Gold hits near 5-week low after Fed strikes hawkish note ... Gold slid to a near five-week low on Monday after comments from top Federal Reserve officials fuelled speculation that U.S. interest rates would rise sooner rather than later, weighing on the dollar. Speaking at a meeting of leading central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed chair Janet Yellen said on Friday that an improvement in...Read More
Hillary Clinton's Attack on Breitbart News is an Attack on Press Freedom ... Hillary Clinton has a new target in her campaign against Donald Trump: Breitbart News. Her goal is not just to use Breitbart as a political foil, but to shut the site down entirely. Deputy communications director Christina Reynolds sent a fundraising email earlier this week claiming that while other conservative news outl...Read More
Gold hits near 5-week low after Fed strikes hawkish note ... Gold slid to a near five-week low on Monday after comments from top Federal Reserve officials fuelled speculation that U.S. interest rates would rise sooner rather than later, weighing on the dollar. Speaking at a meeting of leading central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed chair Janet Yellen said on Friday that an improvement in...Read More
In the past months the Obama Administration has clearly also escalated tensions in the seas surrounding the Peoples' Republic of China-East China Sea with Japan and South China Sea with the Philippines-tensions which potentially could provoke a catastrophe. While both provocative operations could give the Pentagon budget a boost in times of budget austerity, they could easily detonate a preemptive...Read More
In the past months the Obama Administration has clearly also escalated tensions in the seas surrounding the Peoples' Republic of China-East China Sea with Japan and South China Sea with the Philippines-tensions which potentially could provoke a catastrophe. While both provocative operations could give the Pentagon budget a boost in times of budget austerity, they could easily detonate a preemptive...Read More
Negative rates should be integral part of central bank policy options ... Central banks should make negative interest rates a fully integrated part of monetary policy in order to respond effectively to future recessions, according to an academic paper presented on Friday to some of the world’s top central bankers. “It is only a matter of time before another cyclical downturn calls fo...Read More
Negative rates should be integral part of central bank policy options ... Central banks should make negative interest rates a fully integrated part of monetary policy in order to respond effectively to future recessions, according to an academic paper presented on Friday to some of the world’s top central bankers. “It is only a matter of time before another cyclical downturn calls fo...Read More
Are anti-Fed articles appearing in mainstream publications part of an extended program of tearing down the Fed in order to remake it as part of a global central bank?Recently published anti-Fed arguments and their nearer-term motives have been commented on with considerable accuracy by various alternative-media entities. These arguments are compellingly presented. But step back, please.It is...Read More
A Short Checklist for Conspiracy Theorists ... Unlike Wall Street, conspiracy theories are a perfect market, with supply and demand in perpetual equilibrium. This election year has seen soaring demand. -BloombergBloomberg has just posted an editorial debunking conspiracy theories, and the reason for it seems to involve people's suspicion that Hillary Clinton has significant health problems.Usually...Read More
Are anti-Fed articles appearing in mainstream publications part of an extended program of tearing down the Fed in order to remake it as part of a global central bank?Recently published anti-Fed arguments and their nearer-term motives have been commented on with considerable accuracy by various alternative-media entities. These arguments are compellingly presented. But step back, please.It is...Read More
A Short Checklist for Conspiracy Theorists ... Unlike Wall Street, conspiracy theories are a perfect market, with supply and demand in perpetual equilibrium. This election year has seen soaring demand. -BloombergBloomberg has just posted an editorial debunking conspiracy theories, and the reason for it seems to involve people's suspicion that Hillary Clinton has significant health problems.Usually...Read More
Fed Worries Are Crushing Gold and Silver Stocks ... Gold slumped today, finishing at its lowest level in a month after investors grew worried that the Fed would signal that interest rates would rise when it meets this week. - Motley FoolStrange that the US central bank can preach increased prosperity at a time when some 90-100 million potential workers in the US don't seek formal, mainstream empl...Read More
Sand is essential for modern construction. Almost every new office tower, road and shopping mall being built in Asia's booming cities is made with concrete mixed with sand. And to get more sand, companies and people are pulling sand out of rivers and oceans at an unprecedented rate, say scientists. And in the deep ocean waters off the U.S., sand is being excavated to restore coastlines from Louisi...Read More
Fed Worries Are Crushing Gold and Silver Stocks ... Gold slumped today, finishing at its lowest level in a month after investors grew worried that the Fed would signal that interest rates would rise when it meets this week. - Motley FoolStrange that the US central bank can preach increased prosperity at a time when some 90-100 million potential workers in the US don't seek formal, mainstream empl...Read More
Sand is essential for modern construction. Almost every new office tower, road and shopping mall being built in Asia's booming cities is made with concrete mixed with sand. And to get more sand, companies and people are pulling sand out of rivers and oceans at an unprecedented rate, say scientists. And in the deep ocean waters off the U.S., sand is being excavated to restore coastlines from Louisi...Read More
The Homeland Security Department is trying to ramp up wearable devices that can detect nuclear radiation ... DHS has made a handful of awards for well-developed prototypes, of wearable products from companies including Leidos and Physical Sciences, Inc., according to a recent FBO posting. Last year, DHS made a broad agency announcement soliciting proposals for so-called Wearable Intelligent Nu...Read More
Hillary, beset by rumors about her health and ethics, is becoming more aggressive with her critics. She is hiring groups to fight back in chat rooms and on websites against criticism, (here).Additionally, she is moving ahead with her campaign as she prefers - and apparently without fear of what her opponents will think - taking a jet for only 20 miles to attend a Rothschild fundraiser in Nantucke...Read More
The Homeland Security Department is trying to ramp up wearable devices that can detect nuclear radiation ... DHS has made a handful of awards for well-developed prototypes, of wearable products from companies including Leidos and Physical Sciences, Inc., according to a recent FBO posting. Last year, DHS made a broad agency announcement soliciting proposals for so-called Wearable Intelligent Nu...Read More
Hillary, beset by rumors about her health and ethics, is becoming more aggressive with her critics. She is hiring groups to fight back in chat rooms and on websites against criticism, (here).Additionally, she is moving ahead with her campaign as she prefers - and apparently without fear of what her opponents will think - taking a jet for only 20 miles to attend a Rothschild fundraiser in Nantucke...Read More
Being an Ideologue Means Never Having to Say You’re Wrong ... "Communism would have worked, if the Soviet Union had only tried it for real." ... For any political-economic ideology, there is always a hard core of believers who will never waver in their conviction that if only the program were tried in its pure form, it would succeed. Any failures — even debacles on a grand scale, inclu...Read More