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Gold Outperforming Stocks YTD As Dollar Has 5th Monthly Decline
Gold Outperforming Stocks YTD As Dollar Has 5th Monthly Decline
Meet Soccer's $600 Million Man (Or What Qatar Is Doing While Its Economy Collapses)
Brazilian superstar soccer player Neymar (yes one name... on the right in the image below), just smashed all previous records for crazy spending by European football soccer teams.
Dwarfing the money in America's NFL, NBA, or MLB, the 25-year-old forward has agreed to join French side Paris St.Germain (PSG) for a stunning EUR222 million ($250 million).
As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, the previous record, set last season when Manchester United bought midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus, was an already astronomical €105 million.
Even Some Allies Fear America
While Machiavellian disciples argue that for a leader it's better to be feared than loved, the United States often sees itself as a benign hegemon, holding its shielding hand over the world, ever since she won the Second World War.
In fact, as Statista's Dyfed Loesche notes, many people around the world today fear that the United States isn't always a force for good in international politics.
According to Pew Research Center, the United States' standing in the world has gone down overall.
Vladimir Putin, At Wit's End With Washington, Opts For Poker Over Chess
Authored by Robert Birdge via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a calculated bet that the embattled Trump administration will interpret his expulsion of hundreds of US diplomats from Russia as more of a friendly warning than an overtly hostile act.