d make history doing so and would be considered heroes for ‘voting their conscience’, somehow suggesting that the electors don’t really want to vote for Trump — but only do so because he won the god damned elections.

This video shall forever immortalize the emotional collapse of the left — bedraggled snowflakes, crestfallen, deep in a stupor of their own making.

Acceptance is the final stage of grief, something the illiberal left will soon be forced to endure — whether they want to or not.

The current hysteria over Russian interference doesn’t infer that they hacked the voting itself, but instead made available true information about the Hillary Clinton campaign, by way of Wikileaks, which then swayed public opinion to vote in favor of Trump. In other words, Podesta, Clinton and their media shills are still corrupt bastards, beholden to Saudi Arabia and China — but had the American people never learned about it via the Wikileaks, well then, they might’ve voted for her instead of Trump.

In a nut shell, that’s the democrat argument for fomenting war against Russia and to overturn the will of the people. Again, no one is questioning the validity of the votes, but the souls of men and how they felt after reading the Wikileaks.

Fox News is reporting the House Committee has abruptly canceled a briefing scheduled for tomorrow — due to the CIA not making anyone available to attend. As of now, the CIA is refusing to comment on the matter, until their full assessment of the situation is made available to President Obama before 1/20/17.

Source: Fox

The House Intelligence Committee abruptly canceled a briefing set for Thursday on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, after the CIA declined to provide a briefer for the session, Fox News is told.

Amid concerns about reports that conflict with details previously provided to the committee, Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had requested a closed, classified briefing Thursday for committee Republican and Democratic members from the FBI, CIA, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Security Agency.

But Fox News is told the CIA declined citing its focus on the full review requested by President Obama, and the other agencies did not respond to the committee’s request, which is unusual given the panel is the most-senior committee with jurisdiction.

“It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign,” Nunes said in a statement. “The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes.”

“Last week, the President ordered a full Intelligence Community review of foreign efforts to influence recent Presidential elections – from 2008 to present,” the statement added. “Once the review is complete in the coming weeks, the Intelligence Community stands ready to brief Congress—and will make those findings available to the public consistent with protecting intelligence sources and methods. We will not offer any comment until the review is complete.”

Separately, Fox News has learned additional details about the “full review” President Obama ordered from his intelligence agencies regarding Russian interference.

The review is being led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and is a multi-agency effort. Investigators plan to take existing intelligence and reconstruct what happened.

Fox News is told one focus is on whether there is new intelligence that substantiates analysis the interference was designed to ensure a Trump victory, or whether a review of the existing intelligence with “fresh eyes” leads to new conclusions.

Some lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, have backed calls for a separate congressional investigation, voicing concern that Obama’s intelligence agencies might not be able to conduct a thorough review before he leaves office.

Given statements from the White House, Fox News is told there is considerable pressure on the intelligence community to declassify as much of the findings as possible before Jan. 20, when Trump is set to take the oath of office.

As of yesterday, 55 electors are asking for information regarding the Russian scare and if Trump knew anything about it. What the fuck?

The Electors require to know from the intelligence community whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of those investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations. We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States.

Judging by libtards comments like the one featured below, there are many on the left who believe the election result isn’t conclusive. Thoughts?

The electoral college is scheduled to vote on December 19th.

Let’s crystallize what the media is attempting to do here. Through the revelations of the DNC leaks and the Podesta emails, the American people learned how corrupt the democrats were and how they’ve coopted the media on every level to the point where the major networks are nothing more than state media shills.

Instead of addressing and trying to correct their ill behavior, they’re doubling down on it by blaming the whistleblower and then fomenting hatred against Russia — by accusing them of interfering in our elections because of Putin’s personal ‘vendetta’ against Clinton. It’s equal to a pedophile being caught with unseemly material on his computer and then getting mad at the police for finding it.

Bottom line, democrats, you’re still pedophiles. I meant that anecdotally of course (no Pizzagate).

Here we are, once again, bearing witness to the democrats trying to overturn a democratically elected President and attempting to start World War 3 with a country who has nearly 8,000 ICBMs in their arsenal, using unnamed sources, and zero evidence to do so.

By simply stating ‘the Russians did it, obviously’, isn’t enough evidence to overturn American elections and certainly not grounds for a war that would cost the lives of millions.

Are these people insane?

This from NBC.

U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

Putin’s objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a “vendetta” against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to “split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn’t depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore,” the official said.

Ultimately, the CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump. The FBI and other agencies don’t fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to harm Clinton’s candidacy by leaking embarrassing emails about Democrats.

The latest intelligence said to show Putin’s involvement goes much further than the information the U.S. was relying on in October, when all 17 intelligence agencies signed onto a statement attributing the Democratic National Committee hack to Russia.

The statement said officials believed that “only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.” That was an intelligence judgment based on an understanding of the Russian system of government, which Putin controls with absolute authority.

Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. Their use of the term “high confidence” implies that the intelligence is nearly incontrovertible.

“It is most certainly consistent with the Putin that I have watched and used to work with when I was an ambassador and in the government,” said Michael McFaul, who was ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

“He has had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton, that has been known for a long time because of what she said about his elections back in the parliamentary elections of 2011. He wants to discredit American democracy and make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal democratic order. And most certainly he likes President-elect Trump’s views on Russia,” McFaul added. Clinton cast doubt on the integrity of Russia’s elections.

As part of contingency planning for potential retaliation against Russia, according to officials, U.S. intelligence agencies have stepped up their probing into his personal financial empire.

I will summarize the financial media talking points for you, so that you don’t have to consume it on your own.

Higher rates are good because it means the economy is getting stronger.
Lower rates are good because low borrowing costs enables companies to finance share buybacks and economic expansion.

A strong dollar is good because it means our economy is doing well.
A weaker dollar is good because it helps our exporters.

Higher crude is great for stocks, because it helps earnings for energy, industrials and transport companies.
Cheaper crude is good because it gives the consumer more money to shop at the mall.

Trump will be disastrous for Wall Street because of his protectionist policies.
Trump is great for stocks because of fiscal stimulus prospects, lower taxes and less regulations.

Got it?

In light of the hawkish Fed comments, suggesting we’re in for 3 rate hikes in 2017, 2yr bond yields skyrocketed — higher by 10bps to 1.27%, the highest level since 2009. With hawkish Fed policy comes a whirlwind of dollar buying. The greenback soared v the yen by 1.6% to the 117 mark and +0.92% v the euro to 105.

On election night the yen was trading 101 v the dollar. This is an unimaginable boon for Japanese exporters.

Bottom line: the groundworks has been prepared to derail the Trump administration. On the political end, they’ll entangle him with Russian conspiracy theories. And on the economic side, they’ve given him a soaring market based on a fiction. Retails sales are not getting better. As a matter of fact, they’re getting worse. Any push for fiscal stimulus will be met with opposition from both parties, supported by comments from the likes of Yellen — who said we don’t need it. Lastly, the soaring dollar and higher borrowing costs are a negative for the economy, none of which, thus far, haven’t been discussed by our idiotic financial media.

The dollar index is at 102, its highest level since 2002.

This is sure to draw the ire of the God Emperor.

In an obvious jab at President Elect Trump, Janet Yellen said fiscal stimulus wasn’t needed in order to achieve full employment. That’s sort of a meangingless shit statement, designed to piss people off.

The point of having fiscal stimulus is to invest to create better paying jobs, instead of the shit at Walmart.

Here she is discussing how highly uncertain the economy is, while pointing to a nonsensical policy of 3 more rate hikes in 2017.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen says the U.S. economic outlook is "highly uncertain" https://t.co/njn9oDsrZA pic.twitter.com/CFuTeNagys

— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) December 14, 2016

The last time the Fed raised was in December of last year, which then soon gave birth to a currency crisis and China became unhinged — making way for the worst January in the history of the stock market.

The initial reaction by the markets is to jack stocks higher and give rise to King Dollars. Everyone knows how great a runaway dollar is for exporters, right?

The euro is lower by 0.45% and the Yen by 0.72% to the 116 level.

Short term yields are spiking, which is normal when you think the Fed will raise more than previously expected. The market is viewing the Fed’s statement as hawkish.

#Breaking – The Federal Reserve votes unanimously to raise Fed Funds rate by 0.25%, increases forecast to 3 rate hikes in 2017. pic.twitter.com/qvqra8EBJB

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) December 14, 2016

Highlights.

Source: Briefing.com

Fed says labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace since mid-yearJob gains have been solid in recent months and the unemployment rate has declined.

Household spending has been rising moderately but business fixed investment has remained soft. Inflation has increased since earlier this year but is still below the Committee’s 2 percent longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and in prices of non-energy imports.

Market-based measures of inflation compensation have moved up considerably but still are low; most survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance, in recent months.

The Committee expects that economic conditions will evolve in a manner that will warrant only gradual increases in the federal funds rate; the federal funds rate is likely to remain, for some time, below levels that are expected to prevail in the longer run.

The Fed is signaling for 3 hikes in 2017, one more than previously expected. Naturally, with the economy doing so great, 2% GDP, and inflation out of control, sub 2%, this makes sense.

As widely expected, the @FederalReserve hiked by 25 bps. More interestingly, #Fed officials are now signaling more hikes-3 in total-for 2017

— Mohamed A. El-Erian (@elerianm) December 14, 2016

UPDATE:
Stocks are no longer celebrating policy designed to literally kill it. The NASDAQ is pressing lower.

UPDATE: The 2yr bond yields are blowing out, now higher by nearly 6bps — the highest since 2009.

Crude is lower by nearly 4%.

The media has finally gentrified China’a massive underground banking system by calling it ‘social finances.’ How quaint?

The shadow banking system in China roared in October, by $69 billion, an indicator that the good times of wanton criminality are back.

The cause for the rise is most likely due to the deleterious condition of the Chinese renminbi and the resurgence in inflation.

Some analysts fear cracking down on thr criminals in China might cause US bond yields to rise. You cannot make this shit up. Redemptions might cause China to sell more Treasuries, which in turn will cause yields to spike and America will suffer under harsh credit conditions.

Clearly, China should just let the social finance scene flourish without interruption.

“Today’s surprising data will likely trigger some regulatory concerns,” David Qu, China economist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, wrote in a note to clients on Wednesday, citing the size and opacity of off-balance sheet lending from trust companies, brokerages, micro-lenders, pawn-shops and even real-estate companies.

Efforts to curtail shadow lending may exacerbate this month’s liquidity squeeze, as the yield on 10-year government bonds shoots up to 3.24 percent from 2.74 percent at the end of October — their highest level in more than a year.

“If Chinese regulators start to restrict shadow banking activities, there may be spillover effects to the bond market due to liquidity tightening,” Qu adds, referring to the prospect that redemptions from wealth-management funds would force asset managers to trim their bond positions.

Total social finance, the broadest measure of new lending, expanded the most since March at 1.74 trillion yuan, up from 896.3 billion yuan in October. While TSF data can be volatile, and there’s typically a month-on-month bounce given the October holidays, the rise was notably above median expectations of 1.1 trillion yuan, according to a Bloomberg survey. The 11.8 percent increase on a year-on-year basis was driven by household lending growth, reflecting how property curbs have yet to kick in, as well as expansion in the shadow-banking sector.

“Seven months after the People’s Daily called time on the credit binge, the data suggest that little progress has been made,” Tom Orlik, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, wrote in a note to clients.

This is what you fucksticks get for ordering livery through an app, like moron monkies. The employees of Uber are dishelveled pigs who used the ‘God’s Eye’ tool to spy on celebrities, former love interests and whoever the fuck they wanted to.

In fairness, Uber is trying to take measures to prevent this, but people are pigs and they won’t be stopped until they’re electrocuted dead.

I don’t understand why cabbies are joining Uber, a company that is literally using the money they make from their employees to eliminate them via autonomous cars.

Like all big onerous corporations, Uber is a huge piece of shit and should never IPO.

Source: Guardian
Uber employees regularly abused the company’s “God view” to spy on the movements of “high-profile politicians, celebrities and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees, including ex-boyfriends/girlfriends, and ex-spouses”, according to testimony from the company’s former forensic investigator Samuel Ward Spangenberg. Even Beyoncé’s account was monitored, the investigator said.

Spangenberg, who is suing the minicab company alleging age discrimination and whistleblower retaliation, made the claims in a court declaration in October. He says he told Uber executives including the company’s head of information security, John Flynn, and its HR chief Andrew Wegley, of his concerns around the lack of security, and was fired 11 months later.

As well as a lack of oversight regarding customer data, Spangenberg alleges numerous other ethical breaches at Uber. The company stored driver and employee information in an insecure manner, he says, while it operated a vulnerability management policy which allowed data to be stored that way if the company deemed there to be a “legitimate business purpose” for doing so.

Uber said it ‘continues to increase our security investments and many of these efforts, like our multi-factor authentication checks and bug bounty program, have been widely reported’.

In his testimony, given under penalty of perjury, Spangenberg also objected to Uber’s protocols to deal with raids on its offices – a relatively common occurrence at the company, which has been frequently criticised for riding roughshod over local regulations.

“As part of Uber’s incident response team, I would be called when governmental agencies raided Uber’s offices due to concerns regarding noncompliance with governmental regulations,” Spangenberg said. “In those instances, Uber would lock down the office and immediately cut all connectivity so that law enforcement could not access Uber’s information. I would then be tasked with purchasing all new equipment for the office within the day, which I did when Uber’s Montreal office was raided.”

Spangenberg’s allegations were reported by the Centre for Investigative Reporting’s (CIR) Reveal project, but it isn’t the first time Uber has been accused of mistreating customer data. In 2014, Buzzfeed revealed the existence of the “God View” tool, after Uber’s New York general manager discussed using it to track a reporter’s journey. The tool’s existence appears to date back to 2011, when venture capitalist Peter Sims says he was tracked by a visitor to Uber’s Chicago offices, where the God View data was shown on a large public screen.

Spangenberg told CIR that Uber had increased security provisions during his time there, as well as renaming the tool “Heaven View”. Uber confirmed that some employees – “fewer than 10” – had been fired for abusing the tool, and said that it needs to provide relatively widespread access for a number of reasons, including refunding customers and investigating accidents. To prevent spying on celebrities, Uber implemented a flag for searches for customers considered “MVP”, but Spangenberg pointed out that that did nothing to protect non-MVPs.

Based off its recent capital raise, Uber is worth in excess of $66b.

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Today is Fed day. Expect the Fed to raise rates and offer a slightly hawkish outlook. Anything short of hawkish will spur an immense rally in gold. Taking into consideration the 18% median drop in gold miners over the past 3 months, I think they’re well worth the risk here and would be buying them hand over fist, had I not already owned a bunch.

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