U.S. Exports Nearly All Gold Mine Supply To Hong Kong

BY SRSROCCO The U.S. gold exports to Hong Kong surged in February consuming nearly all of the domestic gold mine supply.  According to the USGS recent Gold Mineral Industry Survey, February gold exports to Hong Kong more than doubled compared to the prior month.  This was an interesting increase in gold demand from Hong Kong as … Read more

Auto Sales Forecast To Tank In April

via Investment Research Dynamics  JD Powers and LMC Automotive are projecting auto sales to drop 8% in April from a year-ago April: For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long term…Sales are expected to drop further … Read more

See A Bubble? Get Out Of The Way.

by John Coumarianos In early March, we reprinted an article I wrote for Citywire on bubbles. That article focused on an academic paper called “Bubbles for Fama” by Robin Greenwood, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You on spotting bubbles that tried to provide a definition that would satisfy proponents of the efficient markets hypothesis who doubt that bubbles … Read more

For every Amazon package it delivers, the Postal Service loses $1.46. Bezos Subsidized by USPS using Taxpayer Dollars

In fact, they’ve climbed so much, according to a recent analysis by Citigroup, that the Postal Service should be charging Amazon $1.46 more per package than the $2 or so it does now. “Amazon now enjoys low rates unavailable to its competitors,” the Journal story said. “It’s as if Amazon gets a subsidized space on every … Read more

Senior Democrat Caught on Tape Pressuring Progressive Congressional Candidate to Drop Out of Race

A new exposé by The Intercept confirms how powerful Democratic officials have worked to crush competitive progressive candidates in primaries around the US, choosing instead to back moderate, business-friendly candidates. This comes after President Obama used his farewell address to encourage Americans upset about the outcome of the 2016 election to take action by running … Read more

Stay away from Latin America where life is cheap – over 2.5 MILLION people murdered there since 2000!

A new report by the Igarapé Institute, a Brazil-based think tank focused on security and development issues says that “The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking.” The publication, released on Thursday, paints a bleak portrait of what it calls the world’s most homicidal continent. Latin America suffers 33% of the world’s homicides despite having … Read more

Who Really Controls the US Government

What Do “Shadow Government” and “Deep State” Mean? Shadow government and deep state are both political terms in a sense, as they’re used to define the groups of people who control the U.S. government, not referring to the people within political parties that perceivably control the system — not the Presidents or Congress — but the … Read more

A Yale University Study Finds 1/3 of FDA Approved Drugs have “new” safety issue detected after approval

Big Pharma owns the approval process. Drugs are produced for potential profit, not based on how well they actually work. via yale.edu: Nearly one out of every three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have a new safety issue detected in the years after approval, says a Yale-led study. While most of the … Read more

Bill Cosby – Guilty on ALL counts – Up to 10 years for each count of three counts of aggrivated assault

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Legendary comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty Thursday of drugging and assaulting a woman, capping off the star’s slow demise that began in 2014 when dozens of women began accusing the TV icon of sexual assault. After 14 hours of deliberations, the jury reached a verdict around 1:30 p.m. … Read more