Current market conditions place our evaluation of the expected market return/risk profile in the most negative classification we identify.
Argentina’s former economic minister, Axel Kicillof, became famous for his assertion that it is possible to centrally manage the economy now because we have spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.
The greatest achievement of this administration is an economic disaster and a political humiliation.
All over the nation people are getting hit. My health insurance company wanted to nearly double the rate I was paying when Obamacare fully kicked in.
The net worth of the world’s richest person Bill Gates hit $90 billion on Friday, fueled by gains in public holdings including Canadian National Railway Company and Ecolab Inc. Gates’s fortune is now $13.5 billion bigger than that of the world’s second-wealthiest person, Spanish retail mogul Amancio Ortega, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. At $90 billion, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder’s net worth is equal to 0.5 percent of U.S. GDP.
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"It enslaves us and future generations..." -- Mike MaloneyThis week, the Fed launched a disastrous PR campaign - their very own Facebook page. And the comments have been pouring in! In this video, Mike weighs in on this nightmare and reminds us of the evil system the Fed created that transfers wealth from us to the banking system. Be sure to watch episode 4 of Mike's hit YouTube series the Hidden Secrets of Money to learn exactly how the Fed pulls off this scam. Even if you've seen it before, it's worth a second viewing.
Right now, gold is behaving more like money than a commodity or investment. It is competing with central bank fiat money for asset allocations by investors.
MPT is a financial theory from the 1950’s that attempts to maximize portfolio expected return for a given amount of risk by carefully choosing the percentage exposure to various assets; with the assumption that a collection of investment assets has collectively lower risk than any individual asset.
According to the public affairs person at the U.S. Mint, the rumor that Silver Eagle production was halted due to lack of demand, is not true.
“What people have to understand here is what you think of as a market, two rational people exchanging goods at a certain price that works for both of them, is not what happens here. The price is discovered for the paper derivative itself, and it is determined by electronic high-frequency trading.
Money velocity is the last variable in the currency equation.
Where or where would we be if price formation had not been dominated by a futures market that long-ago morphed from it’s humble origins as a...
Billionaire Crispin Odey recently released a management letter to his hedge fund clients praising gold and explaining gold products constituted the next, great investment wave. He is yet another in a wave of billionaires who have all, suddenly, been moving massive portions of their portfolio into gold… with one of the latest being George Soros, who […]
just consider three fundamentals that scream out danger ahead. Namely, public debt ratios continue to rise, GDP continues to flat-line, and the Eurozone superstate in Brussels continues to kick the can and bury its member states in bailout commitments that would instantly result in political insurrection in Germany, France and every other major European polity were they ever to be called……
A steady trend is emerging at the US Federal Reserve, a change in thought process from data dependent to concern for market stability if rates rise too fast
when the US economy slides into the next sharp recession, no less than $4 trillion in QE will be needed to stabilize the economy, bringing the Fed's total holdings of government bonds to well over 30%.
This type of mentality usually leads to large losses rather than big gains. There isn’t any real opportunity for growth in the SPX that I can see right now. Dow Theory: Market Indexes Must Confirm Each Other The
What the world is witnessing, without actually paying much attention, is the death of our debt-based economy — that is, borrowing the means to thrive in the now from a future that can’t really furnish it anymore. Read on →