Submitted by Steve Brown…
The panic continues to play out for now and events are moving fast, dependent upon multiple variables and unknowns, but let’s examine how future events just might play out. It’s impossible to countenance all possible outcomes so we are dependent upon probability.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Trump’s White House Press Conference where the US President delivered a necessary, confidant speech as the world tries to manage the spread of the coronavirus.
Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, and outlined a mass testing plan and economic strategy going forward. Trump’s speech delivered a market rebound and an oil prices rise.
When the World Health Organization announced on February 24th that it was time to prepare for a global pandemic, the stock market plummeted. Over the following week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 3,500 points or over 10%. In an attempt to contain the damage, on March 3rd the Federal Reserve slashed […]
Submitted by Steve Brown…
The alarming decline in world share markets may be unprecedented but is not unexpected. In a series of articles over many months we’ve covered the weakness in globalist structures present for a long time, leading to a unique set of circumstances.
Time to ‘fess up: I don’t understand economics. I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that I’m not supposed to understand it either. As with some weird cult, maybe economic “laws” are only revealed to initiates. Or maybe no one really understands economics; it’s just some are better at pretending they do.
US stocks plummet, pulling much of the global indices down with them
Commodity trading also plummeted after Wall Street’s sudden decline this week [Xinhua]
Oil prices have continued into their third day of decline as US stocks plunge at the fastest rate since 2016.
The US benchmark West Texas intermediate dropped 0.76 per cent to $63.66 a barrel for March. Global benchmark Brent Crude fell 0.89 per cent for April to $67.02 a barrel.
The change between the time of President Obama and President Trump is drastic. For that matter the change between George W Bush and President Trump is ALSO drastic. Or to Bill Clinton or George HW Bush… even in some ways, compared to “Ronaldus Magnus” as some of us like to call Ronald Reagan, the conservatives’ usual modern ideal.
Here are some of my thoughts on the successful Brexit vote, shared on the Facebook page for Exposing Faux Capitalism: Corporate mass media hypocrisy: When democratic referendums are in favour of being part of some bigger political union, they want to move on after saying how great the outcome was, yet, in the rare case […]
It got so bad that China had to halt stock market trading altogether — and the US didn't fare much better.
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Before I built a wall, I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out;
And to whom I was like to give offense.
– Robert Frost1
