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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| “Junkie’s Dilemma” Trade Wars with China Start Monday: Major Economic Shock Possible |
| President Donald Trump is ready to launch a new trade crackdown on China next week according to a Trump administration official.
Trump’s goal (at least one of them) is to get China to crack down on North Korea. But China knows that Trump won’t stop with North Korea. Trump will want more. Besides, China does not want North Korea destabilized more.
Meanwhile, China does not want North Korea destabilized more.
Deutsche Welle reports US President Donald Trump ponders trade war with China.
Trump hasSunday, August 13, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Brandon Smith: “Next Phase of Collapse Will Include the End of the Dollar as We Know It” |
| This article was originally published by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com.
The Federal Reserve Is A Saboteur – And The “Experts” Are Oblivious
I have written on the subject of the Federal Reserve’s deliberate sabotage of the U.S. economy many times in the past. In fact, I even once referred to the Fed as an “economic suicide bomber.” I still believe the label fits perfectly, and the Fed’s recent actions I think directly confirm my accusations.
Back in 2015, when I predicted that the central bankWednesday, June 28, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Sugar Wars, Sweet Deals, Bad Policy |
| A “sugar bomb” will detonate on June 5 unless the US and Mexico can reach an agreement on sugar imports within the next week.
If the US takes action, Mexico has threatened to retaliate. Corn and high fructose corn syrup are likely targets.
Mexico is the key buyer of US corn syrup.
Sweet Deals
Whenever manufacturers or growers cannot compete, they moan about “dumping”.
In a sweet deal for the express benefit of the sugar lobby at a huge expense to everyone else, sugar tariffs forced prices highThursday, June 1, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| The Daily Market Report: Gold Consolidates Within Yesterday’s Range, Silver Falls Further |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/04-27-17
Gold is consolidating within yesterday’s range amid conflicting fundamentals. Silver on the other hand remains defensive, slipping to a 6-week low and driving the gold/silver ratio to a 5-month high near 73.
Heightened risk appetite in the wake of the French election and the roll-out of the Trump administration’s tax plan is being tempered somewhat by geopolitical tensions, as well as concerns surrounding the specifics of the tax proposal.
Senators received “a long aThursday, April 27, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Selling the Golden Goose - Jeff Thomas |
| Venezuela is a naturally rich nation. It's ranked seventh worldwide
for biodiversity and has the world's largest reserves of oil. This is a
country that deserves, more than most, to thrive. However, as in all
countries, it passes through economic cycles and, when on a downward
curve, would-be leaders take the opportunity to claim that the "greedy
rich" have sent the economy into a tailspin (which can sometimes be the
case) and that the solution is to adopt a collectivist approach to
goverWednesday, April 26, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Obama, Bernanke and Yellen Rigged the Bond Market. Now it’s Trump Turn to Dance or be their Dunce |
| Government dysfunction is at its worst. We voted them in. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Granted, the choices were abysmal. But the Republican and Democratic parties, with no third party competition, can continue to run dysfunctional governments, whittling away our dominant global position until the cracks of our broken government becomes abundantly clear. As a society, we play right into their subterfuge of keeping us so upset at the other party, we don’t see right in front of our owMonday, March 20, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Trade Deficit Steepens Led by China: Top Six Offenders |
| The International trade deficit widened to $48.5 billion matching the Econoday consensus. Don’t give the economists too much credit because the preliminary numbers on goods gave a big tip on what was going to happen. Today’s numbers reflect goods and service.
January’s trade deficit came in very deep but at least right on expectations, at $48.5 billion and reflecting a surge in foreign consumer and vehicle imports and higher prices for imported oil.
January imports rose 2.3 percent from DecembeWednesday, March 8, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Trump’s Speech: Good, Bad, and Ugly Point-by-Point; Was Trump Preempted by the Fed |
| There was much to like and dislike in President Donald Trump’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress. Click on the link for a complete transcript. Here are the good, bad, and ugly highlights.
Trump: We have undertaken a historic effort to massively reduce job‑crushing regulations, creating a deregulation task force inside of every Government agency; imposing a new rule which mandates that for every 1 new regulation, 2 old regulations must be eliminated.
Mish: Excellent idea
Trump: We have withWednesday, March 1, 2017 |
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 | Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
| Did President-Elect Trump Just Inadvertently Kill The Golden Goose |
| President-Elect Trump may have just unwittingly sowed an equity market draw-down
which will send even more protesters into the streets of America. Donald Trump's
stated economic policies are clearly pro-growth and if he manages to implement
his pro-business, anti-regulation agenda, in the longer term they have the
potential to surpass the bold and successful initiatives of Ronald Reagan.
However, in the near term he has already unknowingly just shot himself in the
foot.
To understanTuesday, November 15, 2016 |
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 | Ty Andros - traderview |
| It's a Currency and Financial Extinction Event |
| President Nixon changed from a reserve backed system where the dollar was semi redeemable in gold and silver to a system that has no backing.
"It was the greatest heist in history. It was the greatest transfer of wealth from the public to the 'bankseters'."
He did this so that he wouldn't have to operate in a prudent manner. Prudent manner means have to pass laws and have taxes which gives people a reason to get up in the morning and have the ability to do the capitalism which was discussed earlier. When you have bad laws and bad regulations, the economy will either collapse or they have to print the money to fill the whole; unfortunately they chose the latter.Friday, March 18, 2016 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| The funding model of the World Gold Council: GLD Fees and Gold Miner Dues |
| In a little noticed development at the end of March 2015, World Gold Council (WGC) member company Newcrest Mining of Australia ceased to be a member of the WGC, thereby reducing the Council’s membership from 19 to 18 gold mining companies. Newcrest Mining is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies and Australia’s largest gold miner.
This exit by Newcrest Mining from the World Gold Council followed similar exits in 2014 by three other gold mining companies, namely, the very large South ATuesday, June 9, 2015 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Hitting the High Notes of African Resource MA: Nana Sangmuah |
| With six mining deals in 16 months, mining takeovers in African nations are happening with increasing frequency, and Nana Sangmuah, managing director of research with Toronto-based Clarus Securities, says more African M&A is on the way. But he cautions investors about companies high-grading reserves to generate cash flow. When the music stops, Sangmuah says, those companies will crash. In this interview with The Gold Report, Sangmuah tells investors how to avoid the party crashers and seek namesMonday, March 9, 2015 |
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 | Darryl Robert Schoon - Survive the Crisis |
The Price of Gold and the Art of War, Part I  |
| If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float bySun Tzu, The Art of War, Fifth century BCOnly fools and the ideologically impaired believe that today?s capital markets are free. In free markets, prices are determined by supply and demand. In capital markets, supply and demand considerations are subordinated to capitalism?s increasingly dysfunctional monetary menses, i.e. credit flows, emanating from central banks. Of all markets, today?s gold markets are the least fThursday, September 11, 2014 |
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| Ty Andros - traderview |
Useful Idiots and the Something For Nothing Society - Part V of V  |
| In this final chapter of Useful Idiots and the Something for Nothing society,
we show the final elements leading to the societal and economic collapse that
we are currently caught in. The system I have outlined here and in
previous chapters is INSANE when viewed through the lens of history. Unfortunately,
our leaders and our society have forgotten it and, therefore, we are doomed
to repeat it. Nothing will stop it and very little can be done to slow it down.
You must embrace it, acknFriday, September 5, 2014 |
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| Ty Andros - traderview |
 Useful Idiots and the Something For Nothing Society - Part 1 of 3 |
| This week's TedBits is as important a commentary as any I have ever written
in my 10+ years writing Austrian analysis of the unfolding world macroeconomics
and geopolitical situation. It covers the origins, causes and destinations
we are headed for, the participants, historical context and the future based
upon past episodes: Past, present and future so to speak. I hope you enjoy
it. Best wishes Ty.
Adam Smith in his seminal book, Wealth of Nations, outlined how all great
empires resFriday, July 25, 2014 |
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 | Jeffrey Lewis |
| The Perfect Crime and the Plight of the Modern Silverite |
| Silver is not just any old commodity. It is old money. Despite massive efforts and price fixing, clipping and manipulation, it has remained central to monetary and political systems for centuries. Today it is small and relatively dark in the context of modern investing.Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the desperation to buy and hold metal should simply be proportional to the desperation of the will of the monetary powers to maintain the status quo.Here's a quote from ZeroHedge thThursday, July 17, 2014 |
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| Ty Andros - traderview |
| Witches Brew: Fingers of Instability Part V |
| Blood sport
In what is BECOMING the deadliest game of CHICKEN since the August 2011 US
debt ceiling Showdown, we are at the doorstep of part II. In a game of chicken,
two cars rush headlong towards each other to see who veers off first. Occasionally,
neither driver does and both parties perish in the collision. Usually, it is
just the drivers who pass away from their imprudence; in this case it will
be the spectators. Just like children playing with FIRE who BURN the HOUSE
down. BlooFriday, October 11, 2013 |
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| Ty Andros - traderview |
| Witches Brew: Fingers of Instability - Part II |
| In this edition of fingers of instability we will be covering a wide range
of subjects as the centrally planned socialist economies of the developed
world continue to fail. These challenges to economic growth and market imbalances
grow and grow because they can do so when supported by money printed out
of thin air. Just today the new york times summed it up quite nicely:
"In the blink of an eye this week, they made the size of the American economy
grow by $560 billion."
TMonday, August 12, 2013 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
 Rand Paul Has the Right Idea, Congress Should Apologize to Apple; Holy Grail of Tax Avoidance; The " |
| Rand Paul created quite a stir in Congress when he Tweeted 'The Senate should apologize to Apple'.
@SenRandPaul:
Instead of examining our broken tax system, the US Senate is about to
harass Apple-one of the greatest business success stories in history.
@SenRandPaul: I am offended by a $4 trillion government bullying, berating and badgering one of America's greatest success stories.
@SenRandPaul:
To US Senate: I say, instead of Apple executives, you should have
brought in a giant mirror if Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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| Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
| Something For Nothing Societies |
| The developed world has now become a fully operational Something-for-Nothing
society. Once a Something-for-Nothing psychology has been fully implemented
the majority of its citizens have become the functional equivalent of LOCUSTS!
Once they have achieved voting majorities the economies they inhabit are much
like a farmer's field. They eat everything down to the roots and next years
seed corn. NothWednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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