Is Gold Becoming A Mainstream Investment Tool?

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Simon Popple of Brookville Capital with Jeremy Naylor of IG For generations gold has been a great hedge against inflation and a way of protection against a market downturn. Has the environment changed now? With Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, buying into Barrick Gold, and Ohio state pension directing 5% of its investments into the precious metal, is this a turning point … Read more

Nikola founder Trevor Milton forfeits $166 million in stock he would have lost any way and gets to keep $3.1 billion under separation deal

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton agreed to forfeit up to roughly $166 million of equity as well as a two-year, $20 million consulting contract as part of his abrupt departure from the company he started. However, the EV executive gets to walk away with more than $3.1 billion in stock as part of a separation agreement … Read more

“By utterly failing to prevent large-scale corrupt transactions, financial institutions have abandoned their roles as front-line defenses against money laundering,” Paul Pelletier, a former senior U.S. Justice Department official, told ICIJ.

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“By utterly failing to prevent large-scale corrupt transactions, financial institutions have abandoned their roles as front-line defenses against money laundering,” Paul Pelletier, a former senior U.S. Justice Department official, told ICIJ.https://t.co/TezTAe8QX0 pic.twitter.com/PynVtFvmAe — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) September 22, 2020

Interactive Brokers increases margin requirements in anticipation of election volatility

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View post on imgur.com In all seriousness, I think this paragraph is extremely bearish: This will be implemented gradually each day, increasing Initial margin requirements from normal levels starting September 28th to a rate that will be 35% higher by October 23rd. Maintenance margin requirements will increase in a similar manner between October 5th and … Read more

GLOBAL debt to GDP is now at ALL-TIME HIGH in Q1. Overall debt for the non financial-sector now worth 252% of global GDP. Get ready for extreme global currency debasement.

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GLOBAL debt to GDP is now at ALL-TIME HIGH in Q1. 🌎 Overall debt for the non financial-sector now worth 252% of global GDP. Get ready for extreme global currency debasement. pic.twitter.com/i83WPi58vb — Gold Telegraph ⚡ (@GoldTelegraph) September 22, 2020

More than two weeks of doubt and volatility in the stock market are finally starting to show up in corporate bonds.

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https://twitter.com/hamiltoniangco/status/1308385797687644161 CORPORATE DEFAULTS ☠ pic.twitter.com/mHPEOYA3Hj — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) September 22, 2020   $300 Unemployment Benefits End in at Least 9 States as Stimulus Hopes Fade Many states have finished paying a temporary $300 weekly boost in unemployment benefits to eligible workers. Now, workers again face the prospect of no additional aid. Credit Nerves … Read more

China Is Spying On Millions Of People: And They Aren’t In China

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Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog, After years of constant media fear-mongering, a sizeable number of Americans continue to believe in the disproven “Russiagate” conspiracy theory. Putin, the story goes, owns Donald Trump and engaged in a massive propaganda campaign via social media, hacking elections, and other collusion forms to ensure that … Read more

The CDC spent your taxpayer money on a $106 million visitor center decorated with waterfalls and Japanese gardens…

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The CDC spent your taxpayer money on a $106 million visitor center decorated with waterfalls and Japanese gardens and a $200,000 fitness center with saunas and zero-gravity chairs. The $106-million Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications Center was built to replace the CDC’s older visitor center, which was built only 11 years ago, with a $5.1 … Read more

Arson arrest map: Pretty much destroys the narrative of “drought and lightening” And these are just the ones that got caught

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Arson arrest map Pretty much destroys the narrative of "drought and lightening" And these are just the ones that got caught Tip of the iceberg pic.twitter.com/qEz7s2I5VF — Brian G. Powell,M.S. (@BrianGPowell) September 20, 2020 THE STILL REPORT: Arson! West Coast Fires NOT Caused By “Global Warming” NOTE: Report begins at 0:56.     h/t dr0id

Joe Biden Wears Mask for Remote Interview..LOL

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Former Vice President Joe Biden wore a mask for a remote interview with a local Wisconsin ABC affiliate on Monday, for reasons that remain unclear. The mask is meant to prevent transmission of coronavirus to other people within a close radius, but Biden and reporter Brittany Schmidt from Green Bay’s WBAY appeared not to be … Read more

Glenn Greenwald: What explains elite contempt for Joe Rogan?

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The Intercept, Released on 9/22/20 This week on System Update, Glenn Greenwald talks to Shant Mesrobian, formerly with the Obama 2008 campaign and current co-host of ‘The Backchannel’, about the disdain establishment liberals and mainstream journalists express for Joe Rogan, and how his platform has been growing in importance despite this. Glenn Greenwald is one … Read more