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Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 is a U.S.-led multinational exercise, including NATO’s participation. It is the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe in more than 25 years with 20,000 soldiers deployed directly from the U.S. to Europe. https://thewatchtowers.org/exercise-defender-europe-20-is-a-u-s-led-multinational-exercise-including-natos-participation-it-is-the-largest-deployment-of-u-s-based-forces-to-europe-in-more-than-25-years-with-20000-soldier/ Some Chinese and Russians are speculating this is a pretext for an actual engagement…     h/t Google_It

There’s one major question I often see. It’s the question of WHEN. When will the market crash? When will a recession occur? There’s no possible way to determine exactly but we have indicators to watch that will help guide us in the right direction. From that point we can always make better judgements. But without … Read more

This captures why Russiagate fear-mongering was never about a real threat, or about stopping Trump. It was about defending the privilege of neoliberals who lost to Trump in 2016. Bernie is now their biggest threat, so Russiagate is deployed once more.   h/t failed_evolution

Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped   From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: How the coronavirus could be the catalyst to push gold over $2,000, gold’s perfect storm is here, and how concerned should investors be about the dizzying repo … Read more

by visualcapitalist For decades, the U.S. has been the top destination for students looking to study abroad. It’s easy to see why. Not only does the country provide access to world-class economic hubs like Silicon Valley, but the U.S. is also home to 14 of the top 20 universities in the world, many of which are … Read more

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by Simon Black In the year 1520, exactly 500 years ago, a German scholar named Johan Schoner completed a map of the world that was widely considered to be humanity’s most advanced understanding of geography at that time. To us, Schoner’s map is pretty amusing. There’s scarcely any American continent. Instead he drew some amorphous blobs … Read more

OMG!! looks scary. Aerial footage shows hundreds of people lining up around the block to buy face masks in Daegu as most of the new South Korean cases of coronavirus were traced to the city. https://t.co/T7GaBMBSbC pic.twitter.com/hTEtqLCGtE — ABC News (@ABC) February 24, 2020     AC

by Money Metals  Keeping up appearances is about to get a lot harder for the central planners trying to manage perceptions of the U.S. (and global) economy. The coronavirus is going to have a meaningful impact on global supply chains, even if stock market cheerleaders haven’t fully realized it yet. This might be because the corporate … Read more

by Lance Roberts Earnings Worse Than You Think Just like the hit series “House Of Cards,” Wall Street earnings season has become rife with manipulation, deceit and obfuscation that could rival the dark corners of Washington, D.C. What is most fascinating is that so many individuals invest hard earned capital based on these manipulated numbers. The failure to … Read more