[Wyatt's Torch]

Oh and anyone who thinks the GOP isn’t in on the game in DC just take a look at Eric Cantors package he just got from a Wall Street firm: http://www.businessinsider.com/details-of-eric-cantor-pay-package-2014-9

It’s all of us versus ALL of Washington. Every. Damn. One.

[expat_panama]

 

Welcome back to work!  Futures have gold seriously down and stocks strong; ISM Index  and Construction Spending today.

Financial reforms will make the next crisis even messier

There is a time-honoured way of protecting taxpayers from picking up the bill for the failure of a systemically important financial institution. It involves central banks and finance ministries pressing ...

Financial Times

U.S. stocks: Futures climb ahead of ISM data

U.S. stocks are poised to kick off September on a high note on Tuesday, with futures moving broadly up ahead of data expected to show healthy U.S. factory activity in August.

MarketWatch

[expat_panama]

...anyone who thinks the GOP isn’t in on the game in DC just take a look...

That's the only factional strategy the extreme left can still use these days: the old "well the Reps are just as bad".  It was used successfully in the '12 elections --what happened is that Obama was reelected not by Dems (who stayed home) but by Reps (who stayed home more).  Contrary to what the extreme left says, elections really do have consequences and there really is a right and wrong choice here.