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Peter Schiff: We’re Heading for Recession No Matter What the Fed Does With Rates
Peter Schiff: We’re Heading for Recession No Matter What the Fed Does With Rates Jerome Powell took center stage last week and the Federal Reserve chair didn’t do anything to dampen expectations of a rate cut. His comments sent both stocks and gold higher. Peter Schiff recently appeared on RT Boom Bust with University of Amherst economics […]
“A 6th Grader Should Know America’s Foreign Policy Is Ridiculous”
“A 6th Grader Should Know America’s Foreign Policy Is Ridiculous” Policies which can ensure peace or ignite wars are important. Given this, one might think more Americans would critically examine the basic assumptions which form the basis of our nation’s foreign policy. As best I can tell, only three such assumptions or premises exist: To […]
Core Consumer Price Inflation Prints Hotter Than Expected
Core Consumer Price Inflation Prints Hotter Than Expected Having slowed and disappointed for the last two months, all eyes are on US consumer price index growth (which was expected to slow once again in June) this morning as the next Fed rate-cut narrative confirmation. The problem for rate-cut-hopers is that the picture is mixed at […]
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, American Decline
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, American Decline Did Donald Trump just make his first genuine mistake in the race for reelection in 2020? As I wrote during the 2016 campaign, The Donald had one striking distinction. He was the only candidate (or essentially American politician) of that moment who didn’t feel obliged to claim that the U.S. was not […]
UAE Withdraws From Yemen
UAE Withdraws From Yemen Christopher Pike for the Crown Prince Court-Abu Dhabi A United Arab Emirates decision to withdraw the bulk of its forces from Yemen shines a spotlight on hard realities underlying Middle Eastern geopolitics. The pullback suggests that the UAE is preparing for the possibility of a US military confrontation with Iran in which the […]
Persian Gulf Conflict Could Send Oil Beyond $325
Persian Gulf Conflict Could Send Oil Beyond $325+ The possibility of Iran attempting to close the Strait of Hormuz to tanker traffic has increased significantly in recent weeks, as has the possibility of a Persian Gulf War, especially with the Islamic Republics’ intentional destruction of a U.S. surveillance drone on June 20. This act provides weight to […]
Are We Really Free? Maybe It’s Time for a Personal Declaration of Independence
Are We Really Free? Maybe It’s Time for a Personal Declaration of Independence Some time between throwing some burgers on the grill and shooting off fireworks with a beer in one hand and a lighter in the other, ask yourself this question: How free and independent are you? How independent are any of us, really? […]
Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. History of Provocation
Provoking World War III with Iran and a U.S. History of Provocation In the history of the United States and its history of interventionism, the recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman seem to be foreboding and ominous signs of what may come—an inevitable war with the Islamic Republic of Iran? To […]
US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home
US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home As I set out to fly home from the UK on Monday following a short film project in Cambridge, I found my boarding pass, which I had been blocked from obtaining online the night before, carrying a bold-faced SSSS stamp in […]
How Iran Will Determine If The US Dollar Remains The World’s Reserve Currency
How Iran Will Determine If The US Dollar Remains The World’s Reserve Currency For almost two centuries, Sterling reigned supreme as the world’s reserve currency, propping up the vast British Empire which was the world’s superpower during the 19th century and the early 20th. Then, in the span of just a few months, everything changed […]
Shale oil and gas: Destroying capital one well at a time
Shale oil and gas: Destroying capital one well at a time Recently, the former CEO of the largest shale gas producer in the United States told a roomful of conference goers what any competent financial analysis would have revealed many years ago: the shale oil and gas industry as a whole has been destroying capital since its […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – 4th July 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – 4th July 2019 “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” In the headlines this morning: https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching Subscribe to podcast via: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blains-financial-porridge/id1469567347 Happy birthday America! This morning’s intro-quote is over 170 years old – and I could only use it […]
On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade US Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another US Plane
On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade US Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another US Plane Today a manned US reconnaissance plane entered Iranian airspace in a clear attempt to provoke Iran into shooting it down. Such an incident would have created an occasion for Trump to give the American people a special […]
You had better memorize the term: de-dol-la-ri-za-tion
You had better memorize the term: de-dol-la-ri-za-tion Some say it was Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, who wanted to dethrone the dollar, and so he paid for it with his own life. Others say it was Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein, who wanted to make settlements in a currency other than the US dollar, and he was hanged. […]
THE UNITED STATES A NET OIL EXPORTER?? The Dirty Little Secret
THE UNITED STATES A NET OIL EXPORTER?? The Dirty Little Secret The United States became a net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years, or so they say. While the U.S. may indeed be exporting more petroleum than it imports from time to time, there’s a dirty little secret behind the data. And […]
