“Roughly 15,000 Boers are ready to leave their country and begin a new life in Russia.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/business/433772-boers-sa-russia-resettlement/
“It seems that we may need to be reminded every generation or so of the perils of foreign military intervention and the simple truth asserted by General Graves.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/18/when-the-u-s-invaded-russia/
“Being ousted from office by special counsel would really not be so bad given the other methods that the U.S. deep state has employed against presidents who have dared to befriend Russia.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/20/six-presidents-targeted-for-befriending-russia/
“In private conversations, investors, entrepreneurs and economists admit that with the high debt level and a trade war with the United States, the room for government maneuvering is shrinking. The degrees of pessimism vary, but many of them are bracing for a tough ride ahead. They told me to change all my savings into gold, a risk-management measure for extreme times. They worry that the trade war will hurt the tech and the venture capital industries because they operate globally.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/latest-sign-of-chinas-slowdown-a-technology-cash-crunch.html
“About $1 trillion worth of stocks listed in China’s two main markets, Shanghai or Shenzhen, are being pledged as collateral for loans. This trend has exploded in the past three years.”
“Beijing once again changed the game with their aggressive deleveraging campaign, which sent shadow credit creation crashing to record lows just last month.”
“Former President Richard Nixon arm-twisted Arthur Burns to maintain loose monetary policy as Nixon sought re-election in 1972. That didn’t work out particularly well: As the 1970s economy continued to grow, inflation took root thanks to low rates and remained stubbornly in place until the early 1980s.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/trumps-fed-criticism-is-nearly-without-precedent-in-us-history.html
“U.S. border officials won’t release the money, deeming it ‘counterfeit.'”
“So long as we’re going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there’s no body count.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/17/laws-are-for-the-little-people/print
“The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds’ fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/entrapment-prosecution-of-bitcoin-exchan