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“It has become kind of a myth. Add a woman on your board, and a company starts doing better.”

Semi-failed and failed states can only exist by dealing in hard assets of real intrinsic value just as Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and Ukraine have done... and the most liquid of those hard assets is their physical gold.

Worse, more than 13% of China's 4,379 banks are now considered “high risk” by the central bank.

It was not clear if the resurfacing of the pipelines has created major safety hazards or affected gas supply from the fields in the Yamal Peninsula...

Is Trump winning?

 "To retain the 1% boost that it provided to the economy... the deficit needs to expand by another $1tn or else the economy expands by 1% less."

"While news about the negotiations between the US and China is mixed at best, trade remains subdued." 

The servitude of society to a globalized economy is generating extremes of insecurity, powerlessness and inequality...

"They pump up valuations to get higher returns to look good to investors," Schiffer said. "That kind of fundraising apparatus is essentially unicorn porn." 

"Smaller banks need to be treated carefully and problems rectified as they emerge, such as corporate governance, to avoid contagion risks."

Catching up to the Constitution, SC could become the fourth state to recognize gold and silver as legal tender.

A fifth week of crude builds (10 of last 11 weeks)...

...we will spend the latter part of the 2020s going through a kind of worldwide bankruptcy... as we will collectively realize the situation can’t go on and find a way to end it in "the Great Reset"...

The universe of negative-yielding bonds currently stands at $12tn, a level we have never seen at this stage of the economic cycle... This configuration is pushing investors to search for yield, changing the nature of assets.

They didn’t get rich by being dumb with their money. The fact that the rich have shifted from spending to saving could be a canary in the coal mine.

It has become a “Turkey” market...

...the feds are employing laws normally used to go after drug dealers...

... with nearly 95% of calendar third-quarter reports posted, earnings have dropped 2.34%, the biggest decline so far this year.