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Financial Repression Authority With Doug Casey

Financial Repression Authority With Doug Casey

This is a PODCAST from the back provinces of Argentina. The audio quality is the best the technology would allow. The content of Doug Casey’s views and understanding make it worth the listen!
US Pension Insurer Needs A Bailout

US Pension Insurer Needs A Bailout

A Growing Shortfall The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is insuring the pensions of more than 40 million Americans employed in the private sector that have defined benefit pensions. We hadn’t been aware that it has run deficits for 12 years running, but it apparently has – and it is adding up. At the moment, the fund […]
One Can’t Argue With Success

One Can’t Argue With Success

Early this morning, when the ES was down double digits, an esteemed Sloper made this remark: Comments like this, for someone like me, are really, really annoying. They are also really, really correct. Which makes them doubly annoying (to be clear, I’m just ribbing pipesticks; I’m actually not annoyed). But the fact is that the BTFD crowd has been […]
Multiple Expansion Is Over, Goldman Warns, “US Stocks Will Close 2015 Only 5% Higher”

Multiple Expansion Is Over, Goldman Warns, “US Stocks Will Close 2015 Only 5% Higher”

The reason why moments ago we showed a chart demonstrating that all of the surge in the S&P500 from the October lows can be explained with multiple expansion… … Is that in a world in which there is no more multiple-expansion – which is merely hope of cheap and easy money – and where the S&P has […]
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                        Can You Handle An All-Weather Portfolio?

EC Can You Handle An All-Weather Portfolio?

The internet is buzzing this week about an article written by Tony Robbins touting an “all weather” portfolio developed by famed hedge fund investor Ray Dalio. While Tony is certainly a polarizing figure and life coach, the real meat of this story is in the structure of an investment plan to ride out any storm.   The […]
The End Of Manipulation In Precious Metals?

The End Of Manipulation In Precious Metals?

The Swiss regulator Finma confirmed that it found irregularities on the gold and silver markets by employees of the Swiss banking giant UBS, another step in the fight against the manipulation of precious metals. Earlier this year, the British Barclays was also found guilty regarding irregularities on the precious metals markets. Finma’s investigation is part […]
Dollar Tree Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates, Ups Fiscal ’14 View

Dollar Tree Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates, Ups Fiscal ’14 View

Dollar Tree Inc. (DLTR – Analyst Report) came up with better-than-expected results for third-quarter fiscal 2014, wherein both its top and bottom lines beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate and also registered significant year-over-year growth. The discount variety store operator’s adjusted earnings of 69 cents per share for the quarter were nearly 19% higher than the year-ago comparable quarter’s […]
No One Told You When To Run, You Missed The Starting Gun

No One Told You When To Run, You Missed The Starting Gun

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull dayYou fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home townWaiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.You are young and life is […]
October 2014 Leading Economic Index Up Sharply, Good Growth Predicted Throught The Holiday Season

October 2014 Leading Economic Index Up Sharply, Good Growth Predicted Throught The Holiday Season

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.S. improved sharply 0.9% over last month. The index growth has been noisy but remains in a growth trend. This index is designed to forecast the economy six months in advance. The market expected growth of 0.2% to 0.7% (consensus 0.5%) in the LEI (versus the […]
Trading Stocks Using The 50 Day Exponential Moving Average

Trading Stocks Using The 50 Day Exponential Moving Average

Trend following is just that…follow the trend. If you are long one of the strongest suggestions I can make is trade long when above at least the 50 day exponential moving average. Watch this short video in order to enhance your trend following skills… Video Length: 6:33