Saturday, November 18, 2017
Games Betting System For NCAA Basketball Sports Betting - Know Your Betting Limits / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: D_Morgan
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
Universal Credit Doomsday for Tax Credits Cash ISA Savers, Here's What to Do / Personal_Finance / UK Benefits
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Britain's hard working low paid tax credits benefit recipients are sleep walking towards their Universal Credits doomsday. Where typically a family of 4 jointly earning £16k per annum will currently be in receipt of £6,700 per annum of TC & WTC, whilst a family of 6 would typically receive £12,400, boosting their annual NET earnings to £28,400 that will have allowed many families to SAVE, without impacting on their tax credit benefit payments as long as the taxable interest earned is under £300. The key here being TAXABLE INCOME, which means interest earned on savings in tax free accounts such as Cash ISA's does not not impact on tax credit awards.
Friday, November 17, 2017
Gold Mining Stocks Fundamentals Q3 2017 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
By: Zeal_LLC
The gold miners’ stocks have spent months adrift, cast off in the long shadow of the Trumphoria stock-market rally. This vexing consolidation has left a wasteland of popular bearishness. But once a quarter earnings season arrives, bright fundamental sunlight dispelling the obscuring sentiment fogs. The major gold miners’ just-reported Q3’17 results prove this sector remains strong fundamentally, and super-undervalued.
Four times a year publicly-traded companies release treasure troves of valuable information in the form of quarterly reports. Companies trading in the States are required to file 10-Qs with the US Securities and Exchange Commission by 45 calendar days after quarter-ends. Canadian companies have similar requirements. In other countries with half-year reporting, many companies still partially report quarterly.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
The Social Security Inflation Lag Calendar - Partial Indexing / Economics / Inflation
By: Dan_Amerman
There is a lot of advice out there about Social Security - most of which is based on Social Security being fully inflation indexed.
However, as we will establish in this first in a series of analyses, Social Security is only partially inflation indexed. As a matter of design it does not fully keep up with inflation.
Sound like an obscure difference?
"Partial inflation indexing" is little understood by the general public, but it could transform your standard of living - along with the quality of life of millions of others - in the years and decades to come. Indeed, partial inflation indexing can mean effectively having only 11 months of benefit purchasing power- or even 8 months - to cover 12 months of expenses each year.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Bitcoin Invalidates Breakdown / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
Square, a payment company, is playing around with Bitcoin. In an article on CNBC, we read:
Jack Dorsey's company is testing support for bitcoin through its Cash payments app.
"We're exploring how Square can make this experience faster and easier, and have rolled out this feature to a small number of Cash app customers," a Square spokesperson said via email to CNBC. "We believe cryptocurrency can greatly impact the ability of individuals to participate in the global financial system and we're excited to learn more here."
Friday, November 17, 2017
The Fed Isn’t “Confused” About Inflation… It WANTS You In the Dark! / Interest-Rates / Inflation
By: Graham_Summers
The Fed claims it’s “confused” as to why inflation remains so low.
The Fed isn’t confused at all. It intentionally measures inflation in ridiculous ways to guarantee that the “official number” remains nowhere near reality.
On top of this, we have factual evidence that Fed is in fact well aware that inflation is clocking in well above its 2% “target.”
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Mystery of Inflation and Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
At the September FOMC press conference, Yellen admitted that subdued inflation was a puzzle for the Fed. She said:
“This year, the shortfall of inflation from 2 percent, when none of those factors is operative is more of a mystery, and I will not say that the committee clearly understands what the causes are of that.”
Actually, the chart below shows that inflation has been subdued for years. The last time when the CPI was above the Fed’s 2-percent target (formally set in January 2012) in a decisive and lasting way was in 2011 and at the beginning of 2012.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Stock Market Ready To Pull The Rug Out From Under You! / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Enda_Glynn
This week we got the news that the fed has finally reached its 2% inflation goal!
This is after 9 years of interest rates pinned on the floor,
And,
About 4.5 trillion in cheap credit flooded into government and wall st.
That is all it takes!
Now the central bank can rest easy as the target has been met and all is well with the world.
Right?
Friday, November 17, 2017
The New US-Chinese Globalization Opportunity / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Dan_Steinbock
While US postwar policies in Asia are shifting, a new Sino-US historical opportunity has emerged. US and Chinese visions of globalization could still prove complementary.President Trump’s grueling 12-day Asia tour took place amid a worrisome historical moment. Since the mid-2010s, global economic integration - as measured by trade, investment and migration - has come to a standstill. Trade has been falling. Investment continues to stagnate. And slower migration has given rise to elevated global displacement and refugee crises - the worst since 1945.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Crude Oil – Gold Link in November 2017 / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Nadia_Simmons
In recent weeks, it was hard to avoid the topic of crude oil, turning on the TV or opening a newspaper. Developments in the Middle East, escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the upcoming meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC ministers as well as the Baker Hughes reports, crude oil and its products inventories were mainly in the interest of investors.
Since our last Oil Investment Update, light crude extended gains and hit fresh 2017 highs. Black gold’s rally, which began in early October, has been mainly driven by growing indications that the crude market was finally starting to rebalance and hopes that the OPEC cuts agreement would be extended beyond March 2018.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Play Free Online Games and Save Money Free Virtual Online Games / Personal_Finance / Gambling
By: D_Morgan
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Stock Market Crash Omens & Predictions: Another Day Another Lie / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Sol_Palha
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain
Over the past several years the Naysayers have predicted the Market would crash and burn; we blatantly disagreed and opted instead to state that the market would continue to soar higher and higher. Despite the severe beating these naysayers have taken, they insist on regurgitating the same trash over and over again in the blind hope that by some miracle their insane ramblings come to pass. As soon as October was upon us, these experts started screaming at the top of their lungs. What was their latest prediction; a repeat of the 1987 Stock Market Crash. We immediately repudiated these predictions. Here is a brief excerpt from the article we posted in October.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Deepening Crisis In Hyper-inflationary Venezuela and Zimbabwe / Currencies / HyperInflation
By: GoldCore
– Deepening Crisis In Hyper-inflationary Venezuela and Zimbabwe
– Real inflation in Zimbabwe is 313 percent annually and 112 percent on a monthly basis
– Venezuela’s new 100,000-bolivar note is worth less oday thehan USD 2.50
– Maduro announces plans to eliminate all physical cash
– Gold rises in response to ongoing crises
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Announcing Free Trader's Workshop: Battle-Tested Tools to Boost Your Trading Confidence / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Instructions to Stop a Dispossession Home Sale and How to Purchase Astutely at Abandonment Home / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: D_Morgan
David Morgan writes: Auctions
On the off chance that you are one among the individuals who are sitting tight for their home, which is going to be sold and a huge number of adjacent individuals have gathered to buy your property, don't feel this is the end. Dispossession has gone up by very nearly 57 rates in the initial a half year of 2008.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Stock Market Last Time This Happened - Consumers Are Both Confident And Broke / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: John_Rubino
Elliott Wave International recently put together a chart (click here or on the chart to watch the accompanying video) that illustrates a recurring theme of financial bubbles: When good times have gone on for a sufficiently long time, people forget that it can be any other way and start behaving as if they’re bulletproof. They stop saving, for instance, because they’ll always have their job and their stocks will always go up.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Trump’s Asia Tour: From Old Conflicts to New Prospects / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Dan_Steinbock
Trump’s grueling 12-day Asia tour was a quest for mega deals. US policies in Asia are shifting. The stress on competitive strategic visions is being redefined by historic bilateral economic opportunities with China, Vietnam, South Korea, the Philippines and other ASEAN and APEC nations..
Diplomatic history has its ironies. In the Obama era, US President initiated a pivot to Asia that he had little time to visit. In the Trump era, US President has been so busy fortressing America against the world that he has had to spend more time in Asia to tame rumors about US disengagement.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Bonds And Stocks Will Crash Together In The Next Crisis (Meanwhile, Bond Yields Are Going Up) / Stock-Markets / Financial Crash
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : I have been a bond bear for a while.
Back in the summer of 2016, I spoke at a small conference out in San Diego. My topic: How interest rates were going to go up.
It didn’t go over very well with people. I haven’t been invited back to speak, which is too bad—because I was right. (You may also want to learn what I predicted about today’s bubble in my exclusive free report, Investing in the Age of the Everything Bubble.)
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
A Generational Reset That Will Redistribute Wealth to the Bottom 60% Is Near / Economics / Demographics
By: John_Mauldin
Billionaire founder of top hedge fund Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio got where he is by having keen insight into both human nature and economic trends.
Occasionally, he shares some of his wisdom publicly.
In one of his recent articles, Dalio argues that it is a serious mistake to think you can analyze or understand “the” economy because we now have two of them.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Ethereum (ETH/USD) – bullish breakout of large symmetrical triangle looks to be getting closer / Currencies / Ethereum
By: MarketsToday
- Long-term bullish setup
- Short-term bullish setup
- Bull trend continuation entry setting up for short-term
Low volatility leads to higher volatility
Since June, volatility in Ethereum (ETH/USD) has been declining with a potentially bullish multi-month symmetrical triangle consolidation pattern forming over that time. Keep in mind that low volatility leads to higher volatility.
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