North Korea conflict could make a mess of the world equity markets.

Coinstartled

Many industrial players surrounding the region. Tensions are rising yet the markets continue to hum.

Hoping that the resolution is peaceful.

PerryHall

What effect will a North Korean conflict have on the prices of precious metals?

derryb

@PerryHall said:
What effect will a North Korean conflict have on the prices of precious metals?

none unless the conflict takes place in the land of the US $.

bronco2078

If Dennis Rodman can't solve North Korea , our last hope is to send the glickster

Coinstartled

If I were a younger man this situation would be causing me to lose sleep. A nuclear power closing in on the ability to deliver the payload great distances, backed up by a callous superpower in a tightly populated theater.

bronco2078

@Coinstartled said:
If I were a younger man this situation would be causing me to lose sleep. A nuclear power closing in on the ability to deliver the payload great distances, backed up by a callous superpower in a tightly populated theater.

Imagine how the koreans feel. They helped us against the japanese in ww2 so we partitioned the country without their consent.
We then murdered a quarter of their population during the korean war then forced a ceasefire and those in the north have lived in abject poverty ever since.

In the meantime 50 years of bought off presidents of our country repeatedly threaten them every other year just to drum up business for the military parasitical complex.

Meanwhile the media is wetting itself at the prospect of nukes popping off here and there and anywhere #RATINGS and any peace overtures are dismissed out of hand.

dpoole

Wow, Bronco. That's quite a perspective. It reads like an RT transcript.

derryb

sometimes the truth hurts. sometimes ya gotta go outside the box for the truth.

bronco2078

@dpoole said:
Wow, Bronco. That's quite a perspective. It reads like an RT transcript.

Is an RT transcript somehow worse than what you get from Pravda on the Potomac ?

cohodk

I have zero concern of North Korea. No head in the sand, just logical and rational judgment. Russsia, Iran, Pakistan, China...all countries we've "worried" about the last 30 years..for naught.

derryb

all countries we were told to worry about. I'm with you, no worry warranted.

cohodk

@derryb said:
all countries we were told to worry about. I'm with you, no worry warranted.

Scared and worried people are controlled and manipulated people.

derryb

knowledge is power

OPA

Lets all go out and practice: "Duck & cover." Some of us are old enough to remember that nonsense.

Coinstartled

@cohodk said:
I have zero concern of North Korea. No head in the sand, just logical and rational judgment. Russsia, Iran, Pakistan, China...all countries we've "worried" about the last 30 years..for naught.

Zero is a pretty low number.

Administration though seems determined to not allow this rapidly progressing threat to continue.

topstuf

This subject is a rather serious one for the MSM to distract us from what the Fed is doing to us.

I liked Trump bashing better.

Justacommeman

With Kim Jong Un and Trump at the helm what possibly could go wrong?

mark

JimSheldon

@cohodk said:

@derryb said:
all countries we were told to worry about. I'm with you, no worry warranted.

Scared and worried people are controlled and manipulated people.

I wish things were that simple. Fear is a healthy thing in the face of potential danger and it's natural concern or reaction. Had the European powers adequately worried about Hitler, perhaps he wouldn't have gain so much power to tear up the continent.

cohodk

There is a difference between worry and complacency.

North Korea is impotent. Even if he were to launch a missile that hit Japan (never would hit US), the next day every single piece of their military apparatus would be destroyed. And that would be the end of that.

gsa1fan

We got to have a good reason for military build up and allocated $$ there for. Lots good paying jobs making weapons.

ricko

Whether it be Korea, or the Middle East, or China or Russia, there will always fodder for fear.... Carry on and do your business and enjoy what you can....life is a temporary condition.... none of us gets out alive. Cheers, RickO

Coinstartled

@cohodk said:
There is a difference between worry and complacency.

North Korea is impotent. Even if he were to launch a missile that hit Japan (never would hit US), the next day every single piece of their military apparatus would be destroyed. And that would be the end of that.

You are assuming that China would just shrug their shoulders and ignore the carnage. Maybe or maybe not.

chumley

an armed conflict will make a mess of South Korean capitol

Coinstartled

Tick tock, tick tock......

bronco2078

@chumley said:
an armed conflict will make a mess of South Korean capitol

But artillery shells are so old fashioned , cyberwar is where its at

derryb

the real threat is and EMP strike

PerryHall

@bronco2078 said:

@chumley said:
an armed conflict will make a mess of South Korean capitol

But artillery shells are so old fashioned , cyberwar is where its at

I'd like to think that the US is trying to hack the N. Korean computer systems involved with their nuclear program to cause a nuclear accident.

Coinstartled

One can be certain that any military action by the US will be clandestine and not have Geraldo Rivera handing out coordinates.

bronco2078

@Coinstartled said:
One can be certain that any military action by the US will be clandestine and not have Geraldo Rivera handing out coordinates.

That fact that the US hasn't won a war since 1945 ought to temper that enthusiasm a bit. If you disagree jot down a list of recent wins

cohodk

The USA is back to back, undefeated world War champs.

bronco2078

@cohodk said:
The USA is back to back, undefeated world War champs. We save the world.

The difference being there was an actual reason to be in those 2 wars , or at least the population felt it on some level. Everything after that has been fabricated and the citizenry has figured that out because they don't want to go fight and die in countries that are no threat to us. 1945 was the peak its been downhill since , if our war record was a stock chart you would have shorted it after Korea , Vietnam was a trainwreck , Iraq and Afghanistan are worse than Vietnam and lets not embarrass ourselves by talking about the fly-swatting of Grenada or Panama .

We do great work when there an obvious reason for being in a war . Since 1945 that has been missing. Every thing since 1945 has been a grift .

cohodk

So let's make a good reason and go back to back to back!!!

It wouldn't hurt if we told the media to stay home either.

derryb

we've been at war for the past 14 years and the only winners thus far are the profiteers.

bronco2078

@cohodk said:
So let's make a good reason and go back to back to back!!!

It wouldn't hurt if we told the media to stay home either.

They were doing ok making the muslims out to be the new Hitler so they could keep the con running but joe sixpack can go on liveleak and see 100 videos of the army blowing up a donkey and some poor scrub with a pitchfork on his shoulder (sorry I mean sniper rifle ) with a hellfire missile . Turns out even to those of us with room temperature IQ's that spending 40 large to kill a dumb animal seems a tad wasteful.
But...... all the Washington crowd knows is stealing from the taxpayer so now Russia has to be the new boogeyman , more believable right because they have actual tanks and planes to shoot at with our high tech gizmos that cost billions . Can't very well keep the F-35 program alive by talking about goatherders . So all the fake news outlets got the message from the top and now we gotta hear about reds under the beds 24/7/365 . Because its Russia , they don't even need to write new propaganda they just go to the archives and lift whole stories word for word from 1954 . The sheer nostalgia of it brings a tear to my eye , makes me want to practice the old duck and cover

drwstr123

renman95

Which will wag first, dog or tail?

CaptHenway

+1

ShadyDave

@bronco2078 said:

@Coinstartled said:
One can be certain that any military action by the US will be clandestine and not have Geraldo Rivera handing out coordinates.

That fact that the US hasn't won a war since 1945 ought to temper that enthusiasm a bit. If you disagree jot down a list of recent wins

HAHAHA, this is a classic:

Outhaul

For those of us who grew up during the early - latter days of the cold war, this is just another day at the office.

Cheers

bob

derryb

time to teach the snowflakes how to duck under the school desk.

DrBuster

Placed a small silver order this morning before market open. Up ~50 cents, usually on the flip side when I buy something, ha!

bronco2078

@derryb said:
time to teach the snowflakes how to duck under the school desk.

they will just sit under the desk with their cellphone for hours ,the only way you will notice ? Instagram will be wall to wall chair legs and floor tiles

Downtown1974

@derryb said:
time to teach the snowflakes how to duck under the school desk.

Why? Is North Korea storing nukes in Cuba?

bronco2078

@Downtown1974 said:

Why? Is North Korea storing nukes in Cuba?

Apparently they are gunning for Guam More fake news , it would make sense to threaten Seoul but Guam? Ummmmmmmmm how about go ask 100 people to point to it on a map , Consensus ? its somewhere between Atlantis and HUH ?

TwoSides2aCoin

Chinese fortune cookie reads : " With Kim, you get Kimchi "

1630Boston

@Outhaul is correct for those of us whose elementary schools were actually constructed to be "fallout shelters", [as opposed to fancy, overpriced schools], alas I think they have been torn down

Coinstartled

Fresh saber rattling..
by the Pyongyang leader..
favors gold prices..
..and makes equities teeter!

Burma Shave!

derryb

look for an internal overthrow to remove the cloud of death that NK faces. If so PMs will tank.

ChrisRx

@cohodk said:

@derryb said:
all countries we were told to worry about. I'm with you, no worry warranted.

Scared and worried people are controlled and manipulated people.

Absolutely true. In fact, there is a "news" channel dedicated to it.

291fifth

Does Auric Goldfinger live in North Korea?

rawteam1

@derryb said:
look for an internal overthrow to remove the cloud of death that NK faces. If so PMs will tank.

Who can we sell insurance to???...