1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up – Equity Overview & Rambus Chartology
April 18, 2019

“Looking forward, IMF projections imply that the dollar zone will return to the sizeable deficits that were last seen in the mid-1980s. On this view, the dollar zone current account deficit would be larger than it has been since the euro came into existence 20 years ago. On current evidence, if the renminbi becomes a key currency, it would carry a substantial share of global GDP out of the dollar zone. This would leave the dollar zone deficit all the wider.” ~ Hiro Ito and Robert N. McCauley, Bank for International Settlements, December 2018

~ Audios will post by 6 P.M. CT the evening of Thursday, April 18 ~

This week I present the 1st Quarter 2019 Equity Overview with charting from Rambus Chartology. Check out the 1st Quarter 2019 Wrap Up web presentation here for the quarterly financial charts and Rambus Chartology when posted on Thursday. Just use your Solari Report password to login.

The Anglo-American alliance is in a period of significant stress. While the United Kingdom buys time with a Brexit extension until October 31, the dominance of the U.S. dollar erodes. All pretense of soft power has given way to hardball—from the arrest of Julian Assange in London last week to the Mayor of New York’s attempt to destroy the health and religious freedoms of the Williamsburg Orthodox Jewish community.

There are indications that the U.S. is preparing to follow Netanyahu, emboldened by election success, into a suicidal confrontation with Iran. In the mix, FASAB 56 can now finance secret armies without the interference of seasoned Marines such as Generals Mattis and Kelly. The global neocons do not appear deterred by the recent calculation that the United States has spent $5.9 trillion on the War on Terror, including war in the Middle East, since 9/11—a time when U.S. pension funds were still fully funded.

This signals weakness and insecurity for the U.S. dollar. Like sharks in the water, global institutions are tracking the inability of the American political and business establishment and their global allies to manage the transition without excessive violence and scapegoating. Here is the historical chart for the U.S. Dollar Index—still in an upward trend while the U.S. dollar remains “dangerous, but dominant.”

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Last Week's Solari Report The Glyphosate Wars with Sofia Smallstorm

"We’re dumping it in our soil, it goes into the water system, runs off into our rivers, some of it settles into our deep fossil aquifers that have been clean for billions of years [and] are now contaminated. We’ve got all of that contamination underneath us, and then you get the mobilization of the water cycle. You get evaporation. You get clouds. You get rain. In every single part of that cycle, you’ve got glyphosate, which is the devastating story about our food chain again, of course. Because as consumers, we are waking up to reality, we have got to get organic; we’ve got to get all these chemicals out of our diet. So we’re eating organic food, we’re getting all these things at the grocery store, yet, if it rained on our crop, you’ve got glyphosate! …We are literally annihilating the ecosystem around us and annihilating our health.” ~ Dr. Zach Bush

By Catherine Austin Fitts

It’s easy to understand that we are experiencing a rising tide of environmental toxicity. Just drive around and look at the trees. Or get sick after a year of eating GMO food grown with significant amounts of chemicals. Or listen to reports of bee populations disappearing. Or see your house covered with a nasty grey film from the spraying shortly after you pressure wash it, which you must do again and again. Or watch videos that describe the number of nuclear tests—including upper atmosphere tests. Or eat out at the local diner and listen to chronic coughing. The question is, what exactly is happening, and what should we do about it?

One piece of the puzzle is glyphosate. People who I know and trust repeatedly tell me that understanding glyphosate is critically important. Beware glyphosate, they say, and do everything you can to get it out—and keep it out—of your body and ecosystem.

Sofia Smallstorm, author of Avatar Update, joins me this week on The Solari Report to discuss glyphosate—what it is and why she’s so concerned. We discuss her recent stories on polluted Florida shorelines and global thoroughbred racehorse deaths—and the possibility that glyphosate and environmental toxicity are threatening whole industries and economies.

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