Global Gold Demand to Hit Four-Year High in 2019

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From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold demand will hit a four-year high in 2019, gold ready to break out due to numerous tailwinds, and why the long-awaited silver boom could be right around the corner. Metals Focus: Gold Demand … Read more

Pentagon’s Orwellian Madness: US Invades Iraq, Incites 60% Shiite Population, Blames Iran For Killing 608 US Troops!

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via antiwar: When the Pentagon starts throwing around estimates of who got killed and how in its assorted wars in the Middle East, they are often wildly inaccurate. Nowhere was this more apparent than a new briefing this week on estimates in the 2003-2011 Iraq War. Designed for Special Envoy Brian Hook to give hawkish … Read more

Jim Grant – Hedging and hedge funds

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Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Podcast, Released on 4/8/19 Barclay Leib (@btl0823) founder and principal of Sand Spring Advisors, LLC, comes by the office to discuss asset allocation, forensic accounting and Wall Street history. 1:44 Rules for selecting fund managers 5:40 Where does “edge” come from? 8:18 Fun and games in fund returns 12:17 The famous … Read more

1 in 10 Japanese Adults in their 30s Remains a Virgin

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The first national estimate of the virgin in Japan discovered an increasing rate of young adults with no history of heterosexual vaginal intercourse. After a comprehensive study of national fertility survey data, the University of Tokyo’s public health experts came to understand trends in sexual experience over the past three decades. The leader of the … Read more

US points tariff cannon at EU-Ready! Aim!…and markets yawn; US futures flat this morning

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by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Preview Ahead of the Open Global stocks are flat this morning amid tariff threats and US stocks index futures are FLAT with front-month Dow Jones minis -0.03%, S&P 500 minis -0.06% and Nasdaq 100 minis -0.09% President Trump has vowed to hit the EU with tariffs for its subsidies to Airbus (ENTXPA:AIR) and the EU responded it will … Read more

Here We Go Again: Tech Bubble 2.0 but “This Time It’s Different”

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The doses of Delusionol(tm) required to believe “this time it’s different” are becoming dangerous. Here we go again, another tech bubble is expanding like a supernova and the financial media is declaring (as it does during every bubble) “this time it’s different.” File Tech Bubble 2.0 under memories are getting shorter or this time is never … Read more

The Boy Crisis: The Statistics Tell Us That American Boys Are Falling Behind In Just About Every Area

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by Michael Snyder As a society we appear to be really dropping the ball, because the numbers indicate that American boys are deeply struggling in just about every area.  Many professionals are pointing to a “crisis of fatherhood” as one of the key factors, and as I pointed out the other day, approximately a third of … Read more

U.S. Economy SLOWDOWN Continues as FAKE Stock Market Near Record Highs! How?

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Stock market keeps rising without actual fundamentals supporting. But hey, who cares about fundamentals when we have the Fed who loves us, right? In mainstream finance, we’re always looking at the same handful of indicators. It’s actually quite an embarrassment. U3 unemployment rate, U.S. stock market, 200-day moving average, PE Ratios, and a couple others. … Read more

What Would Stocks Do in “a World Without Buybacks,” Goldman Asks

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Companies buying back their own shares has “consistently been the largest source of US equity demand.” Without them, “demand for shares would fall dramatically.” Too painful to even imagine. Goldman Sachs asked a nerve-racking question and came up with an equally nerve-racking answer: What would happen to stocks “in a world … Read more

BORDER BATTLE INTENSIFIES: 100,000+ CAUGHT IN MONTH? TRUMP UNDER PRESSURE

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Shake-up at Homeland Security goes beyond Nielsen’s exit WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and White House allies pressing for a harder line on immigration sped up their campaign Monday to clean house at the Department of Homeland Security with a mission far wider than just the departure of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The dismantling of the … Read more

America’s Problem With PC-Culture: Lack Of Free Speech Will Be The Country’s Downfall

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Authored by Mac Slavo vioa SHTFplan.com, Without free speech returning in full force to college campuses across the United States, the country will see itself perish of politically correct induced culture. One American journalist says that the PC culture will be the entire country’s downfall. Nothing less than the U.S.’s survival is at stake, according to American journalist … Read more

A History of Revolution in U.S. Taxation

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by visualcapitalist As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” While this quote was penned in 1789, his words still ring true today. U.S. taxation has changed over time, but it has always existed in some shape or form for over 250 years. U.S. Taxation: 1765 to Today In today’s infographic from New … Read more

The Most Valuable Agricultural Commodity in Each State

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by howmuch The United States is the world’s largest exporter of agricultural products, and is also one of the top food-producing countries due to its large expanse of land and relatively low population density. According to the 2012 census of agriculture, the U.S. has 2.1 million farms, covering 915 million acres. Even though every state is involved in … Read more