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Chris Powell – Powell contends that global financial powers are trying to suppress inflation through the manipulation of all futures and commodities, but it’s not working.

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Chris Powell, Treasurer and Secretary of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), has been trying to get the U.S. government to come clean about massive market manipulations. GATA says they have hit a stone wall of silence. Powell concludes, “Presumably, the U.S. Treasury is secretly trading in any number of markets and refuses to say … Read more

Doug Casey: The Rich Will Be First in Line for Living Forever

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Via Casey Research Justin’s note: We’re on the verge of another Industrial Revolution. And much like the first Industrial Revolution, this period will be marked by profound change. According to Doug Casey, matter, energy, space, and time will “soon be manipulated on a cosmic scale”… thanks to rapid advances in technology. For example, life extension breakthroughs … Read more

US stock market at truly record valuations while profit growth has peaked; China is in a historic credit bubble & its currency likely to enter a full-blown crisis.

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– US stock market at truly record valuations while profit growth has peaked. – China is in a historic credit bubble & its currency likely to enter a full-blown crisis. – Gold is an extremely undervalued haven currency today. https://youtu.be/Z9OkWG0R_4Y   Here is a composite of exactly when the establishment decided to go full bore … Read more

Tulsi Gabbard: There are bad people in the world, but we can’t be the world’s policeman. Regime change wars cost millions of lives, strengthen terrorist orgs…

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There are bad people in the world, but we can't be the world’s policeman. Regime change wars cost millions of lives, strengthen terrorist orgs, undermine our national security & waste precious money that should be used to improve the lives of the American people. #Tulsi2020 pic.twitter.com/XtZUr5uO4w — Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) April 18, 2019

Semis recovery secured?

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via @GS_CapSF: Singapore electronics exports -26.7% Semis recovery secured. $TSM end mkts declining (although some production problems). Concerning that HPC & smartphone are declining so much.    

Global 40 ft shipping container rates so far don’t support 2h19 rebound story

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global 40 ft shipping container rates so far don't support 2h19 rebound story pic.twitter.com/SHvUawcZzu — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 21, 2019 probably not a good thing pic.twitter.com/aOUIRhrg2h — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 20, 2019 can't ignore what's happening to the auto industry forever pic.twitter.com/rWg7xXQzpN — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 21, 2019 No it can not be ignored – … Read more

Why are people investing in growth ETFs?

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by etienner It seems like a lot of people, mostly under 25, want to invest in growth ETFs and ignore value ETFs. For a lot of them the reason is growth stocks have a higher earnings growth, therefore they should outperform value stocks. However, except for the past 10 years, it hasn’t been true, and … Read more

The Unique Device Generating Power From Snow

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By Irina Slav A team of researchers from the University of California Los Angeles have created a unique device that can generate electricity from snowfall, science media report, citing a paper published in the journal Nano Technology. The device is basically a vastly improved weather station, which, in addition to measuring how much snow is falling … Read more

FORBES: “No, California’s Finances Are Not Back In Black”

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It’s happening again. People who should know better are pointing to California’s current budget surplus as proof that the state, the world’s fifth largest economy, is in sound financial shape. That figure is also being used to support the claim that California’s relatively high tax burden and onerous regulations are not too problematic, as CNBC’s Robert Frank did on … Read more