Tuesday, May 31, 2016

3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: OilPrice_Com

Total global oil production could decline for the next several years in a row as scarce new sources of supply come online.

According to data from Rystad Energy, overall global oil output will fall this year as natural depletion overwhelms all new sources of supply. But the deficit will only widen in the years ahead due to the dramatic scaling back in spending on new exploration and development.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

EU Referendum - British People vs Establishment Elite, Vote LEAVE an Act of Defiance! / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The battle lines of the EU Referendum clearly breakdown into two distinct camps, on the one side you have the LEAVE under funded under dogs, that comprise maverick politicians and small businesses, and the mass of the electorate, especially appealing to the low paid working class Labour voters, and to a lesser extent the Tory voting working and middle classes who have seen their earnings decimated as a consequence of 5 million EU workers driving down wages. Against which are marshaled the forces of the establishment, those who have literally held or bought REAL power for centuries! The rich, big business, big media and their pocket politicians with numerous vested interests such as the Farmers who rake in hundreds of thousands of pounds in EU bribes (subsidies) each year to buy their support and votes.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Alan Greenspan Warns That Venezuelan Style Martial Law Will Soon Come To The US / Politics / US Politics

By: Jeff_Berwick

It seems barely a day passes now without some big name person warning of imminent collapse.  The latest is Alan Greenspan.

In an interview on Thursday he told Fox News that Venezuela is now under martial law and that “America is next.” He said that what was happening in Venezuela was inevitably going to take place in the US.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Gold - Mr. Cool Cucumber is starting to Sweat / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Plunger

Since early February I have visually described my position and mental framework in the precious metals market as being “Cool as a Cucumber”. This has served me well as it has allowed me to stay invested as the move powered higher and many bailed to the sidelines expecting an early correction. Well now that we are into the first significant pullback lets see how Mr. Cucumber is doing and some of the market factors he is considering. Is he keeping his cool?

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

AMAT Chirps, b2b Ramps, Yellen Hawks and Gold’s Fundamentals Erode / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Gary_Tanashian

If we are going to highlight improving fundamentals, which we did as gold out performed commodities and stock markets, then we also have to highlight and respect eroding fundamentals; no ifs, ands or buts.

The plain and simple fact is that the Semiconductor Equipment sector is firming, with the April Book-to-Bill (b2b) joining Applied Materials’ quarterly report noted in NFTRH 396’s opening segment as another bullish [economic] indicator. Semi Equipment was a leader to the general Semi sector in early 2013, which in turn led the economy and job creation. Our fundamental gold view improved in January 2016 as gold launched upward vs. global stock markets, joining its positive status vs. commodities.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

"Gold Wars": Rothschild Banker Exposes Fraudulent Nature of Fiat Money / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Mario_Innecco

This is my NECO 64 the home alternative economics and contrarian thinking today
I'm gonna be talking about a great book the cold war's the battle against sound
money as seen from a Swiss perspective by Ferdinand lips swiss bank where he
died in 2005 this book was written in 2001 and no I think it's really
important that people know more about the monetary system and you know gold
and its place in the monetary system because that's the only way we will be
able to change things and more and more people get to know about it you know for
example up until 2002 2005 just start

Monday, May 30, 2016

Long Live the Flags of Dixie! / Politics / US Politics

By: Antonius_Aquinas

On May 19, the House of Reprehensibles passed a proposal that would essentially ban the display of Confederate flags from national cemeteries.  The amendment was added to a Veteran Affairs spending bill.

Not surprisingly, House Speaker Paul Ryan allowed the measure to be voted upon in hopes of not disrupting the appropriations process.  Yes, by all means Paul, the redistribution of taxpayers’ confiscated wealth should take precedent over a draconian attempt to eradicate a heroic symbol of the country’s past.  Hopefully, Ryan will be ousted this November as both Speaker and Congressman for not only his consistent sell out to Obummer and the Democrats on the budget, but his lack of understanding and appreciation of what is arguably the most important period of American history.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Gold Price Forecasts Revised Higher To $1,400/oz - Citi Says "Buy the Dip" / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: GoldCore

Gold price forecasts have been revised higher in recent weeks and Citi became the latest bank to revise higher their projections for gold, despite the recent weakness in the price.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Smart Oil Traders Who Realize This Pattern Could Make a Killing / Commodities / Crude Oil

By: Graham_Summers

The markets are tracking the same pattern that played out in 2015.

Most market action (more than 80%) today is driven by computer algorithms. These programs look for an asset class that is moving, and then buy based on the momentum.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Stock Market Re-Testing Overhead Resistance / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX Long-term trend: A lengthy correction is most likely underway!

SPX Intermediate trend: The H&S pattern has been invalidated and the index is re-testing the upper portion of its trading range.

Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.

Monday, May 30, 2016

David Cameron Questioned on Out of Control Immigration at TEN TIMES Conservative Election Pledges / ElectionOracle / Immigration

By: Nadeem_Walayat

When David Cameron took power in 2010 he promised that he would cut net immigration by 2015 to the tens of thousands from the then disastrous annual figure of 205,000, a promise like a mantra he tended to repeat each year, instead the latest data from the ONS shows that net immigration remains OUT OF CONTROL at levels far higher level than 2010's disastrous figure that today stands well above 300k and trending towards 400k per annum. Remember this is ACCUMULATIVE 300k+330k+400k, would total a net immigration population increase of 1 million in JUST 3 YEARS! Which would be in addition to natural population growth running at about 400k per annum.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Bitcoin Price Skyrockets And Is Now Up More Than 100% This Jubilee Year / Currencies / Bitcoin

By: Jeff_Berwick

Bitcoin has risen more than 25% in the last week, from near $430 to a high over $545 today.

Monday, May 30, 2016

This Is Not The America My Parents Immigrated To In 1957 / Politics / US Politics

By: James_Quinn

Not that I remember what America was like in 1957, as I was not yet five years old. Years later, when I was old enough to understand, they told me their story. Briefly, it goes like this.

Dad was born in Romania (Czernowitz in Northern Bulovina), but he identified (haha) as German because, well, his dad was German, his mom was German, they spoke German and kept German customs, and lived in a German community so, applying the “quacking duck” theory, that’s what he was. Mom was born in Yugoslavia (now, Slovenia), but she identified as German for the same reasons as dad did. The Nazi regime would refer to folks such as my parents as “Volksdeutsche” —- being German as a people or race, regardless of citizenship. More on that  here.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Gold: Bull Markets Go Further than Anyone Expects - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Gary_Savage

The larger the consolidation the bigger the bull move will be once a breakout occurs. Considering gold’s 29 year consolidation phase I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect gold to go to a minimum of $10,000 before this bull is done.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Walkers Spell and Go Holiday Wins After 150 Codes / Letters? / Personal_Finance / Freebies and Comps

By: Sami_Walayat

We have now entered over 150 crisp packet codes for over 150 letters in Walkers Crisps Spell and Go promotion. If there was an equal chance of getting each letter then the odds of winning a holiday would be 26 to 1. So with 150 letters we should have won at least 5 holidays!

So find out in this video how many holidays we actually won and thus you too could win after entering 150 codes for 150 letters:

Sunday, May 29, 2016

“Debt, Not The Economy, Reaches Escape Velocity” With Graham Mehl / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2016

By: Andy_Sutton

One of the biggest buzz-terms of the falsetto, faux recovery has been ‘escape velocity’. If there are any NASA engineers left, they can correct me, but I believe the term was used in physics or perhaps rocket science to describe the velocity an object must reach to break the hold of the Earth’s gravity. And you think Economics has some formulas? I’d LOVE to see the one for the real escape velocity.

Getting back to the economic version of rocket science (don’t even tell me that isn’t funny), we have been hearing the term for the past several years. Ironically it started with the central banking crowdlthough they never quite told us what exactly the economy had to do to accelerate beyond the grasp of the ‘great recession’.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Retaking Raqqa From the Islamic State / Politics / ISIS Islamic State

By: STRATFOR

The battle for Raqqa, the Islamic State's self-declared capital in Syria, has begun. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are advancing toward the city, engaging the jihadist group in the villages of al-Hisha, Tal Samen and Mutamshirij along the way. Because of Raqqa's strategic importance, the Islamic State will do everything in its power to keep the city within its grasp. Driving the militants from their stronghold will not be easy or cheap, but if the SDF is successful, it will greatly accelerate the Islamic State's defeat in Syria.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

EU Referendum, Black Vote LEAVE or REMAIN? Which is Worse for Racism for Britain's Ethnic Minorities? / ElectionOracle / EU_Referendum

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The establishment polling suggests that most (70%) of the black and ethnic minority will opt to vote to REMAIN within the European Union on June 23rd, as to vote to LEAVE would be effectively aligning oneself with the right wing, the likes of the BNP on the extreme end, and other less extreme right wingers, when traditionally the black vote has tended to be left of centre. This is illustrated by a REMAIN group calling itself 'Operation Black Vote' releasing a provocative poster created by Saatchi and Saatchi that has gone viral aimed at motivating the black voters to vote to REMAIN within the European Union.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Paper Market Manipulation Creates Gold and Silver Very Volatile Bottoming Pattern - Video / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Gary_Savage

Because most analysts still refuse to recognize the artificial nature of gold’s bear market, they aren’t going to navigate the bottoming pattern correctly. The pendulum is going to swing wildly back and forth for a while during the bottoming process until price calms down and resumes the natural bull market trend in earnest.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Memorial Day Crocodile Tears from Those Who Create Wars / Politics / US Politics

By: Walter_Brasch

A few million Americans may be thinking about it, but won’t be celebrating Memorial Day. For them, there’s not much to celebrate or to remember.

They’re the low-wage employees who may have to work all three days, without overtime; about three million workers earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Many work 30 to 35 hours a week, just low enough that their employers don’t have to pay for insurance, holidays, or sick leave. The corporate CEOs, of course, will be enjoying the long weekend at their alternate vacation homes in the mountains, or along the coasts, or at off-shore islands where they have found banks willing to hide their money and avoid U.S. taxes.