Gold prices reflect a shift in paradigm – Part I

"Serve Your Country": Uncle Sam Seeks Investment Bankers For 'Economic Defense Unit' The Department of War is reportedly building a 30-person investment banking team, called the "Economic Defense Unit," to deploy $200 billion in private equity over three years into defense companies and, more importantly, war unicorns, as the race to secure the Western Hemisphere and counter China, Russia, and Iran intensifies in the Trump era. Seamfor reviewed a slide deck from the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles that says DoW is seeking to stack EDU with bankers from Goldman...

Is Trump About To Crush The Cartels In Ecuador? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump is taking the fight directly to the drug cartels by launching aggressive military operations in Ecuador with the full backing of the country’s right-wing president.  Trump believes that the time has come to directly confront the narco-terrorists flooding American communities with poison. Recent developments include joint US-Ecuador operations under “Operation Total Extermination,” with strikes on narco-terrorist targets along the Colombia-Ecuador border using special forces support, helicopters, boats, and drones.  🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is now going ALL-OUT on the cartels in Ecuador after...

Schiff: This War Is "Going To Cost A Lot Of Money We Don't Have" Last night, ZeroHedge hosted investor Peter Schiff and Rabobank's Michael Every to debate the question: Will the war in Iran accelerate the U.S. dollar’s collapse or is it a geopolitical chess move that could strengthen its hegemony? Moderated by Cornell professor Dave Collum, Schiff - based in Austrian economics - argued that the war will do nothing but harm the American economy via higher prices and interest rates, while the dollar weakens. Every believes Trump can pull a...