To a certain extent, the price of gold is going to tell you who is going to win in that effort to de-dollarize Asia. If gold goes up, it’s China. If gold goes down, it’s the US.     -Charles Gave, on MacroVoices, 5/10/18 China’s trade surplus over the last 12ms looks flat. But take out the surge in gold imports, and it is clearly still rising. It is now about a trillion dollars bigger than it

Many important stories are hiding “in the open.”– Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh Events can move from the impossible to the inevitable without stopping at the probable.-Alexis de Tocqueville We’re also at a unique moment geopolitically, and I could see in the next few years that we are going to have to have some kind of a grand global economic reordering, something on the equivalent of a new Bretton Woods or if you want