Now is the Time to Buy Gold Says Barron’

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know brings you the latest stories involving precious metals. Stories include: Barron’s says it’s time to buy gold, Bank of America sees gold soaring above $1,300, and Indonesians snap up gold as currency and …

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Lots of evidence of slowing

by WARREN MOSLER Highlights A marginal headline gain of 0.1 percent in construction spending masks significant declines in residential spending during August. Residential spending fell 0.7 percent in the month to more than offset a 0.2 percent rise in July. …

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Ten Hindenburgs So Far

by Tom McClellan The stock market has been doing something peculiar lately.  In an obvious uptrend, we are starting to see an increasing number of NYSE-listed issues making new 52-week lows.  When the number of New Highs (NH) and New Lows …

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State of the U.S. economy in October 2018

by Troy The stock market and economy move in the same direction over the medium-long term. That’s why it’s extremely important to understand the state of a nation’s economy. Is the economic data improving or deteriorating? Let’s take a look at U.S. …

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US outperformance. Sell the top, buy the bottom

US outperformance. Sell the top, buy the bottom. pic.twitter.com/QeMNFCaj0w — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) October 1, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046538638841053184 Chart: Speculative accounts boosting bets against risk-off assets (gold, VIX, Treasuries) – pic.twitter.com/ey4fEsL4aB — (((The Daily Shot))) (@SoberLook) October 1, 2018 Seven reasons …

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NAFTA 2.0 Won’t “Bring Back Our Jobs”

by Spencer P Morrison, NEE In 1993 President Bill Clinton promised that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would create “a million [American] jobs in the first 5 years.” He also said NAFTA’s “side agreements” would “make it harder than it is today for …

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In a blink, US state and local unfunded pension liabilities jump $2.3 Trillion!

by SpontaneousDisorder https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/fed-accounting-change-boosts-unfunded-pension-obligations-chart In case you missed it, the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Financial Accounts report last week included a change to accounting for state and local pension-fund programs. The central bank revised its data for unfunded liabilities, applying a “projected benefit …

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The Democrats aren’t acting in good faith, and they don’t actually care about these accusations. They just don’t want Trump to be able to fill the seat.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: Republicans Should Not Have Delayed the Kavanaugh Vote. They gave Democrats exactly what they wanted. You have opponents whose first and only objective is delay. From the start of the confirmation proceedings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, …

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What is Happening to Linux?

by axolotl_peyotl I’ve been a casual linux user for over a decade, and while my technological expertise is significantly lacking, there’s something very inspiring about the passion in the linux community, and indeed I’ve found that many of my own …

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