Soros, central banks buying deep into gold, causing inflation and high interest rates – gold expert

 

American hedge fund billionaire George Soros is back in the headlines after revelations that the shadowy political donor has been hiding his fortune from US regulators with at least three offshore companies, including Mossack Fonseca, the firm exposed by the Panama Papers leak. While it seems like this slipped by the mainstream media, another controversy seems to have even more so. The notorious billionaire has sold off an entire third of his stocks and bought a $264 million share in the world’s largest gold mining company. If history teaches us anything, Soros is a great financial mastermind who hatches schemes with global impact. Gold expert and Regal Gold Assets CEO Tyler Gallagher joins “News With Ed” to talk about it.

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Billionaires Now Own American Politics

Andy Kroll | TomDispatch | AlterNet | May 16, 2013

Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists  set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal,  leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no limit to the amount of money you can give to elect your friends and allies to political office, to defeat those with whom you disagree, to shape or stunt or kill policy, and above all to influence the tone and content of political discussion in this country.

Today, politics is a rich man’s game. Look no further than the 2012 elections and that season’s biggest donor, 79-year-old casino mogul  Sheldon Adelson. He and his wife, Miriam, shocked the political class by first  giving $16.5 million in an effort to make Newt Gingrich the Republican presidential nominee. Once Gingrich exited the race, the Adelsons invested  more than $30 million in electing Mitt Romney. They donated millions more to support GOP candidates running for the House and Senate, to  block a pro-union measure in Michigan, and to  bankroll the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative stalwarts (which waged their own campaigns mostly to helpRepublican candidates for Congress). All told, the Adelsons donated $94 million during the 2012 cycle — nearly four times  the previous record set by liberal financier George Soros. And that’s only the money we know about. When you add in  so-called dark money, one estimate puts their total giving at closer to $150 million.

It was not one of Adelson’s better bets. Romney went down in flames; the Republicans failed to retake the Senate and conceded seats in the House; and the majority of candidates backed by Adelson-funded groups lost, too. But Adelson, who oozes chutzpah as only a gambling tycoon  worth $26.5 billion could, is undeterred. Politics, he  told the Wall Street Journal in his first post-election interview, is like poker: “I don’t cry when I lose. There’s always a new hand coming up.” He said he could double his 2012 giving in future elections. “I’ll spend that much and more,” he said. “Let’s cut any ambiguity.”

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