Incoming President Trump pulled a rabbit out of the hat last month when choosing Republican Congressman Mick Mulvaney as his budget chief. This has largely gone under the radar of the mainstream press bar a couple of articles announcing the decision.

 Global monetary order is evolving as the Chinese Renminbi has recently entered the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR’s) basket of top-tier currencies which determines currencies that countries will receive as part of IMF loans.

  ‘The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining’. – John. F. Kennedy The uncertainty that dominates the global markets is breeding fear which we believe will ultimately send precious metal prices higher.

 India has recently surpassed China to become the fastest-growing economy in the world. Prime Minister Modi’s new reforms are countering years of anti-capitalist regulations of previous heads of state. We believe that India has the potential to be among the strongest economies over the long-term.

  For those of us with little interest in dealing with the headaches of being a landlord or simply lacking the funds to be one but still would like to earn cash flow from real estate, investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) provides a solid option.

   We wrote in June 2015 in a post titled ‘Investing in China’: ‘China is on the move. it has currency swap agreements with a lot of major trading partners. It has opened up its internal markets to the outside world and together with a stable currency,