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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Gulag of the Mind |
| Befuddled and blind, we wander toward the cliff without even seeing it, focusing on our little screens of entertainment and self-absorption.
There are no physical barriers in the Gulag of the Mind–we imprison ourselves and love our servitude. Indeed, we fear the world outside our internalized gulag, because we’ve absorbed the narrative that the gulag is secure and permanent.
We’ve also absorbed the understanding tMonday, August 12, 2019 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Is the Economic Summer Coming |
| Cycles, cycles everywhere. We’ve already discussed the current state of the U.S. business cycle, arguing that the expansion should last for a while, although it is more advanced than in Europe. However, business cycles aren’t the only creatures living in an economic zoo. They are simply the most popular within the modern macroeconomics. The post-war business cycles lasted, on average, almost 6 years. But economists distinguished also shorter cycles, called Kitchin inventory cycles, which are belSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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 | Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| Why The Next Oil Boom Will Be Fueled By Blockchain |
| Big Oil is due for a disruption.
The world’s most important industry has been carrying on without any significant changes in its day to day routine for far too long.
But now, the new tech on the block has its sights set on the multi-trillion-dollar oil and gas sector.
It’s official: Blockchain technology has infiltrated Big Oil.
The hype behind blockchain has reached a full-blown frenzy. And for good reason.
The technology, which creates secure ledgers for digital transactions and rapidly acceleSaturday, February 24, 2018 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
 Some Reflexions on History and Economics  |
| Nicolas Oresme, a Catholic bishop (1320-1382), studied human behavior with regard to money, which in his time consisted of gold and silver coinage; he was perhaps the first to observe that humans attribute varying valuations to the money that comes into their hands. He stated that holders of gold and silver coins prefer to tender their most deteriorated coins in payments, and retain the most bright, shiny and perfect of their coins. Thus, he was the true originator of what has come to be known aMonday, January 22, 2018 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Robot Dystopian Hellish Apocalypse: ‘It WILL Eventually Affect YOU!’ |
| As human beings continue to make enormous strides in the artificial intelligence technology, many continue to sound the alarm that it’s already gone too far. Some are warning that this imminent robot dystopian apocalypse “will eventually affect you.” But by then, it might be too late.
Pulling no punches, Joe Joseph of The Daily Sheeple says that this kind of a future is already here, and the elites “solution” to this problem (universal basic income) will result in a societal collapse of a magnitThursday, January 18, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Replacing Cashiers With Robots "Just Makes Sense" Jack-in-the-Box CEO |
| As minimum wages rise, so does the push to get rid of workers.Leonard Comma, CEO of Jack-in-the-Box says the company is considering swapping some cashiers for self-ordering kiosks . "It just makes sense to consider replacing cashiers with machines as minimum wages rise," said Comma.
Jack in the Box previously tested technology such as kiosks. According to Comma, the kiosks resulted in a higher average check and helped with efficiency. But at the time Comma said the cost of installing the kioskWednesday, January 10, 2018 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| Melt-up, Up, and Away |
| While the moniker for this missive is "Gold and Gold Miners," I just sit back in absolute AWE as the global equity investors (otherwise known as "Stock jockeys") have decided that "cash is TRASH!" and despite a massive "miss" in the employment numbers this morning, within seconds of the release, the spin doctors manning the equity trading desks deemed that number "bullish" because it is less inflationary and may cause the Fed to "pause." So dollar-yen rallies, the USD index has a minor pop, goldSunday, January 7, 2018 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| A.I. Is Taking Over Bit By Bit: The Implication Of Rapidly Improving Artificial Intelligence |
| Recognizing the human voice, new tech gadgets can play music, search the web, shop online, check the weather, and even switch on the lights or control the central heating. But while we get to know these new interactive electronics, a report last week sounded the alarm over the implications of rapidly improving artificial intelligence.
They listen, they talk and very soon, according to some experts, they will be taking over our homes, our jobs and our lives. Thousands of Americans unwrapped voiceThursday, January 4, 2018 |
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| Michael Ballanger |
| COT Report: Predictably Stomach Churning but Bullish |
| Here is a really good question. Anyone out there lose money trading gold and silver or related mining shares in the past couple of months? I did. My friends did. The bulk of the managed money (hedge fund) players did. However, it's all "JUST FINE" because the Dow and the S&P hit all-time highs again as the last vestiges of the post-2008-GFC rescue reflation is now SURGING into paper assets. More importantly, those bullion bank millennials that were hired by their uncles and fathers and grandfathTuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| ONLY CONTRARIANS WILL SURVIVE |
| We are currently standing before one of the most unique and frightening periods in history. Never have there been so many extremes in so many different areas. In the last 100 years everything seems to have developed so much faster, including population, technology, inflation, debt, money printing, budget deficits, stock, bond and property prices, crypto currencies etc.
All of these areas are now in an exponential growth phase. The final stage of exponential growth is explosive and looks like a sSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Profit, Protection, Despite Cartel Interventions—November 2017 Update |
| Governments love [the war on cash]. Then they can control you...we are not going to have as many freedoms as we have now ...get prepared because we're going to have the worst economic problems we've had in your lifetime or my lifetime and when that happens a lot of people are going to disappear.“…the next time aroWednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The productivity myth |
| Every now and then, there’s a rash of commentary on national productivity. And for the British, productivity is all part of the Brexit angst, with the OECD, the Treasury, the Bank of England and Remainers all saying the average Brit’s poor productivity just goes to show how much they need the certain comfort of being in the EU. As Hilaire Belloc put it, we must hold on to nurse, for fear of something worse.Only this week, the OECD came out with a paper repeating its disproved nonsense about the Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
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 | Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors |
Bitcoin is Not New and Improved Money  |
| Cryptocurrencies are being billed as a new and improved form of money that has been offered to us courtesy of technological evolution. There is a big problem with this conclusion. That is, digital money is not money at all. And proving this truth serves to underscore why gold has been utilized as the best form of money for thousands of years.
In the 2013 film titled “Her,” lonely Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falls in love with Samantha, an operating system. Despite Samantha’s lack of phyWednesday, October 4, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The US Military Is Quietly Building SkyNet |
| This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.com
Maybe Elon Musk had a point…
The US’s military leaders have agreed on a strategy to guarantee the US military retains its global dominance during the twenty-first century: Connect everything with everything, as DefenseOne describes it. The result? An unimaginably large cephapoloidal nervous system armed with the world’s most advanced weaponry, and in control of all military equipment belonging to the world’s most powerful armMonday, October 2, 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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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Rise Of The Machines: U.S. Military to Have More ROBOT Soldiers Than Human by the Year 2025 |
| Warfare is being reinvented. Like a scene out of The Terminator, the future of warfare is destined to include robot soldiers, unmanned aerial assault, and self-driving, weaponized vehicles. An $11 million contract approved by the Pentagon has been awarded to Six3 Advanced Systems. The US Department of Defense is calling on Six3 to “design, develop, and validate system prototypes for a combined-arms squad.” By the year 20Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Made in the USA (by Robots): China to Open Sewbot Factory in Arkansas, Producing Shirts for 33 Cents |
| A Chinese T-shirt company is setting up shop in Arkansas, lured by U.S. sewbots and lower production costs. It will cost about 33 cents to produce a shirt.
Please consider China Snaps Up America’s Cheap Robot Labor.
“Made in America” will soon grace the labels of T-shirts produced by a Chinese company in Little Rock.
By early 2018, Tianyuan Garments Co., based in the Suzhou Industrial Park in eastern China, will unveil a $20 million factory staffed by about 330 robots from Atlanta-based SoftweThursday, August 31, 2017 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
| Do Seasonal Adjustments Help Identify Business Cycles |
| Various statistics that governments produce on a regular basis carry the label "seasonally adjusted". What is the meaning of this label? According to popular thinking the data that is observed over time (labelled as time series) is determined by four factors, which are:The trend factorThe cyclical factorThe seasonal factorThe irregular factorIt is accepted that the trend determines the general direction of the data over time, while the cyclical factor causes movements that are related to the busFriday, August 18, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Robot Caused Anxiety: Blame the Robots, Even for the Election |
| Robots are taking our jobs says the Brookings Institute.
This causes “Robot Anxiety“, but not everywhere, just in the Red states that swung the election to Trump.
Robots, it turns out, are congregating densely in some places but are hardly found in others. Specifically, the map makes clear that while industrial robots are by no means everywhere, they are clustered heavily in a short list of Midwestern and Southern manufacturing states, especially the upper Midwest.
More than half of the nationMonday, August 14, 2017 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Make Way for Uncle Buck |
| By: Gary TanashianIt has been a contrarian trade that has not yet worked out; by that I mean my short position on the Euro and preparation for a firming US dollar. Yesterday the market cheered the supposedly dovish Fed, and USD got smeared again as the world’s counter party paper boosted assets far and wide… on nothing but perceptions and a hell of a lot of momentum and gaming on FOMC day.USD opened weak again today but so far at least, is sporting a Hammer which, if it stays in play, would be aFriday, July 28, 2017 |
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