Wealth Abuse
Oil Price Rises After Trump Phones Putin
by Gary Littlejohn for The Saker Blog The recent rapid decline in oil prices may now be coming to a halt as Trump and Putin agreed in a recent phone call that their oil industry […]
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Government
Stop the Bailout Rip-Off
by Kerry Lutz Financial Survival Network Dear Readers, As usual, the American Taxpayer is getting the short end of the bail-out stick. Since we’re already running trillion-plus deficits, the taxpayer won’t be directly picking up […]
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Payments Panic and the Ending of Fiat Currencies
By Alasdair Macleod The unilateral response from governments to the coronavirus is to helicopter money to people and their businesses in unlimited quantities. Their priority is to keep the debt-driven Keynesian show on the road, and […]
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Keep Calm, Carry On, Embrace The Suck
by Tyler Durden Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Some thoughts on the current market situation: Awe-inspiring volatility in markets these days and headlines keep coming non stop. It’s heaven for fans of volatility and action, […]
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A Shaky Foundation
Michael Krieger And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually. – Jimi Hendrix There’s a widespread belief out there that the U.S. and the global economy in general is on much sounder […]
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New Gold Standard? Chaos?
Don’t expect the US to expect it… OVER the past century, monetary systems change about every 30 to 40 years on average, says Jim Rickards, writing in The Daily Reckoning. Before 1914, the global monetary system was based […]
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A New Definition of Warfare
Sanctions can be more deadly than bullets By Philip Giraldi The Unz Review January 22, 2020 Supporters of Donald Trump often make the point that he has not started any new wars. One might observe that […]
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The World Looks to Abandon the Dollar as US Sanctions Tighten Their Grip
Ryan McMaken When the US places financial sanctions on one country, it de facto sanctions many other countries as well — including many of its allies. This is because not all countries and firms are interested in […]
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The Zombification Of America – Over 40% Of Listed Companies Don’t Make Money
by Tyler Durden It’s absolutely stunning how the Fed/ECB/BoJ injected upwards of $1.1 trillion into global markets in the last quarter and cut rates 80 times in the past 12 months, which allowed money-losing companies to survive another day. […]
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Central Banker Comes Clean
BY BRIAN MAHER Reuters broadcasts the confession: I do think the growth in the balance sheet is having some impact on the financial markets and on the valuation of risk assets… Here we have the unassailable […]