UAE Drops VAT on Gold


The UAE government came under tremendous pressure by the dealers that the VAT was killing their business. The government has responded dropping the VAT (Sales Tax) on gold, diamonds, and precious metals for investors. Taxing such products is, in reality, taxing money the same as if it bought bonds or stocks. Not everyone buys stocks just as not everyone buys gold. Taxing gold and not stocks is a form of investment bias

Report: Lisa Page Resigns From DOJ…


The Daily Caller is reporting Lisa Page has resigned from the FBI.  If accurate this would indicate her internal investigative usefulness has run its course.  This would align with those who expect the IG report to come out soon [likely May 18].

DAILY CALLER:  The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered her resignation.

Page has faced months of scrutiny over the text messages, which she exchanged with Peter Strzok, the former deputy chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division. (more)

Lisa Page was assigned to be Special Counsel to FBI Deputy Andrew McCabe in 2015.  It was Lisa Page’s testimony to FBI Inspection Division (INSD) investigators and the DOJ Inspector General that ended up delivering her text messages on July 20th, 2017.

Page was instrumental in the initial phases of the internal investigation.  During mid-summer questioning about leaks to media former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said he did not authorize Lisa Page to talk to media.  This contradicted Mrs. page.  To prove her side of the story Lisa Page provided the text messages. Thus the first investigative thread was pulled, eventually revealing massive internal corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI.

London Remains the Financial Capital for Market Execution


QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You have said that Brexit is good for Britain and that the financial center could never move to Paris or Frankfurt and survive. Can you elaborate on that topic for us Brits?

GS

ANSWER: It is amazing that the politicians are so clueless and the heads of the banks are far too often just talking politics. London is bigger than all the financial centers in Europe COMBINED! Because of regulation being consolidated in Britain, it even beats New York City – a fact that is often overlooked. The United States has SEVEN regulatory agencies that compete with each other for power compared to one for Britain. London still wins hands down.Neither Frankfurt nor Paris even has the infrastructure to function as London does

Victor Davis Hanson 2018 Discuss About CNN is Literally Hitler


Streamed live on May 3, 2018

Victor Davis Hanson 2018 Discuss About CNN is Literally Hitler

The President’s Plan For “The Jewish Problem”


Published on May 4, 2018

REVEALED: The President’s top secret report on what to do with the Jews. The shocker? It’s the Left’s favorite president, FDR.

 

 

DOJ Inspector General Updates: Testimony Postponed, FBI Response Letters, Page/Strzok Personal Communication Not Captured…


In broad measure the DOJ-OIG investigation into the politicization and weaponization of the DOJ and FBI has three basic frames of reference:

♦The internal investigation of intelligence leaks to media by FBI and DOJ officials.
♦The internal investigation into the politicization of the Clinton email investigation, and the results therein. This is the central investigation.
♦The internal investigation of politically motivated abuse/fraud upon the FISA court.

•The first outcome ended with an OIG report and criminal referral of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for his leaks to media. •The next outcome will be the long-awaited IG report on the Clinton investigation. •The last IG release in this series will encompass the DOJ-OIG internal review of applications to the FISA court.

Today, there is some new information: the congressional testimony of Inspector General Horowitz has been postponed due to new discoveries in relationship to the Clinton investigation. It is our suspicion the ‘new investigative review‘ specifically pertains to the how DOJ and FBI officials handled the issues stemming from the Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop; and how Andrew McCabe took specific action to hide the content therein between September 28th, 2016 and the eventual re-opening of the investigation on October 28th, 2016.  In essence the background of the “non-investigation”.

Those new IG discoveries would most certainly encompass FBI and U.S. Attorney contacts from New York to Main Justice and FBI HQ in Washington DC; and include what actions each of the participants took therein.

Additionally today there are some responsive letters to congress which deserve to be highlighted.  As many people are aware, much of the information we can assemble to understand the location of the investigation(s) comes from these public letters and the content therein.

On January 25th Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a lengthy letter to the FBI asking about multiple investigative issues including, the Clinton investigation, DOJ Special Counsel to Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and FBI Agent Peter Strzok. [SEE HERE]

An alarming response letter (full pdf below) from the FBI to Chairman Chuck Grassley today tells the senator most of the answers to the questions presented will soon come forth within the IG report.  However, the FBI also tells Grassley the internal investigation of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok did not encompass the collection of their private devices used in their communication:

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/378226882/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-lPEvEDLlQgo6sX7aAIDQ

(screen-grab link)

This is very frustrating.  Why wouldn’t the FBI look at the personal devices of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok and their use of GMail for their communication?   This is particularly troublesome because we know from the last batch of text messages that Page and Strzok were intentionally manipulating the method of communication in order to escape review.

Their efforts to hide their communication was clearly outlined in the prior public releases of information.  Why wouldn’t the FBI Inspection Division and Office of Inspector General demand access?

Chairman Grassley asks these exact questions in his reply to the FBI:

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/378227398/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-dFBfGH751AbvwhmIdcri

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Martin Armstrong Answers: What Happens If One Just Holds On To Cash?


Published on Apr 17, 2014

What Happens If One Just Holds On To Cash? Register for our services at princetoneconomicsintl.com and follow the blog at armstrongeconomics.com Follow us on Twitter @ StrongEconomics and on Instagram @ArmstrongEconomics. Martin Armstrong is the developer of the Economic Confidence Model (ECM) depicting boom-bust cycles which have been found to occur like clockwork every 8.6 years, 3,141 days or (Pi) times 1000. Using this business cycle in the model had correctly pointed the peak just before the Japanese stock market Nikkei 225 crash in 1989. The model, dubbed the Secret Cycle by New Yorker Magazine, amazingly pinpointed the stock market Crash of 1987 to the very day along with countless other turning points right down to the meltdown of Russia in 1998 that was reported by the London Financial Times in June 1998. This model even predicted the Asian Currency Crisis in 1997, the bottom of the Dow Jones Industrials to the very day 1994.25 not to forget the rise in oil from $10 to $100 and of course not just the very day of the high in 2007 for the most dramatic collapse in the world economy, but Barrons magazine also reported in 2011 that this model was projecting new highs and that the low was in place for the US stock market. This model has been one of the most famous discoveries in forecasting and Armstrong was invited to advise the People’s Bank of China during the Asian Currency Crisis in 1997 and the European Commission even attended his lectures in London about the dangers in designing the Euro.

Martin Armstrong’s “The Solution”


Published on Mar 20, 2017

Martin Armstrong outlines his solution to the madness going on in Washington

The Pension Crisis and Economic Confidence with Martin Armstrong


Published on May 4, 2018

Q&A Discussion with Michael Campbell of “MoneyTalk” Radio from the 2017 World Economic Conference covering the pension crisis and it’s impact on real estate and economic growth.

Victor Davis Hanson : Donald Trump, President NObama 2018