Saturday, July 16, 2016
Understanding The Stock Market Bull After Fink Speaks... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
This has been one crazy market for quite some time now. The endless overall up trend has been with us for seven plus years. The last two years have been a time for consolidation in to the teeth of some very bad news. When bad news can't sell a market you understand it means that it's simply basing and waiting on the right combination of news to try the next leg up. It finally came in the form some good employment numbers. Job creation reached a level that allowed the bulls to race onward and upward. Prior to that report, we were dealing with a series of bad reports on the Jobs Report, ISM Manufacturing Report, and ISM Services numbers. The market simply couldn't find a catalyst. Earnings were on the decline as well. The market bears tried to get the market down as bad news kept hitting from everywhere, but they just couldn't get the job done consistently. They'd get a nice down move, but couldn't seem to ever follow through. The bulls would come in and save the day.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Will They Come For Your IRA? / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
I received this note from a reader regarding the confiscation of retirement accounts:
Doc,
Thank you for your kind words. I do have a question for you.
You only need to read the first paragraph of this article for my question:
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Friday, July 15, 2016
The Fed is Terrified… Are You Ready For What’s Coming? / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2016
By: Graham_Summers
Central Bankers are absolutely terrified.
Case in point, yesterday Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester suggested that the “next step” in monetary policy is “Helicopter money.”
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Gold’s Record Selling Overhang / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Zeal_LLC
Gold’s mighty new bull market this year has been amazing, the result of heavy buying by investors and speculators alike. But these latter traders have pumped so much capital into gold futures that this metal now faces a record selling overhang. Since the hyper-leveraged nature of futures trading demands an ultra-short-term focus, speculators’ excessive bullish bets on gold pose major near-term downside risks.
Gold’s price trends are overwhelmingly dominated by global investment demand. Even though it has only accounted for about 1/5th of total demand in recent years, investment is wildly variable. With the rest of gold demand relatively stable, it is fluctuating investment demand that ultimately sets gold prices at the margin. Gold’s young bull in 2016 is largely the result of an influx of massive investment buying.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Capitalism Has Entered a New Era—and Historic Stock Market Investing Returns Are Gone Forever / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: John_Mauldin
We live in interesting times. We continue to see repercussions from Brexit. The other major players—in Europe, China, and Japan—seem to be in a downward spiral. Not to mention, the bubble-like issues we see in Canada and other parts of the world.
The world is quickly getting far more complex… something that central banks’ (and everybody else’s!) models can’t capture. We are tiptoeing into a period of enormous uncertainty.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Gold Price Could Hit $5,000 or Even $10,000 in a Few Years / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : You have to be careful writing about gold.
You come out in favor of gold and you get maligned as some kind of doomsday-prepping, knuckle-dragging wingnut. Then you never get to go on TV. They don’t invite the crazy gold guys on TV.
I’ve been long gold since 2005. Rode it all the way down from 2011 to 2016. If you ride something down 45%, you are a moron. I’ll own it. I am a moron. I actually had a pretty good idea that there would be a correction in 2011, but I vastly underestimated how severe it would be.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Junior Gold and Silver Mining Funds or Individual Gold and Silver Mining Stocks / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Bob_Kirtley
Background
We will start with a quote that is sometimes attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, who led Britain during the Second World War.
“If you’re going through hell; keep going”
Friday, July 15, 2016
The Soaring Risk of Flying in Bernanke's Helicopter / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Doug_Wakefield
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Let us assume that the Bank of Japan one day mailed 1 million yen in new bank notes to every Japanese citizen. The person who finds 1 million in his mailbox will probably feel very happy at that moment, because he things he is richer by that amount. Thproblem is what happens next.
Friday, July 15, 2016
The Broad Stock Market, Helicopters and Gold / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
There has been a stunning post Brexit turnaround in the markets, says technical analyst Clive Maund. Far from leading to chaos, the markets have taken it in their stride, and are now rising in anticipation of "helicopter money."
Friday, July 15, 2016
How to Get Winning Letters K, C or D in Walkers Spell & Go Holiday Wins Promotion / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
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Friday, July 15, 2016
The Curious Case of Vanishing Lady Liberty; Only Gold and Silver Remember Her / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
The very first word anyone ever saw on a circulating United States coin was the word “LIBERTY.”
From half-cents to silver dollars, each featured the likeness of an unnamed woman. The images varied, thanks to different engravers, but together they became recognized as Lady Liberty.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Successfully Forecasting Crude Oil Price from 2014 to Today / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: EWI
The Wave Principle helped investors prepare for today's energy market action
March 31, 2014 was no time to issue a bearish forecast for crude oil -- or so it appeared.
But that's exactly the scenario Elliott Wave International's founder Bob Prechter showed his subscribers in his monthly Elliott Wave Theorist.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
The Power of the Wave Principle / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Dear reader,
Consider the common thread in these recent market calls:
Read full article... Read full article...Forecast: A 70% decline in the base commodity that runs the industrialized world (when most traders were bullish).
Forecast: A 30% plunge in shares of Wall Street's favorite company -- its worst price decline in three years (even though every advisor with a pulse rated it a "buy").
Thursday, July 14, 2016
When Will They Learn? / Politics / Social Issues
By: Submissions
Jeff Thomas writes: It will be no surprise to readers to say that collectivism is growing in the Western World. It matters little whether we refer to it as socialism, communism, Marxism, Fabianism, totalitarianism or any of its other names, the collectivist ideal is on the rise.
British conservatives worry over the extreme collectivist speeches of the new Labour leader,Jeremy Corbyn, who is far more to the left of the former leader, Ed Miliband, yet often fail to notice that Tory leaders are also becoming more collectivist in their rhetoric. Certainly the incoming Prime Minister, Theresa May, is further to the left than, say, Margaret Thatcher, yet we Britons often fail to notice that both of the primary parties are moving further to the left.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
A Brexit in Name Only? / Politics / BrExit
By: John_Browne
The BREXIT vote on June 23rd was part of a growing global trend in which ordinary people are expressing a desire to retain national sovereignty regardless of the cost and suffering that may be involved. The result is rightly seen as a repudiation of the political and financial elites, and should be viewed as evidence that the economic optimism presented in the halls of power has found scant credibility on the streets. The same sentiments can be seen on this side of the Atlantic in the surprising successes of the Donald Trump presidential campaign.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Stock Market Exuberant New All Time Highs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: James_Quinn
The stock market has reached new all-time highs this week, just two weeks after plunging over the BREXIT result. The bulls are exuberant as they dance on the graves of short-sellers and the purveyors of doom. This is surely proof all is well in the country and the complaints of the lowly peasants are just background noise. Record highs for the stock market must mean the economy is strong, consumers are confident, and the future is bright.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Silver Bear Market Looks to Be Over…or Not? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Since the Brexit vote, we have seen some interesting price action unfold with various assets. With global/Euroland uncertainty, investors have been flocking to what they feel are the safe havens until things get sorted out overseas.
Typically, precious metals and the Dollar Index move in opposite directions. This means that if the dollar rises, metals fall in value. But since the Brexit vote, investors are piling their money into what they feel is the safe place for them to store capital. These are: US Dollars, Silver, Gold, Mining Stocks, Bonds and even US equities.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
The EU Is in a Legal Battle That Will Define Its Future / Politics / European Union
By: John_Mauldin
I spent considerable time last week discussing Brexit with my good friend George Friedman.
George’s opinion is invaluable to me because he is the most dispassionate person I know. He analyzes geopolitics by looking at facts and following them wherever they lead.
George is no one’s cheerleader or nemesis. He calls the shots exactly as he sees them, and he’s usually right.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
This Confirms The Continuation Of Silver’s Rally / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Hubert_Moolman
On the silver chart, is a classical major reversal pattern referred to as a Head and Shoulders Bottom. Major reversal patterns form after a downtrend, and its formation normally confirms a change in trend. Below, is a silver chart (all charts from tradingview.com), with the pattern highlighted:
Thursday, July 14, 2016
New Stock Market Highs Correlate to $57 Trillion in Printed Global Currency Units / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the relationship of rising money velocity, money printing and new stock market highs.
When people use the term "money," it usually refers to a unit of currency used in the transacting of business and commerce. A woman works cleaning houses for a week and gets paid in a number of currency units and then goes to the supermarket and exchanges those units for food or diapers or medicine. What is left over at the end of the pay period is called "savings," which are allowed to accumulate receiving a modest rate of interest. Around the globe this weekend, a vast number of banks are offering negative returns on savings, such that keeping one's accumulated units of currency in the bank is penalized. The objective of this monetary experiment is to combat the global problem of deflation. Despite $57 trillion of new currency units having been printed since the 2009 financial crisis, global growth has been tepid at best because the velocity of "money" has remained moribund and since all collateral underpinning this massive global debt must not be allowed to depreciate, the central banks have been allowed to engage in a massive, coordinated reflation designed to jumpstart "money" velocity.
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