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Gold Mining Macrocosm Fully Engaged

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As Inflation Bugs sell indiscriminately, the gold mining Macrocosm (of proper macro-fundamentals) is engaged

A man sits in the White house. A different kind of man. A man who does not like diplomacy or going along and getting along with his global counterparts. He likes throwing Spanners and Monkey Wrenches all around the macro. There may one day be revealed a positive outcome to this, through negotiations. But on the face of it, nobody wins a tariff war. Least of all the biggest consumerist nation on the planet.

Clicking the graphic will yield the reason that the veteran trader pictured with a pensive, almost resigned look on his face with a sea of red behind him, looks the way he does (they always seem to find just the right guy with just the right expression for the moment). The reason du jour this morning is China retaliation.

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