News, Rumors and Opinions Wednesday Night 1-20-2021
KTFA:
Samson: Russia reduces its holdings of US Treasury bonds
11:59 - 01/20/2021
Russia reduced its holdings of US Treasury bonds last November by $ 1.2 billion, according to a report published by the US Treasury Department on Tuesday.
According to the report, Russia's investments in US bonds decreased from 6.1 billion dollars last October to the 4.9 billion dollars recorded last November.
In the spring of 2018, Russia began to sharply reduce its investments in US Treasury bonds, reducing them in April 2018 from 96 billion dollars to 48.7 billion dollars, and in May of the same year, reducing them to 14.9 billion dollars.
Moscow continued to reduce these investments, and this coincided with an increase in the possession of gold and other currencies such as the euro and the yen. LINK
Courtesy of Dinar Guru
Walkingstick and Frank26 IOO they are finished with the tally. They are finished collecting the 3 zeros and they are happy with the results. The CBI is very pleased with the note count...this Saturday coming up they will continue to meet...It is our opinion that they are now going to talk about the new small category notes...the topics they're covering are - how they are going to present it to the public. Which ones because they may not come out with all the categories/denominations at the beginning. The value. In other words the exchange rate. The note count that is to be distributed - how much are we going to be putting out into the streets. They will continue the distribution of these notes even as they bring in the 3 zero notes before, during and after this whole process. There seems to be a mad rush to do this. We believe they brought in another 40 Trillion 3 zero notes.
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TNT:
Cutebwoy: Al-Maliki launches his election campaign early: We are coming to restore the prestige of the state
Nouri al-Maliki
2021-01-20 11:54
Shafaq News / Today, Wednesday, the head of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, launched his election campaign “early,” stressing his intention to complete the “building process and restore the prestige of the state,” while warning against a repeat of the 2018 election scenario.
Al-Maliki said, in a speech delivered this evening, amid a large gathering of the masses of his coalition on the Rusafa side in Baghdad, and the Shafaq News Agency reviewed it, that “the slogan of the next state of law will be the completion of the process of building the state, and restoring its prestige that the anarchists and outlaws have brought down.”
He added, “We feel great pain at the loss of the state’s prestige and the state of weakness and weakness that has afflicted it. We do not want chaos in Iraq and we want a strong state with the ability to establish security and enforce law.”
The head of the State of Law coalition stated that “the elections are a great responsibility and an important milestone because they enable us to correct the course of governmental and parliamentary work,” calling for “a readiness to participate in the broad elections and scrutinize the candidates who applied to run in the elections and choose who is the fittest.”
He warned against “the attempts of some to influence the voters’ choice by luring them with money, gifts and gifts,” considering that “this matter is an attempt to insult the voter and take away his will.”
Al-Maliki stressed the importance of “the upcoming elections being fair, transparent and far from tampering with the absurd, and that the scenario of the 2018 elections, and the manipulation and abuse that took place at their time,” will not be repeated, recalling “the successful electoral practices that the government administered during the period from 2006 to 2014.” .
Regarding the regional situation and the international changes taking place, Al-Maliki said, “What happened in the United States recently of the attack on the Congress building and President Trump’s objection to the election results represents a severe blow to the body of democracy.”
He expressed his hope that “the new administration will be able to address the inherited problems and crises to change the image of America and develop relations with friendly countries and the world.”
Al-Maliki launches his election campaign early: We are coming to restore the prestige of the state
Jim Rickards - Economic freeze is here, Get gold, silver if you can and get ready
Finance Alley: Jan 20, 2021
Jim Rickards - Economic freeze is here, Get gold, silver if you can and get ready
James G. Rickards is an American lawyer, speaker, media commentator, and author on matters of finance and precious metals. In this interview, Rickards talks about gold and silver prices and gives to us financial advice.
Jim said that money printing has nothing to do with inflation, the stock market is an efficient discounting mechanism for future events for what they see in the future.
Gold is signaling, that monetary fiscal policy will fail.
There are three things that drive the price of gold, fundamentally.
One that you've already mentioned, which is real interest rates. The lower the real interest rate, the higher the price of gold.
Number two, supply and demand, you know, you learned it in your first three days in economics, but it still works.
And then number three is geopolitical risk.
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