and going for gold in this way it was president nicolas maduro is trying to get his hands on the country's precious metal reserves. welcome to d.w. business i'm john el-gamal in berlin thanks for joining us we take you to latin america where argentina is in the grip of an economic crisis high inflation and the devaluation of the puzzle are weighing on consumers purchasing power poverty is rising and small farmers are particularly hard hit this week they vented their anger right outside the presidential palace and when i was iris. they traveled eighty kilometers with tractors and lots of produce to the center of point of cyrus . hundreds of argentinian vegetable producers from the surrounding area of the capital including javier front on this. it's a vegetable protest we either so vegetables at a fair price or even give them away to the argentinians who need them. the farmers are angry most of them run family businesses they oppose state aid for large farms and the country's economic crisis has taken a toll on them spiralling inflation is eating up their profits how the air can hardly make

dollars worth of gold which is them backed by thirty five dollars thirty five dollars per ounce of gold that the united kingdom wanted for their trade deficit it's also important to note that we've been talking about warren buffett in its annual letter and all his earnings reports you know he's he's down big time twenty five billion in the last year it's also important to note that he says he keeps on pointing to nine hundred forty two is when he hit the first time he bought shares in that how great it is and he's done wonderful and why can't we all do wonderful like i have dodd but we're right in seventy one is the gold standard is severed and u.s. is no longer a gold backer scene and anyway right becomes purely if money currency and the world becomes financial in a way that saudi arabia is opec defied other words you know an opec they don't need workers they don't need taxes they just pump oil when ever they need to increase the wealth of the princes so in the u.s. after nine hundred seventy one workers were not required it was just a matter of printing more money so you had the rise

they'll simply say ok gold is higher than forty four dollars an ounce and so the gold standard is back in the we were saying about this for years and i'm going to take a break when we come back much more coming your way don't go well. breaks it killed joan. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial american. doing all middle of the room signals. to mean real new. world. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not be or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of the flying here. desists is a sticker from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones

these other countries have been aggressively buying gold and now we're back on a gold standard i know people won't cover this on c n b c or other news outlets but the gold standard effectively is as of the end of this month is back where the b.a.'s used to not count foreign currency exchange reserves they only counted gold and now they're it looks like yeah we're coming back to that i thought jim rickards will say in the last few moments here but he was saying that you know the u.s. in terms of their debt ceiling debate coming up again because now over twenty one trillion dollars in ten is our gold reserves eight thousand tons are still valued on the books at forty four dollars an ounce obviously it's thirteen hundred dollars an ounce but he's saying like one way to get to avoid this you know the showdown in congress about the debt ceiling is just to revalue it at one hundred dollars an ounce and you know double the ability of your government to borrow money that's what they'll do to reduce debt percentage to g.d.p. they'll simply say ok gold is higher than forty four dollars an ounce

at least eight tons of gold are missing from the central bank's vaults in caracas allegedly removed on president nicolas maduro orders that sort of position leader and head of arado says. it was taken without the internal bank procedures without the presence of fiscal organizations without the presence of internal security organizations of the bank and without the corresponding controls. and even by vehicle said a word from the central bank but private or identified vehicles that aren't armored and the destination is also irregular it is unknown. transports apparently happened at a time when central bank head calista ortega was abroad on a trip and no security guards were present much of the venezuelan gold comes from primitive gold mining camps in the south of the country it's not the first time large amounts have left venezuela under suspicious circumstances last year twenty three tons of mind gold were transported to istanbul by plane according to turkish government data nicolas maduro is said to have a close relationship to that ship type arrow on it is unclear whether the gold was

he's been a runner up cheltenham gold cup.ival history, and he's finally done it. he did it with a horse that not many people expected, al boum photo, 12—1, one of four horses he had in the race. written by paul tolerant, who's been with willie mullins since he was a young lad, and also do not make a wonderful result for them. the second when —— second place went went to... last yea r‘s second place went went to... last year's win, native river, came in fourth place. it was a bit bittersweet for willie mullins, because one of its other horses actually died in the race, had a fatal injury. so for him, he's going home back to ireland with one horse lasts. and this is a dangerous sports democrats port. bittersweet for willie mullins, but a dangerous sport. they are trying everything they can to make this sport safer, three horses have lost their lives at this festival, seven lost their lives and last year's festival. they are doing better and working really ha rd to are doing better and working really hard to try to improve the s

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so good to see you. >> go, gold! liz: he always says. he's your gold guy. have it, the closing bell ringing on this friday. dow jones industrials do end with a nice gain of 129 points. s&p up 13. the nasdaq up 55 on this quadruple witching friday. that will do it for "countdown." it's time for "after the bell." >>> boeing leading the turnaround on wall street. all three major averages ending in the green. happy st. patrick's day, right? extending gains for the week as well. nice gains for the week, after reports that boeing will roll out a software update for its 737 max jets much sooner than expected. we will take a look. the dow up 137 points. i'm lauren simonetti in for melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. welcome to "after the bell." nice st. patrick's day reference. lauren: i like the green tie. mcshane. connell: i like that. s&p up today by 14 points, half a percent. the nasdaq, all the tech stocks have done very well, ending the

their country's medal tally to 11, six of them gold. part of the dutch team that won team sprint gold as well. australia's alexandra manly won the women's points race racking up enough despite not being first across the line on the final lap. she came home ahead of ireland's lydia boylan and kirsten wild of the netherlands. australia finished second in the medal standings — 10 in total with six golds. the first pga victory for the american. mitchell was tied second. fowler and birdied the last. england's women will be looking to bounce back from defeat in their one day international series against india when attention turns to the t20 series in the coming hours. and with the world cup in the shortest form of the game just a year away, the skipper says it's important for her team to start to build some form. but do not think it changes too much. we have had a lot of success in both formats but it gives us a chance to really have the freedom. we have some exciting talent and it isa we have some exciting talent and it is a chance to let th

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a few months ago barrick combined with cramer gave ran gold to create the new barrick gold ran by the ceo, mark bristow. then in first two weeks of the new year we learned that newmont was acquiring gold corps and then we got a new twist. the barrick gold led by bristow made a competing bid for newmont. and just when seemed that barrick was left for dead, goldberg and bristow met in new york city two days ago to bust up the gold corp deal and let barrick buy newmont. it is very confusing, so i was thrilled to get some clarity with mark bristow, ceo of barrick gold earlier today take a look. mark, a lot has happened since i have seen you last you have done a big deal one i applaud. it's terrific. and you're doing another deal now or -- isn't it time to call what you have, take a look and think you know what, this deal alone is enough and you don't -- you don't have to go after newmont right now. >> so how is it, jim, how are you doing? >> i come right to the chase this is getting too nasty. we have to drill down. >> this is about shareholder value, jim we're engaged in the constructive

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and go into debt it must be backed by their currency must be backed by gold and silver so they don't bankrupt their citizens or residents of the other states of the united states so here we have a situation exactly what was warned about in the constitution if we have these people allowed to rack up as much debt as possible and we are on the hook for it that's like got take a break when we come back much more. to the minute mark the money on the floor of the one bloomfield never done well so it doesn't. load up. just as. she was even. more if you are in this room. jungle. book you go to the british courts that's one of them really. i mean you got. to take. the ripping up of the mall or investigation may have. leader of the american president of treason and collusion but it has not got rid of critics' determination to get rid of him is the american system capable of anything but settling ideological scores. my mum planet. earth. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm ask eyes are time now to go doused her macleod of gold money dot com as always full disclosure i have an investment in go

welcome back to the kaiser report i'm ask eyes are time now to go doused her macleod of gold money dot com as always full disclosure i have an investment in gold money and you know allister we turn to you for the macro picture the big picture the big geo political macro view of things welcome back it's very nice feedback thanks next aready let's start with mary draggy he recently said that negative interest rates in europe have quote worked quite well your response well i don't think so cool i mean a tax on those it's just doesn't make any sense i think basically he's got a problem and that is he's got no other country just printing money. trying to make money look as cheap as possible to get into negative interest rates trying to do everything to stimulate the economy and it doesn't work because all that happens is the money just ends up in the financial sector it ends up going to finance government debt it doesn't do anything to the underlying economy and of course meanwhile the you know as a euro as a new wound up being diluted the upside so is a transfer wealth if you like from the

and bitcoin will go up as a result the more you burn the greater it is on a net basis for your gold and bitcoin why my add that bankers are doing a far far far far far far better job than this guy he's merely burned seventy thousand pounds bankers earn to seventy trillion dollars in the last global financial crisis and this is part of the ongoing situation we have is that they've burned so many trillions of dollars that the central banks have to print up another seventy trillion dollars to make good for all the stuff that got burned in you know bogus derivatives products and various fraudulent packages of fake debt so here we have a situation where he's just merely reflecting the larger society around him another great quote the british you know officialdom always do these great quotes he's a very naughty boy right well glenn wicks the chief investigator for the insolvency service said deep. those byrd could have paid the thirty thousand pounds debt owed to the insolvency practitioners however his hatred towards them sense of injustice was his motive which ultimately led to his down

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and i want to talk about gold and palladium here for a moment so give us your take on gold and also play to him because palladium is a record high record high for palladium you know you know if you look at precious metals i'm a little dumbfounded in the fact that they are soaring right now i mean they are doing very well compared to what they're doing in two thousand and fifteen but max when you have global central banks don't forget he's seen be threatened to raise interest rates in the summer a year ago now where are they they're going to another third round of t l g r o ok so are targeted long term refinancing operation now the bank of japan which owns almost fifty percent of their it's higher equity market never even threatened to be able to raise interest rates or even stop. so you know if you look if you live in a world where nominal interest rates are around zero or even below in most major century central banks and after you were in just for insulation they are negative for a family negative and will be coming even more negative over time then how could you not buy gold phys

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a gold today.r kick was sensational, how did it feel? it was tough, i knew as i was running, it was a world lead, a national record. i just running, it was a world lead, a national record. ijust tried to hang on as best as i could, and just trust in my kick, and i'm lucky i've got that in my armoury, sol trust in my kick, and i'm lucky i've got that in my armoury, so i had to use it the best i could. moving away from glasgow then. new leicester manager brendan rogers has been speaking about the reasons by why he decided to leave celtic — with them top of the scottish premiership and still with a chance to win the treble treble — that is all three scottish domestic trophies three years on the trot. he says he understand celtic fan's frustration that he decided to leave for the premier league. it all happened very quickly, i was presented with an opportunity that came to me and obviously of course been emotionally you have to take that home. the decision was that i felt that after nearly three years

australia's third gold of the day came in the women's team pursuit.s in the men's event, the aussies were up against great britain in the final. the quartet of ashlee ankudinoff, georgia baker, amy cure and annette edmondson nearly blew it when they split in the final two laps but edged it in the end by 2/ioths of a second. great britain had to settle for silver, just as they did 12 months ago. back home, we ran a quicker time and i had better legs, much better legs. but not the last few days, i don't know why, it is not like i am feeling unwell and i feel know why, it is not like i am feeling unwell and ifeel partly responsible because back home we went quicker and it is a bit disappointing, i guess. it was the dutchman matthijs buchli who prevented an australian clean sweep for the day. he won the men's keirin to claim his second gold medal of the championships, 2a hours after helping the netherlands to victory in the men's team sprint. valencia will face holders barcelona in may's copa del rey final after they beat real betis 3—2 on aggregate in th