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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| The Crash of 1929 - |
| "...people believed that everything was going to be great always, always. There was a feeling of optimism in the air that you cannot even describe today."
"There was great hope. America came out of World War I with the economy intact. We were the only strong country in the world. The dollar was king. We had a very popular president in the middle of the decade, Calvin Coolidge, and an even more popular one elected in 1928, Herbert Hoover. So things looked pretty good."
"The economy was changingThursday, October 29, 2020 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
 Gold Is 'Money' Because It Is Plentiful, Not Because It Is Scarce  |
| Gold, and its brother silver,
have always been the basis of money, back to the beginnings of “money,”
in the late fourth millennium B.C. Already by 2000 B.C., gold and
silver had been “money” for over a thousand years–the entire history of
“civilization” on this planet. Gold was still the basis of money in the
1960s, in an unbroken line stretching back to the beginnings of history.
One somewhat counterintuitive requirement for “money” is that it does
not have a utilitarian purpose; at least, noFriday, October 2, 2020 |
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 | Gary Savage - Smart Money Tracker |
| LOSSES ARE JUST PART OF THE GAME |
| How many times have we heard this one: “He/she/they caused me to blow up my account”?
Blaming someone else for your losses. Pretty much every novice trader in the world goes through this phase, and many experienced traders as well.
Now I’m going to let you in on a secret that will save you thousands or even millions if you will listen and heed this warning.
Everyone loses from time to time. It’s an inevitable fact. No one, and I mean no one will ever win 100% of the time.
Here’s another secret tMonday, August 24, 2020 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Blame Gold |
| We have been talking about The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
July 23, 2017: The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
As you probably guessed from the three-word title, the book can be summarized in two words, which are: “blame gold.”
This, as we have seen, is actually a relatively new notion, even if it enjoys some popularity today. The general consensus, which later (after 1950) became the Keynesian consensus, did not blame gold, or indeed, monetary policy in general, for the Great DFriday, July 3, 2020 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| The Immutable Laws of Nature, and Murphy's other 15 Laws |
| THE IMMUTABLE LAWS OF NATURE....
Law of
Mechanical Repair
After
your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll
have to pee.
Law of GravityAny tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible
place.
Law of Probability The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity
of your act.
Law of Random NumbersIf you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal; someone always
answers.
Law of Variable Motion If you chThursday, June 18, 2020 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Two Bullets |
| I’ve read the following article so many times I can just about recite both from memory. I found it years ago, anon, thank you, you’ve helped keep me focused.
I hope readers find Two Bullets as useful as I did.
Aheadoftheherd.com
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Two Bullets
Several years ago, I met someone, Trader Joe, who was an expert technical trader. I call him an expert because he lived off of his profits, he was financially independent, and he frequently went on random scuba diving and bird watching vacations atWednesday, May 13, 2020 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Cecil Rhodes and the Dream of a New World Order Presided Over by an Anglo-American Establishment |
| "The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and continues to exist to this day.
To be sure, this secret sociMonday, April 13, 2020 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Technology Detox: The Health Benefits of Unplugging Unwinding |
| Recent studies have shown that 90% of Americans use digital devices for two or more hours each day and the average American spends more time a day on high-tech devices than they do sleeping: 8 hours and 21 minutes to be exact. If you’ve ever considered attempting a “digital detox”, there are some health benefits to making that chThursday, November 8, 2018 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Stocks MUST Hold Here or It’s Game Over |
| Last week’s breakdown caused considerable technical damage to the bull market in stocks. We are now at the proverbial “line in the sand” at which stocks MUST bounce or the bull market is OVER.
The S&P 500 has both its 50-Day Moving Average (DMA) and critical support from the January 2018 top just below current levels.
This is a MAJOR confluence of support here. If the S&P 500 CANNOT hold this level, then it’s GAME OVER for the bull market in stocks.
Unfortunately it’s not looking good. TheTuesday, October 9, 2018 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| Fishtailing into the Future |
| The opening chapters of Michael Lewis’s new book, The Fifth Risk, detail the carelessness of the Trump transition team in the months leading up to his swearing-in as president. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie led the team, with its binders full of possible agency chiefs, before he was summarily canned by Steve Bannon, who would be dumped soon himself by the ascending Golden Golem of Greatness. There was, in fact, a set of rigorous protocols for managing the transition of power based onFriday, October 5, 2018 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| A Gift From The Oldies |
| By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
I bumped into a friendly bloke at my local gym last week. Jim is his name.
Jim tells me he just started because, and I quote, "my doctor says I'm going to die unless I do something".
Now, I assure you it doesn't take a doctor to figure this out.
One glance in Jim's direction and you can tell that underneath all that weight there's a big struggling heart in there... just ready to explode. He was surprisingly frank and tells me it's so bad that he can oMonday, August 13, 2018 |
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 | Bron Suchecki - Goldchat |
| Once in Golconda |
| Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938
John Brooks
Allworth Press, 1969
p150: "Its [Wall Street] fixed star-money-had left its regular place in the heavens and begun to wander and dance and lurch. For generations the dollar had been held firmly fixed by a force that was accepted in banking circles as being equivalent to a natural law of astronomy, the gold standard-specifically, by the Treasury's pledge to redeem dollars with gold in any quantity for all comers at $20.67 per fiSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Cup At Cheltenham – Gold Is For Winners, Not For the Gamblers |
| – Gold Cup at Cheltenham – ‘The Olympics’ of the European horse racing calendar
– Gold Cup trophy contains 10 troy ounces of gold – worth £9,000
– £620 million bets on horses, 230,000 pints of Guinness will be drunk, 9.2 tonnes of potato eaten
– Since the 5th century BC, gold has been the ultimate prize to award champions and gold has been constantly and universally awarded as top prize
– Gold, like the summit of human achievement, is very rare and hence precious
– Gold is a great prize and Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Silver Does it Again! Severe Consequences. |
| In the free analysis that we posted last Monday, we warned that Friday’s session was likely to be volatile and tricky. This seems to have indeed been the case for silver. The white metal declined early in the day only to rally almost 40 cents from the initial low. In our previous alert, we discussed the possibility of silver topping at about $16.65 and this level was reached. Is silver about to take a dive just like it did in late November 2017?
In short, yes. That seems very likely, especially Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Monetary Metals Partners With Quintric |
| Quintric Invests in Monetary Metals Gold Fixed Income
Scottsdale, Ariz, March 8, 2018—Monetary Metals announces a partnership with Quintric Corporation. Quintric began earning a Yield on Gold, Paid in Gold® through its recent participation in Monetary Metals financing of Valaurum. Under the terms of the deal, Quintric looks forward to active involvement in upcoming Monetary Metals financing opportunities.
Quintric provides forever vaulting and insurance at no cost to holders of its precious metaFriday, March 9, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Does Not Fear Interest Rate Hikes |
| – Gold no longer fears or pays attention to Fed announcements regarding interest rates
– Renewed interest in gold due to inflation fears and concern Fed won’t do enough to control it
– Higher interest rates on horizon will make debt levels unsustainable
– New Fed Chair warns “the US is not on a sustainable fiscal path” and could lead to an “unsustainable” debt load
– Higher interest rates are good for gold as seen in the 1970s and 2000s
– Gold markets aware that central banks are running out of Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| MOPE; The Government Will Never Let It Happen … |
| How often have you heard the phrase “the government will never let it happen”? It almost doesn’t matter what the topic is you are talking about, nothing “bad” can ever really happen …or so it is thought. The reason of course is because we are so many years into “MOPE” (management of perspective economics). No matter what has happened in the past, the media, Wall Street, and the government have constantly spun the narrative to lead the “perspective”. MOPE has been with us for such a long time, itTuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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 | Bill Holter |
| MOPE; The Government Will Never Let It Happen... |
| How often have you heard the phrase “the government will never let it happen”? It almost doesn’t matter what the topic is you are talking about, nothing “bad” can ever really happen …or so it is thought. The reason of course is because we are so many years into “MOPE” (management of perspective economics). No matter what has happened in the past, the media, Wall Street, and the government have constantly spun the narrative to lead the “perspective”. MOPE has been with us for such a long time, itTuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs
Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary
ISBN number: 978-1-55059-363-1
Copy for inside front cover:
Public relations is "the management function which evaluates public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the public interest, and plans and executes a program of action to earn understanding and acceptance."
Canadian Public Relations Society definition
Title: Barbeques, Booms and BlogsSubSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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 | Clive Maund |
| SILVER SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE UPDATE - in honor of THE LARGE SPECS FIRST NET SHORT POSITION IN SILVER IN MEMORY... |
| The purpose of this update is to commemorate the Large Specs having their first net short position in silver since the site started 15 years ago, and also to consider how we can turn this to our advantage. Before we look at silver’s latest extraordinary COT chart and consider its implications, we will first quickly review the silver charts. We will start with an 8-year chart that shows the big picture and includes the entire bear market from the April – May 2011 peak. On this chart we see tSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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