[expat_panama]

ah.... TX! It should have raised a red flag to me the way the info on ‘exports’ never specifically mentioned ‘crude’; the data only listed ‘crude extract’, or ‘crude flavoring’.

A guy’s gotta be a flippin’ lawyer to read those labels...

[expat_panama]

	Markets		Yesterday		Today's futures
	metals		Fading another % into past bases		tanking -0.64%
	stocks		Mixed (S&P down, Nasdaq up) in falling volume		steady @ +0.03%

Today is "announcement-free", but we got entertaining headlines--

• A Stock Market Alarm Is Sounding - Anthony Mirhaydari, The Fiscal Times
• The middle class is dying, you need to get out of it Once upon a time being middle class was an achievement, today its considered a curse warns Grant Cardone, motivational speaker and author of Sell or be Sold.
• Has Greece's 'Lehman moment' finally arrived?
• 5 Reasons Why the Nasdaq is Different 15 Years After the Bubble

--and threads:

• Hyperinflation To Start in 2015: Economist Says Get Supplies : “Gold, Silver, Canned Goods...
• States don’t want illegal immigrants, but could they need them? (Here we go)
• Scott Walker Embraced by Voodoo Economists
• Marco Rubio Laughingly Accuses Obama’s Policies of Being Bad for the Nation