Monday, January 11, 2021
Life Lesson - The Early Bird Catches the Worm / Politics / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
"The Early Bird Catches the Worm" Budgie Gives Life Lesson on How to Succeed, Inspiring Motivational Video for People and Birds.
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Monday, January 11, 2021
Precious Metals rally early in 2021 / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
If you follow our research, you already know my research team and I have authored multiple articles related to how Metals and Miners are poised for a big rally in 2021 and beyond. But do you understand what this means for other market sectors and assets? Are you ready for one of the most dynamic investing environments we’ve seen since 1945 or earlier? Gold and Miners are showing very clear signs that the Depreciation cycle phase our researchers identified recently is strongly in place.
Precious Metals vs. Miners in a Depreciation Cycle Phase
Gold and Miners are showing very clear signs that the Depreciation cycle phase our researchers identified recently is strongly in place. Both Gold and the Mining sector have been rallying since early 2016. This rally initiated in the midst of an Appreciation cycle phase (between late 2010 and the end of 2019). The rotation between Appreciation and Depreciation cycle phases directly correlates with the underlying strength of the US Dollar, precious metals, and other market sector trends. At this point, the new Depreciation cycle phase means the global markets will transition away from Appreciation phase trends and into new defensive/sector rotation trends.
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Monday, January 11, 2021
The Most Exciting Oil Stock For 2021 / Companies / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
Financial Market Forecasts 2021: Navigation in Uncharted Waters / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021
By: The_Gold_Report
Sector expert Michael Ballanger lays out the foundation for his investment strategy in the new year, with uranium and copper augmenting his focus on the precious metals.
As I sat down in mid-December to formulate the draft outline for my 2021 Forecast Issue, I was immediately engulfed with a feeling of impending dread, not by way of dissatisfaction with the investments currently being held in my portfolio and trading accounts, but by being confronted with such a vast array of possible outcomes in the upcoming year 2021. Adding insult to injury, it is also the uncertainty of outcomes that places forecasts directly in the crosshairs of failure and embarrassment, resulting in fewer and less happy subscribers.
In contrast, during the same period one year ago, I knew that the single greatest issue facing us was managing the rapidly approaching debt monster, which allowed me to assume that markets would not look kindly upon the U.S. Fed chairman Jerome Powell and his sudden about-face in monetary policy. When the REPO fiasco began in Q3/2019, it was as plain as the nose on his face that Powell looked into the crystal ball and was horrified with what he saw. His vain (and lame) attempt to "normalize" the Fed balance sheet earlier that year had laid to bare a pitifully fragile debt structure teetering on the brink of implosion. He and his global central bank brethren sprang to action, flooding the world with wave after wave of counterfeit cash otherwise known as "liquidity."
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
An Urgent Message to All Conservatives, Right-Wingers and Patriots / Politics / US Politics
By: Jeff_Berwick
For the past ten months on social-distance-media, every time someone dared to raise concerns about the Covaids insanities and inconsistencies, they were instantly accused of being right-wing Trumpist conservatives. Or conspiracy theorists. All of which are apparently the same thing.
Worried about the effects of a vaccine with a rate of adverse reactions already 50x higher than a flu shot? You must be a denialist reactionary. A CONSERVATIVE! Gasp.
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
Despite Signs to the Contrary, Gold Price at or Near Top / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: P_Radomski_CFA
The thing that most likely raised quite a few eyebrows this week was – in addition to gold’s recent move by itself – the fact that gold rallied mostly without the dollar’s help. Yesterday (Jan. 5) I wrote that one swallow doesn’t make a summer and that a single session rarely changes much.
We didn’t have to wait for long – the situation seems to be getting back to normal.
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
Ultimate Guide On The 6 Basic Types Of Index Funds / Companies / Investing 2021
By: Submissions
With index funds gaining momentum in the investment market, it is wisest to try and understand the basic types. With the help of indexfonder.org, here’s an easy guide you can follow as you learn how investing in them can benefit you as an investor.
Where To “Buy”
Before anything else, the first step you should do is to learn the best “where” of buying an index fund. You can choose between making your purchase through an index fund provider (a.k.a. mutual fund company), or DIY-it via your personal brokerage account.
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
Getting Vaccinated at TESCO - Covid-19 Vaccinations at UK Supermarket Pharmacies and Chemists / Politics / Coronavirus 2021
By: N_Walayat
Here I am getting vaccinated at our local Tesco Pharmacy as the roll out of Covid-19 vaccinations are soon likely to be extended to take place across the pharmacies situated in Britain's supermarkets.
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Saturday, January 09, 2021
Cheers for the 2021 Stock Market and These "Great Expectations" / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021
By: EWI
Insights into "the most speculative of strategies ... among the most speculative of traders"
We're reminded during this time of year of the wonderful classic by Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol."
As you probably know, the Victorian-era British novelist also wrote several other books, including "Great Expectations."
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Saturday, January 09, 2021
How to Plan Your Child With Better Education / Personal_Finance / Educating Children
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Saturday, January 09, 2021
How To Find The Best Casino / Personal_Finance / Gambling
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Gold Is Still a Bargain Buy / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth discusses the confluence of factors that points to the gold bull market having plenty of upside ahead. In investing, as in life, perspective is everything.
To some, gold at $1,525 as we started out 2020 seemed expensive. Today, it's trading at $1,940, producing a 27% gain.
And yet, from several viewpoints, gold still looks cheap at current prices. Debt, easy money and geopolitical risks are ever present. And these have all been tough on the U.S. dollar. Ongoing weakness in the greenback looks set to continue, providing a huge tailwind for gold prices.
So much, well beyond the kitchen sink, has been thrown at trying to support the economy and kick-start activity. Yet we can't ignore vital indicators. Negative-yielding debt levels, ongoing negative real interest rates and anemic money velocity despite exploding money supply mean rising hard asset prices look inevitable.
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Gold Price Set to Soar as Hyperinflation Looms / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the dollar's fall and what it means for gold. We now have a very rare setup for gold which is in position to "go ballistic" as the dollar collapses. The dollar is being intentionally destroyed by the Fed, which is creating dollars in vast unprecedented quantities in order to buy up distressed assets on the cheap and in order to pave the way for the new "digital dollar." We are in the last stages of the fiat endgame where money creation goes vertical, quickly leading to it becoming worthless, as happened in Venezuela and Zimbabwe, and of course hyperinflation is a great way to pay off debt, because you can do so with worthless currency.
One worry that has been vexing would be investors in the precious metals sector in recent weeks is that gold and silver won't rise much because big banks like JP Morgan will cap it by dumping onto the paper market. The key point to keep in mind is that gold is "real money" and this being so the idea that a currency like the dollar can collapse towards zero and gold won't go up because the banks will be selling it on the paper market is both absurd and ridiculous – what would happen is that an untenable massive gap would develop between the price on the paper market and the price on the physical market, and the paper market would become rapidly irrelevant and obsolete, so we don't have to worry about that. In fact, to the extent that they are actually suppressing the gold price, all they are doing is creating a "pressure cooker" effect that will lead to a massive upside explosion, but you certainly don't want to wait for that to happen before you take positions across the sector.
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Have Big Dreams? Here's How to Pay for Them / Personal_Finance / Financial Education
By: Jared_Dillian
I'm a big fan of setting financial goals, working toward those goals, and realizing those goals.
My dream is to build an amazing house. I'm buying a big piece of land for it right now.
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Will the Fed Support Gold Prices in 2021? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2021
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Gold ended 2020 at $1,891, partially thanks to monetary policy easing. In 2021, the Fed may not trigger a comparable rally in gold, but it should offer gold prices some support.Welcome to 2021! I hope that it will be a wonderful year for all of you; a much healthier, calmer and normal year than 2020 was. And even more profitable of course! Indeed, at least gold bulls could be satisfied with the last year, in which the price of gold jumped from $1,523 to $1,891 ( London A.M. Fix )! It means that the yellow metal gained more than 24 percent, as the chart below shows.
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Stocks trading strategies for beginners / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Sumeet_Manhas
In the financial markets, when you have a good trading strategy, you always get by. If you're looking for the best stock trading strategies for beginners, you are in the right place. Below we give a thorough overview of trading strategies that will help you maximize your profits.
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Who is Buying and Selling Stocks in 2021 / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2021
By: Troy_Bombardia
I wish you a happy and prosperous New Year. May 2021 bring you and your family good health and success.
Looking back, 2020 was a year that few will forget. From a markets point of view, it was a year in which “dumb money” (traders who chase trends) was the smart money. Global central bank intervention caused a “wall of money” to flow from one asset to another, resulting in a year when “everything went up”.
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Friday, January 08, 2021
Clap for NHS Heroes 2021 as Incompetent Government Loses Control of Virus Again! / Politics / Pandemic
By: Eliza_Walayat
It's time to clap for NHS Heroes again, which ran for 10 weeks from March to May 2020, the first wave of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately our incompetent, negligent government that is clearly being advised by mad scientists has once more lost control of the virus to such an extent that we are all once more being ordered to stay at home! For if the government had been competent than each successive wave should have been smaller than the one before instead the opposite has been the case with the UK passing 75,000 deaths in 28 days of a covid test, that looks set to double once more during 2021.
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Thursday, January 07, 2021
Ultimate Gaming and Home Working PC System Build 2021 - 5950X, RTX 3080, Asus MB - Scan Computers UK / Personal_Finance / Computing
By: HGR
New Year, New PC! Here are the specs and process of buying of top of the line PC system that I bought from Scan Computers UK, how much will it cost find out as I use their online configuration tool to spec out an 5950x RTX 3080, X570 build right to checking out and actually buying the system all of which you can use as a template for your own configs whether self or fromn a number of system builders across the UK, US and world. Of course now I have the long wait for the PC to actually land on my doorstep as the world continues to face the consequences of huge pandemic induced work from home demand for tech made worse by scalpers, still hopefully a month from now it 'should' be delivered and then we can continue this series.
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Thursday, January 07, 2021
Inflation the bug-bear looking forward through 2021 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2021
By: Christopher_Quigley
Since the Covid 19 crisis began in March 2020 just over 10 trillion dollars have been pumped into the World's economies. This is the reason why the stock markets are breaking into new highs despite the fact that most countries are in recession.
"Given the broad global impact of the COVID-19 crisis, few populations, businesses, sectors, or regions have been able to avoid the knock-on economic effects. That means government measures have had to support large parts of the economy in a very short time to maintain financial stability, maintain household economic welfare, and help companies survive the crisis. In addition, countries have tended to escalate their interventions as the crisis increases in severity and lockdowns persist. Nine of ten countries in our data set have already announced at least one additional financial-relief or -stimulus package. Two-thirds of countries have announced three or more packages, while a few countries have announced as many as six or seven packages".
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