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“If The US Does That, It’ll Lose Iraq Forever” – Trump Threatened To Cut Off Baghdad’s Access To Its NY Fed Cash
“If The US Does That, It’ll Lose Iraq Forever” – Trump Threatened To Cut Off Baghdad’s Access To Its NY Fed Cash After rejecting Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s request to begin talks on the withdrawal of American troops, there are now more signs of the eroding ties between the two countries. The Wall Street Journal reports that according […]
Central Banks Continue “Remarkable” Gold-Buying Spree
Central Banks Continue “Remarkable” Gold-Buying Spree Central banks continued their remarkable gold-buying spree in November and remain on pace to eclipse 2018’s near-record purchases. According to the latest numbers from the World Gold Council, central banks added 27.9 tons on a net-basis to official gold reserves in November. That brings the yearly total for 2018 […]
Past Point of No Return –John Rubino
Past Point of No Return –John Rubino Financial writer and book author John Rubino sees the world careening toward a debt reset at an increasing pace. Rubino explains, “The coming monetary reset and what that means for gold and what that means for the rest of the global financial system, you don’t need a war […]
WTF: What The Fed?!?
WTF: What The Fed?!? A video event with Mike Maloney, Grant Williams, Charles Hugh Smith and Chris & Adam Here at the start of 2020, we’ve just said good-bye to the “twenty-teens, a decade defined by central bank intervention. Since the the Great Financial Crisis that began in late 2008, the world’s central banking cartel […]
Why Sweden Ended Its Negative Interest Rate Experiment
Why Sweden Ended Its Negative Interest Rate Experiment Negative rates are the destruction of money, an economic aberration based on the mistakes of many central banks and some of their economists, who start with a wrong diagnosis: the idea that economic agents do not take more credit or invest more because they choose to save […]
Futures Tumble After Iran Fires “More Than A Dozen” Ballistic Missiles At Two US Targets In Iraq
Futures Tumble After Iran Fires “More Than A Dozen” Ballistic Missiles At Two US Targets In Iraq Update 8: The Pentagon has released a full statement on the attacks, claiming that more than a dozen missiles were fired from within Iran, and that at least two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops were targeted. Statement from […]
Some Other People Do Some Other Things
Some Other People Do Some Other Things An almighty bafflement befogs the nation as the first full business week of 2020 commences and events pile up like smashed vehicles on a weather-blinded highway. Before we even smoked that Iranian bird on the Baghdad airport tarmac, something ominous was tingling away in the financial markets, in […]
Is This “The Top”?
Is This “The Top”? Parabolic moves end when the confidence that the parabolic move can’t end becomes the consensus. The consensus seems to be that the stock market is on its way to much higher levels, and soon. The near-term targets for the S&P 500 (SPX, currently around 3,235) range from 3,500 to 4,000, with longer-term […]
Rabobank: “World War 3? The US Has Crossed A Red Line… But It’s Not The One They Think”
Rabobank: “World War 3? The US Has Crossed A Red Line… But It’s Not The One They Think” “World War Three!” is trending on social media the day I return to work after two weeks off deliberately not reading any news for once: ironic given my reputation for being bearish about geopolitics. Markets, of course, have failed to […]
2020 Begins With A Bang (Literally)
2020 Begins With A Bang (Literally) A heck of a lot happened this week It sure didn’t take long for 2020 to get interesting. Iran The biggest development of the new year happened Thursday when the US military assassinated Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful figure after its Supreme Leader, in a surgical drone strike. This is […]
Prediction Consensus: What The ‘Experts’ See Coming In 2020
Prediction Consensus: What The ‘Experts’ See Coming In 2020 Through the ages, humans have feared uncertainty. We’ve searched for clues in everything from entrails to tea leaves to the arrangement of heavenly bodies in the night sky. In the modern era, data and media are the new magic 8-ball. The jury is still out on […]
Understanding The Keys To Power
Understanding The Keys To Power Will be a survival requirement for the coming decade The past decade was undoubtedly shaped by the policy adopted by the global central banking cartel to flood the world with massive amounts of liquidity (over $15 trillion) to “rescue” markets following the Great Financial Crisis. It’s becoming increasingly clear who […]
Global Markets commentary and outlook
Global Markets commentary and outlook …..’Cause I’ve had the time of my life..and I owe it all to you.. The original song from Dirty Dancing is one of my all time favourites and somehow reminds me of the Global Markets performance this year.Every conceivable asset class (except cash) posted positive returns ,thanks to the LIQUIDITY […]
