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 | Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management |
| A Logical Approach To Investment Strategy Development |
| Professional Coaches Study The Game And Their Opponents
Successful coaches in any sport break down film to better understand the small details that lead to long-term success. The same principles can be applied to the financial markets, trading, and investing.
Michael Lombardi, who worked with NFL coach Bill Belichick for five years in Cleveland, and then during the 2014 and 2015 seasons in New England, on attention to detail via The Ringer:
Belichick treats every game like a Super Bowl; noMonday, September 18, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| North Korea’s Nuclear Tests Could Trigger A Super Volcano |
| Following North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, nations across the globe are ramping up defense systems and bracing for the worst. But it isn’t only radioactive risks scientists are worried about now. North Korea’s nuclear tests could disturb mountains in the Changbai range, along with the still-active Mt. Paektu, triggering the first eruption since 1903.
“I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets,” exMonday, September 18, 2017 |
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| Dr. Richard S. Appel - Financial Insights |
| THE STAGE IS BEING SET FOR A GLOBAL INFLATIONARY EVENT |
| The U.S. Federal Reserve has aggressively inflated
our money supply during the past dozen years. It has performed
this act in its effort to stimulate our economy and forestall
a potentially damaging period of economic weakness. Prior
to this time, and in ever increasing amounts as the years
passed, dollar credits have hemorrhaged from our nation. This
was largely the resuMonday, September 18, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Venezuela Has Officially Abandoned The Petrodollar – Does This Make War With Venezuela More Likely? |
| This report was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse
Venezuela is the 11th largest oil producing country in the entire world, and it has just announced that it is going to stop using the petrodollar. Most Americans don’t even know what the petrodollar is, but for those of you that do understand what I am talking about, this should send a chill up your spine. The petrodollar is one of the key pillars of the global financial system, and it allows us to live a far higherSunday, September 17, 2017 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
| With a Central Bank, Bank "Deregulation" Can Be a Bad Thing |
| Leading Federal Reserve policymaker Stanley Fischer has hit out at plans to unwind banking regulation, calling it a "terrible mistake."President Donald Trump and republican politicians have advocated the repeal of Dodd Frank, a major piece of post-crisis legislation, and the loosening of some capital and liquidity requirements in a bid to ease banks' ability to lend.In an interview with the Financial Times on August 16, 2017, Fischer said that loosening capital and liquidity requirements is dangSaturday, September 16, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Bitcoin Bloodbath May Become A Massacre As THREE Chinese Exchanges Confirm Shutdowns and More Are Coming |
| The last couple of weeks have seen a virtual bloodbath in crypto currency trading with the majority of all publicly traded digital coins and tokens experiencing losses ranging from 20% to 98%. The carnage began when rumors swirled that China would limit ICO (Initial Coin Offerings) due to rampant fraud and uncertainty. The rumors quickly turned to reality, when earlier this week one of China’s largest centralized crypto exchanges announced that they would be closing their doors to domestic curreSaturday, September 16, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Gold Up, Markets Fatigued As War Talk Boils Over |
| North Korea threatens to reduce the U.S. to ‘ashes and darkness’
Markets becoming used to ongoing provocations from North Korea
Russia and China continue to support watered down versions of sanctions on Kim’s regime
Both NATO and Russia running war games on one another’s borders
Putin says Russia will “give a suitable response” to NATOs threatening behaviour
Gold set to climb as fears over economy and war will drive safe haven demand
Source: Bloomberg
This year North Korea has launched a dozen Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
Mises stands between us and 1984  |
| On this day in 1949 Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s economic treatise, Human Action. Later in 1949 another book appeared, George Orwell’s 1984.
Almost everyone has at least heard of Orwell and 1984. The same is unfortunately not true of Mises and Human Action.
Both books are attached to their authors as if they were extended surnames. Orwell is 1984, Mises is Human Action.
Among the many who’ve read it, 1984 is regarded as a premonition of what could happen if thFriday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Outlook for the dollar price of gold |
| Now that gold has become overbought on Comex, the price is vulnerable to being trashed, yet again, by the too-big-to-fail banks. It is a familiar operation in gold futures markets, where speculators buying contracts protect themselves with stop-losses.All the TBTF banks need is a pause in the speculator’s buying and a little good news (bad for gold). Ideally, the active contract will be running into maturity, so the speculators are forced to put up or shut up: in other words, sell the contract,Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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| Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Massive Equifax Hack Shows Cyber Risk to Deposits and Investments Today |
| 44% of US population affected by Equifax hack
Hackers took names, birthdays and addresses, Social Security and driver’s license numbers
Steve Mnuchin “concerned about the global financial system and keeping it safe,”
Hacks is a reminder of the vulnerabilities created in a connected world
Cyber security is a major threat to both banking and financial industry
Investors should hold physical gold as insurance against hacking and cyber attacks
Last week 143 million people woke up to the news that Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| The Golden Revolution, Revisited: Chapter 10 |
| This Insight continues the serial publication of the new, Revisited edition of my book, The Golden Revolution (John Wiley and Sons, 2012). (The first instalment can be found here.) The book is being published by Goldmoney and will also appear as a special series of Goldmoney Insights over the coming months. This instalment comprises the fifth chapter of Section II.View the Entire Research Piece as a PDF here.An Unstable Equilibrium“A Nash equilibrium is defined as a strategy combination with theWednesday, September 13, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Irma Veers West, Heads for Tampa: 5.6 Million Asked to Evacuate, Largest Evacuation in History, Full-Scale Emergency in Keys |
| The hurricane models now suggest Irma will veer west, missing a direct hit on Miami. Instead, expectations are the storm will track up the West coast of Florida towards Tampa. Winds died down to 125 MPH over Cuba, making Irma category 3, but the models expect Irma to be category 4 when it strikes Southern Florida.
Here is the latest from AccuWeather as of 11:32 EDT.
After blasting the northern Caribbean, deadly Hurricane Irma will turn toward the United States, unleashing destructive winds, flSaturday, September 9, 2017 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| Who’s Going To Eat The Losses? |
| Unsustainable.
Many more people need to understand what that word really means, and how it applies to pretty much everything in the current human living arrangement. Especially the so-called 'developed' nations.
Here’s the dictionary definition:
Let's take these three definitions one at a time.
First: our entire economic model, which dependent on borrowing at a faster rate than income (GDP) grows, is something that simply cannot be maintained at its current rate or level. Check.
Second: depletiSaturday, September 9, 2017 |
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 | Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital |
| Blowing Off The Roof |
| Of all the absurd Washington pantomimes none has been as reliably entertaining and maddening as the annual debates to raise the debt ceiling. Although the outcome was always a foregone conclusion (the ceiling would be raised), the excitement came when fiscal conservatives bemoaned the perils of runaway debt and “attempted” to exact spending restrictions through threats “to shut down the government,” (which often led to news coverage of tourists being turned away from national parks.) On the otheSaturday, September 9, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Hurricane Harvey Ripple Effects: Assessing the Impact on Housing and GDP |
| Black Knight reports Hurricane Harvey could Lead to 300,000 new mortgage delinquencies. How does this compare to Katrina? And what about GDP?
Via Email from Black Knight
Hi Mish,
As we watch Hurricane Irma barreling through the Caribbean, on her way to Florida, Black Knight is releasing an updated and expanded analysis around the potential impact of Hurricane Harvey, which remains a very real and tragic situation.
FEMA-designated disaster areas related to Hurricane Harvey are home to 1.18 millFriday, September 8, 2017 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| Major Gold-Stock Breakouts |
| The
gold stocks are off to the races again, with big gains mounting.
They just staged major breakouts, shattering a vexing consolidation
that had trapped them for an entire year. Such momentum early in
gold’s strong season is a very-bullish portent. As higher prices
improve both technicals and sentiment, buying begets more buying.
With gold-stock prices still quite low in secular terms, their
upside remains huge.
Gold
stocks are a small contrarian sector wiFriday, September 8, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| GOLD HAS BROKEN OUT – DON’T BE LEFT BEHIND |
| The coming gold and silver moves in the next few months will really surprise most investors as market volatility increases substantially.
It seems right now that “All (is) quiet on the Western Front” as Erich-Maria Remarque wrote about WWI. Ten years after the Great Financial Crisis started and nine years after the Lehman collapse, it seems that the world is in better shape than ever. Stocks are at historical highs, interest rates at historical lows, house prices are booming again and consumersFriday, September 8, 2017 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| Silver: The Red-Headed, Freckle-Faced Stepchild |
| In grade school, I had a classmate named Craig McVeigh who was easily one of the most maligned kids in the school because as a big lad standing a full hand width taller than anyone and weighing thirty pounds more than anyone, he was never allowed to play in any sports that involved physical contact. Craig was fair, with bright, curly red hair with freckles adorning most of his exposed skin. Most of all, this lumbering giant of a boy was decidedly unlucky. He couldn't catch a break with a butterfFriday, September 8, 2017 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Further thoughts on Gibson’s paradox |
| “The paradox is one of the most completely established empirical facts in the whole field of quantitative economics.” – John Maynard Keynes“The Gibson paradox remains an empirical phenomenon without a theoretical explanation” -Friedman and Schwartz“No problem in economics has been more hotly debated.” - Irving FisherIntroductionTwo years ago, I found a satisfactory solution to Gibson’s paradox.i The paradox is important, because it demonstrated that between 1750-1930, interest rates in Britain cFriday, September 8, 2017 |
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 | Michael J. Kosares - USA Gold |
| When the United States Owned Most of the Gold on Earth |
| Few Americans know that, just after World War II, the United States owned most of the gold bullion on earth – about 22,000 metric tonnes. In fact by 1945, it owned over 80% of the gold held by nation-states and central banks – an impressive display of economic power. Now it owns just over 8000 metric tonnes, which reprThursday, September 7, 2017 |
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