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  • What Lies Ahead for Gold?

    By Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst First, the bad news… The selling is likely not over. The capitulation process may not be completed. Overall momentum remains down. How low can gold and silver go? One can view all sorts of chart patterns...
    Posted to Casey Research by Doug Casey on 06-19-2013
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  • Deciding The Fate Of The World.

    In This Issue.

    * Currencies struggle to find traction.

    * Krona is best overnight performer.

    * The N.Z. Current Acct Deficit narrows.

    * You're fired! .

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    Posted to Daily Pfennig by Chuck Butler on 06-19-2013
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  • News Flash…Market Being Held Hostage by the Fed

    When the government has more to do with the vagaries of the stock market than economic issues, it makes the process of stock picking and timing the buying and selling events more than somewhat difficult. I guess that is why so many of the real, hardcore...
    Posted to Mike Turner’s CycleProphet by Mike Turner on 06-19-2013
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  • Whither China?

    All weekend long and this morning as I wake up in Monaco, the number of disparate publications screaming at me about problems in China is just overwhelming. Then I get myself up early to hear a speech by the esteemed British economist Charles Dumas of Lombard Street fame, and I am confronted with even more China. I have been watching China for a long time, expecting a crisis, as I readily admit I simply do not understand a country that has defied so many of the economic laws of gravity for so long. Some kind of return to normal economic paradigms seems almost mandated, but the question has always been when. Have the Chinese discovered some new control mechanism, found some different levers to pull that they should share with the rest of the world, or will we see them revert to something that looks more like whatever it is that passes for "normal" these days? My bet has always been the latter.

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    Posted to John Mauldin's Outside the Box by John Mauldin on 06-18-2013
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  • Will The Fed Tank The Markets Tomorrow?

    The Fed Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow to set monetary policy going forward. The big question is whether or not the Fed will decide to “taper” its monthly purchases of $85 billion in Treasury bonds and mortgage securities, which have driven stocks and bonds higher over the last few years. The decision depends largely on the Fed’s view of the economy, so they tell us.

    No one knows for sure which way the Fed will go, but either way it will have a big impact on the markets. Both stocks and bonds have moved lower ahead of the meeting, and I expect a big move one way or the other depending on tomorrow’s announcement of the Fed’s decision on quantitative easing (“QE”).

    Following that discussion, we’ll look at the annual report from the Social Security Trustees. As usual, the Trustees warn that Social Security is going broke – what else is new? But there is a growing movement to raise the early retirement age from 62 to 64. Will it happen? I doubt it.

    Finally, I will update you on the growing list of Obama scandals and how the buck never seems to stop with the president. The result is that fewer and fewer Americans trust our government.

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    Posted to Forecasts & Trends by Gary D. Halbert on 06-18-2013
  • 2-Day FOMC Meeting Begins Today.

    In This Issue.

    * Euro rises, A$'s get hammered.

    * RBA turns on green lights to A$ weakness.

    * Has CNY gone too far, too fast?.

    * A$ and C$ grow up to "big boy" currencies .

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    Posted to Daily Pfennig by Chuck Butler on 06-18-2013
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  • Real Estate Investing: Is Now the Time to Take Advantage of the Current Buyer’s Market?

    By Dennis Miller While I spent well over three decades writing books and teaching the subject of negotiations, some of the best lessons I learned on the subject came from luck. Many investment pundits recommend taking full advantage of the current buyer’s...
    Posted to Casey Research by Doug Casey on 06-18-2013
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  • The Hidden Costs of Precious-Metals Miners’ Optimism

    By Andrey Dashkov, Research Analyst The junior resource sector is struggling financially, something most investors seem to agree on – and rightly be wary of. Here at Casey Research, we've analyzed both producers and explorers to see how profitable...
    Posted to Casey Research by Doug Casey on 06-17-2013
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  • Hot Profits as Aussie Economy Cools Down

    One of the regular themes that I’ve been preaching in this column for years is that, if you want to make some memorable (and ongoing) returns, you want to get long whatever China is buying. As my subscribers have found time and again, the best way...
    Posted to Uncommon Wisdom by Tony Sagami on 06-17-2013
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  • The NSA Scandal & How It Affects Us All

    The government has been secretly collecting your phone contacts from your intimate friends to political associations to doctors to product suppliers, etc., etc. The government knows not only who you are calling but how long you talk, how often you call...
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  • Three Current Themes Precious Metals Investors Need to Consider

    By Hard Assets Alliance Team By Ed D'Agostino, General Manager, Hard Assets Alliance I recently attended John Mauldin's Strategic Investor Conference, where I heard some of the world's brightest minds in finance and economics. From Paul McCully...
    Posted to Hard Assets Alliance by Hard Assets on 06-17-2013
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  • FOMC Dominates News & Markets.

    In This Issue.

    * Currencies attempt to gain.

    * Pointing out the truth in data.

    * Norges Bank & SNB meet this week too.

    * What happened in June 1933? .

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    Posted to Daily Pfennig by Chuck Butler on 06-17-2013
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  • Economists Are (Still) Clueless

    US GDP has been slowly ramping up, only to fall back and then try once more to bring us back to the '90s. Stocks markets are volatile but seemingly moving higher in most of the developed world, except for Japan, where the current 20% drop comes hard on the heels of one of their frequent "end of the bear market forever" rallies of almost 90% – how many of those have we seen over the last 24 years? Europe is mostly in recession or Muddling Through with very slow growth. I continue to read from those who know China intimately that there is a real crisis brewing there. And over the last four weeks I have highlighted how desperate the situation is in Japan.

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    Posted to Thoughts From The Frontline by John Mauldin on 06-17-2013
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  • It’s Broke, Now Fix It: Patent Protection and Regulatory Capture in the Pharmaceutical Industry

    For all its faults, the pharmaceutical industry remains one area in which the United States remains a competitive world leader. But without drastic changes in the way the FDA regulates the industry, this advantage may not last. Back in the early 1980s...
  • The Risk of Government Policies and the Rationing of Retirement

    In addition to our own, there is another conference I normally go to every spring; but sadly, I missed it this year. Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates indulges me and lets me attend the annual Research Affiliates Advisory Panel he conducts at some exclusive location (usually but not always) in Southern California, in close proximity to one or more fabulous gourmet establishments. And he is an oenophile of the first rank, a pastime that at one time in my life was a huge attraction. I now just live vicariously when he orders wine.

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    Posted to John Mauldin's Outside the Box by John Mauldin on 06-13-2013
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