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How to Deprogram Your Friends & Family from the Cult of Fiat Currency
Most everyone you know is a member of a cult. It’s not their fault, and they didn’t consciously seek it out, but your friends and family and almost everyone you know and even come in contact with belong to a system that has brainwashed them.This cult is robbing them. And it’s doing so clandestinely, without their knowledge or approval. It’s so sly that they don’t even know it’s happening.In fact, the leaders behind this cult have convinced them that this system is normal. They accept it, since that’s the way things are done and the way everyone else does it.
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Hold More Gold Than Bitcoin, Says BTC Bull Mike Novogratz
“My sense is that Bitcoin way outperforms gold, but I would tell people to have a lot less Bitcoin than they have gold, just because of the volatility,” Novogratz said during CNBC’s Fast Money on July 8.
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Gold Dips But Stays Above $1,800 as Some Take Profit
Gold was propped up on the lower end by expectations of more stimulus for the U.S. economy from the Federal Reserve, which could ultimately debase the currency and prop up alternatives like the precious metal, analysts said.
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How Central Banks Destroy Money's Purchasing Power: Mises
Most economists hold that a growing economy requires a growing money stock on grounds that growth gives rise to a greater demand for money that must be accommodated.
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IMF Flags Growing Risk Of Cascading Bankruptcies
The economists argue that recent market stability may just represent a period of calm ahead of stormier waters as the compounding negative economic effects of job losses, reduced spending and business closures weighs on the outlook.
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Government Debt Is Skyrocketing Across the World. Here Are Their Options, According to Barclays
U.S. debt-to-GDP is set to skyrocket by some 30 percentage points over the next two years. And other countries might be in even worse fiscal shape. What will they do?
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How Negative Interest Rates Help Gold Act Like a ‘Risk On’ Asset as It Pushes Toward All Time High
Gold is traditionally thought of as a haven asset — a safe port in a storm. But that hasn’t stopped it from rising to a near nine-year high, and within striking distance of its record, even as equities and other assets traditionally viewed as risky remain buoyant.
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Negative Interest Rates Can Be a Doom Loop for Pension Investors: FT
Two months later Britain sold a government bond with a negative yield for the first time, as Covid-19 created the dystopian reality of deserted airports and traffic-free highways. Negative interest rates are an oxymoron.
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Inflation Believers Win Big and Defy the Pandemic Market Panic
Mark Nash snapped up inflation-protected bonds in March, when markets were shaken by fears of recession and deflation that left the securities dirt cheap. Now he and other contrarians are reaping the benefits of record gains in the bonds.
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S&P Forecasts $2.1 Trillion In Global Bank Credit Losses Over Next Two Years
"For banks across the globe, we forecast credit losses of about $2.1 trillion for 2020 and 2021 spurred by the pandemic, with $1.3 trillion this year--more than double the 2019 level."
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Soaring Demand for Federal Jobless Benefits Points to Fresh Fissures in the U.S. Economy
The number of unemployed Americans collecting jobless benefits through a temporary federal-relief program has exploded in the past month to more than 14 million, suggesting the U.S. labor market is facing a fresh set of problems.
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Silver Investment Demand Up by 10 Percent in First Half of 2020
Silver’s role as a valued investment was broadly on display during the first half of 2020, as investors actively accumulated silver in the first six months of the year, leading to a 10 percent gain in investment demand. Paving ...
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Federal Reserve: Everything is fine. Just like in 2008
It’s nothing but rosy news coming from the Fed. Recently the Fed released this reassuring statement: “The banking system remains well-capitalized under even the harshest of these downside scenarios. . .”
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The Death Of Fundamentals & The Future Of Low Returns: Lance Roberts
Over the last quarter, the “Death of Fundamentals” has become apparent as investors ignore earnings to chase market momentum. However, throughout history, such large divergences between fundamentals and price have resulted in low future returns.
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"Almost $1 Million Disappeared": A Robinhood Horror Story
"They encourage people to go from training wheels to driving motorcycles."
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Treasury’s Mnuchin Backs Narrower Coronavirus Aid Package as Talks With Congress Resume
Mnuchin said the White House backs another direct payment and a change to the enhanced unemployment benefit in the next coronavirus relief bill.
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The Survival of Millions of Small Businesses Is Threatened
“I can’t throw everything I worked for under the bridge. I’m sitting in my retirement.” COVID has wrecked havoc on the economy. Large business is being bailed out but small businesses are largely being left behind.
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'Devastated': As Layoffs Keep Coming, Hopes Fade That Jobs Will Return Quickly
Applications for jobless benefits are up again. "What we're seeing now is that lots more people who are unemployed are going to be unemployed for a longer period of time," economist Nick Bunker says.
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Walgreens Ends Buybacks, Plans to Cut About 4,000 Jobs
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. plans to cut about 4,000 jobs in the U.K. following a sharp drop in its business there and suspend stock buybacks, as the coronavirus pandemic jolts its business around the world.
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Wells Fargo Preparing to Cut Thousands of Jobs
The company’s plans will eventually result in eliminating tens of thousands of positions due to pressure to “dramatically reduce costs”, the report said.
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