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Jim Willie returns to SGT Report to discuss Trump, geopolitics, the economy and the four facts the show a gold standard — at at least three times the current gold price — is coming into view.

By Tsvetana Paraskova Canada’s Senate passed on Thursday two controversial bills restricting the movement of oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia and overhauling the assessment process for oil pipelines—bills which have pitted environmentalists and liberals against the oil industry and the neighboring oil-producing province of Alberta. In a very close 49-46 vote, the Senate … Read more

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDm_3Srv1go Global retail chain Walmart agreed on Thursday to pay $282 million to settle long-running US probes over charges it did too little to prevent bribery of foreign officials as it aggressively expanded its overseas operations. https://marygreeley.com/?p=87043    

via Yahoo: (Bloomberg) — The S&P 500 is up 18% and powering toward its biggest first half since 1997. For bulls, things are great. Will they get any better? To a handful of cross-asset strategists who turned skeptical on stocks before this week’s manic sessions, that’s becoming the most pressing question. Increasingly, their answer is: … Read more

by Fabius Maximus  Summary: Open borders and a massive flow of low-skill immigrants create social and political stresses, but economists tell us they boost the economy. That ignores their costs. Economists extol the boost to GDP produced by poorly educated and low-skill immigrants. That boosts corporate profits and makes America bigger. But it is quite daft … Read more

Two men in California exposed one of the largest cases of fraud in the history of the state. Bill Reynolds and Mark Sersansie discovered doctors were being paid to perform what some say were unnecessary spinal fusion surgeries. The scam involved doctors allegedly implanting counterfeit hardware into hundreds of patients. “Whistleblower” host Alex Ferrer joins … Read more

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It’s only 9 minutes long. It’s most definitely worth the watch no matter which party you stand with. In 1958, Robert Welch laid out the plan of what we are seeing today.   AC

Iran shot down an American surveillance drone. Iran says it was in its airspace. The U.S. says it was over the Strait of Hormuz in international airspace. Is America going to go to war over an unmanned drone? There are many on both sides that want war and probably equally as many who don’t. Trump … Read more

by visualcapitalist Changing healthcare models, groundbreaking advancements in the health technology sector, and shifting standards of patient care—they’re all contributing to a new era of medicine. But arguably one of the biggest changes will be the faces that greet us at a clinic or hospital. Today’s infographic from Publicis Health illustrates the emerging generation of millennial doctors, and … Read more

by Simon Black Here’s our Friday roll up of the most absurd and concerning articles we came across this week. UK bans advertisement with “harmful gender stereotypes” UK bureaucrats will now decide if ads and commercials are too offensive. New regulations ban advertisements with gender stereotypes “that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Draghi has come out and said that is inflation will not pick up, he will do even more Quantitative Easing. I has warned that the central banks, particularly the ECB, are trapped. They simply cannot return to any normal economic model without blowing up the entire Eurozone. This is becoming extremely serious. … Read more

by Tom McClellan The Treasury Bond blowoff which is currently underway is dragging along the high-grade corporate bonds due to the coattails effect.  That is leading to really strong numbers for the Advance-Decline statistics for these corporate bonds, which has driven up the Ratio-Adjusted Summation Index (RASI) for these bonds to a really high level. When … Read more