"What's the Hold-up?" by MenoReno 6/4/19

by **RamblerNash** Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:45 pm

In the Old West, a hold-up was a bunch of black hats robbing a stagecoach or train or bank. I'm not that sure things have changed that much.

While we wait and wait and wait, the gurus keep telling us that this is ready to pop, we'll get the 800#s tonight or tomorrow, they're taking the zim, they're not taking the zim, ad nauseam. Yet here we sit, in June.. Remember how just a few weeks ago, this was sure to go by the end of May? Well, it just had to. But it didn't. Same could be said for April and March, in 2018, and in 2017.

So, who is holding up the stage?

Remember when ISIS was running roughshod over Syria and northern Iraq? We couldn't RV because of security issues and the fact that ISIS had huge amounts of dinar. If Iraq had RV'd, that would have given them plenty of equity to spread their terrorism.

That made sense then, and something of the same dynamic is happening now. Only it isn't Iraq that's threatened, it's everyone on the bad side of the US Administration. With tariffs on our major trading partners, continuing tensions with Iraq, and the circus atmosphere in DC over the "I" word, we are starting to display the attributes of a Third World Nation. I know, the gurus tend to dismiss the effect of current politics on the RV/GCR. Well, everyone has a right to be wrong.

I hope it's me.

MenoReno