>How much has China got invested in India
Have read the great American adventure by Judge Dale retired?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/139773740/Judge-Dale-the-Great-American-Adventure-Secrets-of-America
Italy Bans Short Sales, Blames Christine Lagarde For Stock Market Plunge
Four days after Italy's former (and most likely future) prime minister, Matteo Salvini called for a short selling ban (referencing none other than George Soros who "built his fortune betting against Italy") on Italian stocks, Italy's market regulator, Consob, announced that short-selling would indeed be banned on Friday, March 13, with the temporary ban applying to 85 companies listed on Milan stock exchange.
Ironically, just two days ago, the head of Italy’s bourse, Raffaele Jerusalmi, said that a ban on short selling to deal with market reactions to the coronavirus outbreak would be useful only if applied at a European or broader level and for specific sectors.
"If there were sectors particularly at risk, an intervention by the regulatory authorities could be useful," Raffaele Jerusalmi said in a streamed interview with Il Sole 24 Ore.
And to think all it took to change his mind was a 20% drop in the Italian stock market in the next two days.
And with Italy getting increasingly sensitive about its crashing market, there was an amusing development earlier, when the country's Economic Development Minister Stefano Patuanelli said in an interview that ECB President Christine Lagarde caused the biggest stock market drop in Italy with her comments at the ECB press conference.
The minister added that he hopes her words were an accident referring to Lagarde’s comment that the ECB is "not here to close spreads", because apparently so used are the Italians to central banks that do close spreads (especially when they are headed by other Italians-cum-former Goldmanites), that if anyone refuses to explicitly backstop Italy's risk assets, they are an enemy of the state.
And it's not just Italy: late on Thursday, Spain's Regulator also set a one-day short-sale ban on 69 stocks that fell more than certain amounts Thursday.
Finally, what none of the regulators appear to know is that banning short sales in a time of crisis does two things: i) it makes the liquidation period more painful and more drawn out, and ii) it results in an even greater drawdown when all is said and done, something the US learned in the depths of the financial crisis when the SEC did exactly the same thing, only to unleash another 30% of selling before the market stabilized around a "generational" low of 666. And come to think of it, it is now another generation's turn to retest said low.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/italy-bans-short-sales-blames-christine-lagarde-stock-market-plunge
Judge Orders Chelsea (Bradley) Manning to be Released From Jail
A US District Judge ordered Chelsea (Bradley) Manning to be released from prison a day after he was hospitalized for attempting to commit suicide, Axios reported.
Manning, a former US Army Intelligence analyst who gave classified information to WikiLeaks in 2010 was ordered back to jail last May for defying a grand jury subpoena.
Manning was jailed in early March of 2019 for refusing to testify to a secret grand jury about WikiLeaks and was released after spending 62 days behind bars.
A federal judge held Manning in contempt last May and US Marshals took him back into custody for the second time for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury.
Manning said he was prepared to return to jail “indefinitely” rather than testify during a presser last year before the trial.
“No matter what happens today, I’m not going to comply with this grand jury,” Manning said last year.
Manning received a subpoena last January to testify before a federal grand jury in a case in the Eastern District of Virginia — this is the same district that the government accidentally revealed there was a sealed indictment against Julian Assange.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton, a Reagan appointee, ordered Manning to jail after he refused to testify.
In 2010, Private First Class Bradley Manning (who later transitioned to Chelsea) stole State Department documents, many of them secret international embassy reports. Manning smuggled the security documents out on a CD labeled “Lady Gaga,” and handed them to WikiLeaks – WikiLeaks subsequently took the sensitive cables and made them public.
In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving classified materials to WikiLeaks.
In April 2014 a Kansas judge allowed Bradley Manning to change his name to “Chelsea.”
In January of 2017, Obama commuted Manning’s sentence from 35 years to 7 years — Manning was released from prison in May of 2017.
According to reports, Manning tried to commit suicide this week by hanging himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell.
Axios reported that since Manning’s testimony is no longer needed the judge said he should be released from custody.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/new-judge-orders-chelsea-bradley-manning-to-be-released-from-jail/