Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Why Solar and Wind Energy Can’t Save Us / Commodities / Energy Resources
By: Richard_Mills
Recently, British Petroleum (BP) went public in declaring that “peak oil demand” was reached in 2019. According to the oil major’s 2020 outlook, global oil demand will not regain levels reached last year, and that demand could soon fall rapidly, due to stronger climate action by countries, by at least 10% over the next 10 years, and up to 50% by 2040.
Demand for the fossil fuel has doubled over the past 50 years, reaching around 100 million barrels of oil per day (bopd) in 2019.
While earlier editions of BP’s outlook stated that global demand would continue rising steadily, peaking in the mid-2030s, the latest version sees the decline as much more dramatic, with peak demand already reached in 2019, and either slowing down or plateauing over the next three decades.
The magnitude of the fall in demand depends on the degree to which global carbon emissions are addressed/ cut by governments and industry.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Buy Silver NOW! / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth provides the investment case for silver.
In many ways, most of us can't wait to put 2020 behind us and call it last year.
We've experienced a once-a-century global pandemic, infecting almost 80 million people. Lockdowns caused businesses to shutter and soaring unemployment, with massive economic consequences.
If you dig a little deeper, other costs include soaring debts and deficits worldwide. We're approaching an unfathomable $280 trillion in global debt. Governments and central banks have facilitated tens of trillions in stimulus spending this year alone, and it's far from over.
The U.S. is now passing its latest $900 billion stimulus bill, promising new stimulus checks, boosting unemployment, small business aid and funds for schools and universities.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Coronavirus is Mutating / Politics / Pandemic
By: Jeff_Berwick
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Stock Market New All Time Highs Through the Prism of AI / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Stock markets are soaring on the back of vaccines that herald the end game to the Covid nightmare that as I speak is hitting new highs in the US and fast worsening second peaks across Europe. However, much as was for the March crash, the vaccines, covid-19 are all mere blips in the long-term trend trajectory that is being driven by AI and it's full spectrum application. For instance these are the key areas that I identified to focus upon some 5 years ago, though the number is always expanding as AI encroaches on every aspect of our lives which is why my focus is on core AI itself rather than derivatives of AI.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset Unboxing First Impressions Review! / Personal_Finance / Virtual Reality
By: Anika_Walayat
The kids get their best christmas present, the latest VR headset from Oculus (Facebook), the Quest 2. So what dfoes the Oculus Quest 2, exactly come with, what's in the box, so that if you are considering buying one you don't get extras you don't need. And also give our first impressions when compared to other VR headsets such as the Samsung Gear.
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Monday, December 28, 2020
Apple M1 SOC Chip Another Nail in Intel's Coffin - Top AI Tech Stocks / Companies / Apple
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.
- US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
- Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
- Stock Market Dow Quick Take
- AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
- Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
- AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
- The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus
Monday, December 28, 2020
Microsoft - Top 10 AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels Analysis / Companies / Microsoft
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.
- US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
- Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
- Stock Market Dow Quick Take
- AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
- Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
- AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
- The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus
Monday, December 28, 2020
Gold, Silver, and SPY Trend Forecasts / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
This second part of our special “What To Expect In 2021” article highlights our proprietary Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) price modeling system and is specifically authored to help you understand where trends, price rotations, and risks may set up throughout 2021. In the first part of this article, we covered the ES, NQ, and INDU symbols – highlighting how each one of these US major indexes showed a moderately deep price correction would setup in Q2 or Q3 of 2021. The INDU showed the deepest correction event with a specific “ADL Price Anomaly” setup. This second part of the series will cover Gold, Silver, and the SPY.
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Monday, December 28, 2020
Stock Market Congestion Top Forming? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: There is some good evidence that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009, and which could continue into the first quarter of 2021 before coming to an end.
SPX Intermediate trend: New intermediate uptrend underway since 2234.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done daily with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which determine longer market trends.
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Monday, December 28, 2020
The Great Google Crash - Chinese Cyber Attacks Could Trigger More Global Outages During 2021 / Companies / Google
By: HGR
ALL Google services globally went dark on the morning of 14th of December 2020. That's Gmail, Youtube, Drive, Hangouts and Search ceased to function with users unable to log into accounts. All this whilst a pandemic had forced many millions of workers to work form home. The outage started at 11.50am GMT and continued for over an hour before users could once more log in and start to work.
This global outage brought home the extent to which we have all become reliant on Google services which through accident or design could reek havoc across the globe, especially giving the ongoing US / China brewing conflicts that undoubtedly will spill over into cyber space.
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
Google and Amazon, Top 10 AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels Analysis / Companies / AI
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This is a continuation of my in-depth analysis into the buying levels for the Top 10 AI stocks to ride the electron mega-trend the whole of which was first made available to Patrons who support my work so immediate first access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts then do consider becoming a Patron by supporting my work for just $3 per month.
- US Presidential Election 2020 Forecast Review
- Seeing Stock Market New Highs Through the Prism of AI
- Stock Market Dow Quick Take
- AI Stocks Buying Levels and EC ratio Explained
- Top 10 AI Stocks individual analysis i.e. for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.
- AI Stocks Buying Levels Q4 2020
- The Next IMMINENT Global Catastrophe After Coronavirus
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Stock Market Trends Fortecast 2021 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last year, I published a ‘What To Expect In 2020’ article that everyone seemed to enjoy. We published this article to help investors and traders prepare for what we believed was going to be an incredibly volatile 2020. Last year our conclusions was:
“Be prepared for a surprising spike in volatility in early 2020 with a moderately strong potential for an early 2020 downside price rotation which prompts a new price trend and possibly an early test of support (near 280 on the SPY chart). 2020 is going to be a fantastic year for skilled traders – get ready for some incredible price action. “
Our proprietary Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) price modeling system has been calling big and unusual market price trends many months in advance over the past 3+ years. Some of the biggest trends the ADL predicted very accurately was the 2017~2018 rally in Gold and the 2019 collapse in Crude Oil.
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
Bitcoin Rally Similarities – Is This The Peak? / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Chris_Vermeulen
The recent rally in Bitcoin is strangely similar to the rally that took place in 2017. Although the range of price throughout the rally is somewhat different, the structure of price throughout the rally phase is very similar. Our researchers believe this similarity suggests a peak may be forming in Bitcoin and the big volume on Monday, December 21, 2020, may have represented a “blow-off peak” in price.
Bitcoin 2017 Peak Structure
The following Weekly Bitcoin chart highlights the three rally phases that took place before the peak level was reached in December 2017. Pay very close attention to the structure you are seeing on this chart and the highlights we’ve made to help you understand how the price structure is being mirrored in the current rally phase.
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
Beginners Guide To Google AdWords - The Agents of Change / Companies / Google
By: Sumeet_Manhas
Seeking online approvals can be the most challenging course that any brand has to follow during its initial years. And that's why digital media marketing services extend several assisting tools for brands to gain online recognition and new business. One popular channel is Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords). However, there has been some debate around how Google Ads doesn’t always generate a strong ROI, and hence there is absolutely no point in getting involved as it will zap your budget. But you should know the problem generally doesn’t lie with Google Ads itself, but more with the campaign strategy employed.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
AI Tech Stocks Buying Levels and EC Indicator Explained / Companies / Investing 2020
By: Nadeem_Walayat
My last look at AI stocks buying levels early September had some of the must own AI stocks trading at ridiculously high valuations for instance Amazon was trading on an EC of 148 against a target maximum of 100! Which prompted me to HIT the SELL button on over 50% of my holdings despite the promise of huge gains in revenues as the pandemic sales and profits came in.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 Design FLAW! And the Quick Fix Solution / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: HGR
Many VR enthusaits buying the Quest 2 soon experience a blatent flaw in it's design that spoils the experienc of using the headset. Fine out more about the design flaw and and en easy quick fix solution.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Gold and Silver Precious Metals Yellow Flag / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Rambus_Chartology
Most of the time during a bull market the short, intermediate and long term charts are pretty much in sync even during a consolidation phase. Consolidation patterns are needed to bring the overbought condition back to what is normal for a bull market. Consolidation patterns are notorious for wild swings both up and down to shakeout as many investors as possible before the next impulse move can begin again.
What you don’t want to see is a topping pattern such as a double top or H&S top as they are reversal patterns. It is normal to see SMALL double tops – bottoms or H&S reversal patterns at the reversal points in a big consolidation pattern, but you don’t want to see a big H&S top as a stand alone pattern especially after a strong impulse move.
Let’s start with the daily combo chart for the PM complex which shows the potential H&S bottom forming at the last reversal point in the August trading range. To be honest I don’t like today’s price action on this daily PM combo chart even though GLD, SLV, GDXJ, XGD.to and SIL are still holding support on the backtest to their necklines today. The other PM stock indexes have broken down below their respective necklines which is a warning sign the potential H&S bottoms may be failing. So far I view today’s price action as a yellow flag or warning sign to watch this area very closely.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Global Tipping Point: "Good" Debt Vs. "Bad" Debt (Which is Winning?) / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2020
By: EWI
All major U.S. economic depressions were "set off" by this single factor
Isn't all debt "bad"?
Well, in a word, no.
Broadly speaking, there are two types of debt. One of them actually adds value to the economy if handled in the right way, so you might call this a "good" form of debt. However, there's another type of debt (or credit) which hurts the economy.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Can Gold Price Shine Again With Dovish Powell? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Fed Chair Jerome Powell sounded dovish during his press conference on December 16, where he gave a market update after the Fed’s monetary policy meeting. The Fed will remain accommodative for a long time, which should support gold prices.Last week was full of important events. First, both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines received emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration . In consequence, the first COVID-19 vaccination in the United States has already taken place, which is great news for America, as it marks the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Tackling US Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The “American System” Solution / Economics / Government Spending
By: Ellen_Brown
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest problems.
Millions of Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed, and government relief checks and savings are running out; meanwhile, the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure. Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects seems an obvious solution, especially given that the $600 or $700 stimulus checks Congress is planning on issuing will do little to address the growing crisis. Various plans for solving the infrastructure crisis involving public-private partnerships have been proposed, but they’ll invariably result in private investors reaping the profits while the public bears the costs and liabilities. We have relied for too long on private, often global, capital, while the Chinese run circles around us building infrastructure with credit simply created on the books of their government-owned banks.
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