July 4 - Gold $1350.40 up $13.70 - Silver $20.40 up 86
cents
(Last prices over prior Comex close)
Fireworks: Silver SOARS … Gold Roars!
"The gold
price manipulation scheme will go
down as the biggest financial market scandal in U.S.
history."
— Bill Murphy, Chairman of the Gold Anti-
Trust Action Committee
Brad Hoppmann
Publisher, Uncommon Wisdom Daily
One month ago, in a move which US military officials admitted was aimed squarely at "sending a clear message to Russia", the US deployed not one but two aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean: the USS Truman and USS Eisenhower. As we reported at the time, a military official in Washington said the Truman’s shift was a signal to Moscow and a demonstration of the Navy’s operational flexibility and reach. “It provides some needed presence in the Med to check…the Russians,” the official said.
Ross Douthat says that the true divide in Western politics is now between globalists and nationalists — and this divide is tribal. He explains the identifying markers of the Cosmopolitan tribe, i.e., what makes them different from the nationalist tribe (among them: their “out group” is Evangelical Christians). Douthat says there’s not necessarily anything wrong with this. A propensity for tribalism is part of human nature. More:
Authored by Mark St.Cyr,
I keep hearing that the “Chicken Little’s” are once again being proved wrong. We keep being shown chart, after chart, after chart, after chart how the market recovers from perilous sell-offs. This is expressed as “proof” the “market” doesn’t want to go down, and has legs to vault ever higher.
