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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
The West Will Become The New ‘Third World’: PricewaterhouseCoopers  |
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The West Will Become The New ‘Third World’: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Written by Jeff Nielson (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)
First World
The term “First World” refers to so called developed, capitalist, industrial countries, roughly, a bloc of countries aligned with the United States after word war II, with more or less common political and economiSunday, January 17, 2021 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Never-Ending Wars of the United States of America |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary Geologist"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefiMonday, November 23, 2020 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
Copernicus, Galileo and Gold. Part I  |
| We are deceived when we consent to think about the “price of gold”. At the very outset of our thoughts regarding gold, we are wrong, just as astronomers prior to Copernicus were wrong in thinking about the solar system as geo-centric, with the Sun, Moon and planets describing perfect circles around Earth. Gold is - to follow the astronomical simile - the center of the monetary universe, and the planets - the currencies - circle the Sun, which represents gold.
The correct starting point isTuesday, June 9, 2020 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Trade Wars |
| An overt trade war has commenced. President Trump has fired the starting gun, setting in motion an election promise, part of his Make America Great Again undertaking. It is a blow squarely aimed against China, costing China some trade perhaps, but basically a loser’s last roll of the dice.The back story appears to be far deeper than some relatively minor tariffs on steel and aluminium would suggest. It comes after a prolonged period of shadow-boxing between America in the blue corner and Russia Friday, March 9, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Start of Chinese New Year Holiday See Gold Bullion Whip on US Inflation Data, Turkey Threatens 'Ottoman Slap' |
| GOLD BULLION prices fell as the Dollar jumped on stronger-than-expected US inflation data Wednesday, only to recover the drop as fixed-income bond prices fell, pushing longer-term interest rates higher once more.
World stock markets also sank and then rallied on the news, with Germany's Dax regaining a previous 1.0% loss by mid-afternoon in Frankfurt.
Gold priced in non-US currencies also spikedWednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Pakistan is the closest the NY Times will get to gold-rigging story |
| Cast your bread upon the waters, the Bible says somewhere, and pray that something comes back besides overweight seagulls.
GATA does a lot of casting, usually without result, but you never know when and where someone will pick up on it, and this week a teacher and writer in Pakistan, Taha Ali, did. Ali, who writes for Pakistan's national English-language newspaper, the Express-Tribune, cited GATA in a commentary about bitcoin to explain why the cryptocurrency rose so sharply in price amid an expSunday, January 21, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Risks 'Double Top' vs Falling Dollar as Turkey, Pakistan Challenge US Foreign Policy |
| GOLD PRICES pulled back from 4-month highs above $1340 per ounce for the third day running in London on Wednesday, again trading lower for non-Dollar investors as the US currency fell once more.
Asian and European stock markets also headed south after Wall Street marked a "key reversal"
from fresh all-time record highs for technical analysts, closing 0.5% lower overnight after rising sharply earlier on Tuesday.
Thursday, January 18, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Jumps vs. Sinking Dollar But Weak Demand for Bars, Comex Leads as India-Pakistan Nuclear Tensions Worsen |
| GOLD BAR prices shot to new 4-month highs against the Dollar in wholesale trade on Monday morning in London as the US currency plunged to a 3-year low versus the world's other currencies amid worsening tensions between nuclear states India and Pakistan,
write Steffen Grosshauser and Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
With US markets shut for Martin Luther King Day, Asian shares hit historic highs, following Wall Street's new record-high clTuesday, January 16, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Market Analysis For 2018 – Part Two |
| Part one discussed global stock and bond markets. Read it here. Since that article was written stock indices have bubbled higher. Some analysts are talking “melt-up” for stock markets. Regardless, bubbles crash eventually.
Part two addresses the U.S. dollar and gold prices.
The Dollar
The Dollar Index dropped from 102.28 on December 30, 2016 to 91.82 on December 29, 2017. The Index tracks the floating value of various unbacked fiat currencies against other fiat currencies also backed by nothingMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Pakistan ditches dollar for trade with China hours after Trump's denunciation |
| Just 24 hours after President Donald Trump took aim at Pakistan on Twitter, the South Asian nation already appears to be cozying up to the world's second-largest economy.
A day after the U.S. leader slammed Islamabad for harboring terrorists in a New Year's Day tweet, Pakistan's central bank announced that it will be replacing the dollar with the yuan for bilateral trade and investment with Beijing.
The same day, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang defended Islamabad's counter-terroriFriday, January 5, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Pakistan examines Chinese proposal to replace dollar with yuan |
| ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Officials in Pakistan say a Chinese proposal to replace the U.S. dollar with yuan for bilateral trade is under consideration.
Beijing has already committed to investing around $60 billion in the country by 2030 under a long-term plan of development cooperation with Islamabad, known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC.
Bilateral trade between the two countries stood at around $14 billion in 2015 to 2016. Officials anticipate the trade volume is likely to incrWednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
 ONLY CONTRARIANS WILL SURVIVE |
| We are currently standing before one of the most unique and frightening periods in history. Never have there been so many extremes in so many different areas. In the last 100 years everything seems to have developed so much faster, including population, technology, inflation, debt, money printing, budget deficits, stock, bond and property prices, crypto currencies etc.
All of these areas are now in an exponential growth phase. The final stage of exponential growth is explosive and looks like a sSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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 | Rory Hall - Sprott Money |
| The Real “New World Order” Is Coming To Life - Rory Hall |
| If you want to see what is going to change the lives of your children
and grandchildren, look no further than the map published below. This
is WHERE the future will be, regardless of the naysayers. The Belt and
Road Initiative is going to transform the world and, once this project
is 25-30% complete – within the next 5-7 years – the impact will be felt
globally.
Natural resources will be funneled into the Eastern countries, or
they will simply never leave from the country they mined or extSaturday, November 4, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| Thar She Blows! |
| I’m obliged to file this blog before Robert Mueller’s office releases the name of the first winner in the Russian Election Meddling tribunal indictment lottery. Most of the betting is on Paul Manafort, the Swamp-creature-fixer-lobbyist-grifter who spent his summer vacation of 2016 managing Donald Trump’s election campaign.
Before that unfortunate summer internship, Manafort was just a shadier-than-average influence-peddler. It happened that many of his clients were bigshots in foreign lands — MoMonday, October 30, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Rallies as China Fears 'Minsky Moment' 30 Years After Black Monday, Spain and India Add to Tensions |
| GOLD PRICE losses of 2.0% for the week so far were cut to 1.2% lunchtime Thursday in London, as world equities fell from new record highs and government bond yields rose against a backdrop of fresh geopolitical tensions from Spain to India and China.
After Wall Street set new all-time highs last night, gold priced against the rising US Dollar touched $1288 per ounce as Western stock markets marked the 30th anniversary of October 1987's Black MonThursday, October 19, 2017 |
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| Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| UNPREDEDENTED GLOBAL RISK – NO ONE CARES |
| “Risk involves the chance an investment’s actual return will differ from the expected return. Risk includes the possibility of losing some or all of the original investment.” (Investopedia)
So there we have it. Risk means that you can lose part or all of the investment. Normally valuations take risk into account. But is the world really valuing the following risks accurately:
A very risky world
Wars
North Korea – South Korea – USA – Japan – China – Russia incl. nuclear war
Ukraine – USA – RussiSaturday, September 16, 2017 |
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 | Steve St Angelo - SRSRocco Report |
| THE U.S. PETRO DOLLAR BREAKDOWN CONTINUES: Big Moves In Gold And Silver Ahead |
| By Steve St. AngeloThe four-decade long monopoly of the U.S. Petro-Dollar as the world’s reserve currency is coming to an end. Unfortunately, most Americans have no clue that when the Dollar loses its reserve currency status, life will get a lot tougher living in the U.S. of A. Let’s say, Americans will finally receive “Precious metals religion.”The U.S. Dollar Index fell considerably yesterday and is now down below a key support level. In early morning trading yesterday, the U.S. Dollar IndeThursday, September 14, 2017 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Gold – crossing the Rubicon |
| Gold is challenging the $1300 level for the third time this year. If it breaks upwards out of this consolidation phase convincingly, it could be an important event, signalling a dollar that will continue to weaken.The factors driving the dollar lower are several and disparate. The US economy is sluggish relative to the rest of the world, the rise of Asia from which America is excluded is unstoppable, geopolitics are shifting away from US global dominance, and the end is in sight for monopolisticSunday, August 27, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Morning Snapshot: Gold choppy at high end of range |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/08-22-17
Gold continues to trade within the recent range below $1300. Gold is oscillating as risk appetite ebbs and flows amid varied political and geopolitical risks. However, those risks should keep gold underpinned.
President Trump’s speech last night suggests the U.S. is in Afghanistan to stay. He also ratcheted-up pressure on Pakistan, calling them out for providing “safe havens for terrorist organizations.” Mr. Trump then called for a strategic counter-terror partnershiTuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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 | John Browne - Euro Pacific Capital |
| The Swamp Strikes Back |
| On August 21st many Americans witnessed the moon cast a historic but short-lived shadow across the United States. One day later, President Trump reversed his previously stated position on the 16 year old Afghan War, thereby eclipsing the possibility that the United States would finally come to its senses and rethink a failed strategy that is likely to fail for years, perhaps decades, to come. The abrupt change, in what had been a central plank in candidate Trump's appeal to voters thirsting forThursday, August 3, 2017 |
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