We’re In A Trade War, China’s A Currency Manipulator, Gold’s A Monetary Reserve Of US Govt, But Yuan Denominated Gold Futures Contracts Begin Trading On COMEX Next Week?

via silverdoctors: Spoiler Alert: We’re all being duped… Yesterday we highlighted a brand new product from Barclays that hits the ticker today, the “zero fee” paper gold & silver derivatives products “GBUG” and “SBUG”, Exchange Traded Notes that offer investors “exposure” to gold & silver prices, but not really to gold & silver in physical form, only … Read more

Big Discrepancy Between NY Fed Daily Repo Market Disclosure Data & St. Louis Fed Data

by Jason Burack via Wall St For Main St According to the NY Fed daily Repo Madness daily data disclosures the Fed is taking in as “good collateral” sometimes more than $10 billion dollars per day in mortgage backed securities (MBS) while according to the St. Louis Fed (FRED) data, the Federal Reserve has unloaded $214.515 billion dollars … Read more

United Nations could run out of money in a few weeks, Secretary General warns

United Nations — The United Nations is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October. In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the UN secretariat and obtained by CBS News’ Pamela Falk, Guterres said unspecified “additional stop-gap measures” … Read more

China’s Censorship Is Creeping Into America, Blizzard And NBA Bend The Knee To Communist China

China’s Censorship Is Creeping Into America, Blizzard And NBA Bend The Knee To Communist China. The big story trending today is that Blizzard, the company behind Hearthstone, has suspended a player and rescinded prize money over his support for the ongoing Hong Kong protests. This comes in the wake of the South Park episode mocking … Read more

Our Time/Labor Is Finite, But Money Is Infinite

by Charles Hugh-Smith Once we understand this mechanism, we understand that labor can never get ahead. I’ve been pondering a comment longtime correspondent Drew P. emailed me in response to my post, What’s Holding Up the Market?: “Our time/labor is finite, but money is infinite.” Drew explained that creating new fiat currency and injecting it into a closed … Read more

Everything You Need to Know About E. Coli

By Sandra D. Lane According to Food Safety.gov, two of the most common foodborne illnesses are Listeria and E.coli. Dagny Taggart has already written an especially informative article on listeria and a listeria outbreak in the spring of this year that I would caution everyone to read carefully. This dangerous bacterium is fatal in up to 30% of cases and a listeria infection … Read more

John Rubino – How Far Will the Economy Drop?

from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back… The recent economic numbers are starting to have a decidedly negative bent to them. Manufacturing is down, the stock market is heading down and nobody knows where it will stop. Trump has been haranguing the Fed to rapidly lower rates and now it appears that he’ll have his wish. … Read more

New book on Kavanaugh by NYT reporters bombs

by Dr. Eowyn   Do you remember that new book on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh which made new sexual assault charges, but were almost immediately debunked when friends of the alleged victim said she did not recall the attack? The book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, is co-authored by two New York Times reporters, Robin Pogrebin … Read more

It’s not just the NBA kowtowing to China…

We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs: Criticism of the Chinese government is forbidden — I don’t mean in China, I mean de facto in the United States for anyone who is part of any institution that has any investment in China.  The sports league that prides itself on freedom of … Read more

Liberals Hate Free Speech When We Presume To Use It. And this is quite an opening by Kurt Schlichter:

via townhall: I have a confession to make: I hate the pseudo-conservative scribblings of David French with the same kind of smoldering loathing I reserve for foot fungus, movies about spunky young women who triumph over the patriarchy, and the music of Maroon 5. With rare exceptions explicable due only to the vagaries of chance, I … Read more