Sunday, September 04, 2016
Negative Interest Rates and the War on Cash (1) / Interest-Rates / War on Cash
By: Raul_I_Meijer
It’s been a while, but Nicole Foss is back at the Automatic Earth -which makes me very happy-, and for good measure, she starts out with a very long article. So long in fact that we have decided to turn it into a 4-part series, if only just to show you that we do care about your health and well-being, as well as your families and social lives. The other 3 parts will follow in the next few days, and at the end we will publish the entire piece in one post.
Sunday, September 04, 2016
Market roundup WTI, EURUSD, FTSE / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ken_Ticehurst
WTI now appears to be forming a top, after the price action last week our $60+ scenario appears to be becoming lesss likely, although still possible it would appear as though our dead cat bounce is running out of steam and our lower lows will be coming sooner than we anticipated.
Sunday, September 04, 2016
Silver - Stay Sober / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Dan_Norcini
Time to revisit the “play toy of the funds”, aka, silver.
On Thursday of this past week, silver managed to claw its way back above its downtrending 10 day moving average, a positive sign. However, ahead of an often unpredictable payrolls report, most traders are not going to get aggressive preferring instead to wait for the report and the reaction before committing precious capital.
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Saturday, September 03, 2016
Gold: The Good and the Not Yet Good / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Gary_Tanashian
The Good
Thursday’s ISM report was Thing 1 in improving the backdrop for gold. But it was a small Thing. Friday’s August Payrolls report was Thing 2, and it was a better Thing. Gold and especially the gold mining sector are invigorated fundamentally during economic easing, not during economic growth phases, inflationary or otherwise.
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Saturday, September 03, 2016
SPX Uptrend Extending? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Tony_Caldaro
The week started at SPX 2169. After a rally to SPX 2183 on Monday the market pulled back to 2161 by Wednesday. Thursday started off with a rally to SPX 2174, dropped to 2157, then the market rallied to 2185 by Friday. For the week the SPX/DOW gained 0.50%, and the NDX/NAZ gained 0.45%. Economic reports for the week had twice as many gainers as losers. On the downtick: the ADP, ISM, auto sales, monthly payrolls and weekly jobless claims increased. On the uptick: personal income/spending, the PCE, Case-Shiller, consumer confidence, the Chicago PMI, pending home sales, factory orders, the Q3 GDP estimate, plus the trade balance improved. Next week’s reports will be highlighted by the FED’s beige book and ISM services. Best to your week!
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Kid's Fun Fruit Trees and Plants Garden UK (E1 - August 2012) / Personal_Finance / Gardening
By: Anika_Walayat
This is the first in a series of videos starting August 2012, where 4 year old Anika first shows her fruit trees and plants garden in the UK from tropical trees such as Mangoes and Bananas to the traditional Apple and Cherry trees, nut trees including walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts, plenty of citric lemon and orange trees continuing with some raspberry and blackberries bushes strawberries and grape vines. Watch as the fruit trees and plants grow over the following seasons and years so you too can plan your own fun fruit filled kids gardens.
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Saturday, September 03, 2016
Gold And Silver – Fiat “Dollar” Says Gold And Silver Will Struggle / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Michael_Noonan
We are taking another look at the globalist-owned Federal Reserve and their totally fiat Federal Reserve Note, more commonly and inaccurately referenced as the “dollar,” which it is not and never was. The fact that people in the United States continue to believe that the “dollar” is real and the Federal Reserve is a part of the US government speaks to how successfully the total Ponzi scheme perpetrated by the elites over the last century plus has fooled almost everyone.
Today, cash is barely 5% of “money” in circulation, and the bankers want to do away with even that paltry source in order to fully gain control over the financial lives of all citizens. The fact that this information still needs to be explained relates to the futility of the public ever wakening to the reality of how all Americans have been, and continue to be fleeced by the elites who control every aspect of how the United States functions, including the bought and paid for politicians, starting with the corporate federal president on down.
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Saturday, September 03, 2016
An Important Low for Gold Price and Gold Stocks? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
Gold and gold stocks bounced to end the week thanks to an oversold condition coupled with a softer than expected jobs report which likely delays Fed action until December. At one point this past week the market had priced in a 64% chance of a single rate hike by December and a 42% chance of a rate hike this month. A single rate hike is not going to derail the young bull market in precious metals and as long as the lows of this week hold then the bull market is in position to grow stronger by the end of the year.
Saturday, September 03, 2016
Free Event! 22+ Markets. 3 Continents. Numerous New Opportunities. / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: EWI
Dear Reader,
Our partners at Elliott Wave International (EWI) have just announced a new, free 3-day event for global investors at elliottwave.com.
On September 6-8, they're opening the doors to their latest forecasts for top markets in Europe (FTSE, DAX, CAC + 9 more) and Asia-Pacific (ASX, Shanghai, SENSEX + 8 more).
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Saturday, September 03, 2016
US Jobs Disappoint... Nothing Terrible... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Jack_Steiman
The market had two reports it was focusing on this week. The ISM Manufacturing Report that was to come out on Thursday and the Jobs Report that would come out today. The first one laid an egg. Huge disappointment. Market fell, but then came back strong. Bad news wasn't bad news for the market. Today the Jobs Report missed, but not as bad as yesterday's miss. That said, still a miss by between 25/50k jobs depending on who you listen to. The market blinked lower on the futures for a moment but then recovered. It's almost as if the market reacted as if was a stock market still. It had a forgetful moment. It immediately then realized that it's now a fed market and fed markets work on rates and basically nothing else.
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Saturday, September 03, 2016
Few Buys in Global Stock Markets After Rallies / Companies / Investing 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
Money manager Adrian Day provides an update of his non-resource holdings and his interpretation of the Federal Reserve's activities.
All of the Business Development Companies have moved up strongly in recent months from their grossly oversold year-end levels, in line with many other "dividend" plays, such as utilities. In general, we are holding, given the still-high yields and improvements at the companies, but not buying given the strong recent stock movement as well as yields that are coming down to historical norms.
Saturday, September 03, 2016
John Maynard Keynes’ “General Theory” Eighty Years Later / Economics / Economic Theory
By: Antonius_Aquinas
To the economic and political detriment of the Western world and those economies beyond which have adopted its precepts, 2016 marks the eightieth anniversary of the publication of one of, if not, the most influential economics books ever penned, John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Sadly, even to this day, despite its thorough refutation by lights such as Henry Hazlitt and other eminent scholars, The General Theory, which spawned “Keynesianism” and its later variants, remains supreme in academics, financial markets, and public policy.
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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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