World Affairs
Trump Makes Xi Happy
Raúl Ilargi Meijer Dr. D is on a roll. Dr. D: Since tariffs are in the news again, let’s run down the topic , first in micro, then in macro. “Trump said this week he’ll […]
Trade War
Wealth Abuse
Pat Buchanan Asks “Why Is The GOP So Terrified Of Tariffs?”
by Tyler Durden Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever […]
Wealth Abuse
A “Financial H-Bomb” Has Exploded
BY JAMES RICKARDS Somebody exploded an H-bomb last week, and it wasn’t North Korea. It was the U.S. This was not a kinetic H-bomb, the kind that leaves a mushroom cloud. It was a financial H-bomb. […]
Wealth Abuse
US Threatens To Cut Off China From SWIFT If It Violates North Korea Sanctions
by Tyler Durden In an unexpectedly strong diplomatic escalation, one day after China agreed to vote alongside the US (and Russia) during Monday’s United National Security Council vote in passing the watered down North Korea sanctions, […]
Tyranny
Now, a Trade War — Is a Shooting War Next?
BY JAMES RICKARDS A popular thesis since the 1930s is that a natural progression exists from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars. Both history and analysis support this thesis. Currency wars do not exist […]
Financial
Russian PM: “The U.S. Just Declared Full-Scale Trade War On Russia”
by Tyler Durden Several hours after President Trump officially signed the new Russian sanctions into law – despite his reservations and his statement that while he favors “tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by […]
Wealth Abuse
China Is Suddenly Dumping Treasuries
by Tyler Durden While we admit that “suddenly” is not exactly the right word to describe China’s selling of US Treasurys, which has been steadily liquidating its UST reserves over the past two years, something […]