JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.
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UPDATE-DECEMBER 22,2015-12:00AM
DOW MARKET TUESDAY-DEC 22,2015
09:30AM-65.24
10:00AM-26.99
10:30AM-40.62
11:00AM-62.30
11:30AM-36.98
12:00PM-60.09
12:30PM-114.11
01:00PM-125.70
01:30PM-140.20
02:00PM-150.70
02:30PM-163.43
03:00PM-147.61
03:30PM-188.40
04:00PM-165.65+ 17,417.27 - S&P +17.82 2038.97 - NASDAQ +32.19 5001.11
HIGH +189 LOW -7
TSX +48.48 13,082.86 - GOLD $-6.40 $1,072.80 - OIL $+0.36 $36.17
Deutsche Bank Tally of Suspect Russia Trades at $10 Billion-Gregory White-Stephanie Baker- Keri Geiger-December 22, 2015 — 3:30 AM EST-bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG has identified as much as $4 billion in suspicious transactions related to its Russian operations, in addition to $6 billion in so-called mirror trades it is examining, said several people with knowledge of the bank’s review of the matter.That means the Frankfurt-based bank flagged as much as $10 billion in total trades that may not have been vetted for money laundering as clients moved money out of Russia. Among the previously unreported trades under scrutiny are ones that consistently went in the same direction -- primarily buy orders, for example -- according to people familiar with the matter.Germany’s largest lender shared those findings with international authorities in September, according to two people familiar with the bank’s report on the trades. U.S. prosecutors were previously reported to be looking into whether Deutsche Bank’s handling of the mirror trades may have violated U.S. anti-money laundering rules. The U.S. officials have also been made aware of the additional suspicious trades, said the people familiar with the matter. While Russia’s central bank levied a small fine on Deutsche Bank after looking into some of the bank’s trading in the country, the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation continues. Should regulators find violations in laws or regulations, the overall tally of trades could be one factor in deciding an ultimate fine or penalty. U.S. Justice Department spokesmen declined to comment.Deutsche Bank’s internal review, conducted over the past year, came as many of the lender’s other activities drew international scrutiny. During that time, the bank paid about $2.75 billion to settle a U.S. probe into sanctions-law violation and U.S. and British investigations into the rigging of benchmark interest rates, admitting misconduct in both cases. It has also disclosed it is under U.S. investigations related to potential currency-market rigging and metals-price manipulation.-Same Accounts-The first indication that the bank was reviewing its Russian operation emerged in June, when people familiar with the matter said the bank was looking into several years of mirror trades -- in which clients bought shares in Russia and simultaneously sold similar shares abroad in foreign currency -- beginning in 2012.As the bank examined whether the mirror trades were subject to proper internal controls, it asked similar questions that led it to the other $4 billion or so in transactions, said the people familiar with the review. Some of those trades were connected to the same accounts that benefited from the mirror trades, the people said.Deutsche Bank said in October that its review of Russian transactions had turned up violations of its internal policies and deficiencies in controls. It told investors that it had increased its litigation reserves by 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion), mainly to cover possible liabilities related to its Russia operation.The bank declined to comment on the broader tally of trades. Amanda Williams, a spokeswoman, referred to an interim report put out in October, which disclosed that the bank is investigating a “significant” volume of offsetting equity trades by clients in Moscow and London. Regulators and law-enforcement agencies in Germany, Russia, the U.K. and U.S. have been advised of the review, according to the statement.-Russia Sought Review-The bank’s internal review of its Russia trading began after the country’s central bank asked it in October 2014 to review certain clients’ accounts, people familiar with it have said.The mirror trades, as described in a Russian central bank report earlier this year on Deutsche Bank, involved clients buying Russian shares for rubles in Moscow and simultaneously selling them in London, usually for dollars, according to people familiar with the central bank’s findings.That sort of trade, while legal in some circumstances, can also be used to skirt U.S. rules on reporting large international movements of money.Assets in some of the accounts under review at Deutsche Bank were believed to belong to close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, people familiar with the matter have said. These associates include a relative of the president and two of his longtime friends, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, the people said.-Fine of $5,000-There’s no indication that the Rotenbergs or other individuals possibly linked to the accounts are under investigation for the trades. A representative for the Rotenbergs reiterated on Dec. 21 that the brothers weren’t involved in any such transactions. A Kremlin spokesman has declined to comment on what he characterized as unsubstantiated allegations.The Russian central bank, which examined about a year of mirror trades, fined Deutsche Bank the equivalent of about $5,000, largely for procedural shortcomings, according to people familiar with the report. The Russian regulator concluded the bank was a victim of an illegal scheme and had addressed its technical shortcomings, according to a person familiar with the central bank’s findings. The Russian central bank declined to comment.In recent months, Deutsche Bank shut much of its Moscow operation, saying it wanted to simplify operations. It also said it has taken disciplinary action against individuals in the matter. In November, the bank said it would stop accepting new customers in locations with high risk ratings while it reviews how it vets account-holders.
A Little More Inflation Would Be Good for Everyone-Craig Torres-Simon Kennedy-December 22, 2015 — 12:01 AM EST-bloomberg
Monty Bennett hasn’t seen anything quite like today’s stubbornly low inflation in his long career as a hotelier.Occupancy at the Ashford Group of Companies’ 143 properties is at all-time highs, yet Bennett still finds it difficult to raise room prices as aggressively as he expected at this stage in the U.S. economic expansion.“When we take rates up too much, we will see demand slacken; and that will cause us to push them back down,” said Bennett, the Dallas-based company’s founder and chief executive officer.Bennett’s description of consumer businesses’ tentative pricing power these days is the Holy Grail that central bankers, including Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, sought for decades. Now, though, in what might seem like a strange twist on conventional economics, she and her colleagues are raising interest rates while simultan eously trying to make clear to the public they don’t want inflation to hang around zero for too long. They reiterated their desire last week to see it climb to 2 percent after boosting borrowing costs for the first time since 2006.The Fed has missed its goal for more than three-and-a-half years, and it doesn’t expect the pace of price gains to approach the target until the end of 2017. Central bankers also are missing inflation targets in Sweden, the euro area, U.K., Japan and even New Zealand, which pioneered the strategy of trying to deliver a specific rate.-Return to Zero-Thirty years ago, any policy maker would have welcomed a run of inflation below 2 percent. But the less inflation there is, the lower central-bank rates will be, making a return trip to zero more likely. That would force officials to resort, once again, to unconventional tools such as bond-buying that can be politically unpopular and less effective in restoring jobs and growth.“We’re not saying goodbye forever to the zero lower-bound and the problems that it causes,” former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers told Bloomberg on Dec. 15. “When we get to recession, we usually need 300 basis points or more of Fed easing, but there’s simply not going to be room for that.”Fed officials stressed their commitment to their target last week, saying they need “actual and expected progress” on prices to keep pushing borrowing costs up. That’s a higher bar than in October, when policy makers said they only needed to be “reasonably confident” inflation would move back to 2 percent.-Monitor Performance-“We really need to monitor, over time, actual inflation performance to make sure that it is conforming” to the Fed’s forecast, Yellen told reporters on Wednesday after raising the benchmark federal funds rate from near zero.The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures price index, rose 0.2 percent for the year ending October. Minus energy prices, which are depressing the overall index, and food, the measure rose 1.3 percent.The Fed sees the extended rout in energy prices eventually hitting bottom, according to the statement after last week’s meeting. Policy makers also said labor someday will be scarce enough that workers can bargain wages higher and have more pocket money to spend, allowing executives such as Bennett to raise prices.-More Shocks-It’s a forecast and a gamble. Just how and when wages translate into higher prices is a process that isn’t well understood. And there could be more shocks -- another rise in the dollar or continued weakness in oil prices -- that depress inflation for a longer period. A target-miss extending out five or six more years could erode confidence that inflation ever will return to 2 percent, undermining the Fed’s credibility. This would make its work even harder.The global environment isn’t helping. In fact, none of the Group of Seven nations will see inflation above 2 percent this year for the first time since 1932, according to data compiled by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.The annual rate hasn’t been at the European Central Bank’s target of just below 2 percent since 2013 and has averaged 1.2 percent under President Mario Draghi’s watch, putting him at risk of being the first ECB president who fails to meet his mandate. In delivering fresh stimulus this month, the ECB forecast inflation will accelerate from 0.1 percent this year to just 1 percent next year and 1.6 percent in 2017.-Vanquish Deflation Risk-It “will disappoint and just isn’t going to pick up as much as they think,” said Richard Barwell, an economist at BNP Paribas Investment Partners in London. He argues Draghi should be more explicit in saying he will allow it to run above target for a time to vanquish the risk of deflation.In the U.K., inflation edged back above zero in November for the first time in four months -- still way below the Bank of England’s 2 percent goal, which it doesn’t expect to reach until late 2017. Citigroup Inc. estimates the pace this year may have averaged zero, the lowest since the 1930s.“We suspect that 2016 will see low but positive inflation,” said Michael Saunders, Citigroup’s chief European economist. “In other words, an end to deflation but continued low-flation.”Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has yet to achieve his 2 percent goal more than two years after ramping up quantitative easing. Instead, prices are rising, at most, about 1.2 percent, according to a measure that strips out fresh food and energy. Board members don’t anticipate reaching their target until the latter part of the 2016 fiscal year, which ends March 2017. Even then, many economists say, it may be missed.-Patient Policy Makers-As long as global economies don’t get stuck in a low-inflation world, there is a lot that’s positive about lower prices, including the potential to boost household consumption, which accounts for almost 70 percent of the U.S. economy. That may be one reason why central bankers including Yellen appear patient to let inflation rise over the next couple of years.“I don’t have a lot of sympathy that cheap oil is having only negative effects,” said Mark Spindel, chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital LLC, a $700 million Washington hedge fund that specializes in inflation analysis. “The Fed canon is still accurate when thinking about cheap energy: It drives spending.” Bennett, a second-generation hotelier, would welcome a little more pricing power, which would “help everything.” Some of his properties are in locales with legislated minimum-wage increases and “we have not been able to pass those costs along to the consumer,” he said.
EARTHQUAKES
EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
UPDATE-DECEMBER 22, 2015-11:00PM
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
21 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-12-22 19:52:24 UTCShowing event times using UTC21 earthquakes in map area
3.0 54km S of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-12-22 18:45:11 UTC 100.0 km
2.6 6km E of Pahala, Hawaii 2015-12-22 18:38:01 UTC 33.8 km
4.6 144km ESE of Nishinoomote, Japan 2015-12-22 16:51:42 UTC 15.6 km
3.5 12km SSE of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-12-22 16:39:09 UTC 5.0 km
4.6 45km WNW of Galesong, Indonesia 2015-12-22 13:50:05 UTC 16.0 km
5.2 178km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2015-12-22 13:05:10 UTC 10.0 km
2.9 99km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-12-22 12:42:19 UTC 56.0 km
4.8 126km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2015-12-22 10:06:49 UTC 10.0 km
3.1 47km SSW of King Salmon, Alaska 2015-12-22 07:42:05 UTC 100.0 km
3.0 85km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-12-22 01:50:21 UTC 13.0 km
3.3 29km SSE of Virginia City, Montana 2015-12-22 01:07:29 UTC 4.9 km
2.8 77km NNW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-12-22 01:02:07 UTC 100.0 km
2.7 18km N of Upper Lake, California 2015-12-22 00:48:24 UTC 4.8 km
4.9 26km N of Tarakan, Indonesia 2015-12-22 00:18:37 UTC 10.0 km
4.5 32km NNE of Tarakan, Indonesia 2015-12-22 00:01:56 UTC 10.0 km
2.5 28km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-12-21 23:49:05 UTC 5.0 km
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HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.
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UPDATE-DECEMBER 22,2015-12:00AM
DOW MARKET TUESDAY-DEC 22,2015
09:30AM-65.24
10:00AM-26.99
10:30AM-40.62
11:00AM-62.30
11:30AM-36.98
12:00PM-60.09
12:30PM-114.11
01:00PM-125.70
01:30PM-140.20
02:00PM-150.70
02:30PM-163.43
03:00PM-147.61
03:30PM-188.40
04:00PM-165.65+ 17,417.27 - S&P +17.82 2038.97 - NASDAQ +32.19 5001.11
HIGH +189 LOW -7
TSX +48.48 13,082.86 - GOLD $-6.40 $1,072.80 - OIL $+0.36 $36.17
Deutsche Bank Tally of Suspect Russia Trades at $10 Billion-Gregory White-Stephanie Baker- Keri Geiger-December 22, 2015 — 3:30 AM EST-bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG has identified as much as $4 billion in suspicious transactions related to its Russian operations, in addition to $6 billion in so-called mirror trades it is examining, said several people with knowledge of the bank’s review of the matter.That means the Frankfurt-based bank flagged as much as $10 billion in total trades that may not have been vetted for money laundering as clients moved money out of Russia. Among the previously unreported trades under scrutiny are ones that consistently went in the same direction -- primarily buy orders, for example -- according to people familiar with the matter.Germany’s largest lender shared those findings with international authorities in September, according to two people familiar with the bank’s report on the trades. U.S. prosecutors were previously reported to be looking into whether Deutsche Bank’s handling of the mirror trades may have violated U.S. anti-money laundering rules. The U.S. officials have also been made aware of the additional suspicious trades, said the people familiar with the matter. While Russia’s central bank levied a small fine on Deutsche Bank after looking into some of the bank’s trading in the country, the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation continues. Should regulators find violations in laws or regulations, the overall tally of trades could be one factor in deciding an ultimate fine or penalty. U.S. Justice Department spokesmen declined to comment.Deutsche Bank’s internal review, conducted over the past year, came as many of the lender’s other activities drew international scrutiny. During that time, the bank paid about $2.75 billion to settle a U.S. probe into sanctions-law violation and U.S. and British investigations into the rigging of benchmark interest rates, admitting misconduct in both cases. It has also disclosed it is under U.S. investigations related to potential currency-market rigging and metals-price manipulation.-Same Accounts-The first indication that the bank was reviewing its Russian operation emerged in June, when people familiar with the matter said the bank was looking into several years of mirror trades -- in which clients bought shares in Russia and simultaneously sold similar shares abroad in foreign currency -- beginning in 2012.As the bank examined whether the mirror trades were subject to proper internal controls, it asked similar questions that led it to the other $4 billion or so in transactions, said the people familiar with the review. Some of those trades were connected to the same accounts that benefited from the mirror trades, the people said.Deutsche Bank said in October that its review of Russian transactions had turned up violations of its internal policies and deficiencies in controls. It told investors that it had increased its litigation reserves by 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion), mainly to cover possible liabilities related to its Russia operation.The bank declined to comment on the broader tally of trades. Amanda Williams, a spokeswoman, referred to an interim report put out in October, which disclosed that the bank is investigating a “significant” volume of offsetting equity trades by clients in Moscow and London. Regulators and law-enforcement agencies in Germany, Russia, the U.K. and U.S. have been advised of the review, according to the statement.-Russia Sought Review-The bank’s internal review of its Russia trading began after the country’s central bank asked it in October 2014 to review certain clients’ accounts, people familiar with it have said.The mirror trades, as described in a Russian central bank report earlier this year on Deutsche Bank, involved clients buying Russian shares for rubles in Moscow and simultaneously selling them in London, usually for dollars, according to people familiar with the central bank’s findings.That sort of trade, while legal in some circumstances, can also be used to skirt U.S. rules on reporting large international movements of money.Assets in some of the accounts under review at Deutsche Bank were believed to belong to close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, people familiar with the matter have said. These associates include a relative of the president and two of his longtime friends, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, the people said.-Fine of $5,000-There’s no indication that the Rotenbergs or other individuals possibly linked to the accounts are under investigation for the trades. A representative for the Rotenbergs reiterated on Dec. 21 that the brothers weren’t involved in any such transactions. A Kremlin spokesman has declined to comment on what he characterized as unsubstantiated allegations.The Russian central bank, which examined about a year of mirror trades, fined Deutsche Bank the equivalent of about $5,000, largely for procedural shortcomings, according to people familiar with the report. The Russian regulator concluded the bank was a victim of an illegal scheme and had addressed its technical shortcomings, according to a person familiar with the central bank’s findings. The Russian central bank declined to comment.In recent months, Deutsche Bank shut much of its Moscow operation, saying it wanted to simplify operations. It also said it has taken disciplinary action against individuals in the matter. In November, the bank said it would stop accepting new customers in locations with high risk ratings while it reviews how it vets account-holders.
A Little More Inflation Would Be Good for Everyone-Craig Torres-Simon Kennedy-December 22, 2015 — 12:01 AM EST-bloomberg
Monty Bennett hasn’t seen anything quite like today’s stubbornly low inflation in his long career as a hotelier.Occupancy at the Ashford Group of Companies’ 143 properties is at all-time highs, yet Bennett still finds it difficult to raise room prices as aggressively as he expected at this stage in the U.S. economic expansion.“When we take rates up too much, we will see demand slacken; and that will cause us to push them back down,” said Bennett, the Dallas-based company’s founder and chief executive officer.Bennett’s description of consumer businesses’ tentative pricing power these days is the Holy Grail that central bankers, including Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, sought for decades. Now, though, in what might seem like a strange twist on conventional economics, she and her colleagues are raising interest rates while simultan eously trying to make clear to the public they don’t want inflation to hang around zero for too long. They reiterated their desire last week to see it climb to 2 percent after boosting borrowing costs for the first time since 2006.The Fed has missed its goal for more than three-and-a-half years, and it doesn’t expect the pace of price gains to approach the target until the end of 2017. Central bankers also are missing inflation targets in Sweden, the euro area, U.K., Japan and even New Zealand, which pioneered the strategy of trying to deliver a specific rate.-Return to Zero-Thirty years ago, any policy maker would have welcomed a run of inflation below 2 percent. But the less inflation there is, the lower central-bank rates will be, making a return trip to zero more likely. That would force officials to resort, once again, to unconventional tools such as bond-buying that can be politically unpopular and less effective in restoring jobs and growth.“We’re not saying goodbye forever to the zero lower-bound and the problems that it causes,” former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers told Bloomberg on Dec. 15. “When we get to recession, we usually need 300 basis points or more of Fed easing, but there’s simply not going to be room for that.”Fed officials stressed their commitment to their target last week, saying they need “actual and expected progress” on prices to keep pushing borrowing costs up. That’s a higher bar than in October, when policy makers said they only needed to be “reasonably confident” inflation would move back to 2 percent.-Monitor Performance-“We really need to monitor, over time, actual inflation performance to make sure that it is conforming” to the Fed’s forecast, Yellen told reporters on Wednesday after raising the benchmark federal funds rate from near zero.The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures price index, rose 0.2 percent for the year ending October. Minus energy prices, which are depressing the overall index, and food, the measure rose 1.3 percent.The Fed sees the extended rout in energy prices eventually hitting bottom, according to the statement after last week’s meeting. Policy makers also said labor someday will be scarce enough that workers can bargain wages higher and have more pocket money to spend, allowing executives such as Bennett to raise prices.-More Shocks-It’s a forecast and a gamble. Just how and when wages translate into higher prices is a process that isn’t well understood. And there could be more shocks -- another rise in the dollar or continued weakness in oil prices -- that depress inflation for a longer period. A target-miss extending out five or six more years could erode confidence that inflation ever will return to 2 percent, undermining the Fed’s credibility. This would make its work even harder.The global environment isn’t helping. In fact, none of the Group of Seven nations will see inflation above 2 percent this year for the first time since 1932, according to data compiled by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.The annual rate hasn’t been at the European Central Bank’s target of just below 2 percent since 2013 and has averaged 1.2 percent under President Mario Draghi’s watch, putting him at risk of being the first ECB president who fails to meet his mandate. In delivering fresh stimulus this month, the ECB forecast inflation will accelerate from 0.1 percent this year to just 1 percent next year and 1.6 percent in 2017.-Vanquish Deflation Risk-It “will disappoint and just isn’t going to pick up as much as they think,” said Richard Barwell, an economist at BNP Paribas Investment Partners in London. He argues Draghi should be more explicit in saying he will allow it to run above target for a time to vanquish the risk of deflation.In the U.K., inflation edged back above zero in November for the first time in four months -- still way below the Bank of England’s 2 percent goal, which it doesn’t expect to reach until late 2017. Citigroup Inc. estimates the pace this year may have averaged zero, the lowest since the 1930s.“We suspect that 2016 will see low but positive inflation,” said Michael Saunders, Citigroup’s chief European economist. “In other words, an end to deflation but continued low-flation.”Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has yet to achieve his 2 percent goal more than two years after ramping up quantitative easing. Instead, prices are rising, at most, about 1.2 percent, according to a measure that strips out fresh food and energy. Board members don’t anticipate reaching their target until the latter part of the 2016 fiscal year, which ends March 2017. Even then, many economists say, it may be missed.-Patient Policy Makers-As long as global economies don’t get stuck in a low-inflation world, there is a lot that’s positive about lower prices, including the potential to boost household consumption, which accounts for almost 70 percent of the U.S. economy. That may be one reason why central bankers including Yellen appear patient to let inflation rise over the next couple of years.“I don’t have a lot of sympathy that cheap oil is having only negative effects,” said Mark Spindel, chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital LLC, a $700 million Washington hedge fund that specializes in inflation analysis. “The Fed canon is still accurate when thinking about cheap energy: It drives spending.” Bennett, a second-generation hotelier, would welcome a little more pricing power, which would “help everything.” Some of his properties are in locales with legislated minimum-wage increases and “we have not been able to pass those costs along to the consumer,” he said.
EARTHQUAKES
EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
UPDATE-DECEMBER 22, 2015-11:00PM
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
21 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-12-22 19:52:24 UTCShowing event times using UTC21 earthquakes in map area
3.0 54km S of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-12-22 18:45:11 UTC 100.0 km
2.6 6km E of Pahala, Hawaii 2015-12-22 18:38:01 UTC 33.8 km
4.6 144km ESE of Nishinoomote, Japan 2015-12-22 16:51:42 UTC 15.6 km
3.5 12km SSE of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2015-12-22 16:39:09 UTC 5.0 km
4.6 45km WNW of Galesong, Indonesia 2015-12-22 13:50:05 UTC 16.0 km
5.2 178km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2015-12-22 13:05:10 UTC 10.0 km
2.9 99km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-12-22 12:42:19 UTC 56.0 km
4.8 126km W of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2015-12-22 10:06:49 UTC 10.0 km
3.1 47km SSW of King Salmon, Alaska 2015-12-22 07:42:05 UTC 100.0 km
3.0 85km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-12-22 01:50:21 UTC 13.0 km
3.3 29km SSE of Virginia City, Montana 2015-12-22 01:07:29 UTC 4.9 km
2.8 77km NNW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-12-22 01:02:07 UTC 100.0 km
2.7 18km N of Upper Lake, California 2015-12-22 00:48:24 UTC 4.8 km
4.9 26km N of Tarakan, Indonesia 2015-12-22 00:18:37 UTC 10.0 km
4.5 32km NNE of Tarakan, Indonesia 2015-12-22 00:01:56 UTC 10.0 km
2.5 28km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-12-21 23:49:05 UTC 5.0 km
STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS
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