President Barack Obama is considering plans to allow his administration to take full administrative control over the upcoming presidential elections, citing ‘security concerns’ as justification.  As various news articles report on the alleged danger to American elections from Russian hackers, there is pressure on the government to allow a federal agency to protect the elections from these hackers.

For an increasingly vocal group in this country - that sees 'the establishment' for what it is - it may not come as a total shock that CNN is reporting that The (Clinton-appointee-Loretta-Lynch-run) Department of Justice has "pushed back" against The FBI's desires to begin a probe to investigate whether there was a criminal conflict of interest with the State Department and the Clinton Foundation during Clinton's tenure.

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

Heike Hoffman is a 54-year old fruit merchant in a small town in western Germany.

 

She has no formal training in finance. She’s not running a multi-billion dollar portfolio.

 

And yet, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, “[w]hen Ms. Hoffman heard the ECB was knocking rates below zero in June 2014, she considered it ‘madness’ and promptly cut her spending, set aside more money, and bought gold.”

Millennials continue to puzzle the general population.

Many Boomers are still trying to pinpoint how millennials approach life. They are trying to understand how to impress millennial colleagues, how to sell to them, or how to retain them as employees. Boomers want to know what it was like to grow up with today’s technology, and how that impacts one’s outlook.

Authored by Judy Shelton, originally posted Op-Ed via The Wall Street Journal,

The source of trade anxiety is a broken global monetary system that distorts price signals with sharp currency moves.