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I found it very suspect that our King plus a huge trade delegation visited Japan a day before Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda announced the new extreme surprise round of stimulus. Gold Repatriation Stunner: Dutch Central Bank Secretly Withdrew 122 Tons Of Gold From The New York Fed http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-21/gold-repatriation-stunner-dutch-central-bank-secretly-withdrew-122-tons-gold-new-yor Need Tips on Sticking to your Trade Plan? Global Consequences The impact of the Dutch gold repatriation can be huge. First of all, because it underlines more and more countries are getting nervous about their gold reserves stored in the US. Venezuela repatriated most of its reserves from abroad in...

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has acknowledged that the Dutch government drew up plans for what to do if the single European currency had collapsed during the summer of 2012. In an interview with RTL television on Tuesday, Dijsselbloem said there was a plan to return to the Dutch guilder in a worst-case scenario. …

Don't solve "problems." When you solve problems, you feed your failures, starve your strengths, and achieve costly mediocrity. Nothing good is going to come from political haggling over some bogus social security crisis decades in the future, when our economy will be entirely different and hugely more productive. We have to get beyond the idea that any reshuffling of taxes and spending today will improve the economy's ability to support medical care, housing and transport for the aged, such as myself, in 2027. That will depend not on actuarial trumpery but on the realities of productivity, technology, and immigration. Only...