KW: Keen is a hghly respected economist, his opinion is listened to. Elsewhere Max Keiser stated “The blacklisting of Iran from international financial messaging system SWIFT serves as a warning to Washington’s enemies, but will hasten the demise of the dollar, stockbroker-turned broadcaster Max Keiser . SWIFT, a system that facilitates cross-border payments between 11,000…

KW: What do you want your gold for? Peter KORZUN: Instead of attacking Russia and other nations without any proof to substantiate the claims, the UK government would have done better by looking at itself in the mirror. Source: UK Blatantly Violates Norms of Decent Behavior

KW: One of the many ‘opinions’ from market commentators in the U.S. All agree on one thing, even though the Democrats won Congress in no way was it a ‘blue wave’ that we are being told it was. It’s all a gamble! November 8, 2018 Dear Reader, This midterm election season seems like it lasted…

During the ruble crisis of 2014/15 Russia announced in the wake of U.S. and European sanctions over reunifying with Crimea that it would begin building a domestic electronic financial transfer system, an alternative to SWIFT. That system, System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), is not only now functioning in Russia, according to a report from…

KW:All is not rosy it seems but the markets continue to ignore these facts being flooded with money from zero interest rates and with corporations on a share buy back binge due to the tax cuts Trump gave all his corporate mates. The market could surprise on the upside on the near term as the…

KW: Ha! the market doesn’t see any problem still. As the trade war deepens, supply chains in China are being forced to shift to Southeast Asia, the survey found. Source: US Manufacturers Not Coming Back To North America, Says New Poll | Zero Hedge

KW: When you hear our media prattle on about the collapse of the Venuzuelan economy and how evil the Maduro government is realize that you are being lied to, that is only a small part of the truth. The fact is, becasue they can the U.S. is sanctioning the whole of Venuzuela into a grief…

KW: U.S. financial commentators are unanimous in their opinion that the Chinese economy is at the point of collapse becasue of leverage right through the economy and this is unsustainable. It’s very possibly true, a major issue for the Chinese for sure but I take these commentators, all highly respected I might add, with a…

KW: This is also very significant. Readers should be aware that the CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland is none other than our very own ex Hastings Boys High School pupil Ross McEwan, someone I personally know from when he was CEO of National Mutual with which I held an agency at the time. We…

KW: Here is the latest newsletter from John Mauldin, a highly respected financial commentator. Everyone including Mauldin is sounding the alarm albeit at differing  decibels but the last 3 points he makes ring true and are easy to understnad as is the whole letter Debt Alarm Ringing By John Mauldin | Oct 27, 2018 Is debt…