Sketchy Business Behind: Thomas Matthew Crooks


Posted originally on the CTH on July 16, 2024 | Sundance

I’m having trouble believing the constructed narrative around President Trump’s attempted assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

First, I’m not talking about the ridiculously sketchy events that day.  I’m also not talking about the hours, days and weeks leading up to the shooting and the background of what he would be doing in those timeframes.  I’m talking about the actual personage of Thomas Mattew Crooks, the description of him, his identity, who he is.

According to what little data footprint is available and shared by media, Thomas Matthew Crooks, age 20, DOB: 09-20-2003, had no social media presence.  Let that sink in for a moment.  A 20-year-old in 2024 with no social media presence.

No TikTok, WhatsAp, Telegram, SnapChat, Insta, Twit, FB, gaming profile or Apple ID to correspond with his almost guaranteed iPhone, XBox or Playstation?  Sorry, not even close to plausible.

Second, it’s Deja-vu all over again with the picture (seen above left) that is widely being used by media in stories about Matthew Crooks.  The above image is his freshman high school picture. [SEE HERE] There are no recent or current pictures of 20-year-old Crooks taken by friends, family, or in this era, selfies?   And the picture on the left is the best image the media can come up with?

Compare that picture above to the screen grab of Thomas Matthew Crooks taken during the shooting.

The most recent photograph of him is something from High School, with a flag T-Shirt?  Seriously?

This, optical narrative control has serious Trayvon Martin vibes to it.

For those who do not know, below is the picture of Trayvon Martin that was used to set the “if I had a son” narrative, as advanced by President Barack Obama.  However, on the right is a selfie taken by 17-year-old Trayvon Martin the week he encountered George Zimmerman.

I detect a similarity between the imagery of Thomas Crooks presented by media, in comparison to what we can seemingly identify from the blurry images of him as he carried out his assassination attempt. Someone inside a silo is intent on establishing a very specific narrative.

In the days, weeks and months after the Trayvon, Mike Brown (Big Mike) and Freddie Gray constructs, we were able to dig deep and discover the reality hidden by media pretense.  However, just as DHS began controlling the content on social media, the people within the Deep State silos modified and organized in the years that followed the Trayvon fraud.

The issue seems small but looms large because the ramifications of control over the identity of Thomas Matthew Crooks.  If this much exhaustive effort is put into concealing his footprint, it only makes the sketchy outcomes of his activity seem that much more nefarious.

If Crooks is what government silos claim he is, then there’s no reason to have such a strong level of control over his data footprint.  Something isn’t right.

At this point, I’m not sure what it means, because the absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.

As we learned in the months and years after the Trayvon Martin shooting, there are little known agencies within government with capabilities to permanently control information.  The Community Relations Service (CRS) within Main Justice is one such omnipotent agency.

It was the DOJ-CRS that took control over the Vegas shooter background and information.  However, this is even another level stronger than that.

I do not expect the legislative branch to unpeel this issue because the legislative branch is subservient to the CRS; but it’s amazing how so many people just accept the absence of a 20-year-old’s social media footprint as just something that can, well, maybe, just happen.  It doesn’t happen.

Something is very odd about this.

“Investigators Continue to Puzzle”… SEE HERE

It Gets Worse – Three Security Detail Snipers Were Inside Building Used by Trump Shooter – Secret Service Director Says Roof Was too Slopey for Sniper Safety


Posted originally on the CTH on July 16, 2024 | Sundance

It was odd on that first night when Joe Biden announced the FBI would be investigating the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, only a few hours after the failed shooting. How did the people around Biden immediately know something went wrong?

Then things got even more sketchy when police reported the assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was spotted and photographed acting suspiciously 30 minutes before the attempted assassination.  Unfortunately, they “lost track” of him.

To the commonsense observer, Crooks had to be wandering around the venue for quite a while. I mean, the scheduled start time for the speech was originally 5:00pm, yet President Trump didn’t get started until an hour later 6pm.  Obviously, Thomas Crooks would have been doing something for an hour while he waited. What was it?

The sense of something sketchy increased exponentially with all the subsequent updates about the police backing down from the roof when the assassin pointed his gun at them. Especially when considering the lack of Secret Service removing President Trump from the known kill box, and the crowd yelling at law enforcement while Crooks was getting into position, a mere 400 feet from Trump.

Then we find out that multinational media conglomerate Blackrock, just coincidentally used Thomas Crooks in one of their PR ads.  To top off the suspicious nature of the networks, Blackrock executives are literally in the White House guiding Joe Biden (see the Donilon family). However, even Suspicious Cat could not make up what comes next.

According to the latest CBS report, Thomas Crooks was spotted by a three-man sniper security detail.

Crooks was seen using a range finder to view the stage where President Trump was soon to arrive.  Then Crooks climbed onto the building that was housing the security detail and it was from that position he fired nine shots at President Trump, taking off part of his right ear.

Folks, we are not suspicious enough about this entire set of events.

VIA CBS – There were three snipers stationed inside the building the shooter used during Saturday’s shooting of former President Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the incident tells CBS News.

The operations plan had them stationed inside the building looking out windows toward the Trump rally. The information about the three snipers being inside the building was first reported by BeaverCountian.com.

One of the snipers inside saw Thomas Matthew Crooks outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, a local law enforcement officer tells CBS News.

Crooks came back, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one of the snipers took a picture of him. Crooks took out a rangefinder and the sniper radioed to the command post. Crooks disappeared again and then came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in with information that he had a backpack and said he was walking towards the back of the building.

Officers believe that Crooks might have used an air conditioning unit to get on top of the roof.

By the time other officers came for backup, he had climbed on top of the building and was positioned above and behind the snipers inside the building, the officer said. (read more)

But wait,…. It gets worse….

When justifying why the Counter Snipers were not positioned on the roof, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Secret Service officials planning security for Trump’s rally considered the warehouse 147 yards away from where Trump spoke to be a risky position for stationing an agent.

Apparently, the Secret Service agent in charged deemed the roof slope too much of a safety hazard to transverse. [LINK HERE]

The roof atop the security counter-snipers was deemed too sloped for safe positioning.   The roof behind President Trump was not.

We are not being suspicious enough.

But wait,…. It gets worse….

With all these mounting questions now beginning to become too overwhelming to ignore, even for a few within the mainstream media, something is needed to change the narrative.

Something,…. Anything….  Here comes CNN:

VIA CNN – US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.

There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.

The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president. (read more)

Don’t look at Blackrock.

Don’t look at the White House.

Don’t look at the #1 beneficiary of the assassination plot, Joe Biden. Who is no longer seemingly under convention threat for removal.

Don’t look at the Secret Service, the FBI or any of the various security systems that “failed.”

Nope, now the five key stenographers who constructed the Trump-Russia collusion story, are saying, look at the Iranians.

The Propaganda Leading to the Dangerous Left tying to kill Trump


Posted originally on Jul 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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The nation was silent when President Joe Biden called Donald Trump’s supporters “domestic terrorists” who are the “greatest threat to the nation.” Demonizing Trump has extended to demonizing his supporters – over half of Americans, many of who cannot openly share their political beliefs without the fear of violence.

Donald Trump has been compared to Adolf Hitler for the past 8 years. The rhetoric surrounding Donald Trump is intended to rile up vicious emotions as fear turns into anger. They’ve used gender to instill fear, declaring that Trump will eliminate women’s rights to the point that they will be second-class citizens. They’ve use race to instill fear, claiming that Donald Trump will target minorities. Trump simply hates Latinos, Muslims, and all minorities and wants to separate families with his immigration policies. They’ve used the war to spark fear, continuing the disproven Steele Dossier narrative fabricated by Hillary Clinton that insists Trump is Putin’s puppet who aid him in conquering all of Europe. They’ve used social class to invoke fear, juxtaposing the wealthy businessman to the average American as if all politicians are not above the working man.

There are videos of commentators crying on air, begging the nation to stop Trump before he locks everyone away who disagrees with him. Liberal commentator Rachel Maddow claims Trump will become “president for life” if he is not imprisoned. She pretended to cry on air, stating Trump has sent migrant babies to shelters, ignoring that millions of children have gone missing at the border entirely because we have permitted an open-air human trafficking operation amid these lawless open borders. They claim Donald Trump uses the same language that led to the holocaust, and his leadership all but guarantees an actual genocide in America.

Soros Calls for Assassination of Trump

The media is completely overpowered by liberal thoughts and has been controlling the entire narrative. They are now using Donald Trump’s assassination attempt as fuel to shade the right as violent extremists who will now become a larger threat to democracy. Somehow, Trump is responsible for the attempt on his own life. ABC host George Stephanopoulos said that “Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric,” and believes Donald Trump fueled the attack on his life.”

CNN’s Jamie Gangel criticized Trump directly after his assassination attempt, “I do want to say there was one thing that when I watched the tape, I found odd, because of all of the heated rhetoric.” Civil unrest has heightened to a level that teeters on civil war and the propaganda machine is attempting to cause an implosion.

I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation,” CBS News’ Margaret Brennan told the public.

Trump Putin Puppet

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) has condemned the violence in his own party. “We are on that precipice,” he said. “So leadership requires that we all step back. And we say enough is enough. We can’t do this. And this is my call to action, both to the American people, and to my colleagues, to the American people, right now: pick up the phone, walk out your door, go talk to your neighbor, go talk to your colleague, call your friends, who don’t agree with you and tell them, we can disagree. You’re not my enemy. You’re not evil. But this is our time to come together and to reach out to each other and to my colleagues. Let’s stop creating political moments. And let’s start creating political change. That is what we need now.”

Trump Dead American Dream

The politicians invoking fear are to blame as if their media mouthpiece. The left knows that their violence will go without consequence and some believe they must stop the MAGA violent extremists before they all wind up in concentration camps. The right has had enough of the distorted reality and extreme views parroted by the media and can easily go from the defensive to the offensive. The nation needs a leader who will truly condemn this violence and ask the people to remember we are merely human beings who can agree to disagree. If only the people could open their eyes and see that their neighbor is NOT the enemy.

Congress Must Investigate INDEPENDENTLY – Nothing Adds Up


Posted originally on Jul 14, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

There are many now calling for a serious investigation of the Secret Service. Nevertheless, we are entitled to answers NOW and no more JFK-style investigation BS that covered up the DEEP STATE, which may be involved again. Trump now knows the game, as I do; this time, he will have his own cabinet. That makes him a serious threat to the Neocons and the Deep State.

This assassination attempt is the first legitimate attack on the life of a president since President Ronald Reagan was shot as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington on March 30th, 1981. That was 43 years ago (half the 8.6), which cyclically was on par.

Crooks Outsmart Secret Service

The Democrats have started calling him a Republican to divert blame from themselves. But this kid was a loner, and he donated to left-wing causes. Here is the Guardian on the subject.

Warning FAKE News
Johnathan Willis

There are claims that some Secret Service Agent Jonathan Millis said he was one of the two men in this photo and he was not given permission to shoot. This seems to be fake news claiming he was one of the two guys in the photo with “POLICE” on the back, which neither the FBI nor the Secret Service wear. Look, they will deliberately start outrageous FAKE NEWS so they can easily discredit that and then attribute everything else said to the same source. This is how they use FAKE NEWS for political purposes.

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White House Press Briefing With DHS Secretary Addition – 2:30pm ET Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on July 15, 2024 | Sundance

Following the President Trump assassination attempt, the White House is under pressure to answer questions about the collapse in security.  Even moderate democrats are suspicious and independent political followers are watching this specific press briefing closely.

To address some of the Secret Service issues, the parent silo The Dept of Homeland Security, will be present in the briefing.  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will be joined by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as the press pool expands questioning.  Livestream Links Below

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Eyewitness Watched Trump Shooter Crawl into Position on Barn Roof, Alerted Police, Nothing Was Done – Video


Posted originally on the CTH on July 13, 2024 | Sundance 

An eyewitness gave a statement to BBC news, very angry about why nothing was done by secret service to secure a specific area.

The eyewitness describes watching the shooter carry a long rifle onto a barn roof. The eyewitness alerted police; no immediate action was taken.  The eyewitness grew frustrated with police and secret service. The eyewitness saw the gunman prepare in position for 2 to 3 minutes before shooting 5 shots at President Donald Trump. The eyewitness saw law enforcement then engage and kill the shooter.

Video interview with BBC Embedded Below (fyi, video might not last):

President Donald Trump Survives Assassination Attempt – Shots Fired, Bullet Strikes Right Ear, President Trump is OK – Shooter Dead, One Witness Killed


Posted originally on the CTH on July 13, 2024 | Sundance

President Donald Trump has survived an assassination attempt.  Several shots were fired, one bullet appears to have clipped the right ear of President Trump.  The President is OK!

As secret service rushed the stage and blood began flowing from his head, President Trump stood, raised his right hand in a fist pump and shouted:

…”FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!”

President Trump was immediately rushed to medical treatment.   Disturbing video.

♦ The shooter is dead. ♦ One Trump supporter bystander is also dead; suffered headshot. ♦ Eye witness watched shooter crawl into position on barn roof. Alerted police. Nothing was done. Eyewitness video below.

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Deep State Pushing Trump VP Choices as Secret Service Ramps Up Security Detail


Posted originally on the CTH on June 21, 2024 | Sundance

A couple of quick hot points from the 2024 presidential race and Trump side of the equation.

♦ First, we can ignore all of the typical pre-debate banter about who is doing what in the lead-up to the Trump v Biden debate.  Every cycle the debate narratives are pushed for clicks and attention; almost all of it is manufactured nonsense and false.

Actual, professional, presidential debate teams do not leak information about their debate prep activity to the media. The only information released is from campaign players who want the other side to see, hear and waste time preparing for imaginary nonsense.  All of the pre-debate stuff, banter, punditry and column inches are one big mind game of misinformation.  Ignore all of it.

♦ Second, the DC system that created Mike Pence as the best option for Trump 2016 is the same system pushing Vance, Rubio and Burgum for 2024.  [Example HERE] The intent with Pence 2016 is the same intent with Vance, Rubio and Burgum ’24.  I’m cautiously optimistic President Trump is well aware of this.

Seriously, how many times have you heard me repeat the warning: NEVER TRUST A NEVER-TRUMPER.  Yet, time and time again people get wooed back, deny their instincts, dismiss the intellectual reality and drop their guard.  Every single time the Trump supporters get burned.

This is not complicated folks.  The Never-Trumpers do not change position, have an awakening, trip over some “come to Jesus” moment, engage in self-reflection, or otherwise evolve to stop thinking that Donald Trump is the end of their world.   Never-Trumpers espoused that opinion, because Never-Trumpers saw value in holding that opinion.  It is simple and should be accepted.

Those who claimed Trump was/is horrible, terrible, egotistical, evil and all the other adjectives to describe their sentiments, do not suddenly have a change in perspective.   What changes them are changes in the instructions they are given.   They begin praising Trump because there is new value in stating that opinion.   NEVER, EVER Trust a never-Trumper.  The stakes are too high.

♦ Third, apparently the secret service is increasing the security detail around President Trump.

Kelly O’Donnell: “Secret Service is ready to add new protectee detail for Trump running mate. USSS is also increasing size of Trump detail beyond level for formers. Official said, “The Secret Service detail has been bulked up by additional special agents and support teams to ensure the highest level of security for not only the event sites but the travel in between events.” (source)

Generally speaking, the current DC system operators, that are referred to as the ‘Biden administration’, have no motivation to protect Donald Trump other than their sense of personal responsibility to the nation President Trump represents.

Given the effort that Tucker Carlson has put into mainstreaming thoughts around the ‘killing of Trump‘, I am cautious to view any Secret Service effort through the prism of professional altruism.

I pray for the safety of President Trump and his family daily, because I am very clear-eyed about the nature of the enemy he faces.

The Broker – Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Schedule Meeting in Turkey Next Month


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2024 | Sundance

While Turkey is a NATO ally, Recep Erdogan strategically refused to participate in the process to ostracize Russia.  True to Erdogan’s strategic political interests of being an influence broker, Turkey is the only NATO country that does not participate in the sanctions regime against Russia.  Next month Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Turkey for diplomatic discussions.

Turkey represents the literal gateway for most Western travel into and out of Russia.  However, first things first.  Despite the position of Turkey, notice how Hungary receives all the EU admonitions for not supporting the Ukraine side of the conflict, while NATO/EU never criticize Turkey who never even joined the EU/Western sanctions regime.  Inside that hypocritical contrast there is a revealing story.

Turkey established themselves as the neutral entity for future brokering negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.  Turkey has multiple geopolitical ties to Russia, including the purchase of Russian military equipment.  Apparently, despite the severity of the original sanction demand, Western interests -specifically the U.S. government- had no issue with Turkey proactively taking their ‘neutral’ position.  Always remember this.

Given all of the domestic headlines in the USA, there is a very good reason for Americans to keep paying attention to all things that happen in the orbit of Russia right now. Many people ponder the issue of a dollar-based central bank digital currency; however, only a few people have paid attention to the self-fulfilling prophecy of the CBDC that was created by the Russian sanctions regime.

Those who ask about the possibility/probability of a dollar-based CBDC, and the possibility of the timeframe therein, should always be referenced back to the Western financial sanctions against Russia.  It was that triggering point that put the USA and Western alliance on the irreversible path to the U.S CBDC, and the process is no longer a matter of “if” because the determining issue is no longer (primarily) in U.S. control.

The de-dollarization of half the trade globe, the general cleaving of finance that followed the Russian sanctions (see the efforts of BRICS+), has essentially created a system where major economic nations are trading between themselves in non-dollar-based exchanges.  India trades with Russia in Rupes to Rubles. China trades with Russia on old fashioned ledgers of value (due to proximity somewhat of a quasi-bartering system); Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Africa and a host of non-Western nations are all in various stages of direct trade in national currency outside the dollar zone.

At the core of the issue behind the question of a U.S. or dollar-based Central Bank Digital Currency, you will find this global financial cleaving.   Intra-Western trade (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the EU) is still done in dollars, and trade done into the Western system is still done in dollars.  Ex. if China wants to trade into the USA, they must complete transactions in dollars. However, trade from grey zone to grey zone nation is no longer contingent upon dollars.

Very few people are talking about these new financial trade alternatives. Yet ultimately, this cleaving is likely what will result in a dollar-based U.S CBDC.   Remember, the need for alternative trade currencies was triggered in time by the immediacy of the sanctions against Russia.  I do not believe the Western financial alliance thought the Russian allies could assemble the alternative so quickly.

If the DoS and CIA truly believed the sanctions would cripple Russia, it’s then likely our institutions vastly underestimated the prior diplomatic talks that preceded those sanctions.  As a big picture consequence, no geopolitical issue is as connected to your kitchen table as anything that connects with Russia.  So, pay close attention to how Russia is engaged by the rest of the non-Western world (grey zone), and you will get a good idea about the speed and timing of a pending U.S. CBDC.

As soon as the grey zone trade is predicted to take place in non-dollar terms, the U.S CBDC will be fast-tracked.  The only way for President Donald Trump to stop the CBDC process would be to immediately end the Russia-Ukraine conflict and subsequently remove the sanctions. [And that might not even work.]  As long as there are financial trade blocks based on dollars and who we like, there will be an easy justification for the financial cleaving to continue.

RUSSIA – Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey next month in a rare foreign trip to a NATO nation, according to a Kremlin announcement on Monday.

Yuri Ushakov, a top adviser to Putin on foreign policy matters, told the Interfax news outlet that “a visit is being prepared.” As to the purpose of the visit, Ushakov added: “I can say that Ukrainian issues will probably be one of the main subjects of negotiations.”

Though a key NATO nation, Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, serve as a rare diplomatic bridge between the Kremlin and its Western rivals. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Ankara has supported Ukraine with military supplies while refusing to join Western sanctions on Moscow.

Turkey has positioned itself as a mediator between the two nations, hosting two rounds of peace talks in Antalya and Istanbul in 2022. Turkey was also key to the Black Sea Grain Initiative that temporarily facilitated the export of agricultural products from southern Ukrainian ports amid Russia’s naval blockade.

Following a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the beginning of this month, Erdoğan said Ankara remains ready to help “establish lasting peace, stability and prosperity in our region.”

“We have previously acted as a host country for direct talks between the parties to the conflict,” the president said. “We are, as before, ready to do our best in this matter and act as a mediator….Ukraine in order to take joint steps with Russia certainly needs to soften its position.”

Putin last visited a NATO nation in 2020 when he traveled to Germany to meet with then-Chancellor Angela Merkel. His Western travel options have been limited by his war on Ukraine and the arrest warrant issued for him in 2023 by the International Criminal Court over alleged related crimes. (read more)

I really do not like Turkish President Recep Erdogan.  His political policy is full of dangerous self-interest (Muslim Brotherhood) and thirst for power (recreation of the Ottoman empire).  However, on the issue of ending this Russia-Ukraine conflict, I will admit Erdogan has positioned himself very well.

If Trump wins in November, Erdogan will play a major role in the end of hostilities.

You might even say Erdogan holds the key to eliminating the self-fulfilling prophecy of a US CBDC that Obama/Biden created.

Interview: Gold Surges Between War-Driven Inflation Dynamics


Posted originally on Jan 14, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |

Interview with GoldSeek Radio:

Head of Armstrong Economics, Martin Armstrong, reviews charts of the major indexes in real-time, noting “2024 could be a chaotic year.”

– Interest rates rise during boom periods.

“Yeah, I think people have to understand that the vast majority of analysis out there is all domestic. They’re just calling for the Fed and I think so many of them are talking about a major crash in 2024. What they never do is look outside the country. And honestly, if you look at the 3 indexes look at the Dow, the S&P, and then the NASDAQ, you’ll see the Dow leading.

And that is basically showing you that what’s going on here is international capital inflows. I mean, the more it’s getting crazy for wars just about everywhere. From Asia, you’re looking at the Middle East. You’re looking at Europe. We have probably more institutional clients than anybody in the world and they’re all starting to wake up a little bit and hedging their bets and they’re moving money to the States. That’s why the Dow has been rising, more so than you see. We have probably more institutional clients than anybody in the world and they’re all starting to wake up a little.

… but then again you have people just looking at the Fed and talking about ‘Oh, transparency.’ And is they only ever keep talking about old defense, going to ‘Lower rates, lower rates, lower rates.’

If you really look at it, objectively, interest rates always rise during boom periods, and they decline during recessions and depressions. We are looking at increased inflation, probably into 2028 caused by shortages and war. But you’re looking at a declining economic growth, so that ends up being more like the 1970s…and you’re looking there at what we call “Stagflation” where the inflation rate will be higher than economic growth.

– Increased inflation could erupt due to supply shortages and skirmishes.
– Stagflation similar to the 70’s could soon come to the domestic economy.

“That was basically caused by OPEC raising the price of oil dramatically and that created a cost-push inflation. So everybody’s costs were rising dramatically. Anything that had to do with plastic, went up dramatically and that created eventually the inflationary boom between 1976 going into 1980. As for gold rose to $875, etc…I think gold was about a $100 in 1976 and it rose to about $400 but that was by December 1979, the last six weeks of the rally, which peaked in 1980 on January 21st. So from December to January 21st, that’s when Russia invaded Afghanistan. So it was the geopolitical stuff that took gold from $400 to $875. So it’s important to understand inflation is not the major driving power but inflation when war is around – that’s what broke Bretton Woods…it was the Vietnam War.”

– Funds may be flowing into the blue-chip Dow Jones 30 stocks from global unrest.
– Geopolitical opinion and commentary.