via Mark DeCambre There is one easy way for the U.S. to resolve a growing trade deficit—and perhaps a brewing tariff conflict—with China that is at the heart of a clash between the world’s biggest superpowers over import duties. Goldman Sachs …
The biggest lie on the Street is This time it’s different…. Now I understand why the deep state is going after Trump He must know about this scam that Wall Street and China set up. I remember when he first …
Since 2013 China has been creating 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year. The country is now embarking on its biggest rainmaking project ever. In terms of the plan, announced this month, Chinese authorities intend to force rainfall and …
by Ruby Henley Dustin Nemos is one of those truth seekers I follow on YouTube, and he stays on top of all that is occurring around us. He is intelligent and well versed. One aspect I have come to …
With snows and well below normal temperatures across the northern Hemisphere, China is looking at 30 F below normal for the wheat and corn zones in HeiLongJiang, Massive cold front across Asia dropping temperatures 30F, same is happening in the …
Interesting that this kind of component-level work on these boards is common enough that he just went out and bought a nice bespoke jig for holding the logic board while he worked on it, and it even had spots to …
This is basically a summary of “The Accidental Superpower” by Peter Zeihan. h/t Transceiver
This time it’s real. Here’s why… If the U.S. needed to invade Iraq and Libya to protect the petrodollar, then you can be sure that they need China’s help to protect the petrodollar. The U.S. can’t afford to lose any …
India bans bitcoin wallets and trading cryptocurrencies. Venezuela is doing the opposite, they want to pay for goods using their cryptocurrency. The US has the largest trade deficit since the financial crisis. Trump pushes trade wars with China, tries to …
US trade deficit rises to near 9½-year high The Commerce Department said the trade gap rose 1.6 percent to $57.6 billion. That was the highest level since October 2008. Part of the rise in the trade deficit in February reflected …
Turning Hard Times Into Good Times, Released on 4/4/18 Alasdair Macleod discusses China’s plans for independence and how that may impact the well being of the western world and what to do to protect yourself. Alasdair Macleod is head of …
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to this 6:40 Short video h/t TheAviator
by Chris Black If you were not paying attention, the White House threatened on Tuesday to slap tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, which will affect 1300 categories of products. Chinese imports that will suffer from 25 …
CHINA MILITARY TELLS RUSSIA ‘WE’VE COME TO SUPPORT YOU’ AGAINST U.S. China’s military leadership has pledged its support to Russia as tensions between Moscow and the West further deteriorate into diplomatic isolation, economic sanctions and dueling defense drills. In his first …
China announced additional tariffs on 106 U.S. products, in a move likely to heighten global concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s biggest economies. The new charges are targeted at U.S. products including soybeans, cars and whisky. The …
Just days after Beijing officially launched Yuan-denominated crude oil futures (with a bang, as shown in the chart below, surpassing Brent trading volume) which are expected to quickly become the third global price benchmark along Brent and WTI, China took …
by ShellOilNigeria https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/surveillance-03302018111415.html By 2020, China will have completed its nationwide facial recognition and surveillance network, achieving near-total surveillance of urban residents, including in their homes via smart TVs and smartphones. According to the official Legal Daily newspaper, the 13th …
China seems ramped up to pursue facial recognition technology everywhere in China. Is this going to be the same for the U.S. in the near future? Important look on a future with big brother. By 2020, China will have completed …
Just days after Beijing officially launched Yuan-denominated crude oil futures (with a bang, as shown in the chart below, surpassing Brent trading volume) which are expected to quickly become the third global price benchmark along Brent and WTI, China took the next …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders PART I Recent news of the US enacting $60 billion in economic tariffs on China as well as reactionary tactics from China have everyone spooked. The US stock markets and global markets tanked last week as …
From Birch Gold Group Since 2015, we have been reporting about China’s new gold-backed petroyuan and its imminent unveiling on the world stage. In fact, earlier this month we wrote: On March 26 China will finally launch a yuan-dominated oil futures contract. Over the …
In the space between what Winston Churchill called jaw-jaw that’s negotiation and war-war that’s war there’s the phony war. As the China war temperature drifts for cold war to hot, we get a dose of trade war posturing from the …
China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market Yuan-denominated contract begins trading in Shanghai Monday Domestic futures start 25 years after idea was first mooted It’s taken a quarter of a century, but China finally has its …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the growing trade war between China and the United States as both countries place tariffs on each other’s products, raising the cost of living inside their own countries in …
by Lily Excellent talk on China’s tactics. including its use of Australia and New Zealand as test beds on the strategies to use in influencing and undermining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7zamPvmlQ ‘PetroYuan’ Futures Launch With A Bang, Volume Dominates Brent As Big Traders Step In As we detailed previously, China’s yuan-denominated crude oil futures launched overnight in Shanghai with 62,500 contracts traded in aggregate, meaning over 62 million barrels of oil changed hands for …
Per Kitco, Copper slid to its lowest since early December on Monday, weighed down by a sharp rise in stockpiles and simmering concerns over the outlook for U.S.-China trade relations. U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Friday …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Hot and heavy breathing can be heard behind the scenes. Negotiations – led on the US side by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and on the Chinese side by Liu He, …
