"Rising anti-European Union sentiment, the disruption to the Iran deal, a soaring dollar and investors taking money out of emerging markets are adding up to bad news for the global economy."
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U.S. stocks accelerate losses in afternoon trade Tuesday, with the Dow industrials down more than 400 points, as traders returning from a three-day weekend were greeted by fresh political drama in Italy
"we’re seeing the next evolution of the power of owning the exchange. After successfully launching a yuan-denominated gold futures contract..."
The best reasons to own gold haven’t changed. Ever.
"The real economy, we are told, is healthy. But for how long, given that the financial markets are clearly stalling? The economy and stock valuations have increasingly become detached from one another."
If you add up all the money that national governments have borrowed, it tallies to a hefty $63 trillion. – WEF
In a televised address, Mattarella said he had rejected the candidate, 81-year-old eurosceptic economist Paolo Savona, because he had threatened to pull Italy from the single currency.
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The “spiral” of U.S. penalties is targeting “an ever larger number of countries and companies,” undermining “the current world order,” Putin said.
U.S. stocks dropped sharply Tuesday as political turmoil in Italy & Spain added to investors' worries and sent the euro falling to its lowest level against the dollar in 2018.
5/29/18, is 24,459%, another all-time high.
Central Banks, the policies they implemented in the wake of the financial crisis have created cracks in the global economy
"Any change in the value of the dollar would have to be supported by other policies, including fairly massive open-market operations undertaken by the Federal Reserve."
Rob makes the case of having physical precious metals.
"The earth’s easy-to-find gold has already been found and mined. There will not be another California Gold Rush."