Category: Economy

A Map Of The Syrian War: Who Is Who (And Where) On Thursday, just 24 hours before Trump ordered airstrikes on Syria for the second time in just over a year, we said that “with war likely set to break out in Syria at any moment, a question many Americans are asking is… where is …

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Visualizing America's Cruise Missile Diplomacy President Donald Trump has threatened the use of missiles against targets in Syria. “Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’”, he tweeted, referring to Russia as an ally of the Syrian regime which stands accused of having once more used chemical weapons against targets in …

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Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, Islam is filling the cultural vacuum of a society with no children and which believes — wrongly — it has no enemies. In Sweden, by 2050, almost one in three people will be Muslim. The European mainstream mindset now seems to believe that “evil” …

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Iranians Panic – "Can't Find Dollars" After Government Enforces Currency Controls Yesterday saw the Iranian Rial crash to a record low 60,000 per USDollar on the unregulated markets, according to Tasnim News agency, having lost more than a third of its value in the last six months. This prompted an angry response from Iran’s First …

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UK's Top Doctor Demands Ban For "Killer" Kitchen Knives Hot on the heels of London Mayor Sadiq Kahn’s city-wide ban on knives, The Express reports that one of Scotland’s leading doctors has called for a ban on “killer” kitchen knives. Dr John Crichton, the new chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, wants …

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The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds Back in November, Credit Suisse highlighted an alarming – yet altogether unsurprising – milestone in the increasing concentration of global wealth that has been perhaps the most influential force behind the populist revolts that rocked the US in 2016 and have continued …

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"Events Today Could Lead To The Last War In The History Of Mankind", Veteran Putin General Warns The fallout from the Salisbury nerve agent attack reminds us of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the most immediate catalyst – of many parallel narrative and sequences of events – that ultimately resulted in World …

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Why A Dollar Collapse Is Inevitable Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, “Naturally, the smooth termination of the gold-exchange standard, the restoration of the gold standard, and supplemental and interim measures that might be called for, in particular with a view to organizing international credit on this new basis, will have to be deliberately agreed …

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Trade Is A Matter Of Survival For China Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Many investors are familiar with the fact that President Franklin Roosevelt closed all of the banks in America and confiscated all of the privately-owned gold by executive order in the early days of his administration, which began in 1933. …

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Frankfurt Is Winning The Battle For London's Bankers Since the UK voted to leave the EU, its biggest financial institutions have been observing the slow moving  Brexit negotiations with a degree of discomfort. Last month, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, Theresa May warned that the UK’s financial companies could lose full passporting rights and single market …

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