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 | Dan Popescu - GoldBroker |
| The Gold Standard |
| According to Mises, money’s function as a medium of exchange is thus the central one, while its store of value and unit of account functions are merely subordinate functions. I would say store of value and unit of account is what makes the medium of exchange marketable. The medium of exchange has to be simple to understand, not only by educated people but also the most uneducated. It has to be easily accessed, not only in ideal circumstances but also in difficult ones. Many things have been trieFriday, July 10, 2020 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
Doggie (Life) Style  |
| Disregard disease – Ebola, Zika and whatever else is cooking out there. Things like - rising sea levels, global shortages of fresh water, simmering religious tensions, the potential for wars over mineral resources and what a higher gold price means. Disregard financial calamity, malfunctioning governments and lying sleazebag politicians leading us down the garden path.
Forget about climate change, somebody else can deal with it. Is it to be inflation, disinflation, deflation or stagflation?Wednesday, April 22, 2020 |
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| Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Trump’s perfect gold storm |
| Gold prices continued to march upward on Wednesday, trading at $US1,501.20 on Wednesday as of this writing.
Gold has been on a tear the past month, the beneficiary of an increasingly dovish monetary environment, as central banks around the world cut interest rates and roll out bond-buying programs to stimulate sagging economic growth.
Despite not bearing a yield, gold tends to do well under low interest rates because it holds its value against fiat currencies which rise and fall with interWednesday, August 7, 2019 |
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 | Rory Hall - The Daily coin |
| Gold Eagle Sales Still Faltering While Mining Output Collapses – Perfect Storm |
| It appears we are seeing another sign of the frequency shift. Over the past few weeks we have been speaking more about this shift in terms of spirituality and and community, but today we see it manifesting in a whole other area.
The decline in mining output, by the “world’s largest gold miner”, Barrick Gold, seems to point towards undeniable reasons, as we have been saying for the past year, for gold to climb much, much higher. Gold, and silver, will break the chains of the bullion banks grip asTuesday, May 1, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Is Another Opportunity on Forex Market Lurking Just Around the Corner |
| The combination of several resistances turned out to be a too big challenge for the buyers at the end of the previous week, which resulted in a decline in the greenback on the following days. Does it mean that another profitable opportunity may be just around the corner?
EUR/USD and Bullish Formation
On Friday, we wrote the following:
The first thing that catches the eye on the above chart is an invalidation of the tiny breakdown under the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement and the green zone. YeTuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs
Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary
ISBN number: 978-1-55059-363-1
Copy for inside front cover:
Public relations is "the management function which evaluates public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the public interest, and plans and executes a program of action to earn understanding and acceptance."
Canadian Public Relations Society definition
Title: Barbeques, Booms and BlogsSubSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| “Take a Pill” Thinking and Consequences |
| This article was written for Miles Franklin by Gary Christenson who advocates treating causes, not symptoms.
Headache? Muscle ache? Back ache? Take a pill! An over-the-counter pill will diminish the symptoms and pain. The consequences will come later.
High cholesterol? Take a pill. There are other ways to reduce cholesterol but none that produce $ billions for Big Pharma. Consequences to your body and finances will manifest in other ways.
High Blood Pressure? Take a pill. There are other meansSaturday, March 3, 2018 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Currency exchange value dynamics |
| In a recent article[i] I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the future. The key to understanding why this may be so lies in human reactions to the monetary consequences of the next credit crisis. The undermining of the dollar as a currency affects all other fiat currencies, because it is the reserve currency and all financial markets use Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Shelter From The Storm |
| This article was written for Miles Franklin by Gary Christenson.
Bob Dylan “Shelter From The Storm”
“I bargained for salvation and she gave me a lethal dose.”
What Storm? Why do we need shelter?
The stock market hit all-time highs in January, corrected, and might rally to new highs… or maybe not… See below.
Official unemployment is low if you believe the statistics and ignore the millions excluded from the calculations.
Inflation, according to official numbers, is low. New cars may have doubledTuesday, February 27, 2018 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| A Roman lesson on inflation |
| “While it is the duty of the citizen to support the state, it is not the duty of the state to support the citizen” – President Grover ClevelandThe point President Cleveland made back in the 1880s was that individuals and vested interests had no rights to preferential treatment by a government elected to represent all. For if preference is given, it is always at the expense of others.Those days are long gone, and the last president to take this stance was Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. He was follFriday, February 23, 2018 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Semi Bearish |
| Over the last several years, beginning in 2013 I’ve made post titles like ‘Semi Bullish‘ in response to the bullish leading edge economic cycle indicator, the Semiconductor Equipment sector and its implications for broad stocks and the economy. Those implications of economic acceleration were along these lines… Semi Equipment Book-to-Bill (b2b) → Broad Semi → Manufacturing → Employment → Firm Economy. Shortly after the b2b was noted as bullish the SOX index and the S&P 500 broke out to new highsTuesday, February 20, 2018 |
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| SRSrocco - SRSRocco Report |
| Top Gold Producers Mine Supply To Fall Right When Potential Investment Demand To Surge |
| The gold market is setting up for a perfect storm as the top mining producers’ supply is forecasted to decline right when demand is likely to surge. The surge in gold demand will occur as the broader stock markets roll over and begin their inevitable massive correction. Due to the tremendous amount of leverage in the system, the coming market correction will be quite violent at times. If investors believe the correction is over, and high times are here again, then they haven’t learned anythinTuesday, February 20, 2018 |
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 | Clive Maund |
| Gold Market Update |
| Gold continues to prepare to break out of its giant Head-and-Shoulders bottom pattern. As we can see on its 8-year chart below, this base pattern has been developing for getting on for 5-years now, so it has major implications. Upside volume has been building for a long time, driving volume indicators higher, a sign that a breakout and new bullmarket is simply a matter of time, and not much at that now. There has been much grumbling and muttering within the gold community about how “The Cartel”Monday, February 19, 2018 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| GDX Weathers Stock Selloff |
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gold miners’ stocks weathered the recent stock-market plunge really
well. As evident in their leading GDX ETF, they were already beaten
down before stock markets started falling. The resulting explosion
of fear bled into GDX, forcing it even lower. Nevertheless, no
major technical damage was done. GDX remained well within its
consolidation trend channel and is still within striking distance of
a major $25 breakout.
Gold
stocks’ behavior during stock-marFriday, February 16, 2018 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Solar Storm Will Strike Earth Tonight, ‘Weak Power Grid Fluctuations’ Possible |
| The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts an aurora could light up the sky above areas in the United State including Michigan and Maine. A solar storm, which occurred Monday, is expected to strike Earth tonight.
On Monday, the sun spit out a slew of charged particles in a moderate solar flare. These particles are now making their way towards Earth. The planet’s magnetic field will block most of the particles, but some will make it into Earth’s atmosphere. The particles collect at the nThursday, February 15, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Global Debt Crisis II Cometh |
| – Global debt ‘area of weakness’ and could ‘induce financial panic’ – King warns– Global debt to GDP now 40 per cent higher than it was a decade ago – BIS warn
– Global non-financial corporate debt grew by 15% to 96% of GDP in the past six years
– US mortgage rates hit highest level since May 2014– US student loans near $1.4 trillion, 40% expected to default in next 5 years– UK consumer debt hit £200b, highest level in 30 years, 25% of households behind on repayments
The ducks are beginning to Wednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| It's Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now... |
| Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008.
Remember back then? Everything was going great.
Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful.
The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a new era of permanent prosperity had dawned, thanks to the steady leadership of Alan Greenspan and later Ben Bernanke.
And only a small cadre of cranks, like me, was singing a different tune; warning instead that a painful reckoning in our financial system wTuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Nearly a thousand gold miners trapped underground in South Africa |
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By Allan Seccombe
Business Day, Johannesburg
Thursday, February 1, 2018
About 950 workers are trapped underground at Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in the Free State, after an overnight power failure cause by a lightning strike.
Rescue efforts are under way, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said this afternoon.
At least 40 workers had been brought back to the surface at the gold mine, with 950 miners still below ground at 3 Shaft at Beatrix, the union sFriday, February 2, 2018 |
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| SRSrocco - SRSRocco Report |
| The Coming Market Crash Will Set Off The Biggest Gold Panic Buying In History |
| The leverage in the economic system has become so extreme; investors have no idea of the disaster that is going to take place during the next stock market crash. The collapse of the U.S. Housing and Investment Banking Industry in 2008 and ensuing economic turmoil was a mere WARM-UP for STAGE 2 of the continued disintegration of the global financial and economic system.While the U.S. and the global economy have seemingly continued business as usual since the Fed and Central Banks stepped in and Monday, January 29, 2018 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
Silver as a Strategic Metal and Why Prices Will Soar  |
| The arguments in favor of silver as an investment asset are growing rapidly. In the opinion of the Jackass, silver is the most under-valued hard asset in existence, with the highest potential for price appreciation on the globe. To begin with, central banks own no silver, but do own huge tracts of gold. Industry has huge demand for silver, but a trifling amount for gold demand. The investment demand is another key factor in favor of silver, but also for gold. Ever since the tech telecom bust in Sunday, January 21, 2018 |
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