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March 31, 2020 | Sweden Bucks the Hysteria – Refuses to Close its Economy
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson (his wife) have returned to the United States from Australia and have recovered from this dreaded virus. We have received countless emails from Sweden where we have a large number of readers, clients, and many very active politically. Sweden has not followed the rest of the West and has taken […]
March 31, 2020 | The Powerful 2008 Lessons That Apply to Gold Today
Mark Twain said that history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. It’s certainly true in both life and financial markets. Let’s explore how the recent history lessons apply to the precious metals. The 2008 – Now Link Let’s recount the similarities. We already had gold reversing on huge volume, and we saw it decline […]
March 31, 2020 | Eye of the Storm
America is in the eye of the storm, hunkering down for what Mr. Trump promises will be a “very painful two weeks.” Some may have gotten the impression that the economic pain could begin to ease then, but he was talking about the death toll and the rising count of infections. No one can say […]
March 31, 2020 | What to Do When No Company, No Commodity, and No Investor Is Immune
I look out my window and see that the streets below remain silent. Shops and cafés remain closed. Only essential businesses are open, and even those are curtailed to core functions. This is obviously devastating for the economy—and for the resource sector that provides it with raw materials. But there’s less obvious damage that goes […]
March 31, 2020 | Wild
Eeeeeeeeow! What a wild ride. The stock market careened lower from record highs in just a few weeks by a shocking 38%. But lately it’s zipped back up an impressive 22%. Mr. Market apparently doesn’t think the world is ending. So I guess he doesn’t read the comments on this pathetic blog. (When I walked […]
March 31, 2020 | Good Outcome From Pandemic Shock: Buybacks have Slowed Dramatically
Corporations buying back their own shares was the largest source of equity demand manufactured in the 2009 to 2019 expansion cycle. Borrowing funds to do so was the go-to genius financial gimmick to boost prices and earnings per share. It is also one of the main reasons that publicly traded corporations are today at record […]
March 31, 2020 | Weakness Appears To Be Setting For This Weeks Economic Data
As the world reacts to the global economic slowdown because of the COVID-19 virus event and the massive stimulus programs and central bank efforts to support the global economy, investors still expect weakness in the US and foreign markets. We believe this expected weakness will not subside until news of a proper resolution to this […]
March 31, 2020 | Are Equities Likely To Rally?
Gold and Silver on the move
March 30, 2020 | Notes from Flight 163, the Oil Sands Shuttle from Toronto to Edmonton
“On a recent Monday morning, I found myself on Air Canada Flight 163 from Toronto Pearson to Edmonton,” writes Stewart Muir. “As the plane loaded, I began to sense there was something not so regular about the passengers boarding the Airbus 320 for a regularly scheduled flight.” Unlike those I more typically see on my […]
March 30, 2020 | P For Pandemic (Populist Rage)
In Part One of this article I detailed the criminal enterprise that constitutes the leadership of this country. The facts are clear. We’ve been screwed over by those who were supposed to represent us. Now it is time to look in the mirror and decide whether we will continue to bow down before our keepers […]
March 30, 2020 | Emerging ‘Recession’ Will Be Significant!
This policymaker says he has unlimited ammunition (going forward). REALLY? This policymaker says our economy will return to its former self in 2020? REALLY? This is an image for where we are going. The debt game will create this result within a couple of years! As an economist who has followed our economy for years, […]
March 30, 2020 | 60 Minutes Australia: COVID-19 Whistleblowers Silenced by China
Travelling in Spain over Christmas, I came down with terrible flu: head and body aches, fever, violent dry cough, exhaustion. I was on the couch for a few days and coughing for a couple of weeks. I did not pass it on to my family, amazingly, and I think this suggests it was not a […]
March 30, 2020 | Virus Porn
“People are not very good at statistical analysis and probabilistic reasoning,” says blog dog Matthew. “I feel like this pandemic has now taken on a whole psychological life of its own, most citizens comply with the official story and are scared by the media, but in truth the reaction is way out of proportion to […]
March 30, 2020 | Is the Fed Public or Private?
The people who love to weave conspiracy theories about the Fed are twisting the fact that the Fed’s design from the outset was to be a private organization. The banks were the shareholders BECAUSE it was to be a bailout system for them as J.P. Morgan had acted during the Panic of 1907. The banks […]
March 29, 2020 | Three Strong Investments for a ‘Flubber’ Market
I have three investable ideas for you. But before I tell you about them, I want to give you a little context first. This past week, Congress and the White House passed a $2 trillion “rescue” bill for Wall Street and the broader economy — $6 trillion if you include all the new lending the […]
March 29, 2020 | The disease
Sunday, March 29th, 2020. Today 5,600 people have the virus in our nation. Over 4,900 (or 98%) of the cases are mild. Across Canada 120 victims are hospitalized, serious. Sixty have died. Bless them and their families. The infection rate nationally, thus far, is 0.015%. Three weeks ago the federal health minister said it could be between […]
March 29, 2020 | Don’t Be Dangerously Misled by the Rallie
Over the weekend, we learned enough about the virus to understand why things won’t be trending even remotely back to normal by Easter, as some may have hoped. Grave uncertainties will remain for possibly much longer, including whether spring break will turn out to be a devastating vector of contagion. In early January, a friend’s […]
March 29, 2020 | P For Pandemic
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” – Alan Moore – V for Vendetta “Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.” – Alan Moore – V for Vendetta I wrote an article called V for Vendetta […]
March 29, 2020 | Postcards from the Frontline
Unprecedented events are happening so fast, I barely know where to start. But let’s begin with a small one, noticeable perhaps only to me. Over the years I’ve received thousands of reader emails responding to my letters. I read and appreciate them all, even the critical ones. Often the readers mention where they were when […]
March 29, 2020 | Press Uses Virus Against Trump
US President Donald Trump has backed away from imposing a quarantine in the New York area, instead directing a “strong Travel Advisory” be issued to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. The announcement on Twitter came late on Saturday as criticism grew over Trump’s earlier call to prohibit travel in and out of virus hotspots […]
March 29, 2020 | Three Charts Every Trader and Investor Must See
Understanding the stock market and its potential through the use of technical analysis and historical price events has been proven repeatedly to outperform all forms of fundamental trading styles. The following is a story that walks you through my experience, the shift in my mindset and how I came to the conclusion that the three […]
March 29, 2020 | UK Coronavirus Infections and Deaths Projections Trend Forecast Into End April 2020
This analysis concludes in detailed trend forecasts for UK and US Coronavirus Infections and deaths into the end of April 2020. The importance of which being to act as indicators for the primary driver for stock market trend since Mid February. Where as was the case with my preceding forecasts into the end of March, […]
March 28, 2020 | Gold Is Now “Unobtanium”
The Wall Street Journal just published the kind of article gold bugs dream of seeing in the mainstream press. Here’s an excerpt: Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush Epic shortage spooks doomsday preppers and bankers alike; ‘Unaffordium and unobtanium.’ It’s an honest-to-God doomsday scenario and the ultimate doomsday-prepper market is a mess. As the coronavirus […]
March 28, 2020 | Is Silver & Gold Mirroring 1999 to 2011 Again?
Our research team continues to dig into underlying patterns and set up in the global markets to assist skilled technical traders in understanding the current Covid-19 virus event and other key technical data. Recently, we’ve authored a number of detailed research articles that we believe helped prepare traders for the events of the past 30 […]