Investors are increasingly betting that the dollar will weaken against the euro, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Positions “shorting” the dollar, or poised to make money as the dollar’s value falls, reached $24.7 billion last week, rising for the fourth consecutive week and jumping up from $18.8 billion the week before....
Tag: aug 04 2020
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CORPORATE DEBT BOMB IS TICKING
With interest rates low and going lower over, U.S. businesses are $17 trillion in debt, which accounts for 79 percent of U.S. GDP. As the economic recovery sags and equity markets rattle, we forecast a sharp rise in corporations defaulting on their debts, which will result in more businesses going bust and millions more filling...
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FED HEAD PLAYS COVID CARDS
Repeating the mainstream Presstitute and political mantra, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell declared last Wednesday that besides pumping in more digital money backed by nothing and printed on nothing to inflate the economy… public vigilance, such as social distancing, is crucial to the speed of the economic recovery. He added that even if millions of...
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HONG KONG: CHINA TOWN 2.0
The Trends Journal has been reporting on the Hong Kong protests in detail since they first broke out in June 2019. As we have reported in recent issues, the new, harsh national security law imposed on Hong Kong on 20 June by China’s National People’s Congress was designed to clamp down on any renewal of...
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GOVERNMENTS’ “CURE” WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
We had forecast this when politicians first locked down nations, and now it’s a fact. Research conducted by Johns Hopkins University, which was released last week but barely got any coverage, shows the global shutdown of economies by governments has created massive suffering to millions of children worldwide. The study specifically points to hunger and...
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SOCIAL MEDIA CONTINUES CENSORSHIP
On 27 July, a video was posted online by “America’s Frontline Doctors,” which the New York Times dismissed as “a group of people… wearing white medical coats… sharing misleading claims about the virus, including that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment and that masks did not slow the spread of the virus.” The Times article, with...
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL MIGHT DROP THE BALL
Last Friday, commissioner of Major League Baseball Rob Manfred issued a warning that the entire league will shut down if the coronavirus spread is not more effectively contained. The season finally opened on 23 July, but every time a report surfaced that a player or anyone involved with a team contracted COVID, the league reacted...
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NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: SINKING
For years, reports have been issued warning of dire consequences to the “greatest city in the world” due to rising seas caused by climate change. The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resilience survey, released a little more than a year ago, predicted 37 percent of the lower island will be subject to storm surges by 2050 and...
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SCHOOLS REOPEN WORLDWIDE: U.S. DEBATE RAGES ON
Who is dying from COVID-19? Ask the World Health Organization (WHO): “COVID-19 impacts the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions most severely.” Yet, when fighting the COVID War, like most others, politicians and mainstream media sell lies and fear rather than truth and facts. And now there is the great debate as to whether...
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VACCINE VOLUNTEERS OR GUINEA PIGS?
Go back to last week. Pick up newspapers from the U.S. to the U.K. and you’ll see the same photo: a young, masked woman with blue-black hair, glasses, and tattooed arms getting vaccinated. This was the headline last Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal: “Vaccine Volunteers Given First Doses.” With most citizens around the world...