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Trouble Brewing in Emerging Markets

Usually when a savvy investor like George Soros invests $35 million in your company, that’s considered a good thing and a vote of confidence. Not this time. Soros just purchased $35 million of Tesla bonds, according to this article. The bonds carry an attractive yield and are convertible into Tesla stock so it might be a

One of the most famous and humorous stories in the history of diplomacy involves a secret meeting in 1971 between President Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, and Premier Zhou Enlai, the number two Chinese Communist Party official after Mao Zedong. Kissinger asked Zhou to assess the impact of the 1789 French Revolution. Zhou replied,

The U.S. is past master at the use of financial weapons and punitive sanctions. In World War I, the U.S. seized the Bayer Aspirin company from its German parent, Bayer AG. Months before Pearl Harbor, FDR froze Japanese funds in U.S. banks and put an embargo on oil shipments to Japan. In more recent times,

This article offers a fascinating peek inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. Cheyenne Mountain is a military command and control complex buried 2,000 feet underground, carved out of solid granite, and able to withstand a direct hit from a nuclear bomb. The military uses it to monitor and respond to threats from all sources including terrorism, weapons of mass

I’ve covered the war on cash extensively both in my books and newsletter writings. There’s a reason for this. The elimination of cash is not something that happens overnight. It happens step-by-step, bit-by-bit, so slowly that no one seems to notice until it’s too late. A good metaphor is a frog being cooked by a

A Recession Is Coming… And the Fed Can’t Stop It

The Federal Reserve Dilemma: No Good Choices

JIM RICKARDS (PART 1) – CENTRAL BANKING, TAXES, AND CRYPTO In this episode, Preston and Stig talk to the world renown economist and central banking expert, James Rickards.  Jim is the New York Times Best Selling Author of books like Currency Wars, The Death of Money, and A New Case for Gold.  Jim has worked on Wall Street for more

The Threat of Contagion