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From Kitco: With the U.S. dollar stealing the safe-haven status from gold this summer, a potential “win-win situation” for the precious metal could be just around the corner, according to the ScotiaMocatta bank. “Gold continues not to attract safe-haven interest, even though parts of the global financial system are stressed. International investors see the U.S. as … Read more
by Tom McClellan Every chart of price data is a depiction of a ratio. If you look at a chart of your favorite stock, what you are really looking at is the ratio of the value of your stock to the value of the dollar, since stock prices are quoted in dollars. AAPL recently was … Read more
What was Nike thinking? What was Nike thinking? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2018 It was me. That’s what you get for claiming “anonymous sources” disproved my birth certificate. pic.twitter.com/EwcOVQWA3T — Barack Obama ____________________________🇺🇸Fan (@ThePresObama) September 7, 2018 You said it. — Barack Obama ____________________________🇺🇸Fan (@ThePresObama) September 5, 2018 The Worker in … Read more
by Daniel Carter America’s political sphere is becoming a place where outcomes considered unthinkable in the past are becoming reality. This can almost entirely be attributed to the rise of populism. In recent decades, the ruling-class has presided over a disastrous foreign policy, deep economic recessions and the diminishment of human rights. Now, it appears the … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRYwyVAhsD4 Randy DeSoto for the Western Journal reports, Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rebutted California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris’ argument that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh cannot be trusted to equally apply the law due to his conservative political views. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/rice-c…
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by Ivaginaryfriend A couple different livestreams to choose from: C-Span Fox News Fox 10 Pheonix PBS News Hour In case you missed it: Confirmation hearing Day 1 Confirmation hearing Day 2 Confirmation hearing Day 3 For those asking: Likely committee vote on Kavanaugh: September 20 Likely procedural vote to end debate on Kavanaugh on the … Read more
by Daniel Carter The culture war continues to grind forward, on and on. Every day social media is filled with hysteria because Trump did this or the left did that. This week, there was a ridiculous level of outrage over Nike’s endorsement of Colin Kaepernick, who has become a symbol of leftist ideology. In response, Trump … Read more
via slashdot.org: pgmrdlm shares a report from The Verge:Best known for coining the phrase “net neutrality” and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. In it, he argues compellingly for a return to … Read more
A Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member criticized the central bank’s decision in July to make its policy framework more sustainable. Goushi Kataoka argued that the BOJ should have instead ramped up stimulus to hasten the achievement of its elusive price target. Kataoka warned that escalating trade frictions could weigh on Japan’s export-reliant economy by … Read more
via zerohedge: Another day, another scandal involving Warren Buffett’s favorite bank. According to the WSJ, the DOJ is now probing whether employees committed fraud in Wells Fargo’s wholesale banking unit as a after revelations that employees improperly altered customer information. This follows a prior WSJ report that some employees in the unit added information on customer documents, such … Read more
via advisorperspectives: Quick take: At the end of August the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 index price was 121% above its long-term trend, up from 116% the previous month. About the only certainty in the stock market is that, over the long haul, over performance turns into underperformance and vice versa. Is there a pattern to this movement? Let’s … Read more
by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver Mainstream news site Bloomberg points out today that due to silver’s YTD decline being twice as big as gold’s, the gold-silver ratio (GSR) has spiked to a level not seen in almost 10 years. The last time the current reading of 84.4 was seen was in October … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com via Foxnews: A liberal millionaire now running for Congress in Pennsylvania — and railing against the influence of money in politics — has a history of making large donations to former President Barack Obama’s campaign and other efforts. Scott Wallace, grandson of a former vice president of Franklin Roosevelt … Read more
via nationalinterest: Other than the vast scale of the exercise, the fact that Chinese forces have a role seems to have dominated reporting on Vostok-18. But, at least two critical analytical points seem to have been missed. First, the location of the exercise no doubt reflects the Kremlin’s desire to cool down tensions in the European … Read more
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via commondreams.org: Year after year, decade after decade, Republicans in Washington have lectured the American people about the need for “welfare reform.” In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan railed against a fictitious “welfare queen” driving a Cadillac. Just a few years ago, Republicans turned their attention to a young surfer who used the food stamp program to purchase lobster. … Read more
Thanks to the tax cuts passed by the Republican House and Senate and signed by President Donald Trump, at least 120 utilities across the country are lowering rates for customers, according to a report from Americans for Tax Reform. This means lower electric bills, lower gas bills, and lower water bills for Americans. The Tax … Read more
An animal rights group has sued the US Department of Agriculture, claiming it blocked the release of information on a Maryland medical lab that experimented on and euthanized thousands of kittens in past decades. The lawsuit says the government-funded Animal Parasitic Disease Lab in Beltsville, Maryland, has euthanized thousands of healthy kittens after putting them … Read more
Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Mises Institute, In this era of monetary fiction, one tends to read all types of undocumented and misguided views on monetary policy. However, if there is one that really is infuriating: MMT science fiction. One of its main principles is based on a fallacy: “A country with monetary sovereignty can issue … Read more