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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
| Happy New Year! |
| 2018
Year of the POP
If you'd like to read "Year of the POP", I'm sure you can guess where it can be found. ;D
At the Speakeasy, we discuss things like bullion, bitcoin, bubbles, banking, and much much more. As I did in Nine, at the ninth anniversary of this blog, and back in May at the second anniversary of the new Speakeasy, I have started a new tradition of sharing samples from the Speakeasy here. For this one, I picked a fun post from back in August. It's about the coat-check room view oTuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| I Call It Irresponsible … |
| So many have contacted me recently regarding Andy Hoffman’s sudden flip flop on silver that I feel it necessary to comment publicly. To be clear, this is not a “hit piece” on Andy, rather using logic and common sense I hope it is some comfort for those worried. I believe what and “how” Andy has acted can be classified as irresponsible for several reasons.
First, as many of you know, I was a branch manager for AG Edwards, my last 12 years as a branch manger. I took fairness, honesty and “the law”Tuesday, November 28, 2017 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| What You Know for Sure that Just Ain’t So! |
| It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
-Mark Twain
We know many things for sure. Examples are:
In 1913 we knew that a European war was unlikely because European countries would not engage in pointless and mutually destructive actions. Later we knew it as “the war to end all wars.”
In 1915 we knew that the war would be over in a matter of weeks.
In 1929 we knew that the stock market had reached a permanently high price plateau.
InThursday, October 19, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Amid Growing Risks And Diminishing Returns From Algos, Former Blackrock Elite Take On Mindless Robots |
| As ZeroHedge readers are keenly aware, 2008 kicked off the largest financial engineering experiment in history – namely, the beginning of 12.3 Trillion in QE and the lowest interest rates in 5,000 years. The plan, hatched by Bush-era Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, created a ‘Fed Put’ underneath the markets first made popular by Alan Greenspan – an implicit guarantee that no matter how bad things got, the Fed would actively combat financial disaster.
As a result, mWednesday, September 27, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Total G-3 Central Bank Control - Craig Hemke |
| There's a lot of amazement and wonder at how the
"stock market" can be up today with the devastating news out of Texas
and the latest North Korean missile launch. Longtime readers of TFMR
know exactly how this market levitation is accomplished so this post is
designed as a public service in order to better educate and inform
everyone else.
Let's just keep it simple...
In 2017...and, actually, since 2008...the
"markets" don't actually exist. Oh sure, there are trades and prices but
in termSaturday, September 2, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Machine Mania in the Marketplace: How Computers Came to Own the World |
| The following article by David Haggith is from The Great Recession Blog:
With 60% of stocks now being traded by bots that fake each other out in order to create buying opportunities, stock exchanges have lost their connection to the reason markets are created in the first place. The exchanges no longer exist as places for people to buy and sell ownership in a corporation. They exist simply as the neural junctions of a conglomerated machine that plays tricks on itself, and your sole goal is no Wednesday, August 2, 2017 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| Our Brave New '''Markets''' |
| One thing is clear: These aren’t your daddy’s markets anymore.
Why? Because about 10 years ago the Rise of the Machines (aka high frequency trading algorithms) completely altered the terrain of what we call the ‘capital markets.’
Let’s look at this as a before and after story.
Before the machines, markets were a place that humans with roughly equal information and reflexes set the prices of financial assets by buying and selling. Fundamentals mattered.
After the machines took over, markets bTuesday, August 1, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Pirates, Arbitrage, and the Silver Flash Crash - Viking Analytics |
| One of the quotes that guides my
investment and trading philosophy is attributed to Benjamin Graham:
In the
short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it is a
weighing machine.
-
Benjamin
Graham
With this quote in mind, I look for
occasions when commodities and stocks have diverged from fundamental value, and
seek to profit from that divergence. Often, the divergences can last
longer than anyone might expect. But, that is a topic for another
article.
In this article,Sunday, July 9, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The End of Markets, Part III - Jeff Nielson |
| We no longer have markets, not in the sense of international
exchanges for human commerce. What we have, instead, is a 24/7 computerized
price-rigging operation – which has hijacked all of our market infrastructure.
The entity responsible for this enormous systemic crime is
very familiar to regular readers:
the
One Bank
. Part II of this series ended with a pledge to provide readers
with evidence. Not evidence of (mere) manipulation. Such evidence exists in
abundance, and a considerable amounWednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The End of Markets, Part II - Jeff Nielson |
| Part
I
of this series presented readers with a grim reality: we no longer have
markets. The trading exchanges which masquerade as markets fall far short of
being legitimate markets, in many key respects.
The precise means by which our once-legitimate markets have
been destroyed is a topic which will be fully explained over the next, two
installments. For now, it will suffice to say that we can easily prove that we
no longer have markets.
All legitimate markets produce price discovery: the
equiTuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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 | Theodore Butler - Butler Research |
A Rigged Game  |
| 76 years ago, “Joltin’ Joe” DiMaggio was in the middle of the hitting streak of streaks that would come to 56 consecutive games and which has remained a major league baseball record to this day. That season (1941), the Yankee Clipper would bat .408 during the epic streak or more than 4 hits for every 10 at bats. Ted Williams, of the Boston Red Sox, had the highest batting average in 1941, hitting .406 for the entire season. What would you say if I told you that a batter had hit 1.000 for an entiThursday, June 22, 2017 |
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| Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| GSB Weekly Review: FED Hikes, Dollar Climbs, Gold Slides |
| Gold and Silver Commentary:
Gold bottomed in December of 2015 and again in December 2016, but gold prices have risen for the past six months. The 50 day moving average (gold, but not yet silver) has crossed above the 200 day moving average – a so-called “golden cross.” Expect higher prices for both gold and silver.
Gold should move higher for several years given the increasingly dangerous global economic conditions, low interest rates and continual fiat currency devaluations. A major stock maFriday, June 16, 2017 |
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 | JS Kim - Smart Knowledge U |
| Gold and Silver Hated Now, Cryptocurrencies Loved. The Debate Rages Onward, and Here’s a Solution! |
| by Republishing rights: This copyrighted article may NOT be reprinted in full elsewhere without the expressed written consent of SmartKnowledge Pte Ltd. However the first three paragraphs may be reprinted, without permission, with a link back to this original article for access to the full article here.
by JS Kim, Founder of SmartKnowledgeU and skwealthacademy
As most of you know, the rise of the cryptocurrency has dominated all financial headlines as of late, compelling many to comment on bullThursday, June 1, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Signs and Portents - Jeff Nielson |
| There is going to be a massive
economic cataclysm
across (at least) the Western world, and it will include
horrific crashes in a number of bubble markets. Not only has this been explained
often to regular readers, but astute individuals will have easily drawn this
conclusion on their own.
The fundamental reasons for this upcoming Crash are as
numerous as they are troubling:
Our economies are bankrupt.
Our governments are only able to
pretend
not to be bankrupt thanks to the fraudulent manMonday, May 8, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Precious Metals in 2017 - Jeff Nielson |
| What can be said about precious metals markets in 2017? Gold
and silver prices slid through most of the final four months of 2016, virtually
wiping out all of the gains of the year.
Regular readers were told
that this was going to happen. It was “the
Fake Rally”
which was the subject of several 2016 commentaries. Readers
were also told to expect a “crash”, both in the broader markets as well as
precious metals.
This is the agenda of the banking crime syndicate known as the
One Bank
. This crTuesday, May 2, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Trading NUGT Play Blackjack Instead - Erik Lytikainen |
| Real gold
is real money; however, in today's financial system it is traded as a paper derivative.
One day, we believe that gold will reclaim its throne at or near the center of
the world monetary system. Until that time, our strategy is to remain long
precious metals in a nimble way, looking for any clues that the market may
provide for near-term price direction.
Most precious metals investors know that gold and silver mining
shares represent a leveraged play on the price of gold and silver. TThursday, April 6, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Blast From the Past: James Cramer On How To Manipulate Markets - |
| Here is a nice synopsis of the various 'legal' and not so legal but overlooked-by-the-snoozing-regulators ways in which the financial trading desks and hedge funds manipulate markets intraday.
In some ways this is from the dark ages, because HFT algos can do the job so much better.
But all the basic principles remain the same, including manipulating the financial news and painting pictures with key markets, like the SP 500 futures for example.
And it is always a plus if your rigging of the mTuesday, March 28, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Russian Roulette, Central Banks, and Gold - Gary Christenson |
| Grab your ultra-reliable 357 magnum revolver and load the cylinder
with six, not one, rounds of ammunition. Point the gun at your head if
you are a member of the struggling middle-class. Imagine pulling the
trigger and hoping …
Do you feel lucky?
The Six Loads of Ammunition for your 357 revolver are:
#1: Central banks and commercial banks exert a huge influence
over all aspects of our financial lives. Paper currencies issued by
central banks, digital currency units, credit card debt, pensioFriday, March 24, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Who Do You Trust-The Lies, Or Your Own Eyes |
| As we commence what could be an historically “PM-bullish, everything-else-bearish” week, the Cartel of course “started us off” with the 178th “Sunday Night Sentiment” attack of the past 187 weekends, followed by the 804th “2:15 AM” raid of the past 921 trading days – “Cartel Herald” algorithms and all. This, as the supposedly all-important “dollar index” remained at the multi-week low hit Friday afternoon, following the LOL, “strong” jobs number. Which of course, I state in “quotes,” given howMonday, March 13, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
 The Cheeto Cometh  |
| Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page!
I dunno about you, but I rather enjoy watching the praetorian Deep State go batshit crazy as the day of Trump’s apotheosis approacheth. I imagine a lot of men and women running down the halls of Langley and the Pentagon and a hundred other secret operational redoubts with their hair on fire, wondering how on earth they can neutralize the fucker in the four days remaining.
What’s left in their trick-bag? Bake a poison cheesecake for the inauguralTuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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