Category Archives: Finance

– All things to do with money

De-Dollarization Accelerates: China Readies Yuan-Priced Crude Oil Benchmark Backed By Gold

The world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to bypass U.S…

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Dem’s I.T. Aids Squeel Like Pigs

DEM’S I.T. AIDS NOW SQUEALING President Trump – given his remarkable ability to negotiate, has traded $225 Million in Military Aid to Pakistan for a Woman who has all of the data on every single Democrat in Congress…

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Retail Sales Tumble In August – Worst Since Jan 2016 As Online Sales Slump

Following July’s exuberant bounce back in retail sales (due to auto sales spike, despite auto manufacturers reporting a collapse in sales?), August Retail sales tumbled 0.2% MoM (just as we warned) and July’s surprise gains were cut in half due to revisions…

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Bitcoin Crashes Below $3000 After Regulators Demand All Chinese Exchanges Close By Month-End

The latest bitcoin news out of China just confirmed traders’ fears about a widespread crackdown, sending the price of bitcoin world-wide spiraling lower, to levels it hasn’t touched since the beginning of the “summer of bitcoin…

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Petro Dollar Dies 18 October

Like we stated in January in our Intel Brief — If August sees some dollar fluctuations then September will be a “FUN” month and the dollar will get hit hard in October…

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Amid 2017’s Fascist Disinformation Mania, Brandon Smith Fears “Something Larger Afoot”

Years ago in 2012, I published a thorough examination of disinformation tactics used by globalist institutions as well as government and political outfits to manipulate the public and undermine legitimate analysts working to expose particular truths of our social and economic conditions…

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De-Dollarization Spikes – Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars For Oil Payments

Did the doomsday clock on the petrodollar (and implicitly US hegemony) just tick one more minute closer to midnight?..

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Is Amazon To Blame The Fed Can’t Hit Its Inflation Target

It’s been a bad year for inflation forecasters: every month this year, economist consensus has expected core CPI to rise by 0…

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Mike Krieger Asks Which Is ‘Fraudulent’: Bitcoin Or JP Morgan?

I’m really grateful JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon decided to once again lash out in anger at Bitcoin, as it provides us with ample opportunity to highlight a practice very near and dear to how the bank operates. Fraud…

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‘Fair Competition’, Right? Moscow Slams Slams US Decision to Halt Kaspersky Use

The decision by American authorities to discontinue using Kaspersky Lab products has evoked a swift and blistering response from the Russian Foreign Ministry…

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Russia to Block 2018 PACE Payment Until Voting Rights Restored – Senior Lawmaker

Russia will not submit the 11 million euro ($12.39 million) fee to participate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in 2018 until the right to vote for national delegations is restored…

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Forget Tulips & Bitcoin – Here’s The Real Bubble

While the broader market for Swiss stocks has risen modestly this year, one ‘entity’ has outperformed its peers by such a staggering margin, it has left bamboozled market experts struggling for an explanation. And that company is…the Swiss National Bank…

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This $586.56 San Francisco Lawsuit Could Destroy The Entire ‘Gig Economy’

When Raef Lawson filed his $586.56 lawsuit in San Francisco he probably didn’t realize he could potentially end up disrupting the entire ‘gig economy’ that subsidizes a plethora of Silicon Valley tech giants from Uber to DoorDash, but that could very well end up being the outcome…

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“Trading A Market That’s Both Beautiful And Damned”

The past month shows the current market should only be traded by people with first-class minds: those, as F. Scott Fitzgerald posited, who can hold two opposed ideas at once while remaining functional…

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Pole Position: Why US ‘Will Never Be Able’ to Replace Russia in EU Gas Market

In the long-run, Russia will continue to remain one of the most important natural gas suppliers for Europe, according to Francis Perrin, research director at the Paris-based Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS)…

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The serious ramifications of blocking Lee Wanta’s access to his money

Had Bush1 and Cheney had not prevented Lee Wanta from access to his vast fortune, the US Maglev Railroad System would have been built and folks in Texas and now Florida would have easily been able to evacuate…

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US Intel Looses Control Of Computers

Microsoft – a CIA owned and funded company – has Embedded a Back Door in every program they produce. This back door allows both Microsoft and the CIA total access to both control and access all information on anything that is computerized – Your TV’s, Cell Phones, Computers, Cars, etc…

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“Reptilian Rat Bastards Over and Out” : Cowboy Down Under : 9.12.17

Military sources are directing my focus on Latin America for the hunting down and termination of hurricane directive capos hiding in jungl…..

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Bitcoin: JPMorgan Begins Propaganda Campaign Against Cryptocurrency

Terrified JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took a shot at Bitcoin yesterday, stating the cryptocurrency “is a fraud” and urging Americans to stick with Wall Street investment banks rather than “dangerous” cryptocurrencies that cannot be controlled by the government…

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Does Anyone Actually Care That The Exploding National Debt Is Destroying Our Future?

When will America finally wake up? The borrower is the servant of the lender, and we now have a colossal 20 trillion dollar chain around our collective ankles…

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Offshore Drilling Giant Seadrill Files For Bankruptcy

Seadrill Ltd…

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#FedGibberish!

Recently on our Twitter feed, @michaellebowitz, we introduced the hashtag #fedgibberish. The purpose was to tag Federal Reserve members’ comments that highlight desperate efforts to rationalize their inane monetary policy in the post-financial crisis era…

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Bank of America Stumbles On A $51 Trillion Problem

At the end of June, the Institute of International Finance delivered a troubling verdict: in a period of so-called “coordinated growth”, total global debt (including financial) hit a new all time high of $217 trillion in 2017, over 327% of global GDP, and up $50 trillion over the past decade…

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3x Oversubscribed: Staggering Demand For 100-Year Austrian Bond With Record Duration

As we reported yesterday, Austria was set to make Eurozone history with the first sale of a 100 year bond direct to public markets, bypassing private syndication. It did that later in the day, when the €3.5 billion offering priced tighter than initially marketed, at RAGB 2/2047 +50, at a price 99…

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Universal Basic Income for the World?

Kathleen has shared with me that experiments are underway in various parts of the world around what India is calling a universal basic income (UBI). Why not one UBI for every man, woman, and child in the world?..

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