China's Record Ship Swarm Around Taiwan Sends Decoupling Alarm To Wall Street

NATO Member Spain Closes Airspace To US Planes Involved In Iran Operations Given worsening US-Spanish relations over Washington's pro-Israel policies, this is a big step which is not entirely surprising - Spain has fully shuttered its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. This is an action significantly beyond its prior controversial policy to deny US use of jointly-operated military bases, and what has also been a long-running ban on ships transferring arms and ammo to Israel. Morón Air Base Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced on Monday, "We don't authorize either...

America Turns 250. At 125, It Looked Like The End... Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, On the afternoon of September 6, 1901, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, shaking hands with a crowd of well-wishers. One of the people in the crowd was a young man named Leon Czolgosz… who was patiently waiting with a revolver wrapped in a handkerchief. When he reached the front, he fired twice into the president’s abdomen. McKinley died eight days later, and, Czolgosz, an unemployed factory...

The Fog Of Oil Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, War, oil and gold are making headlines of late for overlapping and independent reasons. Below, we avoid the guesswork, finger-pointing or sensationalism attendant to current headlines concerning Iran and stick to a theme which offers some clarity, namely the interplay of oil and gold. The Fundamentals Stay the Same For years, of course, we have tracked the fundamental drivers which impact the gold price (from DXY debates, inflation signals, and de-dollarization headlines to COMEX outflows). All of these complex signals and themes ultimately boil down to a simple realization:...