The Modern Day Nincompoop—Money Magazine’s Advice on How to Survive a Stock Market Crash

by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver I was flying back from giving a presentation in Vancouver last week and browsed through the financial publications at an airport newsstand, scanning to see what passes as mainstream advice these days. I spotted Money Magazine’s May issue and saw an article titled “5 Ways to Invest if You’re Worried … Read more

Venezuela in continuous crisis. Trump just banned purchase of Venezuelan debt in new sanctions

For those not in the know, Venezuela is the “king of bond defaults”. The government has been in a constant economic mess. Their oil reigning days are over and with the new sanctions they’ll feel more heat. Every single things has literally been going wrong for them it’s a pity. https://www.ft.com/content/3202dad2-5d27-11e8-9334-2218e7146b04 and btw here’s the current … Read more

Switzerland Proposal

by Dave It is totally true that money, loaned by today’s banks, is constructed from thin air.  Deposits are not required – at the point of making the loan – in order for banks to lend money.  [Note: that’s not true for credit unions] However.  Banks must find deposits to match loans, eventually.  So the … Read more

Trump Orders the DOJ and the FBI to Look Into the Illegal Spying Operation Conducted Against Him and His 2016 Election Campaign

by Chris Black This is the mother of all stories: President Trump is now calling the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the biggest scandal in American political history, which in the POTUS’ view is bigger than Watergate. Whatever you want to call it: CIA-Gate, FBI-Gate, Brannon-Gate,  we now know the name of … Read more

The Huge Fraud Behind Our Stock Market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUyBR_MM6Y Comedian Lee Camp, in a special episode of his show Redacted Tonight, has discussed whether the stock market is actually a Ponzi scheme with author Tan Liu. Liu has written a book ‘The Ponzi Factor’ – “so dangerous that financial websites, finance shows and blogs…want nothing to do with him and banned him from their … Read more

Esquire magazine: We really do want to take your guns

by Dr. Eowyn The Deep State’s relentless false-flag mass shootings are working. A major magazine has come forth calling for gun confiscation. Founded in 1933 and published by Hearst Corporation, Esquire is a U.S. men’s magazine with 31 international editions in such countries as the UK, Mexico, Middle East, Russia, China and Japan. Dave Holmes is Esquire‘s Los Angeles-based … Read more

STOCK MARKET IS RIGGED – WHAT TO DO?

Link to research platform: https://sven-carlin-research-platform… Financial markets are rigged and the whole economy is fake Low interest rates have created a unique situation. Economies are fake because you don’t know what is real value or smoke. What to do might surprise you as to play along is not such a bad idea. Something that is … Read more

New Target for a Top on the Dow

By Harry Dent I sent you a video on Friday talking about how markets were finally showing clearer direction. The dollar has had the clearest break up after trading for months between 88 and 91. That’s put a damper on gold, which may have topped out at $1,375. It’s close to breaking an important support level around $1,270, … Read more

HUGE opportunity in Puerto Rico… and the developed country whose looming debt crisis is far worse

by Simon Black We just finished a really -sensational- conference here in San Juan over the weekend showcasing Puerto Rico… with all of its challenges and opportunities. We’ve talked about this before– Puerto Rico is an attractive place to live and do business thanks to some forward thinking tax incentives which stem from its unique status … Read more

Vanguard Announces Plans To Launch Total World Bond ETF

by John_Crichton Source SEC Filing here VALLEY FORGE, Pa., May 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Vanguard today filed a preliminary registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for Vanguard Total World Bond ETF. The ETF will be the industry’s first U.S.-domiciled index product offering investors access to the entire global investment-grade bond universe in a … Read more

I almost fell for an IRS scam yesterday

by VegetableMacaroon I got a call from a Washington, D.C. number yesterday with an automated message telling me it was the “Criminal Investigation Division” of the IRS, and to call them back immediately. I did. Got on the phone with an Indian sounding man who told me his name was Matt Smith, or some generic … Read more

Hedge Fund Manager Erik Townsend: Rising Rates & Rising Yields On the 10 Year Bond Will Crack Stocks?

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 5/20/18 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, former successful software entrepreneur, hedge fund manager and host of the popular Macro Voices https://www.macrovoices.com/ podcast for financial professionals & sophisticated investors, Erik Townsend. During this hour+ long interview, Jason asks Erik about important topics including: 1) An … Read more

Kass: Rising Costs And Suffering Profit Margins

by Doug Kass A combination of so-called “demand pull” and “cost-push inflation” is sending up feedstock costs and interest expenses to levels that I believe will soon lead to a marked contraction in U.S. corporate profit margins. In fact, we already saw this phenomenon in first-quarter earnings reports across a host of industries, from consumer-packaged … Read more