Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Crude Oil Price Trend Forecast 2016 Update / Commodities / Crude Oil
By: Nadeem_Walayat
At the start of the year the prevailing mood in the oil market was not just one of doom and gloom but of catastrophe as the oil price sunk below $30, skidding by the middle of February to virtually touch $25, a period during which many prominent analysts and investment banks such as Goldman Sachs all of whom were bearish on the prospects for oil price this year even suggesting that the oil price could sink to as low as $10 (Standard Chartered) which meant that the oil producers, the frackers and even a string of nations such as Russia, Nigeria and Venezuela were on the fast track towards going bust in as their oil profits that financed state spending budget deficits evaporated.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again / Politics / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Mike_Whitney
Why has the Fed created incentives for US corporations to loot their companies and drive them deeper into debt?
Despite four consecutive quarters of negative earnings, weak demand and anemic sales, US corporations continue to load up on debt, buy back their own shares and hand out cash to their shareholders that greatly exceeds the amount of profits they are currently taking in. According to the Wall Street Journal: “SandP 500 companies through the first two quarters of the year collectively returned 112% of their earnings through buybacks and dividends.”
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Wells Fargo and Other Banks Now Just Outright Stealing People’s Money / Companies / Banksters
By: Jeff_Berwick
Centuries ago banks actually stored real money (gold) and gave their customers paper receipts which made transferring and transporting easier.
Then as time went by, banks just began storing currency. Unbacked fiat paper is not money.
In those days the term “bank robbery” used to mean a man with a gun would come in and steal the currency from the bank.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
2016 The Worst Ever Year for Annuity Income / Personal_Finance / Pensions & Retirement
By: MoneyFacts
As tomorrow marks Pensions Awareness Day (PAD), new research compiled by Moneyfacts has revealed that annuity rates are on track for their biggest ever annual fall. Based on a benchmark annuity (standard level without guarantee), the average annuity income for a 65-year-old has fallen by 14.8% on a £10K purchase price and by 15% on a £50K purchase price so far during 2016.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Stock Market Wild Week Ahead: The Selling is Not Through! / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Brad_Gudgeon
A lot of traders I know were thinking that a low on Monday would be it and then off to the races. I was in that camp too. The problem is the rising wedge was never broken. So what now? Pretty much the same for the SPX and GDX: another strong rise on Wednesday followed by even more severe selling toward the week’s end. I’m thinking more like the SPX 2045 area by Sept 16-19.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Most Political Fed in History / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: Graham_Summers
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari wants us to believe that the Fed is not a political entity.
Kashkari is either ignoring reality or simply providing cover for the single most political Fed in history. This is not a Left vs. Right issue, this is an establishment vs. legitimate reform issue.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Era of Centralization is Ending… and the Elites Are Terrified / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2016
By: Graham_Summers
The biggest issue in financial political power structure today is the End of Centralization.
In the post 2008 era, the Globalists made a major push to hold the system together. The multi-billionaire class, particularly those who made fortunes from crony capitalism and bubble economics joined forces with the Keynesian media shills to convince the world that the only way we would survive would be if trillions of Dollars were given to those who were deemed “systemically important.”
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
A Common Sense Regulatory Framework for Digital Currency / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Submissions
John Dunham writes: The phrase, horror vacui, or nature abhors a vacuum, was attributed to Aristotle, who suggested that nature contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding material would immediately fill any void. This physical postulate is often applied to the idea of government regulation. If something is not regulated (or in many cases highly regulated) then it is indisputable that some government will step into the void. In the case of digital currency and/or cryptocurrency, the concept of horror vacui is in full swing as governments from the European Union to the United States to China are all proposing broad regulations on the development and operation of digital currency markets. This is on top of local court rulings, such as that made by a Miami-Dade Florida circuit court judge who ruled that Bitcoin was not a currency.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Gold To Housing Ratio As A Valuation Indicator / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: Dan_Amerman
The Gold to Housing ratio is a quite useful measure for evaluating relative values between real estate and gold, and also has an interesting historical track record for identifying turning points in long-term gold price trends. In light of the surge in gold prices in 2016, and the continuing strength in housing – it is worthwhile revisiting this basic measure, because the results aren't at all what most people likely think they are.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Financial Intervention - The Monkey and The Fish / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
“Kindly let me help you or you’ll drown, said the monkey to the fish as he placed him safely up the tree.” – Unknown
The financial system (mistaken for the economy) is so bloated with risk that any number of events could trigger an explosion that would reach much further than anyone could imagine – causing irreparable damage.
Because of the size and the massive dependence on the institutions (who have evolved like a cancer from big finance), the resulting carnage will reach out much further than the primary institutions.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
GDXJ Gold Stocks - A Diamond in the Rough / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Rambus_Chartology
It wasn’t until yesterday that I could draw in a possible bottom rail of a possible diamond pattern on the GDXJ. This potential diamond pattern has been forming since the first of July. As it stands right now the diamond pattern has completed five reversal points which theoretically puts it into a reversal pattern category. With that said the bounce yesterday may have started the all important 6th reversal point to the upside which if completed would make this diamond a consolidation pattern to the upside. Keep in mind this potential diamond is still developing with no resolution either way yet.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Stock Market Three Peaks and a Domed House / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Ed_Carlson
Friday’s decline broke the neckline of a small head-and-shoulders pattern seeming to leave behind the cupola Lindsay described as the top of his Domed House pattern: points 21 - 25.
If the market holds to the template, the Dow should fall to point 26 and rebound to point 27 within the same price range as the First Floor Roof (points 15-20).
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Stock Market Freefall Episode Coming Soon... / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2016
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX has nearly retraced yesterday’s rally in an impulsive fashion. 2100.00 has already been tested in the futures. It is not likely to provide much support in this decline. The new target appears to be the December closing price at 2044.00.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
There Is Only One Right Way to Do a Precious Metals IRA / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: MoneyMetals
A small handful of outfits in our industry recently sprang up and started heavily promoting a so-called “self-storage” or “LLC” IRA. The pitch is for you to establish an LLC company to store the metals on behalf of your IRA in your home (or nearby).
At first glance, it sounds like an attractive option. Investors buy metals to increase privacy and control. Some do not want to rely on third-party vaults and would prefer having personal access to their metals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We totally agree with this sentiment when it comes to precious metals that you personally and directly own. But anyone considering this “self-storage IRA” scheme should be extremely careful and aware of the risks.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Bitcoin Price Back Down / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Mike_McAra
In short: no speculative positions.
The current banking system is global, at least in theory, but it definitely seems that the term “global” does not actually apply to all parts of the payments space the way we would like it to. International wire transfers still tend to be slow and costly. It is perhaps irritating that sending an email takes seconds but sending $5 abroad is slow, expensive or altogether impossible. This is why companies like Western Union still charge hefty fees for overseas transfers. As it turns out, Bitcoin and other digital currencies might offer a way forward for making the remittance industry more accessible. On Quartz, we read:
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton Became Unelectable Long Ago / ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2016
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Whenever I bring up something Hillary Clinton has done or failed to do, there are always people who react with a “Yes, but Trump did so and so…!” reflex. I’d like to get that out of the way first of all, because it distorts the conversation to no end. Criticism of Hillary does not equal support for Trump. Suggesting that it does is insulting.
I do not think it’s a good idea for Trump to become president. But that does not mean it’s a better idea for Hillary to be inaugurated. In fact, there’s something to be said for the argument that if you have to choose between two really bad options, pick the worst in order get it over with faster. The problem with that, in turn, is that in this case it’s hard to determine which of the two is worse.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
How Gold Bugs can Have their cake and eat it too by Embracing the trend / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2016
By: Sol_Palha
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.John G. Pollard
Many individuals sit back and look wistfully at the 1st stage of the Gold Bull Market they missed. It is interesting that people focus on what they lost but not what they might miss. Since Gold topped out in 2011, many sectors took off; one could have deployed a portion of one’s funds in any of these sectors and walked away with healthy gains. Instead, the classic Gold bug clung to Gold and let all these opportunities slide away.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
You Didn’t See This Bubble Burst Coming / Commodities / Agricultural Commodities
By: Harry_Dent
I keep saying that in the next great crash, everything will get swept up in the onslaught – with virtually no exceptions.And that goes too for what we eat!
The 30-Year Commodity Cycle peaked in mid-2008 and has been the first major bubble to crash and burn.
The CRB (Commodity) Index has been down as low as 67%, with the potential for 74% or lower in the next few years.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Sorry, You Can’t Have Your Gold - Own Physical, Allocated Gold / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2016
By: GoldCore
“Sorry, You Can’t Have Your Gold” by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com
In this publication, we warn regularly of the risk involved in storing wealth in banks. They’ve made the removal of your deposits increasingly difficult in addition to colluding with governments to allow them to legally freeze or confiscate your money.
To add insult to injury, they’re creating reporting requirements with regard to the contents of safe deposit boxes and restricting what can be stored in them – again, at risk of confiscation.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Relentless Interest Rate Cuts are a Deterrent to Savers / Personal_Finance / Savings Accounts
By: MoneyFacts
Data from Moneyfacts.co.uk can reveal that rate reductions in the savings market have now outweighed rate rises for eleven consecutive months and that August has officially become the worst month this year for cuts.
In August, Moneyfacts recorded three savings rate rises. Disappointingly, rate reductions over the same period completely outshone this figure, with the number of rate decreases standing at a staggering 388, which translates as around 130 cuts to every rate rise, and some deals fell by as much as 1.30%.
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