Monday, September 07, 2020
From Trump’s TikTok Mess to US Tech Cold War against China / Politics / China US Conflict
By: Dan_Steinbock
As the Trump administration is expanding trade wars, which could derail global recovery, the White House is targeting Chinese innovators thus fostering US national champions under the pretext of ‘national security.’
In the early 2010s, an aspiring Chinese internet entrepreneur Zhang Yiming launched ByteDance, while developing a video sharing platform. After success in China, he began to internationalize TikTok.
To avoid conflict in national jurisdictions, Zhang had TikTok and its Chinese version Douying run on separate servers. TikTok's data collection is similar to that of major US social media and certainly less intrusive than Facebook’s.
By August, Douying had over 500 million active users, while TikTok surpassed 1 billion users worldwide in barely four years. To manage the global concern, Zhang hired a Disney executive to head TikTok and oversee its parent ByteDance. Backed by the largest US and Japanese financial giants, the parent was valued at $75 billion; the most valuable startup worldwide.
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Monday, September 07, 2020
The Federal Reserve vs. Judy Shelton And Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Kelsey_Williams
Those in favor of Judy Shelton’s approval by Congress, pursuant to her nomination to the Federal Reserve Board Of Governors, should not be surprised by the torrent of criticism directed at her.
A letter published and signed by former Federal Reserve officials and staffers called on the Senate to reject her nomination, stating that “Ms. Shelton’s views are so extreme and ill-considered as to be an unnecessary distraction from the tasks at hand…”
Her “extreme” views were referred to in a general statement of condemnation:
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Monday, September 07, 2020
Fed Dials Up Inflation Target…Own Gold / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth discusses the Fed's inflation target and what that means for gold.
Make no mistake, higher gold prices are coming.
By pulling yet another arrow from its quiver, the Fed's just helped move us closer that target.
The Fed wants inflation, so it's going to get it. Problem is, we the people, will have to live with it.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell told us last week they will let inflation run higher than "normal" to make up for stubbornly "below average" inflation for some time.
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Monday, September 07, 2020
Does Gold Still Have Plenty of Potential? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
According to the WGC, the latest leg of gold’s 2020 bull run has come too fast, but gold has still potential for further upside.The World Gold Council has recently published a few interesting reports. Let’s analyze them and draw important conclusions for the precious metals investors!
I’ll start with the July Investment Update: “Gold hits record high: sprint or marathon?” about the summer’s rally in gold that elevated the price of the yellow metal to the new record high. According to the WGC, the combination of high uncertainty, easy monetary policy, very low interest rates, positive price momentum, the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, and fears of higher inflation fueled record flows of 734 tons into gold-backed ETFs in the first half of the year and the gold’s price appreciation:
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Monday, September 07, 2020
CDC Shock Admission - THERE IS NO PANDEMIC! Over 90% of Deaths nOT From COVID19 / Politics / Pandemic
By: Jeff_Berwick
There seems to be a black hole swallowing flu, pneumonia, cancer, diabetes, old age and stroke fatalities in 2020.
Every year, millions of people around the world die of these causes, none related to the Serial Killer From China plandemic. Yet, this year, all these illnesses have been used as “comorbidity” excuses to label people as ‘Covid’ victims.
And finally, the CDC has admitted it. Right there, on its website, for anyone to read.
Monday, September 07, 2020
Stock Market SPX to Gold/Silver Ratios Explored – What To Expect Next / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
- A Phase II rally in metals is just getting ready to start.
- Phase II rallies are very explosive and tend to enter Parabolic trends.
- Gold could rally 250% to 350% over the next several years.
- Silver could rally 550% to 750% over the next several years.
My research team and I started exploring the relationship between the Gold-to-Silver ratio and the S&P 500 to find trends in Metals and the US Stock Markets. We called the collapse in the Gold-to-Silver ratio accurately back in March 2020, and we believe the current setup in the S&P to the Gold-to-Silver ratio shows the move in Precious Metals is far from over.
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Monday, September 07, 2020
Is the Precious Metals Market really Overwhelmed and Chaotic / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Robert_Singer
August 13, the Market Oracle publishes my article on Gold, Silver, the Black Rock and the Twins. I claim something is going on that can’t be explained without knowing what happened in 2015 that changed the precious metals and mankind’s destiny.
I am still waiting to see if Silver tests the $21 resistance but what happened yesterday (August 11) and the next day is perplexing.
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Sunday, September 06, 2020
Stock Market Divergent Top - Are Fangs Going To Breakdown Soon? / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Chris_Vermeulen
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
- FANG Index may begin to peak/top as RSI Divergence pattern sets up.
- Dow Theory trend divergence confirmation suggests the end of the “Excess Rally” is near.
- The VIX moving higher suggests greater concerns of increased volatility.
- Dow Jones Utility Index moving lower on increased volume may be the key in a multiple-pattern set up that will confirm larger market trends.
Sunday, September 06, 2020
Pension Funds Start Looking to Gold to Avert Disaster / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: MoneyMetals
Public and private pension plans face a dual crisis.
The first and most obvious threat to pensioners is that defined-benefit vehicles are severely underfunded. By one estimate, pension systems taken as a whole are $638 billion in the red.
Some are in better shape financially than others. But all pension plans will have to reckon with a second huge challenge going forward.
Namely, they are already entirely unable to meet their stated return objectives by owning conventional “safe” interest-bearing instruments such as Treasury bonds.
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Sunday, September 06, 2020
Fed Embraces Higher Inflation. Will It Embrace Gold, Too? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
Fed adopts a new strategy that opens the door for higher inflation. The change is fundamentally positive for gold prices.So, it happened! In line with market expectations, the Fed has changed its monetary policy framework into a more dovish one! This is something we warned our Readers in our last Fundamental Gold Report:
the Fed could change how it defines and achieves its inflation goal, trying, for example, to achieve its inflation target as an average over a longer time period rather than on an annual basis.
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Friday, September 04, 2020
Stock Market September Consolidation Vs Straight Up / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Ricky_Wen
The month of August wrapped up around the monthly highs as the Emini S&P 500 (ES) price action gained about +7% vs July. It was a statistical outlier as it was one of the biggest gains for August in decades. Nonetheless, the August monthly candle demonstrated a powerful immediate continuation off of the past few months’ setup and trend continuation pattern. A few important things on our radar inform us that September likely won’t be as easy or one directional.
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Friday, September 04, 2020
The Single Most Groundbreaking Tech Stocks Disruption / Companies / AI
By: Stephen_McBride
America’s top researchers were stumped. How do you teach a computer to “see?”
By 2012, technology had advanced a great deal. For $199 you could buy a tiny supercomputer called the iPhone 5. You could talk to it—and it would talk back. It could hail you a cab, give you driving directions, or play a movie. You could even video call someone living on the other side of the world for practically free.
In fact, the iPhone 5 was more powerful than the NASA computer that sent Neil Armstrong to the moon. But computers had one big glaring weakness: they were still laughably bad at recognizing images.
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Friday, September 04, 2020
7 days of Practical Financial Market Trading Lessons - FREE / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
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"You should buy this!" -- "You should sell that!"
But successful traders know: Your wins and defeats must be your own. Only then do you learn -- and gain true, lasting independence.
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Friday, September 04, 2020
How to Profit When the Smart Money Leaves Their Footprints / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2020
By: John_Mauldin
By Justin Spittler: Imagine you’re sitting at a bar in Manhattan. As the bartender’s making your drink, you overhear a conversation from the table behind you.
Two well-dressed men are talking. One looks familiar. He’s a hedge fund manager you’ve seen on TV. You don’t recognize the other guy. But, from the sound of it, they work together.
They’re talking excitedly about one stock, and how they bought $1 billion worth of it today. By the end of the week, they plan to buy several billion more.
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
NVIDIA Stock Price Soars on RTX 3000 Cornering the GPU Market for next 2 years! / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Nvidia has just released information on their next gen RTX 3000 GPU's , and if what NVIDIA announced is true then they have just blown away the rest of the competition for a good 2 years! Just on the basis of today's release! This is what a good AI tech stock looks like!
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
Platinum Tremd Forecast to Follow Gold Price Higher / Commodities / Platinum
By: Chris_Vermeulen
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
- Platinum may be setting up in a technical pattern that is similar to the end of 2001/early 2002.
- Platinum could rally more than 300%, somewhere near $3,450 or higher.
- This might push Gold above $7,500 an ounce and may push silver somewhere north of $125 per ounce.
- Rally hinges on platinum breaking out above $1,050.50.
Platinum may be setting up in a technical pattern that is similar to the end of 2001/early 2002. At that time, Gold had already begun to rally above $340 and Platinum had rallied to levels above $600. Then, while Gold continued to rally, Platinum contracted to price levels near $400 on diminishing volume. Once that contraction was complete, Platinum began and upside price move with stronger volume levels which lasted almost seven years – reaching a peak above $2,300. Could the same setup be happening right now?
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
What's Driving Gold, Silver and What's Next? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2020
By: The_Gold_Report
Peter Krauth looks at the factors behind the movements in the gold and silver markets. Gold's retreated from a record high above $2,000, and silver's off its own seven-year highs near $30.
Is that cause for concern? I doubt it.
These have been dramatic surges to new levels, brought on by a combination of low interest rates, historic money-printing raising the specter of inflation, a softer U.S. dollar, and of course a global pandemic.
But that doesn't mean gold and silver have to continue higher in a straight line.
Instead, these gains have been so strong that a period of retracement and consolidation are not only expected, they're crucial to the continued health of this precious metals bull market.
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
Understanding the Fed's True Mandate / Interest-Rates / US Federal Reserve Bank
By: The_Gold_Report
Michael Ballanger interprets the motives of the Federal Reserve and their impacts on the "haves" and "have nots" in America and beyond.
This week, the financial community around the globe was handed a "new approach" by the Federal Reserve Board of the United States that essentially flipped the middle finger at savers, senior citizens on limited pensions and proponents of sound money principles. Before I expand upon this outrage, let me expound upon the background of the current Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell.
Judging from the accolades and fawning praise showered upon this man (as the S&P and NASDAQ hit record levels fueled exclusively by Fed stimuli), one might think that he hails from the academic world, a scholar with vast experience in macroeconomic theory, or at least extensive dealings in the retail banking sector. His grandfatherly deportment portrays great studiousness and wise counsel as he does his very damnedest to convey that image with perennial gray suits and trademark purple ties. If one could take this carefully crafted persona and make a snap favorable assessment of the man who controls the retirement lifestyles of millions of global citizens, one would be making a fatal error.
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
The Fed May “Cause” The Next Stock Market Crash / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2020
By: Avi_Gilburt
I know many of you view the Fed as quite omnipotent, with the ability to move the market with a simple stroke of a key. In fact, this perspective is so ubiquitous that I know almost none of you will take my presentation seriously, as “common-think” has taken over most investor’s ability to see the facts presented to us by the market. However, please do recognize that my perspective is based in fact and history, rather than the supposition and fallacy upon which most perspectives in the market are based.
Moreover, I have presented many prognostications in the past which have seemed unrealistic at the time, yet almost all of which have been realized within the fullness of time. So, why not offer another? (smile)
The main premise which is universally accepted is that the Fed can simply “print” money and push it into the stock market to cause the market to rally. In this way, the Fed has supposedly supported the market, and has caused this rally we have been seeing for many years.
To this end, I will again quote a comment I received to one of my recent articles, which explains the common perception on this matter quite clearly:
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
UK Children Back to School! Covid-19 Bubbles, Masks and Hand Sanitisers the New Normal - Sheffield / Politics / Educating Children
By: N_Walayat
Finally Britain's school children are finding their way back into the classrooms of Britains, Junior and Secondary schools! Though this should have happened in Mid June! Sill better late than never as by the end of this week at least 94% of Britains' school children will be back in school full time.
Let's hope the teachers unions do not subvert the education of Britain's school children by following through with their threats of Covid fear driven strike action, that's the last thing Britain's school kids need after being abandoned by the education establishment for the past 6 months!
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