The GNP numbers came out this week for the first quarter of 2013 and there was 1.8% growth yoy to $16.236 trillion...What does this mean to your equity positioning?
Read More »Sentiment Survey Updates On Stocks, Bonds, Commodities & Currencies (+2K Views)
Time for another sentiment update 0n what the various surveys and committment of traders have to say about the future price expectations for the U.S. stock markets, U.S. Treasury bonds, various currencies and a wide range of commodities including gold and silver. "And the surveys say...!"
Read More »France is Eurozone’s Biggest Risk to Economic Recovery – Here’s Why
France continues to pose the biggest near-term risk to the euro area's economic recovery. Why France some may ask? [Here's why.]
Read More »Wall Street Claims Secular Bear Market in U.S. Stocks Is Over – Is It Justified? (+2K Views)
Two charts today, both from Goldman Sachs, focus on US equity valuations and suggest that the secular bear market in US stocks is over. Are we really experiencing an historical anomaly that falls into a "this time is different" narrative or is the current secular bear market not over just yet?
Read More »Alaska’s Pebble Mine Project Provides MAJOR Economic & Employment Benefits
The Pebble Mine Project is a world-class copper, molybdenum and gold deposit in Alaska with the potential to employ over 16,000 in high-paying jobs across a wide range of industries for 30+ years boosting the state ecomomy and generating significant tax revenues in the process.
Read More »Invest In South Korea – Here’s Why & How (+2K Views)
The financial media gives plenty of attention to China and Japan, but one Asian country that just doesn’t seem to receive its due is South Korea. Some of the most-attractive investment opportunities in the world can be found in South Korea. In fact, the average South Korea stock is about 40% cheaper than U.S. stocks on a price-to-earnings basis, trading at an average of 9.6 times trailing earnings compared to 17 times for U.S. stocks.
Read More »Deflationary Pressures In Economy Are Primary Concern of the Fed (+2K Views)
Despite the Fed’s recent communications that they are planning to “taper” the current monetary program by the end of this year – the index is suggesting that their interventions, in one form or another, are unlikely to end anytime soon. The threat of “deflation” remains the Fed’s primary concern.
Read More »Meltdown : The Men Who Crashed the World – A 4-part Video from DocZone (+2K Views)
The CBC’s Terence McKenna takes viewers behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions in a 4-part investigation that reveals the astonishing level of backstabbing and tension behind the scenes as the world came dangerously close to another Great Depression.
Read More »World Bank Whistleblower: The Federal Reserve Has Secretly Gamed the Global Financial System
A small group of entities — 147 financial institutions and central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. This “economic ‘super-entity’”controls the institutions of government and at the very center of this network is the Federal Reserve.
Read More »Japan: A Country On the Brink of Fiscal & Economic Disaster!
I wrote several years ago that Japan is a bug in search of a windshield and in January I wrote that 2013 is the Year of the Windshield. Japan is a country that is on the brink of fiscal and economic disaster
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