U.S. Geopolitics: Afghanistan and the Containment of China
China’s fear is replicating the fall of the Soviet Union. When its borderlands, Central Asia and Transcaucasus, were lost, the Russian core shattered into three states: Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Russia. Should China loses its borderlands, Tibet and Xinjiang, the Chinese core may similarly shatter.
Five days before Congress passed the CARES Act on March 25 of this year, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Memorandum giving U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin complete discretion to use $50 billion in the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) as Mnuchin solely saw fit. The Memorandum was dated Friday, March 20. On the prior Tuesday and Wednesday of that same week, Mnuchin had already used $20 billion of the Exchange Stabilization Fund to bail out Wall Street. As Mnuchin’s letter of November 19 to Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirms, he gave (or committed) $10 billion from the ESF to the Fed’s Commercial Paper Funding Facility on March 17 and another $10 billion to another Fed emergency lending program, the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, on March 18.
Expert who called the 2008 crisis says the signal to sell stocks is coming soon
He said no printing of money — by the Federal Reserve — would solve what he described as a “structural” problem. “All attempts to create more money to solve the dollar standard issue tend to devalue all fiat versus gold. Gold is rallying on debt deflation probabilities.”
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of gold during 2018.
Switzerland: US$64 billion (20.9% of total gold exports)
Hong Kong: $37.2 billion (12.2%)
United Kingdom: $31.8 billion (10.4%)
United States: $20.3 billion (6.6%)
United Arab Emirates: $15.7 billion (5.1%)
Australia: $14.2 billion (4.6%)
Canada: $12.3 billion (4%)
Singapore: $11.1 billion (3.6%)
Peru: $7 billion (2.3%)
Japan: $6.3 billion (2.1%)
Ghana: $6.1 billion (2%)
South Africa: $5.5 billion (1.8%)
Germany: $4.6 billion (1.5%)
Thailand: $4.4 billion (1.4%)
Mexico: $4.3 billion (1.4%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped four-fifths (80%) of all gold exports in 2018.Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing gold exporters since 2014 were: Singapore (up 1,136%), Thailand (up 57.5%), Japan (up 43.9%) and United Arab Emirates (up 27.4%).
Those countries that posted declines in their exported gold sales were led by: Hong Kong (down -25.5%), Canada (down -18%), South Africa (down -17.4%), Germany (down -16.8%) and United Kingdom (down -15.4%).
For a comprehensive listing of gold exporters, please see the section Searchable List of Gold Exporting Countries below.
— Read on www.worldstopexports.com/gold-exports-country/
Germany’s central bank has completed an initiative to bring half of the country’s gold reserves home three years ahead of schedule, as it repatriated all of its gold kept in Paris and a third of its reserves in the US.
— Read on www.dw.com/en/germany-repatriates-gold-reserves-ahead-of-schedule/a-40208045
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