Keiser Report: Scams on Wall St the same, just repackaged

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOIqSn-dFfQ In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss JP Morgan stacking silver in response to Max Keiser and also about the whistleblower claiming the VIX index is manipulated. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about manipulation of the volatility index and the collapse of some of its … Read more

Canada Will be the Most Impact by a Steel Tariff

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by Martin Armstrong Canada is the largest exporter of steel to the United States. The decline in the Canadian dollar has helped this trend in particular. Trump is clueless when it comes to the impact of currency on foreign trade. If he wants to do tariffs, they MUST be indexed to the currency. Failure to do that … Read more

Dan Mitchell: Is There An Endgame For Us Debt?

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via misesmedia Economist Dan Mitchell joins Jeff Deist to discuss what might be the biggest threat of all to American prosperity: the shocking and unconscionable US government debt. What does $20 trillion in Treasury IOUs really mean for the private economy? Will the US government ever default and force bond holders to take a well-deserved haircut—or … Read more

Has Bitcoin Infected Wall Street?

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By Adam O’Dell It’s been difficult for me to believe that bitcoin (!) – the wackiest of financial products – could ever infect traditional capital markets. “It’s so fringe. It has to be a fad,” I’ve thought. But now, I’m beginning to change my mind. Harry’s found a quite interesting link between the ups and downs of bitcoin… and the stock … Read more

Bull Market Staple Being Tested Again

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by Dana Lyons An Up trendline has supported a popular consumer staples ETF without fail on several occasions since the 2009 low; it is under attack again at the moment. We can glean a lot about the state of the overall stock market during a correction and its reaction. One interesting observation from the current correction … Read more

The Market's Junk Problem

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Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, The market has a big junk problem and it’s very evident when taking a close look at the chart of $JNK, the high yield bond ETF. It’s been a brilliant technical indicator as of late and was one of the signals employed in fading the rally earlier in the week. … Read more

Categorizing Media Bias In One Chart

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by SP Someone has attempted to categorize the biases of the different media outlets and organize that on one big chart.  It is very interesting effort. Here is the big chart: http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/media-bias-chart_3.0_Hi-Res.jpg And here a slightly smaller rendering (that is hard to read). I believe that this approach fails badly.  I have found things of … Read more

Inflation Is Here, Stock Market Back To Normal?

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The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: Inflation Is Already Here The recent indictment of several traders caught manipulating the precious metals markets was met with a relative shrug by the overall markets. Evidence that inflation is not only on the way, but already here, continues to mount. There is so much perception masquerading … Read more

What the Latest “Warren Buffett Warning” Means for You

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From Birch Gold Group In his annual letter to investors, Warren Buffett made a somewhat shocking disclosure. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, now has a cash-on-hand balance of more than $116 billion. That massive pile of cash exists because Mr. Buffett makes decisions that end up producing stable, consistent returns. Each year, Berkshire releases an annual letter, and … Read more

GLD and SLV As Good As Gold?

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ITM Trading, Released on 3/1/18 One of the most asked question is if GLD is the same as owning gold. Like all Wall Street fiat money products, ETFs are actually a contract where the individual investor agrees to pay all the costs, run most of the risks and diminishes daily. Since the most important function … Read more

It’s the Fed, Yanking The Punchbowl

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by Tom McClellan We were having a perfectly nice low-volatility uptrend until Jan. 26, and everyone was happy.  Since then, the inverse VIX ETN known as XIV has blown up (a great case of a “burning LOH” marker), and traders are starting to remember that stock prices actually can go down.  So why now? As with most … Read more

Michael Pento: Currencies Will Be ‘Flushed Down the Toilet’ Triggering a ‘Mad Rush into Gold’

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Money Metals Exchange, Released on 3/2/18 Click Here to Listen to the Interview – *the interview begins at 5:09 https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-180302-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 Michael shares his very troubling outlook for the 10-year Treasury note, the tipping point that will cause the destruction of confidence in the dollar and what this all means for gold prices.   Michael Pento is … Read more