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Precious Metals:
Todd Horwitz: Can Gold Rally Continue?
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Next, over at Silver Phoenix: Is This The Most Hawkish Fed Ever?
Forex and Cryptos:
Reader H.L. spotted this: Looming Dollar Shortage Getting Worse As Emerging Markets Implode
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Bitcoin Daily Chart Alert – Bullish Chart Pattern Emerges
Economy & Finance (Trade War):
As the Yield Curve Flattens, Threatens to Invert, the Fed Discards it as Recession Indicator
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Trade War begins: US and China exchange $34 billion in tariffs. JWR’s Comment: Of course this article comes from the profoundly anti-Trump CNBC. What they fail to mention is that Trump didn’t initiate this spat. His tariffs were retaliatory–in response to many years of unfair trade and “dumping,”
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Reuters: Loan funds see outflows for first time in 20 weeks amid trade war
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“What they fail to mention is that Trump didn’t initiate this spat. His tariffs were retaliatory–in response to many years of unfair trade and “dumping,””
Exactly…and IP theft, don’t forget the tech theft. I’m not all in on Trump or any man, but we indeed have been kicked around long enough on trade and commerce and I think it has been, can only be, willful on the part of our congress to submit to the globalism.
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Sir, good call on defensive stocks a couple of months back. I was wrong, well I was right about their valuations, but you were right about the coming price action. They are moving up nicely. And now that I’ve said it out loud they will likely crash, ha ha.
As long as the Wolfowitz Doctrine is in play, the equities of the War Toy Boyz will continue to be good buys. Much of our effort in the mideast is anti-Russia. And Ukraine, of course.