Friday, July 16, 2021
Sheffield Millhouses Park New Children's Play Area July 2021 Vs Old Play Area - Better or Worse? / Local / Sheffield
By: Eliza_Walayat
Popular Millhouses park in Sheffield finally has a new children's play area after the existing play area was stripped away over a year ago! Add to that the covid closures then local kids have not had a play area for approaching 18 months! Find out in our latest video of what's new and what's changed as we compare against the past 18 months.
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Friday, July 16, 2021
Inflation Soars, Powell Remains Unmoved. What about Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The CPI surged 5.4% in June, but Powell still sees inflation as transitory. For now, gold has risen under the dovish Fed’s wing amid higher inflation.Did you think that 5% was high inflation? Or that inflation has already peaked? Wrong! Inflation rose even further in June, although it was already elevated in May. Indeed, the consumer price index surged 0.9% in the last month, following a 0.6% jump in May. It was the largest one-month change since June 2008, during the Great Recession.
Importantly, the Core Price Index, which excludes food and energy, also rose 0.9%(after a 0.7% increase in the previous month). It shows that inflation is accelerating not only because of higher energy prices but also due to more structural, underlying trends.
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
Goldrunner: Gold Could Jump To $1,900-$2,100 In Next 30 days – Here’s Why / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Lorimer_Wilson
For the past two years at this juncture, the Precious Metals Sector has risen sharply in a month-long up cycle for Silver and with the high inflation expectations going forward a similar ramp up for the Precious Metals Sector is a real possibility.
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
Tips For Finding The Right Influencers / Personal_Finance / Social Media
By: Mark_Adan
While influencer marketing is one of the best strategies to invest in, you won't be reaping the benefits if you don't select the right ones. While it can be tempting to use individual metric definitions such as unique visitors or even Twitter followers as their measure of influence, you must look much deeper when searching.
You may be wondering how to tell whether or not someone is influential and how to measure it. Here are some of the key things you should be looking for when you are trying to figure out one's influence to choose the right ones.
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
ECB Changed Monetary Strategy. Will It Alter Gold’s Course? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The ECB adopts a new inflation target. Is the European Central Bank mimicking the Fed or doing its own thing? The revolution in central banking is spreading. Following the Fed, the European Central Bank has also modified its target. Last week, after an 18-months review of its monetary policy framework, the ECB published a statement on its monetary policy strategy, deciding to change its goal from “below but close to 2%” to a more symmetric aim of “2% inflation over the medium term”. The most important part of the statement is below:The Governing Council considers that price stability is best maintained by aiming for two per cent inflation over the medium term. The Governing Council’s commitment to this target is symmetric.
The symmetry means that the ECB considers both overshooting and undershooting as equally bad. In the previous framework, the ECB clearly believed that downside deviations from inflation were less harmful than upside deviations.
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
NASA And Big Tech Are Facing Off Over This Rare Gas / Commodities / Investing 2021
By: Submissions
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
Will the U.S. Dollar Lose Momentum In the Second Half of 2021? / Currencies / US Dollar
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
As the world’s most traded currency, the US dollar has significant impacts on global trade. With interest rates at record lows and an uncertain macro-environment, it has risen at a stellar pace against major currencies in the last decade.
The US dollar is also the world’s most widely held currency, with an estimated $2 trillion in circulation. The strength of the greenback depends on a variety of factors, including economic and geopolitical stability, interest rates, inflation, and political influence.
It is important for investors and people who have exposure to the USD to understand how the dollar’s value could impact their wealth and future plans.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Bitcoin Stock to Flow Model Forecasts Infinity and Beyond! / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Once you venture into the realm of bitcoins future prospects then you are pretty soon going to be presented with Stock to Flow model projections. Which is basically how many years will it take for new annual supply of bitcoins to cover total available supply of bitcoins and what it suggests for future pricing given that Bitcoins future supply is reducing with each halving.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Proteomics: The Next Truly Massive Investing Opportunity / Companies / Genomics
By: Stephen_McBride
Blue and red flashing lights pierced the darkness. Michael Behar and his family were on vacation at a remote campsite 10,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains. They were huddled around a campfire when a police sergeant pulled up in his SUV. He stepped out and said, “Mr. Behar, I’m sorry to have to tell you that your mother has passed away.”
Michael’s mother had suffered a heart attack. But not too long before she had passed a series of coronary scans with flying colors. Behar knew we had to find a better way to “see” what was happening inside the body.
His doctor encouraged him to sign up for a medical trial across town. In short, the test would scour Michael’s blood for “proteins” associated with heart disease.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Massive Solar Storm to Hit Earth 2025, Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Danger and Protection Solutions / Politics / Solar Storm
By: N_Walayat
So the inevitable pandemic in our lifetime that most of the world including the whole of Europe and North America were totally unprepared that had moronic government scientists spouting in the early months that the general public should not wear masks which was due to lack of PPE stock, whilst prime ministers and presidents laughed it off as something that would magically disappear before Easter, instead has had a severe economic and social impact on all of our lives this past year. However given the fast materialisation of vaccines should soon start diminishing in significance of future impact.
So what else is out there lurking in the near mists of time about to have en equal if not greater impact on our everyday lives?
Asteroid impact? Inevitable yes, for instance Apopthis (named after the Egyptian snake god of chaos) is due for a very close rendezvous with Earth in April 2029, which is one of thousands that cross Earths orbit, but the range of probabilities span decades to tens of thousands of years, so not something that can be assumed to be definitely imminent in terms of a catastrophic impact.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Is This The Best Way To Play The Coming Helium Boom? / Commodities / Investing 2021
By: Submissions
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Meet SuperMania and its Ever-Present Sidekick, SuperMeltdown / Currencies / cryptocurrency
By: EWI
Advance warnings about the recent crypto crash were there all along.
How did almost everyone miss them?
Anyone on Planet Earth in 2021 knows about the rise and fall of digital currencies.
Even many kids are aware.
But what has baffled just about everyone is what's BEHIND the moves.
This was made especially clear by the recent cryptocurrency crash, which saw Bitcoin plunge 50% from its April 15 peak. That move alone eliminated $1.3 trillion of wealth.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
How NFTs Are Shaking Up Arts Trading / Currencies / BlockChain
By: Adam_Walker
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Gold: High Time to Move Out of the Penthouse / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: P_Radomski_CFA
Gold’s days in a glamorous apartment at the top of the PMs’ building are numbered. We’d better prepare for a rapid elevator ride to the first floor.
The Gold Miners
With the gold miners essentially running laps on the treadmill, the HUI Index, the GDX ETF, and the GDXJ ETF are working extremely hard but making little progress. And with the gambit resulting in ‘one step forward, two steps back,’ frustrating exhaustion has mining stocks questioning their every move. To that point, even though the trio transitioned from the conveyor belt to the stairs in recent weeks, history shows that slow climbs often culminate with elevator rides lower. Should we expect a different outcome this time around?
Gold ended the week in the green (up by $27.30), but the HUI Index was stuck in the red (down by 1.39). This is extremely noteworthy, as a similar divergence occurred at the end of May. For context, when the yellow metal rallied by $28.60 in a week back then, the HUI Index fell by 1.37 index points.
In the following weeks, the HUI Index declined by about 50 index points, while gold declined by about $150.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Climb Aboard! Silver Should Run Up To $38 In Next 30 Days / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Lorimer_Wilson
The U.S. Dollar recently corrected upward but now appears ready to continue its move downward and this should light a fire under the price of Silver and see it undergo a 30-day run to around $38 per troy ounce as illustrated in the chart below.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
How Will Remote Work Impact the U.K. economy? / Economics / UK Economy
By: Sumeet_Manhas
When the pandemic hit the U.K., millions of knowledge and office workers were forced to work from home. Regarding productivity and work/life balance, remote work has proved to be a success in many instances. The consequences for the overall economy may not be so favourable if remote working becomes a permanent arrangement.
Historically, national-scale crises have a tendency to revolutionise societies and the way that we work. In the fourteenth century, for example, the Black Death plagued (literally) Europe. Approximately one-third of Europe’s population died from the plague. As a result, many historians believe that labour-saving devices such as the printing press were developed to adapt to the lack of workers. Some historians have also theorised that the Black Death led to the expeditions into “new lands” that occurred in the decades that followed. Perhaps travelling on a boat to parts unknown seemed relatively safe following a pandemic that killed around 25 million people.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Why Helium Stocks Are Set To Soar in 2021 / Companies / Energy Resources
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Monday, July 12, 2021
Peak of the Fake Stocks Bull Market / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021
By: Michael_Pento
We are probably very close to the peak of this ersatz bull market and economy. Peak vaccination distribution, along with the peak optimism about the vanquished pandemic and the re-opening of the economy. U.S. corporations are experiencing peak profit margins. The economy has enjoyed peak fiscal and monetary stimulus and those tailwinds will soon become strong headwinds. Also, peak tax relief is now in the rear-view mirror; and higher taxes are around the corner. Finally, peak asset valuations have arrived and the associated wealth effect is now waning.Confirming this view is a series of slowing economic data--a reduction in the rate of change in growth and inflation. For now, this is not a crisis or a recession; but is set to become one next year. Here are some facts and data:
Personal income decreased $414.3 billion (2.0 percent) in May, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures were virtually unchanged. Despite that fact that job openings are at all-time high, at the same time, initial jobless claims are running at a level that is 75% above/higher than the pre-pandemic level. This begs the question: why is the US laying off people at a rate that is three quarters greater than before COVID-19, despite that fact that the economy has reopened? After all, the pandemic crisis is now a year and a half old; shouldn’t layoffs be almost non-existent?
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Monday, July 12, 2021
An Investing Truth: Roughly 80% of Stocks Are “Duds” / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Stephen_McBride
Today I’m spilling the beans on something very important. It’s a “truth” about investing almost nobody understands. This truth explains why most investors struggle to make any real money in the stock market… while a few achieve life-changing gains.
The truth is: most stocks are horrible investments. Let me show you what I mean, and how you can turn this truth into an edge that’ll let you beat 99% of investors.
Monday, July 12, 2021
Stock Market Probing for a Top / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: There is some evidence that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009 and which could continue into 2021 before major cycles take over, and it ends. A move up to ~4500 is possible before the current bull market makes a final top and SPX corrects into its next major cycle low due in 2023.
SPX Intermediate trend: SPX has likely reached the end of an intermediate phase.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done daily with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which determine longer market trends.