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Silver, Platinum and Palladium as Investments – Research Shows Diversification Benefits

– Silver, platinum and palladium see increased role as investment vehicles– Increase in academic output on the white precious metals is in line with this– Silver and particularly gold are safe haven assets– Silver was a safe haven at times during which gold failed to be– Platinum and palladium less so but have diversification benefits– Silver manipulation is possible and indications of, if not legal proof– Benefits...

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On the Commemoration of World War I: From Woodrow Wilson to Donald Trump

  A Disastrous Decision It is altogether fitting that the US attack on a Syrian airport, the dropping of a MOAB on defenseless Afghanistan, and the potential outbreak of nuclear war with North Korea have all come in the very month in which an American president led the nation on its road to empire one hundred years earlier. President Trump’s aggressive actions and all of America’s previous imperialistic endeavors can...

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New Patterns of Disturbance

Having finally established that the economy of the “rising dollar” was appreciably worse than first estimated, we can turn our attention back toward figuring out what that means for the near future and beyond. According to the latest estimates for Industrial Production, growth has returned but in the same weird asymmetric sort of way that is actually common for the past decade. Year-over-year IP expanded by 1.5% in...

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What is Rethinking the Dollar? Keith Weiner

Find out what Keith Weiner, founder of The Gold Standard Institute, has to say about Rethinking the Dollar. If you enjoy this segment please share it so others can become more monetarily aware. Picture: 2006 $1 Federal Reserve Note Watch the full interview here: RTD Ep:30 "GOLD: Only Thing That Can Replace The Dollar" - Keith Weiner (Gold Standard Institute) https://youtu.be/srwSI9eTN6o *********** RTD UNIVERSITY *********** A new monetary paradigm starts by visiting the RTD...

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Close to a fifth of Swiss workers think corruption widespread, says survey

© Mudretsov Oleksandr | Dreamstime.com A survey conducted by the advisory firm EY shows a rise in perceived corruption in the workplace in Switzerland. 18% of workers surveyed by the firm in Switzerland now think bribery and corruption are widespread in the country. While high this figure is well below the 33% average for Western Europe and the 51% average across all of the 41 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle...

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FX Daily, April 21: Markets Enter Consolidative Mode Ahead of Weekend

Swiss Franc EUR/CHF - Euro Swiss Franc, April 21(see more posts on EUR/CHF, ) - Click to enlarge FX Rates Neither the terrorist attack in Paris nor the strong eurozone flash PMI has managed to shake investors. Judging from the social media, many suspect that the terrorist attack plays into Le Pen’s hands, but investors do not seem particularly concerned. The French interest rate premium over Germany has...

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Trump To “Bully” Fed Into Printing Money – Negative for Stocks, Positive for Gold

David McWilliams has written an interesting article in which he puts forward the case that Trump is likely to turn on the “enemy within,” the Federal Reserve and bully them into “printing money.” He points out that this was seen in 1971 when Nixon bullied the Fed into printing and debasing the dollar. McWilliams says this would be bad for stocks markets which would fall in value as was seen in the 1970s. This would be...

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Global Asset Allocation Update

There is no change to the risk budget this month. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation between risk assets and bonds is unchanged at 50/50.  The performance of markets in the first quarter of the year was a bit schizophrenic. Stocks performed well which one might interpret as a reflection of improving economic growth prospects. Certainly President Trump and his proxies were quick to take credit but...

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India – Is Kashmir Gone?

  Everything Gets Worse  (Part XII) –  Pakistan vs. India After 70 years of so-called independence, one has to be a professional victim not to look within oneself for the reasons for starvation, unnatural deaths, utter backwardness, drudgery, disease, and misery in India. Intellectual capital accumulated in the West over the last 2,500 years — available for free in real-time via the internet — can be downloaded by a...

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Switzerland at IMF and World Bank 2017 Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C.

Bern, 20.04.2017 – Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer as Head of the Swiss delegation, Federal Councillor Johann N. Schneider-Ammann and Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, will take part in the joint Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., from 21 to 23 April 2017. Prior to these meetings, Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer...

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