Thursday, January 04, 2018
War, Peace and Recession 2018 / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: EconMatters
December and January are usually two busy months for researchers as they release prediction/forecast of the New Year. We are going to briefly discuss two such forecasts here.
Top 5 World War III Crises
The first one is a geopolitical forecast, 5 Places World War III Could Start in 2018, published last month. Now let’s take a quick look at the top five crises that could lead to the greatest conflict in 2018:
Thursday, January 04, 2018
Stock Market 2018 If You Don’t Cash In, You’ll Lose Lots of High-Yield Opportunities / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: John_Mauldin
My long-time Thoughts from the Frontline readers know that I’ve long criticized economists for treating their profession as a “hard science” like physics or chemistry.
The global economy is far too complex and far too dependent on irrational human behavior for that ambition to be realized. However, there are some occasional similarities.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Gold Price Best Year Since 2010, Up 14%, 2018: Year of the Phoenix? / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: GoldCore
Gold Bullion Prices Have Best Year Since 2010 With Near 14% Gain In 2017
– Gold posted second straight annual gain in USD in 2017
– Gold in 2017: up 13.6% USD, up 2.7% GBP, down 1.4% EUR
– 2017 is gold’s best year since 29.5% gain in 2010
– Strong performance despite rate hikes and stock bubble
– India’s gold imports surged 67% in 2017, Turkish, Chinese demand strong
– Gold finished 2017 with longest rally since June 2016
– 2018: Currency War and The Year of the Phoenix?
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Stock Market S&P 500, IWM and XLF 2018 / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: Avi_Gilburt
As Ecclesiastes notes, “There is nothing new under the sun.” This, too, applies to the stock market.
The average investor trap is the same throughout whatever period you wish to review. Markets become overexuberant, see a correction, sentiment resets, and markets rally on to their next phase of overexuberance. It is really that simple. Yet, we overcomplicate matters by relying on economics and fundamentals, which have proven to be relatively useless at major market turning points.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
There is a Tyranny in the Womb of Every Utopia / Politics / Social Issues
By: BATR
The Millennial Utopian Society - In order to understand the millennial phenomena that has influenced the beginning years of the 21st century, acknowledgement that the under thirty sect is quite different from their parents generation is crucial. Back some fifty plus years the popular saying coined by Jack Weinberg was "Don't trust anyone over 30". The crowning irony is that this mindset was expressed during the "Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley which was a struggle by students over the right to engage in political speech on campus, which helped to catalyze broader political activism on campuses around the country over student rights, civil rights and the Vietnam War".
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Changes Coming to the Financial Markets in 2018 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Rodney_Johnson
It’s the first week of January, which makes it time for football playoffs and New Year predictions.Since I’m not likely to grace the gridiron anytime soon, I land in the forecast camp. But playing Nostradamus is fraught with its own danger, and reminds me of an old quote by Darrell Royal, the longtime University of Texas football coach, that explained why he favored running the ball. He believed that when you threw the football, three things could happen, and two of them were bad.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Comparing Bitcoin and the NASDAQ Internet Bubbles / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Harry_Dent
Cycles reoccur throughout history, but they more rhyme than duplicate.Each bubble tends to get more extreme than the last one because there’s more wealth to chase it. Wealth is concentrated in the top 1% to 0.1% and grows exponentially (income does not).
The greatest bubble of our lifetimes was the tech bubble in the Nasdaq from late 1994 into early 2000. That built over a period of five years – the typical time frame for most stock bubbles.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Five Reasons Gold Stocks Will Breakout in 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Jordan_Roy_Byrne
There are very few sellers left
There were very few sellers left in January 2016 when the devastating “forever bear” was about to end. Six months later and a 150% rebound in the large caps and 200% rise in the juniors (GDXJ) provided sellers an opportunity. They drove the miners and juniors down by 40% to 45% in less than five months. However, both GDX and GDXJ have been able to hold above that low multiple times. GDX has held $21 four times! GDXJ has held $29.50 twice in solid fashion.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Precious Metals Sector is on Major Buy Signal 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets, noting buy signals for both gold and silver at the close of 2017.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Gold Market Themes for 2018 / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2018
By: Arkadiusz_Sieron
2018 has just begun. What will a new year bring for the gold market?
Macroeconomic Outlook Will Remain Unpleasant
The current economic expansion is surprisingly durable, as it has already lasted more than 100 months. It worries many investors who are afraid of the upcoming recessions. Surely, there are many reasons to worry, and the recession will eventually come. But we are not at this point yet. The current expansion is unusually long, but it is exceptionally sluggish.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Stocks, Oil and Gold Market Price Forecasts 2018 (Video) / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Nadeem_Walayat
2017 surprised most by proving to be one of the greatest years of the past decade for stock investors, traders and gamblers as bull markets appeared everywhere. Commodity traders too enjoyed strong bull market gains in the likes of oil and gold, for instance the oil price ended at its highs for the year at $60 whilst Gold had a bumpier ride to end the year at $1310, up a healthy $160 or 14%.
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Vauxhall Zafira 10 Year Owners Review - Top 10 Tips and Points for Buyers / ConsumerWatch / Motoring
By: N_Walayat
Your not going to get a more comprehensive review than one from someone who has owned and driven a Vauxhall Zafira for nearly 10 years! So here it is my near 10 year review of what any prospective Zafira buyer needs to know of what to expect when owning a Zafira and how to deal with the various issues that will come up such as resetting of the service lights, or ensuring their under car spare wheel carrier does not rust etc...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
“The lie is the rock on which this republic rests.” / Politics / US Politics
By: Barry_M_Ferguson
I stole this quote from Andrew Jackson whose actual quote was, “The Bible is the rock on which this republic rests.” Of course, the United States is not the country, or republic, that is was when the extraordinary genius of Andrew Jackson graced the presidency. Jackson also once said, “One man with courage makes a majority.” With that courage, President Jackson exterminated the plague of a central bank, balanced the country’s budget, and left the US taxpayers owing no debt to anyone on the planet. Without Jackson’s courage, the country has been growing debt since he left office in 1836. Plantation slavery has been replaced with debt slavery and sovereign rule has been replaced by bankster domination. We can only pray, ‘Please Lord, send us another leader with Jackson-like courage’.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Why You Should Run Away from SPY, IVV, VOO, and Other S&P 500 ETFs / Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2018
By: John_Mauldin
BY OLIVIER GARRET : A decade after the Global Financial Crisis, investors seem to have forgotten about risk.
The amount of money that has flowed into S&P 500 ETFs in recent years concerns me. With little regard for valuation, investors just continue to pump capital into ETFs that track the main index.
Over the last three years, $100 billion has flowed into the three largest S&P 500 ETFs—SPY, IVV, and VOO. This year alone, investors have pumped in around $50 billion.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
FAANG Executives Selling Their Stock Is a Warning Signal / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : Nobody has a better insight into the future prospects of a company than its top-tier employees.
Executives will always boast about their businesses, but it’s what they do with their own money that really matters.
I’m talking about insider trading.
Not the illegal kind, but rather planned buys and sells of stock by the company’s insiders—the directors, executives, and founders.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
How To Make Your Term Paper Writing Easier / Personal_Finance / Education
By: Kavinesh_A
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
SPX is higher. USD is Lower / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Anthony_Cherniawski
Happy New Year!
SPX futures are higher this morning, but have not breached Friday’s high at 2692.12. The top view is that it is back-testing the trendline at 2690.00 from a possible Leading Diagonal. Should it exceed it, there is a possibility of a new high. There is an alternate Wave structure that would accommodate it.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Stocks, Oil and US Dollar Forecasts Summary 2018 / Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2018
By: Ken_Ticehurst
We continue to be bullish on virtually all global stocks as we have been for well over a year, our longer term forecasts show the potential for another consolidation during 2018 but for now our daily forecasts show a continued increase in the value of most global stock markets.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Start the New Year Fresh by Consolidating Debts / Personal_Finance / Debt & Loans
By: MoneyFacts
A brand-new year provides the perfect opportunity to revisit finances and work out how much money is being wasted by incurring interest on costly credit cards. As 2018 begins, those borrowers with multiple credit cards could find their debt getting out of hand, with the temptation to borrow becoming too great.
An alternative would be to consolidate debts into one affordable unsecured personal loan, where the monthly repayments would remain unchanged and the debt is guaranteed to be gone by the end of the term – so long as a borrower continues to keep up with repayments, of course.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Cryptocurrency Mania and Blockchain Banking / Currencies / BlockChain
By: BATR
The never ending overdose of Bitcoin coverage in the press and on social media would have one believe that the manna of financial subsistence is leading us all out of the wilderness. Whether this crypto circulation of a promise to pay is actually a currency is very much an open question. What we do know and can take to the bank is that it is not legal tender. In the globalists world of central banksters all money if fiat and species is relegated to a numismatic coin collection.