NZ likely to be offered one-on-one trade deal with United States – Business – NZ Herald News

KW: Why has it taken Donald Trump to correctly recognise the danger of the TPP deal that would have pinned New Zealand to the nuiances of big corporates that have no interest in N.Z. apart from dominating our markets and ordering what we can and can not do ? Trump and his advisors regard the Pacific…

Donald Trump ‘could send America into the next Great Crash’ warns Nobel laureate Robert Shiller | Financial Post

KW: Jim Rickards writes….The problem with a financial panic is that panicked investors don’t care if the president is a Democrat or a Republican; they just want their money back. The same dynamic applies to natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes. Once the disaster starts, the dynamics have a life of their own and don’t…

The Clinton Foundation Is Dead — But The Case Against Hillary Isn’t | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis – IBD

KW: Perhaps the only surprise here is the speed of the execution. I wonder if John Key and Murray McCully think the reported $7m donation by NZ taxpayers to the Clinton Foundation was a good investment? At least we don’t see any evidence that Trump is actively promoting anything similar although these are early days…

Russia Invites Incoming Trump Administration To Syria Peace Talks After Snubbing Obama | Zero Hedge

KW: The corruption of the Obama administration is laid bare for all thinking people to see. After years of war in Syria outwardly telling the world they are fighting ISIS, when it became apparent that not only the U.S. was not fighting ISIS (or if they were they were completely ineffective) they were actually assisting…