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Walter Shaub, an attorney and the director of the government’s ethics office who regularly clashed with President Trump over his business interests, submitted his resignation on Thursday. He is leaving his office nearly six months before the end of his term. Shaub's last day as the head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) will be on July 19, according to his resignation letter to Donald Trump which he posted on his Twitter account.

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— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 6, 2017

Authored by David Stockman via The Daily Reckoning,

Back in the 1950s when GM had 50% of the auto market they always said that, “As General Motors goes, so goes the nation.”

Benjamin Brafman, attorney for former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli has based Shkreli's defense on the notion that, while his client may have misled investors in hedge funds and pharmaceutical companies that he controlled, most of them made money thanks to Shkreli's business acument and investing prowess.

Precious Metals Are "Best Defence" Against Bail-ins In Economic Crisis

Precious metals are "real assets" and "best defence" against bail-ins and cashless society in the economic crisis which is "on its way"

In his latest note, SocGen's permaskeptic Albert Edwards looks back 20 years in time to the Asian Crisis, and makes an interesting observations: nothing has really changed. In fact, as he explains, the events over the past 2 decades have been a "linear progression of the monetary madness that followed the 1997 Asian", and all thanks to central bankers who used the crisis as a springboard for ever more drastic monetary interventions, resulting in one bubble after another, culminating with the current state of the world, to wit: