Silver Dumps, Peso Jumps As Mexican Central Bank Intervenes (Again) If at first you don't succeed, intervene again! For the second time today (at midnight ET), Banxico officials confirmed the central bank entered the market to sell US dollars in an attempt to strengthen the peso. Now we await the next Trump tweet to take …

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Chinese Cruise Ship With 2,000 Passengers Stuck At Sea For Two Days Due To Smog Beijing’s pollution problem is getting worse by the day. On Wednesday, the Chinese capital issued its highest “red fog alert” for only the second day in history, keeping highways closed in and around the city which is already under a …

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The Titanic Sails At Dawn: Warning Signs Point To Danger Ahead In 2017 Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ? Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be stuck on repeat, …

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Chinese Interbank Lending Freezes; Government Bond Trading Halted After Massive PBOC Liquidity Drain Earlier today, we were surprised to note that having aggressively drained liquidity from the interbank funding market, on the first trading day of 2017, the PBOC not only fixed the Yuan well lower (sy 6.9498 vs 6.9370 on the last day of …

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How A United Iran, Russia, & China Are Changing The World Submitted by Federico Pieraccini via Strategic-Culture.org, The two previous articles have focused on the various geopolitical theories, their translations into modern concepts, and practical actions that the United States has taken in recent decades to aspire to global dominance. This segment will describe how Iran, China and …

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Former Lifelong Democrat Admits "Obama Is A Failed President" Authored by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org, I’m a former lifelong Democrat, stating here a clear and incontestable fact: Barack Obama is a failed President. It’s true not just because of the sad realities such as that «Top Ex-White House Economist Admits 94 % Of All New Jobs Under …

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Sweden's Infamous "Bikini Cop" Quits Amid Growing Police Crisis Back in August Mikaela Kellner became Sweden’s most famous police officer when she took a short break from sunbathing in the park to tackle and arrest a pickpocket.  Pictures of the event quickly rose to international fame and nearly broke the internet. I bet this guy …

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So Many Questions… By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at There are two things I’ve not done in a while. The first of them is to answer some of the questions that come pouring in. My apologies to all those unanswered – lack of response due to volume, not bad manners. Hey Chris,   would you mind if I too throw …

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Chinese Professor Writing for Pine River Capital Says China Will Win Trade War with America The shills over at the Minnesota based hedge fund, Pine River, are making the media rounds these evening, after issuing a letter featuring a Hong Kong Professor named James Wang who said China would defeat the United States in a …

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Europe Proposes Confiscating Gold In Crackdown On "Terrorist Financing" Hot on the heels of China gold import restrictions, and India's demonetization and gold confiscations, The European Commission proposed tightening controls on cash and precious metals transfers from outside the EU under the guise of shutting down one route for funding of militant attacks on the …

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