26 December 2024

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Tag: President Trump

  • Are CNN’s Chinese reporters playing dumb?

    Are CNN’s Chinese reporters playing dumb?

    “China’s economic slowdown keeps getting worse,” wrote CNN reporter Laura He on September 16, 2019, “That could give the country incentive to repair its trading relationship with the United States.” Indeed, it could. It could also give China incentive to ban ping-pong or mandate the eating of cheeseburgers on Tuesdays. If China is “slowing down”,…

  • Gold is getting interesting

    Gold is getting interesting

    Yesterday gold prices popped $25 to USD $1,418 as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made a case for lower interest rates. Many investors believe that lower interest rates will automatically push gold prices up, but in the last 50 years, the correlation has only been about 28%. “We see the case for a somewhat more…