As many people who have been buying gold and silver are well aware the “paper market” (COMEX, LBMA) price of gold is used in determining the price for physical gold and silver. This has lead to many people claiming the price of gold and silver is easily manipulated. It’s been rumored for some time leverage on the LBMA is around 100 to 1 (contracts vs. physical). This in essence, allows [...]
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From ETF Trends: Risk and returns often go hand-in-hand, and income hunters who are willing to stomach a little more risk can look overseas for attractive dividends in globally focused exchange traded funds. With the Federal Reserve depressing yields on U.S. government bonds, investors have branched out to riskier investments for yields. [Surveying the Dividend ETF Landscape] “What we have is money that had typically gone to fixed income now coming into equities,” [...] Mohamed El-Erian – Putting It All Together
In Part IV of the series of reports from the 10th annual Strategic Investment Conference, presented by Altegis Investments and John Mauldin, Mohamed El-Erian ties together the views of the previous presenters. You can read the previous presentations by clicking the links below. Part I: Niall Ferguson – The Great Degeneration Part II: Jeff Gundlach – Why Own Bonds At All Part III: A. Gary Shilling – Six Realities [...] Bloodhound technologies formed in the mid-1990s
It’s the dream of every internet startup founder to sell their company for millions of dollars. But not everyone can make a quick buck like Facebook [...] In his weekly radio address, President Obama explained the budget he’ll rollout next week, and said, “the truth is, our deficits are already shrinking.” “My budget will reduce our deficits not with aimless, reckless spending cuts that hurt students and seniors and middle-class families – but through the balanced approach that the American people prefer, and the investments that a growing economy demands,” said Obama. “Now, the truth is, our deficits are [...] by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkreig: I’ve been following closely the recent attempts by the domestic oligarchy in charge of the corporatist-facist state we call America to create a new housing bubble for several years now. For a little while, I was merely confused as to how prices were starting to rise when college graduates have no jobs and are six figures in debt, while at the same time real incomes are dropping [...] by Christopher Quigley, Financial Sense: It is hard I am sure for Americans to fully comprehend the disaster that played out in the recent Cypriot Euro debacle. To get a feel for the panic that was swirling about in Europe the week before last I include a quote from the Irish Independent of 22nd March 2013: Irish property speculators fear for cash in Cypriot account. “A group of up to 30 Irish property speculators have [...] Bjorn Lomborg claimed on John Stossel’s television show last night that money isn’t being spent well to combat “global warming”: “The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels,” said Lomborg. “The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century.” http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/claim-germany-spends-110-billion-delay-global-warming-37-hours_712223.html Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first major foreign policy speech today. In his address, delivered at the University of Virginia, he discussed tackling climate change. “We as a nation must have the foresight and courage to make the investments necessary to safeguard the most sacred trust we keep for our children and grandchildren: an environment not ravaged by rising seas, deadly superstorms, devastating droughts, and the other hallmarks of [...] Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first major foreign policy speech today. In his address, delivered at the University of Virginia, he discussed tackling climate change. “We as a nation must have the foresight and courage to make the investments necessary to safeguard the most sacred trust we keep for our children and grandchildren: an environment not ravaged by rising seas, deadly superstorms, devastating droughts, and the other hallmarks of [...] sovereign-investor.com / By Evaldo Albuquerque / February 6, 2013 I’ve been watching two funds with a combined $29 billion in assets under management, and 489 million outstanding shares and the chances are you have at least one of them sitting in your portfolio, possibly both. Last year, both funds returned about 12%. And they’ve both had positive returns for the past four years. In fact, they’ve returned an average of 16% during that period. Because of [...] from Fox Business, via Eduardo89rp: Peter Schiff: The Real Fiscal Cliff Is Dollar Crisis! Buy Gold! Buy Silver! Own Real Things!!!
Obama Admin Looks To Control Americans’ $19.4 Trillion In Retirement Accounts Remember that old phrase, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”? Well, it looks like we are hearing it again, at least on the issue of keeping Americans’ retirement funds safe. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing whether it should take on a [...] Some affluent buyers are getting the keys to their new home without putting a penny down. It’s 100% financing—the same strategy that pushed many homeowners into foreclosure during the housing bust. Banks say these loans are safer: They’re almost exclusively being offered to clients with sizable assets, and they often require two forms of collateral—the house and a portion of the client’s investment portfolio in lieu of a traditional [...] Following last week’s revenue miss, FBN Securities’ Shebly Seyrafi on Thursday morning declared: “Apple’s glory days are now behind it.” (And that’s the view from a bull, mind you.) If that’s true, as many seem quick to believe, it leaves Apple open to the kinds of scrutiny of its cash that has plagued Microsoft for a long time. Apple ended the quarter with $137 billion in cash and investments, more than [...] Is it any wonder that many small and medium sized businesses are moving out of California? In the recent elections, California Voters Sock It To The Rich. As the Wall Street Journal noted, some are promising businesses a better life elsewhere. Being courted must be refreshing but it is important for a company and its owners to have reasonable expectations and to budget for drilling down into California’s rules. After all, [...] Financial Terrorism: Firearms sellers to be blackmailed into conforming to gun control Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has declared economic warfare on gun retailers, threatening to treat them like businesses who traded under Apartheid in South Africa, by withdrawing investments in companies that refuse to stop selling semi-automatic rifles and blackmailing retailers into becoming front line facilitators for gun control. READ MORE from South China Morning Post:
China’s sovereign wealth fund, which has more than US$480 billion in assets, could cut holdings of US Treasury Bonds as they are becoming a less attractive investment, state media said on Tuesday. The Shanghai Securities News quoted Lou Jiwei, chairman of sovereign wealth fund manager China Investment Corporation (CIC), as telling a conference in Hong Kong on Monday that the US economic recovery had made other investments appealing. China has the [...] Do you find the Fed’s announcement of QE 4 confusing? After all, why would the Fed engage in more QE when it just announced QE 3 three months ago? In this excerpt from my latest issue of Private Wealth Advisory I outline the real reasons the Fed announced more QE (virtually no one I’ve spoken to understands this). I also explain which investments will profit from this monetary madness and how [...] As we all know here in the US there are a lot if changes that could happen December 31 due to the agreement president Obama made to raise the debt ceiling. This could be catastrophic and weaken our already fragile economy. Debt can be reduced if the best decisions are made to stimulate the economy and promote spending and money making by Anericans whole decreasing spending and dollar wasting by [...] Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Research, spoke with Bloomberg Television’s Stephanie Ruhle and Tom Keene on “Market Makers” today about his report on Olam International and said that he’s lost interest in betting against Chinese stocks.
Block, who compared Olam to Enron, said, “China has gotten harder in the sense that the government has really taken the side of the frauds. The government is working with a number of these [...] President Obama called on Congress on Friday to reduce the deficit in “a balanced and responsible way” in his first public remarks since winning reelection. The president said Congress should extend the current tax rates for 98 percent of Americans, but raise taxes on households with annual income of more than $250,000. Obama did not talk about higher tax rates in his speech, but said he would not accept a deal that [...] Just image how many American Financial companies are insolvent at the moment and are being given “clean bills of heath.” Auditors gave Banksia Securities a clean bill of health less than four weeks before its collapse last night, its latest accounts show. The non-bank lender’s fall into receivers’ hands has left thousands of investors in limbo over the fate of about $660 million in investments. On September 27, accountants signed off on accounts [...] Thousands of hard working Aussies are in serious financial doom after the collapse of Banksia Financial Group.. RETIREES, schools and sporting clubs are in shock and fearful about the fate of their investments following the collapse of Banksia Securities. Sources inside the Mexican government refuse to confirm that the Mexico government has been in secret negotiations with China over possible crude oil sales to China without using the US dollar. China officials claim meetings held with the Mexican government and Petróleos Mexicanos (or Pemex) are for investment and economic growth inside Mexico. Crude oil purchases fall under this heading however officials on both sides in the past have stopped short [...] From Dividend Growth Stocks: Many of our expenses like utilities and mortgage payments are on a monthly cycle. It is nice when we have monthly income to match up with the monthly expenses — which is why investments that pay monthly dividends are so popular. Just because an investment pays a monthly dividend, doesn’t necessarily mean it is a good fit for investors in dividend growth stocks. Those of us that invest [...] From Bruce Krasting: A tax lawyer I know sent me a link to an article about a tax ruling. I’m thinking “Boring, who cares about that?” Then I read the article. A few lines jumped out: Commodity prices could come under severe pressure if the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decides to revoke previous rulings. From The Dividend Monk: An observation from various articles I’ve been seeing [with] increasing frequency this past year has been that dividend stocks, in general, may be overvalued. The articles of course have a range of quality, with some of them going so far as to call dividend stocks a bubble, with others using more reserved and nuanced observations. It’s certainly an observation worth considering. After all, the Shiller P/E of the [...] |
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Gov’t ready to take pensions, 401K’s!!!
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
[ZH: We have discussed this threat over the past several years (must read).] The obvious concept is that when the government runs out of money, or they face a drying up in interest for its debt, they will come for the $19.4 trillion in American’s retirement accounts. It seems that day may be finally drawing near.
I stopped contributing to my 401k back when I worked at [...]