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by Chris Kimble Are Gold Bugs fans about to receive positive news they haven’t had in years? Possible! This chart looks at the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) on a weekly basis over a couple of decades. The index has spent the majority of the past 20-year inside of rising channel (1). The index hit the top of … Read more
via pjmedia: Appearing on a local cable news show on May 30, Lightfoot made the astonishing allegation that the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, the union representing rank-and-file officers, had instructed its members to be passive when dealing with crime over the Memorial Day weekend. “But you know,” she told interviewer Ken Davis, “there were rumors floating around … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7OMysVenM The energy at the march in #HongKong today feels triumphant and defiant. Protestors are unified in their calls. They're demanding Carrie Lam step down, that she withdraws the extradition bill and that police "stop using violence against students." #LockhartRoad pic.twitter.com/vI1RWZK1h6 — Natasha Khan (@natashakhanhk) June 16, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaIMQXRXOXo Yellow Vests protesters are hitting the street for the 31st week in a row in Paris on Saturday, June 15, over the French government’s policies. Courtesy: RUPTLY
Legal and financial expert Wayne Jett says, “The key to your financial stability between this side of the chasm and the other side of the chasm is owning metals, owning gold and silver. These are most likely the types of things that will hold their real value. Therefore, on the other side of the chaos … Read more
https://youtu.be/Y6LKmhDRWFc Complete, unedited video of Patrick Clawson’s responses to questions regarding U.S. policy toward Iran at a Policy Forum in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2012.
5G is a weapon pointed at cities. If we get out of line they will microwave us to death. AC
1994 Rulebook a ‘Prophecy’ for America? Omnispleesh @El_Cilantro @Flamencotrs @TheGatorGamer Written in 1988 rulebook for the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020. That’s some prophet shit right there. ‘Prophecy’: @Flamencotrs @TheGatorGamer Written in 1988 rulebook for the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020. That's some prophet shit right there. pic.twitter.com/kgUOYC1Hp3 — Omnispleesh (@El_Cilantro) June 15, 2019 (‘Prophecy’ at the … Read more
One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop. Four cases, all solved in the past month, with … Read more
via QZ: Amazon plans to shutter its four-year-old Amazon Restaurants delivery service in the US this month, GeekWire reported June 10. The service, which launched in Seattle in 2015, had expanded to roughly two dozen US cities and London. Amazon closed Amazon Restaurants in the UK in December 2018, after two years of operation. Amazon started the food-delivery … Read more
With arguably the most important two weeks of the year looming, on Friday Bank of America’s Chief Investment Officer, Michael Harnett, laid out a 2-by-2 matrix summarizing the four possible scenarios that could result from the Fed’s announcement next week, and the G-20 meeting on June 28-29, where there is a chance (if minuscule) that Trump … Read more
via scmp: Taoran Notes commentary also seeks to play down expectations over possible meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in Japan later this month It says Beijing is showing its determination when it comes to ‘genuine battle preparations’ Chinese state media has warned the countermeasures Beijing is taking against Washington’s increased tariffs and technology … Read more
Incredibly bullish for gold. Real yields inverted have broken out of their six-year downtrend. Confirmed by yield curve inversions and new Fed easing bias. pic.twitter.com/thJgM13odf — Kevin C. Smith, CFA (@crescatkevin) June 14, 2019
#China industrial production growth in one chart! pic.twitter.com/pEs2Tb3yFa — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) June 14, 2019
via @RadicalAdem: • markets that generate attractive returns come w/ a higher risk of loss. • liquidity dries up when needed most. • markets are most vulnerable when overleveraged. • Low Vol breeds High Vol. • New financial contraptions – such as MBS’s, CDO’s, CDS’s, CLO’s, portfolio insurance, etc – might solve immediate problems and … Read more
Grant’s Almost Daily, submitted by Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Recovery room On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury reported that Uncle Sam’s May deficit totaled a record $208 billion, bringing the 2019 year-to-date (the fiscal year begins on Oct. 1) shortfall to $739 billion. For context, full-year 2018 and 2017 saw gaps of $779 billion and $666 billion, … Read more
CNN’s Jim Acosta recalls ‘quaint’ Romney gaffes, including one that wasn’t a ‘gaffe’ at all: For many voters on the Right (myself included), the “binders” moment served as further proof that it does not matter who the GOP submits as its presidential nominee. He can be as kind and decent as Romney, and Democrats and … Read more
by David Haggith “The perfect storm” has become a cliché, but the current setup for a 2019 recession just became so text-book perfect in alignment of the three most critical recessionary forces that I have to use it. Let me start by noting that a stock market that rallies because the news is bad — as happened … Read more
via Zerohedge: The latest Cushman & Wakefield commercial real estate report shows demand for US industrial space collapsed 60% on year in 1Q19, reflecting the global synchronized decline and the deepening trade war. Cushman & Wakefield’s economists warned President Trump’s trade war is unraveling complex supply chains around the world that have led to a slump in demand … Read more
via Zerohedge: Right now, millennials represent the largest single consumer group in the United States: they number 83.1 million and they represent a full quarter of the US population. When it comes to corporations targeting consumers, millennials are at the top of the list for those obvious reasons, according to a new article by Adweek. But … Read more