“Massive… Huge… Largest Ever”: Fed Will Flood Market With Gargantuan $500 Billion In Liquidity To Avoid Year-End Repo Crisis | Zero Hedge

KW: Trumps booming economy  only exists in the minds of crazed Wall Street analysts, the same applies everywhere else but being flooded with printed cash means the media doesn’t ‘get it’ as to why there has been no reality check.   This means that by mid-January, the Fed’s balance sheet will surpass its all time…

Government Debt Is Not a Free Lunch by Kenneth Rogoff – Project Syndicate

KW: With three rate cuts this year in the U.S. (and elsewhere), interest on government debt is at multidecade lows. This leads some economists and bankers like we saw in New Zealand just recently to argue that economies in most developed nations can allow debt to expand without any long-term consequences. But they are downplaying everything…

Trump Folds: Will Cancel New China Tariffs, Offers To Cut Existing Tariffs By 50% In Exchange For Pledges: Report | Zero Hedge

KW: This is not the news that mainstream media will be reporting. They will make out that China has bowed to American supremacy. The lie has sold well on Wall Street however which is what its all about. No market crash on Trump watch!   And just like that, confirming weeks of media speculation, Trump…

Normandy Four agree to ‘stabilize’ eastern Ukraine in Paris communique (VIDEO) — RT World News

KW: Meanwhile as the U.S. leads a ban on Russian athletes Vladimir Putin comes to a very useful conclusion with Ukraine to attempt to normalise eastern Ukraine The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to implement “ceasefire support measures” for eastern Ukraine and “stabilize” the region by the end of the year….

WADA’s Russia doping ban ‘part of ‘New Cold War’ & robs clean athletes of glory’ — RT World News

KW: Irrespective of the source of this article I agree with the sentiment, it’s part of the cold war against Russia. It has been going on since the 1980 Moscow olympics manfully boycotted by the Americans and their allys and nothing has changed since.   Russia’s ban from global sports is a punishment rife with…

“No Compromise”: Maidan Protesters Threaten ‘Overthrow’ As Zelensky Meets With Putin In Paris | Zero Hedge

KW: We note that without U.S. representation there is an active peace process underway but the divisions in Ukraine are steep. Just how the process will evolve is anyones guess but if the U.S. puts its oar in then no progress will occur As “Normandy Four” summit kicks off, a return to Maidan unrest of 2014?…