Archive - May 2015 - Blog entry

For over 30 years, sovereign nations, particularly in the West have been buying votes by offering social payments in the form of welfare, Medicare, social security, and the like.

An interesting article has neatly encapsulated the global (but primarily Western) “bond bubble”:

The politicians like the bankers and the central bankers, are happy to kick the can down the road and let their successors and future generations pick up the tab and pay for the economic mess that they refuse to address.

The Intelligence Apparatus No Longer Protects Our Country From Terrorism … We Need Fresh Legs

Twitter had a very bad last week when its stock tanked ~ 27% in 5 trading days.

"My entire Presidency has been about helping working families."--Our Savior

Easy come (print), easy go! A trillion here... a trillion there... Sooner or later we're talking some real money!

Here is more insight to the recent USD rally... And why nothing looks like it seems!

Liquidity is plentiful when you don't care about it and scarce when you need it most

The only thing that is of any interest when you say the word Qatar is the fact that the French have just struck a $7 billion deal for the sale of 24 Dassault Rafale fighter jets.

China, the world’s largest gold producer and buyer, feels its market weight should entitle it to be a price setter for gold bullion. It is asserting itself at a time when the established benchmark, the century-old London ‘gold fix’, is under scrutiny because of long-running allegations of price manipulation.

Here is the latest SmartKnowledgeU Podcast #5: "Everything Wrong With Banking Today".

As is almost always the case, the price of gold was leaned on at the standard PLAN A time in London when The Gold Cartel traders reported for work, but their nudge was thwarted pretty quickly. Gold took off again going into the Comex trading hours and managed to reach $1200 where it was stopped dead in its tracks. James Mc early this morning…

The bigger issue concerns the fact that bond yields are rising across the board. The UK’s Gilts, US Treasuries, and German Bunds have all dropped sharply in the last month, pushing their yields higher.

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