On Wire

by Martin Armstrong   In order for the USA to petition a UK court for extradition, the alleged crime MUST be also a crime in the UK. Typically, the charged person will raise that his case is “political” and judges, agents of governments, will usually dismiss it out of hand even when they know it is political. … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Tax Reform Exacerbates Sales Cooldown in the U.S. (WSJ) U.S. tax reform has exacerbated a gradual cooldown in U.S. home sales over the past year in certain parts of the country, according to research from realtor.com. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 2018, allows homeowners … Read more

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: 5 factors supporting gold’s big-picture outlook, silver demand hits a three-year high in 2018, and China’s government is on a gold-buying spree. 5 Factors Supporting Gold’s Big-Picture Outlook According to Seeking Alpha contributor Clif … Read more

by failed_evolution The former editor of Time / former Undersecretary of State for Public Policy thinks the US government propagandizing its own citizens is just fine and dandy. And where did he deliver these remarks? At the CFR, of course!    

from Financial Survival Network                 John Rubino, Craig Hemke, and Kerry Lutz sit down for a discussion… John says that all the gloom and doom stuff can be depressing, but it needs to be looked at as an investment thesis and a tremendous opportunity. Craig believes that interest cuts could happen much … Read more

by Amy S. Abundant clean water is widely recognized as one of the top survival priorities, with most survival instructors saying that you need at least a gallon per person per day for drinking and cooking. The most common means of purifying water is by using a filter but there are other options like: – boiling the … Read more

via theamericanconservative: “What we lost today is one of the great embodiments of Western civilization. It is impossible to overstate what this means. It will take some time to absorb. Notre Dame de Paris is at the heart of France’s identity. All distances in France are measured from kilometre zéro, in front of the cathedral. Though … Read more

by Jeff Clark, Senior Analyst, GoldSilver   One of gold’s biggest catalysts throughout history has been inflation. Debase your currency enough and gold responds almost automatically. And the bigger the inflation, the bigger gold’s response. Even the fear of inflation ignites the gold price, like we saw from 2009 to 2011. The natural belief among many investors, then, is … Read more

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter There was strong appetite. Only the Fed shed them. Here’s who bought. Over the 12 months through February 2019, the US gross national debt ballooned by $1.26 trillion to $22.1 trillion. Someone had to buy this new pile of debt – but who? That question is getting increasingly crucial as this … Read more

by visualcapitalist View the full-size version of the infographic   You’ve probably heard of kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or even terabytes. These data units are common everyday amounts that the average person may run into. Units this size may be big enough to quantify the amount of data sent in an email attachment, or the data stored on a … Read more

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by Chris The Swiss National Bank already does this.  They have tens of billions of US equities in their portfolio.  The SNB prints up money (francs) sells those francs on the open market for dollars, puts those dollars in some sort of brokerage account and buys US equities. Everybody already knows of the BoJ, which … Read more