Coronavirus And Credit – A Perfect Storm Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, This article posits that the spread of the coronavirus coincides with the downturn in the global credit cycle, with potentially catastrophic results. At the time of writing, analysts are still trying to get to grips with the virus’s economic impact and they […]
Meet The 5 Hedge Fund Managers Who Made More Than $1 Billion Each In 2019 Despite the record inflows into passive investing products and a record amount of Fed liquidity constantly forcing U.S. equity markets to all time highs, there are still some “old school” hedge fund managers on the street managing to cash big […]
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Mystery Of The Great British Gold Sale Authored (via Tweet-thread) by Ed Conway, Economics Editor at Sky News, This is a story about a chart. A pretty astonishing chart. A chart that has all sorts of consequences, including misleading ministers, distorting our view on the nature of the UK economy and creating a […]
Bill Gates Warns “10 Million Lives” At Risk As Virus Spreads To Africa And Taiwan Reports First Death Summary: Taiwan reports 1st coronavirus death There are now at least 68,500 cases worldwide, and at least 1,665 deaths from the Covid-19 virus Japan found 70 more cases aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship Second African confirms […]
Skynet Does Theme Parks: Meet Disney’s Dystopian Flying Superhero Robots While we’re certain many in government are scheming on how to use robotics to fight wars of the future and/or control the human race as a whole, Disney appears to showing us that the robotics future may not be all doom and gloom. At least for […]
North Macedonia Is Being Used by NATO To Target Serbia & Russia Authored by Paul Antonopoulos via AntiWar.com, The North Macedonian House of Representatives this week unanimously approved for their country to accept the NATO Accession Protocol, taking the former Yugoslav Republic a step closer towards accession into NATO which is expected to be completed and finalized […]
Germans & Americans Skeptical Of NATO’s Value Most of the world views NATO in a favorable light, according to a Pew Research Center survey, however citizens of two major members – the U.S. and Germany – did not show higher-than-average levels of favorability towards the 71-year-old alliance. The survey showed a median favorability of 53 percent […]
What Happens In Thuringia, Won’t Stay In Thuringia Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Last week I outlined why Thuringia was ground zero for seismic shifts in German politics. The fallout from the bombshell dropped on Chancellor Angela Merkel continues this week. First Merkel had to remove hand-picked successor Annagret Kramp-Karrenbauer […]
The Geopolitics Of Biological Weapons, Part 2: Efficiency & Deployment Authored by Larry Romanoff via GlobalResearch.ca, Read Part 1 here… It should be apparent that the launching of bio-warfare, as with conventional warfare, is considerably eased by locating military bases, offensive weapons and delivery systems as physically close as possible to one’s potential enemies. This […]
Planet-Killer? NASA On Alert For ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Fast-Approaching Earth NASA has confirmed that a potentially hazardous asteroid is traveling towards Earth at a mind-numbing 34,000 mph this weekend, the International Business Times reported. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) detected the incoming asteroid as 163373 (2002 PZ39), measures about 3,250 feet across, and is expected […]
Socialism: A Brief Taxonomy Authored by Allen Gindler via The Mises Institute, There are myriads of words written about socialism, and yet lots of misconceptions about it still exist even in the minds of those who are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. The most striking and frequent blunders are the identification of socialism […]
Dan Loeb’s Luxury Yacht Slams Into “The Most Remarkable Reef In The West Indies” Near Belize When you become a billionaire, you run into a whole new class of problems that you sometimes have to deal with. For instance, those making minimum wage at a Burger King somewhere, while honorable work, may not have the […]
The Koch-Soros Quincy Project: A Train Wreck Of Neocon And ‘Humanitarian’ Interventionists Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Those hoping the non-interventionist cause would be given some real muscle if a couple of oligarchs who’ve made fortunes from global interventionism team up and pump millions into Washington think tanks will […]
Senate Dems Question Trump’s Response To Virus: “Very Grave Threat To The World” In what will likely come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has been capable of fogging a mirror for the last few years, Senate Democrats have decided to write a sternly-worded email to the Trump administration questioning their response to the […]
The Philippines Want The US Out… And They’re Not Alone Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The pawns of the Grand Chessboard are starting to move much more boldly – in an unpredicted by the punditry decision the Philippines have asked U.S. forces to leave their islands indefinitely. It was impossible to […]
Bernie Sanders Punk’d By Russians Posing As Greta Thunberg Two Russian pranksters duped U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders into believing they were climate change activist Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante. Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov told A.P. News they fooled Sanders in an 11-minute call, all recorded and uploaded to YouTube on Friday. The call was allegedly […]
Is Political Change Coming To China? Authored by Yuen Yuen Ang via Project Syndicate, In contemporary China, profound political transformation can – and has – taken place in the absence of regime change or Western-style democratization. The starkest example is the period of “reform and opening” that began in 1978 under Deng Xiaoping’s charge. Although Deng rejected […]
“Tankers, Tankers. Everywhere!” – Virus Causes Historic’ Traffic Jam’ Across Asian Supply Lines Covid-19’s effect on global energy markets has been disastrous. OPEC slashed its oil demand forecast last week, and Goldman Sachs doubled down on its bearish oil take and has cut its oil price target by $10 to $53 for the year, as a result […]
Is Poetic Justice Coming For The 1%? Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, To understand just how grim the coming decade is likely to be for the world’s super-rich, let’s start with three premises: 1) Capitalist democracy — defined as free individuals managing their own property and periodically electing new leaders — is the only […]
Investors Agree To Unprecedented 95% “Gate” As They Hand $3 Billion To Englander’s Millennium Back in 2014, we speculated that as the market rose ever higher on ever lower liquidity and ever more central bank intervention, if and when the moment came that price discovery was permitted again, the avalanche of selling would be unstoppable […]
The Gold-Silver Ratio Authored by ‘mickeyman’ via The World Complex blog, A couple of weeks ago, Wheaton Precious Metals released a very useful study on the gold-silver ratio. Today I would like to take a look at some of its implications. The most important implication is one that everyone needs a little time to absorb. That is […]
Trump & Erdogan Discuss Ending “Unacceptable” Syrian Offensive To Take Back Idlib On Saturday President Trump held a much anticipated and crucial phone call with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan at a moment tensions are soaring over Idlib, and after a week of direct confrontations between the Syrian and Turkish armies left scores dead and wounded […]
Senate Attacks Judy Shelton For Sin Of Being Outside The Mainstream Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Earlier this week, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing for President Trump’s two most recent Federal Reserve nominees. In one chair sat Christopher Waller, vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank […]
Wuhan’s Hastily-Constructed 1,000-Bed Coronavirus Hospital Is Already Falling Apart The 1,000-bed hospital constructed in about a week to handle the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, opened its doors about 13 days ago, or around Feb 03, has already experienced a massive water leak that has flooded hallways, according to an alleged video posted by Twitter handle Harry Chen […]
Five Signs That Ethereum’s Moment Has Come Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, Ether has more than doubled in value so far this year, with strong fundamentals and increasing numbers of projects being built on the network. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph Here are five signs from this week that Ethereum’s time may have finally come. […]
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