Monday, May 16, 2016

Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny / Politics / US Military

By: Dr_Ron_Paul

For many of us concerned with liberty, the letters "NDAA" have come to symbolize Washington's ongoing effort to undermine the US Constitution in the pursuit of constant war overseas. It was the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2012 that introduced into law the idea that American citizens could be indefinitely detained without warrant or charge if a government bureaucrat decides they had assisted al-Qaeda or "associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States." No charges, no trial, just disappeared Americans.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Union, Not Brexit, Threatens World Peace and Stability / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Stephen_Lendman

Britain’s David Cameron has it backwards, warning Brexit threatens continental peace - calling support for the move “reckless and irresponsible,” risking Britain’s economic stability, leaving it “permanently poorer.”

Former London Mayor Boris Johnson hit back, saying Britain’s economy is independent of EU membership. The union doesn’t preserve peace, and supporting Brexit isn’t anti-European.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Why Britain Must Choose Brexit Despite the Economic Damage All Economists Say She Will Suffer / ElectionOracle / UK EU Referendum

By: Submissions

Petros Diplas writes: Because Britain must maintain its current enviable and prestigious geopolitical position in the world and if possible to make it even stronger, not only for the sake of "History and the Empire" but also for an even greater future enrichment of herself. Because Britain’s area of interest is the entire world and not a subset which is Europe. Europe is good for Britain as long as it helps her in her global goals.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

How Referenda Threaten the EU / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: STRATFOR

Forecast

• In the coming years, national governments, opposition groups and civil society organizations will increasingly turn to popular votes to decide a broad range of EU-related debates.
• National governments will probably use referenda (or, more likely, the threat of them) to demand concessions from the European Union, to justify domestic decisions or to increase their own popularity.
• Votes will take place against a backdrop of growing nationalism and fear of globalization, and the results will likely freeze or reverse the process of EU integration.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

EU Referendum Opinion Polls Neck and Neck Despite Operation Fear, Support BrExit Campaign / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The average of the latest EU referendum opinion polls put the LEAVE and ReMAIN camps virtually neck and neck on 44% with 12% undecided, which compares against a month ago of 42% LEAVE and 48% REMAIN, 10% undecided. So it is no wonder that the REMAIN camp has gone into panic mode with a relentless torrent of fear mongering emanating from the establishment REMAIN camp.

The narrowing of the polls is even more remarkable given that Brexiters are financially outgunned by at least 10 to 1 as the government has been calling on a litany of state funded favours from the likes of President Obama, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, IMF Chief Lagaard and even ex Prime Ministers such as Gordon Brown and John Major all of whom have been busy this week reading from the establishments fear script in an attempt to frighten the British people into PERMANENTLTY giving up ANY chance of attaining FREEDOM from the emerging anti-democratic European Superstate.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Stock Market Cycle Low Next Week - Video / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Gary_Savage

Transcript excerpt: in today's video I'm going to go over what i think is going to transpire next
week in a row also going to refute the notion that this is a daily cycle
so-called cycle experts calling this daily cycle low and they're claiming
that the intermediate cycle is rolling over that is correct in order to qualify
as a daily cycle oh yes to be deep enough for long enough to turn sentiment
at least modern Lee Parrish preferably extremely bearish one of the technical
signs of a daily cycle lows that it will be moving average down and you can see
this little three date did a dip in early April did not it was not deep enough for long enough to turn today

Sunday, May 15, 2016

‘Print the Money’: Trump’s ‘Reckless’ Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Ellen_Brown

“Reckless,” “alarming,” “disastrous,” “swashbuckling,” “playing with fire,” “crazy talk,” “lost in a forest of nonsense”: these are a few of the labels applied by media commentators to Donald Trump’s latest proposal for dealing with the federal debt. On Monday, May 9th, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate said on CNN, “You print the money.”

The remark was in response to a firestorm created the previous week, when Trump was asked if the US should pay its debt in full or possibly negotiate partial repayment. He replied, “I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.” Commentators took this to mean a default. On May 9, Trump countered that he was misquoted:

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Walkers Crisps 'Spell and Go' Holidays Tesco Bagging Area Instant Win! / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps

By: Anika_Walayat

There are several ways to win a prize in the Walkers Crisps Spell and Go Promotion. Apart from the instant wins in the individual crisp packets (not multi-packs), there are also the Tesco bagging area wins where you can win anything from a pair of sun glasses to a holiday! See our our experience about it in this video -

Saturday, May 14, 2016

The Trump Factor - The Art of the Double-Dealing Megalomaniac / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Walter_Brasch

Savannah State University in Georgia will offer a three-credit course this summer, “The Trump Factor in American Politics.” The professor is Dr. Robert Smith, who says the students will read Trump’s policy statements and excerpts from Trump’s books, and then discuss his political philosophies.

Many people may believe this is a terrible waste of any student’s mind and tuition payments. Some may even claim there are other courses that have higher value in the American educational system. For example, Rutgers offers “Politicizing Beyonce,” Skidmore College offers “The Sociology of Miley Cyrus,” the University of Missouri offers a class to better understand Kanye West and Jay Z, and hundreds of colleges have courses that look at the lives and views of strange people known as philosophers.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Gold Mining Stocks - Getting A Heartbeat / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Richard_Mills

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has recently released their 48th annual British Columbia Mining Report.

We all know commodity prices have been on a downward trend for the past five years. We also know several mines in the province have been put on care and maintenance and many early stage projects have seen their funding dry up.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Transportation Recession Signals Retail Problems Ahead! / Economics / Recession 2016

By: Gordon_T_Long

Financial Repression and the Structural Concerns for the Retail Market

FRA co-founder Gordon T. Long is joined by Wolf Richter to discuss the struggling retail market and its subsequent impact on the U.S economy as a whole which are a result of the recent financial crisis.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Walkers Crisps 'Spell & Go' Letters K,C and D Only Way to Win? / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps

By: Anika_Walayat

So far we have entered just over 100 wakers crisp packet codes, for 100 letters and now have every letter except K, C, and D. Which confirms our earlier analysis that the letters K, C, and D are being with-held and not given out randomly. Having looked deeper into the promotion it is highly likely that the winning letters K,C and D will....

Saturday, May 14, 2016

The Fed Is Finally Coming Clean About Inflation / Interest-Rates / Inflation

By: Graham_Summers

For years the Fed has been lying about inflation.

There are many methods of doing this, but the simplest was to use a “measure” of inflation that did not actually measure inflation at all.

This is the famous Consumer Price Index of CPI. It is meant to measure inflation, but ignores obvious costs of living items like food and energy usage.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Beating Analyst Expectations Is All That Matters / Stock-Markets / Corporate Earnings

By: Barry_M_Ferguson

Read carefully. I just report what I read.

‘Zillow shares surge as quarterly loss narrows’.

CVS had a ‘healthy’ earnings report. Sales rose but earnings actually fell by 6%. How is that ‘healthy’? 

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Playing With A Breakdown... Stock Market At An Inflection Point... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Jack_Steiman

The market has been bifurcated for quite some time with froth leading lower while the S&P 500 and Dow try to hold up the market. Money has been rotating in to the S&P 500, because that's where lower froth, lower P/E and higher dividend stocks live. Big money hasn't made the big move, yet, of distributing out their plays. While they are acting more risk adverse, they still have been playing as if they want to spend more time with the world of the S&P 500 stocks. We know this, because, while the Nasdaq has long ago lost the 20-, 50-, and 200-day exponential moving averages, the S&P 500, before today, was above its 50-day exponential moving average. It had lost the 20's, but was still above the 50's, and well above the 200's, which lives at 2023. The 50's at 2048. So only if the S&P 500 were to lose 2048, and then 2023, would the market be in big trouble?

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Goldcorp Is Back and Spending: Could West Red Lake Gold Mines Be Next? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: The_Gold_Report

Goldcorp is fresh off an announced transaction of $520M for Kaminak Gold, which is a big win for the industry. The company has been quietly putting dollars in juniors, like $16M in Gold Standard Ventures, and there could be more to come. In this article, Resource Maven Gwen Preston discusses possible target West Red Lake Gold Mines and how this company is shaping up to take advantage of the initial turnaround in the market.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Gold & Silver Demand Skyrockets as “Chinese Floor” Ensures Upward Price Moves / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: MoneyMetals

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.

There’s been some big news out of China lately, and today we’ll dive deeper into the discussion when I welcome in Gordon Chang. Mr. Chang is one of the foremost experts on the Chinese economy and has written a book titled The Coming Collapse of China. He’ll tell us why he believes an epic collapse is imminent and what it all means for the Western financial world and why he believes there is what he calls a Chinese floor on the gold price. Don’t miss an incredibly enlightening interview with Gordon Chang, coming up after this week’s market update.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Stock Market Confirmed Sell. Bounces Still Possible / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Anthony_Cherniawski

SPX has crossed its 50-day Moving Average at 2055.10 and is headed for the Head & Shoulders neckline at 2040.00. I know that it is a shallow formation, but there is a potential for another neckline at 1967.85, where another support lies. The target for that formation appears to be nearer 1800.00. Fourth wave necklines are not as strong as those at a wave one. However, they can be equally valid. Let’s see how it follows through beneath the neckline.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Atlanta Fed GDPNow +2.8% vs. New York Fed Nowcast +1.2% / Economics / US Economy

By: Mike_Shedlock

Following today's retail sales alleged blowout, to which treasury yields actually declined, comes a big GDP upgrade by the Atlanta Fed GDPNow Model vs. a smaller jump by the New York Fed Nowcast Model.

The difference between the forecasts is now a whopping 1.6 percentage points.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Gold Miners’ Q1’16 Fundamentals / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: Zeal_LLC

The gold miners’ stocks have skyrocketed this year as investors started returning to this long-abandoned sector.  Many have doubled since January, with plenty tripling or even quadrupling.  Naturally such fast gains raise concerns about whether they are actually fundamentally justified or merely the product of fleeting sentiment that could reverse.  Gold miners’ latest quarterly results offer great fundamental insights.

Companies trading on the US stock markets are required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to file quarterly earnings reports four times a year.  For normal quarters that don’t end fiscal years, these 10-Q reports are due 45 calendar days after quarter-ends.  They are a great boon to financial-market transparency and investors seeking to understand companies, yielding a treasure trove of information.