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Dollar Broadly Mixed As Corrective Forces Try To Take Hold

Dollar Broadly Mixed As Corrective Forces Try To Take Hold

The overall theme today appears to be one of consolidation, encouraged by European data, which included a slightly higher than expected UK CPI and a considerably better German ZEW survey. Japan’s Prime Minister Abe has not disappointed the market; delaying the sales tax hike and calling for elections next month.    Still, the major currencies are […]
Gold & Future – Looking Brighter

Gold & Future – Looking Brighter

The emails now favor those who are reformed gold “investors” with still some diehard believers in fiat, manipulations, and paper gold. Futures have existed since Babylonian times and have had the exact opposite impact as claimed – they expand liquidity and thus make that market more suitable for trading be it stocks, bonds, or commodities. […]
Japan Slips Into Recession

Japan Slips Into Recession

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has made restoring the Japanese economy to significant growth and the ending of a 20 year run of deflation the priorities of his administration. In order to do this, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has adopted even more accommodative monetary policies including an aggressive asset purchase scheme and there has been […]
Wrinkles Of The Swiss Gold Referendum

Wrinkles Of The Swiss Gold Referendum

How Relevant is the Swiss Referendum to the Gold Price? Regular readers will already know the answer to this question, while readers not familiar with our previous discussions of this particular topic should take a look at a recent post by Mish that does an excellent job of explaining the issue in the context of the gold […]
October 2014 Sea Container Counts Showing Exports Falling Of The Proverbial Cliff

October 2014 Sea Container Counts Showing Exports Falling Of The Proverbial Cliff

Export container counts continue to weaken, which is a warning that the global economy is slowing. Export three month rolling averages continue to decelerate – being in negative territory year-over-year. This is a headwind for 4Q2014 GDP. Container counts are a good metric to gauge the economy. Consider that imports final sales are added to GDP […]
On Obama And The Nature Of Failed Presidencies

On Obama And The Nature Of Failed Presidencies

We do not normally comment on domestic political affairs unless they affect international affairs. However, it is necessary to consider American political affairs because they are likely to have a particular effect on international relations. We have now entered the final phase of Barack Obama’s presidency, and like those of several other presidents since World War II, […]
TapImmune Shares Gain 28% On Pending Catalysts And Published Comments By CEO

TapImmune Shares Gain 28% On Pending Catalysts And Published Comments By CEO

Shares of TapImmune, Inc. (OTCBB:TPIV)  rose nearly 30% on Monday after the firm was mentioned positively by analysts reacting to recently published comments by Chairman & CEO Glynn Wilson, PH.D. Wilson, in an exclusive interview with Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review estimates the Seattle-based company will be worth more than a $1 billion in just five years. The U.K. Based Life Sciences […]
One Reason Why Sickcare Is Outrageously Expensive: Needless Scans/Tests

One Reason Why Sickcare Is Outrageously Expensive: Needless Scans/Tests

Add easy profits from needless tests to defensive medicine and no cost controls or real competition, and we have the perfect formula for waste, fraud, profiteering, bad medicine and dysfunctional, unaffordable healthcare. Why is sickcare (a.k.a. “healthcare”) absurdly unaffordable in America? There are many structural reasons which I have covered in depth for years, but one […]
Financial Repression Authority With Michael Pento

Financial Repression Authority With Michael Pento

Gordon T. Long and Michael Pento discuss financial repression. 
EUR/USD Forex Signal For November 18, 2014

EUR/USD Forex Signal For November 18, 2014

EUR/USD Signal Update Yesterday’s signals expired without being triggered. Today’s EUR/USD Signals Risk 0.75% Trade only between 8am and 5pm London time. Short Trade 1 Go short following bearish price action on the H1 time frame immediately following the next touch of 1.2562. Place the stop loss 1 pip above the local swing high. Move the […]