103: Podcast with Marin Katusa: The best gold investments to make today

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by Simon Black http://traffic.libsyn.com/sovman/103__Podcast_with_Marin_Katusa__The_best_gold_investments_to_make_today.mp3 Today’s podcast is with Marin Katusa. Marin is a world-class resource investor and lead analyst for Katusa Research – his publishing company, where he shares the details of many of the private investments he makes. Marin’s been investing in resource stocks for twenty years. And he’s gained a reputation as a guy … Read more

World War 3 Coming? Israel Is On The Brink Of War With Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria And Iran All At The Same Time

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by Michael Snyder On Thursday, rockets were fired at Tel Aviv for the first time since 2014, and Israel responded by hammering Hamas with airstrikes.  This latest exchange has brought Israel closer to another war with Hamas than ever.  But as you will see below, Israel is also on the brink of war with Hezbollah, Syria … Read more

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada Deflate

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How do they stack up against the most splendid housing bubble in America? Holy cow! Canadian housing markets are in a category of their own. No housing market in the US – no matter how crazy Housing Bubble 1 was, which began to implode in 2006, or how crazy Housing Bubble … Read more

A Precarious Revolution Is Brewing

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Once again profound social and economic forces are changing the nation in ways that are difficult to understand in real time. The American Revolution arose not from politics but from rapid social and economic changes that revealed the precariousness of the colonists’ prosperity. Conventional histories focus on the political context (Boston Tea Party, … Read more

Leading Indicators and Liquidity Declining, Says Variant Perception’s Tian Yang

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Mar 14 – FS Insider interviews Variant Perception’s Tian Yang to get an update on their outlook for the U.S., China and elsewhere. Tian discusses the message coming from leading indicators and liquidity measures… https://static.financialsense.com/audio/2019-03/yang_clip-da02a8765cf.mp3     https://www.financialsense.com/podcast/19003/leading-indicators-and-liquidity-declining-says-variant-perceptions-tian-yang

So far this week for Facebook: Federal criminal investigation; Warren says should be broken up; Blocked Zerohedge; Longest ever outage;Loses head of product… Mark is losing a lot of money

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https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1106377564577247233 https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1106188316251226114 U.S. PROSECUTORS PROBE FACEBOOK'S DATA-SHARING DEALS: NYT oops — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 13, 2019 Facebook Chief Product Officer Resigns Along With WhatsApp Head Facebook stock fell in after-hours trading Thursday, follow an announcement that two executives were leaving the company. In a post on Facebook, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company’s Chief … Read more

Something big coming – Volatility could spike from here

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https://twitter.com/Simple_Trends/status/1106253534058762243 $VX_F $TVIX Close the gap at 12.90 $VX_F & back to the highs? can we explain the vol. suppression with a gap? 🧐@b_seagle @hks55 pic.twitter.com/Ueegi8SJ9l — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) March 14, 2019 Fit this $VIX chart too. h/t @TaviCosta pic.twitter.com/jpUByQR9F2 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) March 14, 2019 SPX500 cash continues to ignore JPM Global PMI plunge … Read more

EU Monetary & Economic Failures

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Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, The monetary, financial and political weaknesses of the EU are about to be exposed by the forthcoming global credit crisis. This article assumes the combination of end of credit cycle dynamics and the rise in trade protectionism in 1929 is a valid precedent for gauging the scale of a … Read more

Which Countries Are Set to Attract the Highest Skilled Workers from Abroad?

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via visualcapitalist: For the world’s most innovative companies, the stated goal of attracting top talent is not simply an HR mantra – it’s a matter of survival. Whether we’re talking about a giant like Google that is constantly searching to add world-class engineers or we’re talking about a startup that needs a visionary to shape products … Read more

Free Fannie? Free Freddie? Those Are the $200 Billion Mortgage-Backer Questions

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by confoundedinterest The Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie were placed into conservatorship with their regulator back in 2008 after housing prices declined and mortgage defaults spiked. But since the catastrophic year of 2008,  Fannie Mae (as an example) generated substantial net revenue after 2008. [This brings into question the wisdom of placing Fannie … Read more

Longtime Stock Market Bull Richard Bernstein: It’s Like March 2000 All Over Again

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via MarketWatch: Bubble?   Plenty of pundits have compared the trading action in today’s market to the bursting of the dot-com bubble, but the latest Wall Street type to make that connection isn’t your typical broken-clock bear. Here’s what longtime bull and Institutional Investor hall of famer Richard Bernstein had to say on CNBC this week … Read more