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Finns Draw Up Plans To Expel Greece From Eurozone

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“Eurozone countries are drawing up secret documents to force Greece out of the single currency, a memo from the Finnish finance ministry has revealed.  Greece will be declared bankrupt next month unless the eurozone agrees to pay aid to the beleaguered country within the next three weeks.  The document warns of ‘very difficult political decisions’ this spring as the left-wing government flirts with Russia over financial assistance rather than continue to call on Germany.  Finland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and others are not prepared to release the cash until Greece’s left-wing government legislates on key austerity measures it was elected to oppose.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/04/10/finns-draw-up-plans-to-expel-greece-from-eurozone-as-tsipras-flirts-with-russia/

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Russia opens way to missile deliveries to Iran, starts oil-for-goods swap

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“The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ending a self-imposed ban on delivering the S-300 anti-missile rocket system to Iran, removing a major irritant between the two after Moscow canceled a corresponding contract in 2010 under pressure from the West.  A senior government official said separately that Russia has started supplying grain, equipment and construction materials to Iran in exchange for crude oil under a barter deal. Sources told Reuters more than a year ago that a deal worth up to $20 billion was being discussed and would involve Russia buying up to 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day.  Iran is the third largest buyer of Russian wheat.”

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/13/us-iran-nuclear-russia-idUSKBN0N40YX20150413

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Russia’s new Eurasian Economic Union could get its own single currency

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“The union is still in its early days, having formally begun only in January, but the bloc has tentatively agreed to bring in a single currency and a Eurasian Central Bank by 2025. Belarus’ Mikhail Myasnikovich, prime minister until 2014, is calling for the process to be fast-tracked so the currency is ready in the next four years, according to Belarusian state news.  And Putin instructed Russia’s central bank earlier this month to work with both the government and other central banks ‘to determine the future direction of integration in the monetary and financial sectors in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union with the study of the feasibility of establishing in the future monetary union.'”

http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-eurasian-economic-union-could-get-its-own-single-currency-2015-3

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Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions

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“Some 78 percent of the Russian companies in the Micex index showed greater annual sales growth than their global peers, even though the shares of these Russian companies lagged behind their international competitors, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s consistent with a two-year improvement in the relative value of Russian companies.  One possible reason for the growth? Sanctions. With foreign goods unavailable, Russians had to choose homegrown products and services. The shares outstanding of the largest U.S.-based exchange traded fund tracking Russian companies  surged 5 percent so far this year.”

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-20/russia-rebounds-despite-sanctions

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Ron Paul, The New Militarism: Who Profits?

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“NATO, which I believe should have been shut down after the Cold War ended, is also getting its own massively expensive upgrade. The Alliance commissioned a new headquarters building in Brussels, Belgium, in 2010, which is supposed to be completed in 2016. The building looks like a hideous claw, and the final cost – if it is ever finished – will be well over one billion dollars. That is more than twice what was originally budgeted. What a boondoggle! Is it any surprise that NATO bureaucrats and generals continuously try to terrify us with tales of the new Russian threat? They need to justify their expansion plans!  So who is the real enemy? The Russians?  No, the real enemy is the taxpayer.”

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/april/12/the-new-militarism-who-profits/

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Jim Rogers on Opportunities in Russia and Other Hated Markets

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“I’m an American citizen like you, and unfortunately the bigger picture is forcing the Russians, the Chinese, and others to accelerate in finding an alternative. That is not good for the US.  The Americans have a monopoly, because everyone who uses dollars has to get them cleared through New York. People were already starting to worry in the past few years about the American dominance of the system and its ability to just close everything down.  So now the Russians and Chinese and others are accelerating their efforts to find an alternative to SWIFT and to the American dollar and the dominance of the US financial system.  As I said earlier, none of this is good for the US.”

http://www.internationalman.com/articles/jim-rogers-on-opportunities-in-russia-and-other-hated-markets

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Doug Casey on ISIS, Gold, Oil, and What to Expect in 2015

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“I have no desire to be in the mainstream stock market for the duration. Even less to be in the bond market—the bubble there has gotten bigger and bigger over the last few years, to the point that it has reached a truly unholy size. Real estate is holding on, but it’s floating on a sea of debt, so when the bond bubble breaks, real estate—certainly in the Anglo-Saxon world—is in for big trouble. (And real estate is the most obvious thing for cash-strapped local governments to tax, as things turn down.)  I really don’t see any way out of this thing, other than through the wringer we’re now caught in. However long they last, I do think we’re in the last moments of calm before the storm breaks.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/doug-casey-on-isis-gold-oil-and-what-to-expect-in-2015-1

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Jim Rogers On Putin, Oil Prices, And A 26-Year-Old’s Advantage

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“To Russia’s credit, Russia has not been sitting around supporting the ruble in any big way. My view of markets is you let them clean themselves out, let the system find a clearing price. To my astonishment, the Russians are being more capitalist than the Western capitalists. They are letting the currency find its own bottom. That will change soon. It will find its own bottom, and then Russia will be a good place to invest.  I was bearish on Russia for 46 years. I went to Russia in 1966 and came away with the idea that this will not work; this cannot work. And only in the last couple of years have I realized that something was going on and changing at the Kremlin.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-rogers-on-oil-russia-investing-mistakes-2014-11

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Oil Demand Is Not Declining

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“Despite much higher oil prices, global demand for oil increased by more than 5 million bpd in the past five years. In fact, global oil consumption has increased in 18 of the past 20 years.”

http://www.investingdaily.com/22006/oil-demand-is-not-declining-2/

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Gold Sector Analysis: Gold Blows Up, Travels to 1300 on EU Easing

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“Gold traders certainly liked gold a lot more than Mario Draghi’s plan for European easing.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/trends-and-sector-reports/36025/Gold-Sector-Analysis-Gold-Blows-Up-Travels-to-1300-on-EU-Easing/

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