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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
 Addressing Keith Weiner’s objections to “Gold’s True Fundamentals” |
| A 23rd June post at the TSI Blog described the model (the Gold True Fundamentals Model – GTFM) that I developed to indicate the extent to which the fundamental backdrop is bullish for gold. The GTFM is an attempt to determine a single number that incorporates the most important fundamental drivers of the gold price, where I define “fundamental driver” as something that happens in the economy or the financial markets that causes an increasing desire/urgency to own gold in some form. Keith Weiner Tuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Peter Schiff Warns: “They’re Not Afraid Of Collapsing The Bubble On Trump’s Watch” |
| Investors like Peter Schiff have been predicting the collapse of the American economy for a long time, and for good reason. If an economy is built on a foundation of borrowed money, then that economy is living on borrowed time. However, despite how fundamentally unsustainable our financial system is, it has somehow defied all expectations. It has gone on far longer than any of us could have imagined.
But that could easily change under Trump. Schiff explains in a recent interview with Alex Jones Tuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
| The Money-Velocity Myth |
| For most financial commentators an important factor that either reinforces or weakens the effect of changes in money supply on economic activity and prices is a velocity of money.It is alleged that when the velocity of money rises, all other thing being equal, the buying power of money declines (i.e., the prices of goods and services rise). The opposite occurs when velocity declines.If, for example, it was found that the quantity of money had increased by 10% in a given year, — while the price lTuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| Myopic Metals and Miner Miasma |
| In recent day and weeks, I have slowly moved to the starboard side of the "Vessel of Public Opinion" where most seasoned veterans (aka "old guys") usually wind up; that is to say that I am now officially "cynical" when it comes to the world of investing. Residing in cynicism usually has a few distinct advantages with one being the uncanny ability to have your "bullsh*t meter" on at all times while one glaring disadvantage is that you miss opportunities you might have taken when you were young(erTuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| The Coming Battery Bonanza |
| James Dines, author of The Dines Letter, discusses the importance of graphite in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries and highlights one graphite company he expects to have an edge.
Lithium Batteries for Autos and Home Storage
Someday, as sneaky years whisper past, batteries will be seen to have been a crucial wave of the investing future. Uses for lithium ion batteries (LIB) are expanding and will be the main technology for mobility and stationaryTuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| London Trading Sees Gold Plunge as Italy's Taxpayers Rescue Failed-Bank Investors |
| GOLD TRADING in global wholesale center London saw prices sink at the opening of business on Monday after Italy sidestepped Eurozone rules on banking bail-outs to protect creditors of two failed lenders in the Veneto region around Venice.
Trading $2 lower per ounce in Asia overnight,
the gold price today then plunged $10 from $1254 to hit its lowest Dollar price since mid-May at 9am London time.
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Bond Market Paralysis: What Happens When Central Banks Own the Market? Mish’s Sure-Fire Proposal |
| Here’s the question of the day: What happens when central banks own the market?
The answer comes from Asia where Japan’s Government Bond Market Grinds to a Halt and the yield on 10-year Japanese bonds did not move for seven days.
Yields on newly issued 10-year Japanese government bonds remained flat for seven straight sessions through Friday as the Bank of Japan continued its efforts to keep long-term interest rates around zero.
The 10-year JGB yield again closed at 0.055%, where it has been sMonday, June 26, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Worst Crash In Our Lifetime Coming – Jim Rogers |
| Worst Crash In Our Lifetime Is Coming – Jim Rogers
Legendary investor Jim Rogers sat down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week’s episode of “The Bottom Line.”
Rogers predicts a market crash “later this year or next …. write it down.” Rogers say the crash will rival anything he has seen in his lifetime.
Jim Rogers holds a gold coin (Digital Journal)
Here is a transcript of the Business Insider video:
Blodget: One of the things I’ve always admired about you as an investor is that yMonday, June 26, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Two Italian Banks Fail: Bail-In Rules Changed to Protect ECB and Political Class from Losses? |
| On Friday the ECB Shut Down Venice-based Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza as failed or failing banks.
The bailout cost is purportedly €5.2 billion ($5.8 billion), but costs nearly always exceed initial projections.
Under the announcement, senior bondholders and depositors will be protected.
The European Central Bank said Banco Popular was “failing or likely to fail” due to its dwindling cash reserves. The good assets of Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca will be taken on by ISunday, June 25, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Seymour Hersh: Trump's Red Line |
| The intelligence made clear that a Syrian Air Force SU-24 fighter bomber had used a conventional weapon to hit its target: There had been no chemical warhead. And yet it was impossible for the experts to persuade the president of this once he had made up his mind.
“The president saw the photographs of poisoned little girls and said it was an Assad atrocity,” the senior adviser said. “It’s typical of human nature. You jump to the conclusion you want. Intelligence analysts do not argue with a prSunday, June 25, 2017 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Fumbling and Bumbling |
| As part of our continuing investigations into the Interwar Period, we’ve been looking at a funny episode in 1937.
June 18, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937
October 2, 2017: The Interwar Period, 1914-1944
I think it has been productive to spend all this time on the 1930s. I feel like we are airing out a lot of past confusion and trauma. Of course, many people may not agree with my interpretations and conclusions. But, along the way, they might get the data and materials to come to their ownSunday, June 25, 2017 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| Are the World’s Billionaire Investors Actually Buying Gold? |
| Infographic website Visual Capitalist recently published an eye-catching infographic on behalf of Sprott Physical Bullion Trusts which featured 4 well-known billionaire investors and their supposed investments in gold. The infographic is titled “Why the World’s Billionaire Investors Buy Precious Metals” and can be seen here.
The 4 investors profiled in the infographic are:
Jacob Rothschild (Lord), chairman of London-based investment trust RIT Capital Partners Plc
David Einhorn, president of ManSunday, June 25, 2017 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Governments will smash cryptos whenever they want, von Greyerz tells KWN |
| 7p ET Sunday, June 18, 2017
Swiss gold fund manager Egon von Greyerz today tells King World News that governments will easily smash cryptocurrencies any time they want to and gold and silver eventually will escape price suppression by governments and central banks and begin to reflect the vast inflation of the money supply. As for when, von Greyerz doesn't say. GATA doesn't know when either, only that the World Gold Council and the gold and silver mining industry will do nothing to hasten the dSunday, June 25, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| GE’s Pension Time Bomb: Shortfall $31 Billion and Rising |
| GE has the largest pension shortfall in the S&P 500. It’s a $31 Billion Balance Sheet Hole That Keeps Growing.
At $31 billion, GE’s pension shortfall is the biggest among S&P 500 companies and 50 percent greater than any other corporation in the U.S. It’s a deficit that has swelled in recent years as Immelt spent more than $45 billion on share buybacks to win over Wall Street and pacify activists like Nelson Peltz.
In the last two years, GE spent little more than $2 billion on total pension conSunday, June 25, 2017 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Is Bitcoin a Bubble Set to Burst? |
| The bitcoin price is up roughly 10X over the past two years, so it is understandable why some people believe it is overvalued. If you do a Google search on “Bitcoin Bubble,” you will find nearly 700,000 results. People love to proclaim that bitcoin is a bubble, especially those that missed the inflation of said bubble.
But are they correct? Is it too late to get on board the bitcoin rocket?
Only time will tell, but I suspect that the price of bitcoin will climb many multiples higher before reachSaturday, June 24, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| Gold and Silver Are “Asymmetric” Trades |
| MarketOracle/David Smith/06-23-17
An asymmetric trade is a situation where investing a relatively small amount of money holds the potential of yielding a profit many times the amount of the original sum at risk. In other words, where the risk to reward is skewed massively in the direction of reward.
This took place recently with Bitcoin (BTC). Is this conceptually different from bets made years ago on Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, or Facebook, which yielded hundreds of percent profit to intrepid invSaturday, June 24, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| The fog around gold really isn't so obsolete at all |
| "One Nation Under Gold" author James Ledbetter writes in the Los Angeles Times today that the wealthier people are, the less likely they are to own gold, and that gold is best regarded as an investment by people who can't afford it. Ledbetter observes that Americans still own a lot of gold even as nobody is sure how much.
Indeed, his essay is most interesting for acknowledging the fog that continues to surround gold.
Ledbetter writes: "While we may think that we live in a more accountable era, Saturday, June 24, 2017 |
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 | Phoenix Capital - Gains Pains & Capital |
| The Fed Just Started Pulling the Plug on the Markets |
| Global equity flows might have just peaked.
Bull markets are driven by new capital: you need more money from more buyers to increase buying pressure so that stock prices rise.
However, it looks as though globally investors are tapped out. After months of new capital pouring into the market, global equity fund inflows slowed dramatically in the last week.
And not just a little… by a LOT.
Source: Sober Look
This is a MAJOR warning sign to stock bulls that buying pressure is weakening in the markeSaturday, June 24, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Post “Rate-hike” Manipulations-Are Nearly Dead |
| In 15 years of Cartel, PPT, and Fed “watching,” I’ve not seen anything like the manipulations since Election Day – which is quite amazing, considering the powers that be were clearly aligned with the status quo fronted by Hillary Clinton, and her band of criminal bankers, corporate CEOs, globalist politicians, and “fake news” mainstream media. Why “they” chose to double down their manipulative efforts when the “Red Swan” fought through their historic election-rigging to win the Presidency is beSaturday, June 24, 2017 |
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| Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Cryptocurrency Review: India Legalizes Bitcoin, Ethereum Flash Crash, ICO Update |
| There were plenty of major happenings in the crypto world this week, so let’s dive in…
This week it was announced by the Unicode Consortium, that the 10.0 version of the Unicode Standard will include a Bitcoin symbol.
According to an article in The Verge online magazine, the timely addition won’t appear as a traditional bubble-like emoji, but rather a regular Unicode character, the currency’s B-like symbol. It said, “Unicode 10.0 is dFriday, June 23, 2017 |
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