Gold’s bottom could be investors’ lost treasure

From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Get ready, gold bulls: The precious metal could be close to finding a bottom. The price of gold fell back below $1,200 an ounce again last week as the U.S. dollar advanced following another federal funds rate hike. The precious metal logged its sixth straight month of declines, its longest … Read more

XRP being used by banks

xRapid is live. XRP, the cryptocurrency, is being used already by a few banks and financial institutions. What many said was a pipe-dream a year ago, is today a real product set to revolutinize not only the financial world, but business in general. Today at Ripple’s Swell conference Brad Garlinghouse announced xRapid is live and … Read more

Guantanamo Bay & Covering Up Mistakes

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: You once mentioned that Guantanamo Bay was a violation of human rights and Obama had pledged to close it when he ran for office the first time. Yet it is still open. Why is America acting in a manner it condemns others? FG ANSWER: The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military … Read more

U.S. Households Loaded Up On Stocks

by Dana Lyons Outside of the 2000 dotcom bubble, U.S. households have never had more of their assets invested in the stock market. The U.S. stock market, i.e., the S&P 500, soared back to new all-time highs again today – always a welcomed development for investors. And it is especially welcomed now considering the fact that … Read more

Study finds it doesn’t matter which party is in charge

Given how partisan it can get here, this study seems worthy of our consideration. Yes, party platform policies differ. The linked study does not address this. Rather, the study investigates how both parties feed off of polarization, and neither party appears interested in stopping the trend of increasing polarization. Can we as a community refuse … Read more

Stocks In Cycle Sweet Spot?

by Dana Lyons Stocks are entering the best stretch of the 4-year Presidential cycle, historically speaking. When it comes to investment decision-making inputs, seasonality is typically pretty low on the hierarchy for us. However, as we have written on occasion in the past, there are some seasonal tendencies that have proven to be rather consistent throughout the … Read more

Taxi drivers in the belly of NYC multicultural Babylon, Uber competition, middle age, stress, debt, anti-depressants, suicide and fewer customers

Exerpt from article “NEW YORK — Both men were longtime taxi drivers from Romania. Both were worried about paying their bills as Uber decimated their industry. They were best friends. And both had struggled with depression. Nicanor Ochisor’s wife dragged him to a doctor in March to get help. Two days later, he hanged himself … Read more

Flashback: Paid your taxes on time? Good, ’cause Nancy Pelosi needs to pay her tab. In-Flight Food And Drink Costs? $101,000

image: https://www.wnd.com/images/misc/100128booze.jpg Part of the tab for alcoholic drinks on a congressional trip arranged by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, … Read more

SOCIALISM ALWAYS KILLS THE GOLDEN GOOSE. ALWAYS. Venezuela’s Crisis Imperils Citgo, Its American ‘Cash Cow.’

via nytimes: The production of the parent company, known as Pdvsa, has been hard hit by the country’s turmoil. It is struggling to meet more than $1 billion in payments due in the next couple of months on its bonds and other obligations, including compensation for property it had nationalized. Trump administration sanctions are squeezing its … Read more

They’re making a big deal about the drinking because they know they’ve got nothing.

THE GOALPOSTS HAVE LEFT THE STADIUM BY THIS POINT: Byron York: In Kavanaugh fight, Democrats move goalposts far, far away. Ask any casual observer what the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation fight is about, and the answer will be the allegation that at a high-school party 36 years ago, when Kavanaugh was 17, he drunkenly forced … Read more

EXPLOSIVE: the real reasons why petrol prices have gone through the roof

by John Ward Geopolitics, planned supply cuts, bourse directionalising, energy wars and refinement cost manipulation are behind an increase in petrol prices. The investigation below shows why media drivel about ‘regional instability’ and ‘Russian blackmail’ as factors as complete hokum. Once again, the Alt States are in charge, and the Citizen suffers as a result of … Read more

SOCIAL-ist MEDIA: Corporate Censorship of Lawful Speech Violates Human Rights (Article 19 UDHR UN)

via culturalanalysis: Tyranny is not always accomplished by military conquest and violent repression. The most sophisticated and enduring forms of tyranny do not signal its tyrannical intent directly but veil it with pretences to compassion, security and morality. At the very least, sophisticated tyranny posits itself as a benevolent force which is openly tyrannical only because … Read more

Verizon’s ‘5G’ just went live in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento.

Verizon is making good on promises to deliver what it touts as the world’s first commercial 5G deployment, a home broadband service called Verizon 5G Home, announcing on Tuesday that installations will begin on Oct. 1. Built on Verizon’s “proprietary 5G standard,” Verizon 5G Home promises at-home speeds of around 300 megabits per second — up to … Read more