One Reason Why Sickcare Is Outrageously Expensive: Needless Scans/Tests
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
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
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Gordon T. Long and Michael Pento discuss financial repression.
EUR/USD Forex Signal For November 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
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 […]
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And Now The Richest .01 Percent
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend it on? As you might expect, personal jets, giant yachts, works of art, and luxury penthouses. And also on politics. In fact, their political spending has been growing faster than their spending on anything else. […]
Fed Inflation Barometer Tumbles To Lowest Since 2008
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Despite The Fed’s Jim Bullard proclaiming last week that inflation expectations had rebounded (by which we assumed he meant the Dow), 5-year forward 5-year inflation expectations just dropped in the US to the lowest since 2008. The rest of the world is no better. In spite of promised and delivered policies Japanese and European inflation expectations are […]
T2108 Update – Apple Watch: An Important Fade From All-Time Highs
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
T2108 Status: 63.3%T2107 Status: 51.6%VIX Status: 14.0General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold (bullish positions); aggressive bears can short with a tight stop at fresh all-time highsActive T2108 periods: Day #21 over 20%, Day #19 over 30%, Day #16 over 40%, Day #14 over 50%, Day #9 over 60% (overperiod), Day #91 under 70% (underperiod) Reference Charts (click […]
The 6 Economic Indicators To Follow This Week
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
This week we will receive a flood of US economic data. Just this morning, US Industrial Production reported a month over month (MoM) decrease of 0.11% in October, missing the Estimize consensus for an increase of 0.23%. Weakness was seen in mining, which fell 0.9% after a 1.6% boost in September, and utilities, which slipped […]
The Japanese GDP Release: The Bad And The Not So Bad
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Instead of a 0.2% q/q increase as in the WSJ survey, GDP declined 0.4% [0] [1] It’s pretty bad news, but here are a couple of observations, following up on my previous post on Japan. Figure 1: Log GDP (blue) and consumption (red), in Ch.05¥, normalized to 2012Q4=0. Source: Cabinet Office, and author’s calculations. First, the drop is in output is […]
5 Great Mid Caps
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index stocks to find 5 with great technical indicators and charts. Today’s list includes Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ), CST Brands (NYSE:CST), Rollins (NYSE:ROL) and SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM): Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR) Barchart technical indicators: 96% Barchart technical buy signals Trend spotter buy signal Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages 19 new […]
Average Gasoline Prices For Week Ending 10 November 2014 At Lowest Level Since November 2010
Nov 18, 2014
Jeremy Parkinson
Entertainment
Econintersect: Average gasoline prices fell an average of 4.7 cents nationwide this past week following the previous week’s 5.2 cent fall from the week before. However, since 06 January 2014, gas prices have fallen 43.3 cents a gallon. Average prices by region and a breakdown by grade follow after “Read more >>”. At the end […]