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TOP NEWS The Everything (Except Gold & Silver) Bubble
Mike Maloney, founder of GoldSilver.com, recently completed a marathon, 81-minute interview with Nicholas Merten of the DataDash YouTube channel. The conversation was far reaching, covering Mike's entry into the world of precious metals, his alliance with Robert Kiyosaki, and how Mike thinks the next financial crisis may play out.
Unsolicited Questions From Real People — The Jeff Clark Mailbag: Volume 3
Today brings us Volume 3 of The Jeff Clark Mailbag, an ongoing series that will feature some of the most frequently asked and interesting inquiries Jeff has received, along with his answers. Every Mailbag will always include just one thing: real, unsolicited questions from real people and Jeff’s honest answers to those questions.
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Mises: Behind the Scenes at the Central Banks that Created our Modern Monetary System
"The crucial issue here is not the prominence of one currency or another, but that this prominence was engineered to speed up the renunciation of the gold standard, and greatly enlarge the freedom of all central banks to inflate money supplies."
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Jesse Felder: "The Worst Possible Environment for Stock Market Investors"
"The stock market today has rarely, if ever, been more expensive (Robert Shiller’s CAPE ratio current stands at 30). At the same time, it has just recently entered a new downtrend."
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Four Reasons Goldman Sachs Thinks Commodities Are Where to Invest Now
"We talk about fear and wealth in gold and you have the fear factor- you look at economic uncertainty in China, in the U.S. right now, it's off the chart."
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Daniel LaCalle: What Argentina Should Do Now
"Erroneous monetary policy, unbridled political spending and the extractive bureaucracy and taxation make the country a promise that always seems to be a disappointment because of internal factors."
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Gold Trades to an All-Time High in 72 Different Currencies
"Using the dollar gold price, as most of us do, has disguised what is actually quite a powerful bull market. If my memory serves me right, we saw the same phenomenon - a stealth rally in minor currencies - ahead of the last major gold bull run (in dollars) in the late 1990’s."
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Bedlam in Britain as Theresa May's Leadership in Jeopardy, Brexit Deal in Tatters
"The prime minister said she will start cross-party talks this week to try to reach a consensus, but in such a febrile atmosphere they may already be doomed. Corbyn dismissed her offer as too little, too late."
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Bloomberg: "Trump Orders Thousands Back to Work Without Pay to Blunt Shutdown"
"The Trump administration has ordered thousands of furloughed federal employees back to work without pay to inspect planes, issue tax refunds, monitor food safety and facilitate the sale of offshore oil drilling rights."
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Merger Mania: After Newmont/Goldcorp, What's Next for the Industry?
"Over the next year we can expect both Barrick and Newmont to clear out their books of non-priority assets. As a result, there will be opportunities to pick up overlooked properties, perhaps at fire sale prices."
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Full Speed, Debt Ahead: China Injects Massive $83B in Open-Market Stimulus
"In open market operations, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) injected 350 billion yuan through seven-day reverse bond repurchase agreements and 220 billion yuan through 28-day reverse repos."
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Draghi Expresses Suprise That Eurozone Facing Difficulty Without Stimulus
"The central bank moved only last month to phase out a key stimulus tool, its €2.5 trillion ($2.85 trillion) bond-buying program, in a first step toward higher interest rates."
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Investment Bank Best Known for Fraud Investigates Self to See if It Committed Fraud
Federal government raids, the Panama Papers...now Deutsche Bank announces an "internal investigation" to see if it helped Danske Bank in committing the largest money laundering fraud in European history.
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IRS Tells 36,000 Furloughed Workers to Return to Work Without Pay
"The hard, cold reality is that they've already missed a paycheck and soon they'll be asked to work for free for as long as the shutdown lasts."
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PG&E Bankruptcy Sets up $17B Investment-Grade Bond Default, 3rd-Largest Since 1998
"In terms of sheer scale of a default from an investment-grade issuer, BAML found only Lehman Bros. and WorldCom would rank above the PG&E."
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Gold Traders' Report - January 15, 2018
The US 10-year yield – which had declined to 2.697% on the Brexit vote – recovered to 2.717%. The DX hovered around 95.95, and gold slid to $1,289 for a $2 loss.
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It's a Rout: Theresa May's Brexit Deal Voted Down 432-202
It's on to "Plan B" for the UK's exit from the eurozone. Except there is no Plan B.
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Hackers Broke Into an SEC Database and Made Millions on Non-Public Information
"The scheme allegedly netted $4.1 million for fraudsters from the U.S., Russia and Ukraine."
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Charles Hugh Smith: "As Germany and France Come Apart, So Too Will the EU"
"When is a nation-state no longer a functional state? It's an interesting question to ask of the European nation-states trapped in the devolving European Union."
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$6T Away From One Quarter Quadrillion: Global Debt Swells to $244T
"The global debt-to-GDP ratio exceeded 318 percent in the third quarter of last year, despite a stronger pace of economic growth."
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White House Doubles Its Estimate of How Much Economic Damage the Shutdown Will Do
"The administration now believes the impact will double, due to greater losses from private contractors also out of work and other government spending and functions that won't occur."
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