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If the US persists in enforcing sanctions, one can envision the eventual breakup of NATO itself...

“The physical holdings of precious metals held in the London vaults underpin the gross daily trading and net clearing in London“

The strains leading to a crisis for fiat currencies are emerging into plain sight...

"I think a recession is not off the table at all in 2020, and so there is no green light on that score." 

While three Semiconductor companies – AMD (+148%), LCRX (+119%), and KLAC (+104%) – were the best-performing S&P 500 stocks, "superstar" firms AAPL (+89%) and MSFT (+58%) were the top two contributors to the S&P 500 index gain

"...non-housing debt, slowing retail spending and rising severe delinquencies are continuing concerns..."

...today’s money is not real money.  Rather, it is fake money. And this fake money has heinous implications on how people earn, save, invest, and pay their way in the world we live in...

What could trip up the markets this January?

In a word, "much."

What if the Fed finds that it can’t step back from repo operations due to fear of financial dislocations?

Ireland devoted the largest share of household expenditure to eating out at 14.4 percent, followed by Spain...

... including retaliatory assassination attempts, kidnappings, bombings of U.S. government facilities, and attacks on shipping and other privately-owned U.S. entities

...fundamental change in who is seeking to immigrate to the United States, Non-Mexicans outnumbered Mexicans 4:1 at the Southern border in the fiscal year of 2019.

...cigarette sales have declined more or less continuously over the past 40 years, dropping by 66 percent since peaking in the early 1980s.

Trade optimism and the hopes central bankers can engineer a soft landing in the global economy in 1H20 have been some of the... 

"...had enough!"

The Fed’s reaction to the disruption in repo markets shows how hard it will be for policy makers to reverse their 'money printing'...