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Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

I have not been writing much concerning the U.S. election this November, and with good reason – elections are always a distraction from tangible solutions.  They are an anathema to honest debate; a circus of delusions and prefabricated talking points.  They offer the illusion of choice in order to placate the masses.  They are a theater of false hopes.

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A DownREIT is a partnership agreement between a property owner and a real estate investment trust (REIT) in which a property is transferred into a joint venture with the REIT. This is similar in some ways to an UPREIT, which allows property investors to defer capital gains taxes, but there are a few big differences.

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After several prominent central bank disappointments over the past few weeks, culminating with last week’s BOJ fiasco, earlier this week the RBA finally did as it was expected by both the market and a majority of analysts, when it cut rates by 25 bps to a record 1.50%, even if the reaction was unexpected, sending the AUD sliding briefly then soaring as the accompanying statement suggesting far less dovishness would follow.

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Kozo Yamamoto was brought into PM Abe’s Cabinet yesterday, as Regional Economy Minister 
As I said yesterday ….
Yamamoto is a staunch advocate of Abenomics, to the extent he has in the past advocated the BOJ underwrite government debt and setting the 2% inflation target into law.
More from him (headlines via Bloomberg):

To Elon Musk, Tesla Motors Inc.

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Authored by Danielle DiMartino Booth,

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