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In private, President Trump has become agitated with Dr. Fauci's public comments. The President is "fuming privately" that Fauci has advised shutting down businesses and social distancing.

The Fed cut rates to a target range of 0% to 0.25% effective March 16, and said it would expand its balance sheet by at least $700 billion in coming weeks through quantitative easing.

Dow dropped over 2,000 points as WTI oil dropped to $31.13 a barrel as Saudi Arabia and Russia fight for market share during the current oil glut. Viruses are nothing to dismiss lightly, but people should not panic in regards to Covid-19.

Algorithmic trading and the Coronavirus are causing extreme volatility. Markets vacillate from stimulus from central banks and fear of recession caused by a global economic slowdown.

Some stock market analysts have been warning the S & P 500 has been overbought for some time, but it has continued to reach new highs. The market can be just as irrational and divorced from fundamentals on the way up as it can be on the way down.

If the Coronavirus continues over the next six months, it may cause significant damage to the global supply chain, world GDP growth, and risk to the global debt markets

The 16 year old Swede, Greta Thunberg has become the new face of climate change activism and utopian socialism.

Can Fed chairman Jerome Powell keep the stock market bubble going until the November presidential election? Will Iran continue its move towards nuclear weapons and cross Israel's red line?

The repo cash injection and juiced stock market are scheduled to end in 2020. The cash injection is scheduled to be reversed. Markets appear to have become dependent upon a cash infusion high.

Commodities annalist Gary Wagner, of Gold Forecast.com, believes the price of gold has been building a base during a one month consolidation. He expects in the next leg up in the bull market, in early 2020 , the price of gold will rise to $1700.

Credit manger Zoltan Pozsar with Credit Suisse predicts a bank liquidity crisis caused by a year-end scramble for reserves will cause the Fed to start a fourth round quantitative easing before year's end.

If the U.S. economy goes into a recession the Federal Reserve will use quantitative easing, or the monetization of treasury bonds, as a weapon against a monetary slow down.

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Low interest rates and quantitative easing should extend stock market bubble and keep the debt ridden U.S. consumer afloat until after the election. If Trump obtains an interim trade deal with China this should seal his chances for re-election.

U.S. and China's Central Banks have lost control of their overnight repo rates and both are expected to devalue their currencies and flood their banking system with fiat money to avoid a banking collapse.

If the Fed wants to maintain the appearance it control interest rate, it will have no choice but to print the cash needed to buy up enough paper to keep short term rates from continually spiking to 5-10%.

On Wednesday the Fed cut the federal discount rate .25 percent. However, experts believe quantitative easing is next.

With the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates and possibly returning to quantitative easing, gold prices have been rising. Many investors are considering gold mining stocks as an opportunity to reap the benefits of increased gold prices.

This editorial is a response to an editorial in the local Curry Coastal Pilot newspaper, which blamed global warming on and an increase of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.

Demand for gold increases as gold replaces U.S. dollar as the reserve currency. As the Federal Reserves devalues the dollar the price of gold increases.

The Federal Reserve introduced Quantitative Easing as an emergency measure, but it is now accepted as standard procedure as a recession cure.

An editorial in the local paper said we are the only advanced nation that does not guarantee health care for all. We jail too many people. We need to cut defense and spend more on welfare. We need to raise taxes and have less guns.

Democratic presidential candidate mayor Pete Buttigieg says he is a Christian gay person. That is like saying he is a Christian adulterer or a Christian murder, it is a contradiction in terms.

Scientists have discovered the theory of evolution violates the laws of conservation of energy and entropy. Paley's argument that a watch design requires a watchmaker has proven to be correct.

February 18, 1952, a massive storm split the SS Pendleton into two pieces about ten miles off the Massachusetts coast. More than forty sailors were trapped inside the ship's sinking stern in the midst of fierce winds and violent thirty foot waves.

Pro-choice advocates push for rights to remove care for a handicapped baby after birth and allow it to die.

The Constitution gave Congress the power to coin money, not a central bank cartel controlled by banks. In 1914 the Federal Reserve was established to create an elastic currency to promote inflation and provide liquidity.

Major causes of homelessness in Oregon are the direct result of interference of the housing market by over zealous bureaucratic land planners who intentionally restrict the supply of housing, and the soft money policies of the Federal Reserve.

Anthony Kennedy was a swing vote, who often joined liberal justices. Confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to replace Kennedy on Supreme Court, will give conservatives a 5-4 majority.

Dr. Christine Ford named Brett Kavanaugh as someone who attacked her sexually at a high school party, almost forty years ago. Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has been concerned with how subsequent information can affect an eyewitness's account.

A strong economy is expected to help Republicans keep control of the Senate and House in the midterm elections. However, many experts see a recession in 2019-2020. No president has been re-elected during a recession started in his first term.