Mike Whitney - Archive

A Warning From the Bank for International Settlements (BIS): The Calm Before the Storm? By Mike Whitney, March 10, 2016
Wall Street’s Savage Reckoning: Clouds Gather Over G-20 Summit By Mike Whitney, March 02, 2016
Wall Street’s Savage Reckoning: Clouds Gather Over G-20 Summit By Mike Whitney, February 29, 2016
Regime Change in Ankara? More Likely Than You Think By Mike Whitney, February 25, 2016
Could a Bomb Blast in Ankara Change the Outcome of the War in Syria? By Mike Whitney, February 20, 2016
Stocks Dive as Confidence in Fed Fades By Mike Whitney, February 17, 2016
Stocks Dive as Confidence in Fed Fades By Mike Whitney, February 15, 2016
Putin’s Aleppo Gamble Pays Off By Mike Whitney, February 10, 2016
Peace Talks “Paused” after Putin’s Triumph in Aleppo By Mike Whitney, February 05, 2016
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Oil Price Treachery: Are the Saudis Blackmailing Putin for Concessions on Syria? By Mike Whitney, February 03, 2016
Western Media Ignores Putin’s Progress in Syria By Mike Whitney, February 01, 2016
Seven Years of Monetary Quackery; Can the Federal Reserve Admit It Was Wrong? By Mike Whitney, January 30, 2016
Seven Years of Monetary Quackery; Can the Fed Admit it Was Wrong Yet? By Mike Whitney, January 28, 2016
Stock Buybacks and the Wall Street Sharktank: “A Whole Lotta Stealin’ Goin’ On” By Mike Whitney, January 25, 2016
Global Economy: Could This be “The Big One”? By Mike Whitney, January 22, 2016
The Federal Reserve’s Insidious Role in the Stock Market Slide By Mike Whitney, January 20, 2016
Slump of the Real Economy. The Chart That Explains Everything. By Mike Whitney, January 17, 2016
Does North Korea Need Nukes to Deter US Aggression? By Mike Whitney, January 10, 2016
Does North Korea Need Nukes to Deter US Aggression? By Mike Whitney, January 10, 2016
Wall Street Kicks Off 2016 with a Faceplant By Mike Whitney, January 06, 2016
Putin’s Progress in Syria Sends Kerry Scampering to the UN… Washington’s Unspoken Agenda is to Protect the ISIS By Mike Whitney, December 24, 2015
John Kerry’s Moscow Lovefest By Mike Whitney, December 19, 2015
Donald Trump’s Triumph in Glitter City By Mike Whitney, December 17, 2015
Putin Throws Down the Gauntlet By Mike Whitney, December 16, 2015
The Anti-Assad Wahhabi Confab: The Saudi-Hosted “Opposition Talks” Fiasco By Mike Whitney, December 14, 2015
Destroying Syria to Create Sunnistan. US Bombs Syrian Military Base. Turkey Invades Northern Iraq By Mike Whitney, December 09, 2015
Erdogan Blackmails NATO Allies By Mike Whitney, December 04, 2015
Putin’s Revenge? The Fight for the Border By Mike Whitney, December 02, 2015
Turkey Downs Russian Fighter to Draw NATO and US Deeper into Syrian Quagmire By Mike Whitney, November 25, 2015
Hillary’s War Whoop: Get the Picture? ISIS is Everywhere, Syria, Iraq, Europe, the US By Mike Whitney, November 21, 2015
“No Ground Troops to Syria:” Obama’s Smartest Move in Eight Years? By Mike Whitney, November 18, 2015
Targeting ISIS Terrorists in Syria: Grandmaster Putin Beats Uncle Sam at His Own Game By Mike Whitney, November 15, 2015
US-Turkey Invasion Derailed by Syrian Army Triumph, Recapture of Kuweires Military Air Base By Mike Whitney, November 12, 2015
Turkey Goes to War. Plan to Annex Sovereign Syrian Territory By Mike Whitney, November 07, 2015
Putin Makes Obama an Offer He Can’t Refuse By Mike Whitney, October 30, 2015
Putin Forces Obama to Capitulate on Syria By Mike Whitney, October 22, 2015
Putin Forces Obama to Capitulate on Syria By Mike Whitney, October 21, 2015
Quantitative Easing Was a Bust; Let’s Try Higher Wages Instead By Mike Whitney, October 19, 2015
Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria? By Mike Whitney, October 16, 2015
Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria? By Mike Whitney, October 15, 2015
Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria By Mike Whitney, October 11, 2015
The Oil Coup By Mike Whitney, October 09, 2015
How Putin will Win in Syria By Mike Whitney, October 07, 2015
Putin’s Lightning War in Syria By Mike Whitney, October 04, 2015
Putin’s Blitz Leaves Washington Rankled and Confused By Mike Whitney, October 01, 2015
Markets Gone Mad: Shaking Off Six Years of the Fed’s Zero Rates and Liquidity Injections By Mike Whitney, September 25, 2015
Putin’s “Line in the Sand”: No “Regime Change” in Syria By Mike Whitney, September 17, 2015
Market Volatility. It’s All About Expectations; Why Are Stocks Going Berserk? By Mike Whitney, September 12, 2015
Return to Crisis: Things Keep Getting Worse By Mike Whitney, September 02, 2015
Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge By Mike Whitney, August 28, 2015
Swan Song for the Donald? GOP Party Bosses Plan to “Take Out” Trump By Mike Whitney, August 10, 2015
Donald Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System By Mike Whitney, August 08, 2015
The Politics of Betrayal: Obama Backstabs Kurds to Appease Turkey By Mike Whitney, July 31, 2015
Picked Out a Coffin Yet? Take Ibuprofen and Die By Mike Whitney, July 26, 2015
Is the Iran Nukes Deal Aimed at Crushing Putin? By Mike Whitney, July 17, 2015
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising By Mike Whitney, July 13, 2015
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” for Ruling the World By Mike Whitney, July 05, 2015
Putin Gobsmacks Uncle Sam … Again By Mike Whitney, July 03, 2015
China Syndrome: Why the PRC Won’t Get Sucked Into a Pointless War with the United States By Mike Whitney, June 24, 2015
Seven Days in May? US Global Hegemony, “Asymmetric Warfare” Directed against China By Mike Whitney, June 17, 2015