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Why Central Banks Love A Gold Sell-Off Via SchiffSovereign.com, On July 7, Bloomberg published an article with the headline: “Gold’s Bull Market Has Ended and Now All Eyes Are on Bears,” explaining how many retail investors have headed for the exits. That same day, the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, reported its largest monthly gold purchase since 2023. Of course, June marked its twentieth consecutive month of adding gold to its reserves. Central banks are relatively price insensitive. They buy gold as a long term hedge to preserve value, not...

National Insecurity: America's Continuing Reliance On Critical Chinese Materials Authored by Benjamin Weingarten via RealClearWire, At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 - with face masks, gloves, and other basic protections in high demand - Chinese leaders threatened to plunge America into the "mighty sea of coronavirus" by withholding essential medical supplies in retaliation for measures such as the U.S. travel ban on visitors from China. The threat, issued through a Chinese Communist Party organ, brought into stark relief China's strategy to subdue would-be foes by rendering them reliant on...

The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to be. Real democracy can be found in the workings of the free market, not the political halls.