Monday, April 18, 2016

Loan Rates on the Rise for the First Time this Year / Interest-Rates / Debt & Loans

By: MoneyFacts

Personal loans have become increasingly competitive over the last few years with considerable rate cuts resulting in some of the lowest rates ever seen. However, it now appears that some providers can no longer sustain such low prices, so rates are once again on the rise.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Helicopter Money to the Rescue / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing

By: Frank_Hollenbeck

Following the unconventional monetary policy of negative interest rates, central banks are now considering an even more desperate measure: “helicopter money.” Milton Friedman is credited with this idea:

Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated.

Monday, April 18, 2016

The Oppressed U.S. Taxpayer, A Morally Sound Tax Reform Proposal / Politics / Taxes

By: Antonius_Aquinas

This year, Americans’ day of tribute to their federal overlords falls on April 18.  As calculated by the Tax Foundation, the average American will work from January 1 to April 24 (Tax Freedom Day) to pay his share of taxes to all levels of government with some $3.3 trillion to be forked over to the federal government and $1.6 trillion to state and local jurisdictions.*

Monday, April 18, 2016

Trump Is No Peace Candidate / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016

By: Stephen_Lendman

Throughout its sordid history, all US presidents supported war, not peace - including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and both Roosevelts.

Traditional US policy from inception refutes the notion of a peace candidate becoming president - Jack Kennedy the one exception.

He entered office a warrior, transformed himself into a peacemaker, was killed for wanting all US forces out of Vietnam by end of 1963, normalized ties with Soviet Russia, nuclear disarmament, and the CIA disbanded, among other anti-establishment views.

Monday, April 18, 2016

What Did Fed Chairman Yellen Tell Obama? / Politics / US Federal Reserve Bank

By: Dr_Ron_Paul

This week, President Obama and Vice President Biden held a hastily arranged secret meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. According to the one paragraph statement released by the White House following the meeting, Yellen, Obama, and Biden simply "exchanged notes" about the economy and the progress of financial reform. Because the meeting was held behind closed doors, the American people have no way of knowing what else the three might have discussed.

Monday, April 18, 2016

US Stock Market Indices MAP Wave Analysis Q2 Update / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Marc_Horn

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All 4 major US indices are set to top over the next two weeks running into long term cyclical resistance, before heading off to new low onto late Q3 early Q4 if they fail to break out to new highs, so this year looks like no Santa rally!

Monday, April 18, 2016

Is Deutsche Bank's Gold Manipulation The Main Scam Or Just A Side-Show? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: John_Rubino

For years now, the easiest way to finesse a debate over whether precious metals markets are manipulated has been to say, "well, if they're not manipulated they're the only market that isn't."

That was unsatisfying, though, because as the big banks got caught scamming their customers on interest rates, mortgage bonds, forex and commodities trades, those markets (presumably) began to operate more-or-less honestly. Gold and silver, meanwhile, kept right on acting strangely, for instance plunging in the middle of the night on no news but massive futures volume, to the detriment of honest investors and traders who naively bet their capital on fundamentals. The (already huge) amount of money thus stolen from gold bugs kept rising.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Gold Mining Stocks Reach First Resistance Target but Continue to Outperform Gold Price / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne

The gold stocks have been on a tear lately as they continue to move higher in defiance of the bearish calls of numerous pundits and traders. After trading lower mid week and filling Monday's gap, the miners are set to close the week with some strength. While the miners are overbought and could remain below resistance for a little while, their strong outperformance of Gold remains a comforting signal for bulls.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

CRB, Gold, The Fed has Unleashed Inflation / Commodities / Commodities Trading

By: Graham_Summers

And it wants more of it.

From mid-2014 until early 2016, commodities as an asset class, collapsed some 45%.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Continuing Stock Market Topping Pattern? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016

By: Andre_Gratian

Current Position of the Market

SPX Long-term trend: The beginning of a lengthy correction is probably underway!

SPX Intermediate trend:  Potential rally top.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Corruption and Impeachment in Brazil, Chance for Change in Brazil's Scandal / Politics / Brazil

By: STRATFOR

For the past two years, Brazil has been mired in the costliest corruption scandal ever uncovered in a democracy. Evidence surfaced in 2014 that contractors in Brazil had formed an alliance to overbid on projects for government-owned energy company Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras). Contractors pocketed the extra cash and bribed politicians and Petrobras executives to keep quiet. The scandal — the investigation of which came to be known as "Operation Carwash" — was so blatant and implicated such prominent political figures that it shocked Brazil, a country accustomed to high-level corruption. And now the odds that Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, will survive the fallout are looking slimmer and slimmer.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Silver Price "Damp Squib" Rally of 2016 / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Clive_Maund

The combination of silver having arrived at a short-term target, with bearish looking candlesticks appearing, gold completing a Head-and-Shoulders top and latest COTs for both gold and silver being at the sort of extreme readings characteristic of a top, all point to silver reversing to the downside here.

On its 6-month chart we can see how silver's sharp advance over the past week or so has brought it up to a trend channel target, where the advance has run into trouble, with bearish looking candlesticks in recent days suggesting that it will soon drop away again.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Gold Price What Breakout? / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Clive_Maund

The latest gold COTs are out and they are an absolute horror story, with Commercial short and Large Spec long positions having ramped up to multi-year extremes, which we can take to mean that the dollar is not going to crash its support in the 93 area and will instead rally.

While PM stocks have broken higher, gold has stubbornly refused to and has been dropping back in recent days to complete the Right Shoulder of what is believed to be a Head-and-Shoulders top, as we can see on its 6-month chart below. Once it breaches the neckline of the pattern it should plunge. This will not be a surprising outcome, as it is very rare for a parabolic blowoff move such as we saw earlier to be followed by continued advance.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Human Population Explosion - Our Day of Reckoning / Politics / Demographics

By: Richard_Mills

The second half of the 20th century saw the biggest increase in the world’s population in human history.

Our population surged because:

• Medical advances lessened the mortality rate in many countries 
• Massive increases in agricultural productivity because of the “Green Revolution”

The global death rate has dropped almost continuously since the start of the industrial revolution - personal hygiene, improved methods of sanitation and the development of antibiotics have all played a major role.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Stronger Reasons For Buying Gold/Silver Right Now / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016

By: Michael_Noonan

Almost all of those in the precious metals community are avid consumers of news and statistics pertaining to gold and silver [PMs], such has how many tonnes of gold are being purchased by China, mostly. How much gold does China really own, certainly far more than the "official figures" provided by the Chinese, and certainly far less than that country admits.

Then there are the ongoing published figures of how many gold and silver coins that are being purchased each month, one record month leading to another. "Demand is going through the roof!!" Coupled with those figures are mining supplies v world demand, especially bullish for silver, almost beyond imagination. Added to the mix are the COMEX and LMBA, paper perpetrators of fraud, ruled by the moneychangers and not by the exchanges themselves. These now illegitimate exchanges no longer function as exchanges where one can take delivery on the contract[s] owned.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Investor Solvency and Market Sanity / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016

By: Barry_M_Ferguson

We all know the old saying that ‘the market can remain insane longer than investors can remain solvent’. We are now living the phrase.

4/13/16: JP Morgan bank released quarterly results. Earnings were down 6.7% and revenue was down 3% (even by fraudulent bankster accounting). The stock price went up over 4.5%. Schazaamm!
 
Ditto for other big banks Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup. Earnings and revenues were down. Stock prices were up.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Investigating Deutsche Bank's Euro21 Trillion Derivative Casino / Companies / Banking Stocks

By: Mike_Shedlock

Deutsche Bank Admits Rigging, Will Expose Other Riggers

Deutsche Bank has admitted it rigged both the Gold market and the Silver market. ZeroHedge has the details in his report Deutsche Bank Agrees To Expose Other Manipulators .

Many asked me to comment. I am shocked?

Friday, April 15, 2016

How Elites Justify Global Taxation - Anatomy of a Jubilee Psyop / Politics / Taxes

By: Jeff_Berwick

In this article I will explain how the Panama Papers leak, an appearance by Alan Greenspan on national television and a Spring Meeting (of the IMF and World Bank down in Washington DC) create an argument for global taxation.

It’s not something I intended to write about, but the pieces fell into place yesterday and provide us with an object lesson about the way the world works. Actually, I’m writing this on April 14, a very timely tax extortion day for Americans.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Gold Stocks Double, To Double / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016

By: Zeal_LLC

Gold-mining stocks surged higher this past week after breaking free from their high consolidation.  This newest upleg catapulted gold stocks to a doubling in less than 3 months, a remarkable world-leading performance.  But despite its quick doubling, this red-hot sector still has another easy doubling left to come from here.  Gold-mining stocks still remain greatly undervalued relative to prevailing gold prices.

Gold stocks’ whipsawing journey so far this year has been nothing short of incredible.  Back on January 19th, less than 3 months ago, the flagship HUI gold-stock index plunged to 100.7.  Those levels were utterly astounding, as that was the HUI’s lowest close since July 2002.  Back then gold was trading near $305, and had yet to exceed $329 in its young secular bull.  Revisiting those levels felt like a gold-stock apocalypse.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Elliott Wave Analysis Pairs with Fibonacci Perfectly - Video / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory

By: EWI

The Fibonacci Sequence is the mathematical basis of the Elliott Wave Principle

Using Fibonacci calculations helps you identify high-probability price targets and trade setups. In this new interview with our Senior Instructor Jeffrey Kennedy, you'll learn how Fibonacci pairs perfectly with Elliott wave analysis. Watch now.