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Tom Price Resigns As HHS Secretary Amid Private Jet Scandal

Tom Price Resigns As HHS Secretary Amid Private Jet Scandal

As part of the growing private jet (ab)use scandal that has recently rocked the Trump administration, on Friday afternoon the White House announced that Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price offered his resignation and President Trump has accepted, according to the Press Sec. office.

Full White House statment below:

Statement from the Press Secretary

 

What's The Matter With Inflation?

Via Global Macro Monitor,

What’s The Matter Kansas  inflation?

The divergence of official inflation as measured by the government versus inflation realized by the consumer and businesses has never been greater, in our opinion.   Go ask anybody on the street in America and Europe if think “doing life or business”  is getting  more expensive. 

We have some thoughts on what is the matter with the inflation data:

Dollar Ends Best Week Of The Year With A Whimper As Global Stocks Push All Time Highs

Dollar Ends Best Week Of The Year With A Whimper As Global Stocks Push All Time Highs

The dollar rally paused on Friday and looked poised to finish its best weekly gain of the year with a whimper, when in a repeat of the Thursday session the, Bloomberg dollar index first rose more than 0.1% during Asia hours before slumping around the European open as month and quarter-end flows came into play again.

Rickards Warns "Cracks In The Dollar Are Getting Larger"

Rickards Warns "Cracks In The Dollar Are Getting Larger"

Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning,

Many readers are familiar with the original petrodollar deal the U.S made with Saudi Arabia.

It was set up by Henry Kissinger and Saudi princes in 1974 to prop up the U.S. dollar. At the time, confidence in the dollar was on shaky ground because President Nixon had ended gold convertibility of dollars in 1971.

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