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Ex-senator Joseph arrested over Haitian president’s assassination

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Ex-senator Joseph arrested over Haitian president’s killing Jamaican police say John Joel Joseph, a suspect in the murder of Haiti President Jovenel Moise, has been arrested. Brooks did not comment on whether the arrest was following a request by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is also investigating the murder. It was also unclear … Read more

Big Macs may get to $2,000 before gold

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by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Despite Wednesday’s rather sensational inflation news, inflation isn’t accelerating as much as it is breaking away from the camouflage that long has been thrown over it by the U.S. government and mainstream financial news organizations. Anyone who pays close attention to prices knows, … Read more

David Morgan: “Bail-In Scenario” Will Force Banks to Seize Your Money

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Stansberry Research, Released on 1/14/22 The Fed’s rhetoric surrounding the increase in interest rates will send gold and silver into a pattern similarly seen in 2016, “but will have more traction,” he says to our Daniela Cambone in this edition of Outlook 2022: The Tipping Point. Morgan explains the instrumental factor silver plays in maintaining … Read more

Bill Ackman: The Fed could surprise the market

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The Fed is losing its battle on inflation and could work to “restore its credibility” by surprising markets with a bigger-than-expected increase in its key interest rate, Bill Ackman says https://t.co/gxw23W8Daa — Bloomberg Markets (@markets) January 15, 2022 the U/D here starting to look good unless one thinks the Fed can actually normalize pic.twitter.com/dF9kolIrsl — … Read more

Inflation Nation! Commercial Real Estate Returns UP 22% YoY For Q4 2021 (Versus 19.66% YoY For Case-Shiller National Home Price Index)

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by confoundedinterest17 Inflation is burning out of control. While home price growth has been off the cherts (as Jean-Ralphio would say), commercial real estate has jumped incredibly at 22% YoY. The Bloomberg charting function hasn’t updated for the Q4 NCREIF report yet so I had to manually write-in 22% on the following chart. To quote Dean Martin, “Ain’t that … Read more

Bonds Remind Investors How Unsafe They Are

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From Investing Channel: Financial advisors used to believe in a balanced portfolio between bonds and stocks. Central banks changed all that. Breaking Traditions We’re taught that stocks and bonds tend to move in opposite directions. Money flows into stocks and out of safety plays like US Treasuries and the US Dollar when they want risk. The … Read more

Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision

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Photo by Vadim Sadovski From Birch Gold Group The U.S. economy teeters between two catastrophes: wild and untamed hyperinflation that turns cash into wallpaper, or an epic crash that would make 2008 look like a day at the beach. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has led the U.S. government’s monetary policy to this point. Now he’s attempting … Read more

Should You Move While You Can, Or When You Must?

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by Charles Hugh-Smith This gives an extreme advantage to those few who move first, long before they must. The financial advantage for first movers is equally extreme. Moving is a difficult decision, so we hesitate. But when the window to do so closes, it’s too late. We always think we have all the time in the … Read more

Probably one of the most bearish in the DOW. Pattern confirmed. Retail sales growth has crashed to -1.9% on a trending basis.

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https://twitter.com/PuffDragon11/status/1482168568120692740 In real terms, retail sales growth has crashed to -1.9% on a trending basis. Leading indicators have been forecasting this slowdown, primarily through the collapse of real income. 1/ https://t.co/qZ0X6SPt92 pic.twitter.com/g7FakeXFHE — Eric Basmajian (@EPBResearch) January 14, 2022 #recession … #GFC2 US #RetailSales edition https://t.co/P7YvmYGW89 — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) January 15, 2022 https://twitter.com/leadlagreport/status/1481981641832681477 CHINESE … Read more