Wolf Richter: Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates

http://tinyurl.com/q2xashm

"A wider interest rate spread would come in handy because not all is well in banking land. Yesterday, Citigroup CFO John Gerspach, warned that trading revenue could fall 5% in the current quarter.

Moynihan’s slide deck shows that investment banking fees at BofA in Q2 2015 were lower than in both Q2 2014 and 2013. Sales and trading revenues were also lower in Q2 this year than in both prior years. Moynihan said that revenue from trading bonds, currencies, and commodities would be down this quarter as well.

Meanwhile, according to the presentation, BofA’s global average loan losses are rising. That’s not a good combination."

Putin Accuses World Of "Using Terrorist Groups" To Destabilize Governments"

Putin...

Part 3 delves into the little-known, secret history of Iraq and Syria … and discusses the real motivations behind our current policies towards those countries.

http://tinyurl.com/q6gshkx

A Close-Up Look at Last Week’s Perplexing Colorado Twisters Dr. Jeff Masters

anti-cyclonic tornado left of cyclonic supercell...wunderground

Broadview Networks VoIP Blog Largest Companies by Revenue in Each State 2015: MAP

http://www.broadviewnet.com/blog/2015/06/largest-companies-by-revenue-in-each-state-2015-map/

Glenn Gould plays Bach - Two-Part Inventions and Three-Part Sinfonias

http://tinyurl.com/o4omavb

New Neighbors: Chinese Investment in the United States by Congressional District - NCUSCR.org!

https://www.ncuscr.org/fdi

Chair

Carla A. Hills
Vice Chairs

Maurice R. Greenberg
Thomas H. Kean
Henry A. Kissinger
Nicholas R. Lardy
Joseph W. Prueher
William R. Rhodes
J. Stapleton Roy
James R. Sasser
Treasurer

Keith W. Abell
Secretary

I. Peter Wolff

Humberto P. Alfonso
Jeffrey Bader
Andrew Bird
Dennis C. Blair
David L. Boren
Olivier Brandicourt
Mary Brown Bullock
Kurt M. Campbell
John S. Chen
Peter M. Cleveland
Daniel Cruise
Nelson G. Dong
Richard Edelman
Martin S. Feldstein
Thomas Fingar
Barbara H. Franklin
Charles W. Freeman III
Richard Gelfond
Evan G. Greenberg
Herbert J. Hansell
Harry Harding
Jimmy Hexter
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
Muhtar Kent
David M. Lampton
Terrill E. Lautz
Robert A. Levinson
Cheng Li
Kenneth Lieberthal
Andrew N. Liveris
Gary Locke
D. Bruce McMahan
Clark T. Randt, Jr.
Shelley Rigger
Daniel H. Rosen
Anthony J. Saich
David L. Shambaugh
Jerry I. Speyer
James B. Steinberg
Ernie L. Thrasher
Jan F. van Eck
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
John Young
Chair Emeritus

W. Michael Blumenthal

Wal-Mart employs more people in China than every Chinese company combined employs in the US - Quartz

http://tinyurl.com/oo5745p

Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad ZH

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad

repost: 'Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit' sr318

A beauty. Alternate titles 'Everything you wanted to know about the 2006 vintage'  'Everybody is Guilty no one's to blame'

click the link for the pdf from New York Fed
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr318.pdf

Table 2 - Who's here now? A gem. Though its rumored Countrywide 'privately' call their new company BOAC.

SEC Commissioner Furious That SEC Has Made A Mockery Of "Recidivist Criminal Behavior" By Banks

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-22/sec-commissioner-furious-sec-has-made-mockery-recidivist-criminal-behavior-banks

negative carry as far as the eye can see is now a virtual certainty. ZH Wall Street R.I.P. - The Bubble Is Dying At The Zero Bound

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-22/wall-street-rip-bubble-dying-zero-bound

Are we livestock, or are we human beings? ZHedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-22/how-clowns-dea-screen-drug-dealers-amtrak

reposts: britains-own-euro-mediterranean. & Libya Then and Now: An Overview of NATO’s Handiwork GLOBAL RESEARVH

http://newztekmisk.blogspot.com/2009/09/britains-own-euro-mediterranean.html

Libya Then and Now: An Overview of NATO’s Handiwork GLOBAL RESEARVH

http://tinyurl.com/opljztu see New American Century as well and as I showed in Brits in Libya Before and After  see Business Week here http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2009/gb20090824_183632.htm <--------------Trade Between Britain and Libya Set to Soar
and if you look for the British Embassy in Libya website you get a 404 which was the sanitized website after the Brits disappeared the Embassy website where they proclaimed how good business was to be in Libya...because things change and the powers that be need to sanitize them and erase history.

Kansas has found the ultimate way to punish the poor @wapo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/21/kansas-has-found-the-ultimate-way-to-punish-the-poor/

The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0&app=desktop

who 'boris the spider'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgx7abJH6uI

last male northern white rhino

http://tinyurl.com/m724gxr

2015

1515

500 years of progress

Deep-water drilling to resume near site of 2010 BP oil disaster - Aljazeera

http://tinyurl.com/kealb5t

Libya: U.S. Generals Conclude Obama Backed Al-Qaida and Operated a Secret Gun-Running Program in Benghazi - Global Research

http://tinyurl.com/ptjza6r