Here are today’s gold stock screens and data, along with cycle conditions and projections for gold and HUI index, and Chart of the Day...
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If we look at tax revenues and income in a practical way, we find "tax the rich" will not close the widening $1.5 trillion gap between Federal revenues and spending.
Clearly, $1.5 trillion annual Federal deficits to fund the Status Quo--fully 10% ...
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Ironically, perhaps, building a new sustainable future requires being fully exposed to what is considered "the source of our problems": risk, threat and failure.
While I write a lot about financial and systemic unsustainability, the primary driver...
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I landed back in the USA Wednesday from Sweden. What a downer to be reminded that more people speak English in the foreign country you just came from, and to notice what a slum airport New York's JFK is. "Wretched refuse yearning to be free," the po...
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Two weeks ago I began to report to subscribers of the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Fed Report that foreign central banks (FCBs) had begun to engage in unprecedented levels of disgorgement of their massive holdings of US Treasury and Agency paper. Prior to this year, the FCBs had typically absorbed the equivalent of...
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Last night I was watching the movie Fail Safe on Crackle, (free movie site), and was inspired by today’s successful and dramatic efforts at CNBS to encourage people to buy the dip after the S&P crap hit the tape. The guy on the left works fo...
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The Fed can only choose the least-worst option now: either destroy the real economy by sinking the dollar below support and unleashing the Inflation Monster, or abandon the "risk trade" stock market rally.
The Fed's game plan--sink the U.S. doll...
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I’ve been saying for more than a year now that the unintended consequences of QE would be to spike inflation, which in turn would poison the global economy. I knew all along that Ben was never going to create any jobs by printing money and of ...
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A hidden catastrophe is unfolding in the US housing market. Mainstream media outlets are not telling the story because they are focused on misleading data like the just released Case Shiller Index which showed only a small decline in September. In reality, real time market data indicates that the housing market is undergoing a...
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Russ Winter and Lee Adler discuss the QE 2 schizo trade, the worthless China development projects, government pink slips, inevitable military industrial cuts, the costs of extend and pretend in commercial real estate, the unwillingness of people to bor...
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Many readers will think that the last person whose opinion should be consulted on the issue of rating agency reform is a former rating agency employee. Maybe they’re right, but I did learn one thing from rating hundreds of complex securities. Contrar...
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Many readers will think that the last person whose opinion should be consulted on the issue of rating agency reform is a former rating agency employee. Maybe they’re right, but I did learn one thing from rating hundreds of complex securities. Contrar...
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This week we finally got to see what happens in the market when the Fed stops propping in the midst of a year long liquidity collapse, which had been papered over by the Fed’s cash infusions. We can only wonder what the Fed’s next step will be, which is, I am sure, what the...
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The Case Shiller Index of US housing prices for November has essentially turned flat over the past two readings. As usual, it is understating the real weakness in the market. Meanwhile the Fed announced that it will tinker with how it sets interest rates. Recent history has shown, the more the Fed tinkers, the...
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This was the week the Fed threatened to balloon its balance sheet to whatever extent necessary to reflate the economy. In spite of all the histrionics when we drill down into the balance sheet the Fed seems yet again to be more form than substance. They may want to reflate, but as I examine...
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Lee Adler and Russ Winter discuss important market developments including the unintended consequences of the Fed move, the $53 billion Treasury paydown, and what strategies look best. Not a subscriber? Click here for a free extended preview of this podcast.
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