Sunday, May 29, 2016
Retaking Raqqa From the Islamic State / Politics / ISIS Islamic State
By: STRATFOR
The battle for Raqqa, the Islamic State's self-declared capital in Syria, has begun. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are advancing toward the city, engaging the jihadist group in the villages of al-Hisha, Tal Samen and Mutamshirij along the way. Because of Raqqa's strategic importance, the Islamic State will do everything in its power to keep the city within its grasp. Driving the militants from their stronghold will not be easy or cheap, but if the SDF is successful, it will greatly accelerate the Islamic State's defeat in Syria.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
EU Referendum, Black Vote LEAVE or REMAIN? Which is Worse for Racism for Britain's Ethnic Minorities? / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The establishment polling suggests that most (70%) of the black and ethnic minority will opt to vote to REMAIN within the European Union on June 23rd, as to vote to LEAVE would be effectively aligning oneself with the right wing, the likes of the BNP on the extreme end, and other less extreme right wingers, when traditionally the black vote has tended to be left of centre. This is illustrated by a REMAIN group calling itself 'Operation Black Vote' releasing a provocative poster created by Saatchi and Saatchi that has gone viral aimed at motivating the black voters to vote to REMAIN within the European Union.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Paper Market Manipulation Creates Gold and Silver Very Volatile Bottoming Pattern - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Gary_Savage
Because most analysts still refuse to recognize the artificial nature of gold’s bear market, they aren’t going to navigate the bottoming pattern correctly. The pendulum is going to swing wildly back and forth for a while during the bottoming process until price calms down and resumes the natural bull market trend in earnest.
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Sunday, May 29, 2016
Memorial Day Crocodile Tears from Those Who Create Wars / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
A few million Americans may be thinking about it, but won’t be celebrating Memorial Day. For them, there’s not much to celebrate or to remember.
They’re the low-wage employees who may have to work all three days, without overtime; about three million workers earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Many work 30 to 35 hours a week, just low enough that their employers don’t have to pay for insurance, holidays, or sick leave. The corporate CEOs, of course, will be enjoying the long weekend at their alternate vacation homes in the mountains, or along the coasts, or at off-shore islands where they have found banks willing to hide their money and avoid U.S. taxes.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Billionaire Gross: Jubilee Debt Relief as Prelude to New Global Economic Order / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2016
By: Jeff_Berwick
Bill Gross just made headlines by explaining that Japan was bankrupt and its central bank would have to acquire the nation’s debt and then “forego repayment.”
What billionaire Gross is talking about here is a debt jubilee. And we’re not surprised. We’ve predicted this after all. I’ve often said that Japan will be the first to fall.
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Sunday, May 29, 2016
Mongolia Displays New Buy Signals for Foreign Investors / Commodities / Asian Economies
By: Dylan_Waller
font-weight:400; ">Mongolia, which can be considered one of Asia’s most vulnerable frontier markets, has been through a flurry of ups and downs during the past five years. Once praised as the world’s fastest growing economy, economic growth has recently approached recession levels amid the commodity bear market, China’s economic slowdown, and the rapid drop in FDI experienced from the delay of Oyu Tolgoi, and other mining disputes. Mongolia is a strong commodity export economy, and approximately 90% of these exports go to China, making it most vulnerable to the current commodity bear market and China’s economic slowdown. Furthermore, its economic performance has been hindered by the unpredictable actions of the government, which has been another strong factor for driving away FDI. The current economic landscape necessitates a shift in this previous anti-FDI attitude to avoid a recession, and notable improvements have already taken place this year, which will help improve Mongolia’s reputation for foreign investment. Mongolia is heading in the right direction, based on events that have taken place in recent months, and now is a strong time to consider stocks that are in a bottoming out phase.
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Sunday, May 29, 2016
Mining Legend Says We Are in the Second Leg of Gold Bull Market / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Mario_Innecco
Today I'm going to talk about gold and silver for thatmatter we have had a put-back fairly sharp and yes a lot of people are
probably worried about this pullback in gold mainly because we've had such a
vicious you know bear market in gold from 2011 and silver to 2015 December
beginning of December and the mining shares as well bottom in January and but
I think in my opinion this is just a correction and we but we have bottomed
in the correct longer term correction that we had and we're in the second leg
of the bull market in gold and and mining shares in my opinion so yeah I
listened to a very interesting interview just a few minutes ago and I put the
link to it it's peerless song and he's a legendary mining investor and mining
company CEO and chairman and he was interviewed by Eric King and King world
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Sunday, May 29, 2016
Wargaming North Korea - Assessing the Threat / Politics / North Korea
By: STRATFOR
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a five-part series examining the measures that could be taken to inhibit North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The purpose of this series is not to consider political rhetoric or noninvasive means of coercion, such as sanctions. Rather, we are exploring the military options, however remote, that are open to the United States and its allies, along with the expected retaliatory response from Pyongyang. Part two of this series looks at what targets would need to be struck to derail the North Korean nuclear program.
Few countries intrigue and perplex like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Isolated by choice from the ebbs and flows of the international system, North Korea is an island of its own making. It is often painted as a weak, fearsome lunatic with delusions of grandeur and aspirations to become a nuclear power, but the truth is a little more complicated. Despite outward appearances, Pyongyang is not reckless in its ambition. Nor does it foolhardily invite destruction. It walks a fine line, hoping to quietly attain a credible nuclear deterrent without inciting world powers to take decisive action.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
EU REMAIN Population Forecasts - England 4.1 million Explosion, London Migration Crisis / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The ONS latest revision to it's population forecasts, that looks set to see England's population explode higher by 4.1 million by 2024. Which in my opinion still greatly under estimates what is actually transpiring as a consequences of out of control immigration that sees total annual migration of between 800k and 1 million, and official net migration of 333k. Though other measures such as National Insurance suggest actual net migration is far higher, near double the official rate at 500k.
Firstly the headline ONS figure masks huge regional variations so that the impact of population growth ranges from mild to crisis levels in terms of the impact on communities as services such as health, housing, and schools are already at breaking point even before another 4.1 million is added to the populous.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
A Guide to the Trump-Sanders Debate / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: MISES
Ryan W. McMaken writes: It looks like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are planning to debate each other. Drudge today is calling it "the debate of the century."
Color me skeptical. If it happens, the debate will provide some entertainment for political junkies, but the areas of disagreement between the two are actually quite small, and the debate is likely to focus on "soft" issues like being polite to women. Don't look for much debate on issues that get to the heart of the economic system.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Gold And Silver – At Significant Support. New “Story” Developing / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_Noonan
With the holiday weekend, the focus will be on charts only for, ultimately, they reveal the truest story of what is developing in any market. There is one more trading day in May, next Tuesday, but we are using ending data from Friday, the 27th, for the monthly charts.
The rally in both gold and silver has been a significant change in market behavior, and these changes are telling the world that the decline from 2011 may have ended. We note the ending action at 1, on the monthly chart. Besides the obvious support and resistance areas, what stands out are the two high volume months when price closed lower each time, once in March, and now for May.
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Deflation Is A Direct Result Of Our Attempts To Create Inflation Through Easy Money! / Economics / Deflation
By: Gordon_T_Long
John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com and FRA Co-founder, Gordon T. Long discuss the effects of the rise in eCommerce along with the rise of technology and the consequences we are facing from flawed perceptions of financial authorities.
John Rubino is author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom (Wiley, December 2008), co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (Doubleday, January 2008), and author of How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust (Rodale, 2003). After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a currency trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He now writes for CFA Magazine and edits DollarCollapse.com and GreenStockInvesting.com.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
The Next Systemic Lehman Event - New Scheiss Dollar & Gold Trade Standard / Stock-Markets / Financial Crisis 2016
By: Jim_Willie_CB
The entire Western financial systemic, complete with USDollar-based foundation platforms, is breaking down. The breakdown is in full view, very noticeable, in almost every arena. What happened in 2008 with the Lehman Brothers failure event is currently underway with almost every single financial platform, structural entity, financial market, banking structure, and arena. In response to the Lehman killjob event, where JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs strangled the victim firm (by denying Lehman proceeds on countless asset sales), the entire Western financial system has been lashed together, tied together, and connected among its many member parts. The main parts are the big banks, which use derivative contracts to lash themselves together. They believe there is strength in numbers, which is true to some extent. But the consequence turns out to be that all will fail at the same time in a cascade of insolvent marred by illiquidity while steeped in corruption and market rigging. The breakdown could be described as having begun in full force, in earnest power, at the start of this 2016 year. This is the year of systemic failure, or financial breakdown, and of revelations of important crimes for the last generation or more. The revelations are against the Western power centers for their grand criminal activities. The East, by favoring a Gold Standard, has put the West on notice for exposure, if not prosecution. The gold weapon has power in its arbiter role in commerce, banking, and economies. No nation will be spared from the urgent nasty effects of being forced to achieve trade balance.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Energy and Debt Crisis Point to Much Higher Silver, Metals Prices / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.
Coming up we’ll hear from Steve St. Angelo of the SRSrocco Report. Steve shares his top-notch research with our listeners on some alarming trend changes in silver supply and explains how and why the debt bubble is eventually going to burst and why he believes gold and silver will be the assets to own when it all unravels. Don’t miss an incredibly enlightening and eye-opening interview with Steve St. Angelo coming up after this week’s market update.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
Gold Junior Stocks Q1 2016 Fundamentals / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Zeal_LLC
The smaller gold-mining and exploration stocks have enjoyed an amazing year, soaring with gold’s new bull market. Many have more than doubled since mid-January, and some have more than tripled at best in that short span. Are such spectacular gains fundamentally-justified, or merely the result of ephemeral sentiment that could vanish anytime? The gold juniors’ recently-reported Q1’16 results offer great insights.
The junior gold miners and explorers play a critical role in the world gold market. They bear the major costs and risks associated with discovering and sometimes developing new economically-viable gold deposits. They painstakingly find the new gold reserves to offset the constant depletion of the world’s existing gold mines, acting as the headwaters feeding the global mined-gold-supply pipeline vital to this industry.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
These Crisis Markets Are Primed to Deliver Big Gains, Platinum Never Cheaper! / Commodities / Platinum
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
Editor's note: Today, we're continuing our conversation with Crisis Investing editor Nick Giambruno. Yesterday, Nick explained the ins and outs of crisis investing…and what he looks for in a good crisis investment. In part two, Nick shares two key markets he's keeping an eye on today…
J. Spittler, editor of The Daily Dispatch: What are some of your most successful crisis investments?
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Friday, May 27, 2016
Operation Black Vote BrExit Warning for the Wrong EU Referendum / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum
By: Nadeem_Walayat
A group calling itself 'Operation Black Vote' has released a provocative poster that has gone viral aimed at motivating the black and ethnic minorities to vote to REMAIN within the European Union. It's no wonder that it's been grabbing the headlines when one sees that the advertising geniuses Saatchi and Saatchi are behind it!
Friday, May 27, 2016
UK Immigration Crisis Hits New Extreme, Catastrophic ONS Migration Stats Ahead of EU Referendum / ElectionOracle / Immigration
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The latest ONS data released this week shows an ACCELERATION in the rate of mass migration into Britain, in what amounts to a continuing 17 year long exponential trend of out of control immigration with net migration of +333k in the year to December 2015 added to Britain's population, an INCREASE of 20k on the preceding year which illustrates that immigration is STILL ACCELERATING. Which literally translates into a DAILY flood of near 1000 people turning up on Britain's shores and demanding housing, education, school places, jobs and benefits such as tax credits, housing and child benefits, health & social services that have been buckling and breaking as illustrated by social housing that in most cities has been in a state of total paralysis for many years now.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Many of the World’s Best Investors Made Their Fortunes This Way…And You Can Too / Stock-Markets / Investing 2016
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
Editor’s note: Today and tomorrow, we're stepping away from our usual market commentary to share a very important idea with you…
Below, you’ll read our interview with Nick Giambruno, editor of Crisis Investing. In it, Nick breaks down his successful investing system—what he calls “the most powerful wealth building secret in investing.”
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Friday, May 27, 2016
$HUI (Gold Bugs Index) Rally / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Gary_Savage
I said one doesn’t need to chase the rally during the second leg, any gains would not be sustainable and would be given back.
At the low yesterday miners had already given back 62% of the second leg gains, and we are not done with the Intermediate Cycle Low yet. The final Intermediate Cycle Low isn’t due until late June or early July. This is why it wasn’t critical to chase the second leg, one was going to get a second shot at it anyway.
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