by northmantrader A brief follow up to the $VIX discussion in this weekend’s 2020 Vision market update: US markets experienced two major volatility events with $VIX running above 40 twice during the past 4 years: 2015 and 2018. In both cases the $VIX spiked into the high 40’s. Charts suggest another volatility event of such magnitude may be … Read more
By Tsvetana Paraskova Although oil prices hit a seven-month high on Friday and continued to soar early on Monday, these high price levels are unlikely to persist for long if global oil supplies are not disrupted, Goldman Sachs said in a note on Monday, carried by Bloomberg. Oil prices surged on Friday, following the assassination of Iran’s most powerful and … Read more
Future historians will ask why George W. Bush sought and received express congressional authorization for his wars (against al Qaeda and Iraq) and his successor did not. They will puzzle over how Barack Obama the prudent war-powers constitutionalist transformed into a matchless war-powers unilateralist. And they will wonder why he claimed to “welcome congressional … Read more
by Alina The price of gold is up nearly $100 since Christmas, reaching around $1,575 per troy ounce as I write this letter. This most recent price bump is due to the panic over Iran. But the gold price is up nearly 20% over the last year, so there have obviously been plenty of other … Read more
There will doubtless be fakes to make Trump look bad, this will be a good thing to show to people we know who get duped. h/t undine53
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: Gold prices hit six-year highs after U.S. strike kills Iranian general, what to expect from gold prices in 2020, and stash of 1,200-year-old gold coins discovered in Israel. … Read more
(Image: © Shutterstock) Related: The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations The algorithm they built provided accurate solutions up to 100 million times faster than the most advanced software program, known as Brutus. That could prove invaluable to astronomers trying to understand things like the behavior of star clusters and the broader evolution of the universe, … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Martin, I have been following your blog for several months and have begun to start reading older posts because it is all amazing work. When looking at your war cycle with Russia that started in 2014 and supposedly cycles roughly 25 years, I noticed that correlates nicely with your ECM on Russia … Read more
Merkel und Maas fliegen zum Krisentreffen mit Putin https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/iran-krise-eu-aussenminister-berufen-sondertreffen-ein-16567649.html Merkel to Meet Putin in Moscow for Talks on Mideast Crises https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/06/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-russia.html Bundeswehr bereitet sich auf raschen Rückzug aus dem Irak vor https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/live204792166/Iran-Krise-Trump-beklagt-Impeachment-Verfahren-als-Zeitverschwendung.html Bundeswehr prepares for withdrawal from Iraq AC
Close to 400,000 anchor babies were born in the United States in 2019 as an executive order to end birthright citizenship gets kicked down the road for another year by President Donald Trump’s administration. Analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed in 2018 that about 300,000 U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are born … Read more
Nice to get the facts behind the MSM fake news hype. MSM is still trying to protect the DS. Report date: 01.05.2020 The [DS]/MSM is now in the dark, they have no idea what Trump and the patriots are doing, they didn’t know the plan with Iran and they don’t know the plan that comes … Read more
FUN FACT: According to the latest poll, fully 75% of Americans are opposed to a possible war with Iran, compared to only 21% in support. — Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) January 4, 2020 https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpsWaَr?src=hashtag_click AC
Barbara Starr @barbarastarrcnn Pentagon to begin sending 6 B-52s to Diego Garcia: US official. B-52s will be available for operations against Iran if ordered, the official said. But the deployment does not signal that operations have been ordered. #Iran #Solemani Pentagon to begin sending 6 B-52s to Diego Garcia: US official. B-52s will be available … Read more
“Millions of Iranians have taken to the streets over the past month protesting the venal corruption of the ruling mullahs and their wanton spending on conflict and terror. In a blind panic, Khamenei instructed Soleimani to mobilize his IRGC thugs to launch a murderous crackdown on the peaceful protesters, during which an estimated 1,500 were murdered, more … Read more
The escalating situation in the region following the assassination of a top Iranian military commander has given the yellow metal its highest rates in nearly seven years, and raised oil to prices last seen in mid-2019. Gold, which is considered a safe haven investment amid political and economic turmoil, gained around 1.5 percent on Monday. … Read more
via NYT “The National Assembly was the last political institution still in the opposition’s hands, and by seizing its leadership, President Nicolás Maduro’s supporters move closer to total control of the state.” In a chaotic session in which security forces surrounded the National Assembly building, intimidating members of the opposition who tried to enter, supporters … Read more
by Shaun Richards On Saturday economists gathered to listen to the former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke speak on monetary policy in San Diego. This is because those who used to run the Federal Reserve can say things the present incumbent cannot. So let me get straight to the crux of the … Read more
by The Phoenix Stocks were sold on Friday, falling to test the first line of support we outlined last week (top red line). That line held and the S&P 500 remains within a bullish rising channel we have been following since mid-October 2019. If we break here, we have more support at 3,150 (lower red line). … Read more
