Syria's Hardline Sunni Regime Sentences Bashar al-Assad To Death In Absentia

Several US Warplanes Damaged In This Week's Iranian Attack On Base In Jordan: Report The Iranian ballistic missile attack on an American base in Jordan this week ranks as one of the single biggest missile volleys sent over Jordan since the start of the US-led war. The Tuesday night into Wednesday attack targeted Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, multiple international reports say. Widely shared but unconfirmed social media videos appeared to show several direct impacts on the base. But at least some of the images have been authenticated by outlets like Dropsite...

India Throws Open The Bond Gates: Modi Slashes Foreign Investor Taxes In Scramble To Halt Rupee Collapse Having spent the better part of a decade assuring the world that the Indian growth miracle was self-sustaining, structurally sound, and impervious to the “fragile five” indignities of yesteryear, New Delhi has quietly arrived at the only conclusion that ever follows a currency in freefall: print incentives, slash taxes, and beg foreigners to please, please come back. According to Bloomberg, India is poised to announce a suite of measures to lure foreign capital -...

Jesse Livermore: Old Lessons For Today's Markets Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In 1891, at 14 years old, with nothing but the clothes on his back, Jesse Livermore left his family and headed to Boston. He quickly found a job posting stock quotes at a Paine Webber brokerage office. Livermore spent his lunch hours trading in “bucket shops,” loosely regulated offices where ordinary people bet on stock prices without owning the underlying stock. His lunchtime trading activities earned him a $1,000 profit in his first year, and by the time he...