“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” Henry Ward Beecher The joyfulness of simplicity is a folly to the world, but the charism of a loving God to His people. Gold and silver were both flat in lackluster trade today, as the US markets…
The S&P 500 closed at new record-er-est highs (a record 29th day above the 5DMA) providing just the right amount of confidence-inspiring ‘wealth creation’ to ensure you spend, spend, spend this weekend all those gas price savings (despite 9 of 9 macro data misses today). Dow and Trannies underperformed today as Nasdaq surged on AAPL strength….
The United States Energy Information Administration released its latest report on the status of oil inventories in the United States on November 26, 2014. This is the report for the week of November 21. The report shows much the same as has been occurring over the past several weeks. While both commercial oil inventories and…
An aging world is a deflationary one, according to “The Demographic Cliff” author Harry Dent. In this interview with The Gold Report, he predicts a major, painful crash in the next two years based on population statistics and historic patterns. He has some positive short-term predictions for gold, and investment suggestions for how to be one of…
Officially, the holiday season will start tomorrow when we gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving. And as the U.S. counts blessings, retailers’ countdown to the busiest shopping season ends. The retail space is brimming over with optimism this time as the economy stepped up 3.9% during the third quarter of 2014, according to the “advance estimate”…
Black Friday is upon us. Nowadays, it often starts Thursday (which happens to be Thanksgiving Day), and then is followed by Cyber Monday — although the lines and times are increasingly blurred. Here’s what a selection of reputable economists and analysts think you should look for, or can expect, from the explosion of rabid capitalism…
Central bankers always seem worried about deflation. The cost of Thanksgiving dinner is about the same as last year. Is it a bad thing that your costs didn’t go up? If we hadn’t experienced Federal Reserve created inflation over the last 18 years the cost of your Thanksgiving dinner would be about $21. But thank…
Stocks were drifting today in very light holiday trade, further dampened by foul weather in the NYC metro area. The economic news this morning was quite poor, and lending some credence to the somewhat artificial nature of the GDP revision higher from earlier this week. US markets will be effectively closed for the rest of…
Introduction This paper discusses the simple but effective method of using adaptive allocations between stock market ETFs and Treasuries. This method has been developed to replace the 100% switching used in normal rotation strategies like the Maximum Yield Rotation and the Global Market Rotation strategies. The real world is just not a 100% “risk on”…
Source Ernst & Young has released the outcome of its quarterly Canadian Mining Eye index and there were some very interesting and surprising things to note. E&Y is happy that the total amount of raised money in the third quarter (C$1.4B) of this year was 4% higher than in Q2 2014 and more than twice the amount…
