"Germany as you know is...delinquent in their payments to NATO." Trump said at the White House on Monday. "Why should we be doing what we're doing if they don't pay?"Continue...Read More
The US law protecting police and other public officials from lawsuits will not be reexamined by the country's Supreme Court. The decision comes amid nation-wide protesting against police brutality.Continue...Read More
Fmr. Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach sees a historical shift unfolding as the nation's budget deficit grows.Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, most recently, of Unbalanced: The Codependency...Read More
Bill and Grant are joined by long-time source and master of the financial system plumbing, The Lord Of The Dark Matter, who finally reveals his true identity after a decade of anonymity. The three discuss inflation, the bond market, the options available to central banks and how they might achieve "Cold Fusion". A fascinating conversation with a true master of his craft.Grant Williams is the portf...Read More
For years there has been an imbalance between the paper gold and silver market, and the physical gold and silver market. With many commentators, myself included, suggesting that the scheme will continue on until enough people ask for physical delivery of their metal.Now it appears as if that's finally manifested, as the recent gold and silver deliveries on the COMEX are reaching historic amounts....Read More
How crazy have markets become lately?One new investor has said, "Stocks only go up," while unemployed people are using their stimulus check to trade stocks:"It was basically free money," said one of them... "It's like a gambling game."Continue...Read More
Extraordinary times such as these often call for extraordinary measures, but I don't believe they're such that investors should shy away from the market. History has shown that the math is on your side.Continue...Read More
Mark Yusko, Morgan Creek Capital Management CEO & CIO, on the market's swings and why he's not worried about a second wave of coronavirus. Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets. Morgan Creek Capital Management was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in disc...Read More
Swiss police are trying to find the person who forgot a package full of gold bars worth more than $190,000 on a train.Continue...Read More
For Part 1 of this interview, CLICK HEREWhile some people wonder if the paper gold and silver markets might eventually break one day, perhaps even more worthwhile to ask, is if they have already broken. Because while the industry is widely still using the COMEX and LBMA paper system as the source of the gold and silver prices, that doesn't mean the situation isn't already Enron-ing out of control...Read More
Holdings in gold-backed ETFs charted another all-time high in May as inflows in dollar-terms Continue...Read More
Genetically modified organisms hold a lot of promise for creating hardier crops and faster growing fish, but even supporters are concerned about invasive organisms running wild. If a faster, better, stronger strain of bacteria escaped the lab, how would we stop it? Now, scientists have come up with a new solution: self-destructing DNA.The system would use cutting-edge gene-editing tools to erase D...Read More
Genetically modified organisms hold a lot of promise for creating hardier crops and faster growing fish, but even supporters are concerned about invasive organisms running wild. If a faster, better, stronger strain of bacteria escaped the lab, how would we stop it? Now, scientists have come up with a new solution: self-destructing DNA.The system would use cutting-edge gene-editing tools to erase D...Read More
Six months after abandoning its humanitarian but underperforming slogan, "America's Navy. A global force for good," the U.S. Navy is making an $84 million bet on a new, presumably more muscular advertising agency.The Pentagon recently announced that Young and Rubicam, a slick Manhattan marketing firm, has won the Navy's advertising contract for its recruitment effort for one year...Read More
Six months after abandoning its humanitarian but underperforming slogan, "America's Navy. A global force for good," the U.S. Navy is making an $84 million bet on a new, presumably more muscular advertising agency.The Pentagon recently announced that Young and Rubicam, a slick Manhattan marketing firm, has won the Navy's advertising contract for its recruitment effort for one year...Read More
The Kansas City Royals sign Nolan Watson, their Competitive Balance round selection, who was the 33rd overall pick in the recent draft. Video by John Sleezer/The Kansas City StarRead More
When it comes to transparency, this year's Bilderberg summit fails in every way imaginable. Three prime ministers, two foreign ministers, one president, no press conference. No public oversight. Just a bunch of senior policymakers locked away for three days with some incredibly powerful corporate lobbyists, discussing subjects intimately related to public policy. Subjects such as "globali...Read More
When it comes to transparency, this year's Bilderberg summit fails in every way imaginable. Three prime ministers, two foreign ministers, one president, no press conference. No public oversight. Just a bunch of senior policymakers locked away for three days with some incredibly powerful corporate lobbyists, discussing subjects intimately related to public policy. Subjects such as "globali...Read More
Russia and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services.Western intelligence agencies say they have been forced into the rescue operations after Moscow gained access to more tha...Read More
Russia and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services.Western intelligence agencies say they have been forced into the rescue operations after Moscow gained access to more tha...Read More