A less-respected U.S. dollar will have major implications for world trade and American consumers U.S. economic power is founded, in part, on the primacy of its currency. While this role has been questioned at various times over the past half a century, current geopolitical developments pose the most serious challenge yet to the U.S. dollar’s dominance. In rejecting, the idea of a single, [...]
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Gold And The Shrinking Trust Horizon
via John Rubino's Substack Last week I posted an article on the implosion of the official vaccine narrative. That’s a controversial topic so not surprisingly it generated some heat on both sides. And a few readers expressed the wish that I’d stay in my lane (precious metals investing) and avoid venturing into unrelated and less well understood territory. But believe it or[...]
BLOWBACK – Sanctions Unleash Global Counter Attacks, Pent-up De-Dollarization Desires Emerge
March 31, 2022 For over two decades, numerous financial commentators have predicted the US Dollar status as global reserve currency would eventually diminish then end. While this position was dismissed by most in the mainstream financial media and academia, it should not be shocking since all past reserve currencies were eventually displaced. The abuses, manipulations, and chicanery[...]
Will Russia Turn to Gold to Save the Ruble? Possible Pivot in the Financial War.
March 24, 2022 Originally published by QTR's Fringe Finance Russia Will Backstop The Ruble With Gold. The backstopping of the Ruble with gold can come in many forms and doesn’t have to be a direct peg from the Ruble to gold - it can include accepting payment for oil in gold. Now that Russia has come right out and said it will only transact in Rubles when selling oil to[...]
Gregory Mannarino Critical Video Message – Major Global Deleveraging Occurring NOW!
Gregory Mannarino belives we are on the cusp of a financail catastrophe. Click the image for his video message: [...]
Bo Polny – It’s All Down from Here, Except Gold and Silver – Audio Interview
Bo Polny talks with Kerry Lutz and provides his perspective on major markets. He’s calling for a major sell-off on the dollar and treasuries. He also sees a major sell-off on world stock markets as well. It’s going to occur before summer and this will lead to a major increase in gold and silver prices. He believes that you need to be long gold and silver and short the dollar and bonds.[...]
The Great Disconnect——Central Bank Driven “Markets” Have Nothing To Do With Economics
by David Stockman The German bund yield is soaring like a rocket today. After touching on the truly lunatic rate of 5 bps only a few weeks back, it has just crossed the 60 bps marker. Needless to say, when a blue chip 10-year bond widely held on @95% repo leverage moves that far that fast—–there is some heavy duty furniture breakage happening in fast money land. But don’t cry[...]
The End Is Near, Corporations Are The Ultimate Dumb Money
by John Rubino on May 4, 2015 David Stockman just published a chart so compelling that he didn’t feel the need to add any commentary. But there are a few things to be said about the tendency of public companies to repurchase their shares at the very top: “Peak buyback” is a sign that executives are seeing fewer opportunities to generate positive returns by building new factories or[...]
The Catalyst For The Next Global Crisis Is About To Be Triggered
Today the man who first predicted Greek bank deposits would be stolen warned King World News that the catalyst for the next global crisis is about to be triggered. He also discussed the shockwaves that will result from the coming crisis as well as what to expect in the metals. James Turk: "Slowly but surely, Eric, the bulls are gaining control of the precious metals market. We are seeing[...]
The Shock Doctrine: When Order Trumps Personal Freedom – Jim Rickards
Editor’s Note: Jim Rickards has published a third book entitled “The Big Drop: How to Grow Your Wealth During the Coming Collapse.” It’s available exclusively for readers of his monthly investment letter called Strategic Intelligence. Before you read today’s essay, please click here to see why it’s the resource every investor should have if they’re concerned about the future of [...]