G20 recap: China got what it wanted (delay). Trump got what he wanted (pump stocks). Huawei got a slight reprieve (face saving). Nothing fundamental changed.

G20 recap: China got what it wanted (delay). Trump got what he wanted (pump stocks). Huawei got a slight reprieve (face saving). Nothing fundamental changed. Forecast: More of the same until 2020 election. This confrontation has a long way to run. https://t.co/ETb198x3FQ — Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) June 29, 2019

Global Honesty Index 2019/THE TOP 40

…’We conducted a series of large-scale field experiments across the globe to examine how financial incentives influence rates of civic honesty. We turned in “lost” wallets and experimentally varied the amount of money left in the wallets, allowing us to determine how monetary stakes affect return rates across a broad sample of societies and institutions.We … Read more

Italian police bust elite network that “brainwashes and sells children” to the wealthy: includes city mayor, renowned psychotherapists, etc

Italian police arrested 18 individuals for allegedly brainwashing children into thinking that their parents abused them in order to sell them to “foster parents” (abusers). The network included the mayor of Bibbiano, doctors, psychotherapists, and social workers. According to Italian media, the transactions involving children amounted to hundreds of thousands of Euros. Furthermore, it was … Read more

The ridiculous return of the Zimbabwe dollar

by Simon Black Here’s our Friday roll up of the most absurd and concerning articles we came across this week. Jail time for offensive image in Great Britain Recently some idiot teenager in Britain edited an image of Prince Harry into something that was stupid and racist. This moron clearly intended to be offensive. His photo … Read more

Stock Markets Are In A Crucial Place

By Harry Dent I’m coming to you today from Myrtle Beach, where my entire family gets together for their annual reunion. It doesn’t matter where I am though, I watch the stock markets like a hawk. And right now, the markets are in a crucial place… We’re back to testing the highs and things can go either … Read more

Everyone’s Got a “Surveillance Score” and It Can Cost You BIG Money

By Dagny Taggart In these Orwellian times, when it is revealed that yet another government agency is spying on us in yet another way, most of us aren’t one bit surprised. Being surveilled nearly everywhere we go (and even in our own homes) has become the norm, unfortunately. Yesterday, it was revealed that the NSA improperly collected Americans’ … Read more