Tuesday, November 24, 2015
You Can’t Eat Gold or a Debt Sandwich / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: DeviantInvestor
In one hand we hold gold, which is eternal, beautiful, and valuable everywhere.
In the other hand we are stuck with a debt sandwich. That sandwich is a massive slab of debt wedged between an impressive military war machine that spends money like water flowing over Niagara, and a huge welfare system that spends money even more rapidly. Included in the welfare system are Social Security pensions, Disability Income, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), many more programs, and the salaries, bureaucracy and pensions to support them.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Investors Watch Out For The Auto Industry… / Companies / US Auto's
By: Harry_Dent
If you’re looking into buying your dream car in the next few months – think twice!At the bottom of the stock crash in early 2009, I bought a dream car – a 2008 Maserati GranTurismo – at 22% off. I got the manufacturing margin and the dealer margin completely taken off. Six months earlier, I would’ve paid a slight premium. Instead, I got a discount.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
BEA Revises 3rd Quarter 2015 US GDP Economic Growth Upward to 2.07% / Economics / US Economy
By: CMI
In their second estimate of the US GDP for the third quarter of 2015, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the economy was growing at a +2.07% annualized rate, up +0.58% from their previous estimate -- but still down nearly 2% (-1.85%) from the second quarter.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Stock Market Supports Are Being Broken / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has clearly broken through its Short-term support at 2078.86 and is headed for the 200-day Moving Average at 2065.06.
ZeroHedge reports that the the third monthly decline as wages crash the most in 4 years. Consumer Confidence is now at 14-month lows, as well. In the meantime, the Pentagon shrugs over the Russian warplane shoot-down.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Is Gold Price on the Verge of a Breakout? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Sol_Palha
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. -
MilarepaIn August, we came out and openly stated in an article titled the Gold bull is dead that it was not the time to buy Gold. At that time, many analysts were calling for a bottom and much higher prices. We stated that there was a high probability that Gold would move lower before bottoming out. Fast forward and that outlook has come to pass.
So let’s see what picture fundamentals paint.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Volkswagen - The Ultimate Insult / Companies / US Auto's
By: Rodney_Johnson
Ten years ago an airline ran a television ad showing weary business travelers, asking the question: “Why do they do it?” Eventually one of the travelers looks up and says: “For the miles!”At the time, I was part of the bleary-eyed crowd of travelers. I racked up tons of miles, mostly on American Airlines, hopping from one speaking engagement to another, along with conferences and general business meetings.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Stock Market Fireworks at the Open / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Good Morning!
Stocks are down after a Turkish F-16 downed a Russian warplane. ZeroHedge reports further, “Moments ago a big black geopolitical swan landed when newswires lit up with headlines that a Turkish F-16 shot down what was initially said to be an unidentified warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey's airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said, but the nationality of the downed aircraft was not immediately clear.”
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Fed’s Tarullo: U.S. Interest Rates Liftoff Should Wait for Signs of Inflation / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel Tarullo spoke with Bloomberg Television’s Stephanie Ruhle and David Westin on “Bloomberg <GO>” yesterday. He discussed when the Fed will begin raising rates and waiting for tangible signs of inflation before moving.
There’s “more than a pretty good chance” that banks will face “some net increase in the post-stress minimum capital requirements,” Tarullo said.
DAVID WESTIN: So we want to turn now to our special guest for this half hour, Federal Reserve Board Governor, Daniel Tarullo. Dan has been on the Fed now since 2009, I believe it is. He has served on the --
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Will JPM Dump Physical Silver Into the Next Price Rally? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The final question asked of Ted Butler in our recent Q&A was in response to his claim that JPM has amassed a huge hoard of silver over the last 4 years…. The question is, can they do this?Ted: Sure. If you own something, you can't tell somebody you can't sell it. Is it possible that J.P. Morgan could use the physical, (the four hundred million ounces that I allege that they've accumulated in the last four and a half years), to keep the price of silver depressed for as long as they could supply silver to the market at any price that they decided? Is it possible? Yes, of course it's possible.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Take Control of Your Debit and Credit Card Debts and Get Back in the Black / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: MoneyFacts
Consumers who are hoping to snap up a great deal in the upcoming Black Friday sales need to make sure they don’t lose their heads when its comes to their finances, warns Moneyfacts.co.uk.
Millions of shoppers are expected to take advantage of offers both in shops and online this Friday (27 November), but the cost of using an overdraft or a credit card to bag some goodies could kill the buzz of the bargain hunting.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Finally, Return to Athens / Politics / Eurozone Debt Crisis
By: Raul_I_Meijer
That’s right, I am at last able to come back to Athens, starting today. Alas, without Nicole Foss, who was supposed to join me in the city earlier this year but is back in New Zealand now. Why that plan never materialized, and why I couldn’t return myself, is all about the illness and subsequent passing of my mother, a process I write about in Eulogy for Johanna.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Janet Yellen Responds as a Central Banker Would / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Gary_Tanashian
Let's try to untangle the web of Fed-speak going on here. "Reality" for our purposes is defined as my opinion, obviously.
Yellen Defends Seven Years of Low Interest Rates in Letter to Nader
Fed-Speak:
Warning that "an overly aggressive increase in rates would at most benefit savers only temporarily," she argued in the letter released Monday in Washington that the Fed's seven-year era of zero rates had sheltered American savers from dramatic declines in the value of their homes and retirement accounts.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Silver Price, COT, US Dollar Updates and More / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Dan_Norcini
Silver cracked the $14 level in today's session but managed to recover prior to the close. Some of the recovery was aided by the retreat of the US Dollar away from the magical 100 level basis the USDX.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Corn Commodity Price Popping Higher / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Austin_Galt
The corn price finally looks set to pop a lot higher so let's look at the short term action with the daily chart and then refresh ourselves of the long term outlook which remains unchanged.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Hybrid Lindsay Forecast for a Stock Market High / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Ed_Carlson
The Hybrid Lindsay forecasts occasionally shared with readers in this space are a combination of the work done by the great twentieth-century technician, George Lindsay, and my own, more traditional, cycle work. In last week's commentary I questioned whether the previous Friday's low fulfilled the Hybrid forecast for a low or if it would wait until that day (Monday). We know now that it was the previous Friday. Even without the benefit of the Lindsay work we knew from other metrics that the market was oversold and primed to bounce. Now we use the Hybrid Lindsay model to forecast the next high in the Dow Jones Industrials index. It begins with Lindsay's Middle Section approach.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
UK Regional House Prices Analysis - Video / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Average UK house prices have now risen by 30% from the 2009 bear market low to currently stand at an average price of £204,119 (Halifax NSA Oct 2015), and are currently galloping along at an annual inflation rate of 10%. However, the UK average price masks huge regional variations in trend and momentum most notable of which is that London has literally soared into the stratosphere, up over 70% on it's bear market low and by virtue of which has significantly lifted average UK house prices higher.
Monday, November 23, 2015
Trouble Is Brewing in the Paper Markets for Gold and Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2015
By: MoneyMetals
Clint Siegner writes: Precious metals bulls question why metals prices keep falling in the face of what appears to be strong demand and great fundamental reasons for prices to move higher instead.
The bears have some answers of course. You can’t eat gold, it’s basically a pet rock, and modern financial systems are doing just fine without anything as antiquated as bullion gumming up the works.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Will Fed Raise the Discount Interest Rate Today? / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates
By: Ashraf_Laidi
Will the Fed raise its discount rate at its previously unscheduled meeting for today? Thursday's post on the Federal Reserve's website that "an expedited, unscheduled meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve to review the discount rate" will be held today (Monday) at 11:30 ET (16:30 London/GMT). The discount rate, the rate at which banks borrow from the Fed's discount window is set by the Board of Governors, rarely used by the banks. This must not be confused with the fed funds rates, which is set by the Federal Open Markets Committee.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
The Success of Irish Economic Austerity: The Joke is on Krugman / Economics / Economic Austerity
By: Michael_Pento
During the late 1990s, Ireland's economy was booming. This was mostly due to a low corporate tax rate of just 12.5% and an international real estate bubble that boosted global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). For a myriad of reasons Ireland was a magnet for foreign direct investment and the envy of Europe.
Buoyed by cheap money, the Irish government embarked on a debt-fueled property boom from 1997 to 2006, which caused the price of an average house to jump more than four-fold. Flush with tax revenue the government also went on a spending binge: investment in Ireland's health service soared by five times and pay for government workers doubled.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Dr Copper, The Economy and The Stock Market No Longer in Sync / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015
By: Sol_Palha
Doctor copper, can no longer be viewed as a leading indicator, in fact, a name change might be in order. A change of name from Dr Copper to deadbeat copper might in order, given its dismal record over the years. After the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the economy, the stock markets and copper parted ways; while the markets and the economy trended higher, copper plunged into an abyss, and it is still trying to find its footing.