Thursday, January 21, 2021
Protecting the Vulnerable 2021 / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: Submissions
The shift in players moving online gaming during 2020 saw sites like www.swankybingo.com quickly growing in popularity as increased traffic of both new and existing players visited to enjoy a few games whilst catching up with family and friends. In fact, online bingo has taken over in popularity from its land-based counterpart in a big way with people of all ages now enjoying their games as well as making new contacts online.
We are all well aware that choice is a great thing for consumers but the migration online by many people highlighted issues with the existing legislation with the 2005 Gambling Act being described as ‘weak’ and ‘sluggish’ especially when covering the problem of problem gambling.
Not only was the 2005 Gambling Act shown to be insufficient, as businesses actually struggled to remain compliant. This fact was proven with the online gambling firms of Caesars Entertainment UK and Betway paying in excess of £10 million for breaching problem gambling and ALM laws.
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
How To Play The Next Stage Of The Marijuana Boom / Commodities / Cannabis
By: OilPrice_Com
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
UK Schools Lockdown 2021 Covid Education Crisis - Home Learning Routine / Politics / Coronavirus 2021
By: N_Walayat
Here's what it's like for infants, junior and secondary school pupils trying to learn at home during lockdown 2.0. The incompetent and negligent mismanagement of the Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in chaos and disorder at every corner of the failure of the education system to respond to the pandemic. First we have the 6 month lockdown from March to September 2020, as the schools FAILED to reopen in June, despite there being little or not risk of infection from the virus during the summer months. That at the start of 2021 was followed by the catastrophic third wave as the UK government once more lost control of the virus resulting in the panic shutdown of all schools, which whilst necessary to bring the pandemic under control nevertheless is once more doing huge damage the life prospects of Britain's school children as this vide of what the children of Sheffield's schools are experiencing (Dobcroft example), as lockdown 2.0 could continue until after EASTER 2021!
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
General Artificial Intelligence Was BORN in 2020! GPT-3, Deep Mind / Companies / AI
By: Nadeem_Walayat
During 2020 the fictional general artificial intelligence of the movies to some degree become reality in the form of GPT-3 that performs exponentially better than AI that preceded it as the following graph illustrates,
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Bitcoin Price Crash: FCA Warning Was a Slap in the Face. But Not the Cause / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: EWI
See what 'allowed' for a turn down in the immediate future
In case you blinked over the last two days, bitcoin bulls had their hat abruptly handed to them when the cryptocurrency plummeted a jarring 26% in 48 hours.
The grisly details (or, here's how this bearish opportunity unfolded, for the few traders who were ready):
- The selloff was the market's worst two-day decline since the start of the coronavirus in March 2020.
- The crash took prices $10,000 down from their all-time high near $42,000 set on Friday, January 8.
- And, all told, the move erased nearly $185 billion from bitcoin's value (Jan. 11 Bloomberg); for reference, that's the entire net worth of the richest man on Earth, Elon Musk.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
US Coronavirus Pandemic 2021 - We’re Going to Need More Than a Vaccine / Politics / Coronavirus 2021
By: Patrick_Watson
Houston, we have a problem,” said the Apollo 13 crew.
Half a century later, Houston is a problem as some of its largest hospitals reach 100% ICU occupancy. Ditto for many other cities around the US.
This is a problem and it’s getting worse.
Meanwhile, the same pandemic that is filling hospitals is also killing jobs. The latest employment report showed the US lost 140,000 jobs in December. We are still down almost 10 million jobs since last winter.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Biggest Biotech Story Of 2021? / Companies / BioTech
By: OilPrice_Com
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Biden Bailout, Democrat Takeover to Drive Americans into Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: MoneyMetals
As investors await the incoming Biden administration and the uncertainties that a transition of power may bring, precious metals markets regained some ground through Thursday’s close but have pulled back again on Friday, especially silver and platinum.
Precious metals prices and financial markets have seemingly been unaffected by recent political turmoil. Investors have been nonchalant in the face of Capitol unrest and a second impeachment of President Donald Trump – not to mention fresh new records in daily COVID deaths.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Pandemic 2020 Is Gone! Will 2021 Be Better for Gold? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Hurray! The disastrous year of 2020, which brought about the COVID-19 pandemic , the Great Lockdown , and the economic crisis , is over! Now, the question is what will 2021 be like – both for the U.S. economy and the gold market.
To provide an answer, below I analyze the most important economic trends for the next year and their implications for the yellow metal.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Trump and Coronavirus Pandemic Final US Catastrophe 2021 / Politics / Coronavirus 2021
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The number of US daily covid deaths now exceeds 4000 as the US explodes into it's fourth higher covid peak prompting vaccine centres to now vaccinate anyone who walks through their doors given the slow roll out of the vaccines that currently numbers just 6.2 million doses administered against a target of about 30 million.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
How To Find Market Momentum Trades for Explosive Gains / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Every morning before the markets open I share my video chart analysis of the day’s price action in the indexes, metals, bonds, and more for members of the BAN Trader Pro service. Today we look at the futures of the major indexes, bonds, gold, silver, and miners. I review our open trades and I go through my BAN Hotlist in detail, showing members how to take advantage of the hottest sectors. Learn how we manage risk and implement our BAN (Best Asset Now) strategy to consistently beat the market.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Cryptos: 5 Simple Strategies to Catch the Next Opportunity / Currencies / BlockChain
By: EWI
Dear Reader,
The key to success in cryptos is to approach this wild market in a way that insulates you from the hype, frenzy and rumors -- and helps you act when others flounder.
How? By using a proven market-forecasting methodology that can analyze price trends in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin objectively and clearly.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Who Will NEXT Be Removed from the Internet? / Politics / Censorship
By: MoneyMetals
On Wednesday, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump for a second time – this time with just a few days left in his term.
It was a mostly symbolic rebuke. Financial and precious metals markets barely budged on the news.
The Senate, which alone has the power to convict and remove an impeached President, isn’t even expected to hold a trial until after Trump leaves office and Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20th.
Of much wider significance for the future of American politics – and for the free, open exchange of ideas on an array of controversial subjects – is the unprecedented mass, coordinated de-platforming of President Trump and some of his supporters by social media companies.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
This Small Company Could Revolutionize The Trillion-Dollar Drug Sector / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: OilPrice_Com
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Gold/SPX Ratio and the Gold Stock Case / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Gary_Tanashian
Gold/SPX indicated the excess and the gold miners are correcting that excess
In and around the August time frame we noted (in NFTRH) high risk to the gold miners because the price of HUI had gotten a million miles ahead of gold’s ratio to the stock market. That was typical bit in the mouth enthusiasm by the gold “community”, as even Warren Buffett bought a gold stock (and signaled a top).
This chart (and another I have like it) revealed to us in real time the excessive condition. Could the miners have just kept going, into a bubble of their own? Sure, but very unlikely. Amid the bubble making elsewhere gold, silver and the miners are doing the right thing… and they are doing nothing that they did not do several times in the bull market circa 2001-2007. Those bull market grinds were interminable, but ultimately gave way to grand new highs when the healthy corrective work was complete.
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Monday, January 18, 2021
More Stock Market Speculative Signs, Energy Rebound, Commodities Breakout / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021
By: Troy_Bombardia
More speculative signs
Speculative signs keep piling up. Contrarian investors and traders have focused on surging penny stocks and micro-cap stocks in recent days. The smallest of small cap stocks are now more than 40% above their 200 day moving average! The last time this happened was in February – March 2000, near the peak of the dot-com bubble.
*This is the Dow Jones Micro-Cap Index, which is the smallest 50% of the Wilshire 5000 index:
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Higher Yields Hit Gold Price, But for How Long? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
The price of gold remains at $1,850, and the key drivers are higher bond yields and a stronger risk appetite.Last week, the yellow metal tanked below $1,900 again, and it hasn’t rebounded since the plunge – instead, the price of gold has stayed at around $1,850.
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Some Basic Facts About Forex Trading / Currencies / Forex Trading
By: Sumeet_Manhas
There are some interesting facts that you may not have heard before about currency market and forex trading.
Forex or FX is short for the foreign exchange market. It is a global currency market where one can exchange national currencies against each other. For example, if you have a $100, you can exchange it to EUR, GBP, or just about any other currency based on the rates of the exchange.
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
Custom Build PC 2021 - Ryzen 5950x, RTX 3080, 64gb DDR4 Specs - Scan Computers 3SX Order Day 11 / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
It's now 11 days since I placed my order with Scan Computers UK (Scan.co.uk) for the best spec for 2021 and beyond, a Ryzen 5950x, Asus RTX 3080, 64gb ram etc.. Full specs in the video and below. Anyway we all know demand is high and supply is low, so where does my custom build order stand in terms of build and delivery expectations as a guide of what to expect when ordering a custom built PC in January 2021 from likely most custom builders and not just Scan.
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
UK Car MOT Covid-19 Lockdown Extension 2021 / Personal_Finance / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
My car was due for an MOT on 26th January so I logged into https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history to confirm the expiry date and found that it had once more been extended by several months. Find out if this is part of a new 2021 lockdown extension being rolled out to cars as they approach expiry or something else altogether in my latest covid-19 video.
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