by David Kranzler Investment Research Dynamics It’s a matter of “trust.” How much do you trust GLD’s vault custodian, HSBC? Has HSBC given us any reason to place trust in both its financial reporting and the way it operates? HSBC has been already been nailed for rigging LIBOR and the LBMA gold fix. [...] I wonder how many of those bars shown in the picture do not belong in the GLD[...]
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CNNMoney: Many Baby Boomers May Be Over Weight in Stocks
Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014 07:40 AM By Dan Weil A rule of thumb has it that the percentage of your portfolio devoted to bonds should equal your age. But many baby boomers are drifting far from that formula. In the 60-to-65 age bracket, 30 percent have placed almost all of their savings in stocks, and 52 percent allocate more than 70 percent of their portfolio to equities, according to an analysis of[...]
Why the Fed Will Continue to Print Money in 2015
by James Rickards - Posted Oct 20, 2014 Editor’s. Note: On Oct. 6, 2014, Jim Rickards was interviewed by Bloomberg TV for his thoughts on gold, currency manipulation and the overall strength of the global economy. You can read the transcript below… Bloomberg TV: I wonder, Jim, how you… First your reaction to that statement that the economy is stable… at least relatively. Are [...]
19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy
By Michael Snyder, on October 20th, 2014 Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve are lying to you. The "economic recovery" that we all keep hearing about is mostly just a mirage. The percentage of Americans that are employed has barely budged since the depths of the last recession, the labor force participation rate is at a 36 year low, the overall rate of homeownership is the lowest that it has[...]
What NCR just Said about the American Retail Quagmire – And What it Also Means for Commercial Real Estate
by Wolf Richter Wolf Street When NCR announced its preliminary and disappointing third quarter results today, it lowered its guidance for the rest of 2014. Its stock got knocked into a breathtaking 21% plunge. While at it, NCR revealed to just what extent brick-and-mortar retailers were sinking into a quagmire. The maker of, among other things, point-of-sale devices for the retail industry[...]
How The Federal Reserve Is Purposely Attacking Savers
But bungling badly as it does by Chris Martenson Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity There’s something we ‘regular’ citizens wrestle with that the elites never seem to: a sense of moral duty. For example, following the collapse of the housing bubble, many people struggled with mortgages they could no longer afford to pay, fearing the shame of default. Many believed defaulting was wrong[...]
Russians Stunned By China’s Move To End Western Dominance – KWN
King World News speaks with John Ing about China's plan to monetize gold and Russia's reaction toward this strategy to end Western dominance. Ing also spoke about the currency wars which are breaking out that will only add fuel to the global fire. Also included in the interview is information never reported in Western media such as the massive purchases of physical gold by China and the many[...]
Nassim Taleb: Here’s What People Don’t Understand About Ebola
Shane Ferro Oct. 17, 2014, 4:43 PM Multiplication — that’s what people don’t understand about Ebola, according to Nassim Taleb, the author of "Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan." More specifically, Taleb explained to Business Insider that many people talking about the disease don’t "have a grasp of the severity of the multiplicative process." The argument that the US should be[...]
Russians and Chinese are Ditching the Dollar as Europeans Start Using Renminbi in Their Reserves
by Simon Black on October 17, 2014 New York, USA At present, US dollar accounts for roughly 61% of the world’s foreign exchange reserves. It’s still a safe bet for most, not because the currency is actually strong, but because so many others are already so reliant on it. Between those with reserves in and pegs to the US dollar, many countries have given their allegiance, and now have a[...]
Why Nations (and organizations) Fail: Self-Serving Elites
by Charles Hugh Smith For those who doubt that America is ruled by a narrow elite: three charts. The book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty neatly summarizes why nations fail in a few lines: (A nation) is poor precisely because it has been ruled by a narrow elite that has organized society for their own benefit at the expense of the vast mass of people. Political [...]