sovereign holder of gold in an effort to diversify its foreign currency holdings here's discusses chris martenson the c.e.o. and co-founder of peak prosperity dot com chris thanks for being with us the u.s. holds more gold than any other nation followed by a few others but what do you think's behind russia's effort to amass more gold. well it's clear as you just mentioned they're looking to diversify they've been looking to get away from the dollar particularly in dollar trading and to diversify their holdings they've been doing all kinds of bilateral pair trade in domestic currencies with china and it really seems to me that this is part of a longer move by russia to make sure they can move away from the dollar when you talk about they've been doing these trades can you give us a sense of the size of these trades i mean is it is that what surpassed china i guess not as number five but but you know how large are these trades well it i think they're still fairly small in the overall scheme of things at this point but what matters is they have the systems in place you know first you have to figure

us just how a new law will change the vehicles that are driven in germany plus we speak with chris martenson about why russia has become a new leader in holding physical gold and here are the numbers that the closing bell all three major u.s. stock markets as well as oil and gold in negative territory today but all those red arrows are back in a minute. from north korea to syria's president donald trump's foreign policy is literally all over the map north korea says it is open to direct talks with washington only to be met with preconditions in syria peace is within view this is not what the trumpet ministration wants. the police. are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect. you can see something happening. you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to. get. through. dropping bombs brings police. the battle of. the new socks for to tell you that. the. most important. thing doesn't tell you on the cool enough to. be. walking. the netherlands new the netherlands is seeking to change its image as a tax haven for foreign multinational companies

five hundred in five months here with more is ashley banks who spoke with chris martenson the c.e.o. and co-founder of peak prosperity dot com. twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen have seen record highs for the stock markets but will that continue and what does that mean for people here to discuss and give his take is chris martenson the c.e.o. and co-founder of peak prosperity dot com thank you so much for joining us chris and now what is your opinion on the current status of the u.s. markets and do you think this will be a strong year for the u.s. economy. two separate questions there actually we've got obviously record high stock prices all over the globe but in the united states we see the same condition and we see records being set all over the place record bullish sentiment record low levels of cash an investor accounts record high stock prices by multiple different valuations so we're we are seeing technically fundamentally conditions that have literally never before been seen in all of stock buying history so that certainly is the definition of buy high and hope for the best

more gold than china and has moved near the top of the list of nations with large gold reserves chris martenson explains why we do it all but first let's hit the headlines in his first testimony to congress federal reserve chair jay powell says his personal outlook for the u.s. economy has improved since december though powell said he would not want to prejudge the question of further interest rate increases most of the servers read his bullish comments as a signal that there will be perhaps three as many as four federal funds rate increases this year up from three discussed at the fed's the f o emcees meeting at the end of twenty seventeen powell was on worried about recent turmoil and stock markets saying any risk to the broader economy were quote at most modest he did however note that cyber security is a major threat to economic stability more on that in the coming days. the supreme court has rejected the trumpet ministrations request for an immediate hearing on whether the president can end the obama era program that spares an estimated seven hundred thousand immigrants from the threat of

more gold than china and has moved near the top of the list of nations with large gold reserves chris martenson explains why we do it all but first let's hit the headlines in his first testimony to congress federal reserve chair jay powell says his personal outlook for the u.s. economy has improved since december though powell said he would not want to prejudge the question of further interest rate increases most of the servers read his bullish comments as a signal that there will be perhaps three as many as four federal funds rate increases this year up from three discussed at the fed's the f o emcees meeting at the end of twenty seventeen powell was on worried about recent turmoil and stock markets saying any risks to the broader economy were quote at most modest he did however note that cybersecurity is a major threat to economic stability more on that in the coming days. the supreme court has rejected the trumpet ministrations request for an immediate here or.

more gold than china and has moved near the top of the list of nations with large gold reserves chris martensonexplains why we do it all but first let's hit the headlines in his first.