The Freedom Watch – Page 8

Latest Sign of China’s Slowdown: A Technology Cash Crunch

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 20, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"In private conversations, investors, entrepreneurs and economists admit that with the high debt level and a trade war with the United States, the room for government maneuvering is shrinking. The degrees of pessimism vary, but many of them are bracing for a tough ride ahead. They told me to change all my savings into gold, a risk-management measure for extreme times. They worry that the trade war will hurt the tech and the venture capital industries because they operate globally."

China: “Vicious Circle Of Panic Selling” From Marketwide Margin Call

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 20, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"About $1 trillion worth of stocks listed in China's two main markets, Shanghai or Shenzhen, are being pledged as collateral for loans. This trend has exploded in the past three years."

Central Bank Panics As China Suffers Its Biggest Bankruptcy Of 2018

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 20, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"Beijing once again changed the game with their aggressive deleveraging campaign, which sent shadow credit creation crashing to record lows just last month."

Laws Are for the Little People

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"So long as we're going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there's no body count."

US Expropriates, Imprisons Bitcoin Trader For Carrying Cash in a Trader Joe’s Sack

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds' fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening."

Feds secretly rolling out real estate cash reporting rules to more states

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"Officials no longer want to publicize what kind of transactions fall under the reporting requirement. They worry that making too much information public will give money launderers a road map to stay off the radar of regulators."

Question the ‘National-Defense’ Exception to Free Trade

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?"

U.S. to impose ‘national security’ tariffs on uranium imports

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"The 'Section 232' probe was prompted by a petition filed by two U.S. uranium mining companies, Ur-Energy Inc and Energy Fuels Inc, complaining that subsidized foreign competitors have caused them to cut capacity and lay off workers."

Egypt targets social media, journalists with ‘fake news’ law

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"Social media accounts and blogs with more than 5,000 followers on sites such as Twitter and Facebook will be treated as media outlets, which makes them subject to prosecution for publishing false news or incitement to break the law."

Hong Kong to impose unprecedented ban on pro-independence party

Post author:Freedomwat.ch Staff
Post published:July 19, 2018
Post category:Network Archives The Freedom Watch

"The development marks the first time since the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 that it has sought to outlaw a political organisation."