tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71593962398207284202024-03-11T14:16:20.183+08:00Alfred Woody's Kewl Blog [ 椼森 ]Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.comBlogger25447125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-43816358701528964712017-10-28T20:06:00.001+08:002017-10-28T20:06:43.816+08:00Age Freezehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/853326178176511/Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-58731509313277951242017-09-23T16:26:00.001+08:002017-09-23T16:27:53.881+08:00站在未来看现在<p dir="ltr">关于 iBuddee/爱霸迪, 你不知道的事: <br>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Today’s Guest: Craig Hemke</span>Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-74338015289247994962017-02-18T04:18:00.000+08:002017-02-18T04:18:02.661+08:00“Seriously Delinquent” Auto Loans Surge<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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The New York Fed, in its Household Debt and Credit Report for the fourth quarter 2016, put it this way today: “Household debt increases substantially, approaching previous peak.” It jumped by $226 billion in the quarter, or 1.8%, to the glorious level of $12.58 trillion, “only $99 billion shy of its 2008 third quarter peak.”</div>
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Yes! Almost there! Keep at it! There’s nothing like loading up consumers with debt to make central bankers outright giddy.</div>
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Auto loan balances in 2016 surged at the fastest pace in the 18-year history of the data series, the <a href="https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2017/rp170216" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report</a> said, driven by the highest originations of loans ever. Alas, what the auto industry has been dreading is now happening: Delinquencies have begun to surge.</div>
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This chart – based on data from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, which varies slightly from the New York Fed’s data – shows how rapidly auto loan balances have ballooned since the Great Recession. At $1.112 trillion (or $1.16 trillion according to the New York Fed), they’re now 35% higher than they’d been during the crazy peak of the prior bubble. Note that during the $93 billion increase in auto loan balances in 2016, new vehicle sales were essentially flat:</div>
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No way that this is an auto loan bubble. Not this time. It’s sustainable. Or at least containable when it’s not sustainable, or whatever. These ballooning loans have made the auto sales boom possible.</div>
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But despite record low interest rates, the bane of the automakers is now taking place relentlessly:</div>
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“Seriously delinquent” auto loan balances, composed of all loans that are 90+ days past due, rose in Q4 to 3.8% of total auto loan balances. That puts them right between Q1 and Q2 of 2013, as auto credit was recovering from the Financial Crisis. Last time auto loan delinquencies had surged to that level was after Q3 2008, as the Financial Crisis was tearing into the economy:</div>
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These seriously delinquent auto loans are an indication of what is next:</div>
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Some specialized subprime lenders might keel over. Larger lenders with good quality loan portfolios will bleed but go on while tightening their underwriting standards in order to weather the storm. And that’s precisely what the auto industry is dreading: tightening credit.</div>
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The auto boom over the past few years was funded by historically low interest rates and loosey-goosey underwriting, with long loan terms and high loan-to-value ratios, often over 120%. They made everything possible. But they infused the $1.1 trillion in auto loans with some very big risks.</div>
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the federal bank regulators, has once again <a href="https://www.occ.treas.gov/publications/publications-by-type/other-publications-reports/semiannual-risk-perspective/semiannual-risk-perspective-fall-2016.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">warned</a> about the risk-taking by auto lenders:</div>
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Auto lending risk has been increasing for several quarters because of notable and unprecedented growth across all types of lenders.</div>
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As banks competed for market share, some banks responded with less stringent underwriting standards for direct and indirect auto loans. In addition to the eased underwriting standards, lenders also substantially layered risks (granted longer terms combined with higher advance rates resulting in higher LTV ratios).</div>
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These factors increased the credit risk in auto loan portfolios…. This embedded risk is now being reflected in lower recoveries at charge-off (higher loss severities) for both bank loans and securitized auto loans despite relative stability in used auto values.</div>
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Bank risk management practices and the ALLL [allowance for loan and lease losses] should reflect the elevated risk profile and higher probable credit loss severities.</div>
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So it’s all there – the ingredients for bigger losses among banks and investors, a few failures of smaller specialized subprime lenders, and belated credit tightening, both out of necessity and due to lower competition among lenders as some of the most aggressive ones will be busy licking their wounds.</div>
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And auto sales – not long ago the truly hot sector in the US economy – are now confronted with these tightening credit conditions as growth has already been stalling.</div>
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Despite what you might think, automakers did not “cut back” on fleet sales in January. But keep an eye on rideshare companies. Read… Car<a href="http://wolfstreet.com/2017/02/02/car-sales-crash-but-its-complicated/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sales Crash, But It’s Complicated</a></div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-4118874499867981432017-02-18T04:15:00.001+08:002017-02-18T04:15:47.738+08:00BILL GATES WANTS TO TAX ROBOTS JUST LIKE HUMANS<div class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">[2/17/17] Robots are coming for a lot of jobs.</strong> And while at first this may seem detrimental, it’s actually a good thing.</div>
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There will still be jobs for humans (in fact, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/17/yes-the-robots-will-steal-our-jobs-and-thats-fine/?utm_term=.a79d0223bad2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #004276; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.75s;" target="_blank">job growth has been on the rise in the U.S.</a>), but they will just be different jobs. If we leave jobs that can be automated to the robots, we’ll free up labor so humans can do more meaningful work like caring for the elderly, teaching kids with disabilities and other jobs that require empathy—something robots lack.</div>
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This notion has been discussed time and time again, but Bill Gates has taken it further with an extra step he says will help us get “net ahead.”</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-1262201013645861702017-02-18T03:45:00.003+08:002017-02-18T03:45:38.034+08:00THE EU IS FINISHED! WHAT THESE ECONOMISTS PREDICT SPELLS CERTAIN DOOM FOR THE EURO<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="485" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dlVmvAugTc0" width="863"></iframe><br />
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GNC, who has now rebranded themselves as a health and wellness retailer has reported a $433 million dollar fourth quarter loss according to this <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; outline: transparent;"><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/business/pittsburgh-company-news/2017/02/16/GNC-reports-433-million-fourth-quarter-loss-leading-up-to-rebranding-campaign/stories/201702160159" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; cursor: pointer !important; outline: transparent; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease-out !important;" target="_blank">Pittsburgh Post</a></span> report.</div>
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The bad news doesn’t end there as GNC reported a 64% decline in sales and the closing of 100 stores.</div>
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GNC officials on Thursday took pains to distance the company from the “old” GNC after reporting a $433.4 million fourth-quarter loss, marking the end of a dismal 2016 that saw a 64 percent decline in the Pittsburgh health supplement retailer’s share price.</div>
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For the year, GNC Holdings Inc. recorded a net loss of $286.3 million, compared with a $219.3 million profit the year before, as sales declined 6.5 percent and 6.8 percent respectively in company-owned and franchise stores. GNC’s consolidated revenue of $2.54 billion was a 5.3 percent drop from 2015’s $2.68 billion. Its adjusted earnings per share was 7 cents, far off Wall Street’s estimate of 36 cents per share.</div>
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“This is certainly not what any one of us wanted to see,” said interim CEO Robert Moran of GNC’s fourth-quarter performance during the company’s quarterly financial briefing to analysts.</div>
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The losses, said Chief Financial Officer Tricia Toliver, “are not a good indication of where the business is headed,” adding later that, “We are building an entirely new business model.”</div>
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Ms. Toliver was referring to the “One New GNC” campaign, launched Dec. 29 to rebrand the health and wellness retailer. The “new” GNC now features simplified pricing, reduced prices on about half of its products, and a free customer loyalty program, with plans to offer new proprietary products.</div>
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Mr. Moran said company officials are encouraged by the campaign’s early results, with sales transactions up 7 percent among company-owned stores and an even more promising performance among the GNC stores that have been piloting the program.</div>
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It undoubtedly can’t come soon enough for investors who, shortly after the GNC financials were released early Thursday, learned the GNC board was suspending the company’s quarterly dividend. Shares briefly fell below $7 for the first time since the company went public in 2011.</div>
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The stock closed at $7.72 Thursday, down 7.21 percent.</div>
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Ms. Toliver said the fourth quarter had notable one-time expenses such as a $10 million investment to clear inventory and launch the One New GNC campaign. As part of its preparation, GNC closed all of its stores for the day on Dec. 28, which also cut into sales. She also said the company expects to close about 100 stores this year as leases expire.</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-61830168828549511302017-02-18T03:42:00.002+08:002017-02-18T03:42:49.813+08:00CITY ERECTS PRISON CAMP TO DEAL WITH HOMELESS – CUTTING OFF FOOD & WATER<strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Georgia; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit;">[2/16/17] The City of Santa Ana has come up</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Georgia; font-size: 18px;"> with an innovative and despotic way of keeping their homeless population in check — imprison them. The city is now party to a federal lawsuit over unreasonable seizure, false imprisonment, and due process violations.</span><br />
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-27393621350817852262017-02-18T03:32:00.002+08:002017-02-18T03:32:44.370+08:00GERMANY REPATRIATES GOLD QUICKER THAN PLANNED – Global Chaos / Economic Collapse Coming?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="485" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ENwCqMSqYAk" width="863"></iframe><br />
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An official announcement last week that the Bundesbank had pretty much repatriated half its gold reserves ahead of schedule has once again sent the rumor mill into overdrive.</div>
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Fans of the precious metal – not shy of a good conspiracy theory – have been deliberating over the move ever since Germany detailed it back in 2013. Initially, there was a sense that trust between central banks had broken down with claims that Berlin was effectively questioning the credentials of New York Federal Reserve.</div>
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But the talk has now stepped up a notch with the Bundesbank confirming Thursday that it has already moved 583 tons of gold out of New York and Paris. Its plan to hold half its gold in Frankfurt is now three years ahead of schedule.</div>
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Reporting the news, Reuters said that some argue the world’s second-biggest bullion reserve “may be needed to back a new deutsche mark, should the euro zone break up.” This seems pretty far-fetched, especially given that the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates ended back in the 1970s. Could Berlin really be prepping for the fall of the euro? Germany Gold “Gold Bullion” Bullion “Buy Gold” “Sell Gold” “Cash 4 Gold” “Cash for gold” German USA America Europe “United States” Offshore “Gold Vault” 2017 2018 euro “european union” forex fx “forex trading” “euro zone” silver “silver coin” “gold trading” London Banking “Bank Account” Savings “Savings Account” “stock market” collapse dollar usd future prepare survival news media trends “elite nwo agenda” elite “gold sovereign” “gold bar” “999 silver” “999 gold” “fine gold” “scrap gold” “gold mine” alex jones gerald celente jsnip4 jim rogers mark faber george soros rothschild rothchilds end game global reset Then there’s the Donald Trump angle. On Thursday, Bundesbank board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele felt the need to speak about the new U.S. president at his press conference – presumably because someone asked him.</div>
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“Trump has not triggered a discussion about the storage facility in New York,” he said, according to reports. Trump scaring global central banks to repatriate their gold in case he confiscates it? Sounds equally unbelievable.</div>
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Then there’s the rumors coming from Russia. Sputnik News, which incidentally has strongly denied accusations from NATO that it’s a Kremlin propaganda machine, reported that Germany had been given the wrong gold. Quoting Russian economist Vladimir Katasonov, the news site said the U.S. may have sold Germany’s gold bars years ago and hurriedly bought some back as the Bundesbank came knocking.</div>
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The Bundesbank held 1,619 tons of its gold reserves — 47.9 percent — in Frankfurt at the end of last year. That share will increase to 50.6 percent at the end of 2017. Some 1,236 tons of the metal will remain at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and 432 tons at the Bank of England in London.</div>
Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-12015959655378623522017-02-18T03:31:00.003+08:002017-02-18T03:31:40.808+08:00Is This What They Mean By “Crack-Up Boom”?<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
by <a href="http://dollarcollapse.com/money-bubble/debt-crack-up-boom/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">John Rubino</a></div>
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In 1980, the US government – along with pretty much all of its peers – began borrowing at an accelerating rate. Note on the following chart how the trend line steepened in the 2000s and then steepened again in this decade, with a sudden and unexpected pop in 2015 and early 2016, even as the current recovery entered its 8th year.</div>
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Also in the past year, stock prices have risen from “near-record, overvalued-by-every-historical-measure” levels, to “new-record, grossly-overvalued” levels – and show no signs of slowing down. Note the massive jump in S&P 500 trading volume that began in January and has persisted throughout the year.</div>
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Investors, meanwhile, are borrowing to snag more of those apparently-easy profits, with margin debt — money borrowed against stock portfolios to buy more shares — now above both 1999 and 2007 levels.</div>
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(Bloomberg) – U.S. households increased their borrowing in the final three months of 2016 at the fastest pace in three years, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.Consumer debt rose by $226 billion, or 1.8 percent, in the fourth quarter, led by a $130 billion increase in mortgage loan balances and a $32 billion increase in credit-card borrowings, the New York Fed said Thursday. The rise brought total consumer debt to $12.58 trillion, just shy of the $12.68 trillion peak in the third quarter of 2008.</div>
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“Debt held by Americans is approaching its previous peak, yet its composition today is vastly different as the growth in balances has been driven by non-housing debt,” Wilbert van der Klaauw, a senior vice president at the New York Fed, said in a press release.</div>
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Student loan balances rose to a new record high of $1.31 trillion, and auto loan debt also increased to a record $1.16 trillion in the 18-year history of this data series.</div>
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This is clearly a credit-driven boom of some sort. But is it the long-awaited Austrian School of Economics “crack-up boom”, the exclamation point at the end of especially-frenzied and broad-based financial bubbles? That may be a question answerable only in retrospect. But when the crack-up boom finally hits, this acceleration across multiple sectors is how it will look and feel.</div>
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Last week, the Finance Ministry said it had cleared the $60.6 million debt to Macedonia. This means that the last debt of the Soviet Union is $125.2 million to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both countries were formed after the breakup of Yugoslavia and won the right to reclaim part of the Soviet debt.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The agreement has taken a long time to get ready, a preliminary agreement has been signed. The final version just needs signing, it’s a matter of a few months. It will be a single tranche through VEB [Russian state bank of foreign economic affairs]. There are no difficulties there, the question will be resolved by the summer,”</em> a source in the Russian Finance Ministry <a href="http://izvestia.ru/news/665413" style="background: transparent; color: #044faa; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">told</a> Izvestia. The debt will be paid off within 45 days after the agreement is signed, the source said.</div>
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The USSR's foreign debt was accumulated in various ways. Obligations to Western countries accrued in the debt market after 1983. The money owed to the former Yugoslavia was as a result of trade.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“On the one hand, the USSR supplied Yugoslavia with products of the defense industry and energy. On the other, Yugoslavia sold consumer goods to the USSR. The debt was formed due to the difference in the value of imports and exports,”</em> managing partner of law firm HEADS Consulting Aleksandr Bazykin told the daily.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.0015px;"><br />According to Finance Professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Yury Rudenkov, the question of the Soviet debt is more political than economic.</span>Russia paid off the Soviet debt to the Paris Club [19 creditors mostly in the Western bloc including the US and the UK] in 2006, but could have delayed it until 2115, Bazykin said. At the fall of communism, the Paris Club debt was about $60 billion.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“It is important for the international status that we have recognized the USSR debts and paid them off. While doing so, we have forgiven debts from countries such as Vietnam and Algeria,”</em> he said.</div>
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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly formed Russian Federation inherited a growing external debt of over $66 billion with barely a few billion dollars in net gold and foreign exchange reserves.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;">Central bank governor has “dream” for every citizen to own at least 100 grams of gold bullion</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;">Governor of Central Bank of Kyrgyzstan said the central bank had sold around 140 kilos of gold bullion to the domestic population already</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;">Central Asian country’s central bank continues to diversify into gold bullion</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;">“Gold can be stored for a long time … doesn’t lose its value for the population as a means of savings”</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;">“I’ll try to turn the dream into reality faster…”</span></li>
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The Governor of the Central bank of Kyrgyzstan has told Bloomberg News in an interview that it is his “dream” for every citizen in his country to own at least 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of gold as a way to protect their savings.</div>
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Diversifying one’s savings so that they are not solely held in fiat paper or electronic currencies in frequently vulnerable banks in a vulnerable banking and financial system is prudent advice in these uncertain times.</div>
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Indeed, there is a strong case to be made that the policies of most central banks in recent years have led to a massive debt bubble and the risk of another financial crisis, currency wars and currency debasement on a grand scale.</div>
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Hence, it was very refreshing to hear the actual governor of a central bank passionately advocate and proactively helping his fellow citizens to protect their savings by diversifying and having an allocation to physical gold.</div>
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From <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-15/currency-pioneers-build-nation-of-gold-bugs-on-ex-soviet-fringes" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>:</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">One of the first post-Soviet republics to adopt a new currency and let it trade freely, Kyrgyzstan’s central bank wants every citizen to diversify into gold. Governor Tolkunbek Abdygulov says his “dream” is for every one of the 6 million citizens to own at least 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of the precious metal, the Central Asian country’s biggest export.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">“Gold can be stored for a long time and, despite the price fluctuations on international markets, it doesn’t lose its value for the population as a means of savings,” he said in an interview. “I’ll try to turn the dream into reality faster.”</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">In the two years that the central bank has offered bars directly to the population, about 140 kilograms of bullion have been sold, Abdygulov, 40, said by phone from the capital, Bishkek.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">“We are hopeful that our country’s population will learn to diversify its savings into assets that are more liquid and — more importantly — capable of retaining their value,” he said. In rural areas, cattle is still the asset of choice for investors and savers, according to Abdygulov.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">Kyrgyzstan has bucked a trend among central banks, the biggest owners of bullion, by stepping up buying even as its counterparts cut purchases in 2016 to a six-year low. Global combined bar and coin demand fell, according to the World Gold Council.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">Across the emerging world, gold — often seen as the ultimate haven at times of upheaval — hardly needs any extra promotion. India, the world’s largest consumer after China, is in fact taking steps to curb imports of the precious metal by encouraging its citizens to deposit private gold holdings in banks.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">In Turkey, where banks can use bullion as part of their reserve assets, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year called on people to convert their foreign-currency savings into liras and gold.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">What makes Kyrgyzstan unique is the central bank’s effort to win converts by providing infrastructure for safe-keeping and investment. The central bank produces bars of different sizes, varying in weight from 1 to 100 grams.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">The central bank governor believes his plan is realistic, even though it means the population would own about 600 tons of gold, equivalent to 30 times the nation’s current annual output. Abdygulov declined to specify the timeframe for when his goal of 100 grams per person can be met.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">The options available for storage include safe deposit boxes at commercial lenders or with the central bank, he said. Some people opt to keep gold at home or possibly even bury it in the ground, according to Abdygulov.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">With Kyrgyzstan enduring upheaval from economic crises in the early 1990s to bank failures during the last decade, gold is seen as a far safer bet than securities, he said.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">“For Kyrgyzstan, gold is an alternative instrument of investment,” Abdygulov said. “The National Bank has ensured liquidity for gold — we aren’t only selling, but also buying back gold bars that we produced and sold.”</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">As Abdygulov took the reins of the central bank in 2014, Kyrgyz policy makers decided to raise gold’s share in its own reserves, now keeping about 10 percent of its $2 billion holdings in bullion. After years of capping the amount at 2.6 tons, the stockpile surged by more than 70 percent since 2012 to 4.5 tons at the end of the third quarter in 2016, according to the latest data compiled by the London-based World Gold Council.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">With Kyrgyzstan’s output at about 20 tons a year, the central bank uses the national currency, the som, to buy gold mined locally, which can then be sold abroad if needed, according to Abdygulov. The governor said he’s counting on higher output in the future.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">Abdygulov, who has masters degrees from Nagoya University in Japan and the University of North Texas, may be a gold enthusiast, but he’s no advocate for dislodging the dollar completely. His advice is based on the “rule of three” — splitting up savings between the som, foreign currency and gold.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;">As for the metal’s prospects, he’s upbeat, even after it surged the most in five years in 2016 and continued to post gains in 2017. Bullion has rallied more than 7 percent this year as concerns that Donald Trump’s policies on trade and immigration could derail U.S. growth boosted speculation that the Federal Reserve would be slow to raise borrowing costs.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />End></em></div>
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<img alt="" class="alignnone size-large" height="508" src="http://www.goldcore.com/ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/02/gold-as-safe-haven.png?x64374&x64374" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px !important; padding: 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;" width="825" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />“Common sense is not so common” as Voltaire said. Financial and monetary common sense regarding gold and the importance of diversifying ones savings and investments is even more uncommon.</div>
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As one of the larger gold bullion delivery and storage specialists in the world and a vested commercial interest, <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">GoldCore</a> would obviously greatly welcome the central bank governors of Ireland, UK, U.S. and all western nations to urge their citizens to diversify their savings and own a small amount of gold.</div>
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As a specialist in the logistics of delivery and storage of physical gold, we can of course work with them and help them in this regard and we look forward to hearing from them.</div>
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We have long been passionate advocates of owning physical gold and have spent a lot of time educating about <a href="http://info.goldcore.com/gold-is-a-safe-haven-asset" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">gold’s safe haven characteristics</a>. This has been seen clearly in history and during the recent global financial crisis and indeed in the large body of new academic and independent research on gold in recent years.</div>
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The Governor clearly understands gold’s value and is acting accordingly in the interests of his fellow citizens.</div>
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Bravo Governor and Happy Friday folks !</div>
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17 Feb: USD 1,241.40, GBP 1000.57 & EUR 1,165.55 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />16 Feb: USD 1,236.75, GBP 988.41 & EUR 1,163.29 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />15 Feb: USD 1,225.15, GBP 985.27 & EUR 1,161.81 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />14 Feb: USD 1,229.65, GBP 986.67 & EUR 1,157.84 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />13 Feb: USD 1,229.40, GBP 982.04 & EUR 1,155.64 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />10 Feb: USD 1,225.75, GBP 980.23 & EUR 1,151.35 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />09 Feb: USD 1,241.75, GBP 988.18 & EUR 1,161.04 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />08 Feb: USD 1,235.60, GBP 989.47 & EUR 1,160.10 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />07 Feb: USD 1,231.00, GBP 995.14 & EUR 1,154.43 per ounce</div>
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17 Feb: USD 18.00, GBP 14.50 & EUR 16.90 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />16 Feb: USD 18.10, GBP 14.49 & EUR 17.02 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />15 Feb: USD 17.88, GBP 14.38 & EUR 16.93 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />14 Feb: USD 17.91, GBP 14.37 & EUR 16.85 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />13 Feb: USD 17.97, GBP 14.34 & EUR 16.89 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />10 Feb: USD 17.62, GBP 14.15 & EUR 16.55 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />09 Feb: USD 17.71, GBP 14.10 & EUR 16.58 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />08 Feb: USD 17.74, GBP 14.20 & EUR 16.66 per ounce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" />07 Feb: USD 17.60, GBP 14.21 & EUR 16.49 per ounce</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/silver-price-surge-investors-users-fighting-available-physical-supplies/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Silver Price To Surge As “Investors and Users Fighting Over Available Physical Supplies”</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/jim-rogers-buying-gold-bullion-dips/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Jim Rogers Buying Gold Bullion On Dips</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/david-mcwilliams-print-punts-french-election-see-euro-break/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– French Election Could See Euro Break Up – New Global Crisis</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-prices-5-8-ytd-trump-honeymoon-ends/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Gold Prices Up 5.8% YTD – Trump ‘Honeymoon’ Ends</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-buying-russia-intensify-diversification-trump-unpredictability/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Gold Buying Russia To Intensify Diversification On Trump ‘Unpredictability’?</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-prices-rising-mean-impending-market-volatility/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Gold Prices Rising Mean “Impending Market Volatility”</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-bullion-banks-open-vaults-transparency-push/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Gold Bullion Banks To “Open Vaults” In Transparency Push?</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/ignore-sabre-rattling-buy-gold/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Ignore Sabre-Rattling and Buy Gold</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/buy-gold-uncertainty-not-doomsday/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Buy Gold Because of Uncertainty not Doomsday</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/alternative-fact-cashless-society/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– The Alternative Fact of the Cashless Society</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/silver-platinum-palladium-safe-havens-reassessing-role/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Silver, Platinum and Palladium As Safe Havens – Reassessing Their Role</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/2017-see-collapse-euro/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Why 2017 Could See the Collapse of the Euro</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/dow-20k-us-debt-20-trillion-trump-15000-gold/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Dow 20K … US Debt $20 Trillion … Trump and $15,000 Gold</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px !important;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px !important;"><a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/switzerlands-gold-exports-to-china-surge-to-158-tons-in-december/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; outline: 0px !important;">– Switzerland’s Gold Exports To China Surge To 158 Tons In December</a></span></div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-17682403749016412622017-02-18T03:10:00.001+08:002017-02-18T03:10:41.345+08:00Are We In For A Stock Market Correction As The Euphoria Is Reaching Its Peak Ahead Of A Market Top<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ever since President Trump has taken oath of the office, investors have been pushing major stock indexes to record highs on the bet that new administration will roll back financial regulations, cut taxes, and increase fiscal spending, all of which could help boost profits in corporate America. However, many investors are getting worried that high expectations could lead to major disappointment.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The share of newsletter writers who are optimistic on the stock market </span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/02/09/newsletter-writers-are-the-most-bullish-since-2004/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">climbed to 62.7%</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this week, the highest level since 2004, according to Investors Intelligence, which surveys more than 100 newsletter writers each week for its Sentiment Index.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The gauge has become something of a contrarian indicator. It tends to reach peak euphoria ahead of a market top, and pessimism typically peaks at market bottoms. It’s one of a number of sentiment measures, including ones for consumers and small businesses that have shown optimism spiking since the election. The surge in positive sentiment is increasingly out of step with an economy that is improving slowly.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A reading above 55% suggests a trading top is forming, while topping 60% means “it is time to start taking defensive measures,” </span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/02/09/newsletter-writers-are-the-most-bullish-since-2004/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">according to Investors Intelligence. </a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The measure has been above 55% for 11 straight weeks, and above 60% for four of them.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the firm warns that as a contrarian indicator, it’s more useful in calling market bottoms than market tops, particularly since market tops can form over time. The market bottom worked at the beginning of last year. Bearishness was elevated far above bullishness in mid-February, when the </span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/02/09/newsletter-writers-are-the-most-bullish-since-2004/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">S&P 500 bottomed after falling more than 10%</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to start the year.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investors look at it as a useful signal. Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research Inc, said he looks at the ratio of bulls to bears in the survey, and noted that the reading of 3.75 this week was well above the level of 3 that’s generally seen as a sell signal. Back in February of 2016, the reading of 0.63 had been a useful buy signal.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are due for a correction,” </span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/02/09/newsletter-writers-are-the-most-bullish-since-2004/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Yardeni wrote in a Thursday report</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. “Such panic attacks followed by relief rallies have been the modus operandi of this bull market since 2009.”</span></div>
Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-84634720498866033152017-02-18T03:09:00.003+08:002017-02-18T03:09:43.919+08:00Jeff Deist: President Trump Facing Historically Unprecedented Challenges<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="485" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SphsgvL3fMQ" width="863"></iframe><br />
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Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute. He previously worked as a longtime advisor and chief of staff to Congressman Ron Paul. In the past, Jeff was also an attorney for private equity.</div>
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During this 30+ minute interview, Jason first asks Jeff if in his opinion President Trump has done anything positive?</div>
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Jason and Jeff discuss some of the things President Trump has done so far and how he is fighting globalism and the deep state.</div>
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Jason asks Jeff about the history of protectionism and tariffs in the US and if Trump’s economic policies mean a lot more inflation or stagflation is coming during his presidency?</div>
Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-34744808269966796912017-02-18T03:09:00.000+08:002017-02-18T03:09:05.004+08:00Gold & Silver; Testing 6-year breakout level again<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
by <a href="https://www.kimblechartingsolutions.com/2017/02/gold-testing-6-year-breakout-level/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Kimble</a></div>
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From a buy and hold perspective, owning Gold & Silver since the highs in 2011, has not been a high returning strategy.</div>
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Is this trend of lower highs and lower lows about to end? Is the Bear about to break free from years of frustration? Below looks at the Silver (SLV)/Gold (GLD) ratio over the past decade.</div>
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Historically both Gold & Silver have done very well when the ratio above is heading higher. The opposite is also true, that both Gold & Silver have struggled when this ratio is heading south.</div>
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The ratio has remained inside of falling channel (1), since 2011.</div>
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The ratio is testing breakout levels again at (2) this week. If the ratio can breakout above falling channel (1), it would send the first risk on message in years. If the ratio breaks out of falling channel (1) and can clear last summer highs, it would be sending the first bullish message in years!</div>
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The country has seven billion euro’s of debt payments due in July, but it won’t be able to meet the payments unless it receives new funds or carries out restructuring.</div>
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The IMF has already been urging more austerity describing Athens’ debt as unsustainable, and have called for significant debt relief to stop the debts becoming “explosive.”</div>
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According to the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/47039206-f1d9-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Financial Times</a>, Greek authorities hope to finalize the appointment before crunch debt talks with eurozone finance ministers on February 20. The date has been described as the last chance for a bailout review with the upcoming elections in Europe likely to dominate the EU agenda.</div>
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Sources told the FT that Rothschild is expected to advise Athens on all areas connected to its debt, including negotiations with creditors, potential inclusion in the European Central Bank’s €80 billion per month bond-buying program and the resumption of Greek government bond sales.</div>
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They added the bank will be paid a bonus when Greece regains access to global debt markets.</div>
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The Rothschild investment bank was founded over 200 years ago by Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Five of his sons established banking businesses around Europe and the firm today has more than three thousand employees in 40 countries.</div>
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The appointment of Rothschild as sovereign debt adviser will require ministerial approval. The bank will thus replace US investment bank Lazard, which worked on Greece’s bailout talks in 2012, and is currently acting as financial adviser to the Greek Ministry of Energy.</div>
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“An adviser is not being hired to arrange another debt restructuring with private creditors, it is being hired to advise on official debt. It will be a difficult job,” said Mitu Gulati, a law professor at Duke University in the US who specializes in the field. “There is always the risk that you can antagonize bilateral creditors when you bring financial advisers in and treat them like private creditors.”</div>
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Athens and its international creditors have been seeking ways to conclude negotiations on the current review of Greece’s €86 billion aid package. The bailout program was agreed two years ago and is the third since 2010.</div>
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Greece’s €323 billion debt is still the highest in the eurozone. According to the country’s Public Debt Management Agency, just €36 billion from that sum is owned by private investors who hold Greek bonds; the rest is in the hands of sector creditors such as the IMF and European institutions.</div>
Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-30912550923939060052017-01-24T17:15:00.003+08:002017-01-24T17:15:22.124+08:00AWESOME NEWS! Foxconn is going to make TV’s in the USA! Investing 7 billion in manufacturing in USA.<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is considering setting up a display-making plant in the United States in an investment that would exceed $7 billion, company chairman and chief executive Terry Gou said on Sunday.</div>
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The plans come after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to put “America First” in his inauguration speech on Friday, prompting Gou to warn about the rise of protectionism and a trend for politics to underpin economic development.</div>
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Foxconn’s proposal to build a display plant, which would be planned with its Sharp Corp <6753 .t=""> unit, depend on many factors, such as investment conditions, that would have to be negotiated at the U.S. state and federal levels, Gou told reporters on the sidelines of a company event.</6753></div>
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Gou said that Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co <2317 .tw="">, had been considering such a move for years but the issue came up when Foxconn business partner Masayoshi Son, head of Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp <9984 .t="">, talked to Gou before a December meeting Son had with Trump.</9984></2317></div>
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In the early 1950’s, more than 90 American companies made television sets. Today, the last American-owned television manufacturer, the Zenith Electronics Corporation, gave up its battle to survive on its own and agreed to sell a controlling interest to a South Korean industrial giant.</div>
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LG Electronics Inc., the South Korean manufacturer whose products sell under the Goldstar name, announced with Zenith that it would lift its stake in that company to 57.7 percent from the current 3.8 percent. It will gain control by paying $10 a share, or more than $350 million, for a combination of newly issued and existing Zenith common stock.</div>
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Zenith, which is based just north of here in Glenview, was founded in 1918 as a radio manufacturer and in the years after World War II fought for leadership in the television industry against rivals like RCA, General Electric, Magnavox, and Motorola.</div>
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Trump just promised 75% or more reductions in regulation. FREE MARKETS WILL COMPETE TO BUILD IN THE US</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-74543074535524845592017-01-24T17:14:00.001+08:002017-01-24T17:14:02.501+08:00Trump Abandons, Dismantles The TPP!<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "PT Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.008px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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On January 23, 2017 President Donald Trump made clear that the United States is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/tpp-trump-trade-nafta.html?_r=0" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">no longer pursuing the horrific trade pact</a> known as the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-withdrawal-trumps-first-executive-action-monday-sources-say/" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">Trans-Pacific Partnership</a> (TPP). In an Executive Order, Trump <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/374819-trump-orders-tpp-repeal/" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">officially abandoned and disbanded</a> the TPP which the Obama administration, Congressional hacks, Wall Street, and major corporations had worked for eight years to solidify.</div>
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Much of the text of the TPP was unknown to American citizens since it was lobbied and created in secret. However, leaked sections of the document revealed a plan to not only “remove barriers on trade” which, in reality, is political speak for NAFTA on steroids and a massive sucking sound of American jobs fleeing across the Pacific, but also that the TPP contained a number of frightening points that would have allowed for the corporate domination of the American regulatory system, copyright law, and the Internet as well as the American food supply.</div>
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As Brett Redmayne-Titley <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/04/tpp-globalization-treason.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote for Activist Post</a> in April, 2016,</div>
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If Americans don’t stop TPP corporations will literally be able to circumvent the existing laws of the EPA, FDA, trade unions, collective bargaining agreements, patent protections, banking regulations and many other American regulations and rights. All will be negated solely by the arbitrary diktats of corporations. This treason is being currently and secretly included in the language of the TPP treaty here in San Diego. Should state, local, or federal governmental agencies attempt to enforce American laws in favor of their citizens that conflict with the wishes of the multi-nationals, a separate corporate court will have supreme jurisdiction – and the last say – over any American governmental agency. Ominously called, “The Tribunal,” it has the power to override any existing American regulation. Absurdly, Federal agencies, State Gov’ts, City authorities, citizen’s property rights, and competing American corporate interests will be considered as the Defendant before this tribunal. When brought to the dock, these defendants – these nations – will be charged, by the plaintiff corporation, with a new crime: “Technical Barrier to Trade.” Really.</div>
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The TPP was estimated to cost at least 448,000 jobs by researchers. For more reading on this disastrous trade deal, I would recommend reading Derrick Broze’s article “<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/tpp-trade-deal-will-cost-us-448000-jobs-say-researchers.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">TPP Trade Deal Will Cost US 448,000 Jobs, Say Researchers,</a>” Jon Rappoport’s “<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2015/05/the-tpp-monsanto-rockefeller-trilateral.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">The TPP, Monsanto, Rockefeller, Trilateral Commission, Brzezinski,</a>” and “<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/whats-deal-with-tpp.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s The Deal With The TPP?</a>” by Jeb Kicker. Please see also Dr. Chandra Muzaffar’s “<a href="http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2013/07/trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-threat-to.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">Trans-Pacific Partnership – Threat To National Sovereignty,</a>” Joseph Thomas’ “<a href="http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2016/12/saving-face-americas-tpp-disaster.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">Saving Face: America’s TPP Disaster,</a>” and “<a href="http://www.naturalblaze.com/2015/11/the-tpp-and-gmos-whats-so-bad-about-death.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">The TPP and GMOs: What’s So Bad About Death?</a>” by Jon Rappoport,</div>
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Many analysts are suggesting that Trump’s Executive Order is a signal that the Trump administration truly plans a more protectionist trade policy. We certainly hope so.</div>
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We congratulate President Trump for ending the push for the disastrous TPP and we hope that NAFTA and the various other “free trade agreements” such as CAFTA, GATT, and the various bilateral agreements made between the U.S. and China are next on the chopping block. Indeed, this writer has long advocated for an end to the TPP, even including it in <a href="http://www.brandonturbeville.com/2016/07/a-real-new-deal-for-america-43-points.html" style="border: 0px; color: #005a8c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">my list of demands for a political revolution</a>.</div>
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We strongly encourage President Trump to continue his assault on the disastrous Free Trade policy that has so utterly devastated the American economy.</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-39292731531834755152017-01-24T17:08:00.001+08:002017-01-24T17:08:53.692+08:003 Reasons Why Venezuela Crisis Is Scary And It Won’t Be Too Long Before There Is Mass Exodus.<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Venezuela’s desperate economic times are not ending anytime soon. The nation entered an economic emergency for the 6th consecutive time under Nicolas Maduro’s leadership. The Venezuelans endured massive currency devaluation last year. Food shortage, rising prices and lack of basic amenities is making them flee to neighboring countries, especially Brazil. The opposition’s task to get the President recalled have fallen flat in 2016 and the country is now entering a pressure cooker situation with increasing volatility and political volatility.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is difficult to imagine a country that has given up on the government as well as the opposition, unless you go to Venezuela. The Democracy Unity Roundtable (the united opposition, known as MUD) has failed in creating a roadmap to fuel the fire of citizen’s demands. When times turned rough and protests began late in 2016, the </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2017/0120/Why-has-Venezuela-s-opposition-struggled-to-spark-change" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">opposition</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> was as overwhelmed as the government and failed to capitalize the unrest into a political movement.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Datanalisis, a polling firm based in Venezuela, confirmed that only 1/5</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the citizens support the Maduro government in testing times. With a popular vote meandering around 20% and economic emergency in place, there is nothing that Maduro can do to strengthen his position in public. However, the people are also disappointed in the united opposition coalition that has failed to revive hope or even a political change. Even with an opportunity, the opposition appears overwhelmed and directionless, if nothing else.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The deadline for the recall referendum of the President has passed, thanks to the involvement of the government officials who slept on the idea until it was no longer viable. Fresh elections are a year away and Venezuela has months to go before the hitting on the release valve and finally selecting someone new. The country does not support Maduro or his left-wing Hugo Chavez ideology anymore. However, a recall referendum will only mean that he will be replaced by Tareck Al Assami, the radical Vice President appointed by Maduro himself.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this situation, Venezuela could fall into a vicious trap. While the chances of Maduro losing to a coup are highly unlikely, if he loses in a referendum, Assami will take his place. He is known for his radical approach. He has been linked to human trafficking, drugs and even Hezbollah which creates an even darker picture of the country’s future than what Maduro has painted now. Most likely, the Venezuelans must wait till 2018 for fresh elections. Contrary to this, many smaller-level elections have been called off in the country recently which may not be a favorable decision for the people.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The political and economic problem with Venezuela is the struggle for power. Chavistas (supports of Hugo Chavez and his left-centric ideology) have been trying hard to get their way through the chaos. Whether </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/venezuela-maduro-economic-political-crisis_us_587a6dc6e4b0b3c7a7b1af05" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Maduro</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> remains or Assami gains power depends on their wish to gain more political leverage out of the country’s misery. Venezuela has turned into a case study of economic socialism. The country is struggling with poverty and crime is rampant on the streets. The basic infrastructure of the nation is on the brink of breaking down and survival has become difficult with each passing day. It has even been termed a ‘failed state’ by political analysts. Mass migration is another big problem. People have started fleeing the nation to find better opportunities in neighboring countries. The crisis that Venezuela brought to its currency is another case study of a failing currency and a crashing economy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">Venezuela is one of the states that are troubled with rising internal crises. Maduro blames lowering oil prices for the doom but this hasn’t helped people lining up for food and other necessities in the country. With people fleeing the country, currency crisis at an all-time high and political lethargy, the country can either wait for a strong visionary leader or fresh elections in 2018.</span></div>
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The President can also declare a “war” on anything and thereby also give himself dictatorial control. For example, the “War On Drugs” makes it possible to use Federal authorities, such as FBI, FEMA, BATF, and the U.S. Military against American citizens even though these agencies have no authority to do so under the Constitution. A particulary gruesome example of this would be Waco. Another example would be hurricane Opal. After Florida was declared to be in a state of National Emergency, FEMA was brought in and all citizens were put under Marshal Law and restricted to the point they could not go outside their own front doors. This was utterly un-Constitutional.</div>
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The “<a href="http://4940ak459xz-p-91mf67k5p9as.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=fortress22ian" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">War and Emergency Powers Act</a>” is a treasonous act on the part of our government, passed so Presidents can bypass the Congress and do whatever they choose. It also makes it possible to do away with the “posse comitatus” in cases of “emergency”. The “posse comitatus” is what protects the American citizens from the military being turned on them. In Germany, the military and the Gestapo were turned on German citizens. Now, in an “emergency”, the U.S. military can be turned on the American citizens. The Federal Government has its own Gestapo in the form of the FBI, the BATF, and FEMA.</div>
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These Executive Orders have not been widely publicized, and most Americans are completely unaware of them. If they were aware of what has been going on, most of the 250 million Americans would not tolerate it for another minute. Interestingly, copies of these illegal, un-Constitutional Executive Orders are avaiable to the American public. They are all printed in the U.S. Federal Register and have the force of law when activated by a President. You can contact your Congressman for information on how to get copies of these Executive Orders, or check your local library.</div>
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10995– Federal seizure of all communications media in the United States.</div>
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10997–Federal seizure of all electric power, fuels , minerals, public and private.</div>
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10998–Federal seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private, all farms and equipment.</div>
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10999–Federal seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks, or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and waterways.</div>
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11000–Federal seizure of American People for work forces under Federal supervision, including the splitting up of families if the government so desires.</div>
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11001–Federal seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities both public and private.</div>
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11002–Empowers the Postmaster General to register all men, women and children in the United States of America.</div>
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11003–Federal seizure of all airports and aircraft.</div>
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11004–Federal seizure of all housing and finances, authority to establish Forced Relocation.</div>
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Designates areas to be abandoned as “unsafe”, establishes new locations for the populations, relocate communities, build new housing with public funds. 11005–Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, both public and private. 11051–Provides the Office of Emergency Planning (FEMA), complete authorization to put above orders into effect in times of increased international tension or <a href="http://f782bi09287de16kpeyokrvkcd.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=fortress22ian" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">economic or financial crisis.</a></div>
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These particular executive orders are outdated but they have been turned over to FEMA which can activate them in a time of “national emergency.” President Clinton took care of this problem of lapsed or outdated Executive Orders on June 3, 1994, (and released on June 6, 1994), when he drafted a new Executive Order that would cover ALL the above issues.</div>
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This new Executive Order will be the only thing he needs to enact in order to become a full dictator. It covers ALL the Executive Orders mentioned previously. The only thing this Order doesn’t do, is define WHAT the “National Emergency” would have to be in order for this Executive Order to be signed. Please keep that in mind. Anything can be declared a National Emergency for this new Executive Order to be enacted. Here is the summary of President Clinton’s new Executive Order 12919: Part one of the Order describes the purpose, policy, and how this Executive Order would be implemented.</div>
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In Section 103 of Part One, it describes how the various Federal departments and agencies will be responsible to implement all the measures described in this Order. This means all 50 individual State Departments will have no say in what is happening. It goes without saying that American citizens will have no say, either. These Federal departments and agencies are charged with identifying the requirements for the “full spectrum of National Security emergencies.” This includes the “military, industrial, and essential civilian demand.” Part of their job will be to “foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors.”</div>
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Section 104 sets up the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to oversee the carrying out of Executive Order 12919. FEMA has already been involved with any number of “national emergencies” which have occurred since it’s inception (hurricanes and floods are the most common). When this new Executive Order is implemented, FEMA will be responsible to act as advisor to the National Security Council. FEMA will coordinate the plans and the programs to the “authorities and functions delegated”. It will establish procedures to resolve conflicts and issues that may arise while implementing this Executive Order.</div>
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FEMA will report directly to the President on a regular basis. In Part Two, the President will delegate authority to allocate the materials, services, and facilities necessary to promote the national defense. The various agency heads who will have designated assignments would be: The Secretary of Agriculture, The Secretary of Energy, The Secretary of Health and Human Services, The Secretary of Transportation, The Secretary of Defense, and The Secretary of Commerce.</div>
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FEMA will be used to resolve any problems with issues between the various agencies. All department heads will give their findings to the President for approval. (More detail about what these department heads will be doing a little further in the report). In Part Three, the financing of the Order is discussed and the Federal Reserve will be heavily involved. Under Section 310, they talk about the critical items list needed to take care of the “National Emergency.” Each agency head will ensure that all the critical components and technology items are available from the reliable sources to “meet defense requirements during peacetime, graduated mobilization, and national emergency.” Part Seven is titled “Labor Supply.” It is almost common knowledge now that there are large civilian labor camps on military installations in a number of locations around the U.S. There are also processing centers where people can be separated to go to the various camps. It will be the Secretary of Labor’s job to, in Section A, “Collect, analyze and maintain data needed to make a continuing appraisal of the nation’s labor requirements and the supply of workers for purposes of national defense.” Section C deals with how to “formulate plans, programs and policies for meeting for defense and essential civilian labor requirements;”.</div>
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Section E addresses the Secretary of Labor’s responsibility to determine the jobs and the skills that will be critical to meeting the labor requirements of defense and of essential civilian activities. Keep in mind that FEMA is the organization behind the civilian labor camps. They are also the organization that will make this Executive Order function smoothly. Part Nine, Section 901 is interesting. It talks about the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER). This is an executive branch composed of people of various parts of the private sector, along with full-time federal employees. Their purpose is to train people in executive positions in the Federal government in case of an emergency that would require that type of employment.</div>
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FEMA, of course, will coordinate the NDER program activities of the departments and agencies. In section 602, Part Six, we get down to what it means to the average American citizen. In the case of a Presidential decree of National Emergency: The President of the United States, with the help of federal agencies, will have control. We will not be including all the subsections, just the ones that hit the American Citizen where he or she lives.</div>
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(a) Provides for total Federal control of all transportation, “regardless of ownership”. This means if they need your car, they’ve got it. They will control all public transportation also.</div>
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(b) Provides for total Federal control of all forms of energy, including “petroleum, gas (natural and manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of coal…..), atomic energy, and the production, conservation, use, control, and distribution (including pipelines).” This means the Federal Government will have complete control over who will have power (electric) and who won’t.</div>
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(c) Provides for total Federal control of all farm equipment. Farmers will now have to be part of “the production or preparation for market use of<a href="http://f782bi09287de16kpeyokrvkcd.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=fortress22ian" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> food resources</a>“. They did this in Russia. The farmers worked for the government.</div>
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(d) Provides for total Federal control of all fertilizer. This means that any “product, or combination of products that contain “one or more of the elements –nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium” will be able to be confiscated by the Government. These are key plant nutrients and gives the government even more <a href="http://private99.byliberty.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=fortress22ian" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">control over agriculture…from farms to potentially home gardens.</a></div>
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(e) Provides for total Federal control of all food resources. ALL means ALL. This includes all “commodities and products, simple, mixed, or compound, or complements to such commodities or products that are being ingested by either human beings or animals….”. (emphasis mine) This includes all “starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool mohair, hemp, flax fiber, and naval stores”. That means they can come into your home and take all of your food. Period. Catherine Bertini, the Executive Director of the U.N. World Food Program made an interesting comment in Beijng, China, at the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women in September, 1995. She said, “<a href="http://f782bi09287de16kpeyokrvkcd.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=fortress22ian" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Food is power</a>. We use it to change behavior. Some may call that bribery. We do not apologize.”</div>
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(f) Provides for total Federal control of all food resource facilities. This means “plants, machinery, vehicles and other facilities required for production, processing, distribution and storage (including cold food storage).” This includes “livestock and poultry feed and seed”. In other words, they will control anything and everything that has to do with food.</div>
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(j) Provides for total Federal control of all health resources. This means EVERYTHING. They will have control over all “materials, facilities, health supplies, and equipment (including pharmaceutical, blood collecting and dispensing supplies, biological, surgical textiles, and emergency surgical instruments and supplies.” They will be able to come in and take your medicine.</div>
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(k) Provides for total Federal control of all metals and minerals.</div>
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(m) Provides for total Federal control of all water resources. ALL usable water from all of the sources within the jurisdiction of the United States. All the water that can be “managed, controlled and allocated to meet emergency requirements”. Not only will they be able to <a href="http://private99.byliberty.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=fortress22ian" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">turn off your water supply</a>, they can come and take any water you have stored in your house. How many of you knew about this? I find it very interesting that one person, the President of the United States, has the authority to control the life of every single person in the country.</div>
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This new Executive Order 12929 gives step by step instructions on the complete take over and control of every American civilian. Executive Order 12919 fails to address the issues of dignity and individuality of human life. It brings Americans down to the level of domesticated animals. Animals have no control over their owners. Animals have no possessions. Domesticated animals aren’t fed unless the owners do it. Some animals work for their owners. Some animals are used in lab experiments for research purposes. Animals are sometimes put to sleep when they become old, crippled or weak. We have had an abnormal amount of Presidentially-declared “national emergencies”. And each time FEMA has been on the scene. If you don’t believe these Executive Orders exist, you can contact the Capitol and get a list of all those President Clinton has personally signed. He once commented, “If Congress doesn’t cooperate with me, I’ll just run the country by Executive Order.” He has done just that. Clinton has signed more Executive Orders than ANY prior President. To receive a fax index of the Executive Orders Clinton has signed, contact the White House Publications Fax Line by doing the following: Dial 1 202 395-9088. Listen for further instructions.</div>
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When it asks if you know the number of the document enter: 5555. Follow the rest of the instructions and your Index to Executive Orders will be faxed to you. After you receive the Executive Order Index, you can ask for copies of the individual Executive Orders by Index number. (Not the Executive Order number.)</div>
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Message Creation Date was at 12-NOV-1997 17:03:00 THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 12, 1997</div>
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CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY REGARDING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, I declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons (“weapons of mass destruction”) and the means of delivering such weapons. Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on November 14, 1994, and extended on November 14, 1995 and November 14, 1996, must continue in effect beyond November 14, 1997. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938.</div>
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This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress. WILLIAM J. CLINTON THE WHITE HOUSE</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-81767533429199822782017-01-24T16:47:00.002+08:002017-01-24T16:47:43.660+08:00China says it is ready to assume “world leadership”, slams western democracy as “flawed”<script src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=5293561790001&w=466&h=263" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript><br />
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Over the weekend China used the Trump inauguration to warn about the perils of democracy, touting the relative stability of the Communist system as President Xi Jinping heads toward a twice-a-decade reshuffle of senior leadership posts.</div>
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Without directly referencing the new president, China wrote that democracy has reached its limits, and deterioration is the inevitable future of capitalism, according to the People’s Daily, the flagship paper of China’s Communist Party. It devoted an entire page on Sunday to critiquing Western democracies, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">quoting former Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1949 poem asking people to “range far your eyes over long vistas” and saying the ultimate defeat of capitalism would enable Communism to emerge victorious</strong>.</div>
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“The emergence of capitalism’s social crisis is the most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism,” said one of the People’s Daily articles.</div>
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“Western style democracy used to be a recognized power in history to drive social development. But now it has reached its limits,” said another article on the same page. “Democracy is already kidnapped by the capitals and has become the weapon for capitalists to chase profits.”</div>
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The Chinese comments came after Trump in his inauguration speech said his administration would focus on an “America first” approach to foreign policy, undermining hopes abroad that the new president would moderate his protectionist tone. His pledge to abandon a U.S.-led Pacific trade pact has enabled China to step in as the chief advocate of an alternative Asia-wide deal.</div>
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Sensing a global feeling of discontent, China was quick to appease the public and deflect US woes to the terminal decline of its democratic system. With ministries and senior officials stressing unity as a priority for China, smoothing the path for the party’s congress in the fourth quarter, state media were quick to highlight divisions within America shown by Trump’s elevation.</div>
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As <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-21/trump-spokesman-accuses-media-of-false-inauguration-reporting" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f80000; text-decoration: none;">Bloomberg observes</a>, the unusual series of commentaries in the People’s Daily mirrors Soviet efforts to promote an alternative political and economic system during the Cold War. The rise of anti-establishment, protectionist politicians like Trump, amid populist winds on several continents, has sent political parties scurrying to shore up their support, helping China to portray itself as relatively steady.</div>
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Ironically, realizing a power vacuum is forming in global “governance”, Xi has used recent speeches to international audiences to tout China’s economic and political values and has said that globalization, despite its flaws, should endure via the existing international system of finance and trade. That’s even as state media criticizes democracy and capitalism amid efforts to build support at home for the party. Translation: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">China remains largely an export-driven economy, and any threats to the global trade model could have dire consequences for social stability in China.</strong></div>
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“China’s rising wealth has brought greater global presence, but that’s not enough,” said Zhang Ming, a political science professor at Renmin University in Beijing. “The Communist leaders want that someday China will matter globally for the nature of its political system and create its own universal values.”</div>
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As a result, Trump’s policies will give China a chance to take a bigger global role, said Zhang. “China doesn’t have a better Communist system than it used to have, but the global economic and political turmoil has undermined public confidence in western democracy,” he said.</div>
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Separately, in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-politics-idUSKBN1570ZZ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f80000; text-decoration: none;">comments made by Zhang Jun</a>, director general of the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s international economics department during a briefing with foreign journalists to discuss President Xi Jinping’s visit to Switzerland last week, he said that <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">China does not want world leadership but could be forced to assume that role if others step back from that position</strong>. The senior Chinese diplomat’s statement also followed Trump’s pledge to put “America first” in his first speech.</div>
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Speaking days before Trump assumed the presidency, Xi also urged countries to resist isolationism, signaling Beijing’s desire to play a bigger role on the global stage. Elaborating on that theme, Zhang said China had no intention of seeking global leadership.</div>
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“If anyone were to say China is playing a leadership role in the world I would say it’s not China rushing to the front but rather the front runners have stepped back leaving the place to China,” Zhang said.</div>
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“If China is required to play that leadership role then China will assume its responsibilities,” he added.</div>
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“We still hope that the United States and other Western economies can continue to make an even bigger contribution to the world economic recovery. We’ve heard Trump announce that the United</div>
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States will achieve four percent growth and we’re very happy about that,” he added.</div>
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Returning to Trump, Zhang said he thought Trump would not be able to achieve his economic growth goals if he was also fighting trade wars. “A trade war or an exchange rate war won’t be advantageous to any country,” Zhang added. But mostly China.</div>
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Separately, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Xi had sent a congratulatory message to Trump upon his assumption of office, but gave no other details.</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-21635749749070037702017-01-24T16:44:00.003+08:002017-01-24T16:44:10.790+08:00TRUMP vs. YELLEN – A SHOW DOWN IS BREWING<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="485" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tuDaY_oBlBQ" width="863"></iframe>Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-60655941858591764812017-01-24T16:23:00.003+08:002017-01-24T16:23:07.407+08:00Gold Price To 2 Month High As Fiery Trump Declares World Order<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
by<a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-price-2-month-high-fiery-trump-declares-world-order/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> GoldCore</a></div>
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On Friday Donald J Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America.</div>
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Gold prices were surprisingly muted on Friday but did begin to rise towards the end of trading and rose from below $1,200 to over $1,212 per ounce before closing slightly lower at $,207.60 per ounce.</div>
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Gold is looking very healthy technically and has risen for four weeks in a row and reached a two month high this morning at $1,219.43 per ounce – its highest since November 22nd. According to Bloomberg holdings in gold-backed ETFs climbed for the fifth day in a row by 0.9 tons.</div>
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Gold is gaining on increasing investor concern about the Trump Presidency and uncertainty regarding what is set to be his radically different term in office. The dollar has continued to weaken as markets prepare for major changes to US trade, economic and foreign policies.</div>
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The British pound has hit a five week high, along with the yen and 10 year US Futures. Shares fell across most markets, the dollar fell 0.5%, which RBS Capital markets blame on “the lack of economic policy detail in President Trump’s inauguration speech coupled with concerns over his potential protectionist stance.”</div>
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Trump’s fiery inauguration speech was a significant step away from the more presidential-tones of his November acceptance speeches. It was full of protectionism, promises to ‘hire’ and ‘buy’ American and strident nationalism.</div>
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The weekend was not full of any shocking declarations such as currency manipulation or border taxes, however Trump did tweet yesterday that he would be sitting down with Canada and Mexico to discuss NAFTA.</div>
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Across the world, most people aren’t sure what to think. Markets seem disappointed that Trump’s inauguration speech contained few details on fiscal policy, tax cuts and infrastructure spending. For the first time following a Presidential election we are more likely to feel uncertain post inauguration than we were in the run-up to the vote.</div>
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With Trump we are facing something new and radically different. His tweets are not only emotional and reactive but the subject of them combined with his general message go against the status quo, or international order (of the West) that we have seen supported in political America for so long.</div>
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The status quo opinions on Russia, free trade, strong dollar, China and war – has long been supported throughout Western politics, regardless of party leanings since the end of World War Two.</div>
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Politicians, policy makers, markets and the general public around the world are now having to come to terms with what this might mean. And whilst they figure it out, we expect heightened uncertainty.</div>
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For gold investors this is likely good news in both the long and medium term. We expect to see severe volatility due to Trump’s unexpected actions and tweets. Markets will be very nervous and wait with baited breath to see how the affected party, be it the EU, China, Russia or Congress, decide how to react.</div>
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It was generally expected that we would see markets pull back in the week running up to the inauguration as confusion tends to surround anticipated policy from the new administration.</div>
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That is precisely what has happened, but it was exacerbated by both Trump’s direct comments to the press and his own tweets. Trump’s tweets and comments, clearly have an impact on sentiment. GM, Boeing and Toyota have all felt the wrath of the market following a Trump Tweet.</div>
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And, when companies thought it could not get much worse for them, this week Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the US Dollar was too strong, breaking the unwritten rule that Presidents do not comment on the currency.</div>
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The dollar headed south following the comments. This surprised markets who were getting used to the Trump Trade that had seen equity markets and the dollar embark on a rally since the election result.</div>
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On a political note, Trumps’ comments to Bild on NATO being obsolete have put the first military alliance that combines both Second World War agreements and post-Soviet Union countries on an awkward and unstable position. Comments against NATO flies in the face of US foreign policy.</div>
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Trump reconfirmed his views, by tweeting “My statement on NATO being obsolete and disproportionately too expensive (and unfair) for the U.S. are now, finally, receiving plaudits!”</div>
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The above is just a recent reminder of the power of a Trump statement and that his favoured medium of communication, one that is un-vetted and seemingly unadvised, continues to take some getting used to.</div>
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There seems to be some thinking that once Trump takes office, the tweets will calm down.</div>
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Trump has no plans to stop, telling the Sunday Times, “…I can put out Twitter — and it’s not 140, it’s now 280 — I can go bing bing bing… and they put it on…”</div>
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Everyone is aware of how Trump is changing how Presidents will rule and make statements, Wei Li, iShares head of investment strategy EMEA, said in a recent interview with TradngFloor:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There are some really unexpected things happening with the Trump administration and there are no doubt a lot more people paying attention to Twitter at 2am in the night…We are operating in a very different environment where markets are reacting and adapting to changes that have not been seen for a good decade or more.”</em></div>
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The CIA’s outgoing director, John Brennan, has also warned Trump that his tweets are not only bad for markets but also for national security:<br /><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Spontaneity is not something that protects national security interests…So therefore when he [Trump] speaks or when he reacts, just make sure he understands that the implications and impact on the United States could be profound.”</em></div>
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In all likelihood, Brennan’s advice will not be heeded by Trump.</div>
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John Brennan had been feeling Trump’s wrath for a long time. The new President has long criticised the intelligence services in the US, at one point suggesting Brennan was the ‘leaker of fake news’ following the Golden Shower story.</div>
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Trump had previously likened the intelligence services the Nazi regime, tweeting</div>
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As <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-15/trump-responds-cia-chief-brennan-asks-was-he-leaker-fake-news" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Zerohedge</a> pointed out recently, no president since JF Kennedy has dared to take on America’s seemingly untouchable intelligence agency. The website writes, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“If his refusal to take intelligence briefings, or follow CIA advice is serious, then serious consequences will follow. If Trump is serious about peace with Putin when they insist on war, there will be a problem.”</em></div>
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Trump has already announced that he will be replacing Brennan with Mike Pompeo, something which may be seen as a smart move for Trump, but whether it is so for the rest of the world, time will tell. Either way there is a changing of the guard from deep within the national security state that has, until now, been widely listened to when it comes to geopolitical, international and domestic threats.</div>
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Trump’s lack of desire to toe the status quo party line is something intelligence services around the world will seemingly have to get used to. This has become acutely apparent when it comes to matter of Russian relations, which was what triggered the most recent bout between Trump and the intelligence community.</div>
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Trump’s desire to improve relations with Putin and the Kremlin is the most glaring difference between his ideas and those of the status quo, and alongside his thoughts on NATO has much of the Western community nervous.</div>
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When CIA Director John Brennan responded to Trump’s comments comparing the US Intelligence Agencies to Nazi Germany he not only said that the then President-elect had crossed the line but also warned him about Russia:</div>
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It wasn’t until last week that Trump admitted it was likely that Russia had been involved in cyber-attacks and hacking, having previously expressed doubts over US Intelligence Agencies assertions in this regard.</div>
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A US Intelligence Report, seen by both outgoing President Obama and President Trump alleged that Russia had tried to sway the outcome of the 2016 election. However, there was little hard evidence and it did not state if the measures specifically had been successful.</div>
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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump vowed to improve relations with Putin and Moscow. He stated that the sanctions imposed by Obama last month, may be removed in exchange for support in fighting terrorism and meeting other US goals.</div>
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He reiterated his desire to work with Russia again in an interview with the Sunday Times, claiming that he wanted both the nuclear powers of the US and Russia to be</div>
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In the same interview in The Times, Trump also criticised Putin and his country, for their involvement in Syria’s war, describing it as “a very bad thing” that had led to a “terrible humanitarian situation.”</div>
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It is no secret that Poland and Finland have been preparing themselves, with some international support, for a possible attack from Russia. Whilst neither Russia nor Europe have commented directly on any potential threat, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov says “threatens our interests, our security”.</div>
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Trump’s comments on both Russia and China, and apparent planned-policies regarding them, are very different to current foreign policies stances of the U.S., the EU, the UK and NATO.</div>
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At various points during Trump’s campaign he managed to rile China, accusing them of currency manipulation and of ‘raping American jobs’. Then, he really made sure they were paying attention and increased tensions even more when he accepted a call from Taiwan’s President, on his birthday.</div>
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For just some of Trump’s issues with China, it’s worth looking at yet more of his tweets:</div>
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Anti-China and anti-free trade and globalisation rhetoric is something that is becoming louder, not just because of Trump’s victory but also because of discontent in the EU. China is likely to be one of the biggest victims of this change in trade, and a trade and currency war may be on the cards.</div>
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Prior to the election Trump signaled that he would label China a currency manipulator, whether he will do so or not is obviously unknown, but he has still drawn attention to their currency. In a recent interview Trump complained about the strong US dollar and China’s weak yuan.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Our companies can’t compete with them [Chinese companies] now because our currency is too strong. And it’s killing us”</em>. In the same interview Trump said that China’s currency was “dropping like a rock.”</div>
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The election of Donald Trump has seen the US Dollar climb to 13 year highs and made gains of nearly 5% in the period since November. But now, just one week ahead of the inauguration, the President has signaled that he will be dropping the strong dollar policy.</div>
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It isn’t just China’s currency that Trump is likely to have a say on, in 140 characters or perhaps more. Some pundits believe is about to upset China by not only announcing his intention to abandon the one-China policy but also to declare the move by China to build artificial islands in the South China Sea, as illegal.</div>
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China remains unimpressed, the English-language paper China Daily wrote, “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“If Trump is determined to use this gambit in taking office, a period of fierce, damaging interactions will be unavoidable, as Beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves.”</em></div>
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According to Jim Rickards, this anti-China rhetoric could lead to a new currency war between the US and China.</div>
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President Xi Jinping, is also aware of the risks, speaking at his first address at Davos, China’s President spoke against businesses and political elites engaging in trade wars and protectionism:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Pursuing protectionism is like locking yourself in a dark room, which would seem to escape the wind and rain, but also block out the sunshine and air…Waging a trade war will only cause injury and loss to both sides.”</em></div>
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Trade and currency wars with China and other nations, a civil war with Democrats and much of civil society in the U.S., combined with a weakening or dismantling of NATO, all in all points to uncertainty and volatility on a grand scale.</div>
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Tweets over the last four to five years have shown an interest in the gold price and trade, tweeting in 2012:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“With Obama and Bernanke destroying the value of the dollar, gold and real estate should continue to rise in value.”</em></div>
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He is also not a fan of QE, tweeting in 2011 “The Fed continues to flood the market with US dollars. Wrong move.” and has since commented on gold purchases by China and Russia.</div>
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But what about the gold price? As we explained last week, the fundamentals supporting the gold market look good, regardless of who is about to take the US Presidency.</div>
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This year the gold price has already climbed by around 5%, fuelled by what appears to be a perfect storm coming together of Trump worries, Brexit angst and brewing tensions on trade and globalisation, generally.</div>
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Axel Merk told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/gold-bulls-say-history-may-repeat-as-president-trump-is-sworn-in" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8dbd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Bloomberg</a> that uncertainty will support gold, “We have no idea what’s going to happen with some of Trump’s policies — everybody is a little nervous,” said Axel Merk, San Francisco-based founder of Merk Investments LLC, pointed out that</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Gold is relatively undervalued and will push higher.”</em></div>
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We concur and believe that the next four years of the Trump Presidency will be good for gold. If we assume gold takes a similar journey to that it took following Obama’s inauguration, we can expect:</div>
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According to Bloomberg, gold has averaged gains of almost 15% in the inauguration years since the 1970s. It has made gains in five of the last seven inaugurations, and declined only in the year of Reagan’s.</div>
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Whilst events regarding China, Russia, NATO and even potential Civil War are unknown in how they will play out, one thing we can be fairly sure of is that Donald Trump is likely to preside over a significant budget deficit.</div>
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Whilst the run up to Trump’s inauguration has proven to be box office viewing, it is important to tune out the noise surrounding the short-term hype and to consider the real world consequences of his Presidency for investors and savers. We should be aware that what he says/tweets may impact and have lasting results, around the world.</div>
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A man who is against many of the financial, economic and foreign policies of most Western nations, has been democratically elected to run the West’s most powerful country. Policy may now be issued via Twitter and with little consultation.</div>
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Expect some serious volatility and prepare by diversifying and owning safe haven gold which has protected investors and savers from economic and political uncertainty in recent times and throughout the ages.</div>
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Due to ongoing requests for higher credit and debit card transactions, we have increased our maximum card transaction sizes from 5,000 to 50,000 GBP, EUR or USD.</div>
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You can now lock in prices online and transact immediately for up to 50,000 (GBP, EUR or USD) on your Visa and Mastercard credit cards (not American Express) for one transaction</div>
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We do not limit card payments to 50,000 per day but to 50,000 per individual transaction. This means that clients can do a number of transactions for 50,000 on a single day. Certain banks may have restrictions in this regard.</div>
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In the volatile markets of today, this added liquidity is advantageous and, to our knowledge, these are the highest credit and debit card transaction limits in the bullion market. This will be attractive to investors seeking to lock in prices without having to wait for funds to clear first.</div>
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Alfred Woody Wanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542318188662854035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159396239820728420.post-50892854474312653302017-01-24T16:20:00.002+08:002017-01-24T16:20:13.766+08:00Trump signs executive order withdrawing US from TPP trade deal<script src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=5293561790001&w=466&h=263" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript><br />
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Making good on a campaign promise, President Trump on Monday signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.</div>
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He also signed two other orders -- one placing a hiring freeze on some federal workers and the other reinstating a ban on funding for international groups that perform abortions.</div>
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The TPP, a giant and semi-secret 12-member free-trade agreement advocated by the Obama administration, aimed to deepen economic ties between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, cut taxes and foster trade to boost economic growth in the process. </div>
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"We’ve been talking about this for a long time," Trump said, as he signed the document. He called the order to pull out of TPP a “great thing for the American worker.”</div>
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Trump argued on the campaign trail that the TPP is harmful to U.S. workers and robs the manufacturing sector.</div>
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"We're going to have trades but we're going to have one on one...if somebody misbehaves we will send a letter and they'll have 30 days to work it out," Trump said. </div>
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Supporters of TTP said it would have been a boon for all 12 nations involved and would unlock business opportunities on a global scale. Opponents argued, among other things, it would encourage exporting U.S. jobs to low-wage nations.</div>
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Trade has been the rare issue where Trump and labor unions have found common ground. </div>
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“With this decision, the president has taken the first step toward fixing 30 years of bad trade policies that have cost working Americans millions of good paying jobs,” Teamsters Union President James Hoffa said in a written statement. </div>
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But Trump’s stance on trade has created tension from some within his own party.</div>
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the withdrawal a “serious mistake that will have lasting consequences for America’s economy and our strategic position in the Asia-Pacific region.”</div>
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McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also said the decision will “forfeit the opportunity to promote American exports, reduce trade barriers, open new markets, and protect American invention and innovation.”</div>
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He added that it would “create an opening for China to rewrite the economic rules of the road at the expense of American workers.”</div>
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On the campaign trail, Trump also criticized NAFTA -- the North American Free Trade Agreement -- saying the U.S. manufacturing sector had been battered by bad trade deals.</div>
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During a meeting Sunday, Trump signaled he would make changes to NAFTA. Signed into law in 1994 by former President Bill Clinton, NAFTA is a trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico. It essentially eliminates almost all tariffs between the three nations, allowing the flow of goods and supplies across borders. </div>
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One of the other executive orders Trump signed reinstates a ban on federal funds going to international groups that perform abortions or even advocate it as an option.</div>
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The ban has been in place since 1984 and has gone back and forth depending on the party in power in the White House.</div>
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Pro-life groups praised the decision. </div>
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“President Trump is continuing Ronald Reagan’s legacy by taking immediate action on day one to stop the promotion of abortion through our tax dollars overseas," Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement.</div>
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Former President Obama ended the ban in 2009.</div>
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Trump reinstated it one day after the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion in the United States. </div>
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“With this action, Donald Trump has turned his anti-women rhetoric into policy, and made it more difficult for women and families all over the world to access vital reproductive care,” NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue said in the written statement. “He really is living up to the lowest of expectations.”</div>
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The new commander-in-chief also signed an executive order on Monday that froze hiring for some federal government employees.</div>
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“Except for the military,” he said when signing it.</div>
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