The Market’s Invisible Guardrails Are Missing

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by Michael Lebowitz and Jack Scott The Market’s Invisible Guardrails Are Missing If you have ever driven on California’s Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), you understand risk. For those that haven’t made the drive, you are missing out on a spectacular winding road perched between a steep cliff and the ocean well below. Staying safe on … Read more

The 2020 Election Bamboozle: We Are All Victims of the Deep State’s Con Game

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by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute “We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche…. As long as we go out and buy stuff, we’re at their mercy… We all … Read more

Is this the end of yield?

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by Shaun Richards A feature of my career has been both lower interest-rates and bond yields. There have been many occasions when it did not feel like that! For example I remember asking Legal and General why they were buying the UK Long bond ( Gilt) at a yield of 15%. Apologies if I have … Read more

A Farewell To ARMs: The Adjustable-Rate Mortgage Share Dwindles To 2% In Latest Mortgage Bankers Association Report)

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by confoundedinterest17 Back in 2011, former HUD and Freddie Mac Chief Economist Michael Lea wrote an article entitled “Do We Need the 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage?” We argued that plain vanilla ARMs (without teaser rates and other tricked-up products during the housing bubble) offered consumers advantages over fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs). The answer to that question has just been answered: … Read more

Market uncertainty: gold price, dollar’s key levels to watch now – Gary Wagner

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Kitco News, Released on 10/13/20 With so much uncertainty surrounding the presidential election and fiscal stimulus, how is the gold market digesting the latest news? These are the key support and resistance levels to watch for, says Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com. Gary Wagner has been a technical market analyst for 25 years. A frequent … Read more

Sen. Mazie Hirono: Sen. Mazie Hirono asks ACB if she ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors

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Sen. Mazie Hirono asks ACB "since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?" pic.twitter.com/6JgLkoIXIF — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 13, 2020 But wait there is more! Sen. Cornyn just asked Amy Coney Barrett to hold … Read more

Giuliani and Bannon got their hands on Hunter Bidens laptop – and you are going to bust out laughing when you see what was on it.

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BREAKING: Giuliani and Bannon got their hands on Hunter Biden’s laptop and turned it over to the NY Post and the FBI https://t.co/GIMsmQcMzN — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 14, 2020 https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/amp/?__twitter_impression=true   CO

Confessions from a paid shill.

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I can’t name names for privacy reasons. The gist of what I do is teach computers to do sentiment analysis on social media posts that are of interest to clients, tag them based on their various properties (author, sentiments, keywords, etc), and add them to a giant graph of all social media posts we’re interested … Read more

Another investor taking a 5% stake in GME

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2/4 $GME "Over one or two or three years they can change & improve, for a better outlook, so they are no longer unloved, & get multiple expansion… Situations of rehabilitation and transformation are bumpy, with ups and downs, and we may want to average down on the position… — Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) October 13, … Read more

This bubble can have a massive blow-off top before a major bear market. Let history guide you.

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https://twitter.com/Hoz94s/status/1316110998319882240 Central banks have broken the relationship between bond #yields and the economy! pic.twitter.com/nXQL3ZavFk — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) October 13, 2020 #Gold (and #silver) didn't like that US #inflation number (marginally below expectations) that much… pic.twitter.com/hqgtnbZNMZ — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) October 13, 2020 Cboe intraday U.S. equity put/call ratio currently at the lowest since 2011 … Read more

AMC Theatres could run out of money by the end of the year

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/media/amc-theatres-money-movies/index.html “Boosting liquidity won’t be easy without a return to business-as-usual. It’s exploring additional debt financing, renegotiations with landlords, and even potential sales of assets. But AMC threw cold water on those options. “There is a significant risk that these potential sources of liquidity will not be realized or that they will be insufficient to … Read more

Amazon’s shipping costs:

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Amazon’s shipping costs: 2020 $48.5 billion (estimate)2019 $37.9 billion2018 $27.7 billion2017 $21.7 billion2016 $16.2 billion2015 $11.5 billion2014 $8.7 billion2013 $6.6 billion2012 $5.1 billion2011 $3.9 billion2010 $2.6 billion2009 $1.8 billion2008 $1.5 billion — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) October 13, 2020

Craig Hemke – Unlimited, Endless, Infinite Amount of Dollar Creation. Merry-Go-Round of Money Printing Madness

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Financial writer and precious metals expert Craig Hemke is warning people about guaranteed massive money printing such as the country has never seen before. Hemke says, “Don’t get cute here. Don’t sit there and think gold is going to pull back to $1,800 (per ounce), so I am going to wait. No man, buy some … Read more