Sunday, March 12, 2017
Seven Bowls – Current Threat, Personal & Financial Protection Shield / Politics / Social Issues
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Although finance & economics are the primary themes for the Hat Trick Letter and its related research, it is impossible to ignore the reality of widespread coordinated aggravated attempts to destroy our lovely blue orb, planet Earth. The globalists are hell-bent on ruining the entire biosphere for the home to humanity. Gold & Silver might be the best protection for the financial and economic deterioration, if not destruction, as individuals and financial entities work to ensure the preservation of their assets. However, Gold & Silver should be part of any concerted effort toward preparedness in emergency supply. The Jackass has diverted in this one article instance from the primary newsletter themes in order to warn people about the threat to the entire human species. The common theme among the perpetrators is the Satanism practiced by the Western Elite, who are gradually being exposed for their pedophilia and child sacrifice rituals. Their symbols are all through the corporate signposts, often identified by alert observers.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Technical Update for Crude Oil: Brent and WTI / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: MarketsToday
Highlights: Brent Crude
- Brent has been progressing upwards in an ascending trend channel for a number of months
- Last week it broke down sharply from a tight symmetrical triangle or pennant pattern and through support of the 50-day exponential moving average (ema) before finding support around the 50-week ema and the 200-day ema. The low for the week was 51.18.
- Brent is now likely to either:
- bounce from here back up towards the breakdown level around 55.00 to test it as resistance, before turning back down, or
- relatively quickly continue the descent to lower support levels
Sunday, March 12, 2017
The Paradoxical Rivalry of US and China for Industrial Innovation / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: Dan_Steinbock
By the early 2020s, rivalry for industrial innovation will accelerate between the U.S. and China. Ironically, the Trump White House has opted for a poor-economy industrial policy, whereas China has a rich-economy policy. The former seeks past glory; the latter cannot wait to get to the future.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Le Pen-ization of France, Europe’s Changing Political Landscape / Politics / France
By: Dan_Steinbock
In France, President Hollande’s utter failure to foster broad consensus for structural reforms has paved the way for the most contested election in decades. While public debate focuses on the 2nd round winner, the real story is that Marine Le Pen's agenda has already shifted the French political landscape. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Counting Down to BrExit Triggering Article 50 in the Face of Establishment FEAR Propaganda / Politics / BrExit
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Article 50 could be triggered as early as this Tuesday which will ser in motion the process of Britain leaving the European Union. Which has galvanised both Britain's and the European Unions establishment political elite to throw up a propaganda smokescreen of confusion in an attempt at subverting the will of the British people. We have the IS fundamentalists north of Hadrian's Wall threatening to blow the UK apart, despite the fact that it is Scotland that would be blown apart, fragmenting into regions demanding to stay within the UK, and then there are the discredited former Prime Ministers spouting propaganda aimed at scaring the British people away from their prescient decision of June 23rd 2016.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
SPX New Highs Should be Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Tony_Caldaro
The market started the week at SPX 2383. After a gap down opening on Monday the market declined to SPX 2355 by Thursday. Then a gap up opening on Friday carried the SPX to 2377, before ending the week at 2373. For the week the SPX/DOW lost 0.45%, and the NDX/NAZ were mixed. Economic reports for the week were mixed. On the downtick: consumer credit, wholesale inventories, the WLEI, the Q1 GDP estimate, plus weekly jobless claims and the trade deficit increased. On the uptick: factory orders, the ADP, export/import prices, monthly payrolls, plus the unemployment rate and budget deficit declined. Next week the FOMC meets, and there are reports on industrial production, housing, the CPI/PPI, retail sales, plus its options expiration Friday. Best to your week!
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Insanity Still Rules: Bullish For Gold And Silver / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Michael_Noonan
The emergence of an unexpected BREXIT victory, followed by an even more unlikely event, a Trump presidential victory are the outgrowth of the global elites having far exceeded their [almost] unspoken, unchallenged rule of the world, accomplished mostly by controlling the world’s money.
Money. One of the most common words in every language, yet the least understood, and by preference and design re the moneychangers. We will address “money” solely from a US perspective, not out of arrogance, but because money has a lawful definition that has been turned upside down by the likes of Rothschilds and other banking elites.
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Tesco Crisis - Stock Price 60% Collapse / Companies / Retail Sector
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tesco by far ranks as Britain's number 1 retailer in terms of sales of over £54 billion for the last accounting year, more than twice its nearest rival Sainsbury. The Tesco stock price says it all of just how badly run Britain's super market giant has been for many years, which goes beyond the usual dynamics of a badly run businesses that over expanded during the good years. For you know when a companies in deep trouble when the Serious Fraud Office has been investigating it for several years. And whilst the fraud is estimated at £326 million, however when it's all done and dusted the verdict could be accompanies by an even bigger shock to Tesco's finances, a mega-fine of upwards of £500 million that could be the final nail in Tesco's coffin.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Bitcoin Gets WinkleF*ked By the Criminal SEC Organization / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Jeff_Berwick
Last week we heralded, “Bitcoin Is Now As Good As Gold, Actually, It’s Better”.
It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, and I knew it’d get the gold crowd whipped into a frenzy. But, the point was, for the first time ever, the value of one unit of bitcoin surpassed the value of one ounce of gold.
At the time it was around $1,250.
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Saturday, March 11, 2017
An Analog for the Gold Stocks Correction / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
The gold stocks bounced strongly today after the February jobs report confirmed the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates next week. While precious metals rallied strongly following the previous two hikes, I’m not so sure today marks the start of a big rebound. For one, the Federal Reserve could hike rates again in July. Second and more important, the technical setup argues for more back and forth action in the weeks and months ahead. While the current price action in the gold stocks is different from that in the previous cyclical bull markets, we do think we have found one viable comparison for the current correction.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Learn the Why, What and How of Elliott Wave Analysis / / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
You Asked, We Answered in our Latest "Video Mailbag"
March 2017 Episode
In our latest "Video Mailbag," Robert Kelley and Steve Craig, two of our global analysts, sit down to answer questions submitted by viewers like you.
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Saturday, March 11, 2017
States Consider Removing Income and Sales Taxes from the Monetary Metals / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: MoneyMetals
Precious metals markets can certainly be volatile from week to week, but over time they are a more reliable store of value than Federal Reserve Notes. Gold and silver remain the world’s most enduring and most widely recognized form of money. And, as spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, gold and silver coins are legal tender. Individual states thus can formally recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender alternatives to Federal Reserve Note dollars.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Gold Mining Stocks Q4 2016 Fundamentals / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
By: Zeal_LLC
The gold miners’ stocks have corrected hard in recent weeks, hammered by a gold pullback driven by soaring Fed-rate-hike odds. Like any considerable selloff, this has spawned serious bearish sentiment. But the gold miners’ underlying operating fundamentals remain quite strong, proving the recent selling was purely psychological. This sector’s just-reported fourth-quarter results are impressive, very bullish.
Four times a year publicly-traded companies release treasure troves of valuable information in the form of quarterly reports. Required by securities regulators, these quarterly results are exceedingly important for investors and speculators. They dispel all the sentimental distortions surrounding prevailing stock-price levels, revealing the underlying hard fundamental realities. They serve to re-anchor perceptions.
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Saturday, March 11, 2017
Investment Guide When Planning Your Retirement / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
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Friday, March 10, 2017
TrumpCare: Different Plan, Same Problems / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Peter_Schiff
With his widely followed, and positively reviewed, address to Congress last week, President Trump showed how easy it could be to unite Washington around a big-budget centrist agenda on health care, immigration, taxes, infrastructure and the military. But the continued accusations surrounding his campaign’s alleged Russian connections, and the President’s conspiratorial responses, have insured that the battle lines have only hardened. However, anyone with even a casual concern with ballooning government debt should take notice just how easily both parties in Washington would agree to vastly expand the gushing red ink if a political truce can be brokered. Those fears should galvanize around the newly-issued Republican replacement for Obamacare. If such a monstrous bill could successfully navigate Congress, we would find ourselves stuck deeper in a deficit deluge than we can possibly imagine.
Friday, March 10, 2017
America's Uncivil War and What You Can Do About It / Politics / Social Issues
By: David_Galland
Dear Parader,
Not to be overly dramatic, but a civil war has begun in America. Everyone knows it to be true, but no one knows what comes next.
The conflict of visions between freethinkers and the socialists who believe government should hammer humanity into model citizens has reached what divorce lawyers call “irreconcilable differences.”
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Friday, March 10, 2017
This Time Is Different - 4 Words That Broke Many Investors / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : Four little words may have cost more investors more money than anything else in stock market history: This time is different.
Granted, in a sense, every time is different. History never repeats itself in exactly the same way, but it can certainly rhyme.
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Friday, March 10, 2017
Why the US Will Lose Tens of Millions of Jobs in the Next 20 Years / Economics / Employment
By: John_Mauldin
A significant part of Trump’s campaign centered on the angst of the white middle class and the ongoing loss of jobs in the Rust Belt. And that focus gave him his margin of victory.
Trump promised to bring those jobs back, a sentiment that resonated powerfully with the electorate. The problem is—as we’ve talked about previously—that at least 80–90% of manufacturing jobs were lost not to companies moving factories to China or Mexico but to increased automation.
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Friday, March 10, 2017
American Men Are Giving Up on Jobs / Economics / Unemployment
By: John_Mauldin
I’ve written about this before, but there are 10 million American males between the age of 24 and 64 who have literally dropped out of the workforce. It means that they have given up on finding a job or are simply not looking.
But, focusing on just one subset among those who are 24–64, we see that white working-class males’ labor force participation rate has dropped to 59%.
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Friday, March 10, 2017
Renewable Energy’s Problem and the Solution / Companies / Electricity
By: Richard_Mills
The electric vehicle (EV) market, indeed the entire energy storage market, is at the start of an at least decade long major transition.
Why would I think that? Well…
- Electric cars deliver full torque from a standstill so they have impressive acceleration. They are fun to drive!
- Electric cars are quiet, there is no combustion, no muffler.
- Electric cars do not use explosive fuel, there is no gas tank.
- Electric cars are cheaper to operate, electricity being cheaper than gasoline.
- Electric cars are also cheaper to maintain than combustion systems. Having far fewer parts makes the car less complex, easier and cheaper to maintain – there’s no ignition, exhaust, timing or cooling systems.
- Electric cars can be plugged in at home and you wake up with a fully charged battery every day.
- No more getting ‘hosed’ at the gas station, not even the day before a long weekend when combustion engine car owners are lining up.
- Road trips have currently been extended to over 400 km on a single charge.
- A network of charging stations is being built with potential recharge times as low as two minutes.
- Old batteries can and will be recycled. Current technology saves a minimum of 70 percent on CO2 emissions involved in creating lithium-ion batteries from scratch.
- Zero tail pipe emissions.