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by FS Both political parties and most economists have seemingly abandoned conservative principles of managing national debt. This situation is setting the U.S. up for serious consequences, Jim Rickards told Financial Sense Insider on a recent podcast. Rickards, a financial adviser and investment expert, spoke with Financial Sense about his new book, Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation … Read more

The Federal court has upheld a complaint by the Swiss Federal tax administration with three to two votes. The Federal judge of the second public law Department have in their advice, however, unanimously stressed that the data is not in the money laundering proceedings against the UBS may be used. On this point the court ruled in … Read more

Boris Johnson’s Brexit demands are “unacceptable,” according to the EU’s chief negotiator. The new UK prime minister has demanded the complete removal of the backstop from the Brexit deal. If not, the UK would be prepared to walk away without a deal in October, Johnson said Thursday. However, chief negotiator Michel Barnier wrote to EU … Read more

via bostonherald: The fallout from Wednesday’s disastrous performance by Robert Mueller in the Capitol includes a nearly 450-page report now in question. We don’t know who wrote it. We don’t know who really ran the investigation. We do know that several investigators on Mueller’s team were rabidly anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton. In fact, the Justice Department’s … Read more

via CNBC: A former Scotia Capital and Bear Stearns trader pleaded guilty and admitted manipulating precious metals futures markets for nine years, the latest in a series of crackdowns on so-called spoofing trades. The trader, Corey Flaum, is cooperating with an ongoing federal criminal investigations into gold, silver, platinum and palladium markets, as is ex-J.P. … Read more

via CNBC: ”…the Communist Party doesn’t want to submit themselves to anything measurable or enforceable. I don’t think an agreement could be had,” Bass says. “We believe rate cuts are less and less effective once you’ve been at a zero rate bound…I think in early 2020, you are just going to see softness in the … Read more

via reuters: The former British colony, which returned to China in 1997, is embroiled in its worst political crisis for decades after two months of increasingly violent protests that have posed one of the gravest populist challenges to Communist Party rulers in Beijing. The demonstrations, mushrooming up almost daily, saw the defacement of China’s main representative … Read more

For years we have heard that the United States was in bankruptcy, that we are under Martial Law. For years we could only suppose this to be true. Dr. Gene Schroder, American Agricultural Movement, has done extensive research into the matter. The results of his research prove that these claims are, absolutely, true. Since March … Read more

Infrastructure & Technology Issued on: March 26, 2019 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-coordinating-national-resilience-electromagnetic-pulses/ Executive Orders Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses Infrastructure & Technology Issued on: March 26, 2019 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section … Read more

via nationalinterest: Many Americans, myself included, hoped that the PRC’s immersion in the international economic system would encourage further expansion of the freedom of Chinese to debate ideas and ultimately control their political future. Although the CCP showed no willingness to relax its control, intellectual space appeared to grow a bit and liberty expanded in some … Read more