Don’t Get Excited About Gold’s Mini-Rally: A Bigger Move Lower Is Likely Around The Corner

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by Przemyslaw Radomski via Sunshine Profits Gold seems to be sleeping off its latest mini-rally and lacks the momentum to reach new highs. What happens from here? Has the USD bottomed? And what does it mean when we factor in the EUR/USD pair and poor economic indicators from Europe into the equation? Not much happened yesterday (Jan. 21), … Read more

Cantillon Effect: Real Estate Prices Must Go Up? US Home Inventories Collapsing While Rents Collapse

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by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Rents in many major metro areas in the US are collapsing during the pandemic, evictions are frozen (for now at least) and at least 15 million Americans have their mortgages on forbearance. And yet despite all of this, inventories of homes for sale in the US is collapsing? FULL … Read more

Texas Governor Abbott Immediately Orders National Guard Troops Home After Biden Mistreatment

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Anger continues to grow over President Biden’s mistreatment of our troops on day 1 in office. I have instructed General Norris to order the return of the Texas National Guard to our state. @TexasGuard — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 22, 2021 In case you missed the earlier story the National Guard troops have been order … Read more

Gamestop options gamma above $60

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by cclagator One result of Gamestop’s move today is it ran out of options strikes above $60. Until new strikes are listed that takes away the short gamma effect of upside calls on the stock. That short gamma effect goes like this, a ton of retail buyers pile into upside calls, and leave the sell side … Read more

Trump’s Final Action Against China

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President Trump may be gone, but one of the Trump Administration’s final acts was a major swipe at the Chinese Communist Party—labelling the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims “genocide.” And that’s aimed and ensuring Biden China relations stay on the course that Trump set.  

Google made $3.7B off Australia and paid $46M in taxes. That’s a tax rate of barely more than 1%. And now that the Australian govt is demanding more than 1%, Google is threatening to cut off services.

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by FringeCenterPodcast This is the reality of how these companies operate and why laws need to be changed on how they’re viewed. About 95% of traffic from Australia goes through Google. Most small businesses use their ad features for their livelihood. This ridiculous idea that you can “just make your own” needs to stop being … Read more

No Taxation Without Reform

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: In your opinion, how serious is the idea of taxing unrealized capital gains? That would sure make the decision a lot clearer for big money on where to park. 3% in China sure beats big taxes in the Dow. Unless big money doesn’t trust China. DS ANSWER: I seriously doubt that they … Read more

Donald Trump is the first outgoing US president not to handover the ‘nuclear football’ at inauguration

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During a normal inauguration ceremony, the “nuclear football”, containing all the kit the president needs to launch a nuclear strike, is handed over from one presidential aide to another at the stroke of noon. The handover of the 45 pound leather-covered metal briefcase, and an accompanying card with authentication codes – known as the “nuclear … Read more

China Is Struggling To Keep Up With Electricity Demand

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By Irina Slav The cold spell that left Asian countries scrambling to buy enough natural gas for heating and electricity generation earlier this month made headlines and spurred a massive rally in spot gas prices on the regional market. It also highlighted a problem with China’s electricity consumption: it grew too much, too fast. Reuters’ John … Read more

Gerald Celente: BIDEN PRESIDENCY = THE OBAMA TEAM 2021

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Trends Research, Released on 1/21/21 Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered … Read more

NY to Lose Financial Capital of US to Miami?

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by Martin Armstrong The first financial capital of the United States was Philadelphia. A walk down Chestnut street and you will see all the old banks which have been turned into mostly restaurants. That was the home of the Bank of the United States which Andrew Jackson was intent on destroying. But Philadelphia continued to … Read more

K-Wave – Real or Not?

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: What is your opinion on Kondratieff Waves? EH ANSWER: All those investigating cycles within the economy made a simple mistake. Kondratieff followed agriculture/commodity prices when agriculture accounted for 70% of the GDP pre-19th century. That only began to decline from 1850 forward, dropping to 40% by 1900 as the Industrial Revolution emerged with … Read more