the petro dollar

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:38 pm

Gold bar buyers in Russia are currently obliged to pay 20 percent VAT. However, when selling ingots, the tax is not returned. As a result, demand for gold investment in the country sits at just under 3 tons per year. Experts say that if the tax is dropped, demand could skyrocket to 50–100 tons.

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bentech · Post by **bentech** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:22 pm

what do we think abou Max Keiser?

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:22 am

seen this?

"JPMorgan Chase Moves to Be First Big U.S. Bank With Its Own Cryptocurrency"

is the below comment correct?

Chase is using a blockchain technology to back a method for doing very large international monetary transfers faster and in a more on-demand way than is possible with SWIFT.
This is not a cryptocurrency and is neither a consumer tool or an investment vehicle.

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:36 am

feb 19th 2019

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss reviews of Bruno Maçães’s new book, "Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order,” on the rise of China to superpower status through trade. The “nine arrows crisscrossing Eurasia’ was a vision first realized by Deng Xiaoping who saw a “world organized as a network.” What does a rising power mean in a world where a fading hegemon is always reluctant to share?

Keiser Report: The One Belt, One Road to Superpower (E1347)

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bentech · Post by **bentech** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:29 am

seen this one?

A Well-Kept Open Secret: Washington Is Behind India’s Brutal Demonetization Project

Four weeks earlier

Not even four weeks before this assault on Indians, USAID had announced the establishment of „Catalyst: Inclusive Cashless Payment Partnership“, with the goal of effecting a quantum leap in cashless payment in India. The press statement of October 14 says that Catalyst “marks the next phase of partnership between USAID and Ministry of Finance to facilitate universal financial inclusion”. The statement does not show up in the list of press statements on the website of USAID (anymore?). Not even filtering statements with the word “India” would bring it up. To find it, you seem to have to know it exists, or stumble upon it in a web search. Indeed, this and other statements, which seemed rather boring before, have become a lot more interesting and revealing after November 8.

Reading the statements with hindsight it becomes obvious, that Catalyst and the partnership of USAID and the Indian Ministry of Finance, from which Catalyst originated, are little more than fronts which were used to be able to prepare the assault on all Indians using cash without arousing undue suspicion. Even the name Catalyst sounds a lot more ominous, once you know what happened on November 9.

Catalyst’s Director of Project Incubation is Alok Gupta, who used to be Chief Operating Officer of the World Resources Institute in Washington, which has USAID as one of its main sponsors. He was also an original member of the team that developed Aadhaar, the Big-Brother-like biometric identification system.

According to a report of the Indian Economic Times, USAID has committed to finance Catalyst for three years.
Amounts are kept secret.

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bentech · Post by **bentech** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:31 am

gotta love the corperateeze…

Badal Malick was Vice President of India’s most important online marketplace Snapdeal, before he was appointed as CEO of Catalyst. He commented:
Catalyst’s mission is to solve multiple coordination problems that have blocked the penetration of digital payments among merchants and low-income consumers. We look forward to creating a sustainable and replicable model. (…) While there has been (…) a concerted push for digital payments by the government, there is still a last mile gap when it comes to merchant acceptance and coordination issues. We want to bring a holistic ecosystem approach to these problems.

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:39 am

Who are the institutions behind this decisive attack on cash? Upon the presentation of the Beyond-Cash-report, USAID declared: “Over 35 key Indian, American and international organizations have partnered with the Ministry of Finance and USAID on this initiative.” On the website catalyst.org one can see that they are mostly IT- and payment service providers who want to make money from digital payments or from the associated data generation on users. Many are veterans of,what a high-ranking official of Deutsche Bundesbank called the “war of interested financial institutions on cash” (in German). They include the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Gates Foundation (Microsoft), Omidyar Network (eBay), the Dell Foundation Mastercard, Visa, Metlife Foundation.

rrbgrpdreslt · Post by **rrbgrpdreslt** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:17 am

Applicants! Prior Railway Recruitment Board reported the Recruitment of Group D Posts 2018. Directly after the official declaration, startling quantities of candidates connected for CEN 02/2018 group d result

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:07 pm

how is the target rate of inflation the federal reserve shoots for relate to its desire to prevent hording?

bentech · Post by **bentech** » Wed May 01, 2019 3:31 am

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The peak of globalization has actually already come and gone, according to David Roche, president and global strategist at London-based Independent Strategy.
He told CNBC that “the actual reversal of globalization started over seven years ago,” as countries worldwide initiated more protectionist policies.
Roche projected that even China will see most of its future growth come from domestic pursuits.

???

id like to hear the definition of those terms he uses...

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