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Damn, beat me to it. Seems that Xi’s phone calls to the leaders of France and UK may have been enough to convince Zelensky to not get ‘cute’ during the Victory Day parade, at least so far...
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Maybe he was suspended/ banned, again.
Martin Armstrong lays out a scenario where the EU disintegrates, the US breaks up into several countries, and civil wars erupt as populations reach their breaking point when it comes to government overreach and the ever-intrusive eyes of the growing surveillance state. Martin also gives his thoughts on the implications of the Yen carry trade, gold’s role as a safe haven asset in uncertain times, and the possibility of a light at the end of the tunnel where humanity comes together in the aftermath of the chaos to come.
https://youtu.be/uMAK8XNt_Zk?feature=shared
Martin A. Armstrong, the founder, chairman, and owner of Princeton Economics International Ltd ("Princeton Economics"), an unregistered investment adviser, appeals from the decision of an administrative law judge. The law judge barred Armstrong from association with any investment adviser based on Armstrong's conviction on a single count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and commodities fraud and his injunction from violation of antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. We base our findings on an independent review of the record, except with respect to those findings not challenged on appeal.
On August 17, 2006, Armstrong, then fifty-six years old, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and commodities fraud. 1 The district court sentenced Armstrong to sixty months' imprisonment and three years supervised release, and ordered him to pay $80,000,001 in restitution to sixty defrauded customers.2 As part of his guilty plea, Armstrong entered a sworn allocution admitting to and describing his crime. In his allocution, Armstrong admitted that between 1992 and 1999, he sold promissory notes issued by Princeton Economics subsidiaries ("Princeton Notes") to investors, mostly Japanese corporations. Armstrong, through his agents, represented to the investors that the proceeds from the sale of the Princeton Notes would be held in accounts at Republic New York Securities ("Republic") and that those accounts "would be separate and segregated from Republic's own accounts and would not be available to Republic for its own benefit."
According to Armstrong's allocution, after he suffered "some millions of dollars of trading losses," he decided "not to disclose to investors that . . . substantial losses had been experienced in this trading of futures. And we did not disclose it." Armstrong also admitted that his concealment of his losses went beyond non-disclosure: "letters were sent by my company to investors concerning how much money was in fact in the accounts assigned to them. I . . . did send out those letters, even though . . . I knew the amounts in the accounts were less than the letters stated."
https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/opinions/2009/ia-2926.pdf