Friday, September 02, 2016
Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 as Batteries Explode, Phones Burst into Flames, S7 Next? / ConsumerWatch / Mobile Technology
By: N_Walayat
Samsung have announced a recall of the 3 million or so of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones sold since their launch just a couple of weeks ago because as many as 50 customers have either had their phones literally explode or burst into flames during or just after charging. The issue with the Note 7 may just be the tip of the iceberg as the issue of worsening reliability and potential dangers may extend across the Samsung Galaxy range.
Friday, September 02, 2016
Silver Miners’ Q2’16 Stocks Fundamentals / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Zeal_LLC
The silver miners’ stocks have enjoyed an epic year, skyrocketing higher with silver’s new bull market. At best since mid-January alone, some of these elite stocks had actually septupled! Naturally such extreme gains beg the question of whether they can possibly be fundamentally justified. The recently-released second-quarter financial and operational results of the top silver miners offer much insight on this.
Friday, September 02, 2016
Religon, ISIS and Servants of God / Politics / Religion
By: David_Galland
Dear Parade-Goers,
As you read this, I’ll be wandering around the streets of Oxford running errands related to dropping off our daughter at her two-year college.
Though homeschooled for most of her student life, our daughter decided her academic aspirations would be best served by a good English school. So here we are.
Personally, I found the US educational system to be rigid and uninspiring. I might have thought differently had I attended school in England. That’s because, as they enter the equivalent of the upper grades of high school, UK students select two or three topics to focus on. The schools then provide support, including tutors, to encourage proficiency in their chosen topics.
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Stock Market Master Cycle May have Bottomed Yesterday / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
I cannot help but conclude that the SPPX made a very shallow Master Cycle low yesterday. Today’s move gives it away, by rallying to the trendline, taking out Monday’s high, but not the trendline.
The shallow decline only went down to match the July 14 gap up above the trendline at 2157.88, spending 34 market days above that level.
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Psychological Manipulation & Economic Deception are now the Order of the day / Economics / Economic Statistics
By: Sol_Palha
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. St. Thomas AquinasIt is possible if one takes the right actions to make money and remain relatively unscathed in such an environment. One cannot say the same for the masses because they are walking with their eyes wide shut. In other words, they do not see what’s happening; their heads are stuck in the sand. They are oblivious to what’s going around, and if you try to warn them, they are apt to strangle you. This situation is strikingly similar to “Plato’s allegory of the cave.”
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Physical Gold Delivery Failure By German Banks / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
The physical gold delivery failure to clients of Deutsche Bank who own Xetra-Gold, the gold exchange traded commodity, was confirmed yesterday by Deutsche Bourse who said that the inability to deliver gold was not limited to Deutsche Bank and that other German banks were having “problems” delivering gold.
Friday, September 02, 2016
Most Stock Market Investors Are One Recession Away from Annihilation / Stock-Markets / Options & Warrants
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN: Would you rather:
- Make a little money most of the time, with a small chance of losing a lot?
- Lose a little money most of the time, with a small chance of making a lot?
Probably depends on how you are wired.
(Most people are wired like number one.)
Friday, September 02, 2016
American Conservatives Are Turning to Putin / Politics / US Politics
By: John_Mauldin
BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN: American conservatism has fragmented since 1991. It now looks very little like the movement presided over by Ronald Reagan.
One of these factions seems to be pro-Russian and views Russian President Vladimir Putin favorably. You can see this in Donald Trump’s speech on national security. He explicitly invited Russia to fight Islamist terrorism together. This is a shift.
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Gold Price and Political Business Cycle / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Many economists ask why economic activity fluctuates. Among many theories of business cycles, there is the politicalbusiness cycle, formulated in the 1970s. According to it, incumbents try to juice up the economy during election years to improve their chances of re-election. They use fiscal or monetary policy to stimulate the economy just before an election to increase their odds of remaining in office. However, although expansionary monetary and fiscal policies are politically attractive in the short run (due to increased spending), they might lead to some unpleasant consequences in the long term (like high inflation or excessive budget deficits). Therefore, after the election is over and the next election is far away, politicians reverse the course and restrict the fiscal and monetary stimuli. Thus, major elections produce economic booms and busts, as politicians try to create an artificial boom before everyelection and take advantage of voters’ short-sightedness.
Friday, September 02, 2016
Brzezinski’s Ruse: American Empire is Dead, China and Russia Take Over / Politics / New World Order
By: Jeff_Berwick
Zbigniew Brzezinski has written an article in The American Interest titled “Towards a Global Realignment” that has received a tremendous amount of attention on the internet, along with much gloating.
Brzezinski is an architect of the world’s current military and economic disasters and as such he has plenty of enemies. With this article, they see him recanting his previous arrogance and vision of a worldwide US hegemony.
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Friday, September 02, 2016
The U.S. Election Year Fix is In… But Can Janet Make It To November? / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Graham_Summers
The election year fix is in… and Janet Yellen is praying the markets hold together until November.
President Obama met privately with Yellen in April of this year. It was their first private meeting together since November 2014 (the Congressional election in which the GOP took both houses of Congress).
President Barack Obama met with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday to discuss the U.S. economy amid signs that growth may be slowing as consumers retreat from spending.
Ahead of the afternoon meeting, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest described Obama as “pleased” with Yellen, who he appointed to lead the Fed in 2014. It is the first time since November 2014 that the Fed chair has met with the president on her own. The meeting was closed to the news media.
Source: Bloomberg
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Friday, September 02, 2016
Stock Market Technically Mixed Session / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a very interesting day. They were up at the opening, came down, tested yesterday’s lows successfully, although the S&P 500 made a lower low, and the Nasdaq 100 did not confirm. They then rallied sharply to midday, pulled back in the afternoon, and in the last hour they came back again to close mixed on the session.
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Friday, September 02, 2016
30 Year US Treasury Bonds Analysis / Interest-Rates / US Bonds
By: Austin_Galt
We are looking for a final top to the massive bond bull market that began in 1981. While it is possible the final top is in place, I am leaning to one final marginal high before everything goes belly up.Let’s review the quarterly and weekly charts of the 30 Year US Treasury Bond price.
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Thursday, September 01, 2016
China’s Monetary Ascension Is Paved with Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
The world monetary order is changing. Slowly but steadily, global trade and currency markets are becoming less dollar-centric. Formerly marginal currencies such as the Chinese yuan now stand to become serious competitors to U.S. dollar dominance.
Could gold also begin to emerge as a leading currency in world trade? Over time, it certainly could. But the more immediate implications for gold’s monetary role center on its increasing accumulation by central banks such as China’s.
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Thursday, September 01, 2016
Why the Big Silver Short? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The key to understanding where silver prices come from is the COMEX futures market.
It is undisputed that the 4 and 8 largest traders hold a massive paper silver short relative to all other commodities in it’s class.
And it’s obvious that they are not legitimate producers or users…
(It is also worth mentioning that despite some of these shorts being held on behalf of a diversity of clients, the fact remains that the positions they control (as a whole) are manipulative based on concentration alone).
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Thursday, September 01, 2016
“The Fly-in-the-Ointment” -> Stagnant Wages & Hidden Inflation / Economics / Wages
By: John_Mauldin
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WHY WAGES HAVE STAGNATED
“The statistics we rely on are becoming more and more suspicious.”
Statistics are now used for perception management rather than reflecting the real economy. Of all these statistics we’re relying on to reflect reality, some of them are really suspect. We’re trying to stick with the ones that are valid. GDP is flawed but still our bellwethers, and we’re still relying on FRED database.
Thursday, September 01, 2016
The Italian EU Referendum Could Result in the Death of the Euro / ElectionOracle / Italy
By: John_Mauldin
An important election is coming up, and I’m not talking about the US presidential election. The upcoming referendum in Italy this fall will have a major macroeconomic impact on the world. But hardly anyone outside of Italy is paying much attention to it—yet.
I’ve been saying for some time in interviews around the country that the referendum in Italy could have even more of an impact than the Brexit vote did in the UK. And like the Brexit vote, it is rife with emotion and political turmoil, making the outcome too close to call.
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Thursday, September 01, 2016
China Empire Investing Billions in the UK, £1 billion in Sheffield Alone, Good or Trojan Horse? / Politics / China US Conflict
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sheffield's Labour run city council has been in celebratory mood since signing a deal in Chengdu for China to invest £1 billion pound in building projects across the city, apparently most will be city centre apartment blocks. Sheffield's Labour Council Leader declared "This is the biggest Chinese investment deal to be made by a UK city outside of London. And perhaps more importantly it is first deal of its kind to be made by a UK city, this is a real partnership."
Thursday, September 01, 2016
BrExit Economic Collapse Evaporates into Boom as PMI Soars / Economics / BrExit
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The latest news out for the UK economy is that the post BrExit economic collapse as illustrated by the Purchasing Managers Index that during July fell sharply to 48.3 (a reading below 50 implies economic contraction) which most academic economists that populate the mainstream press concluded heralded the start of a severe imminent economic downtrend, an recession early warning.
Thursday, September 01, 2016
Stocks Remain Positive Despite Down Day / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a difficult session today, down most of the morning, back up in the afternoon, but closed negative on the day. However, many of the stocks we traded or follow did very well. So it was quite an interesting session.
The day started out with a turn to the downside, then a snapback to resistance and failed, and then they went down until midday. By midday they reached the bottom of the channel in the fifth-wave decline over the last three sessions. I indicated that a potential rally may ensue, and they had a three-wave corrective pullback to take back a big chunk of losses, but negatively closed the day.
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