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How Markets Tank & Gold Rises Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Critical warning signs from the credit and rates markets are being ignored by tough-talking experts while gold bides its time before it rises in a global financial crisis mathematically too sick to save. It is fascinating to watch market pundits, policy makers, commercial…

Germany’s Spiegel Asks “Is Vladimir Putin Right?” Over NATO Expansion With all eyes on the situation unfolding at the Ukraine border – as separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling amid a “general mobilization” of military-age males – Germany’s left-leaning Spiegel asks a question fundamental to the entire conflict… “Vladimir Putin insists that the West cheated…

ConocoPhillips Sells Excess Bakken Gas To Bitcoin Miner Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, ConocoPhillips is selling natural gas that would have been otherwise flared to a third-party Bitcoin miner in the Bakken in North Dakota, the U.S. oil and gas producer said this week. ConocoPhillips has one pilot project in Bitcoin mining currently in operation in…

Rand Paul Vows To “Force A Repeal Of The Federal Regulation Mandating Masks” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Senator Rand Paul declared this week that he is already gathering signatures from lawmakers in an effort to force a vote to repeal federal mask mandates on planes. In an Newsmax interview, Paul asserted that…

A Fed Policy Mistake Would Be To Stay Loose Relative To Markets By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live commentator and report When you get asked what a policy mistake looks like even before the benchmark funds rate has risen once in the current cycle, it is a telling reflection of how far the Fed is…

Markets Are Focused On The Wrong Fed Put With equities reeling from the ‘perfect storm’ of synchronized (inflation-battling) global tightening monetary policy, geopoilitical risk, and extreme asset valuations, investors are looking to recent history and banking on a Powell Put being unleashed sooner rather than later to “save the world” once again. Global rate hike…

Canada Freezes Convoy Bank And Crypto Accounts, Threatens Dogs; MSM Journos Dox Donors With Hacked Materials Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that financial institutions have been actively freezing the accounts of people linked to the medical freedom protests in Ottawa, which has left an unknown number of protesters and donors in financial…

Stockman: “We’re Not Useful Idiots!” Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, We Are Not Useful Idiots! Honest injun. We’re not useful idiots here at Contra Corner! We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job. And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of…

Goldman’s Startling Admission: “The Economy May Be Slowing More Than Expected” On Monday, Morgan Stanley’s chief equity strategist and the man we call “Wall Street’s biggest bear” once again stunned his colleagues when he penned an article writing that between the big hit to the US consumer – now that stimmies are no longer funding…

Clintonworld-Controlled BLM Bails Out Anti-Gun Activist Charged In Shooting Of Louisville Mayoral Candidate Black Lives Matter’s Louisville chapter told WHAS11‘s Rachel Droze that they’re bailing out the suspect in the attempted murder of mayoral candidate, Craig Greenberg. Just spoke with @BLMLouisville. They are heading to the bank to get a cashiers check to post Quintez…

Oil Tumbles After Iran Nuclear Negotiator Says “We Are Closer Than Ever To An Agreement” One of the biggest risks cited frequently by Goldman to its bullish oil case, was that the Iran nuclear deal would finally be signed, allowing several more million barrels of oil to hit the global market every day (even though…

“COVID Exhaustion”: People Are “Done Being Told What To Do”: Former CBOE Floor Trader Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance This is part 2 of an exclusive Fringe Finance interview with former floor trader Ryan Sellers (@OpenOutcrier), where we discuss options trading, trading vs. investing, his outlook on the markets, how the nation and the Fed will navigate 2022…

Watch Live: President Biden Delivers Remarks On Russia, Ukraine Amid a barrage of conflicting headlines, President Biden will address the world and clear everything up about Russia-Ukraine-NATO-Nord Stream 2 and so on, in what The White House calls “brief remarks” this afternoon. According to the White House statement: In the afternoon, the President will give…

When Will Jake Sullivan – Biden’s National Security Advisor – Be Indicted For Russiagate Lies? Authored by Sam Faddis, retired CIA officer via AND Magazine, Jake Sullivan Biden’s National Security Advisor Was At The Heart of the Russiagate Lies When Will He Be Indicted? Recent filings by Special Counsel Durham have focused renewed attention on…

US On Alert As Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Spreads An outbreak of the highly pathogenic form of bird flu has been detected in the US Midwest and East Coast. According to Bloomberg, this does not pose an immediate threat to public health but is a significant concern to the agriculture industry.  The United States Department of…

Wall Street’s Biggest Bear Warns Stocks Are About To Be Hammered By A “Polar Vortex” Of Collapsing Growth While Goldman’s permabullish chief equity strategist David Kostin is only just now catching down to where other prominent Wall Street bears have been for weeks and on Friday finally capitulated, cutting his year-end S&P target (which he…

US Still “Watching Very Carefully” For Russian False Flag: Sullivan Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Biden administration continues to suggest that Russia might carry out a “false flag” operation against separatists in eastern Ukraine to justify an invasion. Russia has repeatedly rejected the accusation, and the US has offered no evidence, but that hasn’t…

Gold Is The Geopolitical Hedge Of First Resort, Goldman Sees $2150 Within 12 Months Geopolitical risks are on the rise in a system with no slack, and that, according to Goldman Sachs commodities research chief, Jeffrey Currie, strengthens his thesis that the case for commodities has rarely been stronger. While many commodities are fundamentally exposed…

Pentagon Docs Shed New Disturbing Light On Biden’s Afghan Evacuation Disaster Authored by Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com, A recently declassified Pentagon report on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has renewed attacks against President Joe Biden from across the political spectrum. No doubt, the lack of foresight on the rapid collapse of the US-built Afghan government is inexcusable…

‘Freedom Convoy’ Spreads As New Canada-US Border Crossing Shuts Down Update (1523ET): About 2,500 miles west of the Ambassador Bridge, in Surrey, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington, another “Freedom Convoy” emerged Saturday as demonstrators against medical tyranny have managed to shutter “multiple border crossings,” according to AP News.  Data from geolocation technology company TomTom shows part…

Skies Above Super Bowl Protected By Fighter Jets, Fans To Be Surprised “With Never Before Seen Formation” Tens of millions of Americans will be glued to their flat-screen televisions, smartphones, and or tablets on Sunday evening to watch the National Football League (NFL) annual playoff championship game that will feature the Los Angeles Rams versus…

TD Bank To Surrender Convoy Donations To Court As Organizers Turn To Crypto Canada’s TD Bank says it plans to surrender approximately $1 million in un-refunded GoFundMe donations to the Freedom Convoy, as well as some $400,000 the group had accepted through direct donations. On Friday, TD told CTV news that it would apply to…